03.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 03.06.2003
The latest Aminet Uploads:
ACS_HLPlugin.lha comm/net 264K+V1.2 ACS HL Plugin - Hotline Plugin for
AmiComSys.lha comm/net 410K+V2.4 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MUI
umsspamc1_2.lha comm/ums 15K+SpamAssassin client for UMS
streamer.lha comm/www 318K+Internet radio MPEG and RealAudio file p
WebPics105.lha comm/www 5K+WebPics 1.05 - Web Based Photo Gallery G
YAM24p1loc.lha comm/yam 281K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4p1 (Translations
P61DevBas.lha dev/basic 30K+Using Player61 library from HBasic
EasyACDDA_Bkg.lha disk/cdrom 305K+Background images for EasyACDDA
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 05/2003 (Itali
AIOV71.lha docs/mags 547K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 71 (May
nocover111.lha docs/mags 2.5M+Great german diskmagazine
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42b: Advanced snake game
gse.lha game/patch 18K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 3.1M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC
BetaScanSP.lha hard/drivr 14K+BetaScan 3.02 spanish catalog v3.02.0
Flamingo.lha misc/emu 171K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.53a, 68k & PPC
Amiga4Everyone.mpg mods/mpg 1.4M+Dieziseven new song
Fiesta.mpg mods/mpg 4.1M+Dieziseven new song
Webbit2003_06.lha pix/misc 1.8M+Webb.it 2003 archive 06
BareED_Alone.lha text/edit 71K+Simple text editor which supports propor
Transmitter.lha util/cdity 59K+Reads text-clips and stores them as inpu
HowDif.lha util/cli 9K+File comparison/examination utility
Catharsis.lha util/libs 48K+Shared library to modify looks of fonts
idle1_5.lha util/moni 16K+A (working) A68K cpu monitor
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Hyperion OS4 BPPC Survey
Hyperion-Entertainment BPPC Survey
As AmigaOS 4 for AmigaOne and CSPPC based machines nears completion,
Hyperion is undertaking a survey to gauage demand for the BPPC version.
Therefore if you are an Amiga1200 owner with a Dual Blizzard PPC card
and would like to see OS4 ported to this machine, please send an email
to: timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com.
Please note: Ensuring that OS4 will work on the BPPC is a momumental
task which will require enormous effort in both Time and Money.
Therefore only email us if you have every intention of purchasing OS4
for BPPC. Your support is very much appreciated in this matter.
Ben Hermans
Hyperion-Entertainment
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02.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #038
Since yesterday a new music package with a tune by Tripper is available on the homepage of the group.
Details:
- Title: Beograd
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: electro
- Duration: 3:48
- Format: mp3 192 kbps
A photo of the Trippers visit to Belgrad was used for the cover by DaFreak.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)
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C.A.P.S. Update
C.A.P.S. is dedecated to the rescue of classic Amiga games.
Current update:
- New work-in-progress report.
- New User Plugin with added support for Speedlock timing, and memory
mapped image files to allow loading of IPF images from within
compressed archives.
http://www.caps-project.org
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: New products and new cooperations
New product: Kickflash OS4
Kickflash was announced several years ago, but never released due to licensing problems. With the planning of the new PPC native OS4 for all Amiga computers with PPC CPU, Hyperion and individual Computers started a cooperation more than a year ago (May 2002). The result of this cooperation is "Kickflash OS4", a highly optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4 significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to 100.000 re-programming cycles. Kickflash OS4 will be available to betatesters this summer. Mass production will start in time for the release of OS4, so people will have the choice between tailormade solutions by all cooperation partners (also see ALGOR/ROMulus by E3B).
New product: RR-Net
Especially for the Retro Replay and the C-One there will a networking card for the C64 before the end of this summer. Together with Adam Dunkels, the author of the web-enabled Contiki operating system, the first drivers for this 10MBit-card have been made. Contiki even has web-server functions that can be seen on the Internet: The server http://www.tfe.c64.org is running on a stock C64 with a similar networking card! RR-Net will be available in August 2003 for 50,- EUR.
Transparent C64 cartridge cases
Due to the high demand, cases for the nearly sold-out Retro Replay will be available from June 24th, 2003 on. If there's enough demand, we might also produce other colours in addition to the transparent ones. To find out what colours that could be, the hacker-group Cyberpunx has setup a Voting-page. The price per case will be 4,- EUR, no matter what colour you choose.
Lyra back in stock
The Lyra keyboard adapter that allows using a PC keyboard on Amiga computers will be back in stock on June 24th. We apologize for the shipment delays - we were not prepared for the high demand of this product. A big thank-you goes out to our customers who were obviously so satisfied with their Lyra adapter that they recommended it to all their friends. (ps)
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02.Jun.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Online-Magazine: NoCover #111
Issue no. 111 of NoCover is now available and can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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New AmiZilla Marketing Campaign Launched
A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites
that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed
and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first
or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the
project.
What is AmiZilla?
I think that long time Amiga user Twistin'Ghost summarizes the project best
with the following press release he created. "In need of that killer app,
Amiga developer and resident platform fanatic Bill Panagouleas, of DiscreetFX,
is banding together the community in a bid to lure programmers to port
Mozilla to the Amiga platform. Donations are flowing in, an FAQ is in place,
and a devoted Message Board are all a part of this 'homegrown' project.
Panagouleas has put his money where his mouth is by donating $2000 out of
his own pocket, in addition to funding the site itself.
"It's this very kind of grassroots community involvement that has helped
to maintain the Amiga's status as a player in the Gen-IT realm," says
Panagouleas, a former employee of Commodore Business Machines. "(Amiga
users) have always been a tight-knit community that pulls together in
times of need. Some very impressive development talent are already making
inquiries and are showing great enthusiasm. I'm very excited."
The presence of Mozilla on the Amiga would provide additional voltage to
Amiga Inc.'s upcoming launch of its new Amiga OS 4.0. It will also help
users the Keep the Dream Alive by running a standards compliant mainstream
browser on MorphOS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE, Amithlon, and Classic Amiga's
running Amiga OS 3.9 ." Please keep the donations coming in so programmers
will be motivated to port Mozilla to Amiga/Amiga type systems.
(ps)
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02.Jun.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Shipment of ALGOR will start on Monday
The distribution of the new Zorro II USB controller ALGOR by E3B to
the dealers begins on today's Monday.
Additional information about the product and possible bundles and goodies can be found at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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DiaCD Update
Carsten Siegner released an update for DiaCD. Details about changes an improvements is to be found at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Hakan Parting (E-Mail)
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AmiComSys 2.4 and HL-Plugin 1.2 released
Hakan Parting released updates for his programs AmiComSys and HL-Plugin. The following changes were made:
AmiComSys 2.4
- BUGFIX: The "Kill gui" menu item had an empty key
combination.
- BUGFIX: When a modal message requester was opened only
the main window was put to sleep. The entire application must
be put to sleep so the user cannot do anything else in the program.
In certain occasions this error would lead to a crash or an Enforcer
hit.
- NEW: Added requeststring function to the messagerequester class for use by plugins.
- NEW: The reply text field and replybutton are no longer shown
in reponse of a version and system info request.
- BUGFIX: If you opened the Client Info window and then iconified
the application and later deiconified it the main window and
the client window had the same dimensions and position.
- NEW: Changed the layout of the message requesters. It should
now get a better dimension so you don't need to scroll. The
sizegadget was also removed. If your requesters are snapshotable
it is still there.
- NEW: AmiComSys now asks if you want to display the file
you just received.
- NEW: If a plugin is inside the ACS main window its menu
is added the first time the plugin is active.
- BUGFIX: Enforcer hit when you opened the Client Info
of user without any comment and also when such a user connected.
- BUGFIX: It will now not go online when you uniconify after you
have killed the gui while your your status was set to offline.
- BUGFIX If the comment, homepage and some other items on the
personal info were set to an empty string they were not updated
in the contact list until you reconnected.
HL-Plugin
- NEW: Enhanced the error handling for the file transfer.
- BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition with the file transfer queue.
- BUGFIX: File resume implemented (working with hxd, not HL Server).
- NEW: Added "Kick selected user" and "bann selected user" to the
Action menu.
- NEW: Added "Delete"(file) and "MakeDir" to the Files window.
- BUGFIX: Upload didn't work with all servers and files.
- BUGFIX: The close button of a transfer window didn't work.
It just closed the user list connection.
- BUGFIX: Forgot to close the transfer window when you got a "file already exists" error.
- BUGFIX: Transfers the info written in the Bookmarks
section in the "HL Plugin Servers" window when the connect button is pressed or when the window is closed. Before the old info was sent
to the server when you had forgotten to press return in the text
boxes you had modified.
- BUGFIX: There was an error with the bookmark save routine
(possible enforcer hit).
- NEW: A connection to a server, tracker or file server
will now not block HL Plugin while it is connecting. It's
now possible to cancel a connection while it is connecting.
- NEW: After a file download has finished the program now
ask if you want to display it.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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01.Jun.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030531
Brad Webb has published the Amiga Update for May 2003. Once a month Webb
summarises all important news on the theme of Amiga in his newsletter. Read the
current Amiga Update by way of E-Mail subscription or delayed under the title
link and therein the following themes:
- AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour
- AmiWest News Update
- Amiga wins popularity contest
- RIAA apologizes to Amiga Web Site
- AmigaOS 4.0 to support E3B's ALGOR and ROMulus flashroms
- Hollywood 1.5 official announcement
- MetaView Freeware as of now
- WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 (30.05.2003)
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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Issue 5 (June) of Amiga Inc.'s Club Amiga Magazine published
Issue 5 (June) of the monthly Amiga Club Magazine has been published today for
registered members. It contains a.o.t. a new status report on OS 4.0, an interview
with Zeoneo and much more. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
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Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994)
This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was
born. Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world
and as the father of the Amiga.
In the middle of the seventies he developed the TIA chip, originally for medical
applications, later for use in the legendary Atari 2600. With the ANTIC and the
GTIA chipsets he laid the foundation for the Atari 8bit family.
After the founding of the company Hi-Toro which was later renamed into Amiga, Miner
worked on the joyboard, a revolutionary control device for the Atari 2600 and the
ColecoVision and on the work of his life, the Multimedia chipset for the 68000 based
games console Lorraine which was renamed into "Amiga 1000" after the purchase of
the company by Commodore and turned into a full-fledged computer.
Miner passed away on 20th June 1994 due to kidney failure.
He was regarded as a revolutionary computer designer and an extraordinary person.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
ANN / San Francisco Business Times (Website)
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3DO face bankruptcy
According to reports of the San Francisco Business Times, American video game
and hardware developers 3DO have filed for insolvency.
3DO became well-known at the beginning of the nineties by way of the games
console of the same name, which, although being technically superior, wasn't
able to conquer the hoped-for market share. The Rewood City based company had
recently been able to reduce debts with the commercial success of console games
such as "High Heat Major League Baseball" or "Army Men", but apparently not able
to avert bankruptcy.
Interestingly enough the 3DO console was designed with the help of the Amiga/CD32
by Commodore - former Amiga warhorses Dave Morse, RJ Mical and Dale Luck had a
significant share in the further development of 3DO.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Mark Tierno (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #71
The 71st and officially last issue of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga
Information Online (AIO)' has been published. This issue contains a.o.t.
the following articles:
- Strange Opinion
- Dr. Strange, Web Wanderer
- Hints & Tips
- Final Credits
- AIO Secrets
- My Last Words
- History Of Amiga
- The Amiga that is and can...
The full table of contents can be obtained from the readme which is enclosed in
the archive. AIO uses a custom display program and can be used from AmigaOS 3.0
onwards.
Download: AIOV71.lha (547 KB) - Readme
The operators of AIO are pleading for a final retroactive donation for all the
editors involved. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Start menu: Pixload Final Version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS released
Today the final Version 4 of the start menu Pixload has been released for AmigaOS
and MophOS. This is the final features list:
- Drag & Drop of picture directories loads a thumbnail tool
- New formats: TIFF and TARGA via Datatypes
- New formats: AIFF and WAVE (no Datatypes required)
- Control bar for MiamiDX integrated
- New program load window
- Clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- Fixed some bugs
- Pixload is scalable
- Pixload can open drawers instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organisation by way of Drag & Drop
- Choice of number of icon columns
- Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Interview with AmiStart developer Darius Brewka
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published an interview with Darius Brewka,
the programmer of AmiStart.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Event: Computer Art Festival 2003 in Russia
The Computer Art Festival 2003 (CAFe 2003) will take for the fourth time on 23rd
and 24th August 2003 in Kazan, Russia.
CAFe'2003 is an event for programmers, musicians, graphic artists, Web designers
and other creative professions. The demo party will be conceived as a festival,
which will be organised in cooperation with the Ministry for Youth. The festival
is officially announced as a "Computers against Drugs" event. The main platforms
are the Amiga, the ZX Spectrum and the PC.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Spanish and Russian documentation for FroggerNG
Spanish and Russian documentation for the shareware video player FroggerNG
has been provided which is available for download under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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31.May.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B and Hyperion: ALGOR / ROMulus flash ROM supported by AmigaOS 4
E3B and Hyperion are pleased to be able to announce the deep cooperation of both companies regarding the ALGOR and ROMulus. The for the time being by Hyperion developed AmigaOS 4.0 will be able to use the flash ROMs available on the ALGOR and ROMULUS without any problem.
Read the complete German press release on the E3B news site or
an also available English version.
The ALGOR is a Zorro II based USB controller that supports USB 1.1 and 2.0 (no highspeed mode) and has 512kB flash ROM integrated on the controller card.
The widely spread HIGHWAY USB controller can be upgraded via ROMulus with flash ROMs.
Users of the AmigaOS 4.x can keep a compressed Kickstart 4.0 in the flash ROM and significiantly shorten the boot time this way.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
AUGS - Amiga User Group Switzerland (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0 tour in Basel with good PR
The announcement of the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation in Basel finds a wide spreading in Switzerland through the headline on PC-Tip and the portal of Sunrise.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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