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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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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