12.Nov.2001
Wouter Derdeyn (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive - Database of the best Amiga demos ever released
I'm working on a site about amiga demos. Basically, I'm trying to create
an archive for the best demos/intros ever released on the most stunning
scene machine ever (the amiga ofcourse). It's still early days yet but
I've got 123 demos and 900 screenshots online. Feedback is welcome!
(ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Jörg Strohmayer (ANF)
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MUI Security Bug-Fix (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer wrote:
PINT (mailtext and nlist) is affected by this Bug too. A bug-fix is available at the titlelink.
Instead of just fixing this problem for PINT I patched the muilowlevel.library.
Download: muilowlevel.library
Addition:
This patch protects all MUI-programs but not all other programs that use APIPE or AwnPIPE.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
HCS Lange
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Absolute rarity to auction (CMB 8296)
HCS Lange on their website (title link, see hardware rubric) auctions
an CBM 8296 machine from 1984. Here are the data of this collectible:
- CBM 8296
- Release date: 1984
- Processor: MOS 6502, 1 MHz
- RAM: 128 KByte
- ROM: 18 KByte with Basic V4.0
- Operating system: own, LOS-96
- Graphic chip: ---
- Text mode: 80 x 25 (monochrom)
- Graphic mode: ---
- Sound chip: ---
- Sound: piper
- Keyboard: typewriter, QWERTZ, 73 keys, seperate num-block, removable keyboard.
- Drive: none internal, (for 8296-D: CBM 8250), external any Commodore drive with IEEE488 bus can be connected directly.
- I/O: 1 x IEEE488, 2 x datasette
- Special: built-in monitor (12", green)
This machine optical is as good as new and it's an absolute rarity.
The lowest bid is at DM 100,-. Bids are accepted till 17. November 2001.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers has licensed appp.device from Haage & Partner
In the course of development of the ADSL-driver for the X-Surf ethernet
card, we have licensed the appp.device from Haage & Partner GmbH. Our
goal is to speed up the interface between our xsurfadsl.device and the
appp.device, so the CPU load will be reduced dramatically. New versions
of the device for AmigaOS 68K will be available for free. (ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Bernd Rösch (ANF)
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New Blitzbasic2 (now AmiBlitz 2)
I got the permision from Acid Soft to publish the sources and binaries of Blitzbasic 2 (due to the PC-version it is now called AmiBlitz 2) into the Aminet (dev/basic).
The sources will be available one week from now.
I just uploaded a binary-update of AmiBlitz 2 V2.2 that introduces many new features.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
Scalos
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Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.14 / Homepage with new layout
Betaversion 40.14 of 'scalos', an alternative workbench, was released on the 11th November 2001. This new release fixes some bugs.
Additional information is available here.
The modules Persistent Windows, WB3.9, Volume Gauge and the WBRexx Plugins were updated too.
Furthermore the layout of the homepage has changed and the webmaster requests your Feedback.
Download
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
Thomas Zahren (ANF)
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Nostalgica: Amiga Graphics artist + programmer Jim Sachs
While looking around the news pages of CHIP.DE
I found a link to the aquarium screensaver in the news on the new Windows XP and
it's "self-made plus package". This screensaver was programmed by Jim Sachs.
Until then I had no idea of this name, but as I then looked at "About the Author" (title link)
on the serenescreen.com website, some
known pictures of the author from Amiga days turned up. A link on this page shows
many pictures of his
work history, too.
With another link on the same site the Amiga is mentioned again in an
interview.
To smile:
To the surprised interviewer's questions, how it comes that the download of this
emotive Windows screensaver is just about 600k in size:
RADEONIC: Probably one of the things that surprised me most was the size of
the download. Did you spend a lot of time optimising the code, and did you
have any special tricks for compressing textures?
JS: No, I haven't really started to optimize the code yet. Coming from
the Amiga, where everything had to fit on a 770k floppy, I am utterly
amazed at how huge PC apps have become. What could these programmers
possibly be filling up all those megabytes with? The whole ascii source
code for the program? The phone book for their area code?
It was a pleasure to me to accidently stumble upon this programmer and those Internet sites and
thereby to learn, that he still likes the Amiga, allthough he changed the system.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM 2.3p1 Bugfixing Release
The YAM Open Source Team released today a bugfix for the reported security hole and other well known bugs of the 2.3 release.
The fix can be downloaded from the following URL
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yamos/YAM23p1.lha.
There will be a major release in the weeks to come that will introduce missed features and will fix bugs.
(ps)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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FreeCD: Toons, Genetic Species, and Racing
For the FreeCD series Patrick Henz has released three new
CD-ROMs about the subjects 'Toons', 'Genetic Species', and
'Racing'.
They toon it again
Part two of this Amiga Toons series contains more than 100 issues of
Sabrina Online, the adventures of Space Rat, caricatures by Thorsten Dudai,
MPG cartoons, photos and games by Black Legend and Mutation Software, as
well.
Genetic Species
Thanks to Marble Eyes now the 3D shooter 'Genetic Species' is available
as a already installed FreeCD.
Racing
This CD contains the full versions of 'Wheelspin AGA' and
'Aerial Racers', many photos from Monaco, the Nürburgring and
Zolder, many paper models, a Formula 1 database, as well as a Rocking-Tune.
To order the CDs follow the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Payback: textures by Philipp Bödeker
On the
German website Philipp Bödeker
released textures for free use with the Payback map-editor. You can find them at the
texture section. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail)
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Tool: Martin R. Elsner on 'StopMenu'
Martin R. Elsner wrote:
«Hello,
just now on St.Martin's day I have some bad and good news for you.
The bad: I will stop development of StopMenu.
In the last weeks I worked with full power on StopMenu - only to rename the
variables and functions (some still polish or whatever), to add some
commentaries (there were quiet none) and to try to change some parts. As
final surprise one of many tests made my Amiga crash and thereby destroyed
the source code, the work of many days. This and the belief that
changing StopMenu is harder and needs more time than writing an own program
caused my decision. StopMenu was not only bad written and commented (well,
it has grown piecewise and has got the errors from both programmers ;) -
no, it also has some very restricting, old fashioned program parts that
should be replaced by a modern method.
Before you get the possibility to jump out of the window, here's the good
news:
One learns from each error. I've seen so many errors ;) that I now want to
make Choowin replace StopMenu !! It is written in best C++, uses Reaction,
and last but not least I know what I have programmed. And that's not all -
the prefs part of StopMenu is not forgotten, but replaced by a connection
to MainPrefs !! So both programs will form the beginning of the new
environment, where also ClassAction can join. The new project will consist
of the taskbar with start menu that allows to open the prefs and later the
file manager. Other programs will have the possibility to get an icon in
the taskbar.
That's a lot - but the three programs exist, Choowin will grow to StopMenu's
functionality (well, not exactly the same) and all of them will be joined to
the new MRE ("mainmenu with Reaction enhancements").
You can find a first screenshot of the startmenu on my homepage, the
first version will be available soon.
Regards,
Martin»
(sd)
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11.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Programming: ODK updated
Marius Schwarz released a new version of the OOP4A developer kit, which
allows to use any not object oriented programming language,
which is able to use Amiga shared libraries, for object programming.
The update contains new classes, a strongly enhanced OOP pre-processor,
and some useful attachments.
The online documentation got some additional diagrams, which give a
better and plainer view of the principle of function, especially in
connection with the class sources.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AMIGAPage.de: CyberGraphX-BootPicLibraries, Amiga Advertising
Marcus Neervroot updated the AMIGAPage.de website, today.
As highlight this time there is a collection of CyberGraphX-BootPicLibraries
available at the download section.
Again some Amiga and show advertisings have been added to the Amiga
history section (Amiga-Geschichte).
Furthermore there are many small innovations...., links and pictures updated.
AMIGAPage.de offers information about the Amiga's history, the AMIGA show
2001, several downloads (e.g. games), and more.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Bernd Meyer (Amithlon-ML)
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Amithlon: Looking for demo locations to add to list
In order to answer one of the frequently asked questions on Amithlon,
I would like to collect the addresses of shops or places where people
can watch Amithlon being demo-ed, and preferably can play around with
it themselves.
If you are providing such demos, I would appreciate if you could drop
me a note off-ML, to
bernie@amithlon.net.
(sd)
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11.Nov.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.4, Encyclopedia extended
Virus Help Denmark released version 17.4 of the virus detector 'Safe'
by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski, today.
'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible.
The following has changes since version 17.3:
- added new version of HTML document
(thanks to Herve Dupont for decompression!)
- fixed default tool to be more OS conform
(thanks to Harry Sintonen for hint)
- fixed ROM recalc in VECS/S
(thanks to Harry Sintonen for the report)
- fixed little bit the stealth detector
(if you get "suspicious actions" message each time
you execute Safe please report)
- WatchDog v1.3: watch doc
Integrity:
In one sentence:
there is no integrity check this time, as it is now under heavy
construction/bugfixing as COMP and CHECK will become one GUI based
program and which of course someday has to become part of MILL - new
antivirus initiative which seems to be almost dead now :(
'Safe' runs on AmigaOS V2.04+ and requires the xvs.library.
The "Amiga Virus Encyclopedia"
has been extended with new virus translations.
They are still looking for translation help. Who would like to translate some
German virus texts to English might contact
Jan Andersen (vht-dk@post4.tele.dk).
Download: Safe.lha (30 304 Bytes),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: Tutorial on Cut, Copy & Paste
Today, a new tutorial on 'cut, copy & paste' in AmigaOS has been released
on GFX-BASE introducing
patches and tools to simplify and enhance the use of this features.
It is being described how to copy files, pictures or URLs and how to re-define
keyboard short-cuts. Additionally there are tips & tricks and download links
to the programes mentioned, as well.
The tutorial is available in
German,
English,
and French. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Game: dynAMIte Homepage - Link to Italian Review
On the dynAMIte homepage now there is a link to an Italian
dynAMIte review
at amiworld.it.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ: Links to PlayCD skins added
On 10. November 2001 a link to the
blackbird-net website containing
PlayCD skins was added to the
miscellaneous section
of the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
ANN
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Programming language: PowerD V0.18
Alreay on 5. November 2001 Martin Kuchinka has released version
0.18 of the programming language 'PowerD'.
This is a modern programming language (currently only) for Amiga
computers. It supports both 68k and ppc processors. This release presents
several bugfixes and some new features, if You wish to know details,
please take a look at the history. To download the latest release (or
something else) please take a look at my homepage.
Such a project is very hard nut for single programmer. If You want to help
developing such project (there are several smaller tools that are also very
important), or have any ideas, or if You find any bugs, please feel free, and
contact me at:
kuchinka@volny.cz.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Hynek Schlawack (E-Mail)
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SimpleMail V0.12
SimpleMail V0.12 released.
Due to an exploit in MUI in combination with some PIPE-handlers
we have released a new version now, everybody actually should
update, as the old version has a really nasty security problem.
The changes are:
- Fix for the MUI exploit.
- Messages can be also encrypted with PGP 2.6.x.
- Switching away of columns in the message list is possible now.
(save it via "Save Prefs")
- Completation of email-addresses improved.
- A small menu added to the readwindow that makes it possible to
see the raw mail.
- Mousewheel support of the readwindow is more tolerant now.
- The attachments are better identified if you have OS3.9
and DefIcons. You can double-click on an icon to start an
action (needs also OS3.9 and DefIcons, e.g. double-click on an
archive will start UnArc in the default config of DefIcons).
- Printing of messages and text-attachments is possible now.
Download: simplemail.lha (240 KB)
(ps)
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10.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society Updates
After a longer period of time there are some smaller updates on our site.
For example the Amiga games list in the software section was extended,
Psyira's initial Schlachtfeld intro music is available for download, and
much more.
The software page is being reorganized to use database, thus there will not
be of much new stuff so far, but in any case we will be happy about any scan or
screenshot, descriptions of any kind, etc., etc....
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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