30.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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PowerConverter Update
Carsten Siegner writes:
Today I uploaded an update to PowerConverter.
New:
- Production of stop-motion video
- Support of the variable bitrate (VBR) in ffmpeg
- Snipping (Crop) of videoframes with almost any amount of pixels
There is also an expanded Readme.pdf
on my homepage. All the fine points are there.
Download: Powerkon-2.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.0 demo version completed
We are pleased to present you today a demo version of fxPAINT 2.0 -
immediately available through our
download section.
Limitations/specialities of the demo version:
- saving is disabled
- DEMO-text on every image
- the demo version is noticably slower than the full version
- a small refresh bug due to the DEMO-text-effect when zooming is lower than 100 percent. This bug ONLY exists in the demo version
- some features of the full version are missing completly or are disabled
The demo version comes with all native modules for 68K, PPC (WarpUP, PowerUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon) and gives you - except for the limitations of the demo - an impression and some insight of fxPAINT 2.0.
(ps)
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30.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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AMIGAplus 01/2003 - Comeback 2003
2003 could be the year of the Amiga-comeback. In the new German print magazine
AMIGAplus 01/2003 you can read several reviews of upcoming and current software
and a forecast for 2003, just as Audio Evolution (Preview), fxPAINT 2, Hollywood,
Tales of Tamar, a.s.o. Read on.
Content of AMIGAplus 01/2003 in Detail:
- Preview: Audio Evolution 4
- Review: fxPAINT 2.0
- Review: Hollywood
- Review: Tales of Tamar
- Workshop: Simple DirectMedia Library, part 1
- Looking back on ARC 2002
- Amiga Award 2002: The winners
- Deathbed Vigil DVD - Endzeit-atmosphere on DVD
- New column: Flying visit... at Computer City
- Review: Amiga Arena CD Games Edition
- Amiga Status Report January 2003
- Demoscene anno 2003
- Review: Cherry-Keyboard with Boing-Keys
- News from the world of emulation
- Workshop: Pro Station Audio, part 4
- Workshop: Cooperative software-development, part 2
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available via subscription, single issue shipment and at your local
Amiga dealer for 5 Euro.
(ps)
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30.Jan.2003
Ponos Homepage
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GlowIcons for Beat-Em-Up Games
In the download area of the Ponos homepage you'll find an archive with GlowIcons for the following games:
- Samurai Shodown
- Shadow Fighter
- Real Bout
Simultaneously, different pictograms for the different characters in the games may be found in the archives.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
gW3S
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WWW-Server: gW3S Version 1.0 Final
Carl Svensson, the author of mp3Play, has released a small WWW-server written in ARexx. The current version 1.0 Final offers the
following functions:
- HTTP/1.0 200 OK
- HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
- Rudimentary request logging
- Built-in directory listing (for dirs without an index document)
- Embedded ARexx command execution
- Embedded Execution of external ARexx scripts (with QueryString as argument)
- Query String/URL unescaper
- Complete parsing of external ARexx CGI scripts (.xgi files)
- Fancy Files (Support for unsafe characters in file names)
- External config file
- Command line admin tool
Download: w3s_10sharp.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Workshop Collection Expanded
The workshop collection (title link) and the link list of the Amiga Future homepage
have been updated. If anyone knows of some German-language workshop not already in the list, please write an email to
the editor. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)
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New Screenshots from Robin Hood : Defender of the Crown
A few days ago, some new screenshots appeared of Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown. This game is a 3-D remake of Defender of
the Crown, which will appear in PC and PS2 versions. In contrast to the recently released remake for PC, few aspects of gameplay
have been altered here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)
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C-One Report in Computer Bild Spiele
In the current issue of Computer Bild Spiele 2/2003, a two page article may be found about Jeri Elsworth and her C-One. This report goes a
bit into Jeri's history and the development of the C-One. So there is some information about the C-One and the original C64. Two pictures of
C-64 classics and two funny pictures of a Lara Croft-style Jeri complete the report. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Abyss: Extralife Demo from 1998 released as Mpeg!
The classic demo Extralife, by the mostly German group Abyss, has now been released as an mpeg for all interested fans who don't
have an Amiga.
On the homepage of the group many other different demos can be accessed,
as can a multitude of graphics such as Cyclone, Acryl, Jcs, etc. Abyss played a decisive role in the international demoscene a few years
ago, with their fresh designs and good ideas. Nowadays a few of them are developing for Gameboy Advanced and Gameboy Color.
Download: AYS-Extralife.mpg
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV-Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 245
Guido Mersmann has released beta-version 245 of the TV-Card driver software
AmithlonTV.
New in this version:
- WARNING!
Due the latest changes I cleared the libs/tvcard_carddata/ drawer.
If you perform a fresh installation just drag and drop the required tv
card file(s) from the storage_carddata into the tvcard_carddata drawer.
This change was required, because several cards are using the same hardware
ids, but they also need a different setup.
- FEATURE:
Added the missing global setup which is required
for non card specific drivers like audio mixers.
- FEATURE:
Optional Volume_AmiMixer.lib allows to
modify the volume within applications (requires amimixer.library).
- BUGFIX:
TVFakeInterrupt() wasn't working correct in special cases.
- FEATURE:
The missing "Notify" interrupt feature implemented.
"Volume_AmiMixer.lib" enhanced to support this feature.
- BUGFIX:
Removed the ghost card which appeared with the bt8x8 audio
section and the Philips enhancement. Currently the section
will be suppressed by the library. Later this will be handled
by the configuration, but currently this is the best solution.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Cerpheus (ANF)
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Elite - Darkness Falls - Open Source
The Elite Fan Project "Elite - Darkness Falls" is open source. It looks very interesting, perhaps there is an Amiga programmer who would like to port it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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AmiChess: Information Pages Established
A promise is a promise.
On the Digital Almanac Homepage (see title link) may be found an information page for AmiChess. All chess fans will find a link there, for a download.
On the information page you'll see offerings about system requirements, features, and a few screenshots that show the new layout of AmiChess.
Have fun playing chess! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jan.2003
WinUAE
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Emulator: WinUAE V0.8.22 release 5 (update)
On January the 26th 2003 the feature list for version 0.8.22 release 5
of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows has been released. The
emulator itself will be published in February 2003.
Compared to the last version the following has been 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)
- another
bsdsocket.library emulation update
- another state restore fix
- 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. NOTE: Users of R3 or R4: Make sure
primary sound buffer-checkbox is disabled.
New features:
- configurable boot priority and device name for regular (non-RDB) hardfiles
and virtual directory filesystems
- FPU state file support
- more compatible Action Replay 1 support
- "Middle-Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" works now in fullscreen mode
- configurable keyboard LEDs (DF0, DF1, DF2, DF3, POWER, HD, CD)
Supplement:
We were told within the comments that "WIP" doesn't mean it would be
published already but still a work in progress. Because of that the
news item has been modified accordingliy. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Jan.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis
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Tool: SRename version 3.6.0 beta
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released the beta version 3.6.0 of the tool 'SRename'.
With this tool, working with AmigaOS 3.0+, it is possible to rename files comfortably.
Download: SRename360beta.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Jan.2003
21 ST CAP
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Information about 21 ST CAP "The new site for AMIGA"
The new site for AMIGA is come back, 21 ST Century amiga production opening
your site for the Amiga's user, your site is French and your site propose the
information about AMIGA, there are lot of images of 3D realised on AMIGA and
lot of information about the utilisation of 3D in general in the first party
and the two party is for the new encyclopedie for AMIGA, "les chateaux de la
loire en sologne" (CASTLES OF THE LOIRE IN SOLOGNE), 100mo of complete
history of the monuments French, lot of musics and prochainement the
encyclopedie in the WEB the encyclopedy is on the CDROM for the moment, in
the future, lot of projects of new encyclopedy (THE VAR/cote d'azur in FRANCE
and the PYRENNES).
(ps)
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29.Jan.2003
XBaze
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Data base: XBaze version 7.2
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has released version 7.2 of his data base 'XBaze'.
This program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data sets and for the layout (drag&drop). It works with AmigaOS V3.0. Further information is to get from the XBaze-7.2.readme.
Bugreports and suggestions might be send to the following address:
rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl.
Download: XBaze-7.2.lha (518 KB) (ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 29th January 2003
Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet:
AYS-Extralife.mpg demo/file 53M+ "Extralife" by Abyss
RBGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 54K+ Real Bout glow icons
(ps)
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29.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: IBrowse 2.3 released
We are pleased to unveil that a distribution agreement with Stefan Burström and the IBrowse Team has been signed and we are now the worldwide distributor for IBrowse (support for IBrowse is still done by the IBrowse development team, though).
Furthermore, we are pleased to announce the immediate release of the eagerly awaited update to IBrowse 2.2.
IBrowse 2.3 brings web browsing on AmigaOS to a new level - below is a brief summary of the changes since version 2.2:
- Heavily enhanced JavaScript support, based on JavaScript 1.5 and revision 3 of the ECMAScript specification, allowing access to sites which was not possible before
- Secure connection support is now available via AmiSSL v2, which can be configured extensively in the IBrowse preferences. Importing and exporting of certificates is now also supported.
- Greatly improved general stability and memory leaks plugged
- Improved GUI, including enhanced browser tab functionality (such as drag'n'drop, keyboard support)
- Issues with the ARexx interface have been fixed and new commands added
- Hundreds of other minor and major bug fixes + improvements, and more workarounds added to improve compatibility with broken sites
All these improvements greatly improve the browsing experience, and allow IBrowse to offer compatibility with many more websites than before.
For further information, news and product support, please visit http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/ and our IBrowse-subpages.
(ps)
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28.Jan.2003
Maja (ANF)
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Linux: KDE 3.1 released
The GUI for Linux, KDE, is now available in version 3.1. In the long list of new features are mentioned e.
g. 'Tabbed Browsing', a new download manager, new themes and a theme manager, and
enhancements of the system management.
Its look is orientated on Windows XP and MacOS X as the screenshots show.
Binaries are available for ASP Linux (7.3 Intel i386), Conectiva Linux (8.0 Intel
i386), Debian (Intel i386, IBM PowerPC), Slackware (8.1 Intel i386), Suse Linux (8.1
Intel i386, 8.0 Intel i386, 7.3 Intel i386 und IBM PowerPC, 7.1 Intel i386),
Turbolinux (8.0 Intel i586, 7.0 Intel i586, Yoper (1.0 Intel i686 tgz), and
VECTORLINUX (3.0 Intel i386).
Download: http://www.kde.org/download.html
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Jan.2003
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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H&P: StormC 4 Special Offer
Glashuetten, 28. January 2003: H&P has a special offer for all Amiga developers
- for just 49,95 EUR you can get the complete version of our C/C++ development
system StormC 4. As there has not been much movement in the Amiga software field
during the past two years we want to get find out if there is still interest in
such a development system.
Besides many other features the highlights of StormC 4 are:
network capabilities, distributed Make, CVS, modified GCC compiler with
Amiga hunk format, global full text search, extended editor, debugging of tasks
and shared libraries, and the new StormDOC.
Here you will find more
informatin on StormC. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Jan.2003
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Statistics
Each year, when we look at our server statistics we ask ourself
where all these Amiga friends are hidden. The traffic increases
and increases. How comes people still say that the Amiga is dead? ;-)
To see a few facts from our server stats, use the
link.
(ps)
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