22.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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AMIGA 2001: Provisional exhibitors list
The editors board of the Amiga Future
is busy in creating a preliminary report about the
Amiga show in Cologne (17.-18. Nov.)
and published a provisional exhibitors list under the title link. Up to now about 20
companies or grous approved to attend the show.
(sd)
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21.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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amiNET.GUI: 'Message of the day' via WAP cell phone
The Aminet's "Message of the day" now also can be read using a
WAP capable cell phone. The URL is:
http://www.aminet-gui.net/wap/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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HTML: Preprocessor HSC V0.919
After a longe period of time a new version of the HTML preprocessor
'HCS' (HTML Sucks Completely) was released. To make this development
of the tool previously programmed by Thomas Aglassinger is now being
done by Matthias Bethke.
This preliminary version fixes some bugs and comes with new featrues.
Among other things HSC supports macros, qualified requests and expressions.
The elder support page gives you
a closer overview.
This version was released as source-only which should compile on
all systems previously supported by HSC.
Download: hsc-source.tar.bz2 (376K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Mailer: Simplemail mailing list on new server
Due to intensive spams the mailing list regarding the e-mail client
'Simplemail'
has been moved to
freelist.org.
You can subscribe to this list by sending an e-mail to
simplemail-usr-request@freelists.org.
The archive is available via
http://www.freelists.org/archives/simplemail-usr/.
More information about this list are available under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Database: MySqld V4.0.0 (Alpha)
On 18. October 2001 version 4.0.0 of the MySqld archive for Amigas with
68040 CPU was released on the 'Da SixK Port Page'.
Version 4 is about a definite enhanced version of this databench allowing to
implement previously missing features like requests within requests.
This version was not entirely tested by the MySQL team yet, what makes it alpha status.
As a first new feature one can test union-queries, which work good.
With 'InnoDb' a new format was added, but which does not work in the Amiga version yet and
therefore is disabled in the startmysqld script. Who is able to find a way to use this feature
on the Amiga might contact
sixk@ifrance.com.
Who would like to use special fonts, just have a look at the startmysqld script and
the mysql:languages/charsets/ directory.
More information about the MySQL version 4.0.0 released on 15. October are to find
at www.mysql.com.
Download: MySqld-4.0.0-Alpha.lzx
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
CodePoet
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.17 R3 - private beta-test
Version 0.8.17 release 3 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' currently
is in private beta-tests. So this version is not yet available
for download. The following has changed since the prior version:
- FIXED: No longer crashes in windowed-mode on XP Themed-view.
- FIXED: 68020+ bitfield instruction fix (stuck doors in Dungeon Master AGA)
- FIXED: Fix garbage display on Venus the Flytrap and Nightbreed Interactive
Movie. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Trying to delete a non-empty directory will now properly return
ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Increased the range of addresses checked for memory-mapping, in
order to make JIT "direct" mode work on more systems.
- FIXED: Selecting a Picasso96 8-bit mode in windowed-mode would complain
about not matching your desktop's depth, and switch to full-screen.
(Reported by Michael at Cloanto)
- FIXED: Installer won't install when WinUAE is already running.
- ADDED: AHI driver support. (Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: Option to disable use of overlays completely.
- ADDED: Jose's modifications to the sound routines and GUI. (Jose Gil)
NOTE: Read doc called "SoundSyncro Readme.rtf"
- CHANGED: Floppy-disk emulation, including .FDI support. (Toni Wilen)
(sd)
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21.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Aminet-CD #45
Aminet CD 45, dated October 2001, contains almost 1 Gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in over
800 archives. Since the release of Aminet 44 numerous new software has appeared. The current
edition includes the full Amiga Future Website. Read more
(sd)
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21.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: Antivirus poll 2001
Under the title link Virus Help Denmark ask
"Who has done the most for the Amiga Antivirus scene in 2001 ?".
Until 31. December 2001 one can vote regarding this on the above page.
The winner of this poll will receive about 100 USD which VHT drawed
from antivirus disk sales (0.25 USD profit per disk). With your own
vote you are possible to decide who will win that money.
The nominees are:
- Alex van Viel - VirusChecker II
- Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor
- Zeeball - Safe
- Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ
- Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - Xvs.library
- VT-Schutz - Heiner Schneegold
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Tales of Tamar: Videos of the LARP I, the Ankou band
Around the 22nd of September the first
LARP
for 'Tales of Tamar' took place. Now, on the 19th of October a video of that meeting was
published showing the beautifull landscape of the LARP area, some battles, the live in
the tavern, and much more.
The video was done by Virtual Dimension, they
made it up from several tapes. From their server the video is available for download in MPEG format at three different sizes.
On the LARP evenings an medieval band called 'Ankou' made music plenteously and thus
cared for the proper ambience. Special was that the bard of the band made it to sing free-style for
seven minutes. This piece of music was ripped off the video and is available for download as
MP3 on the Tamar servers.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Page
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Event: Short report about the Pianeta 2001
There were some highlights to sight on the
Pianeta Amiga 2001.
Haage&Partner
presented AmigaOS XL running on an 1.4GHz Athlon. The Amiga software
compatibility is said to be very good. For example there were MooVID playing
two movies in two windows at the same time.
VirtualWorks showed both of the new
PCI solutions G-REX4000D and Mediator 4000 PCI in a show-case, but not working.
An absolute innovation was presented at the booth of
Titan Computer where one was able to gaze at
Candy Factory Pro running on the Pegasos system by
bplan GmbH with
MorphOS version 0.8.
Furthermore a new Italian print magazine called
Bitplane and done by Nicola Morcutti was presented.
This magazine is planned to be published bimonthly including a CD and will be available to
subscribers only.
Other exhibitors are Darkage Software, Digital Equipment, AGI, Il Piccolo Emporio, and Mirko Cipolla (CIP060) who presented an A1200 with MediatorPCI, Voodoo, SoundBlaster, and TV card.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Oct.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register October 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana
Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information
regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Updates at the Amiga-Society
Again there are several new entries in the software area, and in the Big
Book of Amiga Hardware had several articles been translated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Ralph aka Elvis (ANF)
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Game: new Angband compiles for Amiga
EyAngband 0.3.5
Eytan Zweig released a new version of EyAngband that solves the known problems in the last release and introduces a new
birth-screen taken from ZAngband and the ability to use a dead character as template for a new one. It's available as source code,
Windows version, Amiga version (by Bablos), PPC, and 68k Mac version (by "Gileba").
Amiga ports
Apart from the already mentioned EyAngband 0.3.5 port Bablos also compiled Angband 2.9.3 and Gumband 2.1.8a for the Amiga.
(ps)
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20.Oct.2001
Timo Kloss (email)
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Inutilis news: OctaMED plug-in for Inga
The first plug-in for Inga is now available and can be downloaded from the
homepage. With this it is possible to start four-channel-songs created with
OctaMED within an Inga adventure. So this is meaningful for all adventures
that aren't supposed to be released on CD. In addition for the plug-in is the
medplayer.library (v6) needed!
Inga is an engine for graphics adventures with a developer package on sales.
Detailed information on the homepage.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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20.Oct.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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CyberGraphX v4.2 pre11 released
New drivers for the BlizzardVisionPPC and the CyberStormPPC make it possible to
work correctly with the new flash version from 17. October.
A new cgxsystem.lib is included with a new option (NOMOUSERATIO env).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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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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