23.Dec.2001
Cj-Stroker (ANF)
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Amiforce: Poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz
Amiforce just started a poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz asking if there is
interest in an extensive section on this subject.
E.g. a tutorial and many other things are being planned.
With this a media is inteded to be built to enable many Amiga users to
learn this language the Amiga Community lately lost sight of.
Amiforce wish all users Merry Christmas.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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23.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AROS: Graphics, Palm, OOP
Georg Steger fixed some bugs in the graphics.library.
He is working on the AROS port for Palm Pilots.
Adam Chodorowski fixed other bugs in the Python code and
did impressing work in updating the AROS copyright notes.
Fabio Alemagna is working hard on the new OOP frame work, and
Johan Grip is working on a PCI driver system.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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23.Dec.2001
ANN
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MorphOS: c.s.a.morphos elected at 178:31
The election for the organisation of the usenet group
"comp.sys.amiga.morphos passes" was closed on 20. December 2001 with
a voting result of 178 for yes and 31 for no.
If there will not be no reliable reclamation during the 5 days lasting
discussion term from the election board, this group will be
established by the news.announce.newgroups moderator shortly after
this term expired.
More information including a list of the votes given are to find under
the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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23.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News
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CD: MakeCD V3.2d Beta 9
Beta version 3.2d beta 9 of the CD burning software "MakeCD" was
released.
The archive now contains the binaries. Version 3.2c is required for
complete installation. Details on the changes can be taken from the
history.
Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_9.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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23.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: The Cryptmas #21
On 22. December 2001 issue #21 of the Englisch disk and online
magazine "The Crypt" was released.
This Christmas issue contains a report about Vision Design who are
working on a new Amiga Classic.
You can read the magazine via the title link and downlaod it, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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23.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: Poll about Website
Daniel Orth wrote:
Participate in our
poll.
This is about our website. You don't need to spend much time. Every participant will
receive 100 points as a thank you. Those points then can be exchanged for all kinds of
nice things.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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23.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: "Blockhead I" Full Version
Olaf Köbnik wrote:
Merry Christmas and Full Version
I wish all of you Merry Christmas and I would like to say thank you to
all users who supported me this year!
"I wish all of us a peaceful Christmas time and hope that there will be
light at the end of the tube for all of us TOGETHER in the future!"
The fire still burns! - Your Olaf
"Blockhead I" Full Version
With permission of "Applaud Software" the Amiga Arena enables the release
of every software title from "Applaud Software".
For Christmas time there is the first part of the puzzle / mind game
"Blockhead I". (sd) (Translation: mj)
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23.Dec.2001
(ANF)
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Video: SoftCinema V0.16 Beta 1
On 22. December 2001 version 0.16 beta 1 of the video player
'SoftCinema' was released.
Following the changes:
- Fixed AGA display for YUV221111 based codecs.
- Fixed display scaling on CGFX for YUV221111 based codecs.
- Added support for MP3 hardware decoders, added MP3HW CLI/tooltype argument.
- Added PUBSCREEN CLI/tooltype argument.
- Fixed 8-bit window display for YUV221111 based codecs.
- DITHER is now default direct color emulation mode for 8-bit display.
- VIDEOCHANNEL and AUDIOCHANNEL CLI/tooltype arguments.
- Some speed improvements in DivX;-) codec.
- Added DEPTH24 CLI/tooltype argument for 24-bit output on fullscreen.
- Few bugfixes in QT parser.
- Fixed crash on last frame on animation.
- Fixed some problems in RainbowRunner codec.
You can download the program via
softcinema.amiga.pl
and highantdev.de/softcinema/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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22.Dec.2001
musikmachen.net / Jorge Pino (ANF)
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Musikmachen.net portal reports about demo scene/Amiga
»All began with the Commodore C-64 and the successor Amiga whose popularity
came from the fact that there was an almost unmanageable number of games for
these computers. In addition were their technical characteristics for graphics
and sound far superior to those of a PC of that time - and all this for a
childroom compatible price.«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Dec.2001
Christoph Dietz
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NEO Award on 13.12.2001
The NEO Award, for that amiga-news.de was also nominated, was
awarded on 13.12.2001 in Stuttgart in the Mercedes Forum to several websites.
Christoph Dietz has taken part for amiga-news.de in the awarding and has taken some photos. Read now the summary of his impressions.
The NEO Award was a successful event - even though we as amiga-news.de "only"
made the 12th place in the cathegory ´most popular website´. But with
altogether more than 500,000 registered users and with more than 2.5 million
votes within a period of four weeks this ranking is for us as a news site for a
marginal group a remarkable result.
It's you, the readers, who fully deserve the thanks for this.
In the Stuttgart Mercedes Forum had the people arranging the NEO Award not only
taken care for many people - including of course the nominees in the
different areas - but also for the matching ambiente with food and drinking.
Through the show led Frauke Ludowig, presenter of the RTL programme "Explosiv",
again and again kindly interrupted by the asides of Mirco Nontschew,
entertainer from the "RTL Saturday Night". Numerous musical interludes,
beginning with the ones of "Glashaus", always ensured a good atmosphere in the
hall and were a good frame for the award.
Most of the awarded NEOs were named by a prominent jury, though it does not
neccessarily make a name for itself in the sphere of the Internet.
The Special Award for great contribution to the new media went to Prof.
Karlheinz Brandenburg, deputizing for his team, with which he had created the music
compression standard MPEG3 (short: MP3). This price was presented by Dr.
Christoph-E. Palmer, minister of state of Baden-Württemberg.
The price for the best Online advertising went to the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG,
commented by them in the speech of thanks with not having expecting to win this
price with RTL and VIVA belonging to the sponsors and jury members. In the
background could the laudator of the Award be seen, the voice of "Robert T-Online".
As best sports site on the net was the one of Formula 1 racing driver Michael
Schuhmacher elected. The price for this was taken by Kai Ebel, presenter of the
Formular 1 broadcast of RTL. The site of the soap "Gute Zeiten,
schlechte Zeiten" ("Good times, bad times") was winner of the award for the best
series site.
The heavy weight "NEO" was presented to three actors of the series who all
reacted indifferent towards the winning of the price and at the same time
announced the (already happened) relaunch of the site.
Both sites are btw. designed and supervised by RTL News Media, as is well known
presented as member of the jury by their manager Dr. Thomas Hesse.
The group Glashaus was for this evening not only engaged as live act but also
won the award in the area "best music site".
Radio on the Internet, the most popular website here is the "Chart Radio".
"Der Schuh des Manituh" is not only one of the most successful films in German
cinemas but also the winner of the NEO for the best film site.
"geizkragen.de" got the public price for the most popular website,
presented by Heidi Klum. Geizkragen.de surprised with the announcement that "much
is to be expected" and meant with this the television.
This made the laudator ask spontaneously whether the "dot.com-Domain is already
reserved".
Electronic postcards can be sent most innovative at "edgar.de"
and for this it gave the second public NEO of the evening.
A flat after-taste remains for exactly these two awards, though, because in the
participation terms under point 17/5, paragraph 5, sentence 3 it is written as
follows:
"The organisator reserves for himself to change the result when the vote results
aren't a good advertisement."
Unfortunately we won't ever experience whether the winning sites made it to the
top because of the participiants or because of effectiveness. We hope for the
former!
A winner for the offered Smart wasn't drawn on this event, we wait impatiently
for the naming of the lucky one.
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22.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: interview with Heinrich Tillack (AStarC)
New PD or shareware games can be found more and more seldom on the Aminet. The
more pleasing it is that with "AStarC" a clone of the Arcade classic "Star
Castle" by Cinematronics released in the year 1980 gives a welcome change! Heinrich
Tillack, the developer, answered the questions of the Amiga Arena.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Dec.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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VHT: The antivirus poll 2001
Hi all...
Okay, the poll for voting for the antivirus programmer who has
done the most for the Amiga antivirus scene in 2001, has only
10 more days to go. Here are the current vote statistics:
Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library : 254 votes
Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor : 213 votes
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe : 46 votes
Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II : 19 votes
Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III : 11 votes
Heiner Schneegold _ VT-Schutz : 8 votes
(total 551 votes)
You can vote here.
Please do us the favour, and place your vote......
Kind regards
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
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22.Dec.2001
Oliver Wagner (Vapor-ML)
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AmigaNCP 2.2
AmigaNCP is an implementation of the Psion link protocol which is e.g.
built into the Psion S3/S3a/S3C and Psion S5 palmtop's ROM. It's main
purpose is to provide vice-versa nfs-like file access. AmigaNCP features:
- -- the "amigancp.library" providing all the network I/O functions.
- -- the AmigaNCP-FileSystem providing transparent access to Psion files from
the AmigaDOS environment. Includes transparent charset translation feature
and possibility to store icons on the Amiga side for full workbench
integration.
- -- the AmigaNCP-FileServer providing transparent access to Amiga files from
the Psion side with optional on-the-fly character conversion.
- -- a print server allowing to print directly from your Psion to a printer
connected to your Amiga.
- -- full developer documentation and associated material to faciliate NCP
services from within your own applications.
AmigaNCP requires:
- -- AmigaOS 2.04 or better (localization supported).
- -- the IBM-PC version of the 3-Link cable.
Changes from Release 2.1 to 2.2
- -- Amiga to Psion clipboard transfer now working (S5/EPOC32 mode only)
- -- fixed ACTION_SET_DATE and ACTION_SET_PROTECT for S5/EPOC32 mode
New releases will be put on AmiNet. Also, you might directly visit the
support site:
WWW: http://www.vapor.com/
FTP: ftp.vapor.com, /pub/amigancp/
There is also a support mailing list for AmigaNCP. To subscribe, write to
amigancp-request@vapor.com
and put "SUBSCRIBE" in the mail body. Put "HELP" in the mail body to get
full instructions on how to use the list server.
=== Bug reports: ===
Please report any bugs via E-Mail to amigancp-bugs@vapor.com. Please
enclose a detailed description of the bug and the bug generation
procedure, together with a description of both your AmigaOS and Psion
setup.
(ps)
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22.Dec.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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SViewIV PPC 25.4 - Error during upload to Aminet
Unfortunately something went wrong when uploading
the SViewIV PPC modules V25.4 to Aminet - only
a textfile went there. Until the upload-delay
of 10 days is over, I'll provide the archive
for download on my website.
(ps)
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22.Dec.2001
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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GetBoinged has new Amiga news section!
GetBoinged! has created a small news section called "Weekly Amiga News Round-Up!" where selected news items will appear. This section will feature up to ten news items for each week. So if you only have time to check the news once a week, you only have to go one place.
To check it out point your browser here. A link off the home page will take you to the new section. (ps)
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22.Dec.2001
Mr. B.B.C. (ANF)
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Complete documentation of FinalBASIC available
Mr. B.B.C. wrote:
Just in time befor the new year I may announce that the documentation of
FinalBASIC is finally completed. FinalBASIC is once again a BASIC dialect. But
the special about it is the fact that it is developed as OpenSource and allows
easy platform independant programming. With this it will be in strong competition
with Java though its capabilitites are comparatively limited.
Because of the conception can FinalBASIC deliver a quite usable performance
and could one day shake off Java. FinalBASIC, too, bases on compact bytecode
files that can additionally be compiled to machine code programs, though, then
being platform dependant, of course.
FinalBASIC is especially oriented towards client operating systems on slow
computers. Therefore could also "exotics" like AmigaOS get new software.
Under www.finalbasic.org you can
get a complete documentation of the bytecode in its current state.
The first version of FinalBASIC is a more primitive console version for
Linux that already offers mouse support, graphics and sound. Later on a
complex GUI development shall be added that moves FinalBASIC, apart from many direct
hardware resp. memory accesses, to the squad of the professional developing
tools.
The project still needs capable C programming people under Linux, but people
interested in porting the language may also already register. All information
can be found on the website.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Dec.2001
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)
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CDTV review writers wanted
CD³²-Allianz wrote:
As we want to extend our review section in the near future we are looking for
people who would be willing to write from time to time some reviews of released
CDTV titles. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Dec.2001
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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stormamiga.lib V.45.00 beta 6 for StormC
Matthias Henze wrote:
As a little Christmas gift from me there's now a new version of the
stormamiga.lib. It's just a small update. Here's a short overview about the
changes:
- All known errors removed.
- The functions getpid, flock, cot and pow2 added.
- The functions strtol and strtoul rewritten.
- Better support of StormC V4.
- Support of StormC V2 removed.
- Some changes in the include files done.
- Guide and installer script revised.
- Some other small things done.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Dec.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MediatorUP 2.7
The MediatorUP 2.7 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200
and Mediator PCI ZIV users has been made available today.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- pci.library ver.5.0
- MediatorNET.device ver.2.4 (Ethernet 10Mbps PCI cards)
- Voodoo.card ver.2.10 (Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3/4/5 PCI graphic cards)
- Virge.card ver.1.4 (S3 ViRGE, S3 ViRGE DX PCI graphic cards)
All the above drivers have been redesigned so as to automatically detect
the busboard type and to provide the appropriate support. (ps)
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21.Dec.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.10
The MM CD 1.10 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 update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- sb128.audio ver.4.5 (SoundBlaster PCI128 sound cards)
- Voodoo.card ver.4.11 (Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 PCI graphic cards)
- mixer.library ver.1.3 (SB128, FM801, SB Live!, SB Audigy sound cards)
- tv.library ver.1.5 (TV tuner cards)
- FastEthernet.device ver.1.4 (10/100Mbps FastEthernet cards)
All the above drivers have been redesigned so as to automatically
detect the busboard type and to provide the appropriate support. (ps)
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21.Dec.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Journal File System EXT3 for Linux-APUS
Michael Heider writes:
Besides JFS the Journal File System EXT3 for use with Linux-APUS is now also
available at the title link. Among the files available on my homepage are
besides a precompiled kernel version 2.4.9 and the EXT3 patch a kernel patch
of version 2.4.9 which can be applied to the original sources.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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