21.Jan.2003
Amiga.sf
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Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 21st January 2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:
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21.Jan.2003
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Aminet uploads until 21.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:
AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
SSGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 72K+Samurai Shodown glow icons by Ponos
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21.Jan.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 21.01.2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:
- 21.01.03 new: 1000cc Turbo (Energize) done by Codetapper
- 21.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed save game bug
- 21.01.03 improved: Sky Chase (Imageworks) supports 2 new versions
- 21.01.03 new: Lunar-C (Mindscape) done by JOTD
- 21.01.03 new: Battle Chess (Interplay) done by Psygore
- 21.01.03 improved: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) supports another version
- 21.01.03 improved: Lost Patrol (Ocean) NTSC version supported, miscellaneous fixes
- 21.01.03 improved: Iron Lord (UBI-Soft) supports German version
- 21.01.03 new: Fascination (Coktel Vision) done by CFOU!
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21.Jan.2003
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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heise: Atari-ST-Emulator for PocketPC
As "heise" says for PocketPCs with StrongARM CPUs has been released an Atari ST
emulator. The emulator is "Donorware", this means it is for free but donations are
welcome. If there are enough "donations" maybe the coder will develop an Amiga
emulator.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Jan.2003
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Today grand opening of The Butterfly Vale
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages! The Butterfly Vale has opened its gates for visitors.
The Vale is your future source for MorphOS ports and high-quality own MorphOS developments.
As for your journey to us, please recall that the Vale is located in a remote place where the
air is still fresh and clean. We would like to keep it that way and ask you to if possible leave
your power-consuming Pentium switched off and use alternate means of transportation. We recommend
coming in by flying horse.
Here's a short overview of our main attractions. While you browse our various areas, you may
notice that we have some smaller archives up that are not mentioned here.
cdda.library 1.0
cdda.library is a MorphOS library that provides CD digital audio services to A-Box programs.
Developers benefit from the library's high-level functions such as drive search
by certain criteria, looped playing of CD sections, event callbacks and author/track title
information where available.
Users benefit from the library's drive autorecognition by not having to enter or even recall
any device/unit values in most cases - thanks to cdda.library's powerful functions, ScummVM
MorphOS is the only port that does not need the user to specify a CD drive.
ScummVM 0.3.0b + new CVS
The full ScummVM 0.3.0b MorphOS distribution is now online. It includes an updated PDF manual,
and the icons have been converted to Ambient format. Also, there are now new icons for the Simon
the Sorcerer games.
A new CVS snapshot has been uploaded as well, this one is the first public MorphOS snapshot
with experimental, preliminary support for "THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND", as well as support
for the Mac/Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 2 and early support for the CD32 version of
Simon the Sorcerer.
Exult 1.0
Exult is a rewrite of the Ultima 7 engine for modern operating systems. It allows you to
play one of the best and most detailed parts of Origin's famous Ultima series. Exult has
recently turned to version 1.0 which means that both parts of Ultima 7, "The Black Gate"
and "The Silver Seed" along with their add-ons "The Black Sword" and "Forge of Virtue"
are fully supported now. The original data files are required to play.
FreeSCI 0.3.4
The MorphOS port of FreeSCI had been announced three days ago on the FreeSCI homepage
(http://freesci.linuxgames.com). Today saw the official release of FreeSCI 0.3.4, and
the MorphOS version is available for download from the Vale on the same day! FreeSCI is
an attempt to create a portable interpreter for games written for Sierra On-Line's SCI system.
Playable games include King's Quest IV, Space Quest 3, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, The Colonel's
Bequest, and several others. 32 bit Ambient icons for nine games known to be completable
are included in the archive.
Frotz
Frotz is an interpreter for the adventure games produced by Infocom, and fan works created
with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler.
Frotz MorphOS Release 1 is based on David Kinder's Amiga port, Release 14 (the current Amiga
version is release 16). Major changes to the Amiga version (14) are:
- Updated port to Frotz 2.43 code base
- Made Frotz fully graphics cards compliant
- Rewrote GUI code from BGUI to MUI
- Rewrote audio.device code to AHI
- Aspect correction for V6 graphics
- Fixed lots of preferences issues
Inform
Graham Nelson's Inform allows you to write your own games to run on Infocom interpreters.
In addition to the binary, I've provided an archive with most material from Glenn Hutchings'
all-in-one Inform package. It is meant for new users who want to start quickly with Inform.
It includes the library, some useful 3rd party contributions, examples and a tutorial, all
ready to use.
Magnetic
Magnetic is an interpreter for the adventure games once produced by the British company Magnetic
Scrolls. It is based on David Kinder's Amiga port. Major changes from the Amiga version are:
- Rewrote Copper code to proper graphics cards compliant code
- Implemented title splash screen
- Implemented animations for Magnetic Windows games
- Implemented online hints for Magnetic Windows games
The Butterfly Vale is looking forward to your visit. Also keep in mind that this is
just the beginning ... (ps)
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21.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper: Another SID-driver for the Catweasel
The second Amiga-based SID-driver is a playsid.library that accesses the SID of the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper directly. At the moment this only works on Catweasel controllers that are plugged in a Zorro slot of an Amiga, support for Clockport-connected controllers will be added shortly. Playsid plays back a lot of tunes that are known from C64-games and demos. The probably most famous collection of SID music is the High Voltage Sid collection that contains more than 20000 songs.
Special thanks goes to the brothers Rakesh und Sharwin Raghoebardayal who have adapted the library to the Catweasel in their spare time, and released it as freeware.
Download: playsid.lha - 19 KB
Link: High Voltage SID collection
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20.Jan.2003
Free Pascal
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Compiler: Free Pascal 1.0.7 Amiga snapshot available
A new snapshot of the compiler Free Pascal version 1.0.7 is now available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
AND Software
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Context menu: ContextSAS Version 1.65
The program ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler enables you to provide and to use
context sensitive menus for AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system
is supported. By using a few additional tools one can thereby iconify even
Workbench windows and create links.
With the new version 1.65 newdrawer_gui
was added in the tools, which can be used as replacement for newdrawer.
This time with GUI. This version offers the possibility of defining
a dividing line for each menu entry and the activation by the middle
or left mouse button is now functioning correctly. In the next update a
hierarchical menu definition will be added, so stay tuned...
Download: ContextInstall165.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV board software: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 240
Guido Mersmann published beta version 236 of the TV board driver software AmithlonTV.
Changes:
- BUGFIX:
Several small fixes and changes on the library core.
- CHANGED:
Added some information to the driver programming guide
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta240.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Select from the Top 5 the game of the year 2002
Amiga Flame would like to determine the best game of the year 2002 out of the
Top 5 of the Amiga games. Nominates, and thus being available, are the
following games:
- The Feeble Files (Adventure) - Epic Interactive
- Software Tycoon (Simulation) - Epic Interactive
- Tales Of Tamar (PBEM Strategy) - Eternity
- Quake II (3D Shooter) - ID Software
- Crossfire II (Mix of Shooter, X-Out and Wing Commander) - Dreamworld Development
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
Czech Amiga News
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Audio: AHI 5.4=6.0rc0-m68k / PPC
Martin Blom, developer of the sound map driver system AHI, published
new beta versions for m68k and PPC.
ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-m68k.lha
ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-ppc.lha
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20.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 20.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:
SN-BackupArc.lha biz/dbase 86K+V1.0 Provide Backup's automatically (Ger
newscoaster.lha comm/news 428K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.55) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 186K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.55 - 18.1.20
mhm-BeApe.lha demo/intro 85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
BlitzLstDec02.lha dev/basic 525K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
BlitzLstOct02.lha dev/basic 140K+Blitz mailing list archives for October
BlitzLstSep02.lha dev/basic 241K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
FindModule.lha dev/e 13K+Find OS Function or CONST or whatever yo
nano.lha dev/lang 192K+Interpreter with syntax near to BASIC an
AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
Frenchies.lha docs/misc 275K+French translations from Didier Giron
UklSloneczny.lha docs/misc 89K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about Solar Syst
cf2_demo.lha game/demo 11M+CrossfireII demo, advanced single/multip
cf2_demo_upd03.lha game/patch 400K+Patches any CrossfireII demo version to
DVD2VCD.lha gfx/conv 93K+DVD2VCD(Cli Usage)
imdbDiff030110.lha misc/imdb 5.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha misc/misc 68K+MUI Biorythm tool v1.0b. Now localised (
newbaer.lha mus/misc 19K+GNU/GPL updated Paula-to-AHI redirector
PlasmaPlugin.lha mus/play 24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
XenoMorph_WB09.jpg pix/wb 68K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
XenoMorph_WB10.jpg pix/wb 114K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
MemTrailer.lha util/boot 4K+Allocates 16 bytes for MEMORY-PROTECTION
DirSSCompare.lha util/dir 13K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
EBGuide.lha util/rexx 2K+View Australian TV Guides in Shell/CLI
VClock_v1.7c.lha util/time 332K+Real Speech Clock - Final Release
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20.Jan.2003
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ Version 5.64a
For users of AmigaOS 3.9 version 5.63 of Report+ is set to be downloaded. With Report+ from Amigan Software it's easy to create bug reports, Aminet "readme" files, autodocs and similar reports. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: ReportPlus.lha - 304 KB
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20.Jan.2003
Alex de Vries (E-Mail)
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New Amiga-Product: Pure Basic
Xing Interactive are very proud to announce the release of the powerful and versatile programming language "Pure Basic". The product will be released in the second week of February 2003 and is available to consumers at the very competitive price of 29,95 Euro in DVD case packaging.
Pure Basic is more advanced and flexible then any of the other Basic programming languages currently on the market and it comes at a fraction of the price. The beauty of this product is the versatility though as you can develop your own games and applications on PC Windows, Linux or even AmigaOS! Speed is another unique selling point. Where other Basic programming languages crawl at a slow pace due to complex instruction translations Pure Basic shines by even outperforming C++ written code. If you ever wanted to program your own commercial quality games or applications in an easy to learn and even more easy to use language then this is your chance! (ps)
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20.Jan.2003
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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ADA team with inquiry over the Soms3D-Engine
Sylvio K., director/conductor of the Anime development for Amiga team,
decided to start an inquiry concerning the Soms3D-Engine due to the many e-mails with suggestions he got.
Originally it was intended to make Soms an on-line adventure but due to
the suggestions in various mails something else could become of it. Everyone who would like to participate in the inquiry, please
answer the following questions by sending an e-mail with the reference "Soms3D". These are the questions:
What do you think? What shall become of the Soms3D engine?
Currently the favorites are a 'Silent Hill' similar horror game and a 'GTA3'-Clone.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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FreeBSD 5.0 available
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86
compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is
derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at
the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed
and maintained by
a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in
various stages of development.
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19.Jan.2003
Daniel Miller (ANF)
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Genesi on the CES: Some more pictures and words (Update)
In case you are interested, you can find an article on Genesi's show appearance at the
CES 2003 in Las Vegas, USA by Daniel Miller under the title link.
Update 20.01.2003:
Today was released another summary
of the CES 2003 show by Nicholas Blachford.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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19.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.01 with numerous improvements
An update from fxPAINT version 2.0 to 2.01 is now available for
free download.
Changes include:
- fxPAINT no more requires a fxPAINT: assign
- the behaviour of the slider has been changed due to numerous requests
- the "Choose"-button now switches forth and back between plain paint-mode and gradient-mode
- further adaptions to MorphOS
- the IFF24-saver now works correct
- other bugfixes
A fully detailed list of all changes can be found in the update archive.
(ps)
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19.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Crossfire II shipped & further news (Update)
On Monday Crossfire II will be shipped to all subscribers and Amiga dealers.
The shipped version of the game will be v1.03, which contains various
bug fixes and the following new featueres as compared the the show version:
- Full MorphOS and Pegasos compatibility
- Complete story in German
- Many mission details changed and difficulty level adjusted
- Tutorial now optional
- Currently selected weapon will be highlighted
Furthermore a new demo version of Crossfire II has been released on the
APC&TCP and
Dreamworlds Development home pages.
There you will find the updates of the game and the
demo version V1.03.
In addition the support pages for the game on the APC&TCP home page have been
updated and a.o. a FAQ added.
Update 20.01.2003:
On the Amiga Future home page you will find an interview with
Dreamworld Development. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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19.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Set-top boxes and more: New statement by Genesi
In a new statement (title link) Raquel Velasco und Bill Buck of Genesi have
a.o. announced a contract for Pegasos and MorphOS based set-top boxes, which
provides for the cash flow necessary for the other projects.
Shows are expensive. 100,000 Dollars have been invested in a short
period of time just for the CES in Las Vegas and the ARC in Aachen and
the respective attention grabbing (not to forget the cost for the other public presentations and events).
Furthermore it contains another hint at having applied legal measures to get
AmigaOS on the Pegasos.
According to the announcement, the Pegasos is shipped with MorphOS, DebianPPC,
Mac-on-Linux and a bundle of games and applications. Ports of OpenBSD and
Gentoo are said to be in the works and available before the CeBIT. Furthermore
there are talks about ports of BeOS, OpenBeOS, NetBSD, Zeta and NewOS. SuSE and
Mandrake are already running on the Pegasos.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.Jan.2003
Petr H. (email)
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New beta version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D (beta 10)
Under the title link is the new version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D
available for download. The author of the program is Massimilano Tretene.
The minimum setup to run GLQuakeWOS 1.09 beta 10 are:
- PowerPC processor
- 3D graphics card
- 32 MB Ram
- AmigaOS v3.x
- WarpUP
- Warp3D
What's new:
Fixed: paula allocation routine bug
Fixed: input.device allocation bug
Fixed: mouse allocation bug
Added: Sky Boxes support
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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