06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with the Scalos team und special price project
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
With the Workbench replacement "Scalos" a good alternative for the Amiga and
your very own desktop. The acitve and steady further development or support
makes "Scalos" getting more and more extensive and multifunctional. The Amiga Arena
talked to the entire team of "Scalos" about past, present, and future.
Amiga Arena - AmiATLAS 6 Update Special Price
From now on all registered AmiATLAS 5 users can take the special price for
AmiATLAS 6 (wihtout the term of the registered additional maps).
The programs "X-Trace", "MicroPaint", and "MicroBase" are available at the
respective special price thru 31. December 2001.
Amiga Arena - The fire still burns
After hardware problems and an internal rework of the hompage, now it should
not be a problem to display the "Amiga Arena" with the "Voyager" browser, any
more.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
A.S.Munde (ANF)
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DocDatatypes Version 40.30 Released
DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported
formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works,
AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word,
Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.
New for this version (40.30) is the support of reading and writing TEAL Docs
and RichReader Docs. MS-Word XP (2002) is also supported. Available to download
only from http://go.to/docdatatypes.
(ps)
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06.Dec.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update
Just in time for Santa Clause day there is a tasty thing for all astronomy fans and DA III owners!
From today a new version 4.6 was released on Aminet to be installed by every DA III user. This update
fixes some more smaller bugs from the prior version and offers the possibility to move the star map
with the joystick as a new feature (little marginal gimmick).
This is to be the last update for Digital Almanac III for this year.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Innovative (ANF)
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Drawing- and imagemanipulation: fxPAINT Christmas-action from Innovative
Just in time for christmas time we now offer fxPAINT 1.0 for an
incredibly low price (see title link). We hope to allow many users a
look at the power of fxPAINT at a low price and want to shorten the
waiting time for those users that are waiting for Version 2.0 that is
currently under development and will again set new standards.
fxPAINT 1.0 is fully updatable to the current V1.5 and Version 2.0
at a low price. This special offer is valid until 31th December 2001
and only as long as enough fxPAINT 1.0 are in stock. You can place
your order directly via our online-shop.
(ps)
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06.Dec.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Financial software: Bonds Version 1.84 available
Bonds is a financial software for bonds management of any kind, but mainly
focuses on shares. This software is specialized for the financial center
of Germany and best handles German bonds, since it uses the bond ident number
system of the German stock exchange.
The current version again fixes some of the bug, of which a lot still exist, and
some innovations have been implemented. The following items are enjoyable:
- Enhanced installation script, which now asks in advance if the exsample
charts shall be installed.
- The depot manager now got its final form, you can already buy and sale,
more actions are planned (share splits, etc.).
- Slightly enhanced design, more detailed program messages.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
AROS-ML
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AROS News: Success and reverse
»I just got a mail from the kind guys who provide us with
free web and ftp space. AROS finally seems to have made it.
We had over 10GB of downloads last month and that means,
I have to take the FTP space down... (What kind of smiley
is suitable for this ???).
So if you have lots of bandwidth to spare, call me :-)
Until then, FTP is down. I'm in contact with Urban
Mueller of Aminet but I guess he won't want to
check in AROS images every night ;-) So maybe
there will be an update just once per month or so.
Thanks go to the tireless AROS developers who have made
us so attractive and to all the fans who still hold on
to their beloved system :-) The images will come back,
promised. And you will see the V1.0 of AROS :-)« (ps)
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06.Dec.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: DSPSpeed Version 1.02
AudioLabs have released a benchmark tool for ProStationAudio. This tool
named DSPSpeed is avialable as version 1.02 and measures the performance
of ProStationAudio on 68k Amigas with AmigaOS and on emulated Amigas as well.
More details under the title link.
Download: dspspeed.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Amiga.org
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Event: Amiga Inc. attends the 'University of Washington Career Fair'
From the participants list of the 'University of Washington
Career Fair' event one can learn that Sanjay Menon, VP of Engeneering, Amiga Inc.,
will attend the show, which will take place on 11. April 2002 for the students of
the University of Washington.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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amigaland.de: Server Problem fixed, Games available again
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Just two games are still missing. All demos, programs, and emulators
will be available again within the next days. Special thank to Birdy,
webmaster of amigahistory.de, who supported me with his webspace.
(Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
GameIcons.info
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Icons: New Game Icons by GameIcons.info
The icon packets #09 and #11 by Dr. Zarkov have been restructured and
put together and there are many new icons, too. More icon packets under
the title link.
Download: GameIcons-2001.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
GFX-BASE
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GFX-BASE: Report about the O.A.S.E. Event
Last weekend most of the members of GFX-BASE have
visited the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga South East Europe) in
Graz, Austria. Jürgen Schober, the organizer, has shown an official Scala presentation of
the promised AmigaOS 4.0 features in his Amiga shop
point.design. Furthermore other Amiga highend
products were shown like G-Rex and Mediator PCI boards, the AmigaOS XL packet,
some new games, and much more.
You will find the report by GFX-BASE in form of a picture gallery with detailed subtitles.
Click the thumbnails to read the subtitles. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Dec.2001
SomS Newsletter (E-Mail)
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Game: Deep Silence news to SomS
The team of the action-adventures 'SOMS' has a new member. Her name is Rei from Japan. She is from the Manga-RPG-source at all. For SomS she will compose a part of the music and will synchronize voices.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2001
morphos-news.de
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morphos-news.de: Interview with Ralph Schmidt
The team of morphos-news.de interviewed Ralph Schmidt who is the head developer of MorphOS. Today a summary of the interview has been published. You can read it under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2001
Gary Peake (ML)
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Amiga names Sanjay Menon as vice president of department engineering
press release:
Amiga names Sanjay Menon vice president of engineering
Menon brings 10 years of experience in delivering software solutions
to Amiga's hardware agnostic multimedia platform.
Snoqualmie, WA - December 3, 2001 - Amiga Inc., a provider of multi-platform
multimedia content solutions, today announced the hiring of Sanjay Menon as
their Vice President of Engineering. As Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Menon
will be responsible for delivering Amiga solutions on a multitude of platforms.
“Sanjay has several years in the software industry and has a track record
of successes with projects he has worked on or managed” said Bill McEwen,
President and CEO of Amiga Inc. “We look forward to having him deliver
many different types of solutions both to consumers and developers alike”.
“His leadership will help make our Amiga developers be more successful
in their roles toward the completion of our vision for the digital world”.
Menon brings more than 10 years of development and management experience to
Amiga and is adept at planning and executing development strategies ensuring
quality product releases in a timely fashion. His most recent accomplishments
were at Microsoft Corporation where he spent 5 years in various management positions.
His responsibilities there included shipping portions of the Microsoft Java
Virtual Machine which was delivered in the Internet Explorer browser. Previous
to his experience at Microsoft, Menon was a Lead Developer for Connectsoft Corporation
where, among other things, he delivered advanced communication applications
and protocols.
“I am very excited to have this opportunity with Amiga” said Menon.
“I believe that Amiga is poised to deliver quality solutions across a wide
number of market segments that are in growth areas of communication and computing.
I look forward to working with both our Amiga developers and the developers
in the Amiga Community who are going to deliver leading edge solutions for numerous
different devices”.
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications
to a new multimedia operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is
a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga
Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC,
M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors.
The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT,
CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can
be purchased at http://de.amiga.com/. Amiga
is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide.
Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com/. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2001
Heise News Ticker (ANF)
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Heise: Programming competition for Linux-PDA
Sharp is looking for some applications of the sectors games, entertainment, business-programms, utilities and communication for its LINUX PDA Zaurus SL 5000 and therefore has started a programming competition. You can gain attractive prizes.
Have a look at the title link for the full Heise-article.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Dec.2001
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neo Award: Intermediate Result - Position #23
As already reported amiga-news.de
was nominated for the Internet-Award neo, category "favorit website".
At the time being we rank on position #23 what we think to be a huge success.
We thank all readers who voted for us! Since you can vote every week, you can
vote for amiga-news.de using your password again, this week. Put please, keep being
fair and vote only once per week, cause otherwise we would disqualify ourselfves.
One word about data security: The organizer assures explicit that your registering
data will be treated strictly confidential.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Dec.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' Team
Andreas Magerl did an interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' team for the
'Amiga Future' magazine. Schlachtfeld is about a strategy game.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Dec.2001
W.F.M.H. (ANF)
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Electronic Teacher 5 - special offer + new site
W.F.M.H. has launched a new internet site for one of its flagships: Electronic Teacher 5 CD. The multimedia language tutor home can now be found at http://eteacher5.com . Besides, the package can now be ordered at promotional price (even 50% off)!
As publishing house informs, the software is still under heavy development and among tons of new features (including even animation support) then new release will bring us, the two new language data CD are expected to be released as well, with lessons of German and French! Electronic Teacher 6 is expected to be released at the end of April 2002. (ps)
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04.Dec.2001
Christian Hujer (ANF)
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Adobe SVG Viewer for Unix
Since a couple of days Adobe is offering the
SVG Viewer for downlaod on the page for
unsupported versions
as version 3.0 beta 1 in English for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Solaris 8.
The SVG Viewer is a web-browser plugin for displaying vector images of the XML
basing W3C standard
Scalable Vector Graphics
(see Heise's articel, German).
The Windows and Mac versions have an ActiveX interface for the Internet Explorer and a Netscape
plugin interface for Netscape 4.x (and by this it is supposed to run with Konqueror and other
browsers supporting the Netscape interface at 100%). Contrary to that the Linux version has
a Mozilla interface and does not support Netscape's plugin architecture which is poorly
documented, anyway.
In a first try this plugin could not be used under SuSE Linux 7.2 with
Mozilla 0.9.5 RPM, it was not recognized, but Mozilla 0.9.5 and the plugin
still are beta versions. For the final versions a better cooperation of both
may be expected.
With the Adobe SVG Viewer available for Linux and Solaris the popularity and
use of SVG might increase very much.
Of course the Linux port is available as binary only unfortuantely, meaning that
it mainly contains of .so files (libraries) compiled for x86 Linux. That is, though
there is a x86 Linux port now, an Amiga port is as far away as ever. Even the
efforts of Mozilla.org are promising more remedy.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Dec.2001
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: DBPro Mod-Compo - Rules
Plans about a DBM-Compo by the Digibooster Pro Community. But they do not want to make the according rules without requesting the ideas and opinions of the users. Proposals can be made until Friday (7.12.2001) by posting them at the DBPro-Community forum at the title link.
It would be grade if as many as possible users would participate in this discussion and in the upcoming competition.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Dec.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets
WHD-Load lets you install your floppy-based games on to your harddisc. The follwing packets were updated or newly included:
- 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
- 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
- 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
- 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
- 30.11.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) joypad support added
- 30.11.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) supports another version
- 30.11.01 new: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) done by Psygore
- 30.11.01 improved: New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) supports another version and some fixes
- 30.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) supports another version
- 30.11.01 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) joypad support added
- 30.11.01 new: Friendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape) done by CFOU!
- 30.11.01 new: Death Bringer (Empire) done by CFOU!
- 30.11.01 new: Black Crypt (Raven Software) done by CFOU!
- 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
- 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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