20.Oct.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Software compatibility list for Amiga OS XL revised
On 19.10. got the software compatibility list for Amiga OS XL updated.
Shapeshifter runs on Amithlon, some games under Amiga XL.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool is back
After a longer period of "thinking" the Amiga print magazine makes its presence
felt again: colored and round. That means, from the autumn issue on will the
amiga-topcool be released as CD-ROM rather than a print magazine. This can be
expected by the subscribers:
- A colored layout that's orientated along the print layout but readable in
HTML format.
- More pages as we aren't depending on printing costs anymore.
- The possibility to advertise one's Amiga club to the max - 10 MB memory is
space available for free for every Amiga club.
- The latest PD software as well as demo versions.
How many times the amiga-topcool will be issued in the future depends on the
drive of the number of free-lance worker that will hopefully grow in the future.
The CD will be subdivided as follows:
- 10 HTML pages up-to-date (interviews, ticker, press releases)
- 10 HTML pages application (previews, news, reviews, topic)
- 10 HTML pages game and fun (previews, news, reviews, Classic reviews, cheats)
- 10 HTML pages community (Amiga club list - with 10 MB memory space per
club, retailer list - with web appearances on CD, readers reactions, etc.)
- software (PD, demos, maybe commercial full versions, too)
Further information will follow in the next days on our Internet site that will
get a new look, too. The price of the CD is 10,- DM (including packing).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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Full text Aminet search engine in alpha test
Some hours ago I've completed a somewhat finished version of my
Aminet full text search engine. For now you find it on my local Amiga 4000 under
the URL http://213.196.87.182/
(title link).
Full text means that the appr. 100 MB of the 70000 readme files will be searched
through, too. Normally these search request need less than 2 seconds to be
answered.
I'd like you to test it and give me suggestions for improvements asap. Happy
alpha testing!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Mikey C (ANF)
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Event: World of Amiga South East
So are we! On Saturday 3rd of November 2001 the World of Amiga
Southeast show is taking place at Poplars Hall, Shenfield, Essex, UK.
This is the ideal opportunity for you to come along and show all those
who that think the Amiga market is dead where they can shove it!
We have worked tirelessly to bring you some of the biggest names in the
Amiga Industry to World of Amiga Southeast 2001
Amiga, Elbox, Eyetech, Cloanto, & Pagan Games are amongst those who are attending the show ready to see in the new era of Amiga Computing with the eminent launch of the AmigaOne/SharkPPC Zico Spec Machines and beyond.
James Daniels, Paul Burkey and Fleecy Moss are just some of the Amiga Celebes will be in attendance at WoA Southeast.
However, all our hard work will be for nothing if we have a poor turnout.
We need every one to come along and show the world that we want an alternative to the dull and bloated OS that has afflicted the masses in the computing world.
Sick and tired of all the doom and gloom in the Amiga market?
In short we want a new Amiga, and just because an Amiga Magazine shuts down, it doesn't mean that the existing Amiga dealers have suddenly ceased to exist or have gone elsewhere.
So turn up to WOA Southeast and support Amiga, Fore-Matt Home Computing, Weird Science, Stellar Dreams, Elbox, Clubbed Magazine, Cloanto, Eyetech, 100%Amiga, VP, and many more by coming along on the day.
Many retailers need shows like WoA Southeast to keep their commitment and businesses going until the next generation Amiga takes off.
Let's make the doom mongers eat a big shitcake, turn up and do us proud!
For more details on advance ticket ordering, full list of exhibitors, discussion forums and how to get there please visit http://www.worldofamiga.com
Michael Carrillo (aka Mikey C)
World of Amiga Southeast, Exhibitor, Media and Public Relations.
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20.Oct.2001
eisblock (ANF)
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DiCaTool V0.8
All owners of serial digital cams who want to use their cams as webcam with
their Amiga can download the program DiCaTool during the weekend from my Apache
server (title link).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)
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Takeover of the CD³²Outside successful!
I may all those who are waiting for new issues of the "CD³² Outside" tell that
the takeover by Henning Schlautmann had been successful. From 01.11.2001 on will
now Henning Schlautmann continue the "CD³² Outside" resp. maintain. Address questions,
critics and suggestions concerning the "CD³² Outside" please to him. The 4. issue
of the "CD³² Outside" therefore has to be released until 01.02.2002!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS special price
Today it's the last time you have the possibility to preorder the route planner AmiATLAS 6
for a unique special price at the Amiga Arena. An "update special price" for
registered users of version 5 is of course available, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Falke 34 (ANF)
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CybergraphX V4.3 beta for G-Rex
Version 4.3 beta of the graphics card driver software CyberGraphX for G-Rex
is available for download. This version contains a new cgxsystem.lib and
the Voodoo as well as the Permedia2 drivers were updated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (email)
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Datatypes: new versions by Oliver Roberts
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp datatypes. Since yesterday are the following
versions available for download:
- WarpJPEG.datatype 44.25 - JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
- WarpPNG.datatype 44.21 - PNG picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
- WarpTIFF.datatype 44.5 - TIFF picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
- WarpBMP.datatype 44.6 - BMP picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
- WarpPSD.datatype 44.3 - Adobe Photoshop® picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
All datatypes are freeware and serve for displaying different kinds of data in
different viewer programs.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (e-mail)
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Print magazine: Amiga Active Magazine Announces Major Changes
Fri 19 Oct
Amiga Active Magazine Announces Major Changes
Amiga Active, the world's leading Amiga magazine, is undergoing significant
changes to meet the challenges of a changed marketplace. With the first
consumer version of the next generation Amiga environment, the AmigaDE
player, finally available to the public, Amiga have stepped into the
future, and Amiga Active magazine is following suit.
Issue 26 of Amiga Active magazine will be released on the 25th of October.
This issue will contain the normal mix of forward-looking and "Classic Amiga"
content, including the most detailed preview of the Amiga DE to date,
revealing for the first time much of what is actually going into the
next-generation Operating Environment which Amiga are building on top
of the binary-portable intent JTE (Java Technology Edition) multimedia
engine from Tao Group. This will be the last time that Amiga's journey
into the next generation will be a matter of previews and predictions.
The next generation has arrived.
Amiga Active has been preparing for this from the very beginning. Since
the very first issue we have been covering the revolution taking place
in computing, and over recent months our coverage has increased through
our ever-expanding "Next Generation" section. We are now taking the
magazine itself into the next stage with a change in focus, and a
change in name - to digital.
Complete article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Oct.2001
Matthew Kille (ANF)
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Zeoneo website launched
The Zeoneo website is now online
with details of its two new releases for AmigaDE: Convex and Planet
Zed.
Until now, Zeoneo was a company that relatively few people knew about.
Indeed, it may suprise many people to know that we have been working behind
the scenes for well over a year now. In that time, experience and understanding
of the systems that make up AmigaDE has been gained and used to develop our
first two PDA-targetted titles.
Convex is an addictive puzzle game where the objective of each of the 25
levels is to remove all the marbles.
Planet Zed is a vertical scroll shoot 'em up game that borrows many of its
features from the classic Bitmap Brothers game Xenon2.
Further information and screenshots of these products is available on the website.
www.zeoneo.com
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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New downloads at the NARR site
At the NARR site you can download a colorful imageset in GlowIcon style for MUIVideo
(was released some time ago for the Amiga Arena).
In addition to some other small changes on my site, there's also a new skin
(SolarCalc) for CoolCALC which was made by Klaus Licha.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Oct.2001
Andreas Schmidt (ANF)
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4,000,000th visitor :-)
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! You've just had your 4,000,000th visitor, that's me.
With the help of a printout made with Netscape (PS file) I can prove it. Will
there be a price? :-)
Comment from the team:
We currently have no prices, but maybe a company donates something :-).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Oct.2001
Scott Pistorino (ANF)
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WWW.AmigaSource.com - Your NEW source for Amiga information
For your viewing pleasure. A new source of Amiga information has been
created. After months of hard work www.AmigaSource.com
has finally been released to the Amiga community. With 500 links and
many more still yet to come this I hope this will be of much use to you
all.
Thanks. Scott Pistorino
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Sharp announces developer version of their SL5000 PDA for November
Sharp has announced the developer version of their SL5000 PDAs for November
In the article at the title link there is some concrete information about the
operating system of the PDA for the first time. The PDA will use besides the
already known Embedix Linux kernel by Lineo
Qt embedded and the QT Palmtop Environment
by Trolltech as well as the browser
Opera. Further, a Java VM is integrated.
The article does not mention who provides the JVM. Probably TAO's Java VM
won't be used but rather the Jeode Java VM by Insignia,
at least this is mentioned on the Sharp developer page for the PDA.
Then the Sharp PDA would use the system
of the partners Lineo - Trolltech - Insignia - Opera already announced on the Lineo page.
Original article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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18.Oct.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: Initial impressions of the design case for AmigaOne
Eyetech has released first impressions of the design case for the AmigaOne, exclusively developed for Eyetech by the French industry designers Naya.
Some of Naya's employees are still active Amigans who seem to have contacted
Ben Yoris (Hyperion) who then arranged contact with Eyetech.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)
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XTeam Software Solution: Geometry Studio Demo
In the section download
is present a preview of Geometry Studio (need a mpeg player).
(ps)
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18.Oct.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Hyperion announce Haage & Partner to distribute "Freespace: The Great War"
18-October-2001: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that
Haage&Partner will act as Publisher of the Amiga conversion of "Freespace,
The Great War".
The eagerly awaited game which was originally developed by Volition and
published by Interplay, is arguably the best space-combat simulator ever to
grace the Amiga platform and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch
graphics, plot and gameplay.
Freespace will run on any PPC equipped Amiga with at least 64 MB of memory
or a 68060 based Amiga with 3D accelerator (e.g. Voodoo 3, Permedia 2).
More information can be found at
freespace.haage-partner.de.
Freespace can already be pre-ordered from the H&P online store at
www.amiga-shop.de .
Users who pro-order their copy of Freespace will receive their copy before
anyone else. (ps)
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18.Oct.2001
Paul Qureshi (ANF)
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AmiMPC - Amiga in-car MP3 Player
The AmiMPC website is now available at:
http://amimpc.world3.net.
Check out the Amiga in-car MP3 player based on an A1200 and
MAS Player Pro!
(ps)
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18.Oct.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)
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DCE: GREX 4000D shipping from today
From today the GREX 4000D is in stock and available. Today the first boards have been
delivered to our distributor Vesalia Computer.
The boards also are being offered by Virtualworks on the
Pianeta 2001 in Empoli, Italy.
Moreover we have created a new driver pack for free use
(download: grexdriver2_2.lzh).
To make our board PCI compatible with the Pegasos board the CyberPCI library version 2.2 is
available now (download:
flash_20011012.lha).
This new flash for the first time enables Voodoo3 users to display the 15KHz start screen
directly on the Voodoo card after system start. For this new graphic boards drivers and new
68060 libraries are required and made available
(download: GREX68K_libraryV2_2.lha).
Also new is the graphic board driver for the SIS 6326 VGA card supporting both of the
RAM variants of this card. For sound support we are offering drivers for the approved
Terratec sound cards PCI 128 and PCI 512. Compatible cards with the chip sets
ESS SOLO ONE (PCI 128) as well as Fortem edia 801 (PCI 512) can be used, too.
Both of the drivers support use with AHI. All of the drivers will be available for download from
tomorrow.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - update announcement
A new update for the Amiga astronomy program "Digital Almanac III" version 4.2
can be expected bevore long. A certain release date was not determined, yet.
New features:
- Enhanced formula for the moon's brightness.
- The DA screen now is puclic (public screen).
- The Bayer/Flamsteed database has been enhanced.
- Online information of several hundreds of stars!
- Selection of different Internet sites for constellation descriptions via context menu in the star window.
Bugfixes:
- Small bug in the accuracy matrix fixed (but did not affect due to low values).
- URLs in the planet window called wrong Internet sites.
- When opening a project file on program start (CLI or WB) accidently a screen mode request
was done.
If Harald Frank will agree and there will be time enough DA III perhaps will be presented
running on the new Amithlon/AmigaXL on the Amiga meeting of the Amiga-Freunde-Pfalz
in Mutterstadt, Germany, on 19. Oktober to show the new emulator's performance by an
scientific program. But this cannot be guaranteed at this time and cannot be checked before
the meeting.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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