29.Sep.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - news
Good news for all users of and people interested in Digital Almanac III. After
the sales of the astronomy software had to be stopped because of defective
hardware it can go on again. There's hardware again, so the development and the sales of the CD-ROMs can restart.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Tao Strengthens Wireless Java
Reading, England, September 27, 2001 -- Tao Group today announces it has acquired additional intellectual property software rights from ASCII Corporation in Japan to further strengthen its 'intent JavaTM Technology Edition' software suite.
The Tao Java product, compliant with industry standards and Sun Microsystems-branded, has been developed over five years and is already being installed into an array of products including digital cameras, phones, pda's, digital televisions, set top boxes, personal computers and web tablets. The various specifications supported by the intent JTE are compact and robust, and run real world content many times faster than any alternative.
Dr. Paddy Byers, Chief Technology Officer of Tao said: "Emphasis on the development of Tao's product has always been on enabling Java technology-based services that the operators and manufacturers must be able to deliver to the consumer to support their economic models. The agreement with ASCII makes our story stronger than ever."
Francis Charig, Tao's Chairman, commented: "This is an excellent acquisition for Tao as we consolidate the technology on the intent media stack for both wireless and wired devices. Our Java product is part of a comprehensive multimedia, language independent solution which is uniquely helping companies take compelling and differentiated products to market both quickly and at low cost."
The conclusion of the ASCII Agreement is the first of several key announcements by Tao in the wireless space over the coming months.
The complete press release can be found following the title link.
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28.Sep.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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New role-playing game for Classic Amigas in the works
Project Crashsite - that'll be the name of the new role-playing game for
Classic Amigas which is currently still under development. The role-playing
game in the science fiction genre will require a CD-ROM, 68040 (minimum)
and a graphics card.
Here an excerpt from the description:
»Mankind has reached for the stars and colonized a planet system.
Far away from Sol, Future II develops into a self-sufficient economy system with
own government. Not only has this government plans for Future II but the
Sol government also. The third in the trio is McJevl, the space flight company
who made the settling and terraforming possible. McJevl has plans too, and
gets a big chance to make them reality.
Here enters the player as member of the Future Security Corps, the system-internal
police. With a team consisting of up to six characters, law and order must be
preserved in Future II. A difficult task which gets even harder as a meteor
hits one of the planets and an eye-witness of the event is being murdered before
the eyes of the Future Security Corps.
Investigations lead to the fact that this is not the only death ...«
Up-to-date information on the game development are now available at
projektcrashsite.de.
If you want to get a first impression of what the Classic Amiga is in for
you should surf by.
Comments, suggestions and critics are welcome. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
AudioLabs
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Audiosoftware: ProStationAudio compatible with G-Rex PCI bus boards
ProStationAudio is compatible with G-Rex PCI busboards by DCE and Terratec
PCI audio boards. Frank Mariak, DCE's software designer of drivers for
the G-Rex, confirms that drivers they just made for the 128i and 512i
Terratec models have passed preliminary tests for analog I/O with
ProStationAudio. Drivers for the 512i are being extended with S/P-DIF
support.
G-Rex makers and AudioLabs are actively cooperating to provide the best
compatibility between this new PCI busboard and ProStationAudio (a big
thank you to Frank for his continued and accurate work).
The G-Rex PCI busboard, available in two models for the A4000 and A1200
is a solution developed specifically for owners of P5/DCE CyberStorm and
Blizzard PPC and/or 68K CPU cards. The G-Rex 4000D replaces the stock
A4000 backplane, offering slots for PCI and Zorro cards. ProStationAudio
takes advantage as well of PCI graphic cards installed on the G-Rex.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
dynAMIteXXL
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Game: dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a
dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a, a Bomberman clone, is available for download.
dynAMIte requires from this version on the identify.library V13.
This update contains many changes which are listed in the
changes text.
Download: dynAMIte.lha -
dynAMIte.readme
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Software update for Prometheus
Matay has released small software upgrade for Prometheus - Zorro III to
PCI bridge. It consists of new version of SANA-II driver for Ethernet
cards based on RTL8029 chip, and small graphical network traffic monitor
called NetMeter. These can be downloaded from
Prometheus support page.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF)
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Datatype: DocDatatypes V40.22
Amarpreet Singh Munde has released an update of DocDatatypes.
DocDatatypes is a set of datatype classes for documents. The list of
supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect,
Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill,
XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First
Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.
New for this version (40.22) is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs
and the fixing of the Mac Write, Mac Text, Mac TeachText and WordPerfect 4
descriptors. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory
optimisations.
There is also the latest version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast,
easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date,
and even file type.
Also, in association with Amiga Arena, DocDatatypes Lite is available for
registration at a reduced fee for those who do not require support of all
the exotic formats.
Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench celebrates 4th birthday
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international
and free ads, celebrates the fourth birthday of the website with a quiz.
Happy birthday.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
AmiDog
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AmiDog: AMP PPC-Movieplayer V2.04
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has made available version 2.04 of his movie player
'AMP' for PPC for download. AMP is a shareware program which can currently
play the following multimedia formats:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audio streams
- FLI/FLC
- AC3 streams
Changes since AMP v2.03:
- Optimized the AC3 decoder, it's about 50% faster now.
- Added LORES option that will decode the MPEG at 1/4 of the original size (i.e. half width and half height). This is about twice as fast depending on bitrate and resolution.
- Fixed some bad init in the MPEGV decoder, should remove the jerky playback at startup.
- Fixed AC3 sync bug causing it to not work at all. Also, pausing may have caused any kind of strange effects.
- Made the subtitle decoder handle LORES as well.
- Fixed the "PPC Alignment Exception" problem.
- GUI: Replaced Gray with Mode and added options for Gray/Color with/without Lores.
Download: AMP204.lha
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Golem (M. Lunk by e-mail)
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Golem: Vim 6.0 - new version of the free Vi editor clone
»New version offers many new functions
More than one year after the first alpha release, the finished version of the editor
Vim 6.0 (Vi Improved) sees the light of day. The free
Vi clone is still almost 100% compatible with the almost legendary Unix editor "Vi"
but offers many extensions and is tailor-made for the needs of programmers.«
Full German article at the title link.
Update:
Download Amiga version: Mirror Oldenburg (ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.17r2
WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP, has been
released in version 0.8.17 Release 2 (JIT version). At the title link you'll
find a detailed listing of the improvements and changes.
Download: WinUAE0817R2.exe
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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27.Sep.2001
Golem
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Golem: Corel still with profits
»Profit and sales declining
In 3Q01 Corel gained sales of 34.2 millions USD which is slightly less than
the 36.4 millions USD of last year and the 36 millions USD of 2Q01.
Profit was at 500,000 USD or 0.01 USD per share.«
Complete article see title link (German).
Another message about this subject:
The Register: Corel makes money shock!
(cm) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF)
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Hardware: Water cooling for Cyberstorm-PPC
A do-it-yourself project which might be of special interest for overclockers,
since water is known to cool better than air does. This is said to run
trouble-free up to know - at this time the author has in mind to utilize
a peltier element together with the water cooling.
Even if one would not try this himself, it is vital to take a look at
the picture of this reconstructed CSPPC on the page - somehow fascinating :-).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
CyberGraphX Homepage
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CyberGraphX Homepage: Visionary site established
Since early September the official
CyberGraphX homepage is being regularly
update again, after a small time-out, and the readers are provided with
interesting information all about CyberGrahpX. At the title link you will
find the newly established sub-site 'Visionary' with many screenshots
of Workbenches running Visionary.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF)
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AmigaKult: Graphic artist wanted!
AmigaKult is wanting one or more graphic artist/s to create small logos and pictures
for the AmigaKult homepage. If you are interested, please send a sample of
your skills to Thomas.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox approves software
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce formulation of
its new policy aimed at ensuring total compatibility
of software written for Mediator PCI busboards by
external developers with hardware and software designed
and produced by Elbox.
Medication by Richard Brooklyn is the first program for
Mediator to obtain the status of "Approved by ELBOX."
The "Approved by ELBOX" seal means that ELBOX
guarantees this program to be fully compatible with
Elbox hardware and software.
Medication is a tool for every Mediator user. It
allows configuring all the PCI cards installed in the
Mediator busboard in one easy-to-use MUI based GUI.
Medication allows configuring all of the supported
PCI boards installed in Mediator. It enables setting of:
tooltypes in the Picasso96 graphic system, graphic card
parameters, AHI preferences and sound card settings,
TV card settings and control over parameters of the
screen displayed by the TV card.
See the screenshots of the Medication program:
http://www.geocities.com/richardbrooklyn/
More info about the Medication program:
http://www.amiga-mediator.co.uk/medication/medication.shtml
(ps)
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27.Sep.2001
Markus Schmidt (ANF)
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Update of the ICQ user list
Due to other projects Markus Schmidt had less time to intensively care for the ICQ
user list. Hence a lot of registrations retained of which the number of 26 now have
been entered to the list. Six new post code sections were added by this. The number of
20 entries remaining will be entered to the list during the following days.
Markus Schmidt: "By this I ask anybody, who might already have been missing his/her
entry, to apologize and for a little understanding! The list is being maintained by me
only and by hand, which sometimes leads to a longer delay before the next update.
In the future I'll try to prevent longer queue times."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
Oliver Does (ANF)
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Vesalia: Blizzard-PPC changeover project
Due to great demand for G-REX 1200 boards Vesalia Computer starts one-time and
time limited changeover project for Blizzard PPC with 68040/25 to 68050/50.
Prices contain changeover cost including flashROM update and of course the 68060 CPU.
This offer is also valid for defective Blizzard PPC boards, but doesn't include
cost of repair (time and material). More information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Picture sequence "Commodore Amiga" released
Photo session with an 'old girl-friend'; the model is about an Amiga 4000D
built into a BigTower. As a homage to the community keeping this system
alive since eight years Christian Rosentreter released an arty picture
sequence. More information and the pictures are to find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New pakets for WHDLoad (until 25.09.2001)
Games which are only made for floppy discs can now be installed on harddrive with the help of WHDLoad. The following pakets have been added or updated:
- 25.09.01 new: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) done by CFOU!
- 25.09.01 new: Dream Tripping (Digital) done by Psygore (ReadMe, Image)
- 25.09.01 improved: Defender Of The Crown (Cinemaware) small fix
- 24.09.01 new: Tetrix (Markus Olinger/CT-Verlag) done by Codetapper
- 24.09.01 new: Copper Master (Angels) done by Galahad (ReadMe, Image)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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26.Sep.2001
Amigan Software
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Amigan Software-Updates: WormWars V6.81 and Report+ V5.05
At Amigan Software there are updated versions of the game
WormWars (V6.81) and of the tool Report+ (V5.05).
Download:
wormwars.lha (734 KB)
report.lha (420 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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