16.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Website for card reader / writer almost completely online
Carsten Siegner put online a website about the use of the card reader / writer
'PCD47' by Microtech with the Amiga.
Already some information about this device can be found there and some material
and programs can be downloaded.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Requester - fjm V1.2
On 13. September 2001 Claudio La Rosa has released version 1.2 of
the requester tool 'fjm' for the AmigaDE SDK. This is about an
Intent-Secondary-Tool which emulates the AmigaOS-EasyRequest() function.
Download: dev/tlib/fjm.zip (28K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Tool - devinfo.00 V1.0
On 14. September 2001 Robert Kocher has released version 1.0 of the
'devinfo.00' tool for the AmigaDE SDK. This is about a replacement of
the original devinfo tool from '/app/sdtio', with some extensions.
Those extensions are coloured output and the output of descriptions of
all devices, and more.
Download: util/moni/devinfo.00 (3K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence News
News about DeepSilence - SOMS
On the homepage you can now subscribe to a
newsletter that sends the latest news regarding the game project.
For the moment is the forum inactive. As soon as it works again we'll inform you
via the newsletter. Besides that, the email address of the leader Sylvio Kurze
changed to Sylvio.K@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: minor updates
Today several updates had been uploaded. For one, some new entries have been
added to the software page - some will follow later this evening. Besides that,
there are now surveys for news, hardware and software where links corresponding
with the subjects will be entered in the coming time, and of course you can pass
on links regarding all subjects to us.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - special discount campaign
In co-operation with Sven Dröge the Amiga Arena makes a special price
available for "Bonds". Bonds is a finance software for the managing of
securities of all kind. The main focus are shares, though. The software
is specially adapted for the finance market Germany and handles best securities
that are dealt in Germany as it uses the security identification number system
of the Deutsche Börse.
Some features in overview:
- Management of objects of different cathegories
- Cathegories are: shares, fonds, subscription warrants, indices or currencies
- Graphical display of the price data as lines chart
- Opening, closing, maximum and minimum prices as well as traded volume
- Several chart levels (complete, 30 days, 1 year, etc.)
- Several gliding averages like 7, 38, 200 days lines
- Free scalable charts
- Graphically displayed function for comparing two charts in percentage
- Draw function for own technical chart analysis
Olaf Köbnik: "I'm once again pleased to be able to offer a software for the Amiga for
a special price that shows that the Amiga still covers versatile areas!"
Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena made a detailed interview with Sven Dröge, developer of Bonds. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Inutilis News / Timo Kloss (email)
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Developer kit: Inga on the shelves
The Inga developer kit for graphic adventures is from now on available in the
shops. This system is already used for the adventure "Ermentrud" that is in
development right now and can shine with the following features:
- Graphics: 640x480 pixel in 256 colors (CyberGraphX required)
- Voice and sound output via AHI possible
- Music from audio CD possible
- Easy usage without classical verbs list
- Easy to use developer tools
- Script language for flexible story design
The package contains three installation disks and a comprehensive printed manual.
System requirements:
- CPU: 020 (060 recommended)
- Graphics card with CyberGraphX or compatible (P96)
- AmigaOS 3.0 (3.5 recommended)
- Hard disk
- Also successfully tested on UAE with P96!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Flame article about AmigaPDA translated by Amiga Future
Following the title link you'll find the German translation by Markus Castro
(Amiga Future) of the article Amiga's Role in the PDA Market
by Amiga Flame.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga.org / Dirk Baeyens
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The question for the future of MUI
Remco Komduur, editor of the Dutch Amiga magazine
AmigaScene, has written an interesting
English article about the future of MUI (Magic User Interface, by Stefan Stuntz).
You can find the article using the title link.
Amiga.org has furthermore started a poll dealing with MUI as subject. You can
find the poll on the main page of Amiga.org
in the right menu.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Card reader/writer news
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today, slightly delayed, I have now tested my card reader/writer with Sony
memory sticks. These run as expected very good and I can access them like a hard
disk.
Some users say that the device would be too expensive. These users have to
consider that they'll own a universal key for all mobile digital devices.
These are among others digital video cams (especially those of Sony), digital
photo cameras (all cameras with card slot) and MP3 players (with card slot).
Additionally, I can imagine that in conjunction with IBM microdrives these
drives may be used for data exchange between laptops and Amiga. (Because of a
lack of money I wasn't able to test this yet).
A user asked whether compact flash cards would work, too. This can be answered
clearly with "YES".
Boot ability of memory cards:
Not tested yet but theoretically possible as I use mount lists to access the
memory cards.
A RDB block cannot be written on the cards as they have always to be formatted
in photo cameras or MP3 players.
This is absolutely necessary because of compatibility reasons though you
may probably be able to format these memory cards with an Amiga file system,
too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
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H&P: AmigaOS XL for x86
Under the title link you can find the promised details regarding AmigaOS XL,
two new Amiga emulators for x86 computers that are offered in a double pack.
Here's an exerpt:
AMIthlon - The fastest Amiga ever
Insert the CD-ROM, switch on your PC and boot into the fastest Amiga ever. There
is no complicated and boring installation. The development team of Harald Frank
(VMC) and Bernd Meyer even implemented native support for nVidia and Matrox
graphics cards providing maximum graphics performance. Opening windows on the
Workbench is so fast that you can barely watch it anymore.
With AMIthlon you can even use your old Amiga hard-disk in your PC. Simply
connect it to your PC, start AMIthlon and that's it.
AmigaXL for QNX - The most functional Amiga ever
The host operating system for AmigaXL is QNX 6.1. It is included in the package.
QNX has many similarities with the AmigaOS. It has a micro kernel and the
drivers are separate processes. Like devices and handlers in AmigaOS these can
be dynamically started and stopped. This makes the system extremely light weight
and resource efficient.
Features that QNX provides can directly be used within the emulated Amiga. This
includes network functionality and multimedia features. QNX applications like
the web browser Opera® can be started directly from the AmigaOS screen. One can
say both operating systems work together seamlessly.
System requirements:
Athlon-, Duron, Pentium-, Celeron-CPU with 500 MHz or more. AmigaOS XL supports
usual graphic, sound and network cards. A complete list is available on our
homepage amigaxl.haage-partner.de
or www.amithlon.com.
Availability: The delivery will start about 41st week. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Stock exchange software: Bonds V1.83 available (update)
The version 1.83 of the stock exchange software Bonds is available. Some smaller
bugs have been removed. Major improvement of the package is that there exists finally
an installer script. The NewInstaller by AirsoftSoftware is used to get an
appropriate scale. The tool "KursUpdater" is from now on not needed anymore as
Bonds now contains the shell option "JUSTUPDATE", and therefore makes the
updater needless.
Update 15.09.2001:
Sven Dröge wrote:
Unfortunately had the archive Bonds.lha on my webpage a CRC error. I apologize
for any inconvenience. In the meantime there's a corrected archive available.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Sep.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Spot (member of Up Rough)
Richard Kapp writes:
Again we have a new interview for you. This time we have talked to Spot,
member of the scene demo group Up Rough who have made the 9th place at the
Mekka Symposium 2k+1 with their demo 'April in Paris'. We have asked him
some questions about his group, but have also talked about the situation of
the Amiga scene and of course we haven't forgotten about the topic scene
demos and graphics cards (we also wanted to know which coder he currently
considers to be the best).
Other than that, our vote is still running and some new entries (such as
a couple of scene demos not available on Aminet) have been added as well.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (e-mail)
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Elbox: SB Power in Mediator
ELBOX COMPUTER - Krakow, 13 September 2001
SB POWER IN MEDIATOR
Elbox Computer hereby announces availability of the
software update for the Sound Blaster PCI128 sound card
for all the users of MEDIATOR PCI busboards, who have
registered as users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package.
This update expands the list of supported operation modes
of the AHI drivers with the '++' modes and introduces
support for the Sub_Update AHI function used by tools
software for edition of music.
The Sound Blaster PCI128 card working in the DMA mode
loads the Amiga processor when playing back uncompressed
music files much less than any other sound card connected
through Zorro II or the clock port. This feature, combined
with high playback quality and flexibility of configuration
resulting from the number of mixed inputs/outputs makes
Sound Blaster PCI128 the best sound card offered at any
time for Amiga computers.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence-SOMS is back
Sylvio K. writes:
The game developer team DeepSilence is back with their game
´The Secret of my Soul´.
For a long time, the developer team DeepSilence did their name great credit.
Due to the lack of personnel we had to put our activities for some time on ice.
Now we have found a new programmer as well as a new storywriter for our game.
Also, our page is back online with a new exclusive demo of SOMS. The demo comes
with PPC and graphics card support, as well as new effects and brand new graphics.
You can reach our page at http://soms.fanhp.de (no
advertising) or at http://soms.debox.de.
Sadly we have to say that our newsletter does not exist anymore. We thus ask
the subscribers for some patience. There'll soon be a new newsletter.
Also the IRC channel #Amigafun at ie.altnet.org is now the official SOMS chat
channel. Here you can chat with some of us (Sylvio K. = MangaClub and Markus B. = Trojan)
and ask questions.
Details are at http://amigafun.stefan1200.de.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Cyborg (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: CIM improved to current version 1.03_10
Cyborg's Instant Messenger in version 1.03_10 now supports PGP encryption so
that a communication cannot be read by others without huge efforts. A recognition
of the transmission by the system administrator is still ensured. No hidden
message is sent, it thus can hardly be considered a hacker method. The preferences
window can now be enlarged and the problems with some installations are fixed.
The next improvement should be the file transfer, but due to my job I won't have
the time to work on it in the next weeks except for some bugfixes.
Cyborg
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
PCWelt download area (ANF)
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Clock as Amiga ball for Windows
This tool is basically a "desktop improvement" - an analog clock which is shown without
window and frame. The background can be chosen from a list of provided graphics. Of
course there is a possibility to create own graphics for the background.
An individual color can be set for hour, minute and second clock-hands to achieve
an optimal user-defined design.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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SCSI card reader for Amiga, too (update)
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Two days ago I recieved hardware from Michrotech, which is able to read and write
SmartMedia 8-128MByt, Flashpath cards 8-256MByte, and PCMCIA type I-III cards.
By now I've done tests with SmartMedia and Flashpath cards, which worked terrific
with the Amiga. On Friday I will test Sony memory sticks, too.
As far as I can see now also Amiga users can use mobile MP3 players with the Amiga
(the Amiga can write to the cards!). This magic device is called "ICS-47-BH" and
is to be a CFA, SM, PC card reader with a SCSI-II interface.
The cards are accessed using a mountlist, as like with harddisks, at the speed of
4MByt/sec (read and write). I will create a website with more detailed information
including pictures.
Update 14.09.2001:
Changed title. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Andy Mueller-Maguhn (E-Mail)
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CCC argues against attacks against communication systems
Chaos Computer Club, 13.09.2001
CCC argues against attacks against communication systems
- International understanding more important than ever before
As a reaction on the unbelievable murder attacks in the USA there is an appeal
circulating in the hacker scene to destroy websites and other communication systems
in Islamic countries or organisations available in the Internet.
The Chaos Computer Club arguments against this appeal and asks to ignore this or similar
appeals. As a galactic association it is unimaginable for us to split the world in
good and bad now and to take religion as the measure of all measures for such separation.
These incidences are hard to operate in the global village for every human on this planet.
But as hackers we should try the world processing at issue now to handle in the sense of
human race. "We helplessly face the power of destruction. But we believe in the power
of communication, which eventually always turned out to be positive and more powerful than
hate", said Jens Ohlig, speaker of the CCC.
"Electronic communication structures like the Internet right now can make an important
contribution to international communication. In this understandingly tense situation
it may not happen that communication lines get broken giving more foundation for the lack
of understanding.", summarized Any Müller-Maguhn, speaker of the CCC.
The Chaos Computer Club, this time celebrating it's 20th anniversary, according to it's
statue pleads for freedom of information and a human right of at least world wide untrammelled
communication.
Already in 1999 the CCC together with a coalition of popular hacker groups
(Cult of the Dead Cow, 2600, L0pht, Phrack, Pulhas, Toxyn,
!Hispahack, and members of the Dutch hacker community) argued against the utilization
of networks as an electronic battlefield:
"Don't participate in warlike action in the so called 'cyber war'. Keep the networks alive, which are
for communication. These are the nervous system of human progress."
The original Infopeace statement can be read under
http://www.ccc.de/CRD/CRD19990107.html.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources
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Different software updates
On the Da SixK Port Page you will find
version 3.23.42 from 11.09.2001 of the MySQL database ported for Amigas with 68040 CPU.
Download: MySqld_32342_040_base.lzx
Since 10.09.2001 on the Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page, a homepage with many small and
useful tools, you will find updates of
IxEnv (Ixemul environment required for Fr3dy's programs) and the text based
browser Lynx now available
in version 2.8.5dev.2. There is also a MorphOS version of Lynx.
Download:
ixemul.lha -
lynx.lha -
lynx-mos.lha
Since 10.09.2001 a Spanish guide version for the MPEG1/2 decoder
Frogger is available for download.
Download: spanish.lha (40 KB)
REBOL announce REBOL/IOS
(Internet Operating System)
for twelve different platforms including the AMIGA.
"IOS lets people work together in real-time from anywhere in the world.
It transforms physically separated groups into productive, unified teams
by providing a direct, secure, and responsive environment for
collaboration and sharing."
Since 11.09.2001 on the website of the
Alternativer Computerclub
a new version of IFFAnzeiger, a shareware IFF-ILBM viewer by
Ralf Berg, which can display even extremely big
pictures directly from harddisk. With this for example picture at the size of 200 MB
can be displayed with only 0.5 MB of Chip RAM. Parts of the latest version of IFFAnzeiger are
assembler optimized.
With Stephan Rupprecht you find a fast alternative move
command version 37.10, since 11.09.2001
Download: move37.lha
At Peter's Amiga Home Page there is an updated printer driver for
HP Deskjet 870C.
Download: HP_Deskjet870C.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources
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More websites offline by solidarity (update)
Due to the terror attacks against the USA more websites decided to go offline by
solidarity or to change their main page:
Ian Chapman - The Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Bernd "Bernie" Meyer - JIT/Amithlon
FreedomForLinks
Amiga User Liste
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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