28.May.2001
Thomas Steiding (e.p.i.c. interactive) via E-Mail
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New Multiplatform-CD: Amiga ClassiX 3
The Multiplatform-CD ´Amiga ClassiX 3´ will be available on
the 6th June 2001. This CD will contain more then 100 classic games.
For example:
Der Seelenturm, Lure of the Temptress, Wheelspin, Crystal Dragon, Ziriax, Der
Trainer, Tactical Manager, Pinball Obsession, Fatman, Embryo, Sixth Sense
Investigation, Kid Pool, Xtreme Racing, Blade, Virtual Karting II and many more.
´Amiga ClassiX 3´ will be available for Amiga, Macintosh and Windows.
Additional information is available on the webpages of
Darkage Software.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden via E-Mail
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Hyperion Entertainment changes status of Warp3D V4
Hyperion Entertainment changes status of Warp3D V4
We would like to inform you that after extensive deliberation, Hyperion
Entertainment has decided to upgrade the status of Warp 3D V4 from a
freeware product to a commercial OEM product which will offered to Amiga
hardware developers for a moderate license fee.
This decision was prompted by two major reasons:
- Hyperion Entertainment has reached an agreement with Amiga Inc. to
incorporate Warp3D V4 into Amiga OS 4.x on a per unit royalty
basis. Producers of zico compliant hardware (Amiga One etc.) will be
required to license Amiga OS 4.x and will as such be paying
indirectly for Warp 3D V4 drivers. It would be unacceptable to both
Amiga Inc. and these hardware producers that they would be required
to pay royalties for a product which other hardware producers would
receive free of charge.
- Warp 3D started out as a freeware product developed by non-commercial
developers to support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. Compared to
current chipsets, the Virge and Permedia 2 are extremely primitive
and feature-poor. The effort and time needed to adequately support
modern chipsets such as the Voodoo 3 and Matrox G450 with their rich
and advanced feature-set is far greater than the effort required to
support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. Combined with the fact
that there are currently no less than 7 different PCI product from
three different manufacturers, it's clear that the effort required to
support modern chipsets on all the different PCI hardware available
goes far beyond the scope of a freeware project.
As the original Warp 3D developers have now moved on to commercial
development, maintaining Warp 3D as a freeware product would entail that
development of new Warp 3D drivers and extension of the Warp 3D API
would be very slow as development could only take place "after hours".
This is not only not in the interest of Amiga users but it is also not
in the interest of hardware producers and resellers who rely on the
availability of Warp 3D drivers to successfully market their Amiga
hardware.
Hyperion Entertainment fully understands that the company has a
responsibility towards the Amiga community including the hardware
producers because of its control over the Warp 3D API and no attempt has
ever been made or will be made to exploit this position unfairly.
We have already successfully negotiated agreements with Matay and DCE
regarding Warp3D V4 support for the Voodoo 3 on their respective PCI
hardware. We are therefore happy to report that Voodoo 3 drivers for
these PCI solutions will be available shortly.
A similar proposal was made to Elbox but so far we have not received any
reaction.
Users considering purchase of a PCI solution for Amiga and who are
interested in high-performance 3D graphics should investigate the
availability of Warp3D drivers prior to making their decision to opt for
one or the other PCI solution.
It should also be noted that Warp3D will remain free for end users.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Oliver Roberts
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Datatypes: WarpDTPrefs V44.4a
Version 44.4a of the preferences-program for the datatypes by Oliver Roberts is
now available. This program lets you change the
preferences of the following datatypes: WarpJPEG, WarpPNG, WarpBMP and WarpPSD.
This version now contains a Portuguese catalog and documentation.
Download: WarpDTPrefs.lha - 122 kB
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Thrill (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE-Kaillera Release 1 released
The newest version of
WinUAE-Kaillera was released today.
This modification of the well known emulator offers the possibility to play over the net.
Further information is available at the title link
Download: WinUAE-Kaillera_r1.zip
(ps)
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28.May.2001
PerfectPaint
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Paint program: New modules for PerfectPaint V2.6
There are new modules for saving and opening of jpeg-files.
Download: modules.lha
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Brad Webb via E-Mail
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Newsletter: Amiga Update by Brad Webb
Brad Webb is publishing a monthly newsletter, 'Amiga Update', that deals with news
concerning the Amiga. Read the newsletter at the title link.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Press conference by Lineo about co-operation with Sharp on Friday
Lineo announced that they will hold a press conference on the 1st June 2001. This
press conference will deal with the co-operation
of Lineo with Sharp for the Zaurus-device by Sharp.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Icon-Designer for DirectDos wanted
Marius Schwarz is searching a graphician who could 'just' paint about 1,200 icons.
Those Icons shall be used to identify datatypes in DirectDos, so it isn't really about
1,200 icons, but might be only 300 to 400 - so it's an absolutely practicable task :-).
At this time 166 (more or less good) icons exist. If you are interested, please mail
to Marius Schwarz.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
AIO
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Magazin: AIO issue #47 published
AIO is still looking for authors of articles and reviews. They are especially looking for some one
who is able to write 2-3 game-reviews per month.
Download: AIOV47.LHA
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Andreas Magerl via E-Mail
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APC&TCP: LOM 2.0 - Science Fiction CD
Version 2.0 of the CD-ROM 'Lights over Mars' was released. An update will be available,
if you own the original CD, for 5 DM.
The CD-ROM contains a big archive of the most well-known science fiction visions. Additional
information is available at the title link
in the 'support'-area. (ps)
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27.May.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Survey on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
The Airsoft Softwair Homepage
was completely reworked on this
weekend and also a poll was added which will contain a recent vote
from time to time. The first poll has just been added: Many users
told me that they would prefer paying by credit card for my programs
(especially users from overseas). So I'm asking now if there are really
people out there who want this method of payment. If you do not
order any of my programs or the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold
Edition CD-ROM just because you cannot pay with credit card please
vote now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
But please vote honestly! Thank you!
(sd)
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27.May.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: Test of 'WordHunt', Search, Links
Kevin Hansen has released an English
test
of the think-game 'WordHunt' by Robert/Bob Dickow on
GFX-BASE.
'WordHunt' is about finding words hidden in a box full of characters.
Moreover the website was extended at other areas:
the search function has been strongly enhanced, so among other things
searching inside of the scene demo database is now possible, too.
New links as well as game and scene demo entries were added and some days
ago the GFX-Base introduced the last week's Aminet highlights.
(sd)
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27.May.2001
Czech Amiga News
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File manager: DirOpus V4.15k Beta
Jacek Rzeuski has released beta version 4.15k of the file manager
'DirOpus' on 25 May 2001. This update contains some small enhancements
listed in the history.
This version outputs debug information to the serial interface which can
be redirected to a Workbench window using Sushi/Sashimi.
This beta version only contains changes since 'Directory Opus v4.15'.
That version and the source code are to find on the
download page.
DirOpus is a file manager, coded by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of
GP Software. The source code
was released under the terms of GNU public license in 1999.
Jacek Rzeuski then started to rework and enhance the program.
Download: DOpus415kbeta.lzx,
History
(sd)
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27.May.2001
Grzegorz Juraszek (ANF)
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PCI: Matay and Elbox (Update)
Matay published an official statement about the letter Elbox Computer
sent to Fabio Trotta. The letter by Elbox bears on Fabio Trotta's test
of the Prometheus board on NoRiscNoFun and
is part of the statement.
Supplement 27 May 2001
Elbox accused Matay to use graphics board drivers by Elbox without permission,
whereas Matay refers to an existing contract with the Picasso96 team.
(Desiatox)
(sd)
Supplement 28 May 2001
Today also the Picasso96 team piped up to definitively invalidate the accusation,
"we, the Picasso96 team, just want to straighten out that the Voodoo
boards driver utilized for the test was written by ourself. After all we have
experiences with this chip-set since the MacPicasso850. Furthermore Matay are
respectable business partners of ours. From our point of view all of the accusations
launched by Elbox are completely weak and of unbelievable bad style".
Entire message here.
(ps)
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27.May.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Flame: Problems with British Server
Philip Cosby at the time being has no possibility to access the
British Amiga Flame website, due to the carrier of the web-server
is closing business. That's why this site cannot be updated.
He does not think this problem to be solved in short term.
But the US mirror still is available under
http://www.geocities.com/~amigaflame/.
The Amiga Flame website contains current news messages and tests regarding Amiga games.
(sd)
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27.May.2001
REBOL
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REBOL/Command V2.0
On 25 May 2001 version 2.0 of REBOL/Command was released. This version
supports HTTPS, SSL, FastCGI, external libraries, as well as several
encryption systems like Blowfish, RSA, and DSA. REBOL/Command/View is
an additional part of the packet.
In the case of databases Oracle 8 (Windows, Solaris Sparc, and Linux libc6), and
MySQL 3 are supported. The ODBC interface was tested with
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and
MySQL.
REBOL/Command V2.0 is runnable on 30 platforms including:
- Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME
- BSD Unix: BSDi, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD for several CPU's.
- Linux libc5 and libc6 for several CPU's.
- Other: Sun Solaris, BeOS R5, HP-UX, Amiga, IRIX, QNX RTP, Mac OS/X.
(sd)
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27.May.2001
László Török
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AVI/MOV-Player: MooVId and PIV-MooVId version 1.5
László Török announced on his website that versions v1.5 of the AVI/MOV players 'MooVId' and 'PIV-MooVId'
have been finished. Registered users should mail him to
get the updates.
(ps)
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27.May.2001
Apex Designs
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Game: New Extra-Maps for Payback
In the ´Extra-Maps´ area there are new towns for the action game »Payback«
by Apex Designs. In one or two month there also will be a PPC version (WOS) for the game in which you
can rise from a nobody to a gangster's boss. (ps)
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27.May.2001
Hĺkan Parting
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Amiga-Buddy and Chat Program: AmiComSys 1.34
Hĺkan Parting has released version 1.34 of his Amiga-Buddy and chat program
´AmiComSys´. This program functions similar to the popular ICQ, but only
exists for Amiga computers, at this time. Currently about 200 users are using this
program. The central server moved to Sweden and now is available under
amicompsys.dhs.org, port 2957. (ps)
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26.May.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 26.05.2001
DOpusRxTrash.lha biz/dopus 3K+Global trashcan for DOpus Magellan
AmigaDynsCX.lha comm/tcp 2K+Update Dynamic IP at dyns.cx/dyns.net
rxsocket.lha comm/tcp 162K+Rxsocket.library TCP/IP ARexx library
clockita.lha dev/basic 68K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Rkm_asm.lha dev/src 272K+My own translations and codes of the R.K
ReCatItPro_PL.lha docs/help 11K+Polish Locale for ReCatItPro1.0
SGrab1.14PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for SGrab1.14
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 188K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Mattonite.lha game/demo 259K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 323K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
ArTKanoid.lha game/wb 104K+ArTKanoid V1.1 - a tiny break out game f
da3v21.lha misc/sci 1.6M+Update Digital Almanac III V1.x to V2.1
da3v31.lha misc/sci 2.0M+Update Digital Almanac III V2.x to V3.1
da3v35.lha misc/sci 1.9M+Update Digital Almanac III V3.x to V3.5
rno-r061.lha mods/misc 252K+Rno-records release no.61 by spektra/boh
Juman_en.jpg pix/art 42K+Japanese portrait (10.000 Yen banknote)
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 24K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
MiraWizARC_HU.lha util/arc 2K+Hungarian catalog for MiraWizARC11b
unpacker.lha util/arc 26K+GUI for CLI based unpackers (LHA...)
Stm.lha util/misc 41K+A replacement SAY/GUI that uses most, if
MemTest.lha util/moni 53K+Test CHIP/FAST memory. V1.0 (MAY/20/2001
rmh.lha util/rexx 70K+Rmh.library - Rexx Must Have library
rxasl.lha util/rexx 22K+Rxasl.library 9.0 asl functions for ARex
rxcd.lha util/rexx 34K+RxCD 8.1 - Audio CD ARexx Library
envhandler.lha util/sys 13K+A happyenv replacement (1.7)
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 59K+Creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.17)
sgrab.lha util/wb 53K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.15) (as)
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26.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via email
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Amiga Arena News: interviews and updates
Amiga Arena Interview campaign
The Amiga Arena talked to Markus Pohlmann about the present state
of the development of his game "Projekt Crashsite" which is a science fiction
role playing game (RPG). The interview can be found in the section "Aktionen".
Markus Pohlmann is urgently looking for users supporting him in rendering. If
you're interested please send an email to: Markus-Pohlmann@t-online.de.
Amiga Arena preview and updates
For FBase were German short instructions added.
In the area ´PD links´ you can find the German translation of the
preview of the Snake clone Krsnaked Preview. In the area
´Aktionen´ is the English translation of the interview with Dirk
Stöcker online. Special thanks go to Kilian Server and Kai Stegemann for
the translations. (ps)
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