27.Oct.2002
Oliver Gerler (rockus.at) (ANF)
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Hardware: Ariadne 2 - purpose of the three I/O connectors
The Ariadne 2 ethernet board by Village Tronic has three additional I/O
connectors which so far hadn't been publicly documented.
Now, this weekend Oliver Gerler has had some time to spare and found out about
these ports' functions by way of reverse engineering. He presents the result of
this reverse engineering on his home page.
As this is no official documentation, the information should be regarded with
due caution.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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27.Oct.2002
Scott A Pistorino (ANF)
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Web catalogue: AmigaSource with 1001 links
The Amiga specific Web catalogue 'AmigaSource'
now contains 1001 links in more than 40 categories. Scott A Pistorino writes:
"Hello All.
AmigaSource.com is proud to announce that it has finally reached the 1000+ link mark. (1001 to be exact!) Since it's start a little over 1 year ago AmigaSource has been a solid replacement to the long gone Amiga Web Directory.
With over 40 easy to browse categories and basic search engine just about everything under the sun for the Amiga can be found here. From Software to Hardware, Articles to Shows & Other OS's to Miscellaneous, AmigaSource has attempted to catalog them all.
I have personally spent hundreds of hours locating, verifying & cataloging the 1000+ sites dedicated to the Amiga and computers in general. I ask you to please take the time and drop in, look around, make suggestions, point out errors/mistakes and most importantly add more sites!! If this site has helped just one Amiga user my job is done but I believe it can do MUCH more!!
I would also like everyone to PLEASE spread the word about AmigaSource. If you like what you see please add a link/graphic to my site. I'll do the same for you! I have learned a lot the past year and plan to keep improving the site. I have a few new ideas up my sleeves. Stay tuned!
To everyone who has contacted me in the past year thanks for your support!! To everyone else?? What are you waiting for??
For more information anout the site please visit the updated about AmigaSource page.
Thank you
Scott A Pistorino
webmaster@amigasource.com
P.S. I not taking MY site down and going home!!!"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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27.Oct.2002
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: Starkiller #8 plus 71 new Mega-Fun covers
Starkiller #8, as well as 71 new Mega-Fun covers have been published on
Kultpower.de.
Starkiller #8:
'In den Fängen des Tentakels' from Powerplay 11/1988 is online with exclusive comment by Heinrich Lenhardt.
Re: Mega-Fun covers, Kultpower.de write:
"lowbert has sent in all of 71 new Mega-Fun covers
(attention: 730 KBytes cover previews!)! Thus the number of available covers
of this magazine has increased to 90."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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26.Oct.2002
Boing Attitude / Glames (email)
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Boing Attitude: Crossword Evolution preview
Following the title link you'll find a preview in French language of
Crossword Evolution, the new game of Zeoneo
on AmigaDE.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Oct.2002
Gareth Knight (ANF)
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Amiga Interactive Guide: Walker concept designs
To celebrate the World of Amiga show, Amiga Interactive Guide is proud
to reveal six concept designs
of the Amiga Walker. Weep nostalgic tears for the familiar desktop! Jump
for joy at the mini-tower version! And quake in fear at the bizarre blue
Walker! (ps)
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25.Oct.2002
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)
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Magazine: CD³² Outside #5 published
You can download the fifth issue of the CD³²/CDTV Magazine "CD³² Outside" from the Aminet
from section docs/mags.
Download: cd32outside5.lha (ca. 7 MB)
Topics:
- CD³²/CDTV emulator "Akiko Version 1.6" tested
- Workshops for creating of photoCDs for the CD³² and first
steps for CD³² compilation
- 11 Reviews of CD³² games
- Interview with a former C= member
- and much more
Have fun with this issue! (ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2002
Mikey C (ANF)
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Event: WOASE - You are not going to believe this!
Typical, you wait ages and then you get new games to buy all at once.
With only one week to go to, we have the pleasure to announce that
there will be THREE new Amiga games releases for you to buy at the
World of Amiga Southeast Show 2002.
(In alphabetical order)
Quake II. - Hyperion-Entertainment/ID Software.
A game that needs no introduction. Yes! Not only will you be able to play
QUAKE II at WOASE on the Amiga Area, but thanks to some nifty work by the
guys at Hyperion, you will be able to buy it as well! Copies are being sent
by special courier from Germany to the UK, in time for the show! Be amongst
the first to own Quake II on the Amiga.
Software Tycoon - Epic Interactive.
It's 1982. Small computer games companies are springing up in the bedrooms
around the world. A new business beckons, where everything is in your
hands. You have total control, from creating the original concept, through
hiring staff and packaging design, to the development of massive marketing
campaigns. Do you have the skills to create and use new technologies and
become a Software Tycoon?
Tales of Tamar - Eternity Software.
An Internet based roundgame for various computing platforms. You live in
a world far away from our civilization, comparable to the Middle Ages. In
this world there exists man, dwarves, dragons, and a lot of other races.
There is magic, there are druids and dungeons. You can fight, trade,
investigate, build cities, raise taxes and make peace contracts. Your
aim is to reign your empire and to survive against other opponents.
Just one week to go! - Get your credit cards ready!
More details on presentation times coming very soon.
(ps)
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25.Oct.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Workbench screenshots wanted
Amiga Future is going to update their Workbench gallery.
Because of that users are looked for who send their screenshots. Please send your pictures together with
the following information to redaktion@amigafuture.de:
- Realname
- Which OS was used
- What is shown on the screenshot
- Configuration of the computer
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Telemar Rosenberger (AMHuhn)
A few days ago Telemar Rosenberger and Franz Schlick (AmiForce) have
published the Freeware game called "AMHuhn". This is a variation of the
well-known game "Moorhuhn". Telemar Rosenberger spoke about the
development, why the original game could not be ported and what are the differences between "Moorhuhn" and
"AMHuhn". Currently the interview is only available in German.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2002
amiga.org
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Antivirus-programm: New PatchBrain V1.45 for VirusExecutor
Jan Erik Olausen has published a new PatchBrain version 1.45 for his program called VirusExecutor 2.25.
You can download the
program from Virus Help Team Canada.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Oct.2002
ScummVM Amiga Website (ANF)
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WarpSCUMM V0.2.0 for WarpOS and 68k published
Yesterday the new version of WarpSCUMM (0.2.0) and the WarpSDL Library (0.4)
by Adam 'ChaoZer' Waldenberg
have been published. In this version
there are many updates. The new version supports Pixel Mapping and CDDA as well as many other new things
(AA and 16bit screen support).
With the help of WarpSCUMM you can play old LucasArt adventure games of the PC on your Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2002
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Event: Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 - Website now also in English
All parts of the page are now available in English as well. Small changes
have been done to the website design, and a free hotel booking service
has been added.
AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002 takes place on December 7th and 8th, 2002
at the Eurogress Aachen, Germany.
The main focus of the show will be on Amiga-related products. The biggest highlights will surely be the new mainboards "Amiga One" and "Pegasos". The title "Retro Computing" does not mean that this is a nostalgia meeting or even a fleamarket for old computers. Just the opposite. The exhibitors will show that the technologies of the home computers of the 80s are still improved today, and that they're still available as new products in the 21st century.
With AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4 on the one side, and Pegasos with MorphOS on the other side, the Amiga - multimedia wonderbox of the late 80s - is ready for a comeback with high-performance PowerPC processors. The "Digital Enviroment" of Amiga Inc. (USA) allows using adapted software on multiple mobile and home-based devices like desktop computers, mobile phones or personal digital assistants (so-called palmtops). This makes Amiga-technology perfectly suited for the future.
Probably the most interesting product from the Retro Computing area is the Commodore One (Codename: C-One). Developer Jeri Ellsworth is working on the ATX-sized motherboard for nearly two years now. As the name already suggests, it's the inofficial successor of the legendary C-64 by Commodore. Exchangable CPU modules can turn this board into nearly any computer of the 80s, among them is also the well-known Atari 2600 console that became famous in Germany with the game Pac-Man.
After big German magazines like Focus and Computerbild Spiele wrote about the project, it's first presented and sold in Europe at AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002.
We're especially happy that Jeri Ellsworth is making the long trip from USA to Germany to present the board in person.
The name Atari is closely tied to the computers of the 80s. Developers are still active today; The magazine ST-Computer and developers of the prestige products Calamus, Papyrus or Eclipse will surely be in Aachen, where visitors can also gather information about the exciting Coldfire project that wants to accelerate old Atari ST computers with a powerful processor.
(ps)
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24.Oct.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Game: PuzzleBOBS - MorphOS-compatible
The cooperation of Fun Time World,
Amiga Arena and
Nexus Development
presents a further update of "PuzzleBOBS".
This update of the executable PuzzleBOBS program supports MorphOS
and the Pegasos computer. To install this expansion one must download the demo archive (3.5 MB) itself, and
install the first and second PuzzleBOBS updates.
Sales: Fun Time World -
Contact: Sebastian Brylka
Support: Amiga Arena -
Contact: Olaf Köbnik
Developer: Nexus Development -
Contact: Emanuele Cesaroni
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
Grashopper LLC
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DTP: PageStream Survey
Under the title link a survey concerning the future of the DTP program PageStream is to be
found. The question are about your system, and your wishes and suggestions for a new version of
PageStream.
PageStream is a well-known Desktop Publishing Program. It's oriented for
all publishing tasks, from the simplest newspaper through colorful brochures to
technical books. With PageStream one can write letters and colored schoolwork
and visitor badges and a whole lot more. Thousands of users have used
PageStream for years to do their work.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
Chaos Computer Club e.V.
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Meeting: With the Hack Train to the 19th Chaos Communication Congress
Chaos Computer Club meets annually between Christmas and New Year's at the
Chaos Communication Congress. The 19th CCC (19C3) occurs from 27th to
29th December, 2002 in Berlin, Germany at the
House at Köllnischen Park. The Hack Train
to Congress starts the morning of 26th December, 2002 in Mainz, comes up along the Rhein,
through the Ruhr, and reaches Berlin. The return trip is on the 30th. The whole thing is only going
to happen however, when 200 people sign up (85 euros round trip). On that account, everyone
who wants to come is asked to sign up (non-binding) at http://zug.verbrennung.org.
The deadline is the first week in November!
The train from the RHEB comes through Mainz - Köln - Düsseldorf -
Bochum - Bielefeld - Hannover - Berlin, and will consist of two cars with about 100 seats. Further stops
along the way are no problem, just say so in advance.
The Chaos Communication Congress is a three day congress about technology, society and Utopia.
The congress offers lectures and workshops on a range of topics concerning Information Technology,
computer security, Internet, Cryptography, and the critically creative handling with technology, and
discourse over the effects of technological development on society.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
Amiga Games Classifying
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Amiga Games Classifying: New Game Survey
Yesterday at Amiga Games Classifying surveys were published about
preferred game genres
and desired new games. In the top part
of the lists you'll find the opportunity to take part in the surveys, and in the bottom part
you'll see the results of those who have participated.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
Amigan Software
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Game and Tool: Worm Wars V7.21a and Report+ V5.63
As of the 21st of October, 2002 there are two program updates available at Amigan Software: Worm Wars and Report+.
Worm Wars is now at version 7.21a. This game requires OS2.04 or better and PAL/DblPAL as well as an MC68020 or better.
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:
WormWars.lha (621 KB)
ReportPlus.lha (304 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
A.D.A.
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ADA: Update of the 20th of October, 2002
ADA, the Amiga Demo Archive searchable databank has placed online the following new demos:
After Guardian Dragon in the previous update, yet another release of
The Forces of the Pyramids, Kefrens (the 4th Kefrens production on
A.D.A.). This time a cool slideshow called
Masterpieces
from R.W.O. Nice presentation, good tune by Laxity and some cool
pictures... Released somewhere in 1992 I think...
Another new group appears on A.D.A., Limited Edition (LED) with a
demo called Mind Abuse. Released at Assembly 1996 where the demo
ended on 5th place. Hardcore tune, fast effects and lots of colors
...
A very famous demo from French group Complex,
Origin
was released at The Party 1993 and won. A very cool intro, classic
tunes by Clawz and nice visuals make this a very cool production all
around. Check it out.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
Frogger
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Video player: New MPEG Video Decoder Plugin for Frogger
Since the 21st of October 2002 a bug-cleaned version of the MPEG video decoder plugin has been ready for
the video playerFrogger.
Additionally, the documentation is now available in Spanish.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
Apex Designs
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Game: Amiga Version of Payback Becomes a Better Value
The price of the game Payback has been reduced in time for Christmas. For those who already own the game
there are a few new and updated maps on the
maps page.
In Payback the player steps into the role of a young driver on the lam who is trying to become a
big gang kingpin.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Oct.2002
ANN
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Compatibility List for USB Card Thylacine Renovated
The compatibility list for the Thylacine Zorro 2 Amiga USB 1.1 Card has been completely redone. If you would like to know what works with this card (and what doesn't) click on the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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