20.Jul.2001
Frank Fenn
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Music: Audiomaster 2000 version 0.77
Version 0.77 of Audiomaster 2000, the sample editor, has been released. The
program uses MUI and supports all AHI devices.
The program by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware, the demo version does not
allow saving.
Download: audiomaster2k.lha (354 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Role-playing game: Exult 0.93alpha4
Rüdiger Hanke writes:
My Exult port for Amiga is available for download on my homepage. Exult is a role-playing
game engine which can interpret Ultima 7 datafiles. Ultima 7 still captivates after many
years with an epic storyline, a vast world and many details. You can find some screenshots
on my webpage.
The story: 200 years have passed in Britannia since your last visit as the Avatar.
Driven by the mockery of a demonic creature calling itself "The Guardian", you travel
once more to Britannia and arrive in Trinsic on a scene of gruesome murder. Maybe the
new organization "The Fellowship", which is gaining more and more influence
in the lands, is involved in it? Or maybe this is just the beginning of a larger plan that might endanger
all Britannia?
Required is an Amiga with FPU and graphics card as well as the original PC game by Origin. Please
note that the files on the disk version are usually packed and have to be installed on an
MS-DOS system to get the required files. Alternately, the uncompressed game is contained on
the "Ultima Collection" CD-ROM. As a small goodie for the Amiga I have included a preferences
program with which you can change all game options with a graphical interface on OS3.5 and above.
An interesting tidbit: While porting the game, I found a sourcecode to read IFF files. Indeed,
some of the Ultima 7 files are in IFF format. Even the chunk lengths are in Motorola and not
Intel byteorder ... (ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht (E-Mail)
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Tool: SGrab with PNG format to save
Stephan Rupprecht wrote:
I just released SGrab v1.16 on my homepage. This now offers the possibility
to save screenshots as PNG files.
Download: sgrab.lha - (99 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Feeble Ubdate
Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote:
Update & FAQs about The Feeble Files
As announced last week we require at least 400 pre-orders to enable an Amiga port
of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. Including today's entries we received
232 pre-orders and we are hoping, that the following days will bring the rest. The game
can be pre-orders from us (order@epic-interactive.com)
or from any stockist.
With the enclosed FAQ we hope to be able to answers some frequently asked
questions regarding the announcement.
Q: What is The Feeble Files about?
A: The Feeble Files is the official sequel to Simon The Sorcerer II by the
British Adventuresoft company. Feeble is a little green alien having the task to
make circles in grain fields on earth. He lives in a world restrictively ruled by the Omnibrain
and he is an honest citizen never violating the group's big catalog of rules. But one day this kind
hearted gawky stumbles into a full-grown conspiracy against the Omnibrain. As one can see from the
screenshots on our homepage, the characters of this game are fully rendered. The game comes along
with complete German or English spoken samples. The German games magazine PC-Games rated the title
at 80%, then. The German vocals came for example from the German movie voices of Brad Pitt, Whoopi
Goldberg, and Roseanne. More information and topical Mac screenshot are to find on our homepage.
Q: What Amiga do I need for The Feeble Files?
A: The Feeble Files requires an Amiga equipped with a 4 MB graphics board and 32 MB of memory.
Furthermore a 68060 OR a PPC CPU is required. Theoretically the game would run on a 68040/40, but
sure would be very very slow on this configuration.
Q: When will the game be out?
A: As soon as we have received 400 pre-orders (no matter if those were directly ordered
from us or from a vendor - who forwards the orders to us), we will start to port the game to
the Amiga. Due to the porting engine of our leader of development, Paul Burkey, the game
then should be shipping for the Amiga within 6 weeks!!
Q: Will there be more Amiga games from e.p.i.c. interactive?
A: Theoretically it would be possible to port to the Amiga more games currently available for the Apple
Macintosh. But since license fees for other games, e.g. like in case of the Settlers clone
Knights&Merchants or the RPG-mix Gorky 17, are much more expensive (and hence the number of
sales to be expected for an Amiga version must be higher), it is clear: If The Feeble Files port will not
become reality, we don't need to start thinking about more games. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Andre Geisler (ANF)
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GRex4000T available from August
Andre Geisler wrote:
This moring I called DCE on the phone. From this call I learned,
that definite there will be a PCI expansion for the Amiga4000T (and A4000D built into a case), which will
be connected to the PPC board's bus, as usual. This would be available from the end of August, the latest
on the Cologne show.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
infinity (ANF)
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Elbox Computer announce mutual consent with Hyperion
After a long time of both official and private discussions Elbox announced on the Mediator mailing list
to sign Hyperion's contract for the Warp3D drivers.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Start of the AmigaFFE project
Michael Asse wrote:
Today I would like to announce the official start of the AmigaFFE project in which
I would like to tackle the port of the 'Frontier First Encounters'
game to the Amiga with help of other interested people.
As a first step I defined preliminary project aims to which you can, may and shall send me
suggestions and tips, etc., since this is my first project and I don't have the specialised knowledge to
do this perfectly.
Please, don't send me any "What should that gain...?" mails. I would not reply.
The provisional time limit to send suggestions for the project aims was set to 31. August 2001.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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PowerPC ATX Board
Matthias Muench wrote:
I just happend to find an interesting article on the IBM site, which is about a new PowerPC ATX board.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
T.o.T.
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Game: Tales of Tamar News
Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds game by Eternity Entertainment
for the Amiga, Atari, Linux, and PC. Since a few days the first Java version
is available, which later will be available for settop boxes, handheld, and
all other computers not supported native.
New Atari version v0.21
The option screen was ported to the Atari version v0.21, enabling sound,
Internet, and modem settings.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Marco Miljak, c't 14/2001 (ANF)
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AltairBASIC source code by Bill Gates
Under the mentioned URL one can find a very interesting analysis of
the AltairBASIC once programmed by Bill Gates. The British computer
scientist Reuben Harris disassembled and elaborately described it on
his website. There also is an AltairBASIC simulation basing on Java applets.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Library: WBStartEmu V45.2 / Datatype: Icon-Datatype V44.3
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.2 of his WBStartEmu (wbstart.library) for
OS3.9. The icon datatype for OS3.5+ was updated and now is available as v44.3.
Download:
WBStartEmu.lha (5 KB)
IconDT44.lha (8 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Sven Zander (ANF)
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Kult is coming home - News at "com!online" 08/2001
The current issue 08/2001 of the German print magazine com!online mentions
the Amiga in the news on page #20 reading that the Amiga boss Bill McEwen announced
the cult-brand soon to come back. The new One PPC 1200 would be under development
specially for this purpose. If this computer will attract enough customers the
company would found new agencies, yet.
The following interesting wording was used for the Amiga:
"In the long run this box cannot be killed", and, "....for the scuffproofed
veteran...".
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)
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AROS News
As already reported
there were hardware problems with the server hosting the AROS website.
Some good and bad news about that: the good news is, that
the hardware will be replaced, the bad news is, that the machine will be
connected to a new network and thus the page temporary might not be
available, again, due to DNS conversion.
Here the original message with more details:
As you might have noticed, we had a lot of hardware failures
in the last months. Now there are good and bad news. The good
one is that the hardware will be replaced. The bad one is that
the machine is moved to a different network and this means that
we'll have DNS hell all over again ! The "real" name of the
machine on which AROS is hosted is "sebigbos.hepe.com". This
name should work when aros.org doesn't. So when CVS doesn't like
you anymore, check AROS/scripts/updatecvspath to fix the host name
until I have fixed the DNS server (usually takes only several
weeks...hrm :-). The mailing list runs on lists.hepe.com.
The only thing which will not be reachable for the time
being is the web and the ftp site.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: New Schlachtfeld survey
The previously announced Schlachtfeld survey is online.
This survey is about how to differ the units:
- Units in red/green/blue/yellow.
- Units with tactical field signs.
- Units with different textures.
- Units with different textures and tactical field signs.
- Different textures with certain primary colours (red/green/blue/yellow)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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nrnf: Interview with Matay
There is an interview (English) with Filip Dab-Mirowski of Matay online
on 'no risc no fun'. Learn about the future of the Prometheus.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Stardate-Mailbox back to the Internet
One week after a flashlight caused damage to the DSL connection the Stardate-Mailbox
is available via Internet (http/telnet), again: stardate.2y.net (title link). Also the
Dynamite server of same denominator is running, again.
Background:
While a thunderbolt in Muenster (Germany) and the surrounding area a flashlight hit
the telephone switch and put off my DSL connection. The (German) Telekom repaired
it, now.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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Upload function for the Aminet on www.aminet-gui.de
Soon there will be an upload function available on the AminetGUI. Thus
it will be possible to upload files of up to 5 MB of size to the Aminet,
without any FTP knowledge. The current script still is beta and is being
reworked.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)
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RealAudio/Media-Support page updated (Update)
A few days ago Sigbjørn Skjæret
released version 2 of his RealAudio/Media player "RAPlay". New is among other things
the support of the RealMedia format, which could not be played up to now.
More information e.g. about installation as well as download possibilities
are to find under the title link. Of course there also is a PPC version.
Update 19. July 2001:
Thorsten Schoelzel wrote:
As I just was told by Sigbjørn Skjæret,
RealMedia is not supported, yet. But there is a better RealAudio 1 & 2 support.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Tom's Hardware Guide: Corel takes over Micrografx
The Canadian software manufacturer Corel according to Tom's Hardware Guide
is about to take over their American graphics software competitor
Micrografx. This fusion will be established by exchange of shares. Some
32 Millions USD were mentioned for the price.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware Update
On the 5th of July in 2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware has been updated. From today the updates are also available at the German mirror.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Diverse
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Apple: Quarterly results Q3/2001
After Apple has published its quarterly profits- and loss results there are some articles in various media. At Macworld Expo which currently takes place in New York some new models are supposed to be showed.
Apple: Apple Reports Third Quarter Profit of $61 Million
Golem: Apple looks optimisticly in the future
Heise: Apple gains hope
Macnews.de: Detailed quarterly results q3/2001 of Apple
Spiegel: Apple: Anxious in the autumn
Stern: Apple finally is profitable again
ZDNet: Apple got profits
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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