04.Feb.2001
amigagames on ANF
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Gameicons.info Extended
GameIcons.info has been extended with more than 100 new AmigaOS V3.5 icons for
Amiga games.
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04.Feb.2001
Olaf Köbnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Olaf Koebnik wrote:
Amiga Arena - offline
During the last days I couldn't dial up my provider so no updates were possible.
I hope that all runs as usual now .
Amiga Arena - redesign
The link collection in the Amiga Arena has been restructured and in the future
there'll be more ratings and info to be found.
Amiga Arena - UAC full versions
The strategy game "Belagerung", for two players,
is available for free download as is a tools collection.
- WorkbenchPictureSwitcher -
changes the background picture after every boot.
- Transformer -
for converting of binary, hexadecimal and decimal.
- SaverSave -
protection against memory and delete access on files.
- Jingle Machine -
managing and playing of jingles.
These are programs had been published in 1995 as shareware and are freeware now.
Amiga Arena - announcement
I hope to be able to offer special discount actions soon again.
For the time being I have the promise of two further developers of actual
shareware.
I hope you continue to make use of this possibility to register shareware
software for a special low price.
The special discount actions are no matter of course and I hope to be able to
still offer such in the future.
Amiga Arena full version
Talks about further full versions are in progress.
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04.Feb.2001
Thomas Eichler (E.T.)
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Programmers Wanted
Thomas Eichler (E.T.) wrote:
First, greetings to the community!
This way, I'm looking for 2-3 experienced C/C++
programmers on Amiga for our team. We want to produce a realtime strategy game, for now
exclusively for Amiga (PPC and AmigaDE).
Conversions for Playstation 2, Dreamcast and Nintendo are planned
(depending on getting a licence of the respective producer).
Interested people may apply here
via email.
A small description of existing programming experience would be advantageous.
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04.Feb.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Rumors about AmigaZone are Not the Truth
Harv Laser wrote, he was adviced to rumors from unknwon sources saying that his
online service "AmigaZone" would vanish. He puts theses rumors an end and
declares that AmigaZone will not disappear. AmigaZone, he wrote, is quite
healthy, works and serves its members, as it has been doing since 1985.
Supplement 02-04-2001:
Further information on this topic
have been released on ANN (Christian Kemp).
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04.Feb.2001
V3Portal
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V³ 3.3.75beta Released
There has been a new beta version 3.3.75 released for the version3 of the Amiga
browser "Voyager".
Information about this new beta are contained in the release note.
Among other things it is pointed out that the versions of the image decoders of
this new version are not downward compatible with older versions.
Download: v_33_beta75.lzx (945K)
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03.Feb.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Image2Icon
On Stephan Rupprecht's homepage there is a new version of his program 'Image2icon'
available for download, with which you can create thumbnail-icons from pictures.
Download:
Image2Icon.lha - 52 kB
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03.Feb.2001
Sven Droege on ANF
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Bonds V1.80 Available
The complete release of the current version of the stock exchange software
is available on the homepage and at Aminet from now on.
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03.Feb.2001
ANN
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Other Companies copy Amiga's and TAO's Ideas
Hendrik Mikael Kristensen
worte on ANN that on the pages of the Danish news service
SOL.dk his attention was called to the fact
that possibly other companies are desirous of copying Amiga's idea of the
"write once - run everywhere" philosophy, thus pushing Amiga out of the market even before
they get in there.
The article is talking about QualComm trying
to create a standard operating system called BREW[TM], Binary Runtime Environment,
to be used on cell phones. If you take away Wireless you (almost) have what
TAO Group is doing.
Due to QualComm's particulars this works with every device equipped with their DMA chipsets.
BREW[TM] sits between the chip system software and the application allowing programmers
to let their applications access the cell phone's functionality without having the
chip system source code or a relationship with a handset manufacturer.
QualComm want to electronically certify all BREW[TM] programs before they can run on
consumer products and ask a fee from every of those spreading such programs (cell phone
companies). Hendrik thinks this might be indicating how important this technology
will be for the future.
Read the complete article under the title link.
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02.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
TBol2DEMO.lha biz/demo 94K+V2.3.0 Material receipt program,(BOLLE M
YahooGpScan1_1.lha comm/mail 5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.1
nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 182K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
WOC.lha demo/file 413K+World of Commodore (preview)
MWI-Overview04.lha demo/slide 2.5M+OVERVIEW #04 - party slideshow by Madwiz
MWI-Overview05.lha demo/slide 2.9M+OVERVIEW #05 - party slideshow by Madwiz
up-ep005.lha demo/sound 909K+UP ROUGH "Lowtech EP" feat. Qwan
up-ep006.lha demo/sound 1.2M+UP ROUGH "Technical Knockout EP" feat. E
AmiReadMeGen.lha dev/misc 281K+A GUI for Generating Aminet ReadMe files
RoboDocBuilder.lha dev/misc 213K+A GUI for the robodoc program.
HowToReAction.lha dev/src 15K+ReAction GUI with ReActor
TimedSerial.lha dev/src 14K+Serial I/O functions that time-out. Sour
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 646K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 01/
cd32outside3.lha docs/mags 679K+CD32 Outside No.3 - German CD32 magazine
mc0301.lha docs/mags 251K+German Metal Mag in HTML - March 2001 Is
up-herth.lha docs/misc 240K+Up Rough "The Hermano Theory" ascii by S
JP_Spider_1.2.lha game/board 173K+Solitaire Card Game, V1.20
A_Sweeper_NI4D.lha game/think 13K+Graphic set for A_Sweeper V1.05+ (NI4)
FlashMandelPPC.lha gfx/fract 50K+The best fractal rendering program for A
GVPIOPrefsFix.lha hard/drivr 11K+Fixes GVPSerial prefs for higher screen
SSOpticalPatch.lha misc/emu 3K+ShapeShifter patch for optical drives
SpaTra04.lha misc/misc 116K+Spanish Translations Pack 04 v0.7
up-crstl.lha mods/chip 3K+UP ROUGH "THX.crystal_cracktro" by Skope
np_chemg.lha mods/misc 919K+Noyz Phaktah '002 - Chemical Graveyard b
rno-r055.lha mods/misc 204K+Rno-records release no.55 by Lcr/Reason
andimeanit.mpg mods/mpg 9.0M+Minimal/exp/ambient composition for elec
wormhole.lha mods/techn 237K+Acid-Techno (OMSS) by Mippydi
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 49K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
Base64.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S
Base64Skin.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S
Normalize.lha mus/misc 325K+Adjust volume of WAV files, v0.4
Skin64.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S
bluerobe.lha mus/play 65K+Blue Robe for Prayer 2.x (fixed version)
sg-strip_4.lha pix/misc 47K+[ancor] strip 4 of StarGround
sg-strip_5.lha pix/misc 42K+[ancor] strip 5 of StarGround
stipe.mpg pix/mpg 16K+Mpeg anima 250x100x60
WtchngSnsets.lha pix/wfm 169K+Watching Sunsets; Artwork&Literature
unpacker.lha util/arc 21K+GUI for CLI based unpackers (LHA...)
BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K+ULTRA FAST 32bit C2P patch for OS chunky
ToolsDaemon22.lha util/boot 5K+Patches for ToolsDaemon to work with OS
MMULib.lha util/libs 579K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 53K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
zlib-library.lha util/libs 83K+Shared library for zlib-(de)compression
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 299K+Report+ 4.23: Multipurpose utility
SuperToto_New.lha util/misc 298K+Program TotoGol & TotoCalcio (only italy
68040Lib.lha util/sys 290K+A MuLib aware 68040.library, 68030.libra
Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v14.8 - virus dicovering system
lastguru.lha util/wb 39K+Show requester with last logged guru mes
VisualPrefs_DE.lha util/wb 59K+German catalog and guide forVisualPrefs
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02.Feb.2001
Miscellaneous
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Software News
DirOpus 4.15g (beta) is available for download on Jacek Rzeuskis'
DirOpus support site. Download:
DOpus4beta.lzx - 320 kB
At J.F. Fabre's homepage you'll find
version 4.5c of his HD installer program 'JST', which makes many disk games
startable from harddisk. Download:
jst.lha
Thomas Wenzel has updated his AmigaAMP FAQ.
Microcode Solutions
announces once more the completion of iFusion.
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02.Feb.2001
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet 41 CD-ROM Available
Since today, the new Aminet CD-ROM 41 is available from dealers. The Aminet CD 41 -
February 2001 - contains more than 800 MB (uncompressed) of software in almost
a thousand archives. Since Aminet CD 40, numerous MB of news have been added. As
a special highlight, the Aminet 41 contains the full version of the beat'em up game
Capital Punishment.
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02.Feb.2001
Jens Larsson via eMail
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Unmoderated News at boingworld.com
This morning we activated the first test of our unmoderated news posting!
This means ANYONE can post news directly to Boingworld
for immediate display on the main page! The usual top left icon of the newsitem
will though be an "Unmoderated Icon" and the news item will only be visible for
the people that have chosen to activate this in their prefs.
We (the editors) will of course delete or moderate the postings asap.
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02.Feb.2001
Christoph Dietz
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Interview with Patrick Roberts
Christoph Dietz has done an interview with the programmer of 'zAMilo', the HTTP server
which runs on test.amigadev.net:
Amiga-News: Hello Patrick, can you describe yourself?
Patrick Roberts: Age: 32, Born: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Profession: Digital Effects Supervisor. I'm currently freelance and start a film for Dreamworks in a few weeks.
Amiga-News: What is your background whith Amiga?
Patrick Roberts: I started in 1987 with a dorm-mate's A1000, then got my own A500 shortly after. As next came an A3000, and now the AmigaDE. Before Amiga, I had a C=64, Vic-20, and used to program on a PET at a local library.
Amiga-News: I can't find a program from you on Aminet. Don't you released programs for the "classic" Amiga?
Patrick Roberts: The only programs I released for the Classic were some Playstation utilities - but did so anonymously to avoid any problems with Sony. (wotizpsx, tmd2lwo, and psximgtls)
Amiga-News: When and why did you start development for AmigaDE?
Patrick Roberts: I think it was last August. Right after the SDK 1.0 was released for Linux.
Amiga-News: We can see one of your products running on test.amigadev.net. It's the webserver. Did you use an existing webserver to port to AmigaDE or is this a complete new httpd?
Patrick Roberts: "zAMilo" was written from scratch, but was inspired by a micro-http server released by Ericsson for their mobile phones. I wanted to create a very small HTTP server for the AmigaDE that could be used for configuring an embedded system with a web browser. I'd like to someday use a browser on my PC to serve my VCR, tell my coffee maker when to have a cup ready for me in the morning, etc...
Amiga-News: What does "zAMIlo" stand for?
Patrick Roberts: The Ericsson server is called 'zilo', so for proper respects I kept their name and added in the standard Amiga "AM".
Amiga-News: What is the roadmap for this product?
Patrick Roberts: As I get time I want to add basic CGI and SSI support. I'm not sure beyond that.
Amiga-News: Is this your only project for AmigaDE?
Patrick Roberts: No ;P And that's one of my problems... not enough time for all of them :) Here's a list of my projects that are available from the Amigadev.net FTP archive:
- Artix Nettext (toollib)
- Artix Systools (toollib)
- Etick (Graphical Ticker app)
- zAMilo (web server)
- forecast (world-wide weather reports)
- AmiFlag (Minesweeper type game)
- cnvtools (convert image and audio formats)
- Elate-Winease (GUI management C header library)
- memmon (Machine-languge monitor)
Here's what's in the works:
- Artix Gfxtools (toollib)
- vIcons (Vector based icon toollib)
- madplay (port of MP3 player)
Amiga-News: What do you miss most in the AmigaSDK?
Patrick Roberts: Hmmm...hard question to answer since I know it will eventually exist, but:
Hardware 3D graphics support
Good text editor like nedit
Amiga-News: Are you using the AmigaSDK for Linux or Windows?
Patrick Roberts: I have both versions for testing, but I mainly use the Linux SDK.
Amiga-News: Do you think that OS4.0 for the classic Amiga's is needed?
Patrick Roberts: I don't have a classic any more (I own one, but have loaned it to a friend). I'm mainly looking forward to AmigaDE commercial release, but it would be nice if Amiga would continue to support all the classic users.
Amiga-News: You know about the amiga community. How do you think about it?
Patrick Roberts: I'm always amazed with the knowledge level of the Amiga community. I really happy to be a part of a community with so many geniuses that I can learn from.
Amiga-News: Your "last words" to our readers?
Patrick Roberts: All of us can make it happen!
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02.Feb.2001
Fun Time World
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Fore-Matt: New Amiga Magazine on CD-ROM
The English software dealer 'Fore-Matt' has published a new Amiga magazine.
It will be distributed on CD-ROM under the name '100% Amiga'. The CD-ROM will
feature an own user interface
to guide the reader through the magazine.
The magazine will be published monthly.
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02.Feb.2001
Oliver Roberts
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WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 Released
Oliver Roberts' WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 has been released on the 1st of
February. The PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) is freeware.
Download: WarpPNGdt.lha - 133 kB
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02.Feb.2001
Gary Peake via eMail
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Amiga is Looking For Developers for PDA Applications
Gary Peake wrote:
Hello,
Several weeks ago, I promised you some exciting
announcements. As the first of those, I would like
to introduce Matt Fontenot, Amiga's Product
Manager.
Matt has been with us from the beginning and while
you may not have met him yet, he has been working
closely with many of our third party partners and
has been busy creating many new products, as you
will soon see.
Now for the announcement:
There is tremendous potential for distribution of
your applications, games and other content for one
of the world's largest manufacturers of PDA
hardware. The projection is for more than 7
million units to be sold by the end of 2001 and
there are already several million units on the
market at this time. There will be specific
requirements as far as style, type of
applications, distribution rights and
certification of content. Matt will have more
details on this in the near future.
If you are interested in developing PDA
applications and games for a specific manufacturer
who will use Amiga Inc. for content delivery,
please contact Matt as soon as possible. This is
a serious project for those with an interest in
providing content and we will open a new mailing
list for it - the particulars will be announced in
a few days.
This project is for both open source and
commercial content providers, so no matter what
your choice of development is, you are cordially
invited to apply. To get further details, though,
you must have a signed NDA on file with Amiga.
You can get an NDA form from
www.amigadev.net under the legal menu,
right hand menu bar.
Just fill it out and fax it to my attention at 425-396-5671. Then
send an e-mail to projects@amiga.com that says "I am
interested." You can also contact Gary at
gary@amiga.com or Matt at matt@amiga.com
Sincerely,
Gary Peake
Matt Fontenot
Suplement:
Amiga, Inc. asks you not to send the above mentioned e-mail to projects@amiga.com, but to add
your e-mail address at the bottom of this
original message and
then to send it in using the "I am interested!" button.
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02.Feb.2001
Thomas Wolf on ANF
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New AmigaLinkPage Goes into Test Stage
Amigakult.de goes into test stage. AmigaKult.de is a link page sorted by topics.
Every Amiga homepage, no matter whether private or commercial, can be listed
for free.
The aim is to become one of the most comprehensive link pages for the Amiga.
Please be patient if your page is listed some days after you submited it
as all pages are verified. Thomas Wolf will appreciate your help.
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02.Feb.2001
Harry 'Piru' Sintonen
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New Exec V44.1 Public Beta2 and New MapROM
Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen has made version 44.1 beta2 of
Exec available for download as a public beta on his webpage. It is a
non-official Exec version which is according to the author more
optimized and faster than the official version. Use at your own risk.
Also, Piru has released version 1.24beta6 of his MapROM tool ´BlizKick´
for phase5/DCE processor boards.
Download:
exec44_1_beta2.lha - 56 kB
BlizKick.lha - 247 kB
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01.Feb.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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New NetBSD Amiga Drivers
Drivers for Individual Computer's "ISDN Surfer" and Zeus Development's "ISDN Link".
The NetBSD Amiga driver for the Siemens ISDN chip-set got support for two more cards for the Zorro-bus
added.
- Individual Computer "ISDN Surfer", id 4626/5
- Zeus Development "ISDN Link", id 2189/3
Up to now already supported:
- BSC ISDN Master 2092/64
- ITH ISDN Master II 5000/1
- VMC ISDN Blaster 5001/1
The interrupt level for the ISDN Surfer is software managed, other cards must be
switched to IPL 2 by jumper setting.
Closer information about the isdn4bsd configuration are to find inside of the included
electronic manual pages (man isdnd) and
here.
Those drivers as well as the entire ISDN sub-system are content of NetBSD-current,
the development part of NetBSD, and will occur in the NetBSD-1.6 release. External testers
are asked to run a release of the 1.5 part until 1.6 has been published; for 1.5 the last
released isdn4bsd-0.96_BETA is available as additional
package (but without drivers for ISDN Surfer or ISDN Link).
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01.Feb.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Survey
At VirusHelp Denmark a survey regarding your favourite anti-virus program is taking place.
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01.Feb.2001
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The 600th wins
Shortly we will have 600 entry's in our "Amiga Link Directory".
For us it is a pleasure and the reason to give away one copy of
the game "Simon the sorcerer II" to the person whomes website will make
the 600th entry.
Of course also for this reason our policy to become part of the ALD
will be the same as ever. It's not possible to get an entry if you're
simply having an Amiga at home. To make an entry in the ALD your website must
concentrate on the Amiga subject, (too). E.g. presentation of programs,
developments or your own Amiga computer.
Telling us about your website will not automatically qualify for an entry.
Until the winner was determined no new entered websites will be published
in the ALD to prevent somebody from waiting for #599.
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