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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26.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via email
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Amiga Arena: full version of "Pferderennen"
With permission from Markus Pohlmann the Amiga Arena makes the use of the full
version of "Pferderennen" available. ´Pferderennen´
is, as the name already suggests, a bet game in which you can place a bet on one
out of six race horses. The game is available for download in the section
"Vollversionen".
"Pferderennen" offers:
- entertainment for up to 8 players
- detailed "horse powers" ;)
- 30 stables with a maximum of 50 horses each
- a horse editor
- saveable scores
(ps)
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26.May.2001
amiga.org
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Event: 28./29. July: Ottawa Amiga Show, Canada
Amiga.info organizes after three years the first Amiga Show in Canada. The
'Ottawa Amiga Show' will be held on the 28. and 29. July 2001.
The place of the event hasn't been fixed yet. Information regarding this will
be made known as soon as possible on the website (title link).
(ps)
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26.May.2001
Matay
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Developers: free SDK for Prometheus PCI card
Company Matay offers to all developers who want to write drivers for Matay's
Prometheus PCI card a free Software Developer Kit (SDK).
In case you need some help or have questions, please contact the Prometheus
designer and programmer Grzegorz Kraszewski.
For general questions and comments Grzegorz
Juraszek is at your disposal.
(ps)
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26.May.2001
Fun Time World
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MPEG player: Frogger 1.65rc5 for PowerPC released
A new version of the Amiga MPEG animation player ´Frogger´ for PowerPC
computers has been released. With this it is now possible to select several
animations at once that are then played one after another.
The graphical user interface (GUI) has been revised and causes less often a
system crash. The speed was also part of the revision and much has been improved.
In case that the original Frogger website (title link) is too slow, you can use
this mirror site for
downloading, too. The program is shareware and can be registered either directly
at the author Sebastian Jëdruszkiewicz in Poland or for German readers at
Fun Time World. (ps)
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25.May.2001
Ralph Ewers
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New pictures and report from the 'Japanese Business Show 2001'
As already reported,
Sharp Corporation presented the Sharp Zaurus pocket computer with AmigaDE as application
for the first time at their booth at the 'Japanese Business Show 2001' in Tokyo. Ralph
Ewers, an amiga-news.de reader currently living in Tokyo, has visited the show for us
and sent us more pictures and a small report.
Ralph Ewers had the chance to talk to Sharp's planning manager and obtain the following
information:
The Zaurus is supposed to be available in America this autumn running Linux (in English) instead
of the Japanese ZaurusOS. The American version will most likely contain some improvements:
in the same case, a faster CPU may be built into (the current CPU was at times indeed
slow running the DE), a battery with longer life and a keyboard with larger keys is planned
as well. Whether AmigaDE will be included depends on the licence fees which are currently
not decided yet. A first prototype of the English Zaurus may be seen at the Java-One taking
place in early June in America.
At least, Bill McEwen (here only called "Mister Bill" since it's easier to pronounce for
the Japanese) has had some successful meetings with a Sharp manager (these personal
meetings are very important!). He's at least in e-mail contact with the "planning manager"
I spoke to.
Amiga is definitely seen "only" as "content provider". A native DE hasn't been
thought about so far. (At least that's the official reply!)
Other "highlights":
The color display of the Palm m505 is at least in the default configuration
rather ugly and strongly reminds of the PalmIIIc. It also reflects awfully
(it has that - sadly - in common with the Zaurus). Regarding this, the
Cassiopeia s700 (or was it i700) impressed me very much. Subjectively not
any heavier than a Palm V (slightly deeper) and a great display with higher
resolution.
Logitec plans to release a DVD-R/RW (yes, "R") drive with FireWire in June,
the price is interesting: 120,000 Yen (plus 5% tax here in Japan).
Bluetooth was a big topic. Panasonic for example has presented miscellaneous
hardware; some kind of Gameboy, headphones, expansion cards for the
memory card slot and so on, and there's also a lot of choice for the Zaurus.
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(ps)
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25.May.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c source code available
Alfred Faust wrote:
»Today, Todor Fay gave me the permission to make the source code of
Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c available to the public.
He asked me to spread this information as far as possible. Thus
I ask you to pass on this information to all those who are interested.
A group of programmers looked at the source, completed it and cleaned as many
errors as possible; made it compliant to the new ANSI-C standard (as far as
possible and necessary), adapted it to several compilers (CompilerSpecific.h
was built in), tested it with SAS/C 6.50 and DICE 3.16.
Any commercial distribution is prohibited. A release on Amiga CDs is no problem.
Distributors of Amiga CDs who want to release the source code on a CD are asked
to contact me.« (ps)
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25.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: what you always wanted to know about the GPL
»The GNU project has put an extensive FAQ
online. Here Richard M. Stallman, initiator of the GNU project, president of the Free
Software Foundation and prominent advocate of free software, answers many questions
about the GNU general public license.«
Full article (in German) at the title link. (ps)
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25.May.2001
ANN
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New pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard
At the title link, you'll find new pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard.
The pictures were shot in France at a meeting to which
Alan Redhouse of Eyetech
had invited Adam Carrano of APS, Ben Yoris of
Hyperion and
Christophe Decanini of ANN.
(ps)
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25.May.2001
Amigan Software
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Software: Amigan Software's Worm Wars and Report+ updated
Version 6.7 of the game 'Worm Wars' and version 4.63a of Report+ have been released.
Report+ allows you to easily create bug reports, Aminet readme files, documentation
and similar reports. The ReAction- and GadTools-based program and is freeware.
Donwload:
wormwars.lha - 730 kB
report.lha - 380 kB
(ps)
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25.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Software: SGrab and EnvHandler updated
The screen grabber SGrab has been compiled entirely with StormC4 and is now available
in version 1.15. Stephan's EnvHandler has been released in version 1.6.
Download:
sgrab.lha - 55 kB
envhandler.lha - 12 kB
(ps)
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24.May.2001
jami0003 (ANF)
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New PowerPC Roadmap from IBM
IBM announced their updated PowerPC roadmap.
Future IBM PPC CPU's among other things would have a multimedia unit and direct SMP support.
If that multimedia unit is about to be the Altivec engine developed by Motorola neither was
repudiated nor confirmed. The next generation will be produced in 0,13µm - 0,10µm technic.
(ps)
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24.May.2001
Amiga Future
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Interview: Amiga Future talked to Thomas Knaebel (bplan GmbH)
Amiga Future (Anton Preinsack) did an interesting interview (title link) with the CEO of the
bplan GmbH about the PPC platform
'Pegasos' being developed.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 23.05.2001
QuickFile_3.27.lha biz/dbase 361K+Powerful, fast and easy database.
dnotify.lha comm/irc 0K+Arexx-script for AmIRC/dynAMIte Server t
SMS2D2.lha comm/misc 9K+Send sms to german D2 via modem or ISDN
facts.lha comm/tcp 89K+V4.5 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
js_umsrfc.lha comm/ums 147K+Umsrfc update (1.7)
hungarian.lzh demo/euro 124K+Another simple demo
rno-min4.lha demo/intro 53K+RNO: "MiNUS 4" a 64k intro from TP2k
PowerAmiga1.lha demo/mag 481K+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
PowerAmiga2.lha demo/mag 566K+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
PowerAmiga3.lha demo/mag 1.1M+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
xmplay-lib.lha dev/asm 190K+Xmplayer.library - plays a FastTracker m
powerd.lha dev/e 806K+New powerful programming language v0.17
Lgui.lha dev/src 173K+My own translations and codes of the R.K
FindChanges.lha disk/misc 89K+Finds changes made to disk
AmigaInfo.lha docs/hyper 365K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Maggio 2001
starmag26_ag.lha docs/mags 339K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
starmag27_ht.lha docs/mags 2.0M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
pbcomplete.lha game/actio 31K+A viewable demo of me completing Payback
RiVA.lha gfx/show 36K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
Medication.lha hard/misc 107K+V1.0: A powerfull GUI for Mediator owner
Alcuin1_2.lha misc/emu 257K+HP 48 (S/SX/G/GX) emulator. Release 1.2
Nostalgia-IT.lha misc/emu 3K+Italian catalog for Nostalgia 2.0
mhimdev.lha mus/play 17K+MHI driver for mpeg.device
Greek_Locale.lha pix/nicon 21K+Greek Locale Icons
WirlpoolGalaxi.jpg pix/trace 112K+Trooper Fighter from Starship Trooper
dfback.jpg pix/views 468K+Bras lia
BareED.lha text/edit 280K+Simple text editor which supports propor
CharMap.lha text/font 72K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 23K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
ltdic_engfra.lha text/misc 638K+English-French dictionary for LangTools
ltdic_engger.lha text/misc 1.0M+English-German dictionary for LangTools
TextView125.lha text/show 59K+Textviewer for PP,XPK,AGuide,HTML,Pipes.
LoadModule.lha util/boot 9K+Install Libs/Devs reset-proof, ROM-Updat
PatchRAM.lha util/boot 19K+Patch Os 3.9 RAM-Handler to show right s
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 113K+WarpDT preferences program V44.4
WBCycle.lha util/wb 18K+Cycles a single WB colour register to pr (as)
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23.May.2001
amiga.org
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amiga.org: Interview with Ruben Monteiro (SoundsCool)
Wayne Hunt from amiga.org interviewed Ruben Monteiro from CyberOxygen. Monteiro is the programmer of
Sounds Cool which is a sound-editor tool for
AmigaDE. Read the interview under the title link.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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WebTool: New SiteWay-Modul 'SiteCatcher'
SiteCatcher is a simple tool for easy downloading of full websites. It only offers the absolutely
most necessary possibilities of preference. Therefore it is easy to use.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
NewOS (ANF)
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New OS for AMIGA: NewOS
As it seems soon we can be pleased about another OS for the Amiga. NewOS is already available for Intel-platforms
and for the Sega Dreamcast-console. Porting this operating system which was written by a former
BeOS-kernel developer to Amiga 3000 - M68040 is standing on the fourth place of a so called ToDo-list.
We may be curious to know what will be come there.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
Dirk Baeyens via E-Mail
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Amiga Inc.: Sharp shows AmigaDE application
Today in Tokio, Japan Sharp Corporation shows Sharp Zaurus handheld computer with AmigaDE as application
publicly for the first time. You can look at the first pictures under the title link. The fare continues going
until 25th of May. Over 400.000 visitors are be expected.
Read also the message
at the ´Amiga Support´ area, and the press release
of Sharp.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Metatrash
"Metabox AG, Hildesheim" applies for a insolvency proceedings after a turbulent year
(suspicion of deception and manipulation of market value, invented profits, decline of the share).
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22.May.2001
Tom Parker
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Software: AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin
Tom Parker has written a PowerPC JPEG plugin for the internet browser AWeb. For
now the software has alpha status and contains known bugs. If you want to test
the plugin follow the title link for more informations and the latest version.
(ps)
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22.May.2001
CLICKFISH.com
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Article about amiga-news.de at CLICKFISH.com
Torsten Kleinz has written an article about amiga-news.de:
"Amiga strikes back". Read the complete article (German) under the title link.
(ps)
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