29.May.2003
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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USB Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1
There's a new update of the Poseidon USB Stack. It consists mainly of improvements and bugfixes of the Mass Storage Class, for Highway as well as Subway drivers. Through this a whole lot more pieces of equipment should run, which had formerly balked.
Newly come is a program for USB-Radios from D-Link, respectively GemTek. One can purchase these very cheaply on eBay, because it was put together in a friendly manner it was just a few hours work to create the drivers.
A bit more was invested in the new program for the management of my MP3 Player (Valencia MPX), which was available for purchase at Lidl in December 2002. This (and many similarly built units) are unfortunately not MSD equipment. With the Uproar tool this MP3 player may nonetheless be conveniently used. In case anyone else has such a gadget, I'd be very appreciative to hear some feedback.
This time there are two separate archives, for classic Amiga as well as MorphOS systems -- this allows simple installation.
That's just an intro, further details may be found in the ReadMe. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
(ANF)
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Amiga Access Homepage Update
On the homepage of the Amiga-Clone 'Access' (title link) there are now some more benchmarks. The modules may be downloaded and tried on your own computer. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Roger Stamm (ANF)
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ahs-amiga.ch Is Moving
Roger Stamm of AHS-Amiga Handel Stamm writes:
"AHS-Amiga is moving. Because of this it may happen that the pages at
www.ahs.amiga.ch are not readily available. If you want to get in touch with us, use email: info@ahs-amiga.ch.
We will send a confirmation within two days for the receipt of the email. If you don't get confirmation, you can also reach us at
rstamm@gmx.de.
Many thanks for your understanding."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Amiforce: Snapshots of Aquarium and Port Royal
Telemar Rosenberger, known to many for his software "AmHuhn," has authored a screen saver
named "Aquarium" and a game named "Port Royal," with the help of the multimedia authoring system
Hollywood. Under the title link you'll find the first screenshots
for both of these programs. The programs will be published as soon as the
announced Hollywood
Version 1.5 is out.
The deal with Aquarium is that it's a screen saver with images of swimming fish, already known from other
platforms. Now AmigaOS too gets the enjoyment of this pleasing screen saver.
Port Royal is a new combat game, which is about ships firing cannons. With this one may, for example, calculate wind
direction in directing a strike, and naturally the enemy ships shoot back. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: New Audio Track
As of now there is a new MP3 (Trance) to be downloaded from Amiforce, for all interested.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.May.2003
Dennis Pauler (ANF)
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Star Empire II: Last possibility to join
Tomorrow, Thursday, a new round of the email based space strategy game
Star Empire II will start. The aim of the game is to become the leader of the universe
but there are 32 human beings trying to do this and several computer controled pirates.
Diplomaty, alliances, but also armed space crafts are strongly indicated to fulfill this.
Who wants to join has now the last possibility to do so
Btw.: The server program of Star Empire II is powered by AmigaOS... :-)
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
pcgames.de (ANF)
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PC Games: Munich decides for Linux
»The Munich city council has decided today that in future on all 14,00 PCs and notebooks of the city Linux software will
be used instead of Microsoft programs.
The council followed with this decission a claim of the 1st municipal
Christian Ude. The migration to the open source operating system should be done steadily during the next years. Initially the public offices
which use mostly office applications should be changed to the new software.
The costs of this change including teaching courses are guessed to nearly 30 million Euros«.
Read the full article (German) by the title link.
Further links regarding this topic:
Golem: München pro Linux: Stadtrat lässt Microsoft abblitzen
heise: IBM: Münchener Entscheidung ein "Ritterschlag für Linux"
heise: CSU kritisiert Münchener Entscheidung als "Software-Abenteuer"
SPIEGEL: MÜNCHEN WÄHLT LINUX SuSE beißt Bill
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Lorraine Design (Website)
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New YAM toolbar icons
At Lorraine-Design there are new icons for the YAM toolbar available for download.
Here is a preview.
Download: NewYam.LHA
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - lookong for further names
Steffen Nitz writes: "'Die Kleine Gilde' version 0.25 will be released within the next
4 - 5 days and I ask for the following: Actually I am binding the new profession smith to the game and need
20 to 30 house names regarding the smith profession. I am looking for names like "Heavy Hammer", "Hot Iron" etc. There is a keyfile to win for
'Die Kleine Gilde' or for `SN-Münzarchiv'".
Update:
Steffen Nitz has published this
screen shot from the game. Under the title link you will find some others.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Marc Albrecht (E-Mail)
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amiga-news.de: Comuter center maintenance
Tomorrow night (i.e. from Thursday to Friday) there will be some hardware compounds changed at that comuter center which hoste amiga-news.de
therefore between 23:00 and 03:00 that night it might be that the pages are unreachable.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Preview from PairsNG and an own domain
The one or other user might remember the game "Pairs" which was released in 1996 for the first time
in version 1.0 by Tobias Lenz. Seven years later Christoph Kimna is working with "PairsNG" on more than a
honorable successor. The preview reports about Olaf Köbniks first impressions of "PairsNG" and with the
screen shots you can see yourself that there will be a real classic one soon, which won't release you too easy.
Furthermore there is additional information given about the author
Christoph Kimna during the interview and one more surprise. The
interview, the preview and the screen shots are at the section "Interviews". The interview is currently available in
German.
Amiga Arena - Now with an own domain
it took long but with the friendly support of the Fun Time World the
Amiga Arena is reachable at
http://www.amiga-arena.de
from now on.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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Official release of YAM v2.4p1
The email client YAM (Yet Another Mailer) has been released by the YAM open source
team to be publicly downloadable. Read with the following the list of the new
features:
- Fixed: failed to quote messages containing attachments (damato)
- Fixed: the "Abbreviation" string gadget in the Glossary reset
itself to "- new -" every time the contents were deleted (damato)
- Fixed: it could happen that a temporary letter file was used for
several Write windows at once (damato)
- Fixed: would try to delete an inexistant ".autosave0" file if the
AutoSave option was set to 0 (damato)
- Fixed: couldn't exit if ConfirmOnQuit was enabled and YAM was
iconified (damato)
- Fixed: the HIDE option prevented the application from popping up
if MUI's own appicon or the commodity system were used (damato)
- Fixed: the FOLDERINFO ARexx command returned the wrong ID number
for folders containing "sent and received" mail (damato)
- Fixed: changing the folder type failed to refresh the message
list (damato)
- Fixed: forgot to pack messages when they were imported into
compressed folders, causing all sort of calamity (damato)
- Fixed: folders that "lost" their directory were
automatically recreated as folders of type "outgoing" (damato)
- Fixed: cancelling the password requester in the folder settings
window would create a folder protected with an empty password (damato)
- Fixed: the "Export..." item in the popup menu would export the
whole folder contents (damato)
- Fixed: the "Check PGP signature" menu item in the Read window
was sometimes disabled even if the message had a signature to
check (damato)
- Fixed: the "Save decrypted message" menu item in the Read
window didn't work as it should in compressed/encrypted folders
(damato)
- Changed: it is now actually compatible with the most common MBOX
formats, e.g. MBOXRD (damato)
- Changed: added support for the DST variable created by
Facts, rendering SummerTimeGuard emulation obsolete (damato)
- Changed: no longer disables the pattern field in the ASL
file requester opened to attach files (damato)
- Changed: no longer complains if it can't save ENVARC:mui/YAM.cfg
on exit (damato)
- Added: new hidden option "AutoColumnResize" for YAM to resize
the NList columns when switching folders if the option is enabled,
which it is by default (damato)
- Added: confirmation requester before cropping attachments (damato)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Dia-CD (Vacation pictures burned as VideoCD)
Today Carsten Siegner finished his project "Dia-CD"
(at his home page at "rexx"). With this program you can watch your pictures from the vacation easily utilizing a TV and a DVD player.
The program creates automatically a slide show and compiles a VCD-Image by demand.
Features:
- any picture archive convertable
- any picture format usable (utilizes the datatypes)
- adding a soundtrack
- Later navigation with the keys of the DVD rc
- Written in ARexx competly; so to use with all Amigas.
- Every picture or every picute sequence might have its own presentation time (10 s - 100 s)
- If demanded the source pictures are added to the VideoCD as well, so they won't be lost
- To every VideoCD a ReadMe file can be added
- There is a brief online help optional
Requirements:
- RexxTricks_386.lha (from Siegner's home page)
- Tritonrexx (at the RexxTricks directory)
- triton.library (at the RexxTricks directory)
- dttoppm.lha (Aminet)
- sox.lzx (from Siegner's home page or Aminet)
- Multiviev
- execute
- AREXX
- vcd-ffmpeg.lzx (from Siegner's home page)
- min 1 GByte free hard disk space
- min 64 MByte free RAM
Installation:
Install RexxTricks with the installer. That will install all data for
Tritonrexx and the
triton.library also. Unpack dttoppm.lha and copy the program to C:. Unpack vcd-ffmpeg.lzx and move
vcdimager and ffmpeg to C:. ARexx needs to be stated at boottime, Sox must be at C:.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #7
On May the 27th 2003 James Daniels by Apex Designs released the seventh
status report about the port of the game 'Payback' to the Gameboy
Advance.
The update focuses to the new features and performance increase which were done during the last month.
The report includes four new screen shots and a video clip of the game in action.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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27.May.2003
KDH News (ANF)
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AmigaOne: German mailing list
A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers
to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks
because of the AmigaOne.
This mailing list is supported by the Amiga dealer
Point Design and KDH Datentechnik
and is made as a completion to the official Amiga mailing list.
You could announce at here.
Source:
Jürgen Schober - Point Design
Günter Horbach - KDH Datatechnic
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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YAM Newsletter 12 - visits in the YAM future
The YAMOS team, developer of the e-mail client YAM (Yet Another Mailer), have been published the YAM newsletter No. 12 today.
There they related to the new features of YAM-Release 2.4p1 which explains
hidden options "AutoColumnResize" of this version and visited to the future of YAM. Read the complete English-speaking newsletter under the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Call to Logo competition
The face of AROS in this way. So a logo competition is organized, that is open for designer and graphic artists.
After the delivery date there are public selections, at its end a winner is announced.
All logos had to be delivered until the 30th June, and they are not allowed to contain copyrighted elements. They had to be in a vector or a bitmap format.
Following formats are supported: SVG, EPS, EPSF, PS, AI, PNG, GIF, TIFF, IFF-24 oder PSD.
The winner will be fame and honour.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Status Report May 2003
Another whole month has gone by, which means that it's definitely time for another status update. Doh, why do have all the status updates to begin like that? :) I'd like to thank all the people who showed interest in AROS in the last months, and there have been a lot! Anyway, let's not wait longer, here are the juicy bits, in this relatively uneventful month...
Hardware
Johan Grip received the Pegasos board at the end of April, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, and started working on the hosted AROS port. However he was no longer able to continue for personal reasons, so he sent the board to Michal Schulz, another talented hardware hacker.
In the meantime, Michal, who already had a PPC PReP board, worked on the native PPC port. He merged his sources in the AROS CVS tree, creating the new 'arch/ppc' directory. To this day, he went as far as implementing task handling and scheduling. Congratulations Michal! Sources as well as a PReP boot image can be found at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~misc/AROS.ppc.tar.bz2
Michal is also reworking exec.library to make it hardware/platform-independent, by moving dependent stuff in resources like kernel.resource, OpenFirmware.resource...
Build system
No fundamental changes to this sometimes hated system, but lots and lots of little bug fixes and improvements by almost every active AROS Team member in tools, config files, makefiles... So much activity caused quite a few broken nightly builds, but it seems now stabilized.
Also the newer gcc 3.3 that got installed on the build machine led to some problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled.
We now use bzip2 instead of gzip, and a custom, simpler package format than tar to create the AROS floppy and squeeze every possible byte. In the quest to more space, some less useful programs were removed from floppy. Thanks to Adam Chodorowski for the cleanup and optimizations!
i386-pc Installation
The installer for the i386 native port, install-i386-pc, is currently broken, but a graphical bootsector installer is in work, as well as a bootmenu editor, courtesy of Sebastian Heutling, who also still works on the HDToolBox partition editor.
User Interface
Adam Chodorowski began to work on the Zune custom class PreferencesWindow.mcc which implements the AROS standard prefs window buttons and look.
Paul Smith continued his huge work on the next iteration of Wanderer and the underlying desktop.library. It draws icons, and different views are possible (large icons, small icons, details).
Fabio Alemagna added horizontal and vertical color gradients to Zune images. Take a look at the obligatory screenshot!
By default, the Boot Shell is now closed after Wanderer is started. To open a new shell, use the Wanderer/Shell menu item, or use Amiga-W shortcut (Amiga key is the right Win key on pc105 keyboards)
Localizations
Thanks to Olivier Adam for his French translation of dos.library catalog, and to Paulo Silva for the Portuguese keyboard description (which Georg Steger implemented).
Miscellaneous
Some miscellaneous things that have happened:
- Staf Verhaegen continued to work on diskfont.library.
- Stefan Berger worked hard on ports of gtlayout.library and term 4.7, which can be found in contrib.
- Adam Chodorowski imported AHI 5.8 in AROS CVS, following Martin Blom's release of the AROS port.
- Georg Steger worked on the unix hosted kernel to allow nesting supervisor, so that signals occuring during a signal handler execution are not ignored. It should improve the stability of the serial device.
- and of course, lots of fixes here and there by many developers: for a rough idea, already more than 350 CVS commits this month (although we won't beat the record of 890 last month, according to the AROS-CVS mailing list archive).
Documentation
AROS documentation, in source and HTML-rendered form, is now available on the download page.
Web
Randy Vice set up an AROS support site, TeamAROS, at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros/.
Be sure to check their bounty program if you want to sponsor AROS development.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: Changes and votes
Forgot your password or username? Just click Log in on demo list page, enter your email address and the username and password will be send to you. Now there is no excuse anymore not to get active. By the way, about 120 votes were added in the last week. Thanks and keep them coming! (nba)
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26.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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AA: Interview with Bill Panagouleas / 'DNA - The Variety of Life'
Amiga Arena Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX)
Olaf Köbnik talked with Bill Panagoules about the Amiga port of Mozilla and about upcoming products for the Amiga.
The (English) interview.
Amiga Arena Fullversion: DNA - The Variety of Life
"DNA - The Variety OF Life", the first work by "Applaud
software" is now available for download. The game is a strategy
game. The story is somewhat similar to the one of "UFO - Enemy unknown". The earth is threatend by mutants.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates - 26.05.2003 (Update)
New Ports of Amiga.SF: abcm2ps and cURL
abcm2ps Version 3.5.3
abcm2ps is a program which converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript.
It was developed mainly to print barock organ scores which have independant
voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board.
abcm2ps-3.5.3.lha
cURL Version 7.10.5
cURL is a client to get documents/files from or send documents to a server,
using any of the supported protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET,
LDAP or FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction or
any kind of interactivity. cURL offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy
support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections,
cookies, file transfer resume and more.
curl-7.10.5.lha
IRC-Client: BenderIRC Version 1.5b14
Download: BenderIRC.lha
Tools: LCD-Test and Changer
Philippe Bourdin released two new programs:
- "LCD test" tests LCD screen on defective pixels, as certain
colors are faded in, which facilitate a finding.
Download: LCD-Test.lha
- "Changer" is a program for looking for and replacing in files (also
recursive by sublists). The program uses "Regularexpressions" and Perl-5
must be installed. The program has unfortunately no graphic user
interface, but is started from the Shell (see homepage for documentation).
Download: changer.pl
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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