30.Sep.2002
Alexander Johannes (E-Mail)
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Game: Tales of Tamar - Final-CD-Version
Tales of Tamar is an Internet and round based game for Amiga, Atari, Mac, Linux and PC by Eternity Entertainment Software. Further details and meaningful screenshots can be found at the titlelink.
The final CD version is finished. As the newest feature it is to be registered that the computer races are now able to move on the map and by doing this become recognizable. Furthermore now the numbers of inhabitants of the cities are determined on the basis of the built buildings and are not evaluated any longer simply after the individual city stages.
In the last months again approx. 50 - 100 smaller bugs were removed. Sometimes one may not believe it, how many are hidden in such a game.
As one of the next features the map screen is extended by a second menu. On this an overview of the map is to be seen, a branch table for the own figures and a wind rose with the possibility to scroll in each direction. This is supplied in one of the first updates and shows thus also the future development of TOT.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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30.Sep.2002
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Congratulations Martin and Mona!
Martin Baute and Mona Niewöhner married on the 21th September 2002 in Usingen.
Our congratulations go to them..
Martin 'solar' Baute was considerably involved in the setting up of the English mirror of amiga-news.de. For a long time he had translated the complete news alone into English, before he had to stop that because of vocational reasons.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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30.Sep.2002
Donald Burnett (E-Mail)
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Event: MACRO Amiga Users Group Reunion
Donald Burnett writes:
I am a former officer of the Michigan Amiga Computer Resource
Organization (MACRO). We are having our reunion/reformation meeting on
October 19, 2002. We'd like to announce this on amiga-news.de. The
official website can be found at: groups.yahoo.com/group/macroamiga/.
(ps)
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30.Sep.2002
ANN
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Web-catalogue: Amigasource.com currently off-line
Due to serious problems with the Webspace Provider www.Amigasource.com is currently off-line. However the side should be back on-line by Monday or Tuesday.
In order to avoid a problem like above in the future, Scott A Pistorino is looking for someone, who can donate 2MB of storage on his server, so that it can be used as a Mirror. Contact:
pistosa@cci-29palms.com
Amigasource.com meanwhile contains more than 700 updated and examined links.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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29.Sep.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: Hilt 2 - Missions 'Disarm' and 'Dreatnought'
Two new missions for the strategy game Hilt 2, 'Disarm' and 'Dreatnought',
have been released on the Amiga Arena web site.
Furthermore, the instructions have been revised (weapons) and annotated
screen shots have been added.
Direct link to Hilt 2 page. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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29.Sep.2002
ANN
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Virus Help Canada: New mailing list for news, contacts forum
As Virus Help Denmark's web site is currently offline, Virus Help Canada has
set up a new mailing list for announcements. This can be subscribed to at
Yahoo Groups.
In order to still offer facilities to contact Virus Help Denmark members
despite missing eMail addresses, the Virus
Help Teams forums have been set up on Bravenet.
These are meant to be publicly accessible facilities to contact team members
in case of eMail and web site downtimes, so there are areas for VHT-Canada,
VHT-Denmark and VHT-Netherlands.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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29.Sep.2002
ANN
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Event: Pianeta Amiga 2002 - Report by Fabio Ferriccioli
Already on 21st September 2002, Fabio Ferriccioli has published a long report in Italian language about the Pianeta Amiga 2002 on Quantam Leap. The report deals with (a.o.t.)
AmigaOne, AmigaOS 4 and Pegasos/Thendic.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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29.Sep.2002
AmigaArt
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AmigaOne: Hyperion has completed PPCBoot based firmware
From the AmigaArt home page:
Leuven, Belgium - September 27, 2002.
Hyperion is pleased to report that it has completed the AmigaOne firmware
based on the GPL'ed
PPCBoot project. Below you
will find a description of the
implemented hardware support and functionality.
We want to thank everyone who has contributed to this project.
Hardware support for the following devices:
- Serial port
- USB UHCI
- USB keyboard
- USB storage devices
- PS/2 compatible keyboard
- i8259 interrupt controller
- 3com 3c920 ethernet with full busmastering
- VIA IDE controller (A and B revision)
- Real time clock (RTC)
Features of PPCBoot (as implemented by Hyperion):
- x86 BIOS emulator capable of initialising and using nearly all
PCI and AGP graphic cards based on the chipsets of ATI, nVidia,
3DFX, S3, 3Dlabs (Permedia), Trident etc.
- Auto detection of SDRAM modules
- Auto detection of bus and CPU speed
- Support for PCI and AGP
- General ArtiticaS support
- General VIA686 southbridge support (686A and 686B)
- IDE support (harddisk and CD-ROM booting)
- Floppy support
- Booting over network"
Ben Hermans, Hyperion
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29.Sep.2002
eisblock (ANF)
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Aminet: Web interface with comment functionality
Amiga Online Games have set up
a Web interface for
the Aminet which can be used to comment on every file on the Aminet servers.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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29.Sep.2002
Shawn-AmigaOne (ANF)
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MorphOS: Screen shot page by Shawn-AmigaOne
Various MorphOS screen shots (incl. some from the O.A.S.E.) have been
published under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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29.Sep.2002
Thomas Pröhl (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE V0.8.22R2 status
On 28th September 2002, status information about version 0.8.22R2 has been
published on the
WinUAE home page.
Note: This is just the information, the update itself is not yet available
for download.
Major new features:
- Kickstart 1.3 RDB hardfile support (autoboot/automount).
- keyboard/mouse/joystick handling rewritten for DirectInput
(Keyboard's special keys can be disabled without side-effects and more..).
The following features require Windows 2000 or Windows XP:
- "unlimited" hardfile size (2G limit removed),
uaehf.device now supports TD64 and NSD -style 64-bit addressing
NTFS filesystem required (FAT32 max file size is 2G).
- ability to mount real harddisks with full RDB automount/autoboot support.
- Amithlon partition support (not yet tested).
Screen shots:
Major bugs fixed:
- Slow harddisk, CDROM, etc.. performance in non-CPU idle mode.
- CPU idle tweaks.
- yet another disk emulation fix.
- added missing configuration file entries.
- 68000 "more compatible"-checkbox was ignored.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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29.Sep.2002
Amiga Future
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USB-Thylacine: Install software V1.1a
On 28th September 2002, version 1.1a of the install software for the
Zorro II USB board 'Thylacine' has been released.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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29.Sep.2002
ANN
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Mediator: SuperTV V0.7 beta
On 28th September 2002, beta version 0.7 of SuperTV (alternative to Elbox'
Mediator TV software) has been released. This version fixes some bugs and
offers new features.
- No more messy channel directory
- Channel selection gadgets in the window border.
- Easy channel tuning.
- MUI preferences.
- Fullscreen borderless mode.
- Keyboard control.
- New: ARexx port
Download: stv_beta_0-7.lha (34k)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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28.Sep.2002
GetBoinged-Redaktion (ANF)
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Official GetBoinged homepage online
Those who want to know more about the "GetBoinged" magazine, the successor of the
NoCover, can now get information on the official homepage following the title link.
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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28.Sep.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Flash: GUI for SWF encoder
Today I have finally finished my GUI for the SWF encoder of the "SWF-Tools". With this encoder you can convert JPEG, PNG or WAV files into Shockwave-Flash files. These are the famous animations on some homepages. This encoder I have already tested and it runs very great on my Amithlon computer and my Amiga 68040. To make people not questioning my programming capabilities I have uploaded a small SWF file to my homepage that I have encoded today with my Amiga. It runs demonstrably with Voyager and with the stand-alone "SWF-Player" from Aminet.
The SWF tools kindly had been ported to the Amiga by Rainer Böhme and Matthias Kramm as there have been ports for Linux, Windows, MacIntosh and Sun for already quite some time.
This program "Swf-Encoder" by me handles right now the single frame and the animation encoding. But I have to say that the handling of the animations is not very easy. Furthermore the encoder offers the possibility to convert MPEG compressed files with WAV header into SWF files.
Here a test file of the Amiga "Swf-Encoder": http://home.t-online.de/home/Carsten Siegner2/Testanimation.swf
The LZX package contains the according images that I have used. So nobody can doubt this :))
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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28.Sep.2002
Otto Dette for U.d.N
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Event: Pegasos at the Multi-Media-Show in Bremen
The "User der Nordseeküste (U.d.N.)" present at the Multi-Media-Show in
Bremen on 5th and 6th October in 2002 the new Pegasos.
There will be several operating systems to see.
The installed operating systems can be tested on the spot.
The event is opened from 9h to 17h. The entrance fee for adults is EUR 4,00, reduced EUR 3,00.
For interested visitors makes the U.d.N reduction tickets available. These can be ordered on both days directly at the show via the phone number 01732455698. The number is accessable on the 5th and 6th October from 8.30h to 16.00h.
On both days there'll be a webcam on our homepage. This will be updated every 15 seconds. The direct link to the cam is: http://www.udnimweb.de/Webcam.html
Besides there'll be an Amiga 4000 with Mediator board and PCI cards shown. Pictures showing the built in hardware can be found following this link: http://www.udnimweb.de/Mediatorboard.html
Another higlight will be the video creation and presentation with an Amiga 4000 PPC.
Other clubs will be at the Multi-Media-Show, too (Atari, C64, etc.).
Dealers with hard- and software as well as a second hand market for computer parts will round off the program.
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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28.Sep.2002
Mikey C (ANF)
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Why Queue Up?
The World of Amiga Southeast show is fast approaching, there is just over a
month to go to one of the most eagerly anticipated Amiga shows this
year.
As always, doors will be open at 12 noon., However, like last year we
anticipate a large queue at opening time.
So if you want to waltz past everyone, why not get your
tickets before the show?
Buy five tickets or more and you pay only 3.00 GBP each instead of the
usual 3.50 GBP per ticket.
Tickets can be purchased in advance from the following Amiga dealers;
Forematt Home Computing: http://www.forematt.co.uk
(Visa, Mastercard and Cash)
Kicksoft: http://www.kicksoft.com
(Visa, Mastercard, Delta, JCB, Solo, Switch and Cash)
Even more interesting news soon!
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26.Sep.2002
distributed.net
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RC5-64 HAS BEEN SOLVED!
On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the winning key to the
distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03 produces the plaintext
output:
The unknown message is: some things are better left unread
Unfortunately, due to breakage in scripts (dbaker's fault, naturally) on the keymaster,
this successful submission was not automatically detected. It sat undiscovered until 12-Aug-2002.
The key was immediately submitted to RSA Labs and was verified as the winning key.
See title link for the complete press release. (ps)
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26.Sep.2002
Jörg Karisch (ANF)
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Make a Note -> Hardware Meeting for Amiga Users in Nürnberg
The user group IMAGE is once more extending invitations to a hardware meeting. We are meeting on Saturday the 28th of September 2002 from 9 AM until 10 PM at Mannertstraße 10 - Nebeneingang, 90429 Nürnberg.
The goal of our meeting is to solve right there hands-on any hardware or software problems, and to discuss the latest (or past) developments related to the Amiga technology. You'll find more information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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26.Sep.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Nokia 6650 - First UMTS-Handy from Nokia
»UMTS-Handy with integrated camera, color display and GPRS
In Finnish Helsinki Nokia, together with Sonera, announced the first UMTS-Handy with the Nokia logo. The Nokia 6650 consists of a built-in digital camera, transmits as a Dualband-Handy in the 900 and 1800 MHz GSM nets, and supports the WCDMA protocol (WCDMA = Wideband Code Division Multiple Access). The first test should follow in the 4th quarter, 2002, so that the delivery begins in the first half of 2003.«
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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26.Sep.2002
SixK
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SixK Ports: UAE 0.8.14 and Pachi_Demo 0.1
SixK's website is now at
http://amiga.comscripts.com/.
You'll find two new reworked ports there:
- 2002-09-25 22:49 - UAE 0.8.14 with CD32 joypad support: SixK has modified UAE 0.8.14 to use lowlevel.library. You will now
be able to play UAE with a CD 32 pad and maybe in a near future with
a PC Joypad connected to your sound blaster card... Download: uae_0.8.14.lzx
- 2002-09-25 00:13 - SDL Games: pachi_demo 0.1 available for 68k.
You will find Pachi_Demo 0.1 jump&run game inspired from games like
jetset willy. Run fine on Amithlon, too slow on 040.
Download: pachi_demo.0.1.lzx.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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