12.Sep.2001
Andre Sommer (ANF)
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Amiga User Baden-Württemberg with new URL
The Amiga User Baden-Württemberg have a new homepage address and can be reached
from now on via http://www.amigauser-bw.de/. Please edit
your bookmarks.
The old address: http://amigafreak.webjump.com isn't valid anymore as webjump
has ceased their service. The page is still incomplete but will be finished in
the next days.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Bianka Burmester (ANF)
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Event: Only a few days more until the AmigaMeeting
The countdown's running...
On the 12.10. it's starting! Everybody still not being enroled has the
opportunity to do so using the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Michael Burkhardt (ANF)
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Lightwave update for Intel platform
The company Newtek offers a limited update for registered Amiga users to the
latest and just released full version of Lightwave 7.0.
This "Lightwave 7.0 (Win) upgrade special AmigaW is valid until the 30.09.01.
After that date this cheap update price will increase remarkable.
Everybody owning an old Lightwave version with dongle should take the chance.
The version number of the dongle is needed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Hudson (ANF)
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Updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since today there are again several updates for the Big Book of Amiga
Hardware available. Among other things Ian Chapman is building up a
driver site!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
H&P
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H&P: AmigaOS XL announcement postponed because of the events in the USA
H&P wrote:
Since the beginning of the incredible events in the USA we are speechless
watching the pictures that are transferred by German TV stations. Our sympathy
goes to the victims and their relatives.
Due to these events we also cancelled the planned announcement of AmigaOS XL.
We will do this the next days. Thanks for your understanding.
Markus Nerding
Manager
(ps)
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12.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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clickBOOM: digital remake of "Defender of the Crown"
clickBOOM (title link) and Cinemaware
announce a digital remake of the Cinemaware game "Defender of
the Crown" for PC and Mac.
As already reported on
10.08.2001 Cinemaware has made the Amiga version available for free download.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)
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Emulator: AmiGenerator version 0.33
The Sega/Genesis emulator AmiGenerator is available in the version 0.33. More
information on Amidog's homepage.
Download: AmiGenerator033.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga makes statement about events in New York, U.S.A.
Today is indeed a difficult day for America and for the world.
We at Amiga lift up in prayer the families of those who were killed and injured in the attacks today.
It is truly a sad day for all of us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our nation's leaders, as they must now deal with this situation.
God Bless us, and may we be ever mindful of our blessings.
Bill McEwen
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AUG99 show their solidarity with the USA
We are shocked by the new terror wave in the USA, where thousands of innocent
people had to die. We like to show our solidarity and at the same time strongly
condemn this kind of force. Because of this our homepage won't be accessible for
one day. We ask for your understanding.
The AUG99 team
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Sep.2001
Michael/Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Event: Saku 2001 - pictures and report from Cloanto
You will find pictures of and a report about the Amiga show Saku 2001 under
the title link, which took place on 01. September 2001 in Helsinki, Finland.
Both pictures and report were put online by Cloanto.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Screenshots of Akiko (CD32-Emulator)
Informations and screenshots of the new CD32 emulator Akiko
for Windows were just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
(http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/)
Akiko runs with the help of an adapted version of WinUAE. Owners
of the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM" can
download a first version now. This version already supports over
80% of the CD32 games including CD audio and joypad emulation.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Bjorn Lynne
Today, an interview with Bjorn Lynne was published on the Amiga Future
Homepage. Lynne might be known by most of the users by the name of
"Dr. Awesome" of the "Crusaders". He composed all of the music for the
Crusaders demos, Megademos, and EuroChart.
As usual the English version can be found at the English section of the
site.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Status Update
Empire builder Knights and Merchants is in dublication and will be shipping
on september 19th. You can find more information on this real time strategy
game in the projects section.
RPG/strategy mix GORKY 17 is finally coming along nicely. Here is a longer
report on what is done and what still needs to be finished:
Conversion of the game data was among the toughest things with this project.
One reason for this was that a Little Endian engine was required; the other
was that the engine requires filemapping which is not available in Mac OS.
These problems are now fixed (only some minor endian problems in the Load
function need attention).
Gorkys 3D engine is running fine except for some colour problems as you can
see from the screenshots below. The Zoom function also has a couple of minor
problems. Porting of the engine was extremely difficult, because the
original developers used a lot of Intel ASM routines. The remaining problems
with the 3D engine are currently worked on and should be fixed within the
next couple of days. The speed of the game is great even at this stage. On a
350 Mhz G3 it ran at the same speed as the PC version on a 700 Mhz machine.
The game logic seems to be working fine, but intense beta testing on this
part is set to start this week. Sound and video playback is not yet
implemented. The other remaining problem is memory usuage. The game
currently requires a lot of memory, especially under MacOS 9 where you will
need about 200 MB to start the game . These problems do not exist with the
MacOS X version.
Below you will find the first public screenshots from the Macversion. Note
that they have been taken from the german version of the game. The first
public presentation of GORKY 17 will be at the Paris show later this month.
Another project that is in the final stages of development is an arcade fun
shooter. This is our first original release and it will come as a budget
title to MacOS, Windows and MorphOS. Expect more information on this title
in our projects section soon.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail Alpha 0.10
Version 0.10 of SimpleMail was released. Changes since last version:
- configurable headers in the reading window,
- Message/rfc822 content type support,
- encrypted mails can be read now (pgp 2.6.x),
- enhanced filter,
- automatic linefeed in the writing window,
- other smaller enhancements.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Event: Saku 2001 Displayed New Amiga Products
Saku 2001, the biggest Amiga event in Finland and organized by the Finnish Amiga Users Group, gathered about 300 visitors around Finland on September 1st. The venue was organized completely by volunteers and it proved that there is still a dedicated following of the Amiga in Finland.
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One of the highlights of Saku 2001 was the demonstration by Cloanto's Michael C. Battilana. He showed the latest JIT compiler version of Amiga Forever emulation software, which will be available as a free upgrade to all Amiga Forever users. Michael also hinted that Cloanto will soon release a completely new software to the Amiga emulation community.
AmigaDE Party Pack was demonstrated with three computers, two if which also ran the AmigaDE Player demo version, which was supplied for Saku 2001 by Amiga Inc. Other programme included an Amiga demo marathon in the auditorium, a Payback game competition, Mediator PCI demonstration and a popular Vaporware registration service. ImageFX, Aladdin 4D, Shogo and AmigaOS 3.9 were also available for testing. The event also generated interest among the media.
Finnish Amiga Users Group wishes to thank all the event contributors and visitors for joining Saku 2001 and making it a memorable event. A photo report and an IRC log will be published later this week. A webcam picture
collection will also be available soon.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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New design and status update "Amiga FFE - Project"
At last a reworked version of the homepage is online, from today.
This now (hopefully ,-) ) is more clear and more tidy than the last version.
Moreover the soundtrack can be downloaded in midi format (to have a try with Amidi) and
all of the sound effects in wave and 8SVX format.
A little late, but nevertheless the project definition now was determined, so the basic frame
of the project was set up.
As a next step now the IS analysis will come. For this anybody can send information about
FFE to me. To prevent a "Yes, but what information shall I send?", just have a look at
the (finally added) job list.
But many sections still are "under construction". Should there be any mistakes already now
(dead links, typing errors, etc.), just send an e-mail.
Short summary: The AmigaFFE-Project is an "everyone's invited" project which shall lead to
an Amiga port of the game Frontier First Encounters.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF)
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Offtopic: World Trade Center and Pentagon target of terror attacks
Even though this is off topic:
I just heard from radio and TV that both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, USA,
tumbled down. At least two airplanes directly crashed into those. Also the Pentagon is on fire -
probably by a car bomb or even another airplane (crash). New York looks direful. Any transatlantic flights
to the USA have been stopped.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Tao Receives $18 Million Investment
»Tao Receives $18 Million Investment From Bowman Capital Partners, NEC,
Sharp & Sony
Bowman's Cameron to Join Tao Board of Directors
Reading, England, 10th September, 2001 -- Tao Group, Ltd. announced today
that it has received an equity investment of approximately $18 million
from a team of investors led by Bowman Capital Partners. Tao has developed
intent®, a binary portable, language independent, high performance,
multimedia platform that is now used by many of the world's leading OEMs
in their client products for home and mobile networks.
Hazel Cameron, general partner at Bowman and who heads up the firm's
European operations, will serve on Tao's board of directors.«
The complete press release is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packages
WHDLoad lets you install floppy-based games to your harddisc.
The following packages were changed or added:
- 10.09.01 new: Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Lucasfilm/Atari Games/Mindscape) done by JOTD
- 10.09.01 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
- 10.09.01 new: Aaargh! (Arcadia Systems) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Drakkhen (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 improved: Volfied (Empire) supports NTSC version too
- 09.09.01 new: Ooops Up (Demoware) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Black Sect (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 fixed: RanX (UBI-Soft) wrong slave in archive fixed
- 09.09.01 fixed: IK+ (Archer MacLean) highscores and demo fixed
- 09.09.01 new: Vector Exterminator (Shining) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
- 09.09.01 new: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Stephan Rupprecht: Software Updates
Stephan Rupprecht released the following updates on his homepage:
envhandler.lha - 14K - 09-08-01 - a happyenv replacement (1.12a)
prtman39.lha - 195K - 09-08-01 - Printmanager for AmigaOS3 (39.33a)
Image2Icon.lha - 67K - 09-08-01 - creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.19a)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars Version 6.8
Version 6.8 of Worm Wars released. OS2.4+, PAL/DblPAL and MC68020+ are assumed. There are a new creature (a bird), support for a CD32-gamepad, animations, turbo mode, and some bugfixes.
Download: wormwars.lha (734 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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