24.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Summer events with individual Computers
"No summer break this year!" While our office in Aachen is closed
from July 24th until August 18th, there are several Amiga- and classic
computing related events during the time.
It's startig with Amiwest
in Sacramento, California this weekend. This is a show of long tradition
that has been taking place for many years. This year we attend the show
as exhibitors for the first time. In the past years, we have only
exhibited at the Amiga show in St. Louis in the midwest of the USA.
On the same weekend, the computer-party
Little Computer People takes place
in Sweden. It's organized by C64-fans for C64-fans, and we're supporting
it with some prizes. The current state of development of the
C-One is shown, and our
netowrking card "RR-Net" is demonstrated to a larger audience
for the first time. It's also going to be for sale!
The height of the season is the
Classic Gaming Expo 2003 in Las Vegas
on August 9th and 10th. We're also exhibiting at this show for the first
time. At the expo for classic computer games and arcade machines, names
like Atari, Activision, Vectrex, Intellivision and of course Commodore are
revived. The guest list contains big names like
Paul Norman,
David Crane and
Garry Kitchen. (ps)
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23.Jul.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Lindows.com does an attempt with an Internet computer
As heise reports Lindows.com
will try to establish a web station starting at 169 US$ at the market, being a PC without a hard disk.
The operating system will be started from CD the data required for the work will be polled from a
network or the Internet.
Read the full heise article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Strojek bei Golem (ANF)
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Golem: Comes to age: The Amiga reaches 18
By the title link there is a brief, nostalgic article at Golem covering the birthady of
the Commodore Amiga.
Read the full article by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
amiga.org
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amiga.org: Wayne Hunt quits being webmaster
Wayne Hunt has maintained amiga.org during eight years as the webmaster. Today he announced
that he decided to quit this passion due to personal and professional reasons
During this long period Wayne Hunt sat parallel to his job several hours in front of the monitor
to do this web project and supporting the Amiga community a lot.
Now the day has come that he shifts his priorities in life more away from the Amiga further to other not
less important things in life. We wish him all the best from here!
Amiga.org will be continued by the other moderators and webmasters.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
ANN
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Emulator: A/NES website moved
The website of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for
Amiga computers with gfx cards has moved. The site is now to reach by the
URL http://anescgfx.nylen.biz/.
Please update your bookmarks.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Geizkragen community letter reports about Tales of Tamar
Here the according extract from the Geizkragen community letter:
»[..c..] Becoming tester and get an online strategy game for free...
A tip for fantasy fans, no doubt. Currently only for Amiga users in autumn
there will come a PC version of the online strategy game
"Tales of Tamar" to the shops. All important game options are included in
the PC version of the game already, but to get the game as bugfree as possible there are still
game testers required. As player you will get a small Middle Age country assigned which should be enlarged by
clever usage of strategy, diplomacy or even war. In one game there can be a maximum of 12000 players.
To download the game free of charge you have to register the form at the Tamar homepage.
Further information and registering
here.«
The Geizkragen community has more than 413000 users, among them
some will most likely check out the game in the next weeks. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
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The Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday
Today, after a lot of heights and downs, the Amiga celebrates its 18th birthday.
On July the 23rd 1985 in New York the premiere celebrations of the
Amiga 1000 was held with attendance of several stars like Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry.
The multimedia wonder by Commodore with its incredible graphic and sound capabilities for that time
was to set a milestone within the computer history.
Happy Birthday to you being to age, Amiga!
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Commodore Billboard double-CD available
Starting today, the double-CD with the contents of the Commodore
Billboard is available. The second CD contains a recent mirror of
the CBM-Funet archive, which is maintained by Marko Mäkelä.
It also contains files that were removed from the archive lately. Many thanks again to Marko who has mastered the second CD.
Nearly all files of the double-CD can be downloaded for free on the Internet under www.commodorebillboard.de and www.funet.fi/pub/cbm.
Running websites of this scale costs a lot of money. All profits of the CDs will be used to run the websites with their high volume traffic.
We encourage our customers to copy the CDs, and to make them available in sharing-services. All this will help us in reducing the cost of the websites. Those who want to donate to the websites can buy the double-CD for about 15,- EUR from our retail partners.
The Commodore Billboard is created from user contributions. Everyone who contributed so far gets the double-CD for the price of shipment. Distribution of the free CDs is done by Stefan "Galaktus" Zelazny, the new webmaster of the Commodore Billboard. Please contact him via eMail if you want such a free CD. New contributions are also rewarded with a free CD!
A picture of the final CDs is available online. (nba)
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23.Jul.2003
Falcon (ANF)
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New workshop about DSL at Elastic Images
With a new workshop at the Elastic Images website the configuration of the
TCP/IP stack Genesis connected with the hardware router RP-614 by Netgear for connecting two
Amigas via a router and for the Filesharing with NET-FS is documented.
Because the workshop owns a lot of screen shots the
download with analog connections may take some time. The graphics are totally about
750 KB.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jul.2003
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amiga-news.de: restricted news service from 31.07. - 13.09.2003
Like last year it's time to grudge the amiga-news-team a summerbreak. The break is between 31st July and 13th September.
Nico Barbat told us that he will upload important news and news summaries. Please send your news how usual to the ANF or send the news directly to
nico@amiga-news.de.
While the summerbreak, there are no translations and the comment function is deactivated. The
Forum stays in function, we will call there a moderator, who looks after the contents.
In this time we all good think about how we could celebrate our 5-years-anniversary.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Jul.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Website Update
The Elbox Website has been updated.
The eFlash 4000
page has been set up in the Products Section.
Check also the eFlash 4000 page
in the Adapters and Interfaces Section
of the Elbox Online Store.
(ps)
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22.Jul.2003
Sebastian Hensel (ANF)
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KuH-Mag and AmigaJoker.de: Interview with Michael Labiner
The team of the KUH-magazin and AmigaJoker.de was able to find the years missing Michael Labinier (Amiga- und PC-Joker), and they interwied him.
He answered to twenty questions, which you can read at:
KuH-Mag or directly under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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22.Jul.2003
(ANF)
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X68000 Emulator PPC 0.00b21, Carbonized for Mac OS X
The X68000 was an impressive Japanese home computer system that was released
in 1987. It featured a 68000 processor running at 10MHz, and supported up to
12 MB of main memory. It also had very impressive multimedia capabilities for
the time, with a 65536 color palette and an 8-voice stereo FM synthesizer.
X68000 Emulator PPC is currently the only X68000 emulator available for the
Macintosh. It is in very early stages of development, but it appears that it
can run Gradius and Fantasy Zone to some degree, which is certainly impressive.
An important thing to note is that the program and home page are entirely in
Japanese, which makes it difficult for English-speakers to enjoy it. Also note
that the application is compressed in LZH format, which is quite uncommon for
most Macintosh programs, but Stuffit Expander seems capable of handling it;
you may need to expand the files multiple times to get the program to work,
however.
(ps)
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22.Jul.2003
Andreas Loong (E-Mail)
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ACGGBG and ToAks presents: The Amiga PPC Demo Database
ACGGBG and ToAks from Push Entertainment proudly presents:
The Amiga PPC Demo Database!
For a long time now, we've collected demos and tested them. We felt that
this was something that the PPC users were lacking - ONE place to find
them all, including a text with requirements to make it work. Look no
further, this is the ultimate
P P C D E M O D A T A B A S E.
(ps)
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21.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Jubilee special offer for "Poseidon"
Amiga Arena is proud to announce the availability of a special offer for the USB-stack 'Poseidon'. We have to mention that this is not the official start of the upcoming 'Amiga Arena jubilee weeks'!
A co-operation between Chris Hodges and Amiga Arena made a special offer for 'Poseidon' possible. Until the 31st July 2003 you can order 'Poseidon' for only 14,00 EUR (only bank orders are accepted). In order to buy the program you have to use the registration form at Amiga Arena. Additional information about 'Poseidon' can be found at www.platon42.de. Special thanks go to Chris Hodges who made this offer possible.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jul.2003
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: Searching for PPC owners
Amiga Demoscene Archive was updated again with two demos: CNCD's classic Closer, winner at The Party 1995 and Spaceballs demo Dark Helmets from The Gathering 2003 and seven new logos were added in the Logo-gallery.
We are looking for people with high-end Amigas to help out with screenshots from PPC demos. (ps)
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21.Jul.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 21.07.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
newscoaster.lha comm/news 482K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.58) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 229K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.58 - 11 Jul
TView.lha comm/tcp 77K+List TV-programs in Europe.
GuiGfxDevBas.lha dev/basic 31K+Using GuiGfx library from HBasic
ctags.lha dev/c 349K+Generate tag files of source code
CheckDisk.lha disk/misc 6K+A simple utility to check your disks
TheCrypt29.lha docs/mags 6.9M+Issue 29 of "The Crypt" online magazine
TheCrypt30.lha docs/mags 7.9M+Issue 30 of "The Crypt" online magazine
Saga.lha game/board 312K+Saga 1.28: Conversion of TSR boardgame
ToT_V0.50.lha game/demo 36M+Tales of Tamar Client V0.50
DM-Spells.png game/hint 9K+List of spells for Dungeon Master, CSB &
WormWars.lha game/misc 549K+Worm Wars 7.52: Advanced snake game
Marryampic2.lha game/think 525K+CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 31K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
PicShow.lha gfx/show 592K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
WBVirus.lha misc/antiq 1K+Old bouncing balls display hack
Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 21M+Third part of a three part suite
NI-SailorMoon.lha pix/icon 8K+Anime/Manga NewIcons: Sailor Moon
fryingpanshots.lha pix/illu 351K+FryingPan 0.022 (cd-burner program) scre
AAA2003_01.lha pix/misc 10M+Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 archive 01
Satire13-Apr03.jpg pix/misc 51K+"La satire du Jet d'Ail" in pictures on
CharMap.lha text/font 85K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
reqcollec2.lha util/cli 29K+Second collection of request tools
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 142K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.3 (68k,WarpOS,Mor
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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21.Jul.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Poseidon licencing ceasing on 01-Aug-03
Chris Hodges (Poseidon author) writes:
»Due to reasons I will not explain here further (ask me in private),
Poseidon keyfiles cannot be bought after 01-Aug-03. People having just
bought an USB card, that does not come with an OEM Licence, have the
chance to register Poseidon until the end of this month.
Support for existing users is NOT affected and will continue as usually.
It is recommended that dealers stop selling USB cards without licence to
avoid angry customers buying an useless piece of hardware, until the
vendor delivers his own software solution or the situation is solved
somehow.«
Im Klartext heißt das, dass die Software Poseidon von Chris Hodges
natürlich weiterentwickelt wird, aber bis auf weiteres nur noch Karten
mit OEM-Lizenz unterstützt werden. (ps)
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20.Jul.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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FTW: Total Amiga Magazine #15 arrived
Sebastian Brylka of Funtime World writes:
We are glad to be able to announce that we have already received issue 15 of the
English Amiga magazine "Total Amiga".
As always some copies have been reserved for advance orders.
Interested parties who still want to receive a copy should therefore hurry up.
The magazine is still priced at EUR 6.50 incl. p&p (advance payment)!
From the contents:
- News
- AmigaOS 4 Update
- Columns from Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse Features
- Selling the new Amiga "it's not about the desktop"
- AROS: the DIY Amiga OS
- Mac: Reloaded - getting back into classic Mac emulation
- Quake II Competition
- Tales of Tamar Update
Reviews:
- Pegasos and MorphOS 1.3
- Subway USB
- IBrowse 2.3
- FXPaint 2
- Aqua
PD Paradise:
Support:
- Top Tips
- Hollywood Tutorial - how to create a simple presentation with the new multimedia
package
As always you can conveniently order the magazine from our online shop!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 15
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 15 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) amif1team: How about support for Russian and Ukrainian Amiga users? Do you support the Russian Amiga dealer 'Amiga Line' or do you have any other future plans to sell AmigaOne hardware in Russia and the Ukraine?
Fleecy: We have Russian and Ukranian language drivers in AmigaOS4.0 and although the Russian team seems to have disbanded, we have been told another is being formed.
The new Amiga Power Platform website will provide a forum for Amiga users and we will work with the ATO to make sure that it supports languages other than English. Our aim is to be able to work with local groups and dealers since they know their areas and markets far better than we do.
We are happy to sell AmigaOS and Amiga certified hardware such as the AmigaOne anywhere. The dealer you mention can send me a private email and I will try to get him/her set up.
2) Mojo-kun: AmigaOS needs modern applications. There is lots of very good free software which could be ported to AmigaOS if it had POSIX compatibility and some common GUI toolkits such as QT, GTK+ or GNU Step. What do you think of this and is an effort being made to support these technologies?
Fleecy: A great platform needs great applications. Our aim is to support and encourage the development of new applications on our platform so that we start to develop a unique and appealing software base that offers something over the other platforms.
Having said that, new applications take time and resources. AmigaOS4.0 will start off with a lot of older Amiga Generation 1 applications that are emulated, most of which are in serious need of updating. To increase the amount of AmigaOS4 specific software we have been looking closely at what is needed and what can be moved quickly from other platforms, such as Windows and Linux.
A strategy is underway to make such porting easier but, at the same time, we have to be careful not to turn AmigaOS4 into something else. POSIX, for example was created for very specific reasons, reasons that don't map one hundred percent onto the AmigaOS.
3) Turbo: According to the original Amiga One Zico Specification, several AmigaDE friendly processor types were to be supported. Are there still plans for a future Amiga OS to support x86? Is the future replacement for Amiga OS4.x coded on top of intent or is this going to be rehashed to run exclusively on a 64bit G5?
Fleecy: Our plan is still to make AmigaOS5 processor agnostic so eventually it will run on x86 but this is some time off, and would mark the completion of the Amiga Generation 2 project.
It will not be built on top of Intent. Intent will reside within the AmigaOS as a service, providing Amiga Anywhere and Java support.
The 64 bit AmigaOS implementation has always been a target, since we will be able to implement orthogonal persistence much more easily than on a 32 bit platform. There are still a lot of issues to sort out first however.
4) Yellow: I have Party Pack. I'm planning to buy AmigaOne with the latest AmigaOS perhaps after a year. Can I safely assume that I will get the $100 refund then? Does it matter what kind of AmigaOne model I buy; if there someday exists an AmigaOne model that uses 64-bit PPC processor, can one get the refund for buying that?
Fleecy: The voucher scheme is refundable against an AmigaOne (which is the Amiga certified Eyetech board and an OEM copy of AmigaOS that runs natively on it) so if you buy it a year after it comes out, then yes, you can claim the refund. The exact mechanism is still being discussed between ourselves and participating dealers but it will have to be in place before AmigaOS4.0 ships.
I don't see why it can't be used against a 64 bit Amiga but that is some time off.
5) alx: If you went back in time to before the A1/OS4 project began, what things would you have done differently and why?
Fleecy: I'd have put $1000 on the winner of the Grand National and I wouldn't have wasted $10 to see The Phantom Menace ;-)
With hindsight, we'd have started the AmigaOS4.0 project straight away, running it in parallel with the AmigaDE project. I also wouldn't have wasted 9 months trying to bring the various factions together for the sake of unity.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.
6) Samurai_Crow: What affect does Tao Group's release of Intent 2 have on the AmigaDE platform and the general plans for the future?
Fleecy: As with every revision of Intent, we assess it, move the AmigaDE code to it and then help the developers to move their content to it. We are both committed to creating a better and better product set and seeing both Intent and the AmigaDE and its content on more devices and in more markets.
7) Agafaster: Can we have a PPC Linux version of Amiga DE? Pretty please?
Fleecy: The first version of the AmigaDE on PPC will be for AmigaOS4. This has been stated publicly from the very beginning - AmigaOS first, then OS X and then any other opportunities that make business sense.
8) Asemoon: Some time ago Amiga's CEO demonstrated AmigaDE's 2D scaling abilities for TechTV. When available for AmigaOS will the users be able to open AmigaDE software in seperate user defined screenmodes? (Screens various resolutions, instead of just running on the desktop as demonstrated on Windows/Linux)
Fleecy: Yes.
9) Asemoon: The AmigaOne-lite is said to become an entry-level Amiga solution. Are there any plans for an A1200/A500-style or similar custom case for housing the AmigaOne-lite motherboard?
Fleecy: There are plans yes but plans aren't products until you can buy them. A few third parties have also contacted us about creating their own case designs so expect to see quite a bit of choice.
10) unclecurio: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned you were looking at the way Apple had used the audio units system in OSX. Can you tell us a little more about how the Amiga solution might operate?
Fleecy: The AG2 audio solution actually started life way back when the AmigaDE was going to replace AmigaOS, quite some time before the OS X audio system became public knowledge. Reading the Core Audio documentation made us smile quite a bit.
Once we decided that AmigaDE and AmigaOS would address different markets, this solution was retargeted at the AmigaOS.
The AG2 audio project uses elements called 'streamers' which are similar to Core Audio's 'audio units'. They can perform filter-like tasks like effect processing, format conversion, stream encoding/decoding, mixing or I/O related tasks like streaming a file from/to disk or network.
To make a distinction between streamers of different applications, streamers belong to a certain 'Audio Context'. Of course there can be communication and data flow between several contexts, so the audio output of one application (for example a software sampler) can be routed to the input of another application (for instance, a multi-track program).
There will be specific higher-level streamers to accomodate for games, to make use of DSP's for example, without the need for the programmer to program them directly. The goals of the architecture are to make use of multi-channel audio, DSP's, multiple CPU's, etc. when they are available and to make sure a lowest possible level of latency can be acquired by means of a Quality of Service system.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=16
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb)
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20.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 20th July 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk that had
only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have been added or
updated since our last announcment:
- 20.07.03 new: X-It (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 20.07.03 new: Warm Up (GENIAS) done by CFOU!
- 20.07.03 improved: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) new
imager and install script
- 20.07.03 new: MOT (Opera Soft) done by CFOU!
- 20.07.03 improved: Lemmings - Oh! No More (Psygnosis/DMA Design)
supports another version, better speed, new icons
- 20.07.03 improved: Impact! (ASL) better mouse support
- 20.07.03 improved: Harley Davidson (Mindscape) new imager
- 20.07.03 new: Cavitas (Nite Time Games) done by Psygore
- 20.07.03 improved: Cardiaxx (Electronic Zoo/Team 17) new imager
- 20.07.03 new: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic) done by JOTD
- 20.07.03 fixed: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) removed disk requester
- 20.07.03 improved: Ballistix (Psyclases/Reflexions) new imager
- 20.07.03 improved: Adrenalynn (Exponentia)
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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