14.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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ExoticA: SID collection updated and new logo
On 13. October 2001 the ExoticA website was updated. This site deals with the musical
capabilities and the history of the Amiga.
ExoticA's Mirror, the 'High Voltage SID Collection' was updated to version 43.
This collection now contains 16.986 pieces of C64-music.
Per HTML-Interface
these are available for download in a big tar.gzip archive
(HVSC.tar.gz).
What has changed in this archive can be taken from the
announcement text.
Detailed information about the changes are part of the update-logs in the
DOCUMENTS directory.
There is a new logo by Yon Iris on the
start page of ExoticA, which strongly differs in style
from the previous one.
If other artists also would like to see their works on this start page please, contact
buzz for further information.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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14.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: 'MUIVideo' V2.40 full version
In cooperation with Christoph Kirsch the Amiga Arena makes possible the
full version of MUIVideo v2.40.
With MUIVideo you can comfortably manage video collections. MUIVideo offers
a database system allowing various entries for each dataset. Beside of movie title,
original title, list of characters, etc., it is also possible to rate the movies.
MUIVideo has very good printing features and an easy to use GUI.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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14.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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NARR Website: New Downloads and G4C-Tutorial
Richard Kapp wrote:
On my NARR website again some things have happened:
Beside of some new sections and an enhanced design the
download section
also was updated. Among other stuff there you will find a new image-set
for Tinymeter, a logo for SimpleFind, an much more.
At the wallpaper section
now you will find all of the CoolOS (several times part of the Aminet charts
and ratings) and other background pictures for your Workbench.
Also new is a short (German) review of the easy to learn scripting language
Gui4Cli (short: G4C) with which you easily can create nice GUIs and add
functions to them.
Have fun while browsing and reading!
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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14.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: New units in Tarnblau (masking blue), graphics competition
Again there are new units in Tarnblau (masking blue) at the Schlachtfeld area.
The upcoming graphics competition will start on 21. October and last thru the end of this year.
There will be detailed information during this week.
The software area also was updated. There are some new entries and more to come during this day.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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14.Oct.2001
Inutilis News (E-Mail)
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Adventure-Engine: Inga V0.7/3
Now the update of the adventure engine 'Inga' is available for download on the website.
This update contains the engine in version 0.7/3 with the following innovations:
- The menu screen (quit game, save / load game, ....).
- A plug-in-system for sound and music (no plug-ins available yet).
- Small bugfixes with graphics output (no more blinking text scraps any more).
Inga is an engine for graphic adventures in the style of Monkey Island 3. The developer pack
is available from the vendors.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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13.Oct.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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Amiga Club Guide: PHP system and new clubs
The switching to the PHP system has been finished which eases the maintenance
of the pages. Besides that the navigation through the pages has been improved
and more clubs were added.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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13.Oct.2001
Pro-Linux (ANF)
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WWW browser: Mozilla V0.9.5 for Linux, MacOS, Windows
Version 0.9.5 of the WWW browser 'Mozilla' has been released. New in version
0.9.5 are among other things index card support (like in Opera) and a plugin
for 'gesture recognition'.
For now there are no binary packages for Linux PPC, only for Linux x86, Windows
and MacOS.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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13.Oct.2001
Amiga Flame
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Think game: 'Last In Line' by Kaliko
Kaliko is a new founded developer team that
is working on several games, especially for AmigaDE and the next generation of
the Amiga computers as well as for Amiga classic, Windows, Linux and other
platforms.
Their first game
'Last In Line'
will be released for AmigaDE compatible PDAs. This is a think game for one or
two players with tactical characteristics and a strong computer opponent.
Kaliko's looking for talented people for the development of games. Contact address: info@kaliko.net.
With this has Amiga Flame updated the list of the
Amiga PDA games,
too.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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13.Oct.2001
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Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt: Webcam, DCE, Amithlon
Some new information abot the Amiga meeting taking place right now in Bad
Bramstedt:
The webcam there is now working. Going to www.amigameeting.de automatically opens a small popup
window showing a new picture every minute.
Important for AWeb users: switch off the function 'suppress banner window' in
the browser settings/'1 options' as it won't work otherwise.
Additionally will more pictures of the meeting be released on the homepage.
Mister Dellert from DCE arrived at around 12.15 h and just puts up two
computers with G-REX PCI board. People here are already eager about the things that
will be shown on these systems later.
There's also an interview with Mr. Dellert planned later that will be released,
too.
Torsten Gruner, Thorsten Hansen and Jörn Plewka from KATO
Development are at the meeting and show Amithlon live. The interested user may
take a picture of the power and the possibilities of the AmigaOS under Amithlon
on up-to-date PC hardware.
The Amithlon co-developer Thorsten Hansen, from KATO, will introduce his own
developing system and is fond on answering questions by interested users.
People who want to visit the meeting taking place until Sunday midday are
very welcome.
Sources:
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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12.Oct.2001
Don Cox (Open Amiga-ML)
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OSNews.com: Interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen on 'SHEEP'
On October 12th 2001 an English interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen
(Amiga E, SHEEP) on the programming language 'SHEEP' was published on
OSNews.com. He was interviewed by
Eugenia Loli-Queru.
Oortmerssen has implemented more
than 30 smaller and larger programming languages since 1987 with different focus.
Among those counts for example 'Amiga E'. Currently he's working for Amiga Inc. on
the language 'SHEEP'. In the
interview he talks about the abilities of this language.
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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12.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.3
On October 10th 2001 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.3 of the virus detector
'Safe' by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in the computer's RAM
and removes them if this is possible. Compared to version 17.1 the following has
changed:
- small fixes
- added WatchDog 1.1 with very unknown bug fixed
and improved security.
- added new versions of CHECK and COMP, now they support
<CTRL>+C, so any wrong operation can be easily interrupted
- added warning:
'Safe' runs on AmigaOS V2.04 and above and requires the xvs.library.
Download: Safe.lha (25K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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12.Oct.2001
amiga.org
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Prometheus: prm-rtl8029 V0.24, NetMeter V1.1
Version 0.24 of the ethernet Sana-II driver 'prm-rt18029' and version 1.1 of the
network monitor 'NetMeter' were released on the 'Prometheus support page'.
The new version of the prm-rtl8029 driver is a bit faster
(440 kB/s) and some small bugs were fixed.
NetMeter has tooltypes for the window position added and the 'Mediator protection'
removed.
This network monitor works with a broad range of SANA-II drivers including the
Amithlon NE2000 driver. With the Prometheus board version 0.24 of prm-rt18029
is required.
Prometheus is a Zorro III PCI bridge for Amiga computers which is produced by
Matay.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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12.Oct.2001
Michael Rupp (ANF)
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Workbench: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation V0.8
TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is a pure
JavaScript simulation of the Amiga Workbench 3.x for Win32 Internet
Explorer 5 and higher. New in this version 0.8 are the following features:
- Moving of icons into and out of windows
- Scrolling of the visible window contents with the arrow symbols
- Language choice through preferences program
- English localization (is now the default)
- Workbench messages in the title bar, e.g. if you want to drag a
drawer into its own window
- Support of the menu items 'Last Message' and 'Open Parent'
- Simulation of the original cycle gadget (incl. shift-click)
for easier choice of pattern and language
- Smaller bugfixes and improvements here and there
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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11.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: Update of Schlachtfeld
Horst Diebel wrote:
At the Schlachtfeld area there are to see some units in 'TarnBlau' (masking blue)
by Edgar Leidig (under "Instruktionen"). This masking colour was already
determined for one party in Schlachtfeld Phase 2.
Moreover we would like to announce a graphics competition about the subject
Schlachtfeld. More to learn about after a few days.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
ANN
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BBS: DLG Pro BBS reminder site
Jeff Grimmett has put online on his DSL homepage a website DLG 'Memorial'
about the BBS system (mailbox) of same denominator. This site contains
the final DLG beta version including source code
from the time when development was stopped.
Before long additionally there will be available a commented source code as well as
- if there will be enough time - a postscript version of the manual.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
amiga.org
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AROS: IBM-PC/native on one disk from 10. Oct. 2001
On 10. October 2001 Matt Parsons has released a new version of AROS
for IBM compatible PCs. Interested people can download and test it and
report bugs and problems to
Matt Parsons.
This new version loads faster and contains many small demo programs
for testing and playing around with.
At the time there is no desktop, but is to come. Furthermore there will
be some utility disks with a bundle of Aminet programs for testing.
AROS is an open source project to implement a portable AmigaOS v3.1
compatible OS.
Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (800K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Norman Thiel (ANF)
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Library: vapor_toolkit V15.11
On 7. October 2001 version 15.11 of the 'vapor_toolkit' library was released.
The vapor_toolkit.library is a library of support functions which
are used by most Vapor applications and thus can be shared to
reduce individual application code size. Changes since version 15.8:
- more error checking in the library initialization (Zapek)
- optimized memory usage for some functions (Zapek)
- added "html" as built-in file extension (Zapek)
- rewrote MIME handling functions. Much faster and more efficient (Zapek)
- fixed a potential crash from VAT's ARexx handler (Zapek)
- fixed the saving path of MIME entries not being always set :o) (Zapek)
- fixed the ARexx handler task crashing when the library was flushed then
reloaded again (Zapek)
- fixed MIME extensions list which would only add the first one of each
mimetype :o) (Zapek)
- fixed screwup in the class dir handling :o) (Zapek)
Download: vapor_toolkit_1511.lzx (54K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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Event: Amiga Inside News
Matthias Münch wrote:
The countdown was started for the three days 'Amiga Inside' party from 19th to
21st October in Hirsau (near Calw), Germany and some seats are still to take.
Thanks to the noble support by KDH Datentechnik we are now able to reduce the
admission charge to 5DM. Furthermore in all foresight VMC/Harald Frank will
attend the party and present the Amithlon project, which sure might be interesting
so many people. Unfortunately DCE did not agree with us firmly until now and thus
we don't expect current DCE products to be presented.
More information under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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Virus Alarm: CoolBall.lha
The file 'pix/back/CoolBall.lha' in Aminet was infected with the Bobek-2 virus in the
installer. This virus can be removed using
util/virus/VirusExecutor.lha.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Oct.2001
DCE (ANF)
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PCI: World premiere USB for GREX
DCE Computer Service and Vision Factory Development are proud to be able to
fulfil a long term wish of the Amiga users, at last.
Together with the GREX-PCI interface for the first time it is possible to
use USB devices with the Amiga.
On Saturday, 13th October for the first time we will present the functionality of the interface
in our demo machine to the visitors of the Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany),
which will be a world premiere.
On our website regular we will keep you informed about other news. Moreover we will establish
a special USB page within the next days. You will be able to find this page under
www.dcecom.de and
www.vgr.com/g-rex.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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10.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Database: XBaze V7
On 7th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7 of the database 'XBaze'. The English documentation, some bugfixes and some minor improvements have been added. You can read the changes at the download-site.
The program offers an easy to use editor for the arrays of the data record and of the layout (drag&drop).
You can send bug reports and proposals to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl
Download: 2b_XBaze-7.lha
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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