24.Mar.2002
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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A+ News 24.03.02 - AMIGAplus 03/2002
Because of some technical problems at the printer's the delivery of the
current AMIGAplus and st-computer has been delayed. The issue will be sent
to all subscribers on Monday, 25 March 2002 and should be with you by
Wednesday, 27 March 2002. The following issue 04/2002 has not been affected
by this delay. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please read
letters from Goukassian, the director of the
publishing house.
The AMIGAplus 03/2002 contains the following subjects among other things:
- AmigaOS 4: Interview with Ben Hermans
- Status Report: AmigaOS 4 decoded
- New: Pro Station Audio 5
- Who ist nun who: AMIGAplus-Redaktion
- Workshop: Web encoding with .htaccess
- Workshop: QNX for beginners
- Shareware Special: The best on 6 pages
- Scenish: Mad Wizards
- u. v. m.
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24.Mar.2002
Slashdot
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GameSpy: Sony Talks About Their R&D Efforts
In the above mentioned English article at GameSpy
Dave 'Fargo' Kosak talks about the presentation of Shin'ichi Okamoto, Senior
Vice President and CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment, at the
Game Developers Conference 2002.
Okamoto began his speech with a quotation from Arthur C. Clarke:
"The future is not to be forecast, but created."
Afterwards he talked about parallel computers, Internet, Linux and the operation of PS2
with gestures recorded by a USB camera. (sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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HTML tool: HSC V0.923
On 22 March 2002 Matthias Bethke released version 0.923 of the HTML preprocessor
'HSC' ('HTML Sucks Completely'). This update contains some fixes related to
XHTML:
- LOWERCASETAGS/XHTML now also applies to ENUM attribute strings
- XHTML now implies QUOTESTYLE=double
- removed some unused debug code
This version is only available as a source code release. It should be possible
to compile the source code on all systems, which have been supported so far
(tested with SuSE Linux V7.3 and HP/UX V10.20).
The archive also includes the latest prefs and macro files.
Download: hsc-0.923-src.tar.bz2 (377K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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Demos: ADA updated - D.O.S., Lethal Exit, Visison etc.
On 23 March 2002 the Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) was updated. The
following things were added:
Showbase Shape/C-lous,
D.O.S./Andromeda,
Lethal Exit/Digital,
a slide show by Lazur called
5977/Scoopex
and Vision/Oxygene.
Download links for the music by
Mayhem/Appendix, 3D-demo II/Anarchy, Seeing is believing/Anarchy, Sequential/Andromeda
and Mindriot/Andromeda were added.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
CyberGFX
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CyberGraphX: Help for disappearing screen modes for OS3.9 BoingBag2
After the installation of OS3.0 BoingBag2 it can happen that all screen
modes disappear. This is due to the same error that happened a few months
ago when a newer version of BlizKick was released. The problem is related to
a version check of exec. library. Newer exec versions (> v40) cause problems
when scanning the display database for cgxsystem.library less than
version 42.6. Any exec.library patch or hack with a version > v40 runs
into this problem.
By means of the cgxsystem.library from V42.7 this will get fixed.
This version is enclosed with
CGX from V4.2pre11
(for normal Amiga graphic boards) and
CGX from V4.3beta R3
(for G-Rex-PCI). (sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Amiga Flame
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Games: Paul Burkey about Amiga ports
In Usenet
Paul Burkey of Epic Interactive (Foundation, Feeble Files) discussed the
difficulties encountered when porting a game to the Amiga.
Porting Feebles Files to Amiga was possible because Epic had already ported
this game for MacOS so that the costs for licensing and development had
already been covered. This means that the Amiga version just needs to cover
the costs for duplication (and some additional time for development).
That's why ports exclusively for Amiga aren't possible since developers
need additional Mac (or Console) ports in order to survive.
Paul Burkey suggested that two new game ports to MacOS may be ported
to Amiga and he didn't rule out games for AmigaOne.»
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Fair: Amiga Expo and Lightwave
From 29-31 March 2002 the Amiga Expo is taking place in the Marriott Hunt
Valley Inn in Maryland. Also Tim Jenison, founder and Technical Manager
of NewTek, will be present in order to present the video keynote.
Besides the Keyframe Magazine, which deals with Lightwave, will be represented
at the fair.
Further information about this and other subjects are available via the
title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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24.Mar.2002
Matthias Acklow (ANF)
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Patch: BlizKick V1.24rc3
On 23 March 2002 Harry 'Piru' Sintonen released version V1.2rc3 of
BlizKick. This version offers improved romfixes for the OS3.9 BoingBag2.
- Fixed V45 exec.library of AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag2. It uses quite crude
hack to enable it, you'd better have true 32bit memory that doesn't go
away at reset for this to work. Works on my BlizzPPC, Wizor's & SMF^'s
Blizzard 1260, Cyber2th's CSMkII and Zerohero's Blizzard 2060 at
least. YMMV. Note that this hack automatically fixes some buggy programs
that peek $f80000 for version information. Thanks to my impatient
betatesters: Wizor, Jagge, Cyber2th, Zerohero, SMF^ and Lizard.
Special thanks to Lizard for bugging me about this. Also thanks to
everyone who mailed me about the problem.
- Improved romfixes module: No longer fails whole module if some
sub-patch fails. Now it should be possible to use romfixes as the last
module.
- Modified files since 1.24rc2:
BlizKick.readme
BlizKick/BlizKick
BlizKick/BlizKick.ASM
BlizKick/Modules/romfixes
BlizKick/Modules/romfixes.ASM
Download:
BlizKick-1.24rc3.lha (258K),
Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)
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23.Mar.2002
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Poll: What do you think about the AmigaOneG3-SE?
On request by 'Flash' we have started a new poll that you can find following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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Update: MagicMenu v2.35
After exactly one month there's another update for MagicMenu. The archive
contains this time additionally (next to the German) further updated catalog
files.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Spitfire²
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Palm Desktop for Amiga: Spitfire² version 1.9b
Spitfire² by Ralph Torchia is a Palm desktop for AmigaOS that has been released
in version 1.9b. Information about changes can be found in the history.
The shareware software enables a connection to a Palm computer by 3Com or
compatible devices. The program offers among other things HotSync functions
between Amiga and Palm.
All features of the program are listed on the homepage. Next to the main archive
there are for registered users additionally ClockSync plugin and YAMSync plugin
available for download.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Sid4Amiga
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Music: betatesters for SIDPlayer 'Sid4Amiga' wanted
Paul Heams
is looking for his Sid player 'Sid4Amiga' betatesters. Interested
are asked to contact him.
The announcement of the AmigaOne has motivated him to start again on the
development of his program. The next version of 'Sid4Amiga' will contain the
following enhancements:
- Reverb - 10 presets with variable return levels.
- A new PlaySid emulation library for use with Delitracker,
PlaySid etc..
- An updated GUI for the new reverb settings. (Mixing desk)
- Bug fixes and a reworked library.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: draw
As in every issue of the Amiga Future there's also a draw in issue #35 in that
you can also participate online. Deadline is March 31, 2002. Prices are two
full versions of Myst. Further information can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Mar.2002
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Manual for the stock exchange software Bonds finished
Sven Dröge:
There's finally a manual for the stock exchange software Bonds available. It
contains around 40 pages and will be available as PDF file. Before it will be
sent to all registered users of the software for free, I need someone to read it
as a check to remove possibly remaining bugs. People who are interested in doing
this task - fast - should contact me.
P.S. Of course only a registered user is acceptable for this!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Halvadjian Georges
Amiga Arena made an interview with Halvadjian Georges, the programer
of the paint program PerfectPaint.
Here you will find the English
version of the interview.
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22.Mar.2002
Vesalia
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Vesalia: Pegasos board extra page
Vesalia has already put online an extra page about the Pegasos board by bplan GmbH,
on which preorders are taken. The features are listed as follows:
microATX mainboard, 133 MHz processor slot, 600 MHz G3 PowerPC
up to Dual G4 PowerPC, PC133 memory with two banks,
AGP slot, PCI subsystem with three slots, IEEE1394 (Firewire) with
100/200/400 MBit transmission rate, 10/100 MBit network, USB, AC97 sound
subsystem, IRDA, ATA100 and more.
More information at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Thomas Knäbel (e-mail)
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bplan GmbH: website update - Pegasos ART gallery
At the title link you'll find an art gallery with 12 views of our project
Pegasos. More news during the course of the next week.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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AmigaOSXL: Experiences with the H&P Big-Tower 1800+ (Update)
Dietmar Knoll:
In my report I describe the experiences I made with the Big-Tower.
These now reach from the delivery until the first experiences in
everyday usage.
The sixth update of my experiences report includes a test of
the network card and a hint to the BoingBag3.9-2.
As the most important news I can communicate the installation
of more software, about which I compiled a software list.
The next things I plan to do is install BoingBag2 and then have a
closer look at AmigaXL. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
Elvis (untot) (ANF)
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Game: NetHack 3.4.0
The new version 3.4.0 of Nethack is available for download. Versions for
several platforms such as Linux, MS-DOS, Windows3.1, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP,
Macintosh and Amiga exist.
What is NetHack?
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide
variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text
interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons
& Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering
the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight
- in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly.
Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator
provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon
and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of
characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender. For
information on running the program see the README that comes with each
copy. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.14
The MM CD 1.14 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator
PCI ZIV users who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD,
has also been released by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card
family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.14
The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent
graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs. (ps)
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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator UP 3.0
The MediatorUP 3.0 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator
PCI ZIV users has been made available today.
The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card
family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.14
The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent
graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs.
The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver. 1.6
The blitter function, which is responsible for displaying text, has been
slowed down to prevent lockups in some S3 ViRGE chipsets. (ps)
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