06.Jun.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Worm Wars 7.5 published
Today version 7.5 of the snake clon "Worm Wars" by Amigan Software has been published.
Changes since the last version:
- New creature: Ape.
- Screenmode-sensitive
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results of May/June 2003
Today the results of the voting to the game of the months May/June 2003 have been published:
1. (3) Napalm - 121 pts
2. (2) Slam Tilt - 103 pts
3. (1) Payback - 101 pts
4. (4) Quake - 85 pts
5. (8) SWOS - 83 pts
6. (108) Knights And Merchants - 79 pts
7. (5) The Settlers - 71 pts
8. (12) Crossfire 2 - 70 pts
9. (9) Earth 2140 - 67 pts
10. (7) Foundation - 66 pts
11. (19) Freespace - 55 pts
12. (6) Tales Of Tamar - 53 pts
13. (10) Quake 2 - 48 pts
14. (20) Heretic 2 - 46 pts
15. (33) Cannon Fodder - 45 pts
16. (16) Moonstone - 44 pts
17. (13) Fields Of Battle - 41 pts
18. (14) Stardust / Super Stardust - 36 pts
19. (17) WipEout 2097 - 35 pts
20. (37) Another World - 35 pts
The next voting (Amiga Games Hit Parade in July/August 2003) will start in the middle of
July.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 06.06.2003
Here are the new uploads to the Aminet since our last message:
YamHTMLyam.lha comm/mail 18K+Reads HTML pages with YAM(2.4 too) mail
AmFTP175_ES.lha comm/tcp 13K+AmFTP 1.75 Spanish locale, V2.1
MiamiSmbPw.lha comm/tcp 7K+Prepares Samba for encrypted passwords
Apfelberge.lha dev/src 6K+3D fractal example, joystick support
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 921K+V5.19, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
EOT_Liquid.lha gfx/ifx 3K+EOT_LIQUID Script for IFX
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
NewLowLevel.lha hard/drivr 30K+V41.26, LowLevel.library replacement for
EP_DigitSonix.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer "Digital Sonix & Chrome" ext
EP_MFP.lha mus/play 16K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
EP_Protracker.lha mus/play 18K+EaglePlayer "Protracker" external replay
Haymigga_2.jpg pix/wb 272K+Haymigga`s Light Armour WB Screenshot
AsciiCreator_s.lha text/edit 88K+Ascii Creator 0.1 to 0.6 asm sources
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jun.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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Gameport Driver v41.27 with Amiga/Catweasel PCI-Joystick Support
The gameport driver version 41.27 with Amiga/Catweasel PCI support is online! Guido Mersmann has put together a new version of his lowlevel.library gameport driver, which includes the following alterations and fixes:
- BUGFIX:
Fixed bug in the QueryKeys() function, unfortunately that was overlooked because it was the only function that wasn't used in the test program. Thanks to Chris S. Handley for the bug report.
- FEATURE:
GamePortEnable now supports "VT82C686 Audio Codec 97" game ports on non-PC/Amithlon systems.
- FEATURE:
Support for the Amiga game ports has been added as well as for the Catweasel PCI flipper controller with both of its Amiga-compatible joystick connectors. The selection of ports has been more comfortably arranged.
The new version may be downloaded directly from the Amithlon-Homepage. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)
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Game: PairsNG Demo Available
As of today the PairsNG homepage and demo version are online. PairsNG is a Workbench-based computer board game similar to Shanghai. The game is shareware and may be registered for ten euros.
Features:
- 3D-Look
- Sound (over AHI)
- Runs (exclusively) on graphic cards (CGFX/P96)
- Three different game options/board sizes
- Load function for additional stone sets
- Item fields, behind which positive or negative actions are concealed
- Also runs under UAE
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: AmigaOneXE-G3 now available / G4 slightly delayed
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) has announced on the A1 mailing list the availibility of
AmigaOne-XE computers with G3 processor. A few days ago was stated the delivery of G4
Amigas will be slightly delayed because of a too small CPU fan. Customers ordered an
AmigaOne-G4 who'd not want to wait any longer can change their order at their local
dealer into a G3 (as long as the stock lasts).
Later for the AmigaOneXE-G3 (after all ordered AmigaOneXE-G4 are delivered) there
will be a possibility for an upgrade to a G4 processor. The price for this upgrade
will be 190 Euro (excl. taxes and p&p). For customers ordered a G3 this upgrade will
maybe also available to other conditions. If you are interested ask your local
dealer.
In some forums single users have confirmed the delivery of the AmigaOneXE-G3. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Jun.2003
eBay (Website)
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EBay Auctions to Get More Expensive after July 1st, 2003
A new European Union (EU) guideline relating to introduction of the value-added tax (VAT) on digital services has led to the fact that Ebay will start levying higher fees and commissions after July 1st, 2003. This VAT is going to apply to all eBay fees and provions, including listing fees, fees for additional options, provisions and fees for further services that are paid by eBay sellers who reside or conduct business in an EU country.
You'll find the complete eBay press release (in German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
AudioLabs (Website)
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AudioLabs: Preview Webpage for "ValveMaster" Established
AudioLabs is offering a new product by the name of "ValveMaster," and they've established a new website for it, which you may reach by clicking on the title link. The program is concerned with "audio-finalization/assets-management", and is based on the ProStation audio technology. Read further details in the following English-language original announcement.
»ValveMaster web section now open with early info on this new product here.
The application is an audio-finalizer/assets-manager based on ProStationAudio
technology. Fully realtime design, in the best tradition of AudioLabs
products. Integrated audio-database allows to work on unlimited DSP varitions
of audio masters without even opening a single file requester, waiting for
rendering, nor taking disk-space. Designed for realtime handing of unlimited
amounts of 32bit-deep / 2GB-sized audio files. Analog-feel overdrive, works
above 0dB with no digital clipping for most flexible DSP processing ever.« (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Markus Holler (Website)
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Music: Track List for the Soon-to-Be-Released CD Remix64 Vol. 2
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga users for his music pieces in Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike and The Holy Trinity, is now working on the soon-to-be-released CD Remix64 Vol. 2. For this CD he has released a comprehensive track list with selections from the remixes (including mixes of Fist 2 and Parallax) and an introduction to the musician.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates in Brief (5th June, 2003)
New pictograms by GameIcons.info
The game icon collection of GameIcons.info has been suplemented for the 2003 archive.
Download: GameIcons-2003.lha - 1,2 MB
WHDLoad Installer: New Packet
5th June, 2003 improvement: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) supports another version, install script updated.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
VIM (Website)
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Editor: Vim 6.2 - The Amiga memorial edition
VIM is an editor that is based on the Unix editor "vi" and is available for different systems such as AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, MachTen,
OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000). On 1st June 2003 version 6.2 was released. Read this excerpt from the original press release:
»[01 JUN 03] A complete new release of Vim is waiting to be downloaded!
This is mostly a bugfix release, only a few new features are available:
Arabic support, exception handling, GTK 2 support, PostScript printing
for 8-bit encodings and a number of smaller things. Several hundreds of
bugs have been fixed. For the full list of changes do ":help version-6.2"
in the new Vim. (Bram Moolenaar)« (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos II: First information about the price scheme
At MorphOS-News.de there is a first information
about the soon coming Pegasos II. Regarding to that the Pegasos II board with a G3 processor card starts at 299 Euro, the entry level wit a
G4 module (minimun 1 Ghz) starts at 499 Euro
(all prices excluding VAT abd/or other local taxes).
Owners of a I are invited, just as appointed, buy a G4 processor card for 200 Euro and keep their old board or get for the same amount of money exchange their Pegasos I
with a Pegasos II including a G4 processor card. Further information about the processors etc. will be made available soon.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Gentoo now with Live-CDs for PowerPC also
»Live-CDs with KDE 3.1.2 and GNOME 2.2.1 as desktop
By request of some users the Gentoo team has released the bootable Linux Live-CDs
for Macintosh. The based on the free Linux distribution Gentoo
Live-CDs offering either KDE3 or GNOME2 as Desktop and enable to run macOS X within a window utilizing "Mac on Linux" «
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Cornice announces a new generation of mobile mini hard disks
»Cornice Storage Element - 1.5-GByte hard drive with a weight of 14.6 g.
The US start up company Cornice has developed with their "Cornice Storage Element" an extraordinary tiny and
cheap hard disk for mobile consumer electronics like MP3 players. The Cornice SE weights 14.6 g only and offers a storage volume of about
1.5 GByte and is said to be produced with a very low price due to its slim design.«
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2003
Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Amiga Forever 5.3 released / invitation to the A3
Cloanto released today version 5.3 of Amiga Forever, the official
Amiga emulator for PCs. The update covers some new features and improved
emulation compounds as well as a new version of the "Software-Manager".
Version 7.1c of the paint programm Personal Paint is included also.
The cross platform version of Amiga Forever 5.3 includes an improved
support for Amiga emulations running on Mac OS X systems. Read in the following paragraphs the full
press release including some information regarding the "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" show.
- June 4th, 2003 - For Immediate Release -
Cloanto released today version 5.3 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga
emulation and connectivity package for PCs. New features include
improved emulation components and new versions of Software Manager and
Personal Paint, Cloanto's award-winning paint software, now available in
version 7.1c. The cross-platform version of Amiga Forever 5.3 includes
better support for Amiga emulation configurations on Mac OS X. The Amiga
Forever Home Page at amigaforever.com keeps being frequently updated,
and the numerous articles in the FAQ section continue to attract a
constantly growing number of Amiga emulation users.
Cloanto also released a new stand-alone version of Software Manager,
available for free download from cloanto.com, which is able to detect
installed versions of WinUAE, WinFellow, DirectX and other Windows
components required by various emulation programs (e.g. OpenGL on
Windows 95, etc.). This new version of Software Manager is independent
of Amiga Forever, and can be used by all Amiga emulation users. The
software is completely free and does neither include any type of
"adware" or "spyware", nor send any information about installed
applications.
Amiga Alpe Adria 2003, a show organized by Cloanto Italia srl and aiming
to embody the spirit of friendship and diversity which the Amiga name
and philosophy represent since the early 1980s, will be held in Udine,
Italy, on July 5th. The event home page is at http://aaa2003.org, and
includes low fare airline specials, sightseeing information and links to
nearby music festivals and cultural events. Cloanto and the Amiga Alpe
Adria support team would like to invite you to the show, and look
forward to making you have a great time in Italy!
- Links -
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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03.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New Poll: Will you buy AmigaOS4 for your BlizzardPPC?
We started a new poll to get an impression of the real demand for a BlizzardPPC
version of OS4. It can be accessed by following the title link. The poll is
geared solely towards owners of a BlizzardPPC accellerator card.
Here you will find
the current results of the voting.
(ps)
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03.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates until 03.06.2003
Amigan Software
Game: Worm Wars Version 7.42b - Download: WormWars.lha
Also a Windows version is available for download.
Installer: WHDLoad - new packets until 03.06.2003
- 03.06.03 improved: Xenon2 (Bitmap Brothers) minor changes
- 03.06.03 fixed: Shadow Lands (Domark) version check corrected
- 03.06.03 updated: North & South (Infogrames) install script changed
- 01.06.03 improved: Shadow Lands (Domark) install script fixed, manual added
- 01.06.03 fixed: Zak Mc Kracken (Lucasfilm Games) protection fixed
- 01.06.03 new: Red Lightning (S.S.I.) done by JOTD
- 01.06.03 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17) various improvements
- 01.06.03 new: Traders (Linel) done by Harry
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail)
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Fair: News about Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 at 05.07.2003
As reported earlier,
the fair A3 (Amiga Alpe Adria 2003) in Udine, Italy takes place on 5th July 2003.
The website around the fair was now updated, now all information about program,
travel, hotels, and sightseeing and cultural life in this time as a music festival
and concerts are described here now.
It would be a nice idea to combine the visit of the fair with a holiday in this
beautiful landscape around Udine.
Six weeks before the fair starts over 100 visitors from Austria, Germany
Slovenia, Croatia, England, and Italy have announced their visit.
Special guests are:
- Jürgen Schober will present AmigaOS 4 on Tour
- Jens Schönfeld will present the C-One
- Ralf "Hippie 2000" Steines from Back to the Roots
- Paolo "Mod3mski" D'Urso from Darkage fame
- Sergio Ruocco, Paolo Canali and others from the Italian Amiga-Scene
More information you will find under exhibitors.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Cloanto Releases Personal Paint 7.1c
Advances in emulation technology made it possible to push the Amiga 68K CPU and Blitter to speeds which were not considered possible a few years ago. In this context, a small bug in Personal Paint emerged whereby Blitter and CPU operations would not always be synchronized properly, e.g. causing some visual "trash" during certain alpha channel operations. Personal Paint 7.1c addresses this issue. This version was released today as a free upgrade to Amiga Forever users, accessible via Software Manager. Users of slower silicon-based Amiga systems are not affected by the issue. (ps)
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03.Jun.2003
Andreas 'A.W.Design' Weyrauch (ANF)
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Club Amiga Magazine: Article about FFS from O. Barthel now free
In Issue #4 of the Club Amiga Magazine the article from Olaf Barthel about the
FastFileSystem (FFS) of Amiga Inc. now free for release. This article deals with the
past, the present, and the future of the FFS.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
ANN
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PC/DOS-Emulator: DOSBox Version 0.58 for MorphOS
"DOSBox is a DOS-emulator using SDL for easy portability to different
platforms, DOSBox has already been ported to several different platforms,
such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X... DOSBox emulates a 286/386
realmode CPU, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, a SoundBlaster card for
excellent sound compatibility with older games... You can "re-live"
the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the
old classics that don't run on your new computer!"
DOSBox is an emulator which is, unlike Bochs, aimed at games that's
why it has good quality SoundBlaster emulation, joystick support,...
and unlike Bochs, DOSBox does NOT require the DOS nor a BIOS to run.
Please note that DOSBox still only emulate Real Mode: it basically
means that you'll be able to run most games/programs released before
1993-1994 (this includes great RPGs and a lot of 256 colors adventure
games which were never released on the Amiga). Almost every games
released after 1994 are running in Protected Mode: these games won't
work at all in current DOSBox.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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