06.Jun.2001
anarka^skt (ANF)
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Event: Scene-party in Spain: 'CatCon2k1'
From 13.-15. of July the biggest scene party in spain will take place in Barcelona (Calella). The ´CatCon2k1´ is really large with 500 places.
Systems like Amiga, Atari, Msx, Commodore64, Spectrum, PC, Macintosh, Linux, BeOS and other ones will be present performing their demos, graphics, 3d-animations, musics and games. There will be tutorials and conversations and a demo-contest will take place. Because not all stations can be connected there will be an internet-service-bar.
The admission fee is 4.000 Pesetas. You can reserve under the following email address: catcon2k1@yahoo.es.
In a few days there will be an English version of the invitation, too.
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05.Jun.2001
Oliver Tacke (ANF)
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Game: dynAMIte V1.4
An update (version 1.4) for the network game 'dynAMIte' is available at the dynAMIte website.
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05.Jun.2001
Oliver Tacke (ANF)
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Game: Cinemaware releases 'Wings' for free download
Cinemaware has kept their promise and have released "Wings", another Amiga game classic,
for free download. Prepare yourself for a journey into 1916 and get ready for air combat
in 230 missions with uprising level.
(ps)
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05.Jun.2001
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)
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Hardwaretip: Volume-Control with multimedia keyboard
Thomas Wenzel describes how to use a multimedia keyboard for volume control:
Control the master volume of your Amiga/Prelude soundsystem with the special keys
of a multimedia keyboard:).A normal PC-Multimedia keyboard, Guido Mersmanns MMKeyboard
Interface and my new mixing commodity for the Prelude make it possible.
That's how it works:
In combination with the delivered "driver" commodity MMKeyboard Interface is able
to control the special keys of the multimedia keyboard and configure them with
free choosable functions. For audio purposes many keyboards have "Volume +",
"Volume -", and "Mute"-keys for this special functions. The new Prelude mixer
has now an AREXX port that understands VOLUP, VOLDOWN, and MUTE. With the Prelude
you are still able to use the Amiga soundsignal (PAULA) and now control its
volume, too, with the keyboard.
Sources:
MMKeyboard.lha
PrlMixer.lha
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05.Jun.2001
Matay
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Matay: Prometheus driver-CD list
The PCI board Prometheus will be delivered with a driver CD. Here you can find
a list of contained and work in progress drivers for it.
For now there are drivers for Voodoo3 boards, 2D boards for Picasso 96, and
3D drivers for Warp3D contained. Several drivers for network cards are listed.
Drivers for TV- and soundcards are work in progress.
(ps)
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04.Jun.2001
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3.000.000 visitors at amiga-news.de
The 3,000,000 visitor had come to see our side. Our service is available for 33 months now. The average visitornumber is 90,900 visitors per month. Currently there are about 174,000 visitors per month, they produce nearly 1,000,000 pageviews.
We would like to use this ocassion for saying thank you for your support and help. There are many companies, programmers, developers and maintainers of websides supporting us by reporting news or using the Amiga News Forum (ANF). All of this makes it easier for us to keep our sides up-to-date.
We are a team of enthusiastic Amiga-users using much of our sparetime to support the project. This is why we are strongly interested in any feedback and support. Because without it amiga-news.de had not become as good as it is today.
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04.Jun.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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E-Mail-Client: SimpleMail Alpha 0.6 released
There is a new alpha version (0.6) of SimpleMail available for download at the titlelink.
Changes:
- Improved E-Mail-account-management (for example several SMTP-server)
- POP before SMTP
- Addressbook now stored as XML
- Support for filters
- Support for folder-creation within the GUI and storage of the preferences
- Many bugfixes
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04.Jun.2001
WHDLoad Support Page (ANF)
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Installation: WHDLoad Version 14.3
Release of version 14.3 of WHDLoad, a harddisc-install-package. WHDLoad lets you install many floppy based games onto the harddisc.
New:
- fix: without PreLoad/S LoadFileOffset/DiskLoad returning error (Philippe)
- fix: LoadFileOffset/DiskLoad was returning wrong result on failure and WHDLF_NoError wasn't set (Jeff)
- fix: now resload_Load functions can load files larger than 2.091.108 bytes (MrLarmer)
- new: option NoFlushMem/S added to avoid memory flush at WHDLoad startup
- fix: TDREASON_OSEMUFAIL works again (Jeff)
- fix: bug in resload_Relocate removed (MrLarmer)
Download: WHDLoad_usr.lha - 137 kB
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04.Jun.2001
Frank Fenn
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Musik: Audiomaster 2000 Version 0.72
Audiomaster, a sample-editor, version 0.72 released. The program uses
MUI and has a builin support for AHI-devices. The AHI part was completely
rewritten and is now able to control single devices.
(Known bugs: CDDA grab only supports SCSI drives at the moment.)
The programm by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware. The demoversion is not able to store something.
Download:
audiomaster2k.lha - 278 kB
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04.Jun.2001
Tom Parker
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Browser: AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin V0.6
Tom Parker has written a PowerPC plug-in for the Internet browser AWeb.
Currently the software is in beta status. Who wants to test the
plug-in will find more details and the latest version 0.6 at the title
link. Tom Parker is looking forward to your feedback to be sent to
tom@carrott.org.
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04.Jun.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: Image2Icon Version 1.18
Stephan Rupprecht released a new version of his program 'Image2Icon'.
Download: Image2Icon.lha
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04.Jun.2001
Frogger
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MPEG-Player: Frogger 1.65rc6 for PowerPC
Version 1.65rc6 of the MPEG-player 'Frogger' for PowerPC released.
If the original Frogger-webside (titlelink) is to slow, please use this Mirror. The program is shareware.
(ps)
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04.Jun.2001
Andrew Bell
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Tool: Voodoo-X Version 1.5 Beta 6
Voodoo-X is a MUI-based GUI for the archive-extractionsystem XADmaster.library by Dirk Stöcker.
Further details are available at the titlelink.
Download: VX1.5.BETA6.lha - 110 kB
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04.Jun.2001
Richard Kapp per E-Mail
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GFX-Base: ManiacBalls Review
Kevin Hansen published a review of the game ManiacBall (a BreakOut-clone).
(ps)
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04.Jun.2001
Codepoet (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.16 R4
WinUAE, the Amiga-emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP, version 0.8.16 R4 released.
The following changes were made:
- FIXED: 50Hz/60Hz switching (B.C. Kid) works again. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Various Picasso96 issues. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: F11 should be again.
- ADDED: .GZ support in floppy dialog. (Timothy Roughton, aka Inner)
- CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will be less choppy.
- CHANGED: Tweaked the exception-handling code for JIT. (Bernie Meyer)
- REMOVED: icon1.ico from the source-code archive.
Additional information is available at the titlelink
Download: WinUAE0816R4.exe
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04.Jun.2001
Celso (ANF)
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JavaOne: Sharp unveals partners
A pressrelease of Sharp, made today, unveals three more partners, beside of Amiga, for the development of content for the Zaurus-PDA.
These are the companies: Access, Office Noah and Pumatech.
According to the pressrelease, the areas they will develop for will be:
Access: browser development
Office Noah: multimedia/video
Pumatech: synchronisation
Amiga: games, 2D, 3D, animation, video and music
(ps)
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04.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 04.06.2001
STEP_Txt.lha biz/dbase 797K+Star Trek StarBase-Text (637.2)
DosControl60.lha biz/demo 559K+DosControl V6.0m Demo (German only)
STEP_Gde.lha docs/hyper 787K+Star Trek Guide (637.2)
SkyChase.lha mods/misc 7K+Custom module from "SkyChase"
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 183K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
MP3TagEditor.lha mus/edit 23K+Editor of MP3's ID3v1 & ID3v2 tags
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 123K+A no fuss multiformat audio player.
EP_PRobotham.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Paul Robotham" external rep
EP_RJosephPlay.lha mus/play 10K+EaglePlayer "Richard Joseph Player" exte
EP_TFMXPro.lha mus/play 19K+EaglePlayer "TFMX Pro" external replayer (as)
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03.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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DTP: AmigaWriter Filter V1.1 for PageStream
AmigaWriter-Filter is a new import filter for Soft-Logik's DTP program
PageStream. Click on the thumbnail to the right to see a screenshot of
what it can do!
It consists of two parts:
The text filter inserts the main flow-text of your AmigaWriter
documents into the current PageStream article with most of its text
formattings.
The document filter loads your AmigaWriter documents as if they were native PageStream
documents, retaining as much of your original document as possible.
Applications
AmigaWriter-Filter was designed to
- print AmigaWriter documents to PostScript
- export AmigaWriter documents to PDF
- use AmigaWriter as a WYSIWYG replacement for PageLiner
- ... and anything else you can think of :-))
The filter comes with the usual options you would expect from a
PageStream import filter: it performs typographical
conversions for quotes, dashes and ellipses. In addition, it allows
you to choose the quote format (available are US, French,
German and German-French). The text filter has another
option called Apply Styles Only which can be a great help to achieve consistent layout, especially when
several authors are working on one text.
Download: AW-Filter11.lha (55K)
(sd)
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03.Jun.2001
Amiga Future
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Installation: JST V4.8, WHDLoad - new packages
On 1. June 2001
JST
version 4.8 was released.
For the installation tool 'WHDLoad' six new install packages for
games were released on 1. and 2. June 2001. Those also work with
JST and are available for download under the title link.
- Fly Harder (Starbyte) by Codetapper.
- Curse Of Ra (Rainbow Arts) by Jeff.
- Citadel (Arakkis/VD) by Bored Seal & Psygore & Jeff.
- Simpsons - Bart Space Mutants (Acclaim/Ocean) by Codetapper.
- Cyberzerk (Boeder) by Bored Seal.
- 688 Attack Sub (Electronic Arts) by Jeff.
JST and WHDLoad enable floppy-disk only games and programs to
be installed on harddisk.
Download: jst.lha
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03.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: full version of the system manager (update)
With permission of Frederic Laboureur the Amiga Arena makes
possible the full version of 'The Boss'.
'The Boss' is a system manager enabling programs and
application to be started by simply pressing a button. No annoying
and memory consuming icons, menus or docks are used for launching.
A simple button is enough to start a program.
'The Boss' is very easy to operate, flexible, compact, system friendly,
and recource considering, and moreover runs on any screen possible
(Workbench, public or even it's own one). This tool addresses anybody
who finds tools like Toolmanager or ToolsDeamon to be too inflated.
Features:
- Completely configurable. No additional tools needed.
- Font sensitive GUI. Chooseable font for both, screen and buttons.
- Full OCS / ECS / AGA support. Chooseable screen mode.
- All functions on one single screen. No menus, icons or docks.
- No seperate interface like MUI or ClassAct needed.
- asynchronous multitasking and extreme system friendly.
- 16 colour WB-palette to determine the tool's colours.
- Efficient use of memory - only a few memory is required.
- Chooseable types for buttons, drawers, scripts, and executable files.
- Unlimited number of buttons possible, whichever how much you need.
- Small, optimized and fast code makes it all system friendly.
- Very easy to use and configure.
- Drag & Drop support.
As always the Amiga Arena is looking for users wanting to translate or write
reviews or manuals. sd
Supplement 06 June 2001:
Amiga Arena - The Boss Update!
Since some users have had problems with the keyfile Frederic Laboureu reworked
the program file. All users having problems regarding the keyfile, please
reload the archive. Special thank to Harald N. for reporting and to Frederic L.
for the quick update.
(ps)
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03.Jun.2001
ANN
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Instant-Messenger: GUI development for STRICQ V2
On ANN
Douglas F. McLaughlin wrote, that he started development of STRICQ v2. In this
version the GUI will be completely independent from the rest of the program.
This allows STRICQ v2 to be equipped with different GUI's. People interested
in developing a GUI (MUI or other) for STRICQ v2 can mail to
Douglas F. McLaughlin for closer
discussions about the implementation.
There will be a SDK for GUI developers.
(sd)
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