17.Jul.2003
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE Appears in Version 0.8.22R8
A new version of Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows has been released, version 0.8.22 Release 8. This version contains the following bugfixes and new milestones:
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 8 (16.07.2003)
Bugs fixed:
- stuck joypad POV directional controller
- joystick keyboard layout B and C second firebutton
- workaround for buggy sound driver (ISA SB16, maybe others)
that report zero as minimum and maximum supported sample rate
- possible crash when copying to virtual filesystem's root
- CD32 media change detection
- extended ADF write protection check
- extended ADF HD floppy support
- fast copper works again + config file support
- JIT FPU fix (Descent Freespace -demo)
- 57600 serial bit rate was incorrectly rounded to 56000
- ~2.8GHz+ CPU clock rate calculation overflow
New features:
- all configuration file loading restrictions removed,
load new configuration file at any time!
- display width, height, depth, lores, doubling, correct aspect
can be changed on the fly
- bsdsocket.library updates
- Picasso96 emulation optimizations
- improved audio emulation
(Mortville Manor, Maupiti Island speech and Fighting Soccer)
- AHI driver update
- improved and more compatible CD32 pad emulation
- improved CD32 CD autodetection
- sound capture to wav-file
- Direct3D hardware filtering and scaling
- more configurable source tree, added very simple way
to disable features like AGA, JIT, bsdsocket, Picasso96,
harddisk, 68020+ etc..
- separate basic A500-only WinUAE executable included (winuae_mini.exe)
- quick state save (SHIFT/CTRL + END + numpad 0-9) and restore support (END + numpad 0-9)
As always, a German mirror is available at webwood.de!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #046
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 46th music pack yesterday. This time there is a piece titled "Angel Sky" from the Polish musician Lcr and a fitting cover from guest artist Yenzi.
Further information about the track:
Titel: Angel Sky
Artist: Lcr
Style: Drum'n'Base
Song length: 3:58
Format: mp3 (128kbps)
The zipped file with a size of 3.6 megabytes may be downloaded free from the homepage under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
John Chandler/Suite101 (Website)
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John Chandler on Suite101: The AmigaOne XE G4
At Suite101.com John Chandler writes regular Amiga-themed articles. In
the newest column, which may be reached under the title link, Mr. Chandler concerns himself with the new Amiga hardware, the AmigaOne XE G4. Have fun reading the text of this English-language article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
ExoticA (Website)
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ExoticA: High Voltage SID Collection Version 5.3
The demoscene website ExoticA! has been updated in many of its sections. Especially pronounced is the update in the High Voltage SID Collection, which has been brought to version 5.3 and now contains about 20,660 different C64 tunes. Details about other updates may be found here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
The Legacy (Website)
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The Legacy: Game Museum News
The Legacy is a game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, in which the readers provide screenshots, cover scans
and information about the developers. On the news page, the Legacy team has announced the following:
Next we draw your attention to a new game titled "Eve Online - The Second Genesis."
Here
is a review in which you may get an idea of how in-depth the game is, and how it is played.
Further, DoM of Team Legacy explains: "In the meantime there are two sorts of updates. A master update, which has broadened into more than 600 games, and an incremental update. The latter is to accomodate everyday-type changes.
Our regular guests certainly have noticed by now that support has been slow new steps: Betatesters can already use all the new functions. All other visitors can use some of them. In the background I'm working under intense pressure on new functions which will move some functions into the live database, including email notifications when something is taken over." (ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote July/August 2003
The publishers of Amiga Games Hit Parade call for your vote
of games this July/August 2003. You may take part in the voting
by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games in an email to
David "Daff" Brunet, or going to hitparade.amigames.com.
You can vote for any sort of game (commercial, freeware, old, new, etc.). The final results will be published in August.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus: Free Download of the Mini-Mag "SDL-Reference"
In light of many inquiries and the data cooperation with
libsdl.org the editors of
AMIGAplus are offering a free download of the German-language reference
volume for Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL).
The three part reference, which by the way is the first complete German-language reference of its kind, has been put together by
Robbie Schäfer, initially published in a minimag form in AMIGAplus editions from 04/2003 to 06/2003, and is now available as a PDF file for download under the title link, in the Download/SDL section.
Print out the first/second and third/fourth sides on a single page and then fold them as described in the documentation. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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16.Jul.2003
Sven Scheele und Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Event: Pegasos hardware meeting news
As reported before (for details see title link), the
Amiga-Club Hamburg e. V.
and the Amiga-Club Schleswig-Holstein
will do a hardware meeting on Friday the 1st of August 2003 covering specially the new
Pegasos computer. We arranged the beginning of that meeting to be set to 4:00 pm,
the room is rented until midnight. Everyone interested in the Pegasos is very welcome to show up.
The address is: Volkshaus Berne, Sasselheider Weg 6, 22159 Hamburg
(city district Berne), Entry: left back door, 1st floor. Who likes to bring an own Pegasos should contact
Thorsten Mampel by
email.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Volunteers for the demo scene web project "Scenia" wanted
The maintainers of Scenia, a web project for a platform independent demo scene, are looking
for some motivated and voluntary fellows for their team.
For a required reconstruction of the website there is an in PHP and SQL experienced programmer,
a gfx artworker and probably an online editor wanted to bring the due to lack of time little
bit stopped project back on track again.
Brief "applications" are welcome by email to
m.cloppenburg@gmx.net.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Gabriele Favrin (E-Mail)
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IRC-Channel #AWeb reopend
Gabriele Favrin has re-established the known chat channel regarding AWeb, an open source based web browser for
AmigaOS, at the IRC. Users and developers are welcome to discuss the issues of all versions of AWeb. The channel
is at the IRCnet to find under the name #AWeb.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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"Return to Witchwood" by Bjorn Lynne released
Bjorn Lynne has announced the release of his new CD, "Return to
Witchwood". The CD can, earlier than originally planned, be pruchased from now on at the online shop
of Lynne-Music by the title link as a single disk or bundled with other CDs.
Orders befor August the 10th will be signatured by the composer.
As the successor of "Witchwood" this fantasy music album offers the expected chilled tunes. The website
offers several extracts from different tracks.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Mac: Northland getting closer to release
The Apple Macintosh version of Northland is very close to completion now.
The game has been in betatesting for some time now. "Northland", which was
developed by Funatics Software for the PC is ported to the Apple Macintosh
and other platforms by e.p.i.c. interactive. The Mac version will require at
least a G3/350 with 128 MByte RAM and OSX. A OS 9.x version will also be
supplied on the CD but the memory requirements are not 100% known yet.
"Northland" for the Macintosh should start shipping from the middle of
August 2003 and preordering from our webstore will start next week, when the
demo version of Northland for the Mac will be launched.
More information on Northland can be found at:
www.northland-game.com or
under the title link.
The MorphOS version of Northland should go beta very soon. A demo version for
the Pegasos and MorphOS can be expected in August.
(ps)
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16.Jul.2003
Carsten Berger (E-Mail)
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Poll about the 3D map for Tales of Tamar started
Some days ago Eternity gave a
status update
of Tales of Tamar and pointed to the
planned 3D map (Snapshot).
Within the comments there were surprisingly little feedback about this map.
To give Eternity the possiblity to get an overview about the interest on such a map
we started a poll regarding that map.
Please vote only if you bought ToT already or if you will buy it definitely (maybe if there is such a
3D map). Thereforeso: Please don't hesitate to vote because for a programmer nothing is worse than
ignoring his work.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
MUI Classes (Website)
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Website for new or updated MUI classes
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom has owed his website to new MUI classes. Whenever there is an update or a new
version in area, the info regarding it will be to find at this website.
For example in July 2003 the MCC_TheBar class has been updated several times.
Currently the version 16.0 is available for download.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (Website)
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Amiga Inc.: AmigaOS Artist Competition and Community Exchange
Get your art published on the AmigaOS 4 CD and explore our new Community Exchange! Click here to read about the competition and here to browse or contribute to the Community Exchange. (ps)
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16.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 07-15-2003
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games onto the hard disk which were meant originally for
floppy disk use only.
The following packages were added or updated since the last announcement:
- 15.07.03 new: Jinxter (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
- 15.07.03 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine Software) rewritten
- 15.07.03 improved: King's Quest 6 (Sierra) protection removed, new icon
- 15.07.03 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) supports CD³² version too
- 15.07.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) supports another version, slave optimised
- 15.07.03 improved: Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (Tengen/Teque) supports another version
- 14.07.03 new: Typhoon (Kingsoft) done by Psygore
- 14.07.03 new: Space Hulk (Electronic Arts) done by Galahad
- 14.07.03 new: Eliminator (Hewson) done by CFOU!
- 14.07.03 new: Madness (Anarchy) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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16.Jul.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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New Payback GBA Status Report
A new progress report on the GBA version of Payback has been posted
here.
This update talks about the performance and presentation improvements that
have been made to the game over the last month, in particular the addition
of a "bloom blur" effect and the dramatic optimisation of the audio mixer.
It includes four new screenshots and a video clip of the game's improved
pause mode.
(nba)
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16.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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G4: A few ammount of Pegasos I April 2 G4 available
The first processor card to upgrade the Pegasos is available now.
Thank to the flexible, upgradable and open architecture of the Pegasos Genesi
offers a G4 upgrade which will lead you to the next step of computer experience.
For the Pegasos are
processor cards
with a Motorola 7447 CPU which operates with 1 GHz and more available now.
The 7447 is the newest PowerPC processor of the fourth generation
(G4) by Motorola, which offers an increased performance compared to the recent
processor generation (G3). Additionally to a bigger cache the
7447 offers more pipelines, an improved front side bus (FSB) and, most important, an SIMD unit called Altivec.
Altivec offers a special on-chip vector engine, which is capable of operate more than one Gflops (one billion
floating point operations per second) but is still affordable for an average user.
There is a few ammount of Pegasos-1/April-2 boards with this G4 card available for
EUR 499.- (excl. VAT). If you are interested in one of these boards please feel free to contact
bbrv@genesi.lu.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: Retro Replay sold out
Retro Replay is a clone of the popular Action Replay for the C64. The
cartridge was made in October 2001 at a very limited quantity, which is
sold out now.
The last cartridge from the mass-production and an early prototype from
March 2001 are now offered in an eBay-auction. Since the announcement of
RR-net, a networking card for the Retro Replay, we had strong demand for
the cartridge, and many people asked for a new production run.
Unfortunately, the cost, and therefore the risk, is very high, because
we'd have to produce several hundred cartridges in order to keep the
price of 50,- EUR. Therefore, the interest in the auction will determine
if a new production run will happen:
As announced in the product description, we're sponsoring the "Retro
Replay Party", it will take place in September this year. Details
will be published shortly, but we can already say that there will be
plenty of free beer. Nice detail of the party location: It's an air-raid
shelter from World War II, which has no windows. Neither 2000, nor XP ;-). (nba)
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14.Jul.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.50
Martin Wolf of Eternity announced in his current press release the availability of version 0.50 of 'Tales of Tamar' for Amiga computers. Details about changes and improvements are to be found at www.tamar.net.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New install packs until 11.07.2003
WHDLoad lets you easily install floppy based games onto your hard disk. The following changes and updates have been incorporated into the installer library since our last report.
- 11.07.03 improved: Super Space Invaders (Taito/Domark) various changes and improvements
- 11.07.03 new: Impact! (ASL) done by Psygore
- 11.07.03 updated: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts) reworked
- 11.07.03 new: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) done by JOTD
- 11.07.03 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) supports NTSC version too
- 11.07.03 improved: Another World / Out of this World (Delphine Software) support
for another version added, merged with 'Out of this World', new icons
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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