02.Mar.2003
CUCUG
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CUCUG Status Register 02/2003
The February 2003 CUCUG Status Register has been published. In the Status
Register the Club reports regularly about its own meetings and the areas Amiga,
Linux, Macintosh and PC.
This issue contains the following articles about PPC as well as Amiga:
- Aminet CDs Reach End of the Line
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02.Mar.2003
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Circumventing fees for T-Online SMTP relay server
From 1st March 2003, T-Online customers will have to pay for sending emails
with free sender address via T-Online's SMTP relay server. To circumvent these
fees you can use the STMP service of your secondary provider by reverting to
the SMTP Auth function for authentification of your data.
You can find support e.g. on the YAM
Web site under the title link.
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02.Mar.2003
Andreas Weyrauch / Dirk Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Second issue of Club Amiga Monthly published
The second issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" magazine for registered members
has been published at AMIGA, Inc.
This issue features some articles on the AmigaOne as well as AmigaOS 4. The
magazine has a volume of 20 pages. It is only accessible for Club members after
logging into the Club Web site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Website on Applaud Software online again
From 1996, Applaud Software Ltd. developed low-cost games for the Amiga which
used to be distributed through Isolona Entertainment and Epic Marketing. On the
Web site especially set up for Applaud Software, fans of puzzle games can find
"Blockead I / II" for legal download, and strategy fans are catered for with
"Mobile Warfare" as well as the space trading simulation "Cygnus 8".
Furthermore Amiga Arena is looking for the following software titles by Applaud
Software Ltd.: "Berties Animal Kingdom", "DNA: Variety of life" as well as
"Imperator: Master of Rome".
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01.Mar.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 version 0.924
Rupert Hausberger has released version 0.924 of his benchmark tool for
AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Download: am_lpa2003.924.lha - 1.3 MB
A benchmark program is determining your computer's performance. Depending on the software functionality it measures the speed (data transfer rate) of the different components of a computer. Measurable single components are among others the CPU (central processing unit),
the main memory, the GPU (graphical processing unit),
the graphics memory and data storage units like e.g. hard discs and CD-ROM drives.
Changes in detail:
- FIXED bogomips calculation on MorphOS/G3
- CHANGED scsi-regonization from ansi- to response-format
- CHANGED optimized timing routines
- ADDED own clock()-function
- FIXED some typo errors
- FIXED "system info" output in benchmark-report
- CHANGED multitasking is now enabled at datafiles-creation [requested]
- ADDING two blizzard boards [requested]
- BUMPED revision to .924
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01.Mar.2003
Scenia/Acumen
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Assembly demos at the Tampere Film Festival
The Wild demo "World War II Memoires" by Milan "Acumen" Kolarovic, shown at the Finnish demo scene party Assembly 2001, and the animation "Project Kerosene" of the Assembly 2002 will be presented at the international Tampere Film Festival on March, 8th 2003 in Tampere, Finland. The videos have been chosen for the Micromovies competition where the winner is rewarded with 10,000 US-Dollars. Last year came 25,000 visitors to the Tampere Film Festival.
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01.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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AmigaOne-G3 and AmigaOne-XE benchmarks
Following the title link you can find first benchmarks for AmigaOne-G3 and AmigaOne-XE computers.
The author ("ksk") points out in a
thread on Amiga.org that these benchmarks had in no way been done under "scientific" conditions, but are supposed to give an impression of the performance of the motherboards.
Benchmark results for Pegasos computers are said to be released soon.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Matt Parsons
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New SVGA drivers for AROS
The developments on the alternative operating system project AROS had been driven hard in the last weeks by Matt Parsons.
The current beta release of AROS contains now new SVGA drivers. 16-bit and 32-bit screen resolutions (HiColor and TrueColor) are now possible. Problems are still caused by the graphics card family ATI-Radeon but these are said to be fixed soon.
Furthermore are a new CD-ROM and a new floppy version of AROS online that contain the new SVGA drivers. The usage of the CD-ROM version is explicitly recommended.
The developers point to the fact that the screenmode can be chosen at the beginning of the boot procedure. If in doubt you should choose 640*480*16. There's still an error occurring with the mouse pointer that is surrounded by a black box and that cannot reach all screen areas. The fixing of this error is also in the works.
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01.Mar.2003
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: German version of the BBoAH updated
Horst Diebel Seit has integrated the latest updates by Ian Chapman into the German version of the Big Book of
Amiga Hardware (BBoAH).
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01.Mar.2003
Brad Webb (email)
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Amiga Update newsletter by Brad Webb #030228
Following the title link you will find the complete newsletter by
Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for February 2003. In his English newsletter does Brad Webb a monthly summary of all news regarding the topic Amiga.
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01.Mar.2003
amiga.org
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Magazin: The Crypt - issue #28 (vampires and vodoo) finished
The English online magazine "The Crypt" has released issue #28 under the slogan "vampire and vodoo".
Download: online28.zip
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01.Mar.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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heise: Bill Gates cursed in Japan against Open Source
On a Japan visit Bill Gates did what he could to recommend Microsoft products for building up E-Government systems and to warn of the use of Open Source software.
Read the full (German) article at heise following the title link.
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28.Feb.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.22r5 published
Today version 0.8.22 release 5 of the Amiga-Emulator 'WinUAE' has been published.
The following things have changed:
Bugs fixed:
- CD32-mode media change detection
- SlowRAM detection fixes (Commando and more)
- more compatible CIA keyboard emulation (Back to the Future 2 and more)
- bsdsocket.library emulation updates (Stephen Riedelbeck)
- state restore fixes
- fixed mouse problems in Space Crusade, Billy the Kid etc..
- writing to custom floppy images was unstable
- primary sound buffer-checkbox removed and disabled. It is useless and usually
only caused huge slowdown problems.
- PC Competitor interface's second joystick works properly
- improved compatibility (fixes USGold Murder, Crack Down, Liverpool,
Pinball Hazard, future CAPS-images etc..)
- SuperHires sprite fix (SkidMarks AGA)
- another Pentium 4 JIT-crash workaround
- improved Action Replay support (Mark Cox)
New features:
- configurable boot priority and device name for regular (non-RDB) hardfiles
and virtual directory filesystems
- configurable filesystem for regular hardfiles. (Automount/boot for example
SmartFileSystem formatted regular hardfiles)
- FPU state file support
- configurable keyboard leds (DF0, DF1, DF2, DF3, POWER, HD, CD)
- floppy write-protect state added to floppies-tab
- implemented write-support for images that don't support writing
natively (compressed images, CAPS-images)
- Amiga program p96refresh for selecting mousepointer refreshrates in
Picasso96 mode (Bernd Roesch)
- "Middle-Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" works now in fullscreen mode
- improved input-tab GUI, increased number of input mappings from 1 to 4
- CD32 pads are now enabled in non-cd32 mode if configured in input-tab
- state files are saved to SaveStates-directory (was Configurations..)
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28.Feb.2003
GFX-Base
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Text viewer: EvenMore version 0.61 from 27.02.2003
Chris Perver has published a new version of his text viewer called 'EvenMore'.
In this version now the tabulator again works as good as in the previous versions and you
can use fonts with fixed widths. The function of the word wrap has been improved.
Download: EvenMore.lha - 672 KB
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28.Feb.2003
GFX-Base
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Start menu: AmiStart version 0.64
Darius Brewka has published version 0.64 of AmiStart. AmiStart is a Windows-like start
menu with quick-launchbar, Drag&Drop-support and a configurable graphical interface
which allows transparency, rounded corners, background textures and much more.
Since version 0.63 AmiStart offers also the so called shape-layer that means configurable
and programmable skins for controlling external applications via ARexx. The shape-layer
for the Songplayer is an example.
Please have also a look at the screenshots
of the program.
Download:
AmiStart.lha - 399 KB
ASPlayerShape.lha - 137 KB
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28.Feb.2003
SixK
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eDonkey-client by SixK in development
The French programmer SixK has developed an eDonkey client for the AmigaOS for some weeks
which meanwhile works. For finishing this Peer-2-Peer software talented developer are wanted
who want to help creating the GUI and some parts of the codes. If you are interested in
then please contact SixK@ifrance.com via email.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.Feb.2003
Mandrake Linux
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The Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux
You requested it for a long time, now it's available: "The
Definitive Guide to Using Mandrake Linux" is a comprehensive
new book that provides in-depth coverage of the latest version
of the highly regarded Mandrake Linux 9.0 distribution. Learn
more about this 646-page book here, and get your Mandrake
encyclopaedia now at MandrakeShop (Note: Club members get
15% off). (nba) (Translation: nba)
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28.Feb.2003
amiga.org
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Perl5-script: txt2pdf 6.4
txt2pdf is a flexible PERL5 script which is distributed under a Shareware license.
It allows you converting your old text files to the pdf-format. The script is flexible enough
to work on each platform which supports PERL. The script can be used for its own but also
in connection with other applications. You can find further details and information
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Feb.2003
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Amiga.com-servers move
On Saturday 1st March 2003 all servers of Amiga Inc. will be not accessable for 8 - 12
hours because there will be a move of the servers.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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27.Feb.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: EA Defend Themselves Against the C&CG Decision
»Electronic Arts hopes for withdrawal of express decision
Electronic Arts are defending themselves against the danger arising from categorization of their current game "Command & Conquer: Generals." On the 25th of February the National Inspection Bureau For Youth-Endangering Publications (BPjS) categorized this game in an express decision. The result of this is that "Command & Conquer Generals" may not be advertised nor openly sold after the 28th of February.«
View the complete article (in German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Feb.2003
Otto Dette (E-Mail)
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Convention: Computer & Video Swap Meet Bremen - March 1st & 2nd, 2003
On the first and second of March 2003 the Computer and Video Swap Meet will take place in Bürgerzentrum Neue Vahr. On both days the hours of this convention are from 9 am until 5 pm. The gathering is a sales convention for end users; there will be hardware and software from many categories offered. The
Users of the North Sea Coast have two rooms this time. The Atari Computer Club of Bremen organizes the schedule with individual activities.
On the first level:
- Video-processing with the Amiga. DVD on the Amiga, Digital cameras on the Amiga, direct comparison between PPC and 060 (Earth 2140
and other games). The following software will be demonstrated: MediaPoint,
SCALA-MM-400, Digital-Almanac, AmiAtlas-6 and eventually iFusion and naturally TV on Amiga (PixelView in comparison to Picasso IV). Additionally a highly upgraded Amiga 4000D in an Elbox tower with PPC, USB and
PCI (TV, ethernet, sound und graphic cards) will be shown. The innards of this computer are visible through plexiglass casing under blue illumination, and it is just one of several Amigas to be seen
- Video-processing with Amiga, PC and Mac; here's where the newest programs line up to go for it. Old films may be digitally processed and placed on DVD through the use of internal or external expansions, and all this without using a PC or Mac.
- Linux KNOPPIX 3.1 (the CD is from the Federal Bureau for Security and Information Technology) will be demonstrated in an hard-drive installation.
On the second level:
- The Mac display area will be found here, and the following computers shown:
Pictures and Info.
- Many diverse hardware technologies of storage media clear through to viewable opened components will be shown. These systems will mostly be shown running, with explanations and demonstrations of the equipment. They'll be actively shown with the operating systems and software performing functions.
- During this time visitors themselves may do hands-on utilization of the equipment and/or play games.
- Additional some advertising spots from the 70s and 80s will be played.
The company Falkemedia will have free newspapers for Amiga and Mac available. A big thanks to A. Goukassian of Kiel.
Both days we're going to be running a webcam, reachable at the following URLs:
http://www.udnimweb.de/Webcam.html.
Addendum by Otto Dette by email:
We received news from Falcon that we'll be first receiving a preview CD of the video from the Aachen convention, in order to show it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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