09.Jun.2002
Digital Almanac (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III and Amithlon
At the "Amiga Freunde Pfalz"'s Amiga Party, Achim Stegemann had the
opportunity to test DA III under Amithlon on a Pentium 4 (1.6GHz) and GeForce 3 equipped PC. An animation of the star chart at a resolution of
1024x768 and a colour depth of 16bit resulted in a frame rate of ca. 10 fps. This
is about ten times as fast as on the development machine (PPC604e/200 and
68060/50 with CVPPC).
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Society
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Little Book of Amiga Software: Games list updated, 14 new entries
The games list in the "Little Book of Amiga Software" by Amiga Society has been
updated. Furthermore, the following titles have been added to the software
directory:
- Goal!
- Dizzy Dice
- Beam
- Police Quest 2
- Starball
- Night Dawn
- Streetgang
- Khalaan
- The three Stooges
- Silent Service II
- Seek & Destroy
- Their finest Hour
- Christoph Kolumbus
- Jurassic Park
Your help is needed to keep the Little Book of Amiga Software current and
informative. Please send the following information to
software@amiga-society.de:
- Scans of software, of which there are no pictures available yet.
- Supplemental informationen about software in the Little Book of Amiga Software.
- Information about software not yet mentioned on the pages.
- Software instruction manuals.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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09.Jun.2002
ANN
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Browser: Further development of AWeb at Sunsite.dk?
Henrik Mikael Kristensen writes on ANN
that Sunsite.dk is willing to host a development site for AWeb free of charge.
Due to lack of time, he himself can not participate in the development but will
be able to help with setting up the site and organizing development.
Sunsite.dk provides CVS, PHP4 or JSP/servlets and MySQL, mailing lists, news
groups, FTP, backups etc. to Open Source projects.
The complete text by Henrik Mikael Kristensen is accessible through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Datatype: wbmpdt V1.0 for WAP bitmap images
On 7th June 2002, Stephan Rupprecht has published version 1.0 of his wbmpdt
Datatype for WAP bitmap images. This is this Datatype's first publication.
Download: wbmpdt.lha (5K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Raffle to new FAQ
On Saturday, a FAQ section
with tips and suggested solutions for problems of all sorts has gone online in
the interactive area of Amiga Future.
It was created by Thomas Rapp. The section is subdivided into more than 15
subcategories, amongst them: AmigaOS, programming, emulators and emulation,
Internet, PowerPC, viruses and CD writers.
To this there is a raffle until 20th June 2002. A full version of iFusion will be
raffled amongst all contributions
to the FAQ. The creator of the best contribution will receive, quasi as a reward,
the full version of The Feeble Files.
Multiple contributions are possible. Of course the tips may not be pinched or already
contained in the FAQ.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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09.Jun.2002
amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Download area
Wayne Hunt of Amiga.org has taken the publication of the AWeb source code as
an opportunity to open a download area on Amiga.org.
People are still being searched for the expansion and administration of this
area.
The download area is accessible after registration with Amiga.org.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Review of the game 'Chips'
Today a review by Matthias Jakisch of the puzzle game Chips has been published
on the Amiga Future homepage. The player has to adopt the role of a
professor at a laboratory to assemble a computer from parts scattered
around the laboratory.
The game by Ventzislav Tzvetkov requires an Amiga with 1 MB RAM and is
available for download on Aminet.
Download: Chips.lha
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Jun.2002
Maja (ANF)
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ELSA: new founded devolo AG produces new edition of industry modem Microlink 56k
The on 2002, 1st May in Aachen founded
devolo AG brings a new edition of the
successfull industry modem Microlink 56k i to the market. So the good ELSA
quality doesn't go completely lost.
The team of the devolo AG consists of 25 former workers of the ELSA AG who bring
each up to 18 years of experience in data communication into the company. The
ELSA AG was founded in 1980 as spin off of the RWTH Aachen. As pioneer of the
data communication ELSA brought in 1988 the first by the Deutsche Post accepted
modem to the market. For more than 20 years could ELSA establish themselves as
leading provider in the area of the data communication and the computer
graphics. Dramatic market changes prevented lasting synergies between the different
business fields, though. Heiko Harbers, former vice president consumer products
at ELSA and now founder and chairman of devolo, draws the obvious conclusion out
of this: a clear focussing on the business field data communication and a clear
tightening of the portfolio by concentrating on profitable succeeding products
is the devolo motto.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jun.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: big update - AmiBlitz V2.26
Amiforce has after a longer period of time an update to announce.
The start make some cosmetic changes that had taken most of the time. Many
errors had been removed and especially the selected colours got a change after
some criticism. Whether it looks better now may be judged by everybody on
his/her own. ;-)
Amiblitz:
There's now a new, error reduced version of Amiblitz 2.26 in the Amiblitz
section. It's again an update archive that contains next to the English version
also the German one. A new Image.res that enhances Amiblitz with further
graphical possibilities is also included. GlowIcons are now used and bring the
boring old fashioned look to an end. As the old archive contains the new one bilingual
docs.
Download: amiblitz2.26.lha (658 KB)
Furthermore there's a little 3D tutorial in the Amiblitz section included. This
will be removed in the near future again, though, as it will be completely
revised and expanded with example sources. Soon will a beginners course be
started that will then lead to different areas. The 3D part will be done by
Sterix (a programmer and my best guy) who is training at present on Amiblitz.
The first sources look really great. In this direction there'll come quite some
things. ;-)
Some examples (demos) that could make people very interested in Amiblitz will
follow, too.
Softguide:
The softguide section had been opened, too. The beginning is done with Amisat. For
this there'll be soon a detailed manual in the helpguide rubric released. The
other sections will be updated again, too.
Forum:
Amiforce has now a new forum, too. All interested are invited to enter. Almost
all contributions of the old forum had been taken on. So it's not a start at
zero. Thanks go to Matthias Münch for his support.
Further material is already being worked on. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jun.2002
Jens Pachl (ANF)
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Browser: AWeb is Open Source!
As can be read following the title link are from this day on the sources for
AWeb free available.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jun.2002
GFX-BASE (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: German translation of the DynAMIte review
On the GFX-BASE had a German translation
of the review of the 'DynAMIte - Special Collectors Edition' CD-ROM been
released today. We'd like to thank here very much Stefan Donati for his
translation.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jun.2002
Björn Dehmel (ANF)
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AmigaOne in the PC Magazin (German print magazine)
In the current issue (07/2002) of the German "PC Magazin" there's a short
article about the AmigaOne on page 26. It's given the title "AMIGAOS 4.0 - The
ball bounces again". The article contains the already known stuff about the
AmigaOne hardware and the AmigaInc. licensing model.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Jun.2002
jurassicpack.de.vu (ANF)
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The Amiga demo scene lives!
Since six months do Ghandy & Zito out of the Amiga demo scene release a regular
disc mag again. The name is "Jurassic Pack". The latest issue #10 is an
anniversary issue - one reason more to party - and can easily be downloaded
under www.jurassicpack.de.vu (title link)! Especially recommendable as this
issue's motto is "Oldskool"! (ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jun.2002
Computer City (E-Mail)
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Computer City: New Amiga keyboards - Cherry Amiga Cybo@rd
Computer City announces that they have keyboards with Amiga-logo. For further information in English, German or Dutch please have a look at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2002
Vapor (ANF)
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Vapor.com: David Gerber takes over management of Oliver Wagner
Due to time constraints on my part, David "Zapek" Gerber will now take
over project and release management of the vapor products.
This doesn't mean that I'll stop working on them or so, but managing
a project is more than just that.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2002
A.S.Munde (ANF)
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DocDatatypes v40.40 released
Amarpreet Singh Munde has released an update of DocDatatypes.
DocDatatypes are a set of datatype classes for documents. The list of
supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect,
Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill,
XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), TEAL
docs, RichReader, First Word Plus, Mac Write, Mac TeachText and Mac Text.
New for this version (40.40) is the support of MacBinary MS-Word files.
There is also the latest version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast,
easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size,
date, and even file type.
Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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PageStream news to version 4.1
For owners of version 4.1 of Amiga and Windows there is a corrected German localisation. At the Amiga version the 4.1-functions have translated and at the Windows version the faults of the graphics of the editing palette have been debugged and the help and hints work again.
All customers who have entered their names in our new product registration will get the access to the current version and files. Customers who still did not register can make up for it: Registration.
Because PageStream 4.1 now finally is complete including the German documentation, German localisation (except the Mac-version) H&P presents a special for new customers. For a limited time the full version of PageStream will be available to a special price for all versions. PageStream is one of the few products which is available for three platforms (Amiga, Windows, Macintosh) with the same version number.
If you want to get more information please have a look at the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2002
Bill Buck und Raquel Velasco (E-Mail)
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Thendic-France: Pegasos news
Next Production Run of the Pegasos SOLD OUT!
"We would like to announce that the next scheduled production of the
Pegasos has been sold out. Boards have been set aside for friendly
developers, but all others have been sold.
Another production of the Pegasos will follow in July."
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2002
Peter Hutchison
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Printers: New drivers for HP 6x06, 870C and 900C
Peter Hutchison has published updated versions of the following printer drivers:
- HP Deskjet 6x0C (now with compression and installer script) version 40.12
- HP 870C (now with installer script) version 40.21
- HP 900C (now with Installer script) version 40.12
Printer systems like TurboPrint or Print Studio should not be used together with this driver. The archives contain binaries of 68000, 68020 and 68040.
Download page
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2002
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Amig@lien: Payback MapEditor workshop published
Today a detailed workshop to the Payback MapEditor has been published at Amig@alien which you can find under the title link. The following things are explained:
General things:
- Adding objects
- Determining start position
- Controlling the editor
Controlling the vehicles:
- Adjustments of traffic lights
- Pedestrians
- Route modus
- Barring roads
- Transmission ways
Area-/cubes controlling:
- Own textures
- Area defenitions
- Allocation of textures
- Change of rise
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Jun.2002
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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Collecting data for the FastFileSystem V46
Mario Cattaneo writes:
Olaf Barthel developes the new FFS (FastFileSystem) of AmigaOS 4. Doing that in an as optimal as possible way he needs data. Data about the conditions of as many as possible Amiga partitions. Thus he is able to collect them he has written a little program which determines the file sizes.
So these data may become representative if the program will be distributed as much as possible. Because of that I decided to put this program on my homepage for download. Please directly send the data to Olaf (please read the documentation before!).
The last possible data for sending in it is the 16th June 2002. Please do not send any reports after this day. This day is the deadline and then all reports which I have got up to this date will be analysed. Please join numerously...
Thanks a lot in anticipation, Mario.
PS: For all those who doubt that this program is "clean" I added the source code to the program. So you can see what it makes.
Download: sample_dir.lha
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