01.May.2002
Martin Elsner (E-Mail)
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MRE-1.Mai-Edition: ClassAction 4.40 and StartMenu 1.20
You had to wait a long time, but I hope you are content with the things I
have done meanwhile:
ClassAction 4.40 and StartMenu 1.20 are ready, with many of your proposals
implemented. Some changes: ClassAction has an improved way of copying,
classes for volumes and assigns, "Open with" and "Copy to" submenus, an own
file attribute window, and many little improvements like file comment
display and vertical arranged listers.
StartMenu has now lost the nerving bugs; it can control commodities, opens
on other screens and has an improved window button display.
All MRE modules only contain the English language. I will prepare the
translations, they will follow in the next weeks.
(ps)
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01.May.2002
ANN (ANF)
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clickBOOM announces new games
With the new s-file clickBOOM announces new games, each section at their site will open during May. About the games there is no information available yet. At the 6th, 9th, 13th und 20th of May one game after the other will be introduced.
Within the same s-file from the 1st of May clickBOOM also announces an "own" tablet PC hardware.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New benchmarks from "Project Petunia"
The author of "Project Petunia", the 68k JIT emulator for AmigaOS4, has released new benchmarks for this emulator (title link).
Ben Hermans of Hyperion commented those benchmarks within the comments of ANN as follows:
"At a 600 mhz G3 with on-die L2 cache and a 133 mhz FSB you might expect a much higher speed than with a 150-200 mhz 060. I would guess a 300 mhz as an absolute minimum. On current PPC cards the relevant benchmarks of petunia are slowed down by several facts:
- The 68k processor is stealing still some cycles simply because it's still "awake". Once it will be made completly slept this will result in a reasonable gain of performance.
- Dual processor architecture with context switches and cache flushes
- WarpOS is used and not Exec SG
All in all I guess that the emulator will reach the performance of a 060/50 as a minimum even on the slowest (160 mhz) BlizzardPPC cards.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Martin "Mason" Merz
Enthusiasts of the "Glowicons" and with that nearly every Amiga user, might use a toolbar with Martin "Mason" Merz's GlowIcon style for his programs.
Martin Merz has not only given a big contribution for an optical "face lifting" for many programs but that the overall impression also seems to be unified.
As martin Merz said within the Amiga Arena interview, enthusiasts of the "Mason" icons might look forward to some more highlights. The interview is available in German.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)
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Current charts at playamiga.de
There it is. The new charts have been released. In April there has been a big participation as you could see with the positions. A lot has changed!
Therefore my request: Please continue sending me the nominees for your three favorite games via e-mail. You're welcome to participate once a month.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed with first Mediator 4000 tests
The first Mediator 4000 tests have arrived at least. Please get yourself informed about 2D GFX(Voodoo3) for the actual 2D performane and with
Heretic2/Q***e about the actual 3D performance. Because of the current situation of the AmigaOne, a G3 600 MHz has been added to the PPC-processor comparisation chart as well.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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New AmIRC update version 3.5.24beta
Again there is a new update for AmIRC because the old one doesn't work any more from today on.
Download: amirc_3524beta.lzx
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
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amiga-news.de: New partnership site - Amiga Arena
From today on the Amiga Arene has become a new partnership site with amiga-news.de
Responsible for that site is Olaf Köbnik who describes that site as follows:
Since 1998 it is Amiga Arena's task to support the Amiga shareware and freeware market. With many time limited offers for shareware some new impetus should be given initially and the trust between developers and users should have been improved.
Beside those special offers (which actually aren't enforced) Amiga Arena informs with many current interviews and tries to build "a bridge" between users and developers.
Furthermore Amiga Arena tries to facilitate the lifting of control mostly of "shareware" and offers along with games some high quality applications for free download. A selected link list perfects the services of that site. Plus that there are further activities like e. g. arrangements of developers, beta testers, support and sales of commercial software and some other.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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New DSL drivers for X-Surf
The xsurfadsl.device for our networking card X-Surf has been updated.
More than one DSL-modem is supported now, a bug that led to a crash
when hanging up has been removed, and the debug-output of the appp.device
for Genesis users has been removed, so the full performance is also
reached on systems without a graphics board.
Download: dsl-rel2.lha (104 KB)
(ps)
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01.May.2002
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Data manager: DiskMaster version 2.5RC3
Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5RC3 of his data manager 'DiskMaster'. Additional to some bugfixes the comand line interpreter has been improved, details about that are - like every time - inside the within the archives included DM2beta.readme.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
dynAMIte
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Game: dynAMIte 2.0 for free download
The new archives for the network/online game dynAMite is now ready for download in version 2.0.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.May.2002
(ANF)
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Event: US Classic Computer Show
The GOAT Store, LLC, an online store specializing in the support of
classic video games today announced the line up of sponsors for the first
ever Midwest Classic. The event is being held June 8, 2002, in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
The Classic Gaming Museum will feature nearly every video game system
ever released in the United States. The Midwest Classic will also feature
many video game related tournaments which attendees will be encouraged to
participate in during the day for lots of systems like the Atari 2600,
Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis and more! (ps)
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30.Apr.2002
Stefan Falke (ANF)
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EZP@gerNG V2.3 released
As of today, a new version of the SMS, Paging and eMail software is available for
free Download as an unregistered
version.
As usual, all registered EZP@gerNG users will find an update archive in the download
area, allowing them to update their registered software from version 2.2 to version 2.3.
At runtime, EZP@gerNG now creates the ezhttp.library V4.0, which, as a support library, provides
several functions for easy HTTP communications.
V4's extended features will be needed for the Software Developers Kit (SDK) for external
plugins to be released shortly, which will allow the creation of custom plugins, e.g. for
transmitting messages via web gateways.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Apr.2002
Nexus Development
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Wanted: Translator for PuzzleBOBS
Nexus Development is looking for a translator to translate the GFX-Guide
into German. The reward will be a full version of the game. Interested parties please apply at this
eMail address.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Apr.2002
Amiga Alternative Audio Page
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MP3-Encoder: Lame Version 3.92
A new non-beta version 3.92 dated April 25th, 2002 of the MP3 encoder
LAME can be found on the 'Amiga Alternative Audio Page'. You can look up the
changes in the history.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Apr.2002
Alberto Grecchi (E-Mail)
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Alberto Grecchi: Many useful Amiga tools
Alberto Grecchi is making his Amiga programs available for download on his homepage.
You can find all sorts of different tools, from calendars to biorhythm curves.
Games freaks can find a wide range of diffentent games. A rich source if you're
not put off by the Italian explanations and screenshots.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Apr.2002
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amiga-news.de: New Partner Site - DiskMag.de
As you already might have noticed from our horizontal menu there was a new
partner site called DiskMag.de added, today.
Lars ´Ghandy´ Sobiraj is responsible
for this site and descripes it as follows:
Diskmag.de is a portal for those who like
scene related disk magazines of any form and for any computer platform. It has
a big database of articles and interviews from various magazines. Who is seeking
old contacts in the scene which you thought got lost will (hopefully) find those in
our email database. In cooperation with the Swiss Scene Server we offer downloads
especially for the fans of the Amiga and PC demo scene. For those who are wanting
even more it is possible read about the current events in our news section, and to comment
the messages if desired.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Apr.2002
Made on Amiga
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Web directory: "Made on Amiga" online again
As promised, after a complete
redesign and four months of testing, the well-known web site "Made on Amiga"
has gone online again, and at the same time is celebrating its fifth birthday.
"Made on Amiga" was founded five years ago (April, 1997) by Dan Gibson.
This web site contains nearly 800 verified entries of web sites which either
were created with an Amiga or are dealing with this topic.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Apr.2002
amiga.org
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The Seattle Times: Amiga is pursuing its digital dream
Following the title link you will find a newspaper article from
The Seattle Times, in which Amiga Inc.'s Bill McEwen is talking
about AmigaDE.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Apr.2002
Cyborg (ANF)
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BenderIRC 1.5 available
Cyborg writes:
On the homepage of BenderIRC there are new updates for BenderIRC and all the tools. The new
version 1.5 of the IRC client comes with new features, and for the first time with a theme GUI
that shows fast and clear what makes BenderIRC such a unique software. Yes, I've put the
screenshot on the page, too :) You can e.g. grabb HTML links or advertising ads with help of
the plugins which are part of the package. It would be vital to take a look at the manual
to read about plugnins and security.
Who would like to do me a favour should tell me about bugs and not just chuck the program away
silently;certainly bugs will get fixed.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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29.Apr.2002
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Filesharing: Audiogalaxy Satellite for AmigaOS Version 1.1.1
Version 1.1.1 of AudioGalaxy, a filesharing service, was released. There is an opensource version for linux available, called OpenAG, which was the foundation for this new Amiga version.
The program can be downloaded from the homepage of the author. Furthermore you need the ixemul.library (at least version v48).
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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