19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga User Group interviews Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco by Genesi
MorphOS-News.de reports about an
interview,
which was done by the Finnish Amiga User Group with Genesi. Within this interview Bill Buck and his wife Raquel Velasco do not only talk about the
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Crossbee team hired by Genesi not only introduces their
experience of the management organisation but also their software to MorphOS.
- Additionalyt hey told that Ceolia now works for Genesi also,
- that prototypes of the PegasosII boards (6 Layers) are expected within the next three months.
- Representives of Plexuscom will come to Paris after the CeBIT to outline the further team work;
- that Genesi will sponsor the demo scene event "Assembly 2003"
- and that there will be a new MorphOS version for the existing PowerUp cards during the next month available free of charge for the Amiga community.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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18.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine 6.4
TTEngine 6.4 is a bugfix release for three bugs unfortunately introduced in the previous one. The main bug was requesting mathieeesingtrans.library V38 while Workbench 3.0 and 3.1 has V37 of this library. This caused library initialization failure and revealed two bugs related to cleanup routine. Cleanup generated several Enforcer hits if called after failed initialization. All three bugs are fixed in TTEngine 6.4 release. Thanks to Halvadjian Georges, who reported the bug and hepled with debugging.
Download: ttengine-6.4.lha (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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CeBIT 2003: More pictures
MorphOS-News.de has posted some more CeBIT pictures (provided by Ron van Herk). (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Markus Holler (Website)
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Music: Markus Holler - Dance Mix aus Cold Zero
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga-Users for his music for the games Tales of
Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity, works on the music
Actiongame Cold Zero. For the soon vailable game you can find a dance mix of
the main themes on the download page.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
EvenMore
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Text viewer: Latest MSWord-Plugin for EvenMore
Chris Perver has released the MSWord-Plugin Version 1.38 for his text viewer
'EvenMore'. With this plugin you can convert in 'EvenMore' MSWord files into text.
Download: msword2text.plugin
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 321
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 321 of AmithlonTV with some updates and
enhancements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
New in this version:
- CHANGED: Recompiled with the latest resource tracking and management code.
- BUGFIX: Thanks to the new resource management I found a very (very very) worst
memory boundary leak (4000 bytes!!!) in the main library core! If you had a few
crashes in the past, then there is a very (very very) good chance that they are gone!
- BUGFIX: Another 2 byte boundary leak within the virtual card driver fixed.
- CHANGED: Installer-Script now requests an actual installer version to ensure
proper operation.
- FEATURE: Added PowerPCI NG support.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
www.scene.org/news.php (ANF)
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OS Poll at scene.org
There is an OS poll running at scene.org right now. Lets help our favorite OS a little hand ;-) (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus Midicommands for tracks&fields
More then 250 commands to remote access virus synthesizers from
tracks & fields. There will be updates when Access makes new
OSupdates with new sysex midi commands.
Further updates will be made when for HDRec when there comes new
versions of it. As i dont find anyone that have time to continue
on tracks&field i will later use HDRec instead as its more pro.
Directpage (ps)
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17.Mar.2003
Amiga.SF (Website)
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Diego Casorran Ports: HyperMail V2.1.7 and Flac V1.1.0
- HyperMail to version 2.1.7, it is a program that takes a file of
mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of
cross-referenced HTML documents. Each file that is created represents
a separate message in the mail archive and contains links to other
articles, so that the entire archive can be browsed in a number of
ways by following links. (I remember you that YAM export his emails
in UNIX format ;)
- Flac to version 1.1.0, it stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The
FLAC project consists of: the stream format, reference encoders and
decoders in library form, flac: a command-line program to encode and
decode FLAC files, metaflac: a command-line metadata editor for FLAC
files. "Free" means that the specification of the stream format is
fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project
reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify
compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the
implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent.
It also means that all the source code is available under open-source
licenses.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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Two new digital album: Galicia and Lisbon
After technical problems over the weekend the Faces OF Mars Website is
again fully functional. Immediately there are two new products: Photo
CDs about Lisbon and Galicia.
Beside many photos the CDs contains also a digital postcard
system, with which one can send motives simply over the Internet.
Price: 4 Euro per CD.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records with new module
Martin ' DaFreak ' Rebentisch writes:
Our musician Angeldust composed, influenced by the political
argument USA/Iraq, a MP3-Tune in the Schranz style
named "God Bless You". Sounds very interesting, just listen to it.
[LQS Homepage]!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Jabberwocky (Website)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 2. Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch published Preview 2 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ,
MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways.
Beta-version-vownload: Jabberwocky030316.lha
Changes:
- Fixed transperancy of icons in roster window (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- Fixed long standing enforcer hit when removing contacts (also thanks to Jeff
Gilpin as a side effect of the transperancy fix)
- Fixed reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Fixed unicode conversion of reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Some support for displaying errors in the roster (but I haven't actually had
any errors that trigger it, so it either doesn't work, or I haven't
had any errors.
- Fixed enforcer hit on startup when autoconnect is on and there is no account
information (introduced in 1.3)
- Roster icon remains on the event icon until all unread messages have been read
- Fixed handling of messages from contacts that are not in the roster
(introduced in 1.4pre1)
As you can see 1.4pre1 had quite a lot of problems, remember you shouldn't be
using any prerelease unless you want problems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.03.2003
With WHDLoad you install games, which were meant for the floppy discs usage
only, on your hard disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message:
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 2 - Time Warp (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 15.03.03 new: Dragon Lord (Alfaforce) done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 new: 3001 O'Conners Fight 2 () done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 improved: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) supports another version
- 15.03.03 improved: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) supports another version
- 13.03.03 new: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Mar.2003
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Seven new demos online
A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' has undergone an extensive update and offers
the following new demos:
- Dream or Reality/Faculty and Nah Kolor. Famous slideshow from Faculty
and Nah Kolor, featuring pictures by Unreal. Mostly fantasy inspired
(dragons), this slideshow features some nice pictures.
- Noname/Polka Brothers. Released at the South Sealand party in 1994
(ranking unknown). This is pure Polka Brothers style, meaning fast effects
and lots of energy. Some nice fullscreen pictures and a stunning tune by
Slide (as usual). A bit too short. Recommended!
- Nonstop/DCS. "Dcs brings you the first 40kb sing-along karaoke intro
ever featuring le ball du metaux, head objects, possibility to sing along,
effects, secret breakdance mode, oldschool atmosphere and no greetings part".
Need i say more? Released at The Party 1999 (1st place).
- Sketch/Venture. Technically not really impressive, this demo features
some amazing design, making it a very stylish little production. Released
in August 1998 at Intel Outside 5 (3rd place).
- Sumolysbryter/Ephidrena. Yes, the famous crew from Norway is back with a
new demo! Featuring Loaderror, Cheetah and Zixaq, this demo was released at
Kindergarden 2003 where it achieved first place. Very stylish design backed
up by a nice elektro tune. High quality, as can be expected from the masters
of design. More please!
- Alien 2/Scoopex. Released at The Party 1998 where it ranked 1st at the
demo competition. A 3D story demo with 2D effects in between. Cool music from
Muffler and Virgill. Recommended if you are interested in 3D story demos.
- Brain Overdrive/Software Failure. It's always easy to search for
credits from Software Failure intros: Code: Ham, Gfx: Ham, Music: Ham, 3D:
Ham (talk about multitalented). Originally released at Euskal 10 in July
2002, Ham released the final version some weeks ago. And a very fine intro
it is!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
ANN
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TV-card driver: SuperTV beta version 0.8 for Mediator
Today Peter Gordon has released the beta version 0.8 of SuperTV (an alternative
to the Mediator TV software by Elbox).
This version fixes some bugs and offers new features.
Download: stv_beta_0-8.lha
Changes since the last version:
- "Hide pointer" now has 3 modes: Never, Fullscreen only, and Always. F2 now cycles between never and always.
- Added option to cycle through channels (ie hitting + at the last channel will cycle to channel 1).
- Two new arexx commands: TV_INCCHANNEL, TV_DECCHANNEL. These increment and decrement the channel, taking into account the cycle channels settings
- Added possibility to put in custom source number. This allows colour SVHS on some cards.
- I think i've zapped the enforcer hits now.
- You can now toggle fullscreen with F3
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Sebastian Brylka / Fun Time World (ANF)
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CeBIT 2003 - Photos and short report from Fun Time World
Sebastian Brylka of Fun Time World
set out and looked for innovations on the CeBIT 2003. Among others he also
visited the Plexuscom/Pegasos booth. The resulting photos and a short report can
be found under the title link. Interested people are welcome to stop by and have
a look. Maybe interesting for some: Amiga computers were also to be seen at the
CeBIT 2003!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 05 for Descent: Freespace released
Today the MultiPlayer Pack 05 with 5 multi player missions for the game
Descent: Freespace has been released.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Documentary 'Life after Microsoft' at 21.15 on 3Sat
Documentary about six programmers who once put their nose to the grindstone for
Bill Gates. Among others also with Walt Moore, who co-developed the operationg
system "Windows 1" for Microsoft until he wasn't fast enough anymore and was
sacked. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: March/April 2003 Vote
It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - March/April 2003.
We need the vote of your current prefered games. Send us
your classifying (20 games max) at our adress:
daff1@club-internet.fr
or vote at our website.
Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...).
If your list has not changed since last time, simply reply this mail with
the subject "no change for me".
Final classifying will be published in early April.
(ps)
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16.Mar.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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New Soms3D shots, English translation and requests
A new update has been released on the 'Anime Development for Amiga' page. Two
new screen shots of Soms3D have been added, furthermore an English translation
is now available.
This translation is "beta", thus the ADA team is looking for someone to go and
correct all the errors.
Furthermore the ADA team is looking for people who know Milkshape3D or a
mesh animator which supports the MD2 format (used e.g. Quake2). Also
raytracers are still most welcome in the ranks of the ADA team.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Home page for current Amiga demos & ASCIIs
Completely undetected, Dutch demo scener Jpv of the group Rave Network Overscan
has been offering all demos and ASCII collections released since August 2001
for download on his homepage.
Former visitors of boards (mailboxes) which ran on Amiexpress or Fame will feel
immediately at home there. The home page gets updated immediately after the
release of new demos, intros, disk mags, slide shows, packs or ASCII
collections. Thus, e.g. all publications of the recently held Kindergarten
Party are available.
All in all a good source for providing yourselves with material from the demo
scence.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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