04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail
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Vesalia Computer will attend WoA 2000
Vesalia Computer short-term decided to attend the WOA 2000. A new stall-plan is available at the WoA-pages of
Haage&Partner.
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04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail
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Haage&Partner: There are no problems with Genesis
This morning a report comes up that blamed us for not having a valid license for
shipping Genesis with the new AmigaOS.
We strictly reject this charge. We have all rights that are needed to sell Genesis.
We bought these rights from the manufacturer Active Technologies this August. We
announced all of this 4 weeks later. We are very surprised about the campaign just
one week before the start of the shipping of AmigaOS3.9.
As planed, Amiga Inc. will start shipping it next Saturday. Bill McEwen will attend
the exhibition at Cologne. I hope you will be there.
Jürgen Haage
Geschäftsführer - HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH
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03.Dec.2000
Anton Rolls on REBOL-ML
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Hosts with REBOL Support
On the basis of reports on the REBOL mailing list Anton Rolls has listed hosts
supporting REBOL. There the language REBOL can be used for example for the
generating of websites via CGI. For the time being the list contains 8 entries.
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03.Dec.2000
TFA
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ASM-One v1.45 on December, 5th
The release of the version 1.45 of the assembler ASM-One was originally planned
for the 30. November 2000. This date postpones on the 5. December 2000. The
reason for this is that Boussh has begun implementing pasting to the clipboard.
As the clipboard support is a feature that is requested since long by many he
has decided to take some extra days to complete the clipboard support (copy to
clipboard). This time will additionally be used to improve the RTG version of
the package and to update the documentation. For the 5. December is the release
of the standard and the RTG version of ASM-One 1.45 planned.
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03.Dec.2000
IrseeSoft
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Exhibition prices for IrseeSoft's Products
At the fair 'World of Amiga', happening on the 9. and 10. December 2000 at
the Mediapark Cologne, products and updates of IrseeSoft will be available for
favorable exhibition prices at the booth of CoolBits.
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03.Dec.2000
David Gerber via eMail
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Genesis Rights Controversial
On 28. September 2000 Haage&Partner released a
note
in which the company announced to have obtained distribution and copyrights
for the TCP/IP-Stack 'Genesis' from Active Technologies (Chris Wiles). Through
this acquisition H&P received the possibility to integrate an own TCP/IP
stack into the new AmigaOS Version 3.9 without any complications.
Note: The Genesis package is continued development of the AmiTCP/IP
package by Network Solutions Development, Inc. (NSDi).
On 2. Dezember 2000 David Gerber, who is working by order of NSDi on AmiTCP,
released a press note by NSDi. According to this Active Technologies didn't
possess the rights for the AmiTCP part of Genesis and hence couldn't
sell these rights to H&P.
In this message NSDi among other things were written that they regard a distribution
of AmiTCP/IP without a direct contract with NSDi as an act of piracy.
To avoid misunderstandings with actual valid license contracts NSDi further
withdraws all for the time being valid licence contracts. Due to NSDi' own
representation this is possible as Chris Wiles (Active Technologies)
didn't observe his part of the license by not paying any licensing fees since
early 1999.
H&P is anxious to solving this problem friendly.
The exact wording of the press release of NSDi is available under the title link.
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03.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga.de: Review of 'Codename: Hellsquad' online
On 3. Dezember 2000 Juergen A. Theiner has released a comprehensive
test
of the action aventures 'Codename:Hellsquad' by Digital Dream Entertainment
on www.playamiga.de.
A work in progress report about "Payback" will follow soon.
A first update of the P"Payback" review has been already released.
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03.Dec.2000
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Tools for Headlines and AmigaDE Update
Since 27. November 2000 Amiga.org offers the possibility to show the headlines
of this website automatically on the own homepage or directly on the
AmigaDE-Desktop. For this programs for JavaScript, PHP and AmigaDE(ETick V0.8)
are available.
Besides the amiga.org headlines ETick can additionally show the actual date and
time, weather forecasts and the statistics of an own zAMilo webserver.
On the website
itself the actual uploads and top downloads of the AmigaDE archive of www.amigadev.net are now also shown.
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03.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens on ANF
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Amiga--------easy-PRINT Release (with a small delay)
On the 04. Dezember 2000 appears the new issue of Amiga--------easy-PRINT which
may be delayed by 2-3 days because of illness.
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03.Dec.2000
ANN
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Amiga has Installed their own Online Shop
Amiga has installed their own online shop under the above title link.
As for software AmigaOS V3.9 and AmigaSDK V1.0 are available.
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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SecondSpin v2.12 beta
On 02. December 2000 Lauri Ahonen has released the beta version 2.12 of
"SecondSpin". This is a tool to convert normal audio CD tracks into MPEG audio
files (layers 1, 2 or 3). Additionally more formats like AIFF and WAV are
supported. A modified version of LAME v3.87+ is needed for MPEG encoding.
With this update several bugs were removed and the error handling has been
improved. This update is a very early beta version.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Sound card "Martina"
Michal Kluczewski has released some information about the upcoming sound card
"Martina" with the permission of the developer. This card shall be released within
already this year, at first for the clock port of the A1200 and later in addition for
ZorroII (Amiga 3000/4000).
It offers two 16bit channels each for in- and output with maximum 96 kHz and
an expansion port which can be used for a MPEG decoder. The website for the card
shall go online soon.
Specifications:
- Input: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Output: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
- Full duplex.
- FIFO 512 bytes.
- Soundmixer, for example of Paula and CD-ROM output.
- Expansion port. This enables a MPEG decoder enhancement
(MP3, MPEG-1 in der Uhrenport-Version) that is in the testing phase.
- Card in clock port version block of this port.
- The card will be delivered with AHI drivers. These take over the function
of the audio.device.
- The MPEG decoder will be library compatible to the mpega.library.
- Version under ROM stand (it doesn't dash with BVision and FastATA)
will be 24 bits (making possible trouble-free decoding MPEG)
and full compatible with A4000 (and probably with A3000).
Contact:
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03.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT
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New UAE-JIT Version
Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a new version of UAE-JIT. This version with the
name "Ipswich Town" contains a pci.library emulation and several improvements
inclusive optimisations and bugfixes.
the PCI emulation enables the usage of the CGX3 Virge drivers of the Mediator
board under UAE. Besides that UAE-JIT may be compiled with some luck with other
compilers than the, this wasn't tested yet tested.
Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
- Bugfix: the saving of the settings should work now.
- Bugfix: Many more bugfixes. Quark runs now perfectly.
- New: pci.library emulation. This allows the usage of the free CGX3 Virge
drivers (for the Mediator board) with UAE-JIT.
As bonus up to four 4 PCI cards may be used (Mediator offers one slot).
- New: Further FPU support and aliasing support for the FPU registers.
- Lazy cache flushing.
- Lazy FPU-flag-evaluation.
- Lazy Register Updates for adding of offsets.
- Change: Many optimisations and therefor speed increasements.
The performance is now clearly better then that of the Executor
68k-JIT-Compiler.
In the sourcecode the following has been changed:
- Complete overhaul of block book keeping code.
- Bugfix: decisive bugfixes in the noflags-code of cpuemu.c.
- New: support for the saving of registers goes beyond the calling of
JIT-compiled code.
- Change: removing of gcc specific code. The sour cecode should get compiled
with other C-compilers.
- New: The JIT-compiler supports now many more 68k-commands.
- Largely eliminated updates of regs.pc_p; Instead, there are now
direct block-to-block jumps.
- New: Optimisation of the cycle-handling in events.h.
- Much more.
This version is available as Linux/x86-binary for glibc V2.1 respectively glibc V2.0,
as complete source code and as source code patch against the UAE V0.8.15 source code.
Download:
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03.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
The Amiga Arena releases for the first time 'Bubble Stones2' in an own Design
Bubble Stones2 is a 'Bust a Move'-clone and is
now available in the 256-color version. This version has been exclusively developed
for the Amiga Arena. The field was created by the Amiga Arena and is probably
the first own development the Amiga Arena is involved in.
Amiga Arena - Schlachtfeld v2.16 world premiere
The Amiga Arena presents exclusively in cooperation with Peter Weigoldt
Schlachtfeld v2.16.
The version 2.16 is a registered Amiga Arena edition with map editor.
The map editor is exclusively contained in this archive and will not be
available on Aminet or on the homepage of Schlachtfeld for the time being.
Schlachtfeld 2 is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players. It is a mixture between
"BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" .
Here some "highlights":
- Max. 4 Teams can fight against or together
- Teams can be controlled by the computer
- Round and action based
- Many different fighting units
- More than 50 different weapon systems
- Victorious teams can continue fighting in the next battle
- Save game option
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on voice output
- From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on nullmodem game
Schlachtfeld is shareware (20 DM) and Olaf Koebnik
appeals to all users who play Schlachtfeld intensively
to get registered by Peter Weigoldt and/or give feedback.
Amiga Arena interview action
An interview with Peter Weigoldt (Schlachfeld) is in the section
'Actions' online.
Amiga Arena lottery
The deadline for the lottery is the 06.12.2000.
Amiga Arena special discount offerings
The Amiga Arena has the following limited special discount offers still
online:
FLM, GeoWorld, VisualPrefs, AmiATLAS, Siteway, Apano Sin, SHARKS AGA und
Multi.
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03.Dec.2000
Nikolaos Damilakis on ANF
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Greek RC5 Team
The Hellenic Amiga User Group has set up a webpage for the greek members of the
Amiga-RC5-team. This contains information about the greek competitors such as
the ranking and the numberof the blocks. The usergroup suggests to other
Amiga-groups to set up similar pages.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report
On the 3. Dezember 2000 James Daniels from Apex Designs has released the 16th
status report about the game 'Payback' inclusive new
screenshots.
The game similar to GTA nears completion, so there were added many new levels
during the last month, besides that, the following has been done:
- Resolutions up to 1280x1024 are now supported.
- Graphic cards are now supported. On a 68060 a smooth animation is reached
using a resolution of 640x480.
- There is now support for different languages. The
Amiga Translation Organisation(ATO)
is at translating the game into the following languages: German, French,
Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovenian and Serbian. Besides that
English and Swedish are supported.
- PSX controllers are now supported. All buttons are used so that the
navigation can be done completely over the game pad. The keyboard will then only
be needed to enter the filename for saving the game and similar things.
- Various bugs were fixed, among others a long standing bug which allowed the
it to the player walking on the water.
- New screenshots
of the night level were released. The textures will be improved until the
completion of the game.
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar v0.32r6
For alpha testers the version 0.32 r6 of the "Tales of Tamar"-client for Amiga
computers has been released on the 30. November 2000. This update contains many
bugfixes regarding the map.
Tales of Tamar is an internet-based round based game for Amiga and IBM
compatibles by Eternity Entertainment Software.
Download: (1,4M)
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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Short review of fxScan3.0
On Fun Time World appeared on the 29. November 2000 a short review of
'fxScan3.0' by Innovative. The program offers among other things text
recognition (OCR).
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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Server Problem at Amiga Resource
Because of a server problem the website "Amiga Resource" can't be accessed for
now. On request you can be informed via email (by using the title link) about
the time the site will be online again.
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02.Dec.2000
Danny Ramsey in REBOL-ML
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REBOL/Core User Guide V2.3 released as book
Until now, the user guide was only available as PDF-file at the size of 4,5 MB. You can
now buy the guide as book at REBOLpress. The book has got 574 pages
which are divided into 14 chapters and 3 appendixes which describe the elements of this programming language.
There is an index
and a sample chapter of the
book on the site. The PDF-version of the guide can be downloaded at
REBOL .
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02.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF
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Palm Pilot - TealInfo Developer Kit
At the homepage of Frank Fenn the TealInfo Developer Kit for the Palm Pilot
Program 'TealInfo' by Tealpoint Software
is available for download from now on.
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