06.Jul.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #044
Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 44th music pack.
This time it contains a music piece called "Walking The Corridors" by the English
musician Darkus who, though not being a member of the group, still offers his
track as a guest under the label Liquid Skies.
It is a rather experimental piece of music and would probably fit best under the
category of Trance. This time the cover was created by DaFreak.
Next some more information about the track:
- Title: Walking The Corridors
- Artist: Darkus
- Style: Experimental Trance
- Playing time: 5:05
- Format: mp3 (128 kbps)
The zipped file with a size of about 4.8 MB is freely available for download on
the homepage under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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05.Jul.2003
IrseeSoft (website)
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Turboprint version 7.50 with new drivers
The new version 7.50 of the printing software TurboPrint is available from now on and contains new printer drivers:
- Canon i850
- Canon S200*,i320*,i950*
- HP DeskJet 5550
- HP PhotoSmart 71xx*,73xx*,75xx*
*) USB controller required
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
EvenMore (website)
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Text viewer: FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for EvenMore
Chris Perver has reworked the FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for his text viewer EvenMore. This plug-in supports now text styles and colours.
Download: finalwriter2text.plugin
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Adam Chodorowski (email)
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AROS: voting about the AROS logo
Some weeks ago called the AROS (Amiga Research
Operating System) developers team to a logo contest (we reported). The entries are now published for an open vote, all Amiga users can participate once in the voting and thus have an influence in the future representation of AROS.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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First pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003
The first pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 - taking place today in Udine, Italy - can be found following the title link. The atmosphere seems to be fantastic: "We are in total overload, very crowded, lots of food (local gubana, cheese, etc. :-), wine (and local Castello beer :-)... Rushing back now..."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: HP to take back ink cartridge from private customers
»Recycling of ink cartridges shall help the environment
HP will expand their recycling program and take back empty ink cartridges for printers from private customers in Europe in the future. This will be started in 2003 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland while Great Britain, Ireland and other countries will follow from 2004 on.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Golem.de: New job market with several hundreds IT jobs
»Co-operation with Jobware
In co-operation with Jobware is Golem.de starting a new completely overhauled jobs market. Under the URL jobs.golem.de you can find from now on several hundreds of job advertisements for the IT, telecommunications and related industries, listed in clearly sorted by categories and regions.«
Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
BTTR-Team (email)
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Back to the Roots celebrates birthday and draws many prices
Five years does the project "Back to the Roots" now exist. Truely a reason to celebrate! Next to new games highlights like Battle Squadron, Hybris, Arkanoid, Mega Typhoon or The Plague, we present to you the team of BTTR with the games Plix and Symbolrechnen, and the Populous editor really new releases for the Amiga. All three titles are exclusively available at BTTR and are released for the first time.
Furthermore BTTR start a draw with many prices to win. More information can be read in the news on www.back2roots.org.
The team of BTTR: "We thank for the loayalty during the last five years and wish all visitors much fun!"
Next to the birthday update and the draw there's another important news for www.back2roots.org:
For the first time ever there's an "interactive online mod radio"! On more than 50 different channels you can listen to music of all kind. More than 65.000 mods are available! You can listen with WinAmp or Deliplayer 2. There's no streaming. Every song gets completely loaded!
Jürgen Beck from BTTR: "We thank the numerous colectors, providers of mod pages and mod projects who support this project. Our thanks go especially to the Deliplayer team. The latest version of the best mod player finally contains the radio feature! Enjoy listening!"
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jul.2003
MorphOS-News
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MorphOS/Pegasos: QUICKSTART Guide Version 2.5 Now in Three Languages
Jürgen Lucas' "QUICKSTART Guide" for installing MorphOS on a Pegasos with blank hard-drive has been released at version 2.5. Thanks to Andreas Zierl [and Daniel Miller -dm] and Fabrice Lehaut these instructions are also available in English and French. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #13
Issue #13 of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to 312 subscribers. This is a list of French-speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...) which has been sent monthly since July of 2000, in order to encourage French-speakers to communicate with each other.
Click on the title link for more information, and to get yourself added to the list. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jul.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)
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OnyxSoft: New and updated software
Here comes 1 new release and 4 updates, enjoy!
New:
- Program: NewWBPattern (Version 1.0)
Info: This is small tool to change the WB-background on-the-fly.
Updates:
- Program: GummiSurf (Version 1.2)
Info: Now supports the built-in download managers in all Amiga browsers (IBrowse, Voyager & AWeb)
Can export HTML and plain text-lists.
- Program: MultiRen (Version 1.54)
Info: * Added a function to the Adaptor tool so that is possible
to control what character the Adaptor should put the
lengthener character around when prolonging a filename.
* Now the filename length also displays the length of the
file comment (which cannot be more than 80 characters in
AmigaDOS).
The format is now <filename_length;comment_length> in the
window. Also, the file comment gets /italic/ in the main
lister if it exceeds 79 characters.
* Added the operator %t for use in the text export and file
comment generation tools. This stands for tab. Whenever a %t
is encountered a tab stop is set there which gets determind by
the longest string up to the %t. Many %t's can be used in an
export string. This way very nice columnized text files and
file comments can be produced!
* The memo list handling (in the RenPlacer, File Comment and
Text Export tools) now saves the memo lists immediately when
stored or removed if the checkmark in prefs is set. This makes
it easier to not forget to save then when quitting the proram
:)
* Updated the ID3-Tag plugin so that it always returns two
digits for the track number. F.ex. 01,02,03...10,11,etc
instead of 1,2,3...10,11 which makes it look nicer.
- Program: QuickSketch (Version 1.01)
Info: * The move draw area qualifiers Shift and Alt has now been
reduced to only work with RightShift and RightAlt.
* Because move has been restricted to Right Shift and Alt
it is now possible to use the LAlt+LAmiga+Cursor to draw
a straight line.
* + More fixes...
- Program: TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.3)
Info: * Now it's possible to import CDDB/ACDB-files automatically
into the ID3-tags on files in the file list! (Yes I know
it's not full automatic CDDB-support but it's one step in the
right direction anyway:)) This means that you have to use
CDDB or ACDB to download the descriptions for your CD's, then
you can import these text-files in TheMPegEncGUI.
* Now also includes OggDec and OggPlay (ogg123) support.
* + More fixes...
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Oliver Roberts (ANF)
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Warp Datatypes V45.2 Released (Update)
After a long delay, the promised updates to all the Warp picture datatypes for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS are finally here. To accompany the new release is the brand new WarpDT portal at http://www.warpdt.co.uk/ where you can keep up to date with the latest versions of the WarpDTs and download them all in one easy place.
Summary of changes since previous versions:
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Minor optimizations and cleanups.
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Bumped version to v45 since a stable release has
now been reached and to reflect the jump to shareware status
BMP: Fixed problems with decoding bitfield images
JPEG: Altered descriptor file to prevent it matching LhA or LZX
archives containing JPEG files (or anything else that might
contain a JFIF header, other than Photoshop files)
PNG: PNG files not containing enough data are no longer treated as a
fatal error. Now the part of the image that was successfully
decoded is returned.
PNG: Updated with libpng 1.2.5
PNG/TIFF: Updated with zlib 1.1.4
TIFF: Now correctly converts images using the YCbCr colourspace to RGB
TIFF: Added support for JPEG decompression
TIFF: Updated to libtiff 3.6.0-beta2, including a new version of the
LogLuv decoder, and numerous other bugfixes
Prefs: Various parts of code rewritten, in preparation for losing the
current reliance on resource.library
Prefs: Minor bugfixes
Prefs: Correct Polish and Portuguese documentation now included.
Update 06.07.2003:
Errornous timeouts bugfix (Version 45.2)
Unfortunately, due to last minute changes, I broke the timeout code
slightly - doh! This resulted in the datatypes producing timeout warnings
unnecessarily. Fixed versions of all 5 datatypes now in version 45.2
available. Apologies for any confusion caused.
(nba)
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05.Jul.2003
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Report: Pegasos in Leipzig
The illustrated report of the Leipzig Pegasos presentation is now online. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC was shown on the Amiga-PowerUp-System (APUS) and Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Jul.2003
Yunis (ANF)
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Tao announces multimedia-platform SDK intent 2
Today the Tao Group which is a British software developer and partner of Amiga, Inc. has officially
announced the new generation of the multimedia platform SDK intent 2.
You can read the English message under the title link and documentations are available under the
resources-site of Tao.
Tao about intent: "In fact intent is the only middleware platform available
today that can provide a common, brandable, look&feel with consistent
application behaviour and truly deliver compelling multimedia content to
the full range of consumer devices - thus providing a strategy to enable
all players in the value chain to thrive." (nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Niels Bache (ANF)
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Pictures of the OS4 tour in Göteborg by Niels Bache
Niels Bache has uploaded his pictures of Göteborg.
Remark of Niels Bache:
I have heard of some people that the new free server (frac.dk) which I use is not as fast
as desired. I ask for your patience and your insight because I can use this server as a
guest for free. I myself could not find out these problems and therefore I suppose that
the problem of speed happens only few times e.g. if much traffic is caused.
Please have another attempt to a different time if this happens.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (ANF)
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Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 14
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 beta 14 of his database 'XBaze'.
The program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data records and a layout
editor with drag&drop function. It works from AmigaOS v3.0 and under MorphOS.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to the following address:
xbaze@amiga.pl.
Download: XB-7.3B14.lha
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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04.Jul.2003
Michele C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Tomorrow: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 in Udine, Italy
For the last time the website of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 which will take place tomorrow
in Udine, Italy has been updated. The list of the presentations has been updated as well as
the list of the hardware and software which can be seen.
This week the organizer got the offer to exhibit a Commodore PET 4016 which is connected
with a PET 3008. Of course this offer was accepted. Besides this a Commodore 65 (a prototype
which was never released) will be shown.
In Austria Jürgen Schober is busy with the last preparations for the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation
while in Germany Jens Schönfeld prepares himself for the C-One presentation.
Genesi has made a PowerPC Pegasos with MorphOS which was installed in a microwave available.
Many people from all over the world have booked for and are on the way.
We hope we see us. You are welcome!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Jul.2003
Grasshopper LLC (Website)
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Grasshopper LLC Lowers PageStream Prices
The American software company Grasshopper has lowered the price of their desktop publishing application "PageStream." The full
version is now available for 99 US dollars. Upgrades are now 40 US dollars. These prices are good for July, 2003 but may stay the
same thereafter, if possible.
New Low Pricing
Tuesday, July 1st - Grasshopper LLC announces today new low pricing
for PageStream on all platforms. "While the pricing is guaranteed only
through July, it is hoped that it will be warmly embraced by the
community and will be adopted then as our new permanent pricing",
said owner Marna Holt today. "Our move from a brick and mortar business
means lower costs and faster turn around times. We hope passing these
savings on to our customers will not only increase the already tremendous
value our customers get when buying PageStream, but hopefully increase
the number of customers and reach those who could previously not afford
PageStream." Near term plans include a revamped web site,
instant messaging with our sales staff, and a monthly online public chat
with Deron. PageStream now lists for $99 (from $299!!) and upgrades start
out at only $40.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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Adventure Rendezvous: Interview with Ken Williams
The adventure-game focused online magazine "Adventure-Treff" has published an interesting German-language interview with Ken
Williams by Jan Schneider.
In 1979 Ken Williams founded Sierra On-Line and after that he led the firm for almost 20 years. Ken and his wife Roberta originated
the game genre now referred to as graphic adventures, and they were responsible for many of the best and most loved adventures
of all time, like for instance the Leisure Suit Larry and King's Quest and Space Quest series. Today Ken runs a forum with
SierraGamers, in which one may comment about Sierra. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Mummert Consulting (E-Mail)
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Study: Online Shops Battle Trust Deficit
Around 50% of German websurfers avoid purchasing anything on the Internet. The main problem for most of them: they can't examine and test the products before buying. And very third person gets by without online purchases because they are satisfied with the goods of "real" stores.
The fear of someone stealing their personal data is another factor that stops surfers from buying. About 30% name this fear as a reason for why they have yet to purchase anything online. And every fifth person is worried that his bill will be incorrectly calculated and so he doesn't buy anything. These figures come from a current study "Internet Statistics of Consumers (IZV6)" done by the University of Karlsruhe and Mummert Consulting.
Online shops battle a trust deficit: Half of all German websurfers don't buy anything on the Internet. The principal reason for this, according to these surfers, is that they can't test the wares over the Internet. Every fourth purchase avoider doesn't trust the online stores because it might be hard to complain and return things. Almost every third fears for the protection of his data. The market share of online shoppers may rise if e-shops improve their service. About 28% don't buy online, because help and service aren't good enough.
It's easier for well known web-shops to win customers: about two thirds of online shoppers do most of their shopping by known merchants. Every fifth buys *exclusively* by known shops. And the general experience of Internet users with the Internet influences their purchasing attitude: the less experienced the surfer, the less he goes online shopping. Experienced users purchase 20% more stuff on the Internet than the unexperienced. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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03.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: Explanation of G4 Card Difficulties
According to a statement
of the Genesi leadership on MorphOS-News.de there's a hardware problem which means that less G4 cards will be produced for the Pegasos I, and even these will only be offered with corresponding boards as "matched sets." With respect to the complete utilization of the Altivec functionality of the G4: some boards work flawlessly, some boards not so well, at least not well enough to be sold.
In other Genesi news, QNX and Pascal have joined the effort to be ported to Pegasos. The latter is still popular in Eastern Europe and the former is the #1 embedded system OS.
Additionally Genesi would like to sell Linux Pegasoses with the G3 for a price of 499 euros at MicroWarehouse
or other merchants (without monitor but with Linux as well as MorphOS). Up to 25,000 units monthly may be produced on the fabrication lines at DCE. This price per unit might fall with an inverse correlation to the quantity of units (as more are produced, price per unit drops). The same thing applies if IBM comes to view it as a good strategy to help Genesi by doing the same with respect to CPU price. These machines will be available in October of this year.
As before, Pegasos I owners can upgrade for the price of 200 euros, but you've got to send in the board as well as the CPU card. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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