08.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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Demo party: fYaNICA #11, Budapest
Next week the "fYaNICA #11", which is advertised as "Demo party for the C64, Amiga, Pegasos, Mac and others - but not for PC", will be held in Budapest, Hungary. Among the AmigaOne and Pegasos presentations there will be the following competitions:
- Graphics (8 Bit)
- Bit graphics (24 Bit)
- Music (4 Channel)
- Music (multi channel/MP3)
- Amiga 4K intro
- Amiga 64K intro
- Amiga demo
- Pegasos / Macintosh demo
- C64/+4 demo
- "Wild" demo
- Lamer demo (Scala or IFF animation)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Sep.2004
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi named MySQL Business Partner
MySQL AB has named Genesi a Business Partner and Authorized Reseller. Genesi will be offering MySQL with the new Pegasos Server that will begin to be sold this month online through Freescale DevToolDirect.
The Pegasos Server will be demonstrated by Genesi at the Smart
Networks Developer Forum (SNDF) 2004 Europe, September 27th-30th,
at the Sheraton Towers in Frankfurt. (snx)
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07.Sep.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Minipeg: Germany's smallest Pegasos computer/GPS support included
The Minipeg is a Pegasos I/G3 board built into a custom small case of stable V2A stainless steel. The case measures 34 x 9 x 19 cm, the steel has a thickness of 1 mm. The second component is a 7" TFT monitor which power is supplied by the Minipeg. The monitor has VGA input and a remote control. Keyboard and mouse are wireless. Furthermore, a fanless Radeon 7000 graphics card and a 2.5" hard disk are used.
The Minipeg is powered either by a small power supply, a car battery or some nickel-cadmium accumulator batteries. The power consumption is 24 Watt at 12 Volt. Instead of a normal ATX power supply, a fanless DC/DC converter with an ATX mainboard cable is used. The converter works with 10-30 Volt direct voltage.
Also integrated into the Minipeg is a GPS receiver, for which a custom navigation software has been written. Thus, the Minipeg can be used in a car or possibly even at hiking.
The software currently uses a map of Germany scaled 1:600,000 and operates in two modi: as a viewer for road maps and for GPS navigation. The first modus allows to scroll or zoom the map. In the second modus, the map display is directly linked with the data coming from the GPS receiver. After switching into the GPS modus, the map is centered to the current GPS position once the first data are received from the GPS module.
Alternatively and independent of the chosen modus, it's possible at any time to display the GPS information in a transparent window.
The projection of the reticule of longitude and latitude degrees on the current map unfortunately doesn't deliver an exact positioning. The aberration on this map may be up to 10 km depending on the direction. The work needed for a correct calculation of the position on this map would not be justified by the cost-value ratio. But the inaccuracy gets moderated by using a GNS database.
A GNS database contains coordinates linked to the corresponding places. These GNS databases do exist for all countries and can be downloaded from Internet. The accuracy of this database for Germany is about one square kilometer. These places are displayed also by the software when the map gets centered to the current position of when these data are displayed in a separate window. This way, the user always knows where on the map he's currently located. (snx)
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07.Sep.2004
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E3B: USB controller 'Subway' - another production run? (Update)
E3B are currently gauging the demand for their clockport USB controller Subway. Using this
expansion, even Classic Amigas lacking Zorro- or PCI-slots have access to
USB peripherals. The remaining stock of Subway cards has been sold quite
some time ago - but given sufficient demand, E3B would be willing
to produce another batch.
If you're seriously interested in purchasing a Subway USB controller,
please contact Michael Boehmer. At least 30 orders are required to justify the production costs. The anticipated price for a single unit would be about 89 EUR (incl. VAT).
Update: (07.09.2004, 13:45, cg)
To use the Subway with an Amiga 600, a socalled 'A600 clockport adapter' is required. Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers tells us that these adapters are in stock right now and ship for 9.90 EUR. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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05.Sep.2004
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak (ANF)
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MorphOS: New version of 'ShowGirls'
'ShowGirls' is a picture viewer from Michal 'kiero' Wozniak that includes image processing functions and
combines features known from MiniShowPicture, ShowPPC and other similiar products
(Screenshot 1,
Screenshot 2).
Some of the features:
- Easy browsing of directories (with mouse and keyboard)
- Lots of supported file formats thanks to Datatypes system.
- Nice MUI GUI
- Image processing options like resizing, balance, smoothing, cropping and a lot more
- Saving of images in JPEG or PNG
- Loading/displaying images with alpha channel
- Scaling image display to fit in the window (separate control over enlarging and reducing)
- Scrolling/zooming of big images
- Drag&drop of files/directories to be displayed
- Optional bilinear filtering of the displayed image
- Notification (refreshing of list of files when new files are copied in/removed)
- Thumbnailes generator (with templates) (Example)
- 2 browser modes (names list or thumbnails)
- Thumbnails browser optimized for viewing pictures taken with digicam (very fast thumbnail creation).
Changes in this version:
Fixed:
- ShowGirls icon is used as appicon when application is iconified.
- When starting without param sometimes there were trash in string gadget.
- Region marking was inaccurate.
- Problem when viewing small images, like icons, etc.
- Levels operator. Formula was slightly broken. If somebody misses old mode then I can re-add it.
- Other smaller or bigger bugs.
New:
- Bugs (probably).
- Using NList class for list of files. Added date and filetype displaying. Sorting works on any of them, including secondary sorting criteria (press SHIFT and select second column to sort by).
- Thumbnails in directory browser. Adjustable thumb size and border. Thumbnails cache (with several compression methods and other options). "Reduced memory usage" mode. Utilizing special properties in JPEG's created with digital cameras (results in more than 10 times faster thumbnails creation!!)
- Much faster finding of next/previous picture.
- Lossless JPEG transformations (Tools/JPEG Transform). Makes it possible to rotate and flip JPEG images without decompression/compression, so without loosing quality.
- Much faster image scrolling. Scrolling is now also more precise (subpixel accuracy).
- Improved zooming control (separate control over zooming and shrinking).
- Possibility do filter out .info file and non-image files.
- Added tooltypes support (FULLSCREEN and BROWSER).
- Added BROWSER CLI param. The default window now doesn't have it enabled.
- Improved Thumbnailer module:
- Suffix different than .info can be specified.
- Suffix can now also be replaced instead of only added.
- When scaling image aspect doesn't have to be preserved.
- Zooming image in/out with mouse wheel.
- Added default values to some sliders. Try to doubleclick on knob to set to default position (in balance, levels and probably some others too).
- Added mask shape selection to median filter.
- Added "border mode" to resize operator. Works the same way as in ImageFX.
- Now it's also possible to delete directories (a bit limited though. You can't unprotect files for example).
- Improved filerequester when saving. Uses path and filename of currently loaded image, and automaticaly replaces extension to match selected save format.
Direct download: ShowGirls-0.6.lha (376 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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04.Sep.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies release CD compilation
Liquid Skies who have their roots in the Amiga music scene released at the Evoke 2004 their 2nd double CD compilation "Phase Two". This one contains all music files of the releases Release #022 to #052 as audio tracks and the original packed files as data track. This means a total playtime of almost 2.5 hours.
The compilation can be ordered on their homepage for a small fee (2.50 EUR plus porto).
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
Christian Rosentreter (e-mail)
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DiscreetFX buy the rights for "Millenium"
DiscreetFX ("Spontaneous Combustion", "OpenVideoToaster", "AmiZilla") have bought from Nova Design the rights for the Toaster-/Flyer expansion Millenium as well as all remaining stocks.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce Redesign
CJ-Stroker has reworked amiforce.de from ground up. The frames are now past, the usage of the new site should now be very user friendly because of a "navigation history". Some spots need some finetuning according to the author but it is being worked on.
With the redesign new rubrics find their way onto the page, planned is among other things an OS4 project section. At latest with the existing of according hardware will a special aspect lie on the new AmigaOS.
The site is optimized for a resolution of 1024x768 and should work with every browser except Opera that causes some problems. The compatibility with Amiga browsers was important here.
For constructive critics and suggestions to improve the site is the author always eager to listen to.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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New AmiBlitz distribution with numerous improvements
From now on there's a much improved AmiBlitz2 distribution available for download. Because of the many changes and their size an update archive for an earlier distribution doesn't make sense anymore. Update archives will be available with the next version.
Unfortunately, many things were missing in the last distribution so that a seamless working wasn't possible. Thanks to Marco Möring aka Blackbird without whom the bugs and incompleteness of that distribution would probably never have been noticed.
Next to Marco my thanks go to his wife Margit Möring. Together we three could translate further guides into German.
Thanks go of course to Bernd Rösch and Thilo Köhler who work without a break on the future of AmiBlitz2.
Changes:
- Much improved install/deinstall scripts.
- After the installation are all settings immediately available.
- After the deinstallation is the archive in its original condition and can be installed again in the particular version.
- New Ped.prefs for the NEWCOLORMODE. Important: works only in screenmodes with 8/16 colours.
- More German translation of AcidGuides.
- Two versions of all (English/German).
- Further includes by Thilo Köhler.
- New Usermacro.guide.
- Many errors removed.
- Contains now many missing components, e.g. MUI2.res.
AmiBlitz2 reference manual in HTML:
Thanks to Markus Rütter is the reference manual for Blitz2 now available in an HTML version.
Next to the online version on Amiforce the manual is available for download, too.
Thanks to Markus Rütter who kindly gave the permission to do so.
News about the German manual:
At the moment is a PDF version of this manual being worked on. The available Postscript version can only be opened and printed with Pagestream. The PDF version will follow soon. So everybody can now print his/her manual. Planned is for now a version for the print of pages in A4 size. These can perfectly be put into a file. Thanks go to Andreas Röhr aka trion who really helped me very much. Thanks go also to Silvio Kurze aka MangaClub who made a first conversion.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
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Virtual Grand Prix 2: AmigaOS/MorphOS port possible
Paolo Cattani, who released in 1999 Virtual Grand Prix for the Amiga, seems to think about a port of the successor to "Virtual Grand Prix 2" to AmigaOS and/or MorphOS.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
(ANF)
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AmigaWorld.net online again
After 34 hours "downtime" is amigaworld.net available again, some subdomains and additional services are only restricted usable right now.
Because of a hard disk failure (we reported) were some "Avatare" destroyed, the rest of the database isn't affected.
At os4depot.net, hosted on the same server, are some uploads of the recent days lost.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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04.Sep.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: Audio mixer for SBlive! sound cards (update)
Vladimir Javorski has developed an audio mixer for SBlive! sound cards. The mixer uses the AC97 interface of the AHI driver "EMU10k".
Update: (04.09.2004, 15:00, cg)
In the meantime there's a new archive available for download (version 1.1).
Direct download: livemixer-1.1.lha (78 KB) (Readme)
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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03.Sep.2004
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: Devedie update to version 0.5.3 published
The graphical user interface Devedie for playing DVDs with the
MorphOS-version of MPlayer can be now downloaded in version 0.5.3 under the title link.
The support of the parameter -ss and -endpos has been added.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Eclipse-Plugin for Amiga-Cross-development
An Eclipse-Plugin which supports the Amiga-Cross-development on Windows/Linux
can be downloaded under the title link. Presently it only connects the AutoDocs with
the Eclipse-Help system and contains a minor tutorial. Soon the source code will be
published on SourceForge.
Before it has to be installed a GCC-Cross-compiler, the AmigaOS-SDK,
Eclipse in version 3.0 as well as the
C-Plugin for Eclipse.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
OnyxSoft mailing list
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OnyxSoft: Updates for JoinSplitter and TheMPegEncGUI
The Swedish developer group OnyxSoft introduces Adam 'ChaOzer' Waldenberg who is
an Amiga and now also MorphOS developer for many years as a new member.
Additionally there are updates of the programs
JoinSplitter and
TheMPegEncGUI. Others are
supposed to follow.
TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical user interface for the following MPEG-Audio-Encoders:
- MusicIn (68k or PowerUP)
- Pegase (68k or WarpOS)
- Ncode (68k, PowerUP or WarpOS)
- Lame (PowerUP or WarpOS)
- BladeEnc - (68k or PowerUP)
- MP3Enc (68k)
- Ogg Vorbis
- MPEGA (68k, PowerUP or WarpOS)
In version 2.41 now the rawbyteorder-function works. Besides this a bug has been cleared
when putting back the estimated time of completion.
And here are the changes in version 1.16 of JoinSplitter which is a program that can
split or join bigger files:
- Worked around a bug in the GUI-engine which made the Splitter part crash under OS4
- Reworked the gauges a little to be more sensitive to different window border sizes
- Fixed a bug in one of the split modes if memory was running low. It would generate the wrong size for the splitted files
- Fine-tuned the conversion between kilos (1024<->1000)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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Pegasos: Freescale delivers 175 Open Desktop Workstations to developers
According to Genesi Freescale Semiconductor Inc. makes available 175 Open Desktop Workstations
based on Pegasos II to several developers and pilot projects for free.
According to Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck a list with the names of the
first 40 developers has been sent to Freescale yesterday who will get an ODW
will take part on the Smart Networks Developers Forum in Frankfurt on 30th of September.
Next week a list with the other 60 developers will follow who will also get an
ODW-system. Members of AmigaZeux as well as of some Demo scene-members belong to them, too.
Another 75 Open Desktop Workstations Freescale makes available for the support of PegasosPPC-pilot projects.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Sep.2004
Mr.X of Barracuda Team (ANF)
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Global Gladiators Bonusgame v1.1
With Hollywood "Mr.X" has developed a clone of the bonus game of "Global Gladiators" (screenshots under the title link).
The new version 1.1 cleares the "Bluebox"-bug and can be cancelled with ESC.
Besides this the archive now contains a configuration programm.
For playing this game you need a fast Amiga, e.g. WinUAE or one of the PPC-operating systems.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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02.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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Amigaworld.net Temporarily Offline
On account of hard-drive damage the community portal amigaworld.net is temporarily unavailable.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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02.Sep.2004
Kai Mache (E-Mail)
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Fun of Computing: Exhibitor List Online
As of today the exhibitor list for Fun of Computing 2004 is finally, officially online. At the middle point of this convention you'll find Pegasos/MorphOS, Pegasos/Linux, and AmigaOne/OS4 Pre-Release naturally. But also there'll be new stuff to see on the matters of RiscOS (Acorn) and C64.
On the software side, Titan Computer is going to present "BurnIt 3" and "Papyrus," and they'll be available for purchase. Further there'll be known freeware and shareware programmers demonstrating the current versions of their software, taking questions.
Whoever wants to know what more there'll be to see at the exhibition hall should just take a look at the homepage of the convention, on which even more exhibitors shall be announced in the coming weeks. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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02.Sep.2004
Golem (Website)
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Scitech: SNAP Graphic Drivers now also for Embedded PowerPC-Systems
As reported by Golem under the title link, Scitech Software Inc. is now offering their SNAP graphic drivers for PowerPC-based system in the embedded area too.
[rest of article not translated. Among other details, it restated Hyperion's announcement that SNAP drivers will be used in OS4 -dm] (snx) (Translation: dm)
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01.Sep.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Playstation emulation: FPSE database lists more than 200 compatible games now
The "FPSE database" which lists games which were tested successfully with the Playstation emulator "FPSE" has been updated again to more than 200 entries now. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Sep.2004
Jörg Dittmar (ANF)
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"Computer- und Videobörse" October the 2nd and 3rd in Bremen
On October 2nd and 3rd it is time again for the "Computer- und Videobörse" in Bremen, held at the "Bürgerzentrum Neue Vahr". A detailed map and advice how to get there is to obtain from the homepage of the "User der Nordseeküste" (title link).
The Amiga will be presented with the AmigaOne and Pegasos but there will be Apple Macintosh and PC as well. Additionally several old computer systems will be shown. New and used hardware, from cables to complete PC mainbords, will be purchasable.
Jörg Dittmar is going to present the new Papyrus Office for MorphOS and - if ready - the CD/DVD burning software BurnIt 3 on his Pegasos II. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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01.Sep.2004
TerAtoM (ANF)
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Golem article regarding the new µA1 boards
By the title link Golem.de published yesterday Eyetechs's announcement of the miniITX AmigaOne models µ-A1-C and µ-A1-I (amiga-news.de reported). (snx) (Translation: ub)
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01.Sep.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #040831
By the title link you will find the whole newsletter of Amiga Update
for September 2004. In his English newsletter Brad
Webb summarizes monthly all important news regarding the Amiga.
- 2 MicroA1s for October Release
- Aladdin 4D on ebay
- Alchimie 4 Show in France
- Hollywood Update 1.9.2
- AWeb - A beta of interest
- DiskMaster2 has new versions
- GoldED Update is available
- SpamFryer update has been released
- WinUAE Bugfix version
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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01.Sep.2004
http://www.tum-party.org (ANF)
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Demo scene party: tUM*o4 in Hemsbach
From December the 27th to the 29th there will be the fourth demo scene party "the Ultimate Meeting" in Hemsbach. This year there it will be the first time with Amiga demo/64k and 4k competitions.
It will be the perfect end year opportunity for all Amiga demo groups and coder to show all those PC folks what our computer can do.
Everything is welcome from 68k to PPC and MorphOS-Demos.
Further information obtainable by the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Aug.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Exodus: Graphics card patch released
Andrzej Bugajny from the Exodus-Team asked us to release a graphics card patch for Exodus on our homepage. The game is said to run much faster with this. But you'll need appr. 100 MByte space on the hard drive. Exodus is available at our Amiga dealer or directly at Andrzej Bugajny.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.Aug.2004
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Pictures from the Amigaparty Friedrichsdorf (Germany)
On the page of the Amigaparty Friedrichsdorf are pictures from the event available. Enjoy them!
We want to thank all the visitors for their coming and for their interest. Next year, the party will probably be bigger.
Until then, Amiga rulez!
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.Aug.2004
Pegasosforum (website)
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MorphOS: Version 1.4 of console emulator TGEmu released
TGEmu, an emulator for the NEC TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine, is now available for MorphOS in version 1.4 and can be downloaded under the title link. A MUI GUI is included. The v1.4 offers sound, high compatibility and an acceptable speed.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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28.Aug.2004
Andreas Kleinert (ANF)
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PSWX Beta tester news group
For anyone interested, there's now a Yahoo group for discussions and
new beta versions, currently akGIF and akJFIF for MorphOS:
groups.yahoo.com/group/pswx-beta
(ps)
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28.Aug.2004
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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ToT: first WIP screenshots of the new 3D GUI
Under the following URL you can find early WIP screenshots of the 3D GUI of Tales of Tamar incl. explanation of how it works.
All users are asked for feedback. The GUI itself will of course still be further improved.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Aug.2004
Robert Sterff (ANF)
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XzentriX 2004 - Computer party in Seeshaupt, Germany, September, 3rd to 5th 2004
In the early days of the coming September the 7th XzentriX takes place in Seeshaupt, the big computer party for all
alternative computer systems!
With the last Xzentrix being the biggest success for now the organizers hope for and expect a similar number of visitors. And the registrations until now feed these expectations!
All details can be found on the regularly updated website. Right now, the English version is only available as text but the graphical version is being worked on.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Aug.2004
(ANF)
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Spiel: ToT - Tamar needs new land!
For the third time the popular action 'Tamar needs new land!' gets started.
Since Tamar is once again completely settled new regions have to be opened to give space to new settlers.
These opportunities are really rare and you should use these!
On September, 1st there's such an opportunity. Start with other players under the same conditions and show them that you are the one who should get the emperor's crown!
Learn about regions of Tamar that no man has entered before. Be challenged by dragons, undead and other creatures and show that you can compete with other real people.
Hint 1: Our price (250,- Euro) for the first emperor of Tamar who founded his/her empire after January, 1st 2004 can still be won and we would be pleased if you'd be the winner (rules for this can be read in the referring action in the ToT forum).
Hint 2: Enter the keyword 'Shareware' in the serial field when registering for ToT to play for free for some time. A round fee will be demanded when you are deeper into the game. Enter in the notes field that you want to start on September, 1st on new land.
Enjoy playing ToT.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Aug.2004
Amigaplus
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AMIGAplus 09/2004 - 150 issues AMIGAplus
In the new AMIGAplus 09/2004 (#150) you can read the following:
- News & Trends: The Triplets of Belleville
- Workshop: Programming under AmigaOS 4 (part 2)
- Amiga status report: It grows together...
- Shareware: News from the net
- Emu corner: AROS on the hard disk
- Demo scene: Solskogen Party 2004
- News from the Amiga market
- Game News: News from the games market
- and much more
The AMIGAplus is available via subscription, via single order and at Amiga dealers for 5,- EUR. (sn) (Translation: wk)
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26.Aug.2004
Pegasosforum (Website)
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MorphOS: MPlayer 1.0pre4 Released
Version 1.0pre4 of the video player MPlayer is now also available for MorphOS, thanks to Nicolas Ramz. It may be downloaded under the title link from the Pegasos Forum. Among altered arguments for the playing of DVDs, the graphic routines in particular have been completely overhauled and now include three stand-alone modes (overlay, WPA, VMem). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Aug.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Video of the Banquet Speech of Garry Hares at AmiWest 2004
Amigaworld.net and AmigaOne Productions have prepared a 45 minute video from this year's Amiwest convention. The main part is the complete speech of KMOS CEO Garry Hare, including his announcement of the purchase of Amiga Inc. and Capacity Networks.
Download:
Amiwest2004.wmv (9 MB)
Amiwest2004.rm (78 MB)
Amiwest2004.mpg (180 MB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Aug.2004
Jens Meirich (ANF)
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T-Online: Emulation Page "Rebirth of the Classic Computer"
Under the title link T-Online is providing a "Download Special" of emulators of classic computer systems. The Amiga is represented there and WinUAE is offered for download. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Aug.2004
Chip.de (ANF)
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Wall Calendar of Classic Computers incl. Amiga 500
Under the title link Chip.de is reporting about a wall calendar for 2005, which pictures a different classic computer each month. October theme: the Amiga 500. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Aug.2004
MorphZone (website)
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Genesi: High Technology Task Force visits ODW assembly
Press Release, 25th August 2004 - Jesse Wadhams, Technology Policy Counsel to the Chairman, High Tech Task Force (HTTF),
United States Senate and Judy Flynn, Regional Aide to United States Senator John Ensign
visited the assembly production of the Open Desktop Workstation (ODW)
on Tuesday, 24 August at the Easter Seals Southern Nevada (ESSN) Job Training and Employment
Facility. Also, present during the site visit were Joe Lombardo, Director, National Supercomputer
Center for Energy and the Environment (NSCEE), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Brian Patchett, CEO/President, ESSN and Tina
Jeeves, Chief Operating Officer, ESSN.
Genesi provided an overview of the Corporation and the assembly for which it has
retained the services of ESSN. The Avalanche Desktop Reference Management Platform
(DRMP) Project, in which NSCEE will participate was also discussed. NSCEE also
seeks to develop the PegasosPPC for cluster computing at the NSCEE. Following the
visit, Genesi agreed to also support the HTTF in the Avalanche DRMP Project. A number
of Technology Summits are being planned by the HTTF in Nevada and both Genesi and the
NSCEE agreed to participate in a future event.
A selection of photos of the visit are available in the Genesi Gallery.
The mission of the HTTF is to act as the Republican Leadership’s outreach effort to
the technology community and to advise the Republican Caucus on technology issues
during the 108th Congress.
The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (NSCEE) is a
full-service supercomputing facility with on-site and off-site user training,
national network accessibility and a mission for excellence in education and research
in supercomputing and its applications.
Genesi and Avalanche DRMP Project is featured in the August issue of IBM Power Architecture
Newsletter and will presented in detail at the Freescale Smart Networks Developer
Forum 2004 Europe in Frankfurt, Germany. The PegasosPPC mainboard and CPU card is
manufactured by Genesi in Germany and shipped to the ESSN facility for assembly to US
customers. All other components required to assemble the ODW are supplied by Genesi
Business Partner, Directron. (snx)
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24.Aug.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)
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Hollywood: 1.9.2 update available
An update for all users of Hollywood 1.9 is available now. This is mostly a bug-fix update but it has some new features as well. The update is provided for free and can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
It can be used with all versions of Hollywood 1.9, i.e. AmigaOS3, WarpOS and MorphOS binaries. To install the update, just run the included installer which will analyze your Hollywood 1.9 installation and update all out-dated components then.
Please note, that you need Hollywood 1.9 for this update. To find out what exactly has changed in Hollywood 1.9 revision 2, have a look at the history section in the documentation.
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23.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Invitation to SNDF Europe for PowerPC developers
We would like to invite all interested PowerPC Developers to Smart Networks Developer Forum in Frankfurt on 30 September.
You can attend the Tech Show in the morning and attend Workshops. In the afternoon we will have some special PegasosPPC oriented presentations, including a series of workshops on AltiVec.
Lunch is included and developers who have been pre-approved and attend will be given an Open Desktop Workstation compliments of Freescale and Genesi.
In exchange, developers are ask to file a monthly report on what they are doing with the machine - only basic guidelines for development will be given.
Please contact us if you are interested in developing for the platform and attending PegasosPPC Day at SNDF Europe.
Raquel Velasco & Bill Buck (snx)
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21.Aug.2004
René Thol (ANF)
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Announcement: New Amiga game WizardGrounds
For some time now I'm working on a new game for the Amiga. It is called WizardGrounds and it is meant to become a small RTS game.
Now that I've assembled a first alpha I thought I should announce it. There aren't many actions right now and no end, either. It is just a beginning and is still in development (that is moving not regularly).
For now it is only tested on my A4000 and under WinUAE. I'd be pleased to get a little bit of feedback (e.g. on which systems it is running, etc).
Enjoy it!
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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21.Aug.2004
Christian Geier (email)
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Games Convention 2004 - more images impressions
Christian Geier made some pictures of the second day of the computer games fair in Leipzig (Germany) Games Convention available. The fair goes on until August, 22nd. From the Amiga sections are the companies e.p.i.c. interactive and Eternity there.
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20.Aug.2004
amigaworld.net
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Playstation-Emulation: Database with compatible games
Under the title link you can find a database with Playstation games which have been
successfully tested with the emulator "FPSE" under AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2004
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Video Game Museum: Final sequences of known Amiga games
The Video Game Museum offers an area
where the final sequences and the final adversaries of well-known computer games
are being presented. Recently the Amiga section (title link) has been widely updated.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2004
RP-Online
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RP-Online: Law-court dismisses suit against Grokster and Morpheus-creator
»San Francisco (rpo).
An American law-court decided that the authors of the exchange programs Grokster and Morpheus
are not responsible for the violation of the copyright done by the users.
Because the illegally exchanged films and songs have not been saved centrally on servers
of the software developer thus they are not responsible for the content of the files.
Thus the law-court dismissed a suit of the film studios and record companies.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Aug.2004
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Games Convention: Voting for Tales of Tamar
On the pages of Softgames which you can access under the title link you can now vote
for the game Tales of Tamar from Eternity. The contest
will last until Sunday.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Aug.2004
urhs (ANF)
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Sequencer: New Beta-Version of HD-Rec Released
The MIDI and audio sequencer HD-Rec by Thilo Köhler is at beta-version 0.9l. The substantial changes:
- Improvements to the MIDI notator (Undo, Piano Roll-View,
Multiple selection of notes)
- Improvements to the Wave Editors (Undo, FX Box pre-listen, in/out blending)
- A few bugfixes concerning AHI (updating to AHI 5.13 is recommended)
- Bugfix of the import function for ".mod" data
- Improvements in compatibility to MorphOS and AmigaOS4
- New demo song: remix of Paranoimia's "Feelings"
As the author explained to us, the instructions are now being completed (next to appear in the German-language version). The first purchaseable version of the program is not far away. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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19.Aug.2004
PenguinPPC.org (Website)
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Genesi: Avalanche Project Now Announced by IBM Too
PenguinPPC.org reports that Genesi's description of the Avalanche Desktop Reference Management Platform (DRMP, amiga-news.de reported) was also announced in IBM's Power Architecture Community Newsletter (see title link). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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19.Aug.2004
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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First Pictures of the Games Convention in Leipzig
Christian Geier kindly made the first pictures of Europe's most important games convention available to us, the convention took place from 19 to 22 August in Leipzig. From the Amiga area the companies e.p.i.c. interactive and Eternity participated.
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19.Aug.2004
Heise Newsticker
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KDE 3.3 Appears
The Unix/Linux desktop environment KDE has reached version 3.3. The most important new things are improvements in handling, stability, and the integration of apps. Beyond that a few new programs, among them a mail program, have been integrated. Read more in the Heise newsletter article under the title link.
(cs) (Translation: dm)
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19.Aug.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Chess: HellChess Lite
HellChess Lite is an optimized and clearly daster version of the freeware chess game "Hellchess" (we reported previously), that replaces the original Amiga version with [not very translatable -dm] "a hot nail."
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.Aug.2004
Pegasosforum (Website)
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distributed.net: New MorphOS-Client Released 2.9008-494b
Harry Sintonen has released an update of the Distributed.net client for MorphOS, version 2.9008-494b, which may be downloaded from Pegasosforum. Substantial changes since the previous version include a modification of the KOGE kernel. This should lead to an acceleration in most circumstances. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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19.Aug.2004
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Pictogram Collection: GameIcons 2004
"GameIcons 2004" is a further update of the "GameIcons" series that features changing images of many Amiga games. All of the pictograms have a resolution of 120 x 96, a few examples may be found under the title link.
Direct download: GameIcons-2004.lha (1.2 MB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Aug.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT appoints Mr. Hardware Computers as Official US-Distribution Partner
In an effort to improve the availability of its AmigaOS/MorphOS line of products in the United States of America, Mr. Hardware Computers has been appointed by IOSPIRIT as the Official Distribution Partner for this region.
US customers interested in the IOSPIRIT titles will benefit of shorter delivery times and the US-centric infrastructure of Mr. Hardware Computers. When ordering through this partner, US dollars can be used as currency for all payments. Furthermore locally popular methods of payment like money orders or the Amex, Mastercard, Visa and Discovery creditcards are then available. Off of this list, IOSPIRIT at the time of writing does only offer Visa and Mastercard.
"We are very glad we could win Mr. Hardware Computers as Official Distribution Partner for the US region and can now jointly offer US customers a tailor-made solution for purchasing our products." said Felix Schwarz, IOSPIRIT.
"Mr. Hardware Computers is happy to include IOSPIRIT's products to our line of software programs. Demonstrations of these powerful programs will be given at usergroups around the New York area." said Russ Norrby, Mr. Hardware Computers.
About IOSPIRIT
IOSPIRIT is a software-development and -distribution company based in Herzogenaurach, Germany. It's the company's declared goal to bring innovative, fast and reliable graphics software products to the desktop of its customers at competitive prices. The inhouse development has created - among others - such popular titles as fxPAINT, fxSCAN and VHI Studio. IOSPIRIT also is worldwide distributor of IBrowse and the Medusa USB bundle.
About Mr. Hardware Computers
Mr. Hardware Computers is an Amiga Sales, Service and Product Development company since 1985. Based in New York, USA. Devoted to the Amiga since its inception. Amiga computers are used to run all aspects of the company. The company's main software is a database called "SBase" (formerly SuperBase) and also produces Amiga Mouse and Keyboard Adapters for Classic Line Amigas. Being on the OS4 Development/Betatester team, Mr. Hardware Computer's commitment has been strengthened to continue to upgrade and repair all Amiga computers. (snx)
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18.Aug.2004
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 400 productions reached
Yes, we did it! After what is probably our biggest update yet (7 productions added), we finally reach 400 (!) productions. If you like the site and appreciate the effort, please support it!!! We want your votes and comments. :)
In the last update, 7 productions were added:
- Headcase/Axis
- Baahl/Traktor
- Behind The Flute/Traktor
- Rink A Dink/Lemon
- Razorback/Reason
- Phi/Artwork
- Elektrik Baby/Da Jormas.
Other recent additions include:
- Zero/Universe (first OS4 demo)
- Rebirth/Push Entertainment
- Wessyde/RNO
- Major Release/Da Jormas
- Flow/Kangooroo
- Borst/Ephidrena
- Coma/Ephidrena
- Sun/Trsi
- Peanut/Efreet.
Some stats: 400 productions, 4113 screenshots, 67 logos, 380 users, 75 parties and 139 groups.
Meanwhile, the top 10 chart has changed a lot. Planet Potion is still head and shoulders above the competition with a faultless 5/5, Hardwired has settled in 2nd place and Future Visions from Potion has climbed up to 3th position. (snx)
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16.Aug.2004
e.p.i.c. interactive (e-mail)
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Spellbound Entertainment and e.p.i.c. interactive to enter license agreement
Kehl/Tübingen, August 16th, 2004 - Spellbound Entertainment AG and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh have reached a comprehensive license agreement that will bring many of the popular Spellbound games to other systems like the Apple Macintosh and Linux among others.
The first title to be ported will be the strategy game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", which will initially be released for Apple Macintosh and Linux. Versions for other systems are planned. Further Spellbound titles are to follow soon.
"We are very proud to have the chance to cooperate with one of Germany's longest standing developing companies. Finally great Spellbound titles, which all have gathered a large and loyal following, will become available to gamers on other computer systems", said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. interactive, about the deal.
Armin Gessert, CEO of Spellbound, added: "In e.p.i.c. we have found a competent partner and we are happy that the long neglected users of systems such as Macintosh and Linux will soon be able to play our games too."
More information about "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" will be available on our website soon. (snx)
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15.Aug.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers at Classic Gaming Expo 2004
The big exhibition for classic computers and video games Classic Gaming Expo takes place for the seventh time this year. It is a tribute to the people, systems and games of yesteryear. The event has moved from Las Vegas to San Jose, California, it takes place in the Convention Center, located downtown San Jose, and is therefore much bigger than the previous years.
More than 60 celebrities that played important roles in development of computers and games in the past 25 years are on the guest list. CGE is open to the public and gamers of all ages are welcome.
Individual Computers will be a guest at the booth of Cloanto. We will show the new Catweasel MK4, which is an ideal complement to their Amiga Forever emulator. The Catweasel controller lets you use Amiga disks, Amiga joysticks and Amiga keyboards with today's computers.
The Catweasel MK4 will be available starting October 2004. (snx)
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14.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Error in AmiChameleon installer script
In the version of AmiChameleon released on August, 12th (we reported) is a bug in the installer script. According to a user's report the installer script aborted during the installation process. As an entry in the startup-sequence must be done the startup-sequence wasn't readable anymore after a reset.
The new script now doesn't add an entry to the startup-sequence anymore but gives the user the information that an entry has to be done and where it has do be done.
If this error occurs to other users, too, here is the solution of the problem: Before the writing to the startup-sequence a backup of this file was created called s:startup-sequence.orig. Just give it back its original name and everything should work as before.
Jörg Renkert (ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi attending SNDF Europe as exhibitor and Gold Sponsor
As already at the American event in Dallas in April (amiga-news.de reported), Genesi will also attend Freescale's Smart Networks Developers Forum Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, September 28-30. Again, the Luxemburgish computer manufacturer will not only be an exhibitor there but also provide the Internet café as a Gold Sponsor. (snx)
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14.Aug.2004
Robert Wahnsiedler (e-mail)
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New address of French Amiga repairer Amiga.fr
The French Amiga Center for spare parts and repairs (including PowerUp cards), formerly known under the URL Amiga.fr, is now accessable via http://www.bourgogne-informatique.com.
The e-mail address of the Amiga Center is jean-jacques.boulet@wanadoo.fr. The snail mail address, bank account, telephone number and the offered services stay unchanged.
Furthermore, they are still looking for someone with interest to translate the homepage from French to English.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: demo of quiz game Miliarderzy released
Miliarderzy, a quiz game based on TV shows like "Wer wird Millionär" and on ideas of the authors, was now released as a beta version for MorphOS as well as for PPC-Linux and Windows.
All three versions are part of the archive (5.5 MB) and are available right now in Polish, English and Swedish. The programmers are looking for support to finish the game and for support of more languages.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Amiga-News.com (ANF)
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Event: Amigaparty Friedrichsdorf
On August, 21st 2004 an Amiga party will take place in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Next to AmigaOS 4.0 several more software pieces will be shown there.
These are:
- ANotice (a notepad program for the Workbench)
- JAmiga (Javacompiler for AmigaOS)
- Hollywood (presentation software and more)
- and one or the other surprise :)
The entry is free. Further information can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Commodore and Amiga show in the Netherlands on August 21st
Our C= and Amiga show on August 21st 2004 will be from 10:00 till 16:00 at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen, Holland.
There will be again a lot of C= and Amiga fans together with their computers. You can buy and exchange stuff, discuss with a lot of other freaks and we do repairs. Come and join us and look for more info at the title link. (snx)
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13.Aug.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS-Skin: SpaceStation
On morphzone.org there is a new skin for MorphOS (screenshot).
Direct download: spacestation.lha (755 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Aug.2004
heise online
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heise: The City of Munich Advances with Linux Migration
Last Wednesday at a press conference at city hall, München's (Munich's) Mayor and SPD politician Christian Ude stated that the Munich government would go ahead and begin accepting bids for the outfitting of their desktops with unrestricted software, in spite of legal unclarity and persistent fears of a patent war over open source.
Read the complete heise article under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
e.p.i.c. interactive (E-Mail)
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E.p.i.c. Interactive to attend Games Convention in Leipzig
E.p.i.c. Interactive will participate again this year in the 19th through 22nd August Leipzig Games Convention, which is the European gaming industry event.
You'll find us at the stand of our partner company Magnussoft in Hall 3, Stand B10. There we'll present various new items for Macintosh, Linux and Pegasos computer systems. We'll be happy to see you.
Best wishes,
Thomas Steiding
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
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4Players: Interview w. Former Demo Scene Member Jesper Kyd (Hitman-Soundtrack)
Under the title link you'll find a short interview that the videogame portal 4Players conducted with Jesper Kyd, a former adherent of the Amiga demo scene who is credited among others with the musical accompaniment of the "Hitman" games (PC, X-Box, PS2). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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AmiChameleon V1.35 Released
The theme installation program AmiChameleon has reached version 1.35. The following changes have been implemented:
- After Thilo Köhler reorganized the skins of his ArTKanoid, AmiChameleon was adapted. It now supports the new skins as well as the new sounds.
- It's immediately possible to have the AmiChameleon server check for certain program updates. Every time AmiChameleon starts (if this feature is activated and you're online) it checks to see if a new version is available from the server and notifies the user accordingly.
- AmiChameleon is now available in 68k and WarpOS versions.
- The localization data and installation script have been updated.
AmiChameleon v1.35 is available on the developer's homepage as a free download. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Version 0.10 beta of information tool statline
Version 0.10 beta of the information tool 'statline' is available.
Changes:
- size gadget area is now a bit larger (catoh, canuma)
- added placeholders for opened screens and windows
- uses now BetterString for the formatstring (prefs)
- added placeholder for env vars
- added poplist for placeholders (prefs)
- added uptime and record uptime
- added placeholder for context switches per second
- added CPU temperature (not tested, maybe it works with MorphOS > 1.4.2 and G3)
- added CPU usage with dnetc filter
- certain smaller optimizations
- optimized calculation of load average (thx to piru for example)
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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10.Aug.2004
Gerhard Schmid (E-Mail)
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WinUAE: Major bug in version 0.9.90
The latest version 0.9.90 of WinUAE contains major bugs in the filesystem emulation,
that can lead to data loss.
Verson 0.9.91 (in progress) will contain these changes:
- Bugs in 0.9.90 fixed:
- Multiple directory filesystem emulation bugs (files getting truncated
to zero if opened in rw-mode, read-only files failing to open and some
operations returning incorrect AmigaDOS error codes)
- AGA horizontal scrolling bug in some games.
- Stereo separation setting was not always set properly.
- Another task-switching Direct3D/OpenGL-mode problem.
- Other bugs:
- Picasso96 black screen after CTRL-ALT-DEL.
- New features:
- "uae-configuration" Amiga side program that can list current configuration, change all
configuration parameters and send any inputevent on the fly.
- Both right alt and ctrl are mapped to firebutton in keyboard layout B
(some laptops don't have right ctrl).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 10. Aug. 2004, 11:37] [Comments: 0]
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