13.Jan.2002
Czech Amiga News
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ProStationAudio: ALPS-Update and WinUAE-Benchmark
On 12 January 2002 an update of the plug-ins for 'ProStationAudio
Titanium' as well as early DSPSpeed benchmarking results for WinUAE-
JIT (0.8.17 R3) were released.
The ALPS update makes sure that the plug-ins APS-1 and APR-1
(Stereo Phase Rotator) are compatible with 'ProStationAudio
Titanium'.
The benchmark tool 'DSPSpeed' measures the performance of a computer system
with AmigaOS which runs 'ProStationAudio' in real time.
Here the reference system is AmigaOS/68 on a 68060 with 50MHz.
To this system the index value 100% was allocated.
The
result page
for this benchmark has now been extended with early results for
WinUAE-JIT (0.8.17 R3) on a Celeron Coppermine with 1000 MHz.
At this benchmark WinUAE runs at approximately half-speed than
Amithlon and still provides high acceleration for 'ProStationAudio'
compared to the reference system.
Download:
ALPSfix020112.lha
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
amiga-topcool.de (ANF)
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topcool: Interview-Steffen Häuser about Quake 2:68k-Version probably too slow
At the moment Quake2 is generated by Hyperion-Entertainment only for
the PPC since the 68k computer has turned out to be too slow. In the
interview with amiga-topcool Steffen Häuser gives away many more
interesting details about porting the game which is registered in Germany.
Steffen Häuser is working together with Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden
on a port of Quake2 for AmigaOS.
Update 13.01.2002:
Daniel Orth: "Steffen Häuser has asked me to change the heading of
the interview. He emphasized that the 68k version for QuakeII
hasn't died yet. He won't exclude it explicitly, since a decision
hasn't been made yet. In the interview he only said that a 68k version
might be too slow.
more...".
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Czech Amiga News
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MorphOS: csa.morphos appears on Usenet-Servers
Daniel Miller writes in the MorphOS mailing list that
the new Usenet group 'comp.sys.amiga.morphos' now appears
on Usenet-Servers. You can read and post to it.
Since it is a new group, it cannot be found
on all servers. However, you can find the group under
- 'news.freenet.de' Port 119
- 'infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de' Port 119
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
ANN
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Programming Language: PowerD V0.19 alpha4
On 12 January 2002 Martin Kuchinka released the alpha version 0.19
alpha4 of his compiler for the programming language 'PowerD'.
Amongst other things bugs were removed in this version, the compiled
executables can be launched directly from the Workbench and there
is also a German catalogue available. More detailed information can
be found under
Readme
The alpha.lzx archive contains as update those files which
have changed since the last version.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Marco Lovera (E-Mail)
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AmigaPage: "Amiga Passion"-Contest
The "Amiga Passion"
competition was born to let you share in the AmigaPage
life. The target of this competition is all the Amiga users
to participate by sending one or more of your Workbench screenshots (max 3) to kanuka@ciaoweb.it with "Concorso" for the subject.
Originally "Amiga Passion" expired on 31. December 2001, but a new
expiration date was decided to be 31. January 2001. So there is another chance for
everybody to win !!!
Prizes:
- Position 1: Full version of EXTREME plus full version of PuzzleBOBS plus mouse pad.
- Position 2: Full version of EXTREME plus a brooch
- Position 3: Full version of EXTREME plus a poster.
Games contributed by DKGStore.
Mouse pad, brooch, and poster contributed by AmigaPage.
The jury consists of Marco Lovera, Sandra Lovera, and Claudio Marro Filosa.
All of the screenshots sent in will be published on the following websites:
www.amigapage.it/concorso_eng.htm
www.amigapage.it
www.dkgstore.com
After the competion expired all shots will be moved to our "Computer Passion" section.
I invite you to participate in the "Amiga Passion" competition!
(Message text edited by mj)
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13.Jan.2002
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Graphic Adventure-Developer Kit: Inga-Engine Version 0.9/5
Timo Kloss writes:
Once again there is a version which is really almost totally finished!
Of course the Audio-CD-Support is still missing.
Compared to the last version the most outstanding difference is the
following: the plug-in system has been removed!!! What's all this about?
All the features offered by the plug-ins of late have now been
firmly integrated (sound-/ language and MED-music) and can be
activated by using normal script commands. Accordingly, Inga has been
prepared to be ported to other platforms. However, a complete compatibility of
all versions would be endangered by a plug-in system. Consequently,
it has been removed! Further information can be found in the compendium
under "LadeSound", "SpieleModule" etc. Besides the following improvements
have been made:
- You can now also talk to the characters even when you can't run to them
all the way (because of the run card). However, it's still not possible
to give them anything (that is to say "WennBenutzt" works but
"WennBenutzt-Mit" doesn't work!).
- The destination of the run towards the characters is now better calculated. So
far it has only been possible to run either on the left-hand or right-hand side
(only provisional).
- Small mistakes have been removed: If animated characters appeared for
example only from the left-hand side and if they bent forward,
it was impossible to find a suitable representation.
- Inga-pictogram information now enables the features "NOSOUND" and "NOPLAYER"
as a substitute for "DISABLE" at the plug-ins. You can find further
information in the game instructions.
- The speed of the characters can now be changed. (Consult the compendium
under "Laufschnelligkeit" (speed)).
InutilisGraphics Version 1.04
For this you can also find an update with two improvements:
- Even for small graphics a big screen now opens up so that it is
possible to control the characters from a point outside the graphic.
- 24-bit-pictures are now recognised and activate a warning message
while previously the program got stuck.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Miscellaneous news at Airsoft Softwair
Finally all prices for the Shareware programs on the Airsoft Softwair website,
which is http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/, were changed from
DM (Deutsche Mark) into EUR (Euro, the new European currency). Of course, all prices
are available in USD (US dollars) too. In near future there will also be new versions of
Akiko (including NV-Ram emulation and real Joypad emulation!), NewInstaller and Rainboot.
So stay tuned and check back on this homepage every once in a while. By the way,
there were also some small changes on this homepage.
(ps)
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13.Jan.2002
Pawel Filipczak (ANF)
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SMS-Tool: New TaskiSMS
New (2.60) version of TaskiSMS has been released.
News in this release:
- updated VLF plugin
- updated ICQ plugin
- updated GoldenTelecom plugin
- added Vizzavi plugin
- added MTNSMS plugin
- added folder filters (only for registered users)
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones
to over 160 countries around the world. You can download demo version from
TaskiSMS homepage or from
AmiNet. (ps)
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13.Jan.2002
Martin Merz (ANF)
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MI News: AppMI 7 is available for download
The archive features over 600 image sets and animations in 27
categories based on the GlowIcons design by Mat Chaput. Each
image set content three single images for normal, selected and
ghosted display. AppMI is Freeware.
(ps)
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12.Jan.2002
Spiegel
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Spiegel: Kimble on the run
Kim Schmitz, known to the Amiga scene since his "Hacker times", understands it
perfectly to put himself in the limelight in one or another way. This time he
feels abandoned by the German authority of the state and mocked by the press.
He turns disappointed Germany his back with a good bye on
his website.
Spiegel: »Now he's gone. Up and away. Like Graf Zahl from the Sesame Street
with sensation, fireworks and much artificial fog. The most shimmering person of the New
Economy has left the German Republic. «
Full article see title link.
Update:
Other articles:
Die Kimble-Doku von Torsten Kleinz
Telepolis: Kimble ist ausgewandert
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jan.2002
onlinekosten.de
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onlinekosten.de: big T-DSL chat
»Telekom answered questions about the broadband/satellite access and Fastpath
Yesterday, on Januar 2002 10th, had a big, presented T-DSL chat been held where
Telekom employees answered questions from 14:00 to 17:00 o'clock about the Telekom's
own broadband access. "In the big DSL live chat answered the experts for three
hours the questions of the customers regarding connection, hardware
installation, costs or modem installation.
The responce to the experts chat was so big that during the three hours not
all questions could be answered.", so the Deutsche Telekom. We want to give you
a short overview about the most important questions and answers.«
Full article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jan.2002
stern.de
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Stern poll: What was your first computer?
In the section Computer&Netze the German print magazine Stern runs a poll asking
about your first computer. Possible answers are:
- Amiga
- Atari ST
- Commodore C64 (or VC20, C128 etc.)
- Macintosh (or other Apple computers)
- PC
- none of the above mentioned
For the time being 705 visitors have taken part in the poll and the C64 is
leading with 36.9%.
To see the current results click here. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jan.2002
tecChannel.de
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tecChannel.de: Virus: JS.Gigger.A@mm deletes hard disks
People using a PC next to their amiga should read this (German) article of tecChannel.
According to it there's a new computer virus named 'Gigger' underway that can
have desastrous effects. The virus is written in Javascript and spreads via email
and IRC (Internet Relay Chat).
When the virus comes to work it deletes the contents of all files ending with
.asp, .htm and .html on your hard disk, all that resides is a file with 0 bytes.
Additionally the virus places the command to format the hard disk after a
restart of the computer in the start file "autoexec.bat".
Further (German) articles regarding this topic:
Golem: Neuer HTML-Wurm formatiert die Festplatte
Heise: Neuer Virus zerstört Dateisystem unter Windows
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jan.2002
Amiga Update
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Newsletter: Amiga Update by Brad Webb #011230
Brad Webb monthly publishes his newsletter 'Amiga Update' in which he
writes about the most important Amiga events. Read the December newsletter
under the title link. (ps)
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12.Jan.2002
OnyxSoft
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OnyxSoft: several software updates
OnyxSoft begins the new year with all in all seven software updates and
a new program by Daniel Westerburg. Besides, there's now a tutorial by Stefan
Blixth been added dealing with the creation of logos. Here the software titles
listed one by one:
- Update for 8SVXtoXXX (version 1.3)
- Update for BackUp (version 1.3)
- Update for Cathedral (version 1.3)
- Update for CDDAtoAIFF (version 1.2)
- Update for DRemind (version 1.59)
- Update for MultiRen (version 1.47)
- Update for TheMPegEncGUI (version 2.09)
- New program: LPFilter (version 1.0)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jan.2002
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AUG99: present poll
Because of demand and as counter part to the Kultpower poll we have
started a corresponding new poll. We want to find out here the most popular Amiga
print magazine of the currently existing ones. The poll can be found right
here.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jan.2002
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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Telepolis: Buried in New Mexiko
According to an investigation of the Telepolis editor Konrad Lischka
had the company Atari bought the computer producer Amiga. In the third last
paragraph it is written that: "After Tramiel had bought Atari the company
concentrated on the home computer market. To enter into the market for
respectable business clients Atari took over the Computer producer Amiga.
This is not correct.
1984: Amiga, then represented by the chief developer Jay Miner (formerly
chief developer of Atari) had in his financial need already got a private credit
from Jack Tramiel (who was the founder of Commodore Business Machines, but then
parted from the company because of differences, and afterwards bought the
clapped-out game console producer Atari). A takeover of Amiga through Atari had
already been negotiated. This takeover was avoided in the last moment through a better
offer by Commodore (remember: Tramiel had already left Commodore)
what led also to a repayment of Jack Tramiels private investment. The takeover
had cost 27 millions dollars. To be looked up in the
History of the
AMIGA.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia-CD Update 1.12
The MM CD 1.12 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and
Mediator PCI ZIV users, who are registered owners of the Mediator
Multimedia CD, has been released by ELBOX Computer.
The MM CD UP 1.12 includes the following updates:
VHI Studio now works on
PowerPC and on 68k processors in both MMU and NO MMU pci.library
modes.
An incorrect change in the border colour has been eliminated in
the Voodoo.card driver, which could occur in ver. 4.12 driver
when 8-bit screen was switched to any other colour depth.
(ps)
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11.Jan.2002
LinuxToday
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LinuxToday: Linux in Korea
Linux PR announce in a press release
that the Korean government decided to start to switch to Linux and has ordert the first
packets. The product is "HancomLinux Deluxe 2.0" combining the MS compatible Office Suite
and LinuxOS.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Jan.2002
Bernhard Wörner (ANF)
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Audio processing tool "Amplify" in version 1.0 online
Bernhard Wörner:
Version 1.0 of my audio processing tool "Amplify" is available on my homepage
since today.
You can for example do the following things:
- set recording level to 0dB
- fade in and out
- cut off silence at beginning or end
The program will also appear on Aminet in the next days.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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11.Jan.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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"Open Letter" from Matay
You can find an "open letter" from Filip Dab-Mirowski (CEO) on the
new Matay homepage. In this letter he announces that there is a
new, free firmware upgrade for the "Prometheus" PCI bridge with which
drivers for e.g. Fast Ethernet, TV cards and soundcards will be
released.
The "Prometheus" boards ordered from now on will be shipped with the
new firmware, further the program "English Teacher 5" is added as
a bonus.
Also, the game Boing'em for AmigaDE is already available.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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