29.Aug.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: ENVHandler V 1.11
Stephan Rupprecht has published version 1.11 of his Env replacement called 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha (14 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: IDF: Arapahoe to bury PCI and AGP
The Arapahoe Working Group (Compaq, Dell, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and PCI-SIG)
announced at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose that 22 companies, including
3Com, Nvidia, AMD, Adaptec, and Texas Instruments, will support the development
of the designated PCI successor by the internal code names of "Arapahoe" and "3GIO".
See title link for the Heise article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Invitation intro for Trsac Party published!
The danish scenegroup Loonies which participated on the production of the commercial game called 'Earth 2140' has published an invitation intro for the Trsac party. This one will take place in Kopenhagen from the 12.-14. of October. The intro and the english written invitation text are on the official Trsac party homepage and soon in the Aminet, too.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Corel sells its Linux-section
As Heise reported Corel will sell its Linux-section this week according to US news agencies. The buyer is supposed to be a firm called Xandros which was just founded. The offer for sale for the Linux-section is supposed to be two million US-Dollar.
Heise article see title link.
Another link to this topic:
Golem: Corel sells its Linux-distribution
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Gateway dismisses people
As we have already reported several times Gateway Inc. is going to rearrange and to dismiss employees in Europe. Heise now reports that a lot of people will be dismissed.
Heise-article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Metabox saved
According to Heise a not mentioned private man has given a credit over 2 million Mark to the settop-boxes-producer Metabox and with it has saved the company right before the end.
Heise-article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
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amiga-news.de celebrates third anniversary :-)
For three years our team delivers messages
of the Amiga-sector and topics which are generally important for computer
and Internet to you. The last year was espacially exciting for us because
the new scripts and with it the possibilities to post comments have been
a freshening aspect. Although sometimes the ´freshening aspect´
was rather a ´ half-hearted breath of air´. Nevertheless the
comments have become an important part of amiga-news.de. Since the
introduction in January of 2001 over 16,000 comments have been given
to our messages.
Interesting because it is still always exciting to see how the market
develops - or how it does not. In the present time it is quite difficult
to understand what will happen - or what will not. Sometimes it is really
hard to find the truth between promises, announcements, exaggerations,
rumors and disputes. But just this is the attraction - to see how
comparatively small groups of enthusiasts can finally start great
projects. This is a goad for us make us hopeful.
In our history read how amiga-news.de has
developed in the past three years, who collaborates and spends his free
time for our team gratuitously.
I personally want to thank all the helpful hands because without
work of each single one amiga-news.de would not be that what it is today.
I want to thank all the readers, authors, developers and programmers which
deliver all the messages. I espacially want to thank our advertising
partners which help us to finance our website with its banner
advertisement. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Ina Sielaff (ANF)
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Mexikon: Cactuses-lexicon in Amiga-guide-format
Under the title link you can find software for Amiga. One is called 'Mexikon' which is a lexicon about cactuses with many hints and suggestions. It also contains maps of Mexico and pictures of over 650 cactuses. Besides this there is the program 'AMIGA Workbench - Tuning'.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Earth 2140 mailing list
Pagan Games has created an English-spoken mailing list for Earth 2140.
E2140-player can discuss about strategies, the game, updates and new
levels (mission packs) there. The developers of the Amiga version of
Earth 2140 are also on the list and will try to answer your questions.
Subscribe: pagan-e2140-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: pagan-e2140-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Post message: pagan-e2140@yahoogroups.com
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Hugi Online (PC Demo-Szene Magazin) (ANF)
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Max Payne developer are (active!) Amiga-freaks
Silvio Senger writes:
Maybe the following message does not really fit to the news but I think
that it is interesting for most of the Amiga-fans:
For some weeks there is a new action hero in the PC-world called MAX
PAYNE. It lasts nearly five years to develop the game and it certainly
is one of the hits of this year, at least in the PC-fan-community. It is
known that some Amiga-Fans developed this game.
On the this year's ASSEMBLY in Finland (with nearly 5000 visitors one of
the biggest demo/LAN-parties;
www.assembly.org) where the best
freaks also compete in a "demo-competition" PC- and Amiga-demos have been
shown together in one competition. It was amazing to see that a team which
made its demo on a Amiga was the winner.
(as amiga-news.de reported).
And that is remarkable: The members of the group ´MatureFurk´
behind this demo all work at Mad Onion (known by its benchmark program
3DMark2001). The graphic artist mainly participates on Max Payne.
And there is another curious thing: Exactly the same group won on the last ASSEMBLY the PC-demo competition. The demo has the same name as the AMIGA winner demo on the ASSEMBLY 2001.
The following links are interesting:
Detailed interview with the graphic artist of the DEMO, which participates on Max Payne
Download of AMIGA DEMOS (requires 68060 + AGA + 16 MB memory!)
Download of the Amiga-Demo in MPEG format (13.3 MB)
PC-DEMO of the ASSEMBLY 2000 (same team)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Darkage offers trip to the past!
Fans of old crackintros from the beginning of the 90ies might be delighted about Stingray's new 100% fix! In the download section of Scenet you can find two crackintro packs and the 100% fix of Equinox'
Musicdisk Sonial Fantasia! We wish you a good time journey!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo group: 'Pic Saint Loop' publishes KissMyJazz Musicdisk
Last night the Polish demo group 'Pic Saint Loup' published the long
expected Musicdisk 'KISS MY JAZZ'. It has been advertised with an
intro on the MekkaSymposium for it. To this time the musican Jazzcat
was not sure if he would really ever publish his demo.
But now it is done. Have a look at the download section at Scenet.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scenet issue 37 released!
Issue 37 of the scene oriented database SCENET recently was released. There you can
nuzzle to the top of your bent for e-mail addresses, hotlinks, FTP servers, Telnet
mail boxes, ICQs, newsgroups, etc. in 522 KB of text!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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28.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Byte Magazin: He Who Controls the Bootloader
You can find an article from Scot Hacker about the license policy of Microsoft
in the American computer magazine Byte.
Hacker tries to explain with the examples BeOS and Linux why it is so hard to
establish an alternative operating system on the x86 market.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr produced song for amiga-news.de
It is a great honour! The musician Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr has composed and produced
a very nice song for amiga-news.de in his spare time. You can find the song at the
download area (title link) at "Amiga-News Theme" (about 7 MB, saved in high quality) or right here:
AmigaNewsTheme2001.mp3
As I listened to the song I had the idea it would be nice if a demo coder could
create an intro for this. Really would be if someone has an idea for lyrics for this
song. If you are interested send an eMail to ps@amiga-news.de
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New Mediator Drivers 'MediatorUP 2.4'
We are happy to announce the first release of the shared
MMU & NO_MMU version of Mediator drivers.
The new pci.library 4.1 can currently work in both modes.
Along with the new pci.library we release new versions of all
the drivers released so far.
All the new drivers have been re-written to co-operate with our
newest software: drivers for PCI Sound and PCI TV cards released
in the Mediator Multimedia CD.
More details: http://www.elbox.com/news_16-08-01.html
The following files are included in MediatorUP2.4.lha:
pci.library ver. 4.1 NEW
The way how the pci.library and all the drivers are working
(MMU / NO_MMU) can be switched over by the contents of
the MMU file located in the Envarc:/Mediator drawer.
Manuals:
ReadMe
UserManual
VoodooGuide
VirgeGuide
MediatorNET
Copyright
Software:
Mediator_Install
PciInfo ver.1.2
Drivers:
Voodoo.card ver.2.5 NEW
Virge.card ver.1.3 NEW
MediatorNET.device ver.2.1 NEW
Prefs files:
MMU
VoodooMem
VodooInt
VirgeMem
VirgeInt
For the newest Vendors.txt file, see:
http://www.yourvote.com/pci/vendors.txt
Please copy appropriate files to drawers:
pci.library to Libs:
MediatorNET.device to Devs:Networks
Vendors.txt to S:
MMU to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooMem to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooInt to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeMem to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeInt to Envarc:Mediator
Voodoo.card to Libs:Picasso96
Virge.card to Libs:Picasso96
Please read VoodooGuide before installing your Voodoo card.
Please read VirgeGuide before installing your S3 Virge card.
Please check CGX pages:
http://www.vgr.com/mediator
for the newest version of CGX drivers.
Note: CyberGraphXV3 S3 ViRGE driver does not work with pci.library 4.1.
If you want to use it still you should use pci.library 2.2
(enclosed in Archive drawer).
More information about the latest drivers, see:
http://www.elbox.com/news_arch.html
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #50
Issue #50 of 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was released at August, 25th. This
issue contains e.g. an exclusive interview with Hyperion Entertainment.
AIO uses its own viewer that runs with AmigaOS.
At the AIO website you will find an additional picture, that shows a
two-paged article about the AmigaOne. This feature is taken from issue #660
(Aug, 23th 2001) of the british magazine 'MicroMart'.
Download: docs/mags/AIOV50.lha,
Readme
(sd) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Saku 2001 brochure available in PDF format
The four-page brochure on the Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2001 event
is now available for download in PDF format from the official web site at
http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001/ (see title link).
Visitors are also able to sell their second-hand Amiga goods at Saku 2001.
The service is free of charge and available for all private persons,
membership of the user group is not required. A couple of the latest
Amiga games are also available for testing at the venue: both Payback
and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division are demonstrated.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science Centre
Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and end at
18:00. Admission will be free of charge. For further information, visit
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at http://saku.amigafin.org
or http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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27.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Realtime strategy "Voodoo Wars" announced
Melina Softworks, well known for some freeware and shareware programs so far,
announced the release of a new realtime strategy game for highend Amigas and the AmigaOne.
The development just started and they are still on the hunt for new developers.
Additional information is available at the "Projekte"-button at the homepage of Melina Softworks.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Mahjongg Tiles v1.1
Release of version 1.1 of the MUI-based Solitaire-clone 'Mahjongg' by R.E.D. This release includes a graphic-bugfix. Further
improvements are still under development.
Download: MahjonggTiles_v1.1.lzx (425 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis (E-Mail)
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Repulse-driver for NetBSD/Amiga
A driver for the "repulse" board by Aliendesign was added to the
NetBSD-current yesterday.
Repulse is a Zorro II interface to an AC97 compliant Audio CODEC and
additional S/P-DIF circuitry. The NetBSD driver currently only supports
8-48 kHz mono or stereo 8 or 16 bit audio data from/to the analog part.
The missing features will be added later.
The driver was added to NetBSD-current, the development branch of NetBSD.
The NetBSD projects invites volunteers to test this code. Problems should
be reported on the NetBSD port-amiga mailing list or (preferred) through
the NetBSD bug tracking system.
The repulse driver is expected to be available in the NetBSD-1.6 formal
release.
Additional information:
The NetBSD operating system
NetBSD on classical Amiga and Macrosystem DraCo machines
How to test NetBSD-current
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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