01.Jan.2001
Jochen Rhein on ANF
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New Version of ICS Released
From ICS, the free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software is a
major new ICS upgrade V2.01 now available. Following new features have
been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF,
TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling
- Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also
a retry function
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats
- Also, memory requirement was reduced.
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01.Jan.2001
Allister Brimble via eMail
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Amiga Music Website
Allister Brimble published his own webside at mp3s.com. He is well
known for his work for Alienbreed, Project X, Bodyblows and Superfrog.
He is still working for the software industry and he is composing music for Driver,
Driver 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Some songs he did are available at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox Wish Happy New Year
Elbox sent in new year greetings which should not be taken too seriously according to what they stated.
The Not-So-Serious Inside Story Announcement
Crack-off, 31 December 2000
The pi-pi-Castro Task Force is proud to promote the latest technique
of advertising.
The pi-pi Castro Task Force hereby authorise everybody to read
the secrets of their latest technology of collecting money
in advertising and to disclose this secret to enyone on the way:
- We, the world-famous pi-pi Castro Task Force,
produced the world-famous graphic system
for the world-dominant computer platform of the Ah-miga.
Sure, we did some work. Nobody paid us for that :-(
- Then we saw some people get big in the Ah-miga world.
- We thought: "Why don't take money from them?"
- We noticed Err-box produced their hardware (el mediatore).
- Err-box produced their software (the pi-pi driver).
- We did not help them (why should we?)
- So we thought we could ask Err-box for money for using
our world-famous name of pi-pi 96
- Therefore we are world famous. Proved.
- Err-box did not want to pay us.
- We asked other friends to persuade Err-box.
- Franco Mariacchi managed to get computers
and Special-Delusion-Kit documents
from Err-box - FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- Hi-period managed to get some hardware from Err-box
plus the same paperwork. FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- We did not manage to get a single pfenig from Err-box.
And we need paper too.
- Franco Mariacchi and Hi-period are laughing at us.
- Therefore we are suckers.
And our friends are laughing at us. Proved.
- Aha. A painting family wants us to pay DM 6,000
for using the "Pi-pi-Castro" name.
- Therefore we wanted Err-box to pay it for us.
- As Err-box are discussing the issue behind the curtain,
and we need cash badly, we demand Ah-miga users
to register our pi-pi system immediately
and pay us for their being happy.
- If nobody pays us, we will cry out
that any other soap-ware worldwide is ill-egg-all.
(Apart from our pi-pi-castro, sure enough.) Proved.
Err-box Komm-puter was happy to find
the appropriate name for this
new method of advertising: the REVERSE ADVERTISING.
Danke mucho, err-boxie.
Please remember that you have to pay us DEM 5.00 or
USD 10.00 every time you use the word "advertising".
The Pi-Pi-Castro Task Force
Courtesy of Err-box Komm-puter
De-pression De-partition-ment
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There is a popular custom in Poland to make jokes
on colleagues and fellow people in the end of the year,
to summarise the most prevalent features
of their behaviour during the year.
Here is our summary of what has transpired
between the P96 team and ELBOX Computer during that time.
Please take it with a bit of reserve,
as we do not intend to offend anyone,
just to introduce a pinch of humour into the issue,
which seemed to be so tense and serious in the Amiga world.
Happy New Year!!!
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31.Dec.2000
Starmag-Team on ANF
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Jubilee-Starmag #25 is Online
Das Starmag-Team wrote:
Hello, dear people!
We wish the Amiga-News-team a happy new year and of course our
readers,too.
Issue #25 is out and ready for download and online reading on our
website.
Greetings,
Your Starmag-Team
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31.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail
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Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd v1.3
On 31. December 2000 Chris Hodges has released the version 1.3
of the graphics tablet driver 'FormAldiHyd'. The driver supports the graphics
tablets Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310. From the Readme
you can draw the changes against the older version. Among other things this
Millennium edition contains a fireworks demo.
Download: FormAldiHyd.lha (59 K),
Readme
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31.Dec.2000
ANN
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ANN Celebrates 4. Birthday
On 28. December 2000 the news service Amiga Network News
by Christian Kemp became 4 years old.
Under the title link Christian first lets the ANN year 2000 pass in review to
have a look into the future afterwards. Looking back he can reference to almost
2 millions registered page views this year with around 50 GB transferred files.
Against the year 1999 with 700 000 page views this is more than a doubling.
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31.Dec.2000
Andreas Wendorf on ANF
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Photos of 'The Party 2000'
Warp9 has put some photos of 'The Party 2000 / Denmark' into the web.
'The Party 2000' is a scene/demo party that attracts around 4,000 people every
year in Aars in northern Denmark.
Supplement: 01.01.2001:
Juergen Beck via eMail:
There were several new amazing Amiga demos and intros. Among them well done
demos of the demo groups Haujobb, and Ephidrena.
Download: demos
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31.Dec.2000
frost on ANF
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AOG-News with New Website
frost wrote:
The AOG site has been completely redesigned.
And we wish everybody a happy new year.
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31.Dec.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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News on the PlayGUI Website
Richard Kapp wrote:
As Rolf Roth has unfortunately no more time to attend the official PlayGUI site,
I (author of PlayGUI) have now taken over this task. The site shines now in a
complete new design and besides, there are again three new skins, a funny theme
and also other news. I wish you all a happy new year 2001!
(PlayGUI is a graphical interface for Hippoplayer, Play16, GMPlay
and MPEGA, that uses skins and themes. By this it is possible to play GUI, MODs,
MIDIs, MP2/3s and samples with one single (ex)changable GUI.)
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report #17
On 30. December 2000 James Daniels has released the status report #17 regarding
the game 'Payback'. The game now offers additionally a multiplayer deathmatch
mode for up to 4 players. To do this much had to be changed in the source code
and therefor much work had to be put into this mode as the game wasn't design
for supporting a multiplayer mode first. But the work was, according to James
Daniels, worth it. Screens of the multiplayer mode are released on the screenshots page.
The latest photos there also contain the improved textures.
Besides that the game now supports also the CD32 controller, and several bugs
have been fixed.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Scalos: Iconsystem, Updates of WB3.9 Plugin and VolumeGauge Plugin
The new iconsystem for Scalos supports the normal and the AmigaOS 3.5 icons as
well as the NewIcons.
Regarding the WB3.9 plugin and VolumeGauge plugin of Scalos updates have been released
which fix bugs. The WB3.9 plugin allows under AmigaOS 3.5+ the use of newer
features like 'AmiDock'. The VolumeGauge plugin equips all root volume windows
with a fill gauge in the left window border in the AmigaOS v3.5 style. This
plugin runs on AmigaOS V3.0+.
The following bugs were fixed:
- VolumeGauge: on iconifying of windows problems appeared.
- WB3.9: There are additional system checks so that the plugin runs now more
stable. Besides that the AmigaOS V3.5+ preferences are now loaded from workbench.prefs.
Download:
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar: FAQ and Crincles of 55
Regarding the move based online strategy game 'Tales of Tamar' a German FAQ and the
chronicles of the year 55
were released. The FAQ answers the most important questions regarding the game
and gives a hint how to play 'Tales of Tamar' on the Amiga emulator 'UAE'.
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31.Dec.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Vote for the Game of the Year 2000
As in the past years you can vote for the game of the year at Amiga
Flame this year again. There are 12 games (adventures, real time strategy and
other genres) for voting.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Auctions on Fun Time World
Since several days there's the possibility to purchase resp. to sell soft- and
hardware by auction on Fun Time World.
Directly on the homepage there's also a text box listing the up-to-date version
numbers of the latest software titles or updates for the Amiga.
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31.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM
'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW
that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga
in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical),
official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox,
Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems,
accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware),
support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.)
and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).
All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found
on the homepage.
Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success
of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS -
The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.
And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and
successful year 2001.
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31.Dec.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden in the Forum
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Warp3D and PCI Graphics Boards
Recently Hans-Jörg Frieden has expressed himself in our
forum regarding the topic driver
software for PCI graphics boards under Warp3D:
«Unfortunately the number of e-mails regarding Warp3D and PCI cards
accumulates for Thomas and me. Almost every time it is "I have purchased a card
of the brand XXX, when will you have 3D drivers ready?"...
Regarding this I want to say the following: Warp3D is and will continue to be a hobby project
that is cooking on smaller flame as for now, because of the time consumption
of Hyperion. If possible we'll write drivers. Nevertheless I will explicitly
point out, that the buying of a graphics card is no cogent reason for us to produce a
driver for it - as that takes quite some time. There will probably be no
driver for Voodoo 5 (V4 is questionable but more likely), none for GeForce, Riva TNT,
ATI Rage or whatever else, especially when there exists no chip documentation.
Neither we will attempt to recycle a Linux driver.
In the case that somebody could get some chip documentation (legal!) and make it
available for us the chances for a driver increase but this is no guarantee
either.»
Via email Hans-Joerg adds that this is no kind of arbitrariness but only a
hint that people shouldn't waste their money for graphics cards that can't be
supported simply because of the lack of time or documentation...
We are getting mails all the time from people asking for GeForce support or
Voodoo 5 but for those documentation isn't accessible. We have tried it even at
NVidia, without success, even not against NDA... :-(
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30.Dec.2000
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Happy new year from amiga-news.de!
© 2001 by Rolf Tingler (ps)
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30.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
MicroBase_500d.lha biz/dbase 830K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN
MicroBase_500e.lha biz/dbase 439K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH
Videomat1.7.lha biz/dbase 56K+Video cassette management system
OS3.9NOupd.lha biz/misc 2K+Bugfix for Norwegian translation of Amig
yaec_fix.lha dev/e 0K+Fixes stupid archive error in yaec.lha (
Progr_Langs_v6.lha dev/misc 71K+Comparison of progr. langs
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Mattonite.lha game/demo 234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Tankista_v0.3b.lha game/demo 105K+Buggy betaversion action game for 2 play
MicroPaint208.lha gfx/edit 492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
Keyswitch.lha hard/hack 13K+Automatic keyboard&mouse switch (German)
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 133K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 72K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ECat01.lha misc/misc 15K+Spanish Catalogs Pack 01
psY_srY.lha mods/blkha 87K+REvENgE - Nachfolger PT mod by blakkhar
BoingRays.jpg pix/back 152K+Boing Ball peeking out of dark clouds
AP12Recto.jpg pix/misc 128K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Recto
AP12Verso.jpg pix/misc 74K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Verso
dau-cdrom.jpg pix/misc 29K+How might a CD-ROM for dummies look like
titleshadow.lha util/boot 3K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
iFlush.lha util/cli 13K+Flushes UnUsed MemBlocks() Librarys() ,
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 289K+Report+ 4.21: 10-function utility
MicroRexx202.lha util/rexx 50K+ARexx Intuition extension
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30.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Advertising at Amiga Future
Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine
proposes a "commercial" advertising for "non commercial" products in Amiga
Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to shareware
developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that
are interested in this offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as soon as
possible.
The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish a happy new year 2001 to all of
you.
APC&TCP wish a happy new year 2001
to all of the Amiga users. You can look forward to next year because APC&TCP
is planning to release a whole lot of new Amiga products next year.
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30.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOLbits Newsticker
We wish a happy new year to all of our customers!
Our shop will be closed until 07.01.2001.
Martin Strobl writes:
I have build the Elbox-Mediator PCI Board into my showroom tower and I am very
pleased with the VooDoo 3000/16MB graphicsboard I also build in, since this
duo is faster than my private CybervisionPPC.
(showroom tower: Blizzard 1260, Private: CyberstormPPC 233/060/50).
A question concerning this subject: Is there interest to buy the Mediator-PCI
Board/ PCI graphics board directly with a licensed version of the Picasso96
drivers? If you are interested please send an email to
martin@coolbits.de. If there is enough
interest I will contact the makers of the drivers to ask for the price of such
a deal.
By the way, here is a tip for all those who own EXODUS in combination with a
CybervsionPPC (maybe also other graphics boards:
The game ran extremely slow on my computer until I removed the program
"PREPAREMUL" of Shapeshifter from my startup-sequence.
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30.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke in ANF
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EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.6 Released
This millennium's final release of the classic edition of EZP@gerNG has
now also been released. It is as always available in the download section.
The changes of this release are similar to those of the full version 1.3 of
EZP@gerNG, as far as the CE-version supports the different features. All the
changes of
this release.
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