18.Dec.1999
Michaela Prüß in ANF
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BUGFIX Installerscript VersCheck V2
Three days ago a bug sneaked into the VersCheckV2 Installer script. For those who didn't already
fix the bug on their own:
- The fixed archive is on my homepage, and will soon be available from Aminet too. Download:
VersCheckV2.lha
- Only available from my homepage is a second archive containing only the Installer script.
Download: VersCv2Fix1.lha - 11 Kb.
- For those daring enough: In line 31 of the script, a ")" is missing at the end of the line -
that's it. Somehow it got lost. The Installer message says line 1163 or such, because the effect
of the missing bracket is not recognized earlier.
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18.Dec.1999
Alex Kazik in ANF
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scene-handler
A new version of scene-handler has been put online yesterday. With scene-handler, you can
mount and directly access MovieShop 4.2/4.3/4.8 scenes and projects. Download:
scene-handler.lha.
Please participate in this small questionaire
about scene-handler. I am currently working on a version for MovieShop 5.2. This is also
subject of the questionaire.
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18.Dec.1999
Han van Gelderen in ANF
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Team AMIGA Central now online
Team AMIGA Central now online.
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18.Dec.1999
Andreas Schaumlöffel by e-mail
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HD-Crash
Andreas Schaumlöffel writes: Due to a very stupid HD crash I lost all e-mail
addresses I collected on my system. So all who know me, please send me a short mail with
the usual data, so I can add you to my AB again.
Additionally I lost the list of people having an e-mail abo of Amiga Phönix. You,
too, please send me a short e-mail so I can set up the list again.
APhönix.
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18.Dec.1999
Andreas Mayer-Gürr by e-mail
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Amiga RC5 Team Effort News
Andreas Mayer-Gürr writes:
1.) CSC: A new PC client, twice as fast as the old one, is
available.
2.) RC5: An older 68k (beta) RC5 client is available, which does not support some
details of the latest client (like status bar and statistics with Myzar), but is about 30%
faster. I tried it and it works very well, my 68060 does about 148 kkeys/sec instead of the
117 kkeys it did before. If you only use the client for calculating, I did not encounter
problems. So:
2a.) get blocks with the latest client
2b.) calculate blocks with the
beta client
2c.) submit blocks with the latest client, and continue with 2a.)...
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18.Dec.1999
Jens Schönfeld by e-mail
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X-Surf network cards delivered
Jens Schönfeld writes:
This morning, the X-Surf ethernet cards have been delivered
to all distributors at the same time, a full week delayed. The delay of the delivery was
however not due to technical problems, but due to my car accident: I was busy handling
police, insurance and the company that towed away my car (by the way, anyone interested
in a Volvo 850 crash car?). Since the cards will reach customers before christmas, however,
I think I can be pardoned, can I?
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18.Dec.1999
Cloanto by e-mail
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Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle: New ROMs & MP3s
For all Amiga emulation enthusiasts who ever wondered what Workbench 1.0 looked like, or what
the late Jay Miner, "Father of the Amiga", has to say in his own voice about the Amiga and other
interesting issues, Cloanto just released the Amiga Forever Plus Pack, which contains new Amiga
ROM, Workbench and MP3 audio files! The Plus Pack joins the Amiga Forever family of emulation
and support products, which are officially licensed by Gateway's Amiga companies.
Only for the next few days, the Online Edition of Amiga Forever 3.0 (stand-alone) and the Amiga
Forever Plus Pack are available in a special holiday bundle for a special price.
The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle includes the Amiga Forever Online Edition package, with its
preinstalled Amiga emulation environment (1.3 and 3.1 Amiga ROM and OS) and the Amiga Explorer
networking software, plus the following new items, which are part of the Plus Pack:
- Amiga Workbench ADF files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.04 and 2.1
- Amiga ROM files v. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 2.04 (WB 2.1 uses 2.04 ROM)
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 1: Birth of the Amiga
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 2: Computers and Society
- Jay Miner MP3 Track 3: A New Job
- New HTML pages, including instructions to play MP3 audio files
For download convenience, the items are archived in two files which can be downloaded separately,
also with the help of an optional download wizard. It is always possible to resume an interrupted
download, or to download the same file again at no additional cost. The Plus Pack is cross-platform,
while Amiga Forever Online Edition is for Windows systems only.
The Amiga Forever Holiday Bundle is available now from the Amiga Forever Home Page at
http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/ (title link)
The Cloanto Team wishes all Amiga fans great holidays and a very happy New Year!
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18.Dec.1999
Paul Nolan by e-mail
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Paul Nolan Ltd extends Photogenics 5th anniversary sale
Due to the huge success of the 5th anniversary special offer, it has now been extended
until December 25th. Paul Nolan would like to thank those who have purchased Photogenics
for their support, and wishes everyone a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
For those who missed the sale details, they are as follows. Paul Nolan is offering the
full version of Photogenics 4.x at a 25% discount. This brings the price down from $99.99 -
to $75, or just $65 if upgrading from a previous version of Photogenics. The special is
only available direct from Paul Nolan Ltd, either online at http://www.PaulNolan.com, or
the StarByte order hotline on 1 800 243 1515, extension 400. Callers outside of North
America should prefix this with their international dialling code for the US (for example
dial 00 1 800 243 1515 from the UK).
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18.Dec.1999
Martin Baute
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Translator wanted!
Since the "restart" of the English pages of Amiga-News, the daily translations are a one-man-job
again because Marek didn't respond so far.
I am looking for users willing (long-term) to do German - English translations regulary of all
news items appearing on a given day of the week (or two), and send them to me by e-mail.
You don't need to know HTML well. If you can type <A HREF=""> and <OBJECT><UL><LI>,
know the pop-up menu of your favourite browser and can handle a text editor, you qualify. :-)
Oh, and you should be able to read (and understand) German. ;-)
Those interested in supporting Amiga-News this way should contact me by e-mail.
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17.Dec.1999
amiga-news.de
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amiga-news.de currently reworked
We are switching the website completely to SSI (Server Side Includes). Therefore some links
to subpages might not yet work perfectly. In this case, the "Home Button" does however always
bring you back to the main page. We hope to finish the change tonight (December 17th).
Tomorrow we will be back with the news.
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16.Dec.1999
Czech Amiga News
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WarpJPEG.datatype for PPC
This JFIF/JPEG datatype by Oliver Roberts is especially made for PPC users with WarpUP.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha
YAM mailinglist moved
Since the current YAM mailinglist had spam problems, it has been moved. At the title link
you can subscribe to the new list.
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16.Dec.1999
AA Audio Page
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LAME beta version 3.58 released
New LAME beta version 3.58! Lots of quality and bugfixes, various new options (filtercut-offs
etc) ..new from earlier versions is the linking with mpglib and libsndfile which enables LAME
to read mpeg audio files, 16/8SVX and many more... ;)
Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 440 Kb
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16.Dec.1999
Amiga Central
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Amiga Game Music Album
The Amiga music CD "Immortal" by Monteiro Music is now available.
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16.Dec.1999
Epic Marketing
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Epic Marketing News
Did you enjoy the charming adventures of little Simon as much as we did? Did you always
hope for the successor to be ported to Amiga? Have you been mad because this great game
was only available for PC? Now there is the opportunity to change this...
Epic Marketing got the license to port Simon The Sorcerer II to Amiga. On the one hand,
we are of course very proud to get the opportunity to port this great adventure to the
Amiga. But with the latest ongoings at Amiga (Inc) we have to ask ourselves how many
Amiga users at all are interested in a first class game? The license, the porting and
the production of SImon The Sorcerer II won't be cheap. So we decided to do a pre-order
campaign. We need 500 pre-orders to do Simon The Sorcerer II for Amiga. When we reach
the 500 limit, the game should be available in 8 weeks.
We will update the pre-order
data on our homepage weekly. Simon The Sorcerer will run on all AGA or gfx board systems
with 030 CPU and sufficient memory (about 8 MB fast). The game will only be released on
CD.
Please place your pre-orders here:
Online: order@epic-marketing.de
Tel: (+49) (0)8081 400492
Fax: (+49) (0)7071 400493
Snail Mail: Epic Marketing, Hirschauer Str. 9, 72070 Tübingen
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16.Dec.1999
Andreas Magerl in ANF
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Amiga games wish list
Andreas Magerl writes:
On our homepage, area "Aktion", you'll find a form for entering
your top 5 wish list for games on Amiga. The submissions are evaluated regulary, and published
in each issue of Amiga Future and our homepage.
Of course it only makes sense if
enough users participate. The idea is to show coders and companies over a long timespan which
games are wanted by Amiga users.
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16.Dec.1999
Michaela Prüß in ANF
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AmigaOS 3.5 - self-made fix for broken AGA buttons
Michaela Prüß writes:
For all those who still have the problem with
AWeb 3 SE (OS 3.5), or probably all other AWeb versions, too, that there are some
colored dots instead of the buttons at the top: There is a way to fix it (already
reported to amiga.de):
Load images/def_buttons in a graphics program (I did it with PPaint). Expand the
palette from 8 to 16 colors, and copy the 8 colors to the 8 new ones. Then adjust
the first 8; it doesn't matter to what, but it must not be any of the original 8
colors. With PPaint, all you have to do is commiting a color adjustment, and the
buttons look like before (almost, I had to swith RED and GREEN manually). Then cut
it out (preferrably more precise than I did), and save it as imags/def_buttons
(back up the original, you never know...). With the 16-color version it worked on
first try, and I can finally see the buttons. If someone gets it done precisely,
please send me a copy - I never got the hang to paint programs...
Oh, yes,
the 16 colors. Don't tell me you surf with 8 colors and it wouldn't work that way.
If you surf the web with 8 colors, you should be used to looks like that...
Dennis Gronewald followed up:
There is an easy way to get rid of the gfx bugs in AWeb. Simply enter the image
drawer of AWeb. Here you find the file "def_Buttons". Simply put braces around the
"Transparent" tool type. Worked for me.
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16.Dec.1999
Andreas Etzrodt in ANF
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New CD32 game
Andreas Etzrodt writes:
Good news: We recieved permission by Petro Tyschtschenko himself
to offer CD32 games. Without license fees. Citing Petro: "Dear Andreas, we don't want to make
money by that. As long as it is not commercial, it's free." Since we already distribute it as
Shareware, luckily we don't face any additional costs.
By the way, many have misunderstood
our first announcement. Of course we don't want to release a commercial game, with pressed CDs
including cover. We want to create a runnable CD32 CD with our own CD-R. Of course it will include
a cover, but only a self-printed one.
So interested CD32 owners can contact us, and probably place their pre-order. The CD will not
cost more than 15 Euro, probably much less (we did not yet calculate what is possible).
Oh, and for those who missed the first announcement: We talk about the Shareware game "SHARKS!",
which is available as demo version from Aminet. Most likely it will be adapted to AGA, so the
hardware performance of the CD32 is used.
More details from:
Andreas Etzrodt
Hauptstr. 15
49835 Wietmarschen
or by e-mail
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16.Dec.1999
Sascha Koebner in ANF
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Source code for DESCENT 2 released!
Sascha Koebner writes:
At the title link, capable Amiga coders can download the source
code for 'Descent 2' (by Interplay), and of course port it (!). 'Descent 2' is the successor
of the successful 360 degree 3D shooter. The comparatively smart KI, and the heavily improved
3D engine compared to 'Descent 1' should be enough motivations for coders to try their skills
at it. It seems to be the source code for the PC version 1.2.
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16.Dec.1999
Andreas Kleinert by e-mail
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New ak-Datatypes
You can now download akJFIF v44.60 (16.12.99), akPNG v44.60 (16.12.99) and akTIFF v44.60
(16.12.99) from the download page
seperated by system.
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16.Dec.1999
clickBOOM by e-mail
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clickBOOM auction
FREE AUCTIONS FOR EVERYONE
Starting today, and for the next 60 days, holding an Auction at
clickBOOM's Amiga Auctions is absolutely FREE for everyone!
There are no limits to what you want to sell, how many Auctions you want to hold or how long
you want them running. Use all three types of Auctions, use photographs, layouts, all FREE !
GAME AUCTIONS
But, that's FAR from everything. We want you to come every day and check the latest
Auctions. Every day, for the next 15 days, we will auction one copy of each of our games! The highest
bidder takes it, so you can walk away with a brand new clickBOOM game of your choice for as low as a
few dollars !!!
COMPARING CLICKBOOM AMIGA AUCTIONS TO EBAY
Sure, eBay is the name in online auctioning, however, when it comes to selling Amiga goods, clickBOOM's
Amiga Auctions are simply a better choice:
- Amiga Auctions are free!
- Auctions held at Amiga Auctions actually have a better selling rate than eBay !
- Amiga Auctions support English and German !
- Amiga Auctions have several layout designs to choose from !
- At Amiga Auctions you can choose from a list of Amiga hardware photographs, and having a photo
Auction is free !
- Amiga Auctions show approximate price in 3 other currencies !
- Amiga Auctions are ran by the Amiga community, for the Amiga community !
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16.Dec.1999
Ivo Janacek by e-mail
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New FastATA / Powerflyer and FastATA4000 drivers
Download:
FastATA'99v50a27.lha
EIDE'99v26a27.lha
FastATA4000v15a27.lha
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