06.Feb.2002
VIM
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Editor: VIM version 6.0.189
VIM is an editor that has its roots in the Unix editor "vi" and that is
available for different systems like AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, MachTen,
OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000).
Today has version 6.0.189 been released.
In issue 1 vol. 1 of the
Free Software Magazine
there's an article that
covers among other things the history of VIM.
VIM was developed by Bram Moolenaar first for the Amiga and had its first
appearance on the Fish #591 (November 1991).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Official: NVidia introduces GeForce4 - first benchmarks
»GeForce2 and GeForce3 will be replaced
Now that almost all information became known in advance,
has NVidia themselves officially announced their new GeForce4 graphics chip
family. This one replaces its predecessors GeForce2 and GeForce3 completely.«
Full (German) article see title link.
Further link covering this subject (German):
Heise: Nvidia
introduces 3D chip GeForce4
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: AWeb workshop reworked
Ricco Clemens has updated and reworked the AWeb workshop on the Amiga Future homepage.
The new version is now online.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)
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#AmigaFun: chat with Hyperion on 18.02.2002
On Monday, 18. February 2002, beginning at 19.00 h will Steffen Häuser,
Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden from
Hyperion answer to questions
on the IRC Amiga channel #AmigaFun. All three are programmers at Hyperion and
deal with AmigaOS 4 and with games ports, like for example Quake 2. The chat
with Hyperion is organised in co-operation with the Amiga Future.
How to access the IRC channel #AmigaFun:
IRC server (enter WITHOUT "irc."): rollingrock.altnet.org
IRC port: 6667
IRC channel: #amigafun
Should the server fail you can access the channel via this server:
amigafun.ma.cx (please enter again without "irc.").
Further information especially for IRC beginners can be found on the #AmigaFun homepage.
HINT:
The chat can be accessed via HTML chat from the #AmigaFun homepage, Amiga Future
homepage and from the amiga-news.de forum. As we can't guarantee an error free
functioning of the HTML chat and programs like AMIRC or BlackIRC are anyway
nicer to use we recommend to use an IRC client in any way.
Possible languages are German and English. The logfiles of the chat will be
later released on the homepages of the Amiga Future and the #AmigaFun in German and
in English.
Stefan Martens: "I'd like this time to point to the fact that nobody else may
release the logfiles of the chat this time." (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2002
AOG (ANF)
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Amiga Online Games - Onlinegame at 09.02.2002
On Saturday, 09.02.2002 on trima.2y.net port:8000 a HBMonopolyV2.6-Server is running. All interested Monopoly-players are invited to play from 18 o'clock. Further informations you can request under IRC (irc.altnet.org / Channel #AOG).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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AmigaOS XL: Official update for Amithlon and AmigaXL
This is the first official AmigaOS XL Update from Haage&Partner,
which will fix all known problems. Amithlon now features an improved
sound output as well as enhanced mouse and keyboard drivers and a bug
fixed CPU/FPU emulation. HDToolBox will now run stable again under
Amithlon and AmigaXL.
(ps)
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05.Feb.2002
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailprogram: SimpleMail Version 0.15
The new version 0.15 of SimpleMail is released.
Latest changes:
- SimpleMail is converted internal to Unicode
- New localisations added
- Two new columns added in mail list: "POP3 Server" and "Received"
- Little layout changes in mail writing window
- "Content-Description:" field is supported
- Some bugfixes
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Golem - IT News(ANF)
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Golem: Yamaha provides SCSI converter for internal IDE CD-writers
Yamaha announced a new SCSI converter for both CD-writer lines
CRW3200E (24x) und CRW2200E (20x)to use those IDE drives with
SCSI host adapters, too. Yamaha plans to start delivery in early
February.
See title link for the Golem article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Feb.2002
ANN
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Older interview with Bill McEwen from Steve Folberg
Steve Folberg has published an older unreleased interview with Bill McEwen on his website. This interview was made at the Amiga2001 for the AmigaWorld #5, but was not released there. You will find the long and interesting interview here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Games: Charts from AGC (Amiga Games Classifying)
AGC has released the Charts January/February 2002 of the most popular games. The first three places are Quake, Napalm, and Payback. In March 2002 starts the poll for March/April 2002.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Matay: P96-Drivers only on request
Matay has removed the archive with the P96-drivers V2.1a for Prometheus from the server and will send the archive only on request via email. It will be available again later on when a registration process will be implemented. Owners of a Prometheus board can get it sending an email to info@matay.pl. Matay has decided to do so because also users without a Prometheus board are using these drivers.
You find this text at the archive:
"This archive has been deleted from the page because of numerous downloads
by people who don't have Prometheus boards but are still using our page to
recieve a full archive of shareware program. In short future there will be
a questionary veryfing and writing down all necessary data of the one who
is downloading. Till then, please inquire to info@matay.pl, we will send you
this archive on your email account. Thank you, Matay team"
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
David McMinn (ANF)
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Programming Language: AmiBlitz2 Version 2.24
Version 2.24 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been published.
If you have bug reports please do not send them to the uploader but
to the mailinglist to avoid double bug reports.
In order to subscribe the mailinglist please send a mail to
blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
For unsubscribing please send a mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
Download:
amiblitz2_distro.lha
Original message:
The Blitz2000 site is dedicated to bringing you the best
information and resources about the programming language AmiBlitz2
(formerly Blitz Basic 2). It has been updated and a new version of
AmiBlitz2 has been released (v2.24 - both an update and a full
user-distribution). Loads of other smaller updates have been made
(mainly more documentation and source examples).
Check out the news page for a full list of changes.
(ps)
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04.Feb.2002
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Morpheus Security Bug at last public
Once more Amiga users are informed faster and better than the PC world.
As the Amiga Security Page
is already reading since 24. August 2001, Morpheus clients can be spied using a simple web browser and
avoid any file sharing settings of the client.
This concerns all P2P clients using the Morpheus protocoll. See also
description of Morpheus on the ASP.
BTW: Now there also is a topical virus / trojan list on the ASP sponsored by
Sophos Anitvirus.
See title link for the Heise article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Feb.2002
OSNews/ANN (ANF)
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Running AmigaOS on a PC: Review of Amiga XL
OSNews is running a review of AmigaXL, a system that allows you to boot
AmigaOS on your PC in a way that resembles a regular-booting x86
operating system. Screenshots accompany the article show the latest
version of AmigaOS 3.9 running on a Compaq laptop. With AmigaOS 4.0
coming out in March with lots of new features (antialias fonts, better
memory protection etc) is AmigaXL the one true future of Amiga, a future
that AmigaDE, QNX and Gateway failed to materialize through their
involvement with AmigaOS?
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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04.Feb.2002
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Andreas R. Kleinert: References to pirate copies of my programms wanted
Today, I read the article about
shareware and pirate copies on amiga-news.de. Very interesting. Well, it is that
from time to time people send me illegal keyfiles and/or key generators for my
programs - sometimes refering to the source where to find those.
This often enables me to deactivate the respective keys, which respond to a certain
pattern. So there are faithful users too - who nevertheless stumble upon such things
from time to time - and help program authors to embank pirate copying.
I would like to offer the following to those users:
Who will send me keyfiles for my programs (or the respective generators),
up to now not recognized as "pirate keys" by those, will receive an
original keyfile at a time. In especially fiddly cases I will charge even more.
For multi-transmittal applies: "The first to send in, will win".
Naturally data will be kept in confidence and anonymous if desired (the real
name is only required for the keyfile).
P.S.: Dubious software gets tested under UAE,
insofar transfecting virsues is useless.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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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
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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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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