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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02.Dec.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF
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Amiga-Christmas Calendar
Michael Ufer coded a Christmas calendar some time ago and now adapted it for the
year 2000. Each day a virtual door can be opened and there is a little
surprise behind it. Have fun and no cheating :-)
Download: AVK.lha - 2 MB
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02.Dec.2000
Stefan Instinske on ANF
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Alternative-Games.de now online
Today a new games site for Amiga and other alternative computer systems,
"Alternative-Games.de", went online. In the Amiga section current test reports
are awaiting you ("Bubble Heroes", "Virtual Ball Fighters", "Wipeout"), a
preview of the GTA clone "Payback", an interview with the leader, coordinator
and art director of the SOMS-Team "Secret of my Soul") and much more.
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02.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
F1GP-Theme.lha biz/dopus 1.7M+F1GP theme for Magellan II
Toolbar4YAM.lha comm/mail 201K+YAM replacement toolbar
YAMGenesis.lha comm/mail 17K+Start & stop Genesis from YAM2. V1.01
facts.lha comm/tcp 89K+V4.3 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
streamer.lha comm/www 24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
dcs-tb31.lha demo/aga 39K+DCS: Tourbus 31 (1st at TRSAC'00.5)
SPO3-4KbIntro.lha demo/aga 17K+Spoletium3 Amiga 4Kb Intro compo entries
SPO3-64KbIntro.lha demo/aga 69K+Spoletium3 Amiga 64Kb Intro compo entrie
SPO3-Demo.lha demo/aga 2.2M+Spoletium3 Amiga Demo compo entries!
SPO3-Graphics.lha demo/aga 2.2M+Spoletium3 Graphics compo entries!
SPO3-Module.lha demo/aga 3.4M+Spoletium3 4Channels Module compo entrie
SPO3-Results.lha demo/aga 1K+Spoletium3 Results!
DKG-Shine.lha demo/intro 4K+Shine! 4Kb Intro by DARKAGE
BlitzLstOct00.lha dev/basic 64K+Blitz mailing list archives for October
libmpeg_src.lha dev/c 178K+Source for mpeg (video) link library
bonk.lha dev/lang 13K+New programming language
MCC_NListt_SP.lha dev/mui 6K+NListtree.mcp 18.2 spanish catalogs v1.0
HDWrenchTester.lha disk/salv 59K+Tester program for hdwrench.library
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 527K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 11/
AaktInt1100.lha docs/mags 268K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt1100GFX.lha docs/mags 473K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AIOV41.lha docs/mags 378K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 41 (Nove
Magazineindex.lha docs/mags 63K+TEXT indices of magazine articles
ALEM_0024.lha docs/rview 259K+ALEM's SilverSurfer Serial Card Doc (FR)
DC-EMBond15Lvl.lha game/data 376K+81 levels for Diamond Caves 1
GermanUnits.lha game/data 4K+German names of units for NAPALM
GoalBrasil2000.lha game/data 14K+Brazilian league update for GOAL
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 22K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
1571to1541.lha misc/emu 2K+1571 to 1541 v1.0
imdbDiff001117.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
3DHome.lha misc/misc 333K+3D interface for X10 modules and EZHome.
aa2001.lha misc/misc 1.2M+Astrologic texts, german and HTML (DEMO)
Lotto_Upd.lha misc/misc 220K+Play Lotto! (V2.03, supports german Sa.-
AMP-Info.lha mus/misc 1.1M+(A)miga (M)usic (P)reservation infofile
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 120K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EP_ImagesMusic.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Images Music System" extern
EP_SpeedyA1Sys.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Speedy A1 System" external
Viereck.mpg pix/anim 15M+Animation made with Cinema 4D by MadMan/
NOW_1.lha pix/art 317K+"Now that's what I call Schming #1", Ne
fomb519.jpg pix/henz 244K+Heavy Narn Cruiser (Babylon 5)
fommisc01.jpg pix/henz 99K+Bridge
fommisc02.jpg pix/henz 444K+Mars Attacks!
fommisc03.jpg pix/henz 433K+Mars Attacks!
fomsw30.jpg pix/henz 258K+Sith Infiltrator (Star Wars - Eposode 1)
fomsw31.jpg pix/henz 88K+Skybus (Star Wars - The Return of the Je
fomsw32.jpg pix/henz 22K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
fomsw33.jpg pix/henz 101K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
veinepower.jpg pix/misc 156K+Amiga PoWeR Therapy. Keep the Fresh PoWe
Hyperion1.jpg pix/trace 62K+Hyperion (Babylon 5)
myvoodoo.jpg pix/wb 203K+Voodoo3 Grab -- Not OS3.9
warpvers07.lha util/misc 2K+Reports WarpOS/3D/Mesa libvers+env setti
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 156K+V1.41 - Graphics benchmark program
cdmp.lha util/rexx 22K+Encode CD to MP3 with Arexx (german)
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 19K+PatchBrain v1.24 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 252K+VirusExecutor v2.08
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02.Dec.2000
AmigActive
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AmigActive issue #15 Released
The december issue of the English print-magazine 'AmigActive' is available.
Under the title link you will find a complete index of issue #15. Highlights of
the current issue are, among others, an article about the future of the
Amiga, an article about Nightlong, and AmigActive takes a close look at the
games list for the AmigaOne.
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02.Dec.2000
MorphOS
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MagicMenuPPC 2.30beta for MorphOS/PPC
MagicMenu has been ported to MorphOS. Version 2.30beta of MagicMenuPPC is
available for download.
MagicMenuPPC230.lha - (147 KB)
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