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Archive 06/2003

`03.Jun.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	New Poll: Will you buy AmigaOS4 for your BlizzardPPC? We started a new poll to get an impression of the real demand for a BlizzardPPC version of OS4. It can be accessed by following the title link. The poll is geared solely towards owners of a BlizzardPPC accellerator card. Here you will find the current results of the voting. (ps) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 16:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2003` Diverse	Software Updates until 03.06.2003 Amigan Software Game: Worm Wars Version 7.42b - Download: WormWars.lha Also a Windows version is available for download. Installer: WHDLoad - new packets until 03.06.2003 03.06.03 improved: Xenon2 (Bitmap Brothers) minor changes 03.06.03 fixed: Shadow Lands (Domark) version check corrected 03.06.03 updated: North & South (Infogrames) install script changed 01.06.03 improved: Shadow Lands (Domark) install script fixed, manual added 01.06.03 fixed: Zak Mc Kracken (Lucasfilm Games) protection fixed 01.06.03 new: Red Lightning (S.S.I.) done by JOTD 01.06.03 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17) various improvements 01.06.03 new: Traders (Linel) done by Harry (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 16:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2003` Michael Battilana (E-Mail)	Fair: News about Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 at 05.07.2003 As reported earlier, the fair A3 (Amiga Alpe Adria 2003) in Udine, Italy takes place on 5th July 2003. The website around the fair was now updated, now all information about program, travel, hotels, and sightseeing and cultural life in this time as a music festival and concerts are described here now. It would be a nice idea to combine the visit of the fair with a holiday in this beautiful landscape around Udine. Six weeks before the fair starts over 100 visitors from Austria, Germany Slovenia, Croatia, England, and Italy have announced their visit. Special guests are: Jürgen Schober will present AmigaOS 4 on Tour Jens Schönfeld will present the C-One Ralf "Hippie 2000" Steines from Back to the Roots Paolo "Mod3mski" D'Urso from Darkage fame Sergio Ruocco, Paolo Canali and others from the Italian Amiga-Scene More information you will find under exhibitors. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 11:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2003` Cloanto (ANF)	Cloanto Releases Personal Paint 7.1c Advances in emulation technology made it possible to push the Amiga 68K CPU and Blitter to speeds which were not considered possible a few years ago. In this context, a small bug in Personal Paint emerged whereby Blitter and CPU operations would not always be synchronized properly, e.g. causing some visual "trash" during certain alpha channel operations. Personal Paint 7.1c addresses this issue. This version was released today as a free upgrade to Amiga Forever users, accessible via Software Manager. Users of slower silicon-based Amiga systems are not affected by the issue. (ps) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 11:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2003` Andreas 'A.W.Design' Weyrauch (ANF)	Club Amiga Magazine: Article about FFS from O. Barthel now free In Issue #4 of the Club Amiga Magazine the article from Olaf Barthel about the FastFileSystem (FFS) of Amiga Inc. now free for release. This article deals with the past, the present, and the future of the FFS. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 11:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2003` ANN	PC/DOS-Emulator: DOSBox Version 0.58 for MorphOS "DOSBox is a DOS-emulator using SDL for easy portability to different platforms, DOSBox has already been ported to several different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X... DOSBox emulates a 286/386 realmode CPU, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, a SoundBlaster card for excellent sound compatibility with older games... You can "re-live" the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don't run on your new computer!" DOSBox is an emulator which is, unlike Bochs, aimed at games that's why it has good quality SoundBlaster emulation, joystick support,... and unlike Bochs, DOSBox does NOT require the DOS nor a BIOS to run. Please note that DOSBox still only emulate Real Mode: it basically means that you'll be able to run most games/programs released before 1993-1994 (this includes great RPGs and a lot of 256 colors adventure games which were never released on the Amiga). Almost every games released after 1994 are running in Protected Mode: these games won't work at all in current DOSBox. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 01:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 03.06.2003 The latest Aminet Uploads: ACS_HLPlugin.lha comm/net 264K+V1.2 ACS HL Plugin - Hotline Plugin for AmiComSys.lha comm/net 410K+V2.4 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MUI umsspamc1_2.lha comm/ums 15K+SpamAssassin client for UMS streamer.lha comm/www 318K+Internet radio MPEG and RealAudio file p WebPics105.lha comm/www 5K+WebPics 1.05 - Web Based Photo Gallery G YAM24p1loc.lha comm/yam 281K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4p1 (Translations P61DevBas.lha dev/basic 30K+Using Player61 library from HBasic EasyACDDA_Bkg.lha disk/cdrom 305K+Background images for EasyACDDA NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 05/2003 (Itali AIOV71.lha docs/mags 547K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 71 (May nocover111.lha docs/mags 2.5M+Great german diskmagazine WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42b: Advanced snake game gse.lha game/patch 18K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 3.1M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC BetaScanSP.lha hard/drivr 14K+BetaScan 3.02 spanish catalog v3.02.0 Flamingo.lha misc/emu 171K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.53a, 68k & PPC Amiga4Everyone.mpg mods/mpg 1.4M+Dieziseven new song Fiesta.mpg mods/mpg 4.1M+Dieziseven new song Webbit2003_06.lha pix/misc 1.8M+Webb.it 2003 archive 06 BareED_Alone.lha text/edit 71K+Simple text editor which supports propor Transmitter.lha util/cdity 59K+Reads text-clips and stores them as inpu HowDif.lha util/cli 9K+File comparison/examination utility Catharsis.lha util/libs 48K+Shared library to modify looks of fonts idle1_5.lha util/moni 16K+A (working) A68K cpu monitor (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 01:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jun.2003` Mikey C (ANF)	Hyperion OS4 BPPC Survey Hyperion-Entertainment BPPC Survey As AmigaOS 4 for AmigaOne and CSPPC based machines nears completion, Hyperion is undertaking a survey to gauage demand for the BPPC version. Therefore if you are an Amiga1200 owner with a Dual Blizzard PPC card and would like to see OS4 ported to this machine, please send an email to: timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com. Please note: Ensuring that OS4 will work on the BPPC is a momumental task which will require enormous effort in both Time and Money. Therefore only email us if you have every intention of purchasing OS4 for BPPC. Your support is very much appreciated in this matter. Ben Hermans Hyperion-Entertainment (ps) [News message: 03. Jun. 2003, 00:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records #038 Since yesterday a new music package with a tune by Tripper is available on the homepage of the group. Details: Title: Beograd Artist: Tripper Style: electro Duration: 3:48 Format: mp3 192 kbps A photo of the Trippers visit to Belgrad was used for the cover by DaFreak. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 16:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)	C.A.P.S. Update C.A.P.S. is dedecated to the rescue of classic Amiga games. Current update: New work-in-progress report. New User Plugin with added support for Speedlock timing, and memory mapped image files to allow loading of IPF images from within compressed archives. http://www.caps-project.org (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 16:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	individual Computers: New products and new cooperations New product: Kickflash OS4 Kickflash was announced several years ago, but never released due to licensing problems. With the planning of the new PPC native OS4 for all Amiga computers with PPC CPU, Hyperion and individual Computers started a cooperation more than a year ago (May 2002). The result of this cooperation is "Kickflash OS4", a highly optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4 significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to 100.000 re-programming cycles. Kickflash OS4 will be available to betatesters this summer. Mass production will start in time for the release of OS4, so people will have the choice between tailormade solutions by all cooperation partners (also see ALGOR/ROMulus by E3B). New product: RR-Net Especially for the Retro Replay and the C-One there will a networking card for the C64 before the end of this summer. Together with Adam Dunkels, the author of the web-enabled Contiki operating system, the first drivers for this 10MBit-card have been made. Contiki even has web-server functions that can be seen on the Internet: The server http://www.tfe.c64.org is running on a stock C64 with a similar networking card! RR-Net will be available in August 2003 for 50,- EUR. Transparent C64 cartridge cases Due to the high demand, cases for the nearly sold-out Retro Replay will be available from June 24th, 2003 on. If there's enough demand, we might also produce other colours in addition to the transparent ones. To find out what colours that could be, the hacker-group Cyberpunx has setup a Voting-page. The price per case will be 4,- EUR, no matter what colour you choose. Lyra back in stock The Lyra keyboard adapter that allows using a PC keyboard on Amiga computers will be back in stock on June 24th. We apologize for the shipment delays - we were not prepared for the high demand of this product. A big thank-you goes out to our customers who were obviously so satisfied with their Lyra adapter that they recommended it to all their friends. (ps) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 14:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Online-Magazine: NoCover #111 Issue no. 111 of NoCover is now available and can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 11:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Bill Panagouleas (ANF)	New AmiZilla Marketing Campaign Launched A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the project. What is AmiZilla? I think that long time Amiga user Twistin'Ghost summarizes the project best with the following press release he created. "In need of that killer app, Amiga developer and resident platform fanatic Bill Panagouleas, of DiscreetFX, is banding together the community in a bid to lure programmers to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform. Donations are flowing in, an FAQ is in place, and a devoted Message Board are all a part of this 'homegrown' project. Panagouleas has put his money where his mouth is by donating $2000 out of his own pocket, in addition to funding the site itself. "It's this very kind of grassroots community involvement that has helped to maintain the Amiga's status as a player in the Gen-IT realm," says Panagouleas, a former employee of Commodore Business Machines. "(Amiga users) have always been a tight-knit community that pulls together in times of need. Some very impressive development talent are already making inquiries and are showing great enthusiasm. I'm very excited." The presence of Mozilla on the Amiga would provide additional voltage to Amiga Inc.'s upcoming launch of its new Amiga OS 4.0. It will also help users the Keep the Dream Alive by running a standards compliant mainstream browser on MorphOS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE, Amithlon, and Classic Amiga's running Amiga OS 3.9 ." Please keep the donations coming in so programmers will be motivated to port Mozilla to Amiga/Amiga type systems. (ps) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 11:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Michael Böhmer (ANF)	Shipment of ALGOR will start on Monday The distribution of the new Zorro II USB controller ALGOR by E3B to the dealers begins on today's Monday. Additional information about the product and possible bundles and goodies can be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 00:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	DiaCD Update Carsten Siegner released an update for DiaCD. Details about changes an improvements is to be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 00:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jun.2003` Hakan Parting (E-Mail)	AmiComSys 2.4 and HL-Plugin 1.2 released Hakan Parting released updates for his programs AmiComSys and HL-Plugin. The following changes were made: AmiComSys 2.4 BUGFIX: The "Kill gui" menu item had an empty key combination. BUGFIX: When a modal message requester was opened only the main window was put to sleep. The entire application must be put to sleep so the user cannot do anything else in the program. In certain occasions this error would lead to a crash or an Enforcer hit. NEW: Added requeststring function to the messagerequester class for use by plugins. NEW: The reply text field and replybutton are no longer shown in reponse of a version and system info request. BUGFIX: If you opened the Client Info window and then iconified the application and later deiconified it the main window and the client window had the same dimensions and position. NEW: Changed the layout of the message requesters. It should now get a better dimension so you don't need to scroll. The sizegadget was also removed. If your requesters are snapshotable it is still there. NEW: AmiComSys now asks if you want to display the file you just received. NEW: If a plugin is inside the ACS main window its menu is added the first time the plugin is active. BUGFIX: Enforcer hit when you opened the Client Info of user without any comment and also when such a user connected. BUGFIX: It will now not go online when you uniconify after you have killed the gui while your your status was set to offline. BUGFIX If the comment, homepage and some other items on the personal info were set to an empty string they were not updated in the contact list until you reconnected. HL-Plugin NEW: Enhanced the error handling for the file transfer. BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition with the file transfer queue. BUGFIX: File resume implemented (working with hxd, not HL Server). NEW: Added "Kick selected user" and "bann selected user" to the Action menu. NEW: Added "Delete"(file) and "MakeDir" to the Files window. BUGFIX: Upload didn't work with all servers and files. BUGFIX: The close button of a transfer window didn't work. It just closed the user list connection. BUGFIX: Forgot to close the transfer window when you got a "file already exists" error. BUGFIX: Transfers the info written in the Bookmarks section in the "HL Plugin Servers" window when the connect button is pressed or when the window is closed. Before the old info was sent to the server when you had forgotten to press return in the text boxes you had modified. BUGFIX: There was an error with the bookmark save routine (possible enforcer hit). NEW: A connection to a server, tracker or file server will now not block HL Plugin while it is connecting. It's now possible to cancel a connection while it is connecting. NEW: After a file download has finished the program now ask if you want to display it. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 02. Jun. 2003, 00:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030531 Brad Webb has published the Amiga Update for May 2003. Once a month Webb summarises all important news on the theme of Amiga in his newsletter. Read the current Amiga Update by way of E-Mail subscription or delayed under the title link and therein the following themes: AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour AmiWest News Update Amiga wins popularity contest RIAA apologizes to Amiga Web Site AmigaOS 4.0 to support E3B's ALGOR and ROMulus flashroms Hollywood 1.5 official announcement MetaView Freeware as of now WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 (30.05.2003) (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 16:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)	Issue 5 (June) of Amiga Inc.'s Club Amiga Magazine published Issue 5 (June) of the monthly Amiga Club Magazine has been published today for registered members. It contains a.o.t. a new status report on OS 4.0, an interview with Zeoneo and much more. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 16:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003`	Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994) This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was born. Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world and as the father of the Amiga. In the middle of the seventies he developed the TIA chip, originally for medical applications, later for use in the legendary Atari 2600. With the ANTIC and the GTIA chipsets he laid the foundation for the Atari 8bit family. After the founding of the company Hi-Toro which was later renamed into Amiga, Miner worked on the joyboard, a revolutionary control device for the Atari 2600 and the ColecoVision and on the work of his life, the Multimedia chipset for the 68000 based games console Lorraine which was renamed into "Amiga 1000" after the purchase of the company by Commodore and turned into a full-fledged computer. Miner passed away on 20th June 1994 due to kidney failure. He was regarded as a revolutionary computer designer and an extraordinary person. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 15:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` ANN / San Francisco Business Times (Website)	3DO face bankruptcy According to reports of the San Francisco Business Times, American video game and hardware developers 3DO have filed for insolvency. 3DO became well-known at the beginning of the nineties by way of the games console of the same name, which, although being technically superior, wasn't able to conquer the hoped-for market share. The Rewood City based company had recently been able to reduce debts with the commercial success of console games such as "High Heat Major League Baseball" or "Army Men", but apparently not able to avert bankruptcy. Interestingly enough the 3DO console was designed with the help of the Amiga/CD32 by Commodore - former Amiga warhorses Dave Morse, RJ Mical and Dale Luck had a significant share in the further development of 3DO. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 15:20] [Comments: 1 - 02. Jun. 2003, 22:08] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` Mark Tierno (E-Mail)	Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #71 The 71st and officially last issue of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' has been published. This issue contains a.o.t. the following articles: Strange Opinion Dr. Strange, Web Wanderer Hints & Tips Final Credits AIO Secrets My Last Words History Of Amiga The Amiga that is and can... The full table of contents can be obtained from the readme which is enclosed in the archive. AIO uses a custom display program and can be used from AmigaOS 3.0 onwards. Download: AIOV71.lha (547 KB) - Readme The operators of AIO are pleading for a final retroactive donation for all the editors involved. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 15:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` Pixel Art (E-Mail)	Start menu: Pixload Final Version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS released Today the final Version 4 of the start menu Pixload has been released for AmigaOS and MophOS. This is the final features list: Drag & Drop of picture directories loads a thumbnail tool New formats: TIFF and TARGA via Datatypes New formats: AIFF and WAVE (no Datatypes required) Control bar for MiamiDX integrated New program load window Clock with RTC functionality Help file in the context menu Fixed some bugs Pixload is scalable Pixload can open drawers instead of programs Shortkeys added Icon organisation by way of Drag & Drop Choice of number of icon columns Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 14:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` AmigaWorld (ANF)	AmigaWorld: Interview with AmiStart developer Darius Brewka The online magazine AmigaWorld has published an interview with Darius Brewka, the programmer of AmiStart. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 14:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` Vinnny^AiC (ANF)	Event: Computer Art Festival 2003 in Russia The Computer Art Festival 2003 (CAFe 2003) will take for the fourth time on 23rd and 24th August 2003 in Kazan, Russia. CAFe'2003 is an event for programmers, musicians, graphic artists, Web designers and other creative professions. The demo party will be conceived as a festival, which will be organised in cooperation with the Ministry for Youth. The festival is officially announced as a "Computers against Drugs" event. The main platforms are the Amiga, the ZX Spectrum and the PC. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 14:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003` Vinnny^AiC (ANF)	Spanish and Russian documentation for FroggerNG Spanish and Russian documentation for the shareware video player FroggerNG has been provided which is available for download under the title link. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 14:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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