18.Apr.2001
Marvin Droogsma - AmigaScene on ANF
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Amiga Show Benelux Planned
We are looking for exhibitors, clubs, Amiga-freaks and so on for a planned AmigaDE show in
Rotterdam - Netherlands, which is supposed to take place in June 2001. If you have
something to exhibit then please mail to:
m.droogsma@wxs.nl.
It will become a great show with a lot of new hardware and software, demos, VIPs and fun.
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18.Apr.2001
Ruben Monteiro on ANF
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Software producer for the AmigaDE
cyberoxygen is a new AmigaDE software creator. Projects include java APIs,
PDA/desktop games and the "Sounds Cool" sound editor/player/converter.
cyberoxygen aims to create a variety of software for AmigaDE enabled devices.
Please visit the website for more information, and subscribe to the newsletter,
so you can be up to date with the news. We have more projects in the
pipeline which will be announced soon. Also distributing "Immortal" -
The Amiga game music CD.
Ruben Monteiro
www.cyberoxygen.com
Software for a digital world
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18.Apr.2001
Joecard.com
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Met@box Stops Producing PC-Card-Projects
As you could already assume on March 30th in 2001 the announcement of
Met@box giving up "non-strategical-parts" results
in consequences in the fields of PC-card-development.
(We have already reported (German)).
On the website joecard.com which is specially made for PC-cards by Met@box you can now
officially read what this have to mean:
»In the procedure of restructuring of Met@box AG to a producer of Set-Top-Boxes the
departments of Macintosh and Amiga has been closed down with effect from March 30st in
2001. All developments has been closed down.«
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18.Apr.2001
Jan Devos via E-Mail
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3ivx News
In future licence fees will be charged for using 3ivx as the following press release
supposes. Private users pay 10$, commercial users pay 400$. 3ivx is a
video-compression-format for MPEG4 which is used by some Amiga-programs as SoftCinema and MooVId.
Press Release: 3ivx, solving the streaming video problem
Truly multi-platform MPEG-4 video means encode anywhere, play everywhere
April 17, 2001 - Happy Machines releases its third preview version of
the 3ivx codec. 3ivx takes video compression to a higher level. This
is the first release which includes a free personal test encoder as
well as a version for MacOS X.
<http://www.3ivx.com/>
<http://www.hollywood.org/3ivx/>
"Streaming video is very important for our customers," says Marcel
Bor of On The Road, an Equant Service Provider "That's why I am
extremely pleased with the quality of 3ivx movies, even better than
Real 8!"
This release includes a lot of enhancements resulting in improved
video playback while maintaining small file sizes and low bit-rates.
Technically this translates into:
- Scheduled Asynchronous Decompression
- Advanced frame queue management
- FrameCache and Flextime Frame management
- Hardware Accelerated YUV Output
The encoder and the decoder are available on the site for immediate
download. There are 3 versions of the codec available, a free test
codec, a $10 version for personal use and a $400 version for
commercial use.
3ivx is a natural video compression system that is compliant with
MPEG-4v3. The strengths lay in its open architecture, multi-platform
approach (Windows, MacOS, Linux/Unix, BeOS and Amiga) and it's high
compression ratio which compresses video's and moving images to one
thirteenth (1:13) of the size of a DVD or MPEG-2 movie while
maintaining approximately the same quality.
Happy Machines is a Belgian company that represents a creative team
and a large international network of inventors, software and hardware
developers, designers in various fields such as imaging, satellite
communications, artificial intelligence, machinery etc., which has
contacts with top-manufacturers worldwide. The company is also member
of the MPEG-group and is an Inmarsat partner. It is orientated on
project development and related intellectual properties.
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17.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VEPatch.brain for VirusExecutor V1.31
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.31
Archive name : VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 22.469 Bytes
Release date: 17. April 2001
Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes since last update:
WB2Fast v1.0
PowerWB v0.8
PrintManager 39.31
CleverWin 37.9
RAWBInfo 1.24
RAWBInfo 1.28
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17.Apr.2001
AROS-ML Aaron Digulla
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AROS Website with New Layout
The website of AROS was completely reworked and has now added an easy navigation,
so all informations ca be found fast and easy.
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17.Apr.2001
Andre Jansen on ANF
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Software for Studying Languages for the AMIGA
At the title link you will find software to learn: Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with the AMIGA (CD-ROM)
This software is not new, it is more like a sales out, but there is no such
software then so it is worth to mention. I have bought this software and like it.
This is a training for vocabulary and speaking (with digitalized voices), and for
Asian and Russian languages with the special letters.
The vocabulary is presented by pictures, the computer prints on a click on a
thing the respective word (with translation if wanted) and plays a sample of the
word. A training/quiz is available, too.
Also there is a short summary of the most important rules of grammar (in English).
For the version to learn Japanese you can download a demo version from the website.
The programme is available in different versions for OS1.x and OS 2.x and higher,
but even this is some years old, so it will open on PAL or NTSC screen. You can
promote it without any problem to any screen mode you like, it runs even on a 68060
and with OS 3.9 and MagicMenu.
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17.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Scalos News
For the Workbench substitute Scalos is a DefIcon-plugin as replacement for
the FileType-plugIn for download available. The "Persistant_Window"-plugin was updated.
Download:
Scalos-Plugin_DefIcons.lha - 12 kB
Scalos-Plugin_Persist.lha - 19 kB
MAS mpeg.device Version 1.2
Chris Hodges has released the version 1.2 of his MAS MPegDevice.
It is a standard device for the MAS-Player of Dirk Conrad
Download: MASMPegDevice.lha - 129 kB
GameIcons.info
At AmigaGames.com you can find a new archive with 100 game icons in
NewIcons style on the GameIcons.info-page. All icons
are made in the standard size 120*96 pixel and contain a second icon that appears if you click on it.
Download page.
New style for Dynamite
You can play "Dynamite" in different styles. At Amisource the new style bdynamite for
the Online-Bombermann/Dynablaster clone is available.
Download: BDynamite.lha - 522 kB
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17.Apr.2001
Boingworld
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Mekka-Symposium 2k+1 Results
The team of Boingworld has been in Fallingbostel, Germany and has taken part
in the Mekka-Symposium 2001, the Amiga-Scene-Demo-Party at the last weekend. The
crew, very happy but really tired, has returned to Sweden and promises to write
a complete report after getting some sleep. Most impressed was the team about
the 20 shown Amiga-demos. The winner of the demo contest is the group Black Lotus
(TBL) with its demo "Perfect Circle". An overview on the results you will find
here.
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16.Apr.2001
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New amiga-news.de main page
You sure realized by coming here today, we implemented our English news page to the same
PHP-system already used for our German page, since some time.
Now you are able to chose your preferred and private settings for displaying the start page.
There are several possibilities you can chose from the buttons above. You can determine if the page
should be displayed showing complete news messages (standard button) or with a compact version of
each message on it (compact button). You can also determine the number of messages shown or if you
rather want a titles only version (titles only button), and all that for a certain number of days.
Just play around with the buttons and press 'Show' to find out what meets your needs, best. Default
setting is 'Per page 3 days - titles only'. Furthermore you can chose if you only want messages
regarding Amiga to be displayed or if you want to see other messages, too. Just tag/untag the
respective check-box.
Once you found your preferred settings you can update your bookmark to have this available all the time.
You can also use the cookies function to have a cookie saved with your settings (check-box).
If you prefer the prior display use
amiga-news.de/en/news/standard/ for
your bookmark.
One more feature is the possibility for you to comment news messages. To do so click on the "Comments:" link
below any news message or on the number below the comments item to the right of the respective message
in the title only version.
We hope you like the new possibilities. Have fun!
Supplement 03 June 2001
Sorry, the system doesn't work properly, by now. For example it is not possible to change settings.
Be sure, we are working on it.
And sorry for the wrong date of this message, too. We are also working on that problem. We ask you for
your understanding.
Supplement 03 June 2001
Everything seems to work now, incl. changing settings for the start page. There's just this date thing left, but
only for this message. I'm currently not able to post messages for the English page, only. This might change
in the future. If you encounter any problem using the new start page, please mail me or post
a comment to this message.
Update 01.05.2002:
Accepting cookies new and updated messages will be presented in bold stamp.
Update 04.01.2003:
Here you will find more changes.
Update 25.03.2004: voluntary registry in the comment area
More details see in the following messages: 09.03.2004,
19.03.2004 and
24.03.2004.
Please, tell us what do you think about the new features!
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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New Reviews by GFX-GAMES-DATABASE
This time we examined the new Workbench-game MagicNumbers and we made MacOSX-like imageset available.
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16.Apr.2001
AROS-ML - Aaron Digulla
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AROS News
Since there has been some confusion, here are some reliable
infos about the relationship between AROS and MorphOS.
MorphOS wants to provide an Amiga clone and they need some
code to fill gaps in their emulation (for example, parts of
Intuition). They asked us if they could use our work and,
being an open source project, we "allowed" them to port
parts of AROS to MorphOS.
This is exactly the same what we did when Haage&Partner
approached us whether they can use our Colorwheel gadget
in OS 3.9 which we "allowed", too.
I say "allowed" because that is essentially what we want
them to do :-) AROS is meant as a test laboratory to develop
new technologies which might prove useful for the next
versions of the AmigaOS. We do this independently of
Amiga Inc, MorphOS and H&P but always with the goal to
provide them with something useful as well as providing
adventurous Amiga users with something that feels quite
familiar.
So AROS and MorphOS have not "joined forces" or become
one project. MorphOS just uses part of our work which
is what our work is meant for.
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16.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 96K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.6-full
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 412K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 19K+V1.5, YAM2-like Toolbars for TaskiSMS 2.
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 33K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
MWI-SDV31.lha demo/mag 1.1M+SAVE DA VINYL #31 - packmag by Madwizard
BlitzLstMar01.lha dev/basic 35K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 140K+How to use Mildred+BBasic with GFXCards
d65.lha dev/cross 51K+A symbolic 65xx disassembler
Comal.v3.4.lha dev/lang 521K+Comal v3.40
m2latex.lha dev/m2 65K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 132K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
BlackIRC1.1PL.lha docs/help 11K+Polish Locale for BlackIRC1.1
Lupe1.9PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for Lupe1.9
saku36.lha docs/mags 1.7M+Saku #36 (2/2001). Finnish e-zine.
Spy3dgame.lha game/2play 133K+3D game beta for WB (Balrog Soft)
GS650-68k.lha gfx/conv 816K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 68k binary
GS650-Data.lha gfx/conv 1.9M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 data archive
GS650-Fonts.lha gfx/conv 2.6M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 fonts archive
GS650-PPC.lha gfx/conv 905K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 WarpOS binary
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 90K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 723K+V1.60 PSX MemoryCard Reader
Dictionar.lha misc/edu 207K+Vocabulary trainer for Your data
DIGIOchmann09.lha misc/edu 127K+Versatile and user friendly vocabulary d
HexCon.lha misc/math 16K+Simple Hex <-> Dec <-> Bin converter
sprawl.mpg mods/elbie 5.3M+Sprawl Pneumatique [electro] by ElbiE^t1
TheX0XPackage1.lha mus/edit 44K+A set of editors for the TR-X0X & TB303
mattaki.lha pix/misc 214K+[ancor] just a practise
BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K+Very fast Replacement for the OS chunky
fblit.lha util/boot 171K+V3.73a Use CPU in place of the blitter.
killAGA2.5.lha util/misc 4K Run old demos on A1200/4000 hard drives.
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 253K+VirusExecutor v2.10
freakbar.lha util/wb 2K+Toolbar. V1.2.
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16.Apr.2001
V³ Portal
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V³ Beta Image Decoder Version 18.1
Oliver Wagner released a new betaversion of the image-decoder for Voyager 3.3.
The decoder is available for
AmigaOS and
MorphOS.
Attention: This release is only works with Voyager 3.3 (not 3.2 or 3.2.13 !!!).
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16.Apr.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Update 3 Released
Apex Designs released the third update for the game
Payback.
The update is available here.
The current demoversion can be found here.
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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URL of PlayGUI Changed
The PlayGUI-support page is now available at http://playgui.tsx.org.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Finnish Amiga Users Group has a New URL
The website of the 'Finnish Amiga Users Group', which is also known as online-magazine
'Saku', is now available under this more easy to remember URL
http://saku.amigafin.org/english/.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
An interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) has been released at Digital
Dream Arena. The interview contains information about several areas. At the beginning
Hans-Joerg Frieden describes how he started put with programming and then how he made his way
to learn 3D programming. The following paragraph talks about the creation of Hyperion and the
port of Heretic II and Shogo for the Amiga, which is close to finishing now.
At the end, the interview describes the motivation to develop Warp3D and MiniGL for the Amiga as
well as a statement about AmigaOS V4.x and AmigaDE.
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15.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VirusExecutor V2.12
On April 15th 2001, Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.12 of the virus killer
'VirusExecutor'. Compared to former versions, the following changes have been
made:
- The'Bastard'-Link virus can now be recognized and removed.
(Thanks to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for analysing this virus.)
- The 'TeamMOS TCP'-Trojan has been renamed to 'Zakahackandpatch'.
Furthermore a small error in the decrypting code has been removed.
Name : VirusExecutor v2.12
Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 262.139 bytes
Release date : 15 April 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
Download: VirusExecutor.lha (256K),
Readme
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15.Apr.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Graphic Adventure Engine 'INGA'
The graphic-adventure-engine 'INGA' now has got a homepage at
Inutilis which contains technical information as well
as the current development status.
'INGA' is an engine for graphic-adventures (Amiga) like Monkey Island 3, which has been
developed for graphic boards. There is already a game which is being developed using this system,
Ermentrud,
and more are planned.
The engine includes also a comfortable developer-package which is also presented at the homepage.
This will allow everyone to design their own adventures.
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15.Apr.2001
CyberGFX
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Warp3D: Voodoo3 Status
Thomas Frieden(Warp3D, Hyperion) has posted information about the status of the Voodoo3-driver
for Warp3D to the
Amiga-Mediator-Mailinglist.
The driver is now stable - even after 3 hours of continuous graphics output it didn't crash.
The command-FIFO does not work yet, so the speed is still bad.
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