30.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Event: SlimJim's Not-so-short AmiGBG Fair Report
There is a circumstantial account by Slim Jim on the Amiga show
AmiGBG which took place yesterday in Gothenburg, Sweden.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Mar.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back!
Just in time for BoulderDäsh's 16th birthday, BoulderDäsh RTX will be released
soon! The most important improvement is direct support of Picasso96 and
CyberGraphics. With this all RTG problems should once and for all be a thing of
the past.
Thanks to the likewise new AHI support BoulderDäsh should run on all AmigaOS
compatible systems (A500, Ax000, Amithlon, MorphOS). It requires only OS 2.0 or
better. Rockford is back - He will rock you! BoulderDäsh RTX V5.10 - feature list:
- 1:1 Clone of the original
- Runs in Multitasking
- Online help
- Locale support
- Programmed according to Commodore Style Guide
- 2D Softscrolling and full speed even on an MC68000
(no judder in the animations or when scrolling)
- Full gfx card compatibility through Picasso96/CyberGraphics support, allowing for up to 256 colours in full screen scrolling
- Full sound card compatibility through AHI support
- More than 5700 levels included!
- 35 different game graphics
- 6 different fonts
- 5 different sample sets
- 6 different music tracks
- All settings adjustable via Gadtools GUI
- Enhanced by way of additional game elements (fake bricks, fake metal...)
Thus interesting new level possibilities come about.
- No level size limit (under NonRTG only dependent on ChipMem)
- Savable Highscore lists for each game
- Comfortable level editor
- Gravitation adjustable in four directions in each level
- Game editor to compile complete games
- Custom game gfx can be created with a paint program
- Custom sound effects can be integrated with a sampler
- Custom game music can be created with a Protracker compatible music editor
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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29.Mar.2003
Andre Sommer (ANF)
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Event: Mocca LAN 8 from April, 4th till April, 6th 2003 in Hirsau
It's time again, the next Mocca is near. In almost a week the doors will be opened for the Mocca 8, taking place from April, 4th till April, 6th in Hirsau (Germany).
The Mocca is an OpenOS party, all systems are welcome. The Mocca is not a pure gamers LAN but is furthermore thought to show users other systems and to give help on individual problems for the special computers.
Further information about the Mocca 8 can be found following the title link. There you can register for the party or contact the organizers.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: BabeAnoid 2.0 final version
In the past reported the Amiga Arena several times about "BabeAnoid", the Breakout clone by Richard Fhager.
The released demo version 1.10 seemed to be the one and only version for a long time as Richard Fhager
lost his interest in continued development because of a lack of feedback respectively he wants to cease all his Amiga activities.
In cooperation with Wolfgang Hosemann (issue #9/02), at that time responsible for the games part of the AmigaAktuell, a call was started to continue the game's development and to activate the users to give the developer feedback for his work. This all didn't seem to bring the wanted success. The more I am pleased to announce today's release of the version 2.0 final.
Further informationen you can find here.
Support developers, then developers will support you!
Download: babeanoid.lha - 3 MB
Features are among others more than 30 different boni, six different balls, different bricks (moving, multi hit, invisible...), foes plus weapons for fighting against them, two teleporters, background pictures, smoking balls, music and sound effects, speech output, buying and selling items and much more.
The game uses 32 colors (ECS) and needs at least an Amiga with 68020 and 2MB Fast RAM. If the settings in the preferences are reduced should the game also run with 1MB Chip RAM.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: US law drafts may mean the end of firewalls
In the view of Edward W. Felten, professor at the Princeton University,
could the new suggestions for a stronger 'Digital Millennium Copyright Act' made by some US states lead to the fact that the ownership, the selling und use of encryption software, firewalls and router software may be under penalty in the USA soon.
The (German) heise article can be found following the title link.
Another (German) article about this topic:
Golem - IT News: Firewalls soon illegal in the USA?
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: New youth protection law: no more Linux games in the future?
»USK logo becomes a problem
From the 1st of April on could the offer of games software for Linux users
in Germany be reduced in a drastic way from one day to the other. Because from this day on may only games be sold if they are marked with an age recommendation of the
USK and this is only the case for a small minority of Linux games.«
Read the full (German) article under the title link.
In the Amiga sector will the situation not be very different. Games that are new released won't get around the mark but because of financial reasons it is to be expected that only a little number of already released games will get this recommendation symbol. So we are very interested in the consequences of the new youth protection law for the Amiga market and of course for the games developers. Tell us your measures.
Will old games be removed from the shelves?
Will old games get an age recommendation?
What costs does this signing cause?
Is shareware in the same way concerned as commercial software is? (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 28.03.2003
With WHDLoad you can now install games, that were thought to be floppy disk only, on your hard disk. The following packages have been added respectively updated since our last mention:
- 28.03.03 new: Mega Demo 2 - Scoopex (Scoopex) done by Psygore
- 28.03.03 new: Mini Golf Plus (Starbyte) done by JOTD
- 28.03.03 improved: Midwinter (Rainbird) supports German version and many other changes
- 28.03.03 improved: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) Italian version supported, fixed install script, access faults fixed
- 28.03.03 new: Franko (World Software) done by JOTD
- 28.03.03 new: Cruncher Factory (Kingsoft) done by Asman
- 28.03.03 new: More Than Music (Alcatraz) done by Psygore
- 28.03.03 new: Vegas Gambler (California Dreams) done by Agressor
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
morphos-news.de
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morphos-news.de: Pegasos boards available again
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have announced that the first 170 Pegasos mainboards have already been sent to the retailers. Some retailers already received the boards while others will get them today, tomorrow or in the beginning of next week. The rest of the approximately 400 produced Pegasos mainboards will be sent next week to the retailers.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Glenn Fuller (ANF)
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Ben Fuller is dead - biography in the work
Benjamin G. Fuller, active Amiga developer since the early days, died on September, 11th 2002. The family, relatives and friends are putting a biography about Ben together and would welcome any contributions from the Amiga community.
1986 was the AAUG (Arizona Amiga Users Group) founded by Ben and some other users. Aged 17, Ben was probably one of the first and youngest developer of commercial Amiga software and visited among other things the 2nd Annual Amiga Developer's Conference in November 1986.
1988 he had worked in California at Silent Software and contributed to the creation of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" that had been distributed by Buena Vista Software and Disney. In 1992 he returned to Arizona to develop at Softwood, Inc. for example Final Copy II.
The next station was SunRize Industries, the makers of the hardware-software solution AD516/Studio16 Digital Audio Workstation. there he developed among other things the Automated Mixer of AD516/Studio16 v3.0 and its enhanced SMPTE Handling and the Amiga side including ARexx API of the software SoundSwitch that was also made compatible to the Video Toaster.
In June 2001 Fuller retired from SONICblue (ReplayTV) where he had worked since 1998 and concentrated on the photography with his Olympus E-10. His photos can be viewed on his website under the title link. Until the end Ben had used the Amiga emulator Amiga Forever running on a Dell-PC.
Please send contributions like publications, photos, reviews or comments that could help to complete the biography to ggfuller@yahoo.com or to benfuller@exreplaytv.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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28.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBS Glow Icons online
A Glow-Icon-Set for the game "PuzzleBOBS" is online.
The icons have been designed by Simone Battaglioni and are available for the AmigaOS
as well as for the MorphOS version.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload Version 3.0 also published for MorphOS
Now there is also a MorphOS version of version 3.0 of Pixload which is an Amidock like
start menu. From now on icons in the start bar are modifyable by simply dragging and
droppping and there is no limitation concerning the number. Quite similar to the Dock
of Mac OS X active programs are marked in the Pixload start bar with a triangle.
The MorphOS version has already transparency for icons.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
AmiDog (ANF)
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AmiDog: AMP Movieplayer Beta Version 030326
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has published a new version of its movie player for PPC
called ´AMP´. With ´AMP´ currently you can play the following
multimedia files:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audio streams
- AC3 streams
- (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD
Download: AMP2-BETA-030326.lha (Beta)
Please note: Please have a look at BETA.txt before using the program!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
Lynne Music (E-Mail)
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Power Liquids by Divinorum and Aural Planet soon available
The demo scene audio-CD "Power Liquids" which is created in cooperation with the
labels Divinorum and Aural Planet will be soon published. Currently the production
of the CD is started so probably the CD will be delivered in three weeks.
A seperate sub-website with audio clips has been created for the project under the
title link. Additionally to the CD-tracks buyer of Power Liquids are offered three
bonus tracks of a password protected website. Thus there will be a total time of
over 80 minutes.
The CD will cost 14.99 US-Dollar and can be ordered in cheap bundles together
with other products of Divinorum or Aural Planets.
Distributors are still searched.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
APC&TCP
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APC&TCP celebrates 11th anniversary
For eleven years APC&TCP is a publisher of Amiga software. Because of this event the
distributor of games like SeaSide, GunBee F-99 or Jaktar and applications like
Digi Booster Pro has reduced the prices of most of its products in its
online shop from 27th March 2003 until 30th April 2003. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2003
Matthew Kille (E-Mail)
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Crossword Evolution (12 level starter book) now available
Zeoneo are pleased to finally be able to announce that the first release of the game is now available to purchase from stores across the US. (For example CompUSA.)
This initial release is a special 12 puzzle early release version of the game (which will not be able to install additional puzzles) and will be sold on a SecureDigital SD card which includes other 'Amiga-Anywhere' games.
As soon as possible Zeoneo will be releasing the final standalone full version of the game, which will allow optional extra 'puzzle books' to be installed, for endless crossword supplies. (nba)
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27.Mar.2003
st-computer
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Magazine: Retrogaming Times #67
The online magazine Retrogaming Times has reached its 67th issue. The magazine concerns itself with games fo classic consoles and computer systems. The current issue contains several reviews of games for the Atari XL, relationally XE, and the Amiga too is mentioned in passing. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)
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Game: Tales of Tamar Version 0.49R1
The new Amiga version (V0.49R1) of the Internet-based round-by-round game 'Tales of Tamar' has been released. This update offers the following changes since version 0.48R5:
New Features:
- Grain silos now also calculate the quantity of offices in the cities
- Report for failed piracy is built-in
- Report for succesful piracy is built-in
- News for the victims of piracy is built-in
- Dragons and Undead are built-in
- The coronation screen has been activated
- The third diplomacy screen has been activated
- The tenth requestor in the control screen has been activated
- Vassal contracts in diplomacy have been activated
- New samples for the coronation and dragons are built-in
- AnimFX V2 is built-in (completely reworked animation routines!)
Bugfixes:
- Settlers and spies could conquer cities in a state of rebellion - Bug fixed
- Shops may no longer be loaded on a ship's position
- Small fix in diplomacy (Thanks to the PC version)
- Bug fix in the requestor of the liege lords
- Loaded spies and settlers may no longer be terminated if they are standing in the city
on a ship
- Grain silos accept only a deposit of 500
- New card elements are built-in
- Figures on the water are now terminated, if they haven't been shipped
- ToT is independent of the animations again
ToT is the first game in the world to administer wideranging structures of liege lords,
vassals, and henchmen. Through these game options it is possible for the player to close
vassal treaties with other players and thereby to ascend through the hierarchy of titles.
There are 8 different titles in Tamar: Baron, Viscount, Count, Marquis, Duke, Archduke,
King, & Emperor. For each presently occurring coronation, one will see a little animation
of course.
Titles in Tamar are not just purely a status symbol, because here good players are
rewarded with free rounds each month! If one is able to progress into the highest ranks,
ToT makes it possible to play an almost costless game.
As to reports of piracy, the only thing we have to say is that we have added this because
the inquiries of players and testers. Pirates should now offer better game options.
Dragons have been observed! (Quote from the ToT forum).
The dragons are a very old breed of winged beings of immense size. They make their homes
in remote places. On Tamar there are different types of dragons, which are generally
differentiated by skin color and behavior. One thing they all have in common: they are
hatched, devour meat, use breath as a weapon, love gold and jewels and are very strong.
Many dragons live for hundreds or even thousands of years. Because of this long history
they are inclined to look down their noses at the younger types of beings - such as humans.
On Tamar there are different types of dragons. Some of them may even be called by the
races of Elves and Dwarf, when they find themselves in danger.
But the most powerful dragon is the gold one. His breath is of a fire and gas mixture
capable of incinerating entire cities. Thankfully he is not particularly aggressive and
is even honorable of disposition.
On the opposite angle is the red dragon. This absolutely chaotically evil dragon has
nothing else in mind but to annihilate all creatures in a fiery death. He is not quite
as strong as the gold, but his aggressiveness knows no limits. He sinks ships, leaves
cities in soot and ashes, and attacks great armies if it must be. We want to warn all
the players in the world about this dragon! Dragons typically run in small packs of one
to four.
Lastly, we wish to call your attention to the 'Offer of Tamar.' Amiga Future
publishes a page every two months with news, tips, tricks, and statistics about
the best players of Tamar at that time. We're especially happy about this cooperation. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets through 24th March, 2003
With WHDLoad you can install to your hard-drive games that were thought only to run from floppy disks. The following packets have
been released or updated since our last announcement:
- 24.03.03 improved: Explora / Chrono Quest (Infomedia/Psygnosis) supports German version too
- 24.03.03 new: Stop Fascism (Alcatraz & Interactive) done by Psygore
- 24.03.03 new: I've Got The Power (Alcatraz) done by Psygore
- 19.03.03 improved: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) Snoop accesses removed
- 19.03.03 improved: Space Crusade (Gremlin) breakpoint removed
- 18.03.03 improved: Guy Spy (Ready Soft) supports disk version too
- 18.03.03 improved: Secret of Monkey Island (Lucasfilm Games) protection better removed, restart support
- 18.03.03 improved: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) imager fixed
- 17.03.03 fixed: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine Homepage Has Moved
The project homepage for TTEngine has moved and is reachable under the following URL from now on:
http://teleinfo.pb.bialystok.pl/tte/.
Please update your bookmarks and links accordingly.
TTEngine is a TrueType-based font text-rendering environment for AmigaOS by Grzegorz Kraszewski.
The current version is 6.4.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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Heise: Retro Joystick Console in Germany, only at Karstadt and Amazon
The video game system in the shape of a classic Atari joystick, manufactured by Jakks Pacific and imported to Germany by the game
publisher THQ, will not be generally available in individual shops. Through exclusive deals the retro game console will instead be
exclusively offered at
Karstadt purchase centers
as well as Amazon for about 30 euros per unit. The initial sale began just previously, at Amazon the gizmo is offered for preorder under
another name, the Atari TV Game Stick.
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #030
The 30th music pack from LQS includes an MP3 tune named "Roboty" in the Trance style. Created by Maxus, our new member, it brings a new
diversity to the Liquid Skies collection. Listen to it and decide for yourself! :) (ps) (Translation: dm)
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