08.Jul.2004
Golem IT News
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Golem: Googles Against Google
«Stelor wants to terminate the trademark "Google."
Stelor Productions, a maker of child's toys and operators of the kids website Googles.com, has filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office that the trademark "Google" used by the search website Google must be cancelled. »
Read the complete Golem article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets through 8th July, 2004
With WHDLoad it's possible to play games from your hard-drive that were previously thought of as floppy-only. The following packets have been added or updated since our last announcement:
- 06.07.04 new: Tint (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore
- 01.07.04 fixed: Toki (Ocean) fixed missing imager
- 01.07.04 fixed: Street Racer (Epic) fixed another access fault
- 27.06.04 new: The Cycles (Accolade) done by Psygore
- 27.06.04 new: Speedboat Assassin (Mastertronic) done by Psygore
- 20.06.04 new: Explora 3: Sous Le Signe Du Serpent (Infomedia) done by
Psygore
- 17.06.04 updated: Enemy - Tempest Of Violence (Anachronia) icon added
- 13.06.04 fixed: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) fixed bug in protection
patch fix
- 07.06.04 new: Postman Pat (Alternative) done by Codetapper
- 31.05.04 improved: Overdrive (Team 17) completely rewritten, fixed
load/save records
- 30.05.04 fixed: Les Portes Du Temps (Legend) restarting game after game
over fixed
- 30.05.04 fixed: Cluedo: Master Detective (Leisure Genius) doesn't quit
anymore when starting
- 26.05.04 improved: Toki (Ocean) supports another version, new icons
- 26.05.04 improved: Asterix - Operation Getafix (Coktel Vision) supports
another version
- 23.05.04 new: The Kristal (Addictive) done by Psygore
- 23.05.04 new: Fusion (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 23.05.04 new: Cluedo: Master Detective (Leisure Genius) done by Psygore
- 19.05.04 new: Populous World Editor (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 15.05.04 updated: Battle Squadron (Innerprise) reworked, many changes,
see readme
- 08.05.04 improved: Superfrog (Team 17) project f fixed, easy entry of
level codes, added level skip
- 08.05.04 new: Alien World (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
- 07.05.04 improved: Theme Park (Bullfrog) rewritten for kickemu/whdload
16, manual and hints added
- 06.05.04 new: Saint & Greavsie (Core Design/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
- 05.05.04 improved: Tornado (Digital Integration) supports ECS version,
display fixed on AGA version
- 05.05.04 improved: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) fixed load/save problems,
supports ECS version
- 03.05.04 new: Asterix - Operation Getafix (Coktel Vision) done by JOTD
- 03.05.04 improved: Beyond the Ice Palace (Elite) supports another 2
versions, major changes
- 01.05.04 new: Luxor (Software Horizons Ltd/Paradox) done by Codetapper
- 01.05.04 new: Corx (Starbyte) done by Codetapper
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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New APC&TCP Newsletter
As of today the new newsletter from APC&TCP is active. Updates to the pages of APC&TCP, DigiBoosterPro, and Amiga Future are posted in the newsletter. Beyond that there is information about software updates of the APC&TCP software house.
Subscribers to the old APC&TCP newsletter and the Amiga Future
mailing list are being automatically subscribed to the new newsletter. If you would like to subscribe, send an e-mail to newsletter-subscribe@apc-tcp.de.
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to newsletter-unsubscribe@apc-tcp.de. Both of the old mailing lists will be eliminated in the next few days.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
[News message: 08. Jul. 2004, 00:39] [Comments: 0]
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07.Jul.2004
Lou Vidal (ANF)
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Queens Amiga User Group: Website updated, "CD32 Video Editing Station"
The Queens Amiga Users Group website has been updated. The expanded member project section now features pictures and a short description of a video editing station based on a CD32.
Along with the announcement of the resumed summer meetings the site
features the latest in the ongoing OS4 demos, visit QAUG for more info.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Jul.2004
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New Amiga dealer - handle with care
An amigaworld.net member pointed out that there's a new presumably British Amiga dealer called amigashop.co.uk. But just a few hours later, there are lots of indications suggesting that one should be very cautious when dealing with this entity:
The only means of contacting the dealer (apart from a HTML form) listed on the website is a mobile phone number, there's no postal address or proper imprint available.
There are AmigaOne motherboards available from the webshop, yet the manufacturer Eyetech states that they never heard about that particular vendor. The domain amigashop.co.uk is owned by pc-x-treme.net, a company that has allegedly cheated PC customers in the past and falsely claimed to be a subsidiary of a reputable hardware manufacturer.
More information and links to further evidence can be found at amigaworld.net.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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07.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org Magazine: Spare issues of the pilot still available
There are still some spare issues of the pilot of the 'Amiga.org Magazine', a currently frozen
international print magazine in English language, available as Ron van Herk
('Palpatine') just reports at
Amiga.org.
The reasons for the frozen status of that magazine are said to
be not enough time by the editors and the overall situation
of the Amiga market which is not the best condition for a
needed and secured market demand.
Financing and material for articles as well as advertisers
were not the critical problem, thus giving hope the status
might change for future releases again when more Amigas,
independent which manufacturer or brand they will be, within
the market.
Further information and how to obtain one of the last issues
is to get at the title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Fileshare game: Secrecy
Secrecy (38 KB), is a strategy game for two to four players. It is a
so called file share game i.e. one does a turn, saves the
game and sends the file to the next player.
An editor for different arenas is included with the game.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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06.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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AROS: New ata.device finished
How AROS-Exec tells, the AROS-Exec
a new ata.device was finished by Michael S. The drive is completly new.
The new ata.device supports all PIO-Modes and allows a theoretical transmission of 14 MB/s
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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Event: NASS IV (France)
On July, 10th and 11th the event NASS IV in La Rochelle in France take place.
Showed are the AmigaOne XE/G4, AmigaOS4 and the game 'Shadow of the Beast' in a deluxe-version
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 06. Jul. 2004, 13:26] [Comments: 0]
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06.Jul.2004
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WinUAE 0.9.90 announced
The WinUAE team announced the next version of the emulator yesterday: WinUAE 0.9.90 ("WinUAE 1.0 public beta"). Changes since the last version:
New features:
- New Quickstart-panel. Easy and fast way to run disk-based games or
demos. Simply select Amiga model, compatibility level, disk image
and click start!
- Hardware and host configuration separated. Create and use your own
custom host configurations instead of build-in host configuration
data from standard configuration files.
- Kickstart ROM scanner and autodetection (only official ROMs supported)
- User configurable graphics filter presets.
- Scaling support in all software filters.
- Paths-panel added. User configurable ROM, statefile, screenshot etc. paths.
- Automatically return back to GUI if Kickstart ROM fails to load
- Added help-tooltips here and there
- More compatible paraport direct parallel port support
- Mapped filesystem P-flag to Windows System-flag, H-flag to Hidden
and fixed inverted archive-flag
Bugs fixed:
- ECS Agnus was always reported as an OCS Agnus (0.8.26)
- 68000 cycle-exact mode compatibility (0.8.26)
- floppy emulation writing bug (0.8.26, fixes SWOS disk error when saving)
- dialogs in fullscreen mode
- on the fly switching between A1000/CDTV/CD32 modes
- swapping disk image sometimes changed another drive's disk image
- German keyboard #-key
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Jul.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: ClicketyFlip and CPUClock
The commodity 'ClicketyFlip' from Peter Gordon flips screens when the user double clicks with the middle mouse button. The same author is responsible for the AmiDock extension (i.e. a 'Docky') 'CPUClock' that contains a CPU time meter and a digital clock.
Direct download:
ClicketyFlip.lha (31 KB)
cclock_docky.lha (9 KB)
(cg)
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05.Jul.2004
amigafuture.de (Website)
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Script based demo creator: Karate-Fighter 1.0
Karate fighter is a script based demo creator used to create visual ('scene') demos. The program requires at least a 68020 CPU, supports AGA and RTG and has been successfully tested on various emulators.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Jul.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #074
The scene group "Liquid Skies" released their 74th music pack today containing the track "Fantazja" from the Polish musician Maxus. The cover has been designed by DaFreak.
- Title: Fantazja
- Artist: Maxus
- Style: Trance
- Length: 4:21
- Format: mp3
- Size: 4.0 MB
The zippped file is available for download here.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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03.Jul.2004
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Electronic television magazine: TView 1.3.16
TView is a kind of a TV programmes magazine: it downloads the programme of an unlimited number of European TV channels on your computer and lists it sorted by time or TV channels. Furthermore does TView contain an alert function.
In version 1.3.16 were some smaller bugs removed.
Direct download: TView_1.3.16.lha (84 KB)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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Pegasos: Boot Creator v0.6
Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek has released a new version of the Bootcreator. This program creates boot menus for the OpenFirmware of the Pegasos making the start of different operating systems easier.
New in version 0.6 is the [ABORT] command making it possible to exit the boot menu.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 03. Jul. 2004, 17:31] [Comments: 0]
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03.Jul.2004
amigafuture.de (website)
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News reader: Newscoaster hosted by Sourceforge.net
The website of the MUI based news reader "Newscoaster" has now moved to newscoaster.sourceforge.net.
Anyone who wants to work on Newscoaster is asked to contact the author Mark Harman to get access to the CVS archive.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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New screenshots of the Tales of Tamar 3D map
Tales of Tamar is a round based fantasy, strategy & and role playing game for Amiga, PC & Mac. Versions for Linux and Java are under development. Martin Wolf wrote:
"There are new snapshots of the 3D map available that is right now in development for Tales of Tamar. This 3D map will be implemented into the client by the end of the year and is meant to move the project together with higher resolution and higher number of colours to the first row of round based strategy games.
Now we ask for your opinion! Here are the snapshots:
Screenshots
Of course, units and the users interface are missing.
Your ToT team" (cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Audio player: Streamer 2.09 (beta)
"Streamer" plays Shoutcast Internet radio, MP3 and RealAudio files that are received via a HTTP connection. Streamer supports MPEG decoder hardware (MAS and Delfina). Version 2.09 offers the following improvements:
- Better HTTP support
- Support of "URL encoding" (spaces or special characters in an URL)
- Simple HTTP authentication
- Now works with WinUAE, too
The author asks for feedback, especially from users with hardware MPEG decoders.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
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Amiga Alpe Adria: webcam and first photos
There are now first images available from the Amiga Alpe Adria event taking place today in the Italian Udine. Further ones will be added soon. A webcam has been installed, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jul.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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PPaint: Version 7.1c now with GIF support on Aminet
Since the GIF patent expired meanwhile, Cloanto has updated the Aminet archive of PPaint 7.1c (3 MB) to support this file format.
This version is limited to non-commercial usage and to exclusive distribution via Aminet. Compared to the commercial version included with the emulator package Amiga Forever, just some tutorial and artwork add-ons are missing. (snx)
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03.Jul.2004
amiga.org (website)
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Hardware "hack": Prometheus in desktop case
Jim "Redrumloa" Farley by Anachronism Industries has found a way to built a "Prometheus" PCI busboard into a (closed) A3000 or A4000 desktop case. To do this are no modifications necessary for the Prometheus or the A4000.
In his test computer has Farley next to the Prometheus built in a Voodoo3 graphics card and a PCI network card - still the video slot and two Zorro slots are accessible. A third Zorro slot is partly covered but should offer enough space for short slot cards.
Further details and some photos can be found at amiga.org. Obviously Farley is thinking about offering the needed parts for sale.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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