27.Aug.2001
Marc Gutzwiller (ANF)
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New swiss onlineshop offering Amigaproducts
Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems, a dealer from Switzerland, is proud to announce the opening of their onlineshop.
The shop offers mobile phones, digital cameras, as well as hardware and software for the Playstation2, PC and Amiga.
Later on there will be products for the Macintosh and for Audio and Video available, too.
Marc 'Gutzi' Gutzwiller of Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems: "I would like to mention that the Amiga-area is still beta.
We know that the Amiga market is very small and that it is not possible to earn money in this market. There are only
some but really good Amiga-dealers. Due to this facts we will offer Amiga products as long as we do not loose any money
by doing this. Because I am using Amigas since the good old Amiga 500 I hope that we can support Amiga as long as possible.
Feel free to mail what you think about our shop. We are pleased about any reaction."
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27.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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Game-CD: Almost Real
Patrick Henz released the game CD 'Almost Real'. The CD contains the following programs:
- Airbus A320 Vol.2, including english handbook (185 pages), NTSC- and PAL-versions, Europe-,
US-North and US-West-sceneries, High Quality-Photos
- Approach Trainer, including a german handbook (98 pages)
- Aufschwung Ost, german version
- Aunt Artic Adventure
- Charon 5
- Hannibal, german version
- Ju52
- Ports of Call, german and english version
- SeaLance
- Space MAX, german version
- Tie Break
- Train Driver 1.6
- Wreckage
The cd can be ordered at the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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MPEG: AMP V2.03
Version 2.03 of 'AMP', an MPEG-Video-Player, was released on the 26. August.
Changes in the new version:
- Added 24bit BGR/GRAY renderer, it's 27% faster than 32bit ARGB with the same quality!
- Added new CSS-key extraction code, made all DVDs I have work.
- Rewrote the motion compensation routines, made the MPEGV decoder 14% faster.
- Rewritten the audio.device routines, these are completely free from any context switches
what so ever.
- Wrote generic requester routines, just as ugly as the DVD ones, but now also used for VCD and CD-i
playback.
- Added OS9 (CD-i) and ISO9660 (VCD) filesystem parsers.
- Using the 56KHZAUDIO CGFX env-variable, one can now get 44100Hz playback through audio.device.
- Changed VCDDEVICE, VCDUNIT to DEVICE, UNIT. Removed VCDTRACK.
- Added pause (SPACE, ENTER to continue) and windowscreen switch (L-/RAmiga + ENTER).
- The window title now contain filename and video size.
- GUI: Updated to work with the new AMP executable.
AMP currently supports the following multimedia types:
MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional) and automatic frameskip.
MP2/MP3 audio streams.
AC3 streams, both standalone and embedded in MPEG2 streams.
(S)VCD, CD-i and DVD.
The features include:
Fast AGA support with 8 HAM modes and optional triple buffering,
CGFX support with optional triple buffering,
fast audio playback using audio.device or AHI,
CLI interface using ReadArgs or MUI GUI,
window support on any depth CGFX and AGA screens,
overlay support using cgxvideo.library.
Download: AMP203.lha
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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26.Aug.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - Update V4.0 and V4.1 (Update)
As already announced last weekend the update of Digital Almanac III
is available for all registered customers, now.
Unfortunately this update has to be delivered in two parts. The initial
archive (v4.0, 4MB) still contained two bugs, but which have been fixed
in the second part (v4.1, 1,4MB).
The update to v4.1 strongly requires v4.0!
The new and automatic update function of the program works with v4.1 only.
The update archives should appear on Aminet during the following days.
Extra hasty people may download the files from the mailing list.
More information under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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clickBOOM: Lawsuit against CD manufacturer
On July 9, 2001, in the Ontario's Thornhill court, PXL computers Inc. filed a
lawsuit against Duplium Corp.. clickBOOM's long term partner had failed to
produce replacement CDs for the Nightlong video game over the past 9 month,
therefore clickBOOM had no other option but to go to court.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Volker Mohr (E-Mail)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2001 deferred indefinitely
Volker Mohr wrote:
«As it turned out today unfortunately I have to defer indefinitely the Classic Computing 2001 show,
which was announced to take place on 08. Sptember 2001.
I ask you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
Volker Mohr»
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Andreas Günther (ANF)
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Scanner: French catalogs for ScanQuix
From now on French catalog files for the scanning software 'ScanQuix 5'
are available. The translations were done by
Frédéric Nicolas.
The archive can be downloaded from
http://www.scanquix.de/.
Download: ScanQuix5_FR.lha (20K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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ACBB live report from the IFA (Update)
A short report from the IFA (with the kind support of ifa-hammer.de) by
the ACBB.
In hall 3.2a you will find the Sharp SL5000 (Zaurus).
After initial problems (nobody knew about Amiga at the PDA booth) A4k,
Trion, and me, Gojira, found Mrs. Boxberg (Product Manager Sharp Germany).
She found very much time to show us a Zaurus with miscellaneous Amiga applications.
Later some guy with an Amiga logo on his shirt appeared. That was Sanjay Menon,
Vice President Engineering Amiga Inc.. He had a prototype with more applications
with him, too.
Mrs. Boxberg mentioned that Sharp is wanting contact with German Amiga developers
and there might be an announcement at amiga-news.de, soon.
This was the report by the ACBB so far. More information and pictures are on our
site. (sd)
Update 27.08.2001:
Here you can find some pictures:
http://Nosutta.bei.t-online.de/IFA2001/PAGE001.HTML.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Carsten Schroeder (E-Mail)
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Met@box: Refloating loan from the shareholder community?
On 22. August 2001 the 'Metabox AG' enquired a short-term refloating loan
in the amount of 1 million Euro from the 'Aktionärsgemeinschaft Metabox'
(shareholder community Metabox). This money is needed to maintain business operations
until the general meeting. Without this money already within the next few days
insolvency proceedings will be opened.
Thereafter the shareholder community formed a delegation, which is inspecting the Metabox AG
to estimate chances for sanitation, since last Friday.
From the inspections was derived (quotation):
«1) The company should be sustained. A sellout of the values created by the shareholder's
fund should be prevented without fail.
2) We should appeal to make available the required short-term sum of one million Euro.
The securities given let us estimate a low loan contingency risk.»
Complete press release under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: PDA - Interviews with Moss (Amiga) and Steiding (epic)
At Amiga Flame several texts were released for the subject PDA games and AmigaDE.
Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc., emphases in the interview,
that the main focus of AmigaDE is to provide an environment in
which content can be used hardware independent. So the agreement with
Sharp allows to use AmigaDE content on Sharp's devices, but Amiga also
works together with other companies. AmigaDE already runs on different
devices in the laboratory in Snoqualmie, including the currently most
popular PDAs as well as those soon to be released, and additional on
Linux and Windows desktops. From AmigaOS v4.2 AmigaDE also will be
available for AmigaOne machines.
To reduce language problems for the Japanese market in particular games
are created to be used via icons only, as much as possible. But in the
future there will be a localizing service offered, too.
Epic Interactive announced early August to develop AmigaDE software.
Amiga Flame asked Thomas Steiding about the reasons behind this PDA engagement.
On reason for Epic Interactive to support the PDA market are the development
times of 2 - 3 month for PDA games, which are definite shorter than for desktop
games (18 - 24 month). That gives clear less risk.
Since the PDAs don't match the currently popular 3D titles, these represent a
completely different market with card games, puzzles, and shoot'em ups which
sale well in the PDA market, but would not be accepted for desktops, these days.
Due to the PDAs low performance compared to desktops Steiding thinks
Amiga developers to well suit PDA games development, since those rather are
used to handle more inefficient machines than e.g. Windows developers are.
Finally he describes the titles Epic Interactive will release, soon. Those
also are listed on Amiga PDA Games
along with other titles.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Amiga: AmigaDE Shop online
The AmigaDE Shop went online.
The 'AmigaDE Player' for Linux and MS Windows is to be the first product
available there. The price is 14,95 USD for advance sale and later 19,95 USD.
This player makes it possible to use AmigaDE programs under Linux and Windows.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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A500: Viper 530 Relaunch Project
The 'Viper 530 Relaunch Project' is an initiative to re-produce the
'Viper 530' for the Amiga 500, which is about a CPU socket extension
for the A500 with the following features:
CPU 68030 (50MHz), FPU 68882 (50MHz) slot, one SCSI-2 interface,
3 IDE ports (1x2,5", 2x3,5"), up to 128MB RAM (72 Pin SIMM),
and Kickstart 2.04.
This project was started by Pablo Esteban Castineria. He asked DCE
via e-mail if they would re-produce this card and got in reply that
DCE would do so, if enough people are interested in this card. Oliver
Day then created the above website
to inform about this card and the project.
You can register for the list of interested via
(e-mail). There is no obligation to buy.
At first this is for learning how much people are interested in this card. The price
is up to the number of units produced. The initiators expect 180£.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Fun Time World
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Frogger: Audio decoder - ac3dec V0.9
Version 0.9 of the audio decoder 'ac3dec' was released. This version
us up to 5 times faster on 68k and 10% faster on PPC compared to the prior
version.
The archive contains both 68k and PPC version.
Download: ac3dec.lha (80K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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25.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: poll and raffle
In the section Interactive of the Amiga Future homepage had a poll been
started. The editor staff likes to know which parts of the Amiga Future homepage
are good or bad and what should be changed. The participiants giving their
opinions (no flames) can win 1 x Myst and 1 x Sixth Sense. Deadline
is the 01.09.2001.
Beside of that the status and jobs pages have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
AmigaOnlineGames (ANF)
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Website: 'AmigaOnlineGames' updated
AmigaOnlineGames has made it their task to inform their readers about
Amiga games that can be played via network (that is online). For this purpose
has a database been built that is growing on and on.
As promised seven games have been added on the website.
These ones are:
Jet, Matrix, Overdrive, Perfect General, Tracon 2, Turbo and Wild Wheels.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: software page updated
Today the 'Little Book of Amiga Software' got an update again.
It's mainly a mystery list that contains around 200 games and applications that
weren't assigned to a rubric until now. Furtheron some rubrics have been added
und during the day some cover scans will be uploaded.
The announced update for the 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' will not happen before
next week.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Innovative (ANF)
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Poll: Innovative survey 2001
To suit our service and our future product policy better to the market we have
put together a little poll to get a more realistic view of the actual market and
demand situation after the many turbulances of the past months in the AMIGA
market. So we would be very pleased about a good participation.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Merlancia Industries
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Merlancia: website revised
The American dealer and developer 'Merlancia Industries' has revised their
website and partly new designed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Golem
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Golem: Met@box: one more investors group cancels
»Member of the board of directors White resigned
A second group of investors told the Metabox AG yesterday not being
interested in an investment under the given circumstances. Negotiations about
alternative ways of financing, among others from shareholders' side, are said to
be not finished yet.«
For the complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Amiga Support Network
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Amiga: Internet shop for AmigaDE software from September on
In September Amiga Inc. will open an Internet shop for AmigaDE software. The
products there will be presented by Amiga and can be paid via credit card or
PayPal. So, next to the 'Sharp Space Town', there'll be an Amiga own online shop
available.
Further information is available via the title link, or look at
http://www.amiga.com/corporate/amigadeshop.shtml.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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24.Aug.2001
Alexander Klauke (ANF)
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IFA: Allrounder: Sharp Personal Mobile Tool SL-5000
»The Japanese Sharp company will introduce their new pocket sized Personal Mobile Tool SL-5000
on the IFA 2001. The most important tools of this little allrounder are web-browsers, mobile phone,
e-mail, and a MP3 player. Quick operation of any business task is guaranteed by the 206 MHz Intel
StrongARM processor, 32 MB SDRAM for memory, as well as the operating system Linux OS (kernel 3.4).
The users are forced to access the in many cases unfamiliar display keyboard, since below the operating front,
which can be pulled off, there is a QWERTZ keyboard. Operating time basically is not limited, the different
battery packs can be recharged separately. The SL-5000 can be extended with SD or multimedia cards and
compact flash memory cards. Even a video camera module can be connected to it. But the Personal Mobile Tool
was not made for business purposes only: The cooperation with Amiga Inc. and their wide range of games
make it a small games machine. The device is said to be available at the vendor's from December.« (ps) (Translation: mj)
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