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14.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: 'Layouter' full version
In cooperation and with the okay by Marius Schwarz the Amiga Arena offers a free release of the software "Layouter" for the first time. With the program "Layouter" it is possible to layout and print your own books and fanzines.

"Layouter" covers the part to process texts, creating paragraphs for pictures and titles to print a fanzine correctly for example. Layouter does all the work a commo text processoer can't handle sufficient.

To say it in a simple manner: You bring in the text to print and the graphics and "Layouter" creates an impressing book or magazine from that. Another big advantage of "Layouter" is its speed for printing a book. A detailed manual and some example projects are included within the archive. For further assistance or suggestions the developer Marius Schwarz might be contacted. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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14.May.2003
Fabio Trotta (ANF)


Apple compatible PPC computers by Core
Name CoreCrib and CoreBox the company Core offers Apple compatible PPC computers. These offer the same technical specs like the current high end Macs but are less expensive. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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14.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)


Event: Amiga Show - Maarssen, The Netherlands on June the 28th 2003
As reported earlier the Dutch Commodore Club HCC hosts an Amiga Show in Maarssen on June the 28th 2003.

Computer City will demonstrate the AmigaOne and sell soft- and hardware. Genesi will demonstrate the PPC computer Pegasos with the operating system MorphOS and shows the VideoMicroWave as well as a prototype of a set top box. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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14.May.2003



Aminet Uploads until 14.05.2003
Here the latest Aminet uploads which were added since our last message:
SpanienSS.lha        docs/hyper  98K+SpanienSS guide history of some spanish
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     31K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Islife.jpg           pix/art     19K+Amiga is live
(ps)

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14.May.2003
VWP Newsletter


VWP: New Webboard online
After the old webboard was available in German only, now a new one is online. It supports different languages and can be reached like the old one: simply by using the "Webboard"-link on the left side of the page at VirtualWorlds.de. The only disadvantage of it: formerly registered user have to register again because their data could not be transferred. But writing as guest is possible in the new webboard too. (ps)

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14.May.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)


Elbox: Online Photos of the Mirage 1200-based Amiga
The Elbox Support Website has now photos presenting how the new Mirage 1200 tower may be used to house a really well-expanded Amiga 1200-based system (title link).

The Amiga in view is fitted with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX busboard and Blizzard PPC 240/060/50, a Voodoo 3 graphic card, a PixelView TV Pro card, a Terratec 512i digital sound card, a Spider II USB 2.0 5-port controller, a FastEthernet 100Mb/s network card, a FastATA 1200 EIDE controller, a Samsung 80GB HDD, a 52x CD-ROM, a 40x12x40x CD-RW, an LS-120 drive, an All-in-One USB 2.0 Flash card reader, a Logitech USB mouse and a A3000 keyboard. (ps)

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14.May.2003
GetBoinged (ANF)


GetBoinged Review: Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2
Please find the review about the Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2 under the title link. (ps)

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13.May.2003
Newsletter von Cinemaware (ANF)


Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown 2 on 3rd quarter 2003
According to the newsletter of Cinemaware DotC2 has nearly finished. Because of this some new screenshots has put up online (a trailer and further information are also available). It should first be published for PC and PS2. Disk images of all older versions (C64, Amiga, Amstrad, PC...) are now available again.

Here is the original newsletter:

Hey Cinemaware fans!

I know things have been quiet for a while from your ol' pal Amber over at Cinemaware, but we've just been preparing to take the lid off some really exciting news!

How exciting, you ask? Well, after months of patient waiting, I can finally reveal to our fans who will be publishing Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown. Cinemaware is proud to be partnering with Capcom Entertainment to bring Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown to living rooms across everywhere!

I can't tell you all how happy we all are to be working with one of the premier publishers in the world to bring Defender of the Crown back to the fans. And I want to give special thanks to you fans out there who have been waiting for this day -- we couldn't have done it without your support!

Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown will be launching in North America in the third quarter of 2003! Head on over to the this news story to get the full scoop! The exciting news is already starting to hit the web, though. Check out this story over at GameSpot!

If any of you happen to make it to E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) this week in Los Angeles, drop by the Capcom booth and say hello! We'll be showing the game at two kiosks, so come on by and give it a whirl. If you can't make it to the show, keep an eye on online news, as there's sure to be a lot of hands-on impressions from the show floor.

But until then, we've put up a big batch of brand new screens from the game. Go take a gander at the Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown Product Page.

Lastly, to celebrate this exciting news, we've once again made disk images of all version of the original Defender of the Crown available for download! This includes all versions of the original classic from Amiga to Amstrad! Head over to the Defender of the Crown vault to get your hands on 'em!

That's it for this newsletter, but I'll be back soon to update you all on the exact date for Robin Hood's release!

All the best,

Amber :D
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.May.2003
Virus Hewlp Denmark (ANF)


Virus Help: New update of xvs.library
A new update of the "xvs.library' (xvs.library - The eXternal Virus Scanner Library) has been updated today, and can be found at the "Virus Help Team's websites". Remember, if you use the antivirus programs like ec. VirusZ, VirusExecuter, VirusChecker, Mill this update of XVS is a MUST for you.

Info about the new update:

Name: xvs.library v33.40
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 93,637 bytes
Release date: 13 May 2003
Programmer: Georg Hoermann

News is v33.40: (Size: 61,912 bytes)
  • Added file recognition for some very old installer programs of the following bootblock viruses: Blizzard, CLI-Manager, SystemZ 5.0 and SystemZ 6.4. Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for sending the files.
  • Added special recognition for "Zeeball AV-Testfile" from Zeeball's antivirus test archive.
  • Changed several often-used CacheClearU() calls to CacheClearE() for better performance on JIT 68k emulated systems (file analysis and repair code for polymorphic linkviruses have not been changed, as these only get called if some patterns match first). Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the hint.
  • Fixed bug in xvsCheckFile() that accessed two bytes following the actual file buffer under certain circumstances. Thanks must go to Mikolaj Calusinski for the report and for beta-testing.
  • Did some compatibility fixes for Pegasos/MorphOS systems. Thanks again to Harry Sintonen for the report and for beta-testing.
  • Replaced old installer script with an updated version written once again by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks!
BTW: Georg Hoerman will change his email in the near future, his new email is ghoermann@gmx.de.

Kind regards...

Virus Help Team DK, NL & CAN
Jan, Denmark
Alex, Holland
Charlene, Canada
(ps)

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13.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies records #035
The Amiga music scene group called 'Liquid Skies' has published a new music file again. This time it consists of a mp3 tune by Psycho. It has a length of 6:07 and was created with an Amiga.

The cover to the title "When The Beast Found His Angle" was created by Angeldust. As usually you can download the tune from the Liquid Skies homepage. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.May.2003
Carles "Doraemon" Bernardez (ANF)


CatCon 2k3 Photos
Carles Bernardez writes:
Under the title link you can see a small photo album of the CatCon 2k3. The results and the releases of the competitons will be released soon on Aminet.

You can see some Pegasos, AmigaOne, and AmigaOne XE on the photos, and of course a lot of Amigans. Thx to all that makes the dream possible another year, specially to bbrv, Eyetech, Amiga Superbit, Amiga Rulez Magazine, and all the Amigans that all the years come to our event. For more information contact catconparty@yahoo.es. (ps)

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13.May.2003
Various websites


Several Software Updates until 13.05.2003
Diverse ports (incl. Descent2 test version) by Nagy Lajos


New software:
  • libpng-1.2.5 (png developer lib)
  • SDL_mixer and SDL_gfx (SDL extensions)
  • sed-4.0.7 (gg tool)
  • unace-1.2 (ace file decruncher)
  • htdump (web page downloader)
  • flite (text to speech engine)
  • toppler (Nebulus alike game)
  • 1st Descent2 port to test!
  • Digger (port of old DOS game)


Amigan Software
Worm Wars version 7.42 and Saga version 1.25 have been published.

WHDLoad - New packets until 13.05.2003
  • 13.05.03 improved: Silkworm (Sales Curve) some fixes
  • 12.05.03 new: Microprose Golf (Microprose) done by JOTDx
  • 12.05.03 fixed: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) install script corrected
  • 10.05.03 new: Mission Elevator (Micropartner) done by Asman


(ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)


Cost control software for not DSL users: TH-Verbindung V1.1
TH-Verbindung version 1.1 is aimed for surfers who don't have a flatrate or do only a little surfing. It is possible to set up different charges for a main and rest time as well as for a log-in charge. Weekends and bank holidays will not be forgotten too.

From the program itself Miami can be launched, the connection be established and aborted. The costs ammounted so far will be shown in Euro. The sum of the surfed minutes so far is listed as well as the current state of the connection and the connection speed.

The program has been written and tested with a DraCo 060 running AmigaOS 3.9.

Autor: Dany Thinnes - Dany@TH-Home.de
Download: home-thverbindung.lha (ps) (Translation: ub)

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12.May.2003
GFX-BASE (Website)


GFX-BASE: Quake 2 - Amiga version review
Alexandre Balaban describes his impressions of the Amiga version of Quake 2 in the English-language Review. Starting with the installation and the hardware requirements he walks through the history of Quake and his first play, and his personal results finishes the article. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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12.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)


StartMenu: Pixload Version 4 beta 1 Preview
In the current beta version 1 of the start menu Pixload 4 were the following new features added.

  • Drag & Drop of picture dirs opens a thumbnail tool
  • New formats: TIFF and TARGA via datatypes
  • Control border for MiamiDX integrated
  • New program startup splashscreen
  • Clock with RTC functionality
  • Help file in the context menu
  • Some bugfixes
  • Pixload is now scalable
  • Pixload is able to open drawers instead of programs
  • Shortkeys added
  • Icon organisation per Drag & Drop
  • Number of rows of icons can be changed
If you have suggestions, ideas or desires, please feel free to send them to Pixel Art by E-Mail (pixelart@wanadoo.fr) in English or French. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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12.May.2003
BBOAH Website


The Big Book Of Amiga Hardware - Update of 12.05.2003
The 'Big Book Of Amiga hardware' is probably the largest on-line manual for Amiga hardware. Ian Chapman extended and updated the documentation in many subranges. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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12.May.2003



Aminet Uploads until 12.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
HollywoodPromo.lha biz/demo   8.7M   0 High quality Hollywood screenshots
newscoaster.lha    comm/news  425K   0 NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.56) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news  188K   0 NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.56 - 10 May 2003)
YAM-Logo.lha       comm/yam    49K   0 YAM 2.4 Logo by Chris, The Highlander
JulietCaseCCCP.lha demo/aga   539K   0 CCCP, by Juliet and Case - file version
IRS-EC46.lha       demo/mag   2.0M   0 The Official Eurochart #46 by IRIS
ABasiC_patch.lha   dev/basic   17K   0 Patch Metacomco's ABasiC to work on OS 2.0+
ABasiC_progs.lha   dev/basic  382K   0 Collection of ABasiC games and programs
pmDevBas.lha       dev/basic  132K   0 Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic
Window.lha         dev/src      7K   0 Attach CON: to existing window on Kickstart 1.x
diskimage.lha      disk/misc   79K   0 Mount any disk image file as a DOS device
dynAMIte.lha       game/2play 2.0M   0 Internet (only) Bomberman/Dynablaster-Clone
DroidWars4.lha     game/actio 163K   0 Droids fighting in an arena.
AS-Hemp.lha        game/data  567K   0 Cardset for AS-..... compatible games
digger-68k.lha     game/misc  258K   0 Digger - the SDL version of old DOS game!
2Decide.lha        game/think 453K   0 2D strategy game supporting themes.
stv_1-0.lha        gfx/board   50K   0 TV card software for Mediator systems
DIYrekoIII.lha     gfx/ifx     31K   0 Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
imdbDiff030502.lha misc/imdb  2.9M   0 Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
1st16.lha          mods/blkha 2.7M   0 First 16bit DBM by blakkhar
bengbum.lha        mods/blkha  41K   0 Techno PT mod by blakkhar
bengbum2.lha       mods/blkha 160K   0 Techno PT mod by blakkhar
fs.lha             mods/blkha 137K   0 Hardcore DBP mod by blakkhar
GM_Rip_Edition.lha mods/blkha 221K   0 Techno DBM by blakkhar
RutgerH.lha        mods/blkha 389K   0 Rutger H.dedicated DBM by blakkhar
schranzibelrmx.lha mods/blkha 1.1M   0 Remix DBM by blakkhar
transplantanr.lha  mus/play    42K   0 Transplant skin for AmiNetRadio
Haymigga_I.jpg     pix/wb     257K   0 Haymigga`s Red & Blue Mania WB Screenshot 
japanese-wb2.jpg   pix/wb     119K   0 Japanese support on amiga
_Dani_-WB-10.jpg   pix/wb     202K   0 Amiga Workbench Screenshot 1024x768x24
Asciiconverter.lha util/conv   44K   0 Change ASCII code in files.
NewHomer.lha       util/misc  113K   0 Talkin' Homer V1.87b (guide fixed, better iconific
NoLed.lha          util/misc    2K   0 Low-Pass Filter Killer
WRip_26.lha        util/misc   45K   0 Rips various pack-formats from Disk/File
SnoopDos.lha       util/moni  136K   0 SnoopDos 3.8, the well known system monitor
SnoopDos_Src.lha   util/moni  256K   0 SnoopDos 3.8 sources
mouseshell10.lha   util/rexx    1K   0 Opens Shell window under mouse pointer
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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12.May.2003
morphos-news.de


CeBIT Australia 2003 Photos
At the title link and at Pegasos.com.au you find pictures of the CeBIT Australia 2003, which took place in the second May week in Sydney. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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12.May.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Quantum Leap: Report of the 'Webb.it' with OS4-Screenshots
At the title link an Italian language report of the Italian IT fair "Webb.it" is to be found, which took place past weekend in Padova. The Italian AmigaOne Distributor VirtualWorks presented there an AmigaOne XE as well as OS4-Module (still as 68k Binaries).

On the OS4-Screenshots both already well-known OS4 parts (MediaToolbox, new system menus) in newer versions is to be seen as well as modules that have not been shown yet. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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11.May.2003
Ettensberger Martin (ANF)


Pictures of new Amiga G4 at AmigaClub Augsburg
Recently the first new AmigaOne G4 computers have arrived at the AmigaClub Augsburg. Photos of yesterday's meeting can be seen under this link on the homepage.

The homepage will be overhauled in the next couple of days and several pictures from unpacking through assembling and running of the computer will be uploaded. You can find new background pictures under this link. AmigaClub Augsburg wishes you a nice Sunday :)

AmigaClubAugsburg.de
augusta.de/~ramses (ps) (Translation: cb)

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11.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Morph-box Version 1.0
Today the final version 1.0 of Carsten Siegner's program "Morph-box" for MorphOS has been released. This is fully functioning with clickable buttons and also includes a prefs editor. Morph-box is a toolbar for MorphOS which is able to launch MorphOS native and 68k programs.

This program is MorphOS native and thus only runs on the Pegasos computer. Furthermore it requires the PNG datatype.

Installation: Copy guigfx.library.elf (N.B.: this is the MOS version, so don't take the version from the powerlibs.lzx directory!) to the directory "Sys:MorphOS/Libs". Furthermore the powerlibs.lzx archive from Carsten Siegner's homepage is required. This is located in the "Videokonverter" subdirectory (unpack the archive and copy to Sys:Libs directory).

The archive contains a small readme file explaining the few functions. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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