04.Feb.2002
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MMKeyboard Version 1.20
There is a new version of MMKeyboard available now. Besides many changes and improvements the archive now contains some Win95 keymaps compatible with the Euro.
Older hardware is, of course, still compatible,
Download: MMKeyboard.lha
A more detailed description of the funcionality of MMKeyboard can be found in the readme file included in the archive.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Feb.2002
GameDev.net
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Shareware: Bitwise Operator: The Plain Truth About Piracy
In the above mentioned English article by "Ambrosia Software", a company
that develops software for Apple computers, the company's experience
with shareware and privacy is described.
The change from a fully functional shareware to a more crippled version
didn't cause people to register 5 times more often as mentioned in
the article
"Why Do People
Register, Does Crippling Work, Does Anybody Really Know?" by Colin Messitt
but it triggered off an increase in sales figures.
A change of the registration procedure in the middle of last year showed
that more than 50% of the people who had installed the update for
the software "Snapz Pro X" were using a pirate code to activate the
software.
The article is available via the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Robert Reiswigh (G-Rex ML)
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G-Rex: SoloOne Mixer V1.2
On 3 February 2002 version 1.2 of the 'SoloOne' mixer was released on
vgr.com. It supports
sound cards with the SoloOne chip (e.g. Terratec 128iPCI).
The ESS Solo1 mixer will now run under CGX V3 & V4 and
contains a few other minor updates.
Download: SoloOneMixer1_2.lzh (12K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
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Amithlon: Update 3-Patches (Update)
The text of this message was deleted. The Amithlon developers did not grant permit to release beta test drivers on the relevant website.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: PygmIconsGL Icons (Update)
On 2 February 2002 the gamesicon collection "PygmIconsGL Icons" was published
by Frank on the gamesicon.info website.
It contains more than 250 icons for all games for the Workbench V3.5.
Download: PygmIconsGL_G1.LHA
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Amiga and AmigaDE - game of the year election 2001
Amiga Flame has published the results of the game of the year election 2001
for Amiga and AmigaDE.
The first place for
Amiga goes to
Payback (Apex Designs), Shogo and Freespace: The Great War
(both portings from Hyperion Entertainment).
The first place for
AmigaDE goes
to Planet Zed (Zeoneo), Blobula (Pagan Games) und Boxikon (Zeoneo).
All further rankings and additional information about the games
are available via the links.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
AROS
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AROS: Downloads, JanoEditor, PCI.hidd, DOS
After the publication of AROS snapshots on SourceForge 475 downloads
measuring 4GB were registered.
Daniel Holmen published a Norwegian translation for JanoEditor.
Michael Schulz has added a new PCI.hidd. It scans the PCI bus and
enables the enquiry of application information via PCI tools.
Besides he has started to write something which he calls "nvidia.hidd".
Whatever this may be ;-). There isn't a lot of code available but it should
run on all boards such as Riva 128, GeForce2 and Quadro.
Georg Steger has removed a few problems in the DOS and Startup code which
shouldn't try to examine the command line if the program was started
from the workbench.library. He has also improved JanoEdit (catalogues
are now created. Some small bugfixes for AROS).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
ANN
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AmigaDE: mailing list for Technomages
Technomages develops games for
AmigaDE and has now installed a mailing list for their own news.
This list can be ordered by sending a blank e-mail to
announcements-subscribe@de.technomages.net
So far Technomages has released 5 memory games for AmigaDE
(Memory, Get To Work, Art Avenue Puzzles 1 und 2, Tikino).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Alt.WoA 2002: car sharing
On 23 February 2002 the Alt.WoA 2002 takes place in Huddersfield, England.
A notice board has been
added to the website of the fair in
order to organise car sharing.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: new and updated MasonIcons
Martin 'Mason' Merz has published in the
project category
of his homepage some new and updated 'MasonIcons'.
- AmiMCDMI - Reworked toolbar for AmiMDC
- AminetIdxMI - New toolbar set for AminetIdx
- AudioMI - Extended toolbar for AudioMaster
- AWebMI - Reworked navigation board for Aweb
- CharonMI - Redesigned toolbar for Charon
- GiambyMI - New toolbar for GiambyNetGrabber
- IBrowseMI - A navigation board for IBrowse with additional images by Kristóph Gruber
- MiamiPhoneMI - Glow icons toolbar set for MiamiPhone
- SimplePostMI - Reworked toolbar for SimplePost
- VideoMI - New toolbar for MUI Video
- VoyagerMI - Extended navigation board set for Voyager
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03.Feb.2002
Virus Help Denmark (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.8
On 3 February 2002 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.8 of
the virus detector 'Safe' developed by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski.
'Safe' recognises any viruses that are in the memory of the
computer and, if possible, removes them. Compared with the previous
version, the following features have changed:
- some at least imaginary MGA hits removed,
report if this new Safe causes any MF/MGA hits
Name: Safe v17.8
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 18 855
Date : 3 February 2002
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library
Download: Safe.lha (18K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
AudioLabs (ANF)
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AudioLabs: AHI driver for Sunrize AD516
Chris Brenner has released an AHI-driver for the Sunrize
audio board "AD516" (Zorro II), available on Aminet.
The Sunrize's AD516 has been one of the most interesting ZII audio boards. Unfortunately, until now, there haven't been any drivers of any kind for this card, leaving owners in need for realtime software with the only option to use Studio16, the application developed for this hardware by Sunrize and bundled with the product.
Lack of detailed documentation, and the fact that Sunrize left the market, prevented people from taking advantage of more modern non-linear editing software, developed years after Studio16. Until now.
Chris Brenner has just released his new excellent AHI driver, available on Aminet, that now allows AHI-compatible applications to access the AD516 A/D D/A converters (for SMPTE support, Studio16 is still the right tool). Several applications have already been tested and work fine.
Early reports about ProStationAudio and this new development say that the driver exhibits low-latency, extremely important to allow using mixing automation and the 30+ realtime DSP effects for ProStationAudio. More information soon, as soon as they arrive.
To download the driver, search for "AD516" on Aminet. Information about the developer is in the driver archive, don't forget to send him feedback.
In the Dev-archive the hardware of the board is described. This description
is incomplete but good enough to program drivers.
Download:
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03.Feb.2002
Suite101.com (ANF)
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John Chandler: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
On 31 January 2002 John Chandler published on suite101 a new English column
about the Amiga in which he talks about AmigaOS 4.0.
"One thing that anyone still using an Amiga has gained over the years is a sense of patience. No matter how tough things get, no matter how much the situation ups and downs, most Amiga users will remain fairly patient in the face of frustrations that would have owners of other platforms cursing and wailing. Yes we do get moments of despair, yes sometimes it does look bleak and you can be forgiven for losing the optimism and thick-skins built up in the post-Commodore years... but then things come along and suddenly everything looks bright again."
.....
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03.Feb.2002
Vim (ANF)
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Editor: Vim-6.0.160
VIM is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems.
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor: unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more.
VIM runs on many operating systems:
AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS,
MachTen, OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000)
In edition 1 vol. 1
of the Free Software Magazine there is an article which mentions
amongst other things how VIM came into being.
VIM was developed by Bram Moolenaar first for Amiga and was released
for the first time on Fish #591 (November 1991).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Feb.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Microsoft defends themselves against petition bundestux.de
»In the discussion about the introduction of Linux in the German
Bundestag Microsoft's speaking from official side. Kurt Sibold, chairman of the
Microsoft GmbH management and Vice President EMEA, turns in an open letter to
the politicians, that are counting to the first signers of the online petition
(to be found under bundestux.de).«
Full (German) article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena - You never leave completely :)
Amiga Arena - Update
I'd like to thank very much all those who gave me so much positive feedback
with their mails and comments! The Amiga Arena will stay online and the support
for the game "PuzzelBOBS" is also guaranteed. In irregular intervals will
smaller updates of the Amiga Arena be possible and still incoming interviews etc.
will of course be released. A "time out" for an undefined period of time will
come as announced, though.
Thank you very much for your understanding.
Yours Olaf Köbnik
Amiga Arena - Interview campaign
It is thanks to Nicolas Ramz with his "ScummVM" Amiga68k port that it is
possible to play old games by LucasArts like for example "Day of the Tentacle"
on the Amiga. The Amiga Arena talked to Nicolas Ramz about his work on "ScummVM"
and how he's seeing the future of Amiga.
Special thanks go to Christian Busse for his tireless translations for the Amiga Arena!
Interview in German
Interview in English
Shareware news
After a long time could the Amiga Arena find the developer of the shareware
software "ScanTek" and has the following information:
The new version 4.6 is from now on available for download on the homepage under
http://www.zoehner.de/scantek.html.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
Torsten Dudai (email)
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New cartoon: "IBM and Linux", cartoon gallery added
Since June we have to get by without the wonderful and accurate cartoons
by Torsten Dudai, as he's suffering from a lack of time aswell as a lack
of motivation for further cartoons.
The more we're pleased that Torsten found two nice pieces while searching
through old backups that he wants to share with us. First there's a
PDF version of the old Amiga park cartoon, perfectly suited for printing as
a poster (to be found under the title link), and then there's a previously
unreleased cartoon about IBM and Linux done about six months ago.
Additionally, we created a gallery that contains all of Torsten Dudai's
released cartoons, and we're inviting you to take a nostalgic trip browsing it.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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CD-ReWriter Plextor: 40x burner for the ATAPI interface (E-IDE)
The company Plextor now offers a 40x burner for the ATAPI interface (E-IDE). The
PLEXWRITER 40/12/40A allows the burning of CD-R with the CLV process and the zone
CLV process with max. 40x (6000 KB/s) as well as the rewriting of CD-R/W with
max. 12x (1800 KB/s). CDs are read with the CAV process with 17x-40x (2600-6000
KB/s) speed.
The burner has a buffer of 4 MB and is equipped with the proven BURN-Proof
technology that almost completely excludes a burning of defective CDs.
For the time being there are no information about the price.
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02.Feb.2002
Bernhard Wörner (ANF)
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Audio: Amplify
Amplify is in the version 1.3 online.
Compared to the version 1.2 nothing important has been changed. Just the code has been
revised a little bit and Bernhard Wörner has fixed one or another small bug in
the requesters.
In the next version (probably next Saturday) will then the MP3 import be ready.
In the current 1.4 beta (unreleased) it works already quite well. This version
has just to be tested.
The homepage can from now on also be reached via www.amiga-amplify.de.vu.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
VaporWare
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Chatprogram: AmIRC 3.5.23beta
This beta version is available for registered users only, and fixes some
small issues. (ps)
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02.Feb.2002
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9440
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9439 of the AIM compatible
messenger software AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client to connect with the
America Online Instant Messenger (AIM service). Here's an excerpt taken
from the history where you can find the changes made:
- Added a special mode in the prefs under "Connect" for AmigaXL users
to use a timer based signal instead of the socket signal. (not
fully tested yet)
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
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