16.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Point of View, edition 1
The retro-gaming community of abime.net,
which operate the Amiga gaming database Hall of Light
has puplished the first edition of their retro-gaming.magazine "Amiga Point of View".
The magazine should reincarnate the old spirit of old gaming magazines with test reports, letter
to the editor corner, gaming tips and complete solutions. You can find the first edition (19.5 MB)
under the tiltle link.
Update: (16.12.2003, 15:30, cg)
The contacts of the homepage are not valid. You can find the APoV-Team under following e-mail addresses:
Editor: apov.editor@abime.net
Letter to the editor: apov.letters@abime.net
Competitions: apov.competitions@abime.net
Gaming tips: apov.wham@abime.net
Gaming tests: apov.pdgames@abime.net
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)
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New and updated tools from OnyxSoft
The Swedish shareware-developer-group OnyxSoft released two new and
three updated tools:
AddLF (Version 1.0)
This is a very simple tool that makes text files that has no
linefeeds in them become readable in non-wrapping text-viewers/editors.
It tries to wrap after 80 characters but might go 10 chars longer if
it means not breaking a word. If a word is very long when AddLF wants
to wrap it will cut the word and insert a dash "-".
OnyxPrelude (Version 1.0)
This is a new fresh mixer for the Prelude sound cards! You can
test the mixer even w/o a prelude =) Everything concerning audio
can be controlled by ARexx! Everything concerning audio can be
controlled by userdefinable hotkeys! There are two different mixer
GUIs, pick the one you like! The mixer can popup on hotkey or
ARexx event! The mixer can close again after a userdefinable delay!
A very small, configurable and slick bevel can popup instead of the
mixer on hotkey or ARexx events! It also has all normal features of
a mixer, like the ability to change the display name of a channel,
hide channels you never use, reset the card on startup etc. And it
uses MUI...
DigiConverter (Version 1.1)
Now you can also convert from and to floats. Useful mainly for
handling floats where you only have access to for example hexadicimal
values.
DRemind (Version 1.66)
Now you can make your remind *Bold*, /Italic/, _Underlined_
and/or coloured in the remind list! Fixed a bug which caused Single
reminds to never pop up. (a 2<->4 digits year bug). --BAR--'s couldn't
be moved since they where excluded from the sorting routines in DRPrefs.
Which gadgets to be shown as default was not correct. See Main GUI
Settings/Show'n'Hide for other gadgets.
TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.31)
Now full CDDB-support is built-in into TheMPegEncGUI! You don't
need to use some other program to get those CD-IDs from the net and
then try to figure out what file it was and load that into The_GUI,
all is now automated. Insert a CD, add files (previously leached off
the CD, or directly from the CD if you have f.ex. AllegroCDFS), then
select Obtain CDDB from the ID3-Tag menu. When drag'n'dropping files
into the file list window some menu options were not enabled. You had
to add a file using the Add-button. There were some dublettes and inconsistencies of hotkeys for the menus. Switching between Lame/Mpega
in Lite didn't work from the menu. The bitrate was not correct in the
full and Lite-versions. (nba)
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16.Dec.2003
Matthes (ANF)
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Magazine: Latest edition 8 of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64"
The 8th edition of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64" is published. The magazine is dedicated to old and alternativ
computer systems. The center of gravity is the C64, but also reports of other 8-bit-computers. Old entertainment
systems and Amigas are considered, too. The magazine is published as a PDF-File for free. Interested persons
could also order a printed edition or subscription. The 8th edition contains following aspects:
- Lotek64-Special: Music
- Commodores last trick: Amiga CD32
- O.A.S.E. 03: News of the Amiga OS4 and the C-One-Board
- Hobby + electronics 2003
- Interviews
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
PIK (ANF)
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Smart Filesystem v1.214
SFS is an alternative Filesystem for the Classic AmigaOS, which is famous for the high writing-, reading-
and search speed defiance its Beta-status. After a few test updates the SFS.lha which you can find in a few days on Aminet
(1.214, 273,995 bytes size of the archive) makes no problems in defragmenting.
SFSdefrag was debugged. The old SFS.lha-archives are deleted with update automatically, especially the 1.213 distribution
You can get quick information under: http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find.
A tool which could configurate the number of files in .recycled will be available until week3/2004. The tests are running.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
CD32-Allianz/Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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New support of the CD32-Allianz-Homepage
From the 1st January Robert Konrad is supporting the online offer of the CD32. You can get more information under
the title link.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
Jim Steichen (ANF)
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Programming language: AmigaTalk V2.5 in Aminet
Jim Streichen has uploaded AmiTalk V2.5 to the Aminet under dev/lang.
The new variation of the version 2.5 of Little Smalltalk (V1.0 of Tim Budd) shows a better memory manager. Until now the memory of AmigaTalk wasn't released after ending.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF)
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New PNG-Icon-Set
After Christmas (27.12.2003) new PNG-Icon-Set for 68k-Amigas will be published. Screenshots are available at Lorraine Design.
Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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15.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (YIM)
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Raytracing: New Kray binaries
Of Kray, a raytracing program with a text interface, there are new binary versions for AmigaOS, Linux and Windows available.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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15.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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CygnusED Professional 4.22 PPC released
Version 4.22 of the text editor CygnusED for MorphOS is now available at MorphOS.org.
Download (294 KB)
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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15.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V2.2
Chris Hodges announced the release of version 2.2 of the USB stack 'Poseidon'. Read his announcement:
After my seven months break due to my diploma thesis, I have reworked
the HID class quite a bit. It now supports digital and analogue joypads
via the lowlevel.library. Moreover, the class now supports changing of
HID Output and Feature items (i.e. for keyboard LEDs or Force
Feedback/Rumble joypads). Input values for items can now be scaled and
clipped and flipped. There is support for local and global variables. The
value that is used for the action can now also be redirected to origin
from these variables, timers, click counts, etc, or randomly (e.g.
for auto fire). Actions can now be triggered upon definable condition
codes, making it even more powerful (you want to do a special action
on three clicks with the middle mouse button, or when shift is pressed?,
no problem!). The default keyboard mapping can now also be changed. All
this comes with a price -- the GUI is now a bit more complex. But no
worries -- you don't have to use these features, if you don't like
to. The English version of the manual has been updated a bit to
reflect the changes -- unfortunately, the German translation (done
by Michael Böhmer) has been lost in a crash. I will update the guide
accordingly, but this will take some more time.
Several classes have been updated, such as the massstorage.class. It
now has some new default settings and fall back options.
The poseidon main library now fixes the problems created by broken
Olympus cameras not being bound to the MSD class. It now also tries
to assign better names to devices that don't come with string descriptors.
Trident has been rewritten into subclasses for the MorphOS mprefs and
is now a bit more stable (I hope).
The installer script has been slightly updated and now contains
Spanish strings, kindly translated by Dámaso Domínguez.
The AddUSBHardware command now has an "ALL" option, allowing to take
the stack offline by just issuing an "AddUSBHardware REMOVE ALL" line --
handy for game starting scripts.
Finally, the device driver for the Algor has been optimized a bit, and
also a bug had been fixed.
Now for something completely different. In August, I stopped
taking registrations, because Elbox treated me badly (as a summary) and
I hoped, that they would change their mind. I should have known better.
They kept selling their cards, even though they knew that the users
wouldn't be able to use them. They didn't care at all about the users and
their fate.
As of today, the registration process is open again. Keyfiles can again
be obtained from me directly (cash or bank transfer, no credit cards!).
Please note that the licence fee has been increased a bit to reflect
the new features added. Of course, no new keyfile are required for
current users to use the V2.2 version.
IOSpirit will offer a bundle for ArakAttack users soon, details will
be announced by IOSpirit in a few days (please don't bugger them right
now). ArakAttack currently works on Amithlon and OpenPCI supported PCI
bridge boards for OHCI and UHCI PCI cards (and onboard USB). EHCI
(USB2.0) is being implemented and will be available later.
ArakAttack currently does not work on Mediator boards, but means are
being prepared to get it running on these machines to offer a
high-quality USB driver for any PCI card (including the Spider).
That's it for now. Hope you will enjoy the new Poseidon release and have
a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Who knows, maybe we will see many
nice things happing during 2004. Such as the AmigaOS4 release or the
Pegasos II.
Stay healthy! There's still much to come.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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13.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Announcement: new demo version 0.9beta of HD-Rec
There'll be a new beta demo version of HD-Rec available for download before Christmas.
"HD-Rec" is a MIDI and audio sequencer, i.e. audio and MIDI recordings can be arranged in the same window and replayed synchronously.
Particular improvements in V0.9beta:
- Audio mixer with 16+1+1 true stereo channels and 4 Aux ways
- realtime audio effects (reverb, delay, chorus, equalizer...)
- strongly improved softsynth "Sweeper" (resonance filter, samples)
The aim of HD-Rec is to be able to do a whole music production from the composing to the mastering within one application.
Using the softsynth and the audio effects of HD-Rec you'll need no external sound producer or effects devices. The music signal doesn't leave the computer at no time and can be exported directly as WAV or MP3 file. The quality is always excellent and independant from the sound card. Noise, buzzing or whimping are now part of the past.
The whole scenery (mixer settings, effects, sounds, notes) are saved on the computer and are reproduced 1:1 when being reloaded.
The softsynth "Sweeper" offers independant from the computing power always exact sample timing and can be played in realtime via an external master keyboard if needed. Though, for this you need a fast computer with 500 MHz clock or more.
Sweeper has very different synthesis algorithms and supports multisamples. Because of this, a wide sound spectrum is possible, from the old C64 sound across Techno to a realistic piano or string ensemble.
HD-Rec is a system friendly 68K application and doesn't make any use of the custom chips - therefore it runs on the "classic" Amiga as well as under WinUAE and Amithlon. In addition, the program has already successfully been tested under MorphOS.
Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots
Demo songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download
(Neither have external effects or sound producers been used nor have any samples been included except the drums and the piano solo.)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Retailer: APS with reworked webshop and separate Pegasos URL
The French Amiga retailer APS has reworked his Webshop and added a PC area. You now can find here prices for complete Pegasos-2 systems, too.
In addition, an own address for Pegasos customers has been prepared under PegasosPPC.fr. There you can find detailed information about the computer and the operating systems that come with the computer.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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13.Dec.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (email)
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Magazine: Obligement N°42
The issue #42 of the French digital magazine Obligement has been released. Read a report about the Alchimie 3, interviews with Kevin Picone (Underware Design) and with Yannick Bridier (president of the 4A Association), reviews of IBrowse 2.3 and dynAMIte, an article about the DOSBox, a review of the Spider 2 USB and the Mirage 1200 tower, an article about the installation of PegXLin and much more.
Download: Obligement 42
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Plug'nPlay: Hardware assistant v0.3 published
The version 0.3 of the Amiga Plug'nPlay system "HardwareAssistent" is now available
under the title link.
Short description of the features:
- Automatic hardware recognition
- Automac selection of the right driver
- Automatic installation of the driver
- Download of the driver from the Internet
- Support of 40 Zorro- and Turbo cards
(amount is increasing)
- Maximum transparency and flexibility
- User friendly
- Fast
Direct download
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12.Dec.2003
Nova Design (ANF)
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3D-Software: Aladdin4D on CD
The very known 3d animation software "Aladdin 4D" is now available on CD. It contains
the last version of Aladdin (with all updates which have been published later) as well
as the full website of Nova Design, all available tutorials for Aladdin, examples and
the full content of the Nova Design FTP-server.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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New product: IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle Pro
As a special gift to its customers, software-developer
IOSPIRIT for the first time
offers a bundle with all inhouse graphics programs at an especially
attractive price of only 99 EUR (you save 40%, more than 60 EUR).
The "IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle Pro" contains the respectively latest,
full versions of fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0 and VHI Studio 6.0.
The bundle is only available as 3 CD-set and only as long as stock lasts. (nba)
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12.Dec.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Diskmag: Cows'n'Snakefights #5 published
The Swedish demoscene group has published its fifth issue of the in English written
Amiga Diskmag "Cows'n'Snakefights".
You can read there different party reports, interviews and other articles. You can download
the archive from the website under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Apple Insider (ANF)
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CPU-News: PowerPC 750VX of IBM
According to a report of our colleague of the online magazine AppleInsider Big Blue IBM
has completed the new micro processor "PowerPC 750VX".
The chip is supposed to be used in the next generation of the iBooks of Apple. L3 cache
with up to 4 megabyte is to be possible. The Front Side Bus with up to 400 MHz DDR and
Altivec-implemantation like at the PowerPC 970 (G5) are further features.
The processor is supposed to work with 1.8 GHz while the successor of the 750VX, the
planned 750VXe, is supposed to work with 2 GHz. The processor will probably introduced
in the third/fourth quarter of the year 2004.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Captain HIT (ANF)
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Emulator: A/NES CGX Final Version
Because of the low interest and the missing support today the final version v1.33 of
the NES-emulator A/NES CGX has been
published.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Kermit Woodall (ANF)
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ImageFX 4.5 Studio available (update)
As Nova Design reported ImageFX 4.5 Studio is now available for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
The MorphOS version contains native PowerStation-modules and 32-Bit-Icons made by
André Siegel.
According to a press release ImageFX 4.5 Studio contains ImageFX 4.0, 4.5, PowerStation
and additional extensions. The CD also contains the complete website and FTP site of
Nova Design. The upgrade price depends on the existing version and reach from 39.95
up to 79.95 US Dollar.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2003
Thomas Knäbel / bplan (E-Mail)
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Christmas greetings from bplan GmbH
The second production and delivery of the Pegasos II (KW51) is close to be done.
As a "little" apology for the delay bplan presents as a Christmas gift the following
outtakes of up to today never shown pictures on its website.
bplan: "We wish all visitors of our website Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2004."
The pictures are under the copyright of the bplan GmbH and are not allowed to be published
without permission.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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