05.Aug.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Various Software Updates by Thilo Köhler
Thilo Köhler released the following updates to his programs:
- Sample Manager 1.3 - AHI sample editor in the AudioMaster style with DSP effects
- PosTED 1.3 - Memory aid for Workbench in the style of PostIT!
- TuiTED 1.3 Alpha - Text editor with data browser and syntax highlighting for HTML, C++, AmiBlitz
- TKPlayer 1.3 - Mini-AHI-player for mp3, aiff, wav, maud, 8svx, cdda.
ideal for Def-Icons or for a filer on account of the fact that it has no extensive GUI. New: TKPlayer Lite, which doesn't open a GUI at all and therby may be utilized as a soundplayer in programs such as YAM.
- AsteroidsTR 1.2 - Asteroids clone with global Internet highscore List. New: improvements to the Internet highscore list and better compatibility with MorphOS
- ArTKanoid 2.9 - Arkanoid clone for the WB screen w 24 bit skins. New: more sound skins, bugfixes
The named software is available under the title link or on Aminet, after the next Aminet refresh. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Psyria Music Productions (ANF)
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More Amiga Games for Mobile Telephone
Psyria writes: because the subject has come up in today's news I'd also like to mention something.
For those familiar with good old Amiga games, the following two links should be of interest:
Jubble Bobble -
freeware Bubble Bobble for all Siemens Handys with Java
Tower - Nebulus Buy&Play variant (levels may be purchased alongside) for various Handy models
Have fun with the gaming! :) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer for Mobile Telephone
Under the title link you'll find an english language interview with Tower Studios, a firm that was recently founded by Jon Hare (former leader of Sensible Software), Mike Montgomery (former leader of Bitmap Brothers) and John Phillips (former Technical Director of Bitmap Brothers). They want to bring the Amiga game classics Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer to mobile telephone. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf Barthel & Matthias Rustler
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Sourceforge Project for "clib2"
"clib2" is a C library that's used in OS4 wherever the alternative "newlib" is not. Olaf Barthel has worked on this library for two years, originally with the goal of using it for the port of Samba 2.2.5.
In the meantime a lot more has happened:
An almost complete ISO-C (1994) compatible runtime environment with fully available source code. It may be used with GCC (68k und PowerPC) or SAS/C. Whoever has problems with the StormC runtime library, for example, may have better luck with clib2 (assuming an adaptation to this compiler has been made).
Because such a big project is not without bugs after two years, Olaf would be pleased to have the support of more developers. To this end the clib2 project has been hosted on sourceforge.net for the past few weeks. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS Adaptations of MUIFind and Altabber, Devedie Update
The programs Altabber and MUIFind are now also available for MorphOS. Relating to that there have been some recent instances of bugs being eliminated that gave the current MorphOS version problems.
And so the graphic user interface of Devedie for DVD display by way of MPlayer has been updated. This may be downloaded for Pegasoshere , in the Pegasos Forum.
MUIFind is a search program taht has the option of opening the found data as well as opening the corresponding program.
Altabber works in principal like Alt+Tab key combinations under Windows. It also enables switching between programs. The way this is done involves separate handling of screens and windows, and the hotkeys are freely configurable.
Download:
Altabber-MOS.lha (43 KB)
MUIFindMOS_R2.lha (46 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Incriminations against Genesi in connection with the Guardian withdrawn
While reporting about the discontinuation of Pegasos support by the operating system OpenBSD, we also linked to a statement by Mitch B. Parker on the mailinglist OpenBSD-misc. Mr. Parker had worked on the Guardian project together with Dale Rahn and ShopIP.
In the mentioned mailinglist posting, he had accused Genesi of reverse engineering and sabotage with regard to ShopIP's CrunchBox. Under the title link, again on the OpenBSD-misc mailinglist, he has now withdrawn his incriminations as being utterly false. (snx)
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04.Aug.2004
ANN (Website)
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Report from the AmiWest 2004
Warren Katchmar has published a report about the "AmiWest 2004", which was done in Sacramento (California, USA) on July the 24th and 25th, at intuitionbase.com. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Beta version of the Free Pascal-Compiler available
Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh has provided a first developer snapshot of the MorphOS version of Free Pascal for download at the title link.
The current version has been published mainly for those who like to play around with it - for bigger, serious programming projects this version is not matured enough yet, but this should change quickly.
The Free Pascal compiler for MorphOS is based on the same sources as the current FP-CVS version 1.9.5. Further information about this programming language is to obtain from http://www.freepascal.org. There is also some MorphOS specific information regarding the Free Pascal compiler.
Download: fpc_20040803.lha (2.4 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Aug.2004
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Papyrus Office: Preordering phase for MorphOS started
Titan Computer has started the preordering phase of Papyrus Office for MorphOS. Those who preorder save 10 Euro.
Please note that you must have a working Turboprint system. If Turboprint does not work properly on your Pegasos, Papyrus will not print correctly either. (snx)
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31.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (website)
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Commodity: Window2Front
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer's commodity Window2Front is since today available on Aminet.
Unlike other programs of this kind it doesn't move the windows to the front via mouse click but via keyboard hotkey - which makes the need of rearranging the windows when the wanted one is just now completely covered and not directly accessable via the mouse obsolete. Required are at least Kickstart 2.04 and the commodities.library.
Download: Window2Front.lha (8 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2004
Simon Goodwin (ANF)
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Spam blocker: SpamFryer 3
'SpamFryer' checks the headers of all e-mails in your pop3 account without downloading the whole mail and deletes unsolicited mails directly on the server. For users with broadband Internet access there's an option to check your local mail folders after downloading all mails.
SpamFryer 3 knows more than 100 ways to identify unsolicited e-mails and can be configured by editing ASCII configuration files.
Direct download: SpamFryer.lha (77 KB)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
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AmigaOS 4: Various software updates
Ripple
This is a small graphics effect for your Workbench.
Direct download: ripple.lha (45 KB) (readme)
ELIST
ELIST is an expanded 'List' command that marks executables as 'PPC native ELF binary' or '68k hunk binary'.
Direct download: elistv1.2.lha (54 KB) (readme)
vmpeg
vmpeg is an MPEG movie player with audio support. The author describes this version as "a work in progress, not fully functional yet".
Direct download: vmpeg.lzx (239 KB) (readme)
HTML Tidy
'HTML Tidy' cleans up and fixes HTML code.
Direct download: tidy_os4.lha (494 KB) (readme)
(cg)
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31.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5.22
MLdonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Currently,
with eDonkey, it supports several large networks, such as Overnet,
Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc.), Gnutella2 (Shareaza),
Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek (beta), Direct-Connect (alpha),
and Opennap (alpha).
Changes for 2.5.22 since 2.5.20:
- Fixed a bug in number of sources computation.
- Major changes in search results management
- 'mem_stats' now takes an argument (0 normal, 1 more details).
- Fixed bug adding unwanted friends
- Added RSS loading via option web_infos (command "rss")
- DonkeyClient: re-implemented indirect connections
- Applied Savannah patches:
#3165 (ipset), #3166 (mozilla height), #3178 (BT compatct). #3184 (hightime)
#3162, #3005 (networks), #3007 (printf2), #3008, #3016 (solaris), #3017
(log),#3023 (telnet), #3024 (log), #3028 (donkey-ip), #3029 (firewalled),
#3030 (log), #3031 (ft users), #3033 (chmod), #3039 (Makefiles), #3046
(telnet), #3065 (misc), #3067 (bsd), #3096 (wincomp), #3100 (force dl),
#3070 (upload), #3120 (html), #3124 (ed2khash)
For a full list of changes read the ChangeLog inside the archive.
The archive can be downloaded from the title link.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
Dirk Best (ANF)
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PDF magazine: APoV (Amiga Point of View) issue 2
'Amiga Point of View' is a retro-gaming magazine distributed as a PDF file. Amongst other things, this issue contains the following things:
- Reviews': Micro Machines, Ishar, Aladdin, The Lion King, Robocop, Liberation CD32, Yogi's Great Escape, PD games
- Articles about Bullfrog, interpreters und Open Source conversions
- Walkthroughs, Hints And Maps for Legend Of Kyrandia, Zak McKracken Part 2, Switchblade Level 2
- Also: News, mini-articles, CAPS, WHDLoad, letters, adverts, back page
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
AMIGAplus editorial staff
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AMIGAplus readers survey 2004 until August 30th, 2004
In the current issue #09/2004 of the AMIGAplus a big readers survey
was started to deliver not only feedback about the AMIGAplus but also give a representative overview of the current used Amiga systems in the market. You can participate in this survey until August, 30th (over than described in the magazine) and win a Kodak digital camera. The editorial staff is pleased about the already high number of participants - thanks to all, also the future participants!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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OpenTTD v0.3.3 for AmigaOS 68k and WOS
Open Transport Tycoon is a clone of the strategy game "Transport Tycoon
Deluxe" by Microprose that comes with numerous improvements and new qualities. Frank Menzel has released the new version 0.3.3 of OpenTDD for AmigaOS 68k and WarpOS (among other things with network support) that can be downloaded using the title link. In addition to this version the original data of the Windows version are required.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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30.Jul.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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USB controller: SPIDER software update
Elbox Computer is proud to announce the availability of a new version of the
spider.device driver for the Poseidon stack for SPIDER and SPIDER II
High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers.
This update is for SPIDER cards running
Amiga OS on Mediator-equipped Amigas or on computers running AmigaOS under
the Amihlon emulation. The new software is available free of charge for all
registered users of SPIDER and SPIDER II High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers.
SPIDER software has been reworked in order to achieve the maximum possible
performance, especially in Amithlon systems.
Spider Features:
- Five USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports: four external and one internal
- 32-bit 33MHz DMA host interface compliant with the PCI 2.2 specification
- Compliant with the EHCI (High-Speed USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1) specifications
- Three independent host controllers: two OHCI and one EHCI
- All ports can handle High-speed (480Mbps), Full-speed (12Mbps) and Low-speed (1.5Mbps) transactions
- Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
- Supplies 500mA power to each USB port
- Supports the PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
(cg)
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30.Jul.2004
Lars Sobiraj (ANF)
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Update of Jurassic Pack-Homepage
The homepage of one of the last active diskmags of the Amiga-Demoscene
called Jurassic Pack has been updated. To all newer issues
the title pictures and the music tracks are available which can be downloaded seperatly.
Some definite articles can be read online. Support & feedback to Ghandy@diskmag.de. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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German Translation of Ben Hermans Interview at AmiWest
A German language translation of the Ben Hermans (Hyperion) AmiWest interview was released today, on the Amiga Future homepage. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print Magazine: Amiga Future 27 & 28 Complete and Available Online
The editors of Amiga Future decided to offer the first two issues of their magazine online:
Issue 27 (October 2000)
Issue 28 (December 2000) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Keyboard Mapping Editor for MorphOS
KME, the keymap editor, now supports the PC105 standard with the key assignments on MorphOS on the Pegasos. With this all keys may be redefined and personalized keymaps may be created.
Download: KME.lha (621 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Freescale Documentation of the Pegasos System for Linux Developers
On the PowerPC homepage (title link) Freescale has made available resources for Linux development on the PowerPC platform. Here may be found a platform reference to Sandpoint in particular among documents for Pegasos II. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Jul.2004
Computer City (ANF)
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ImageFX Lite for AmigaOS4
Following the release for Genesi's Superbundle, ImageFX Lite is now also available for AmigaOS4 users and will be uploaded to the OS4 Depot shortly. Further information about ImageFX can be found at Nova Design.
Nova Design's European distributor, Computer City, offers an upgrade promotion in this regard: ImageFX Lite users can order the full version of ImageFX 4.5 Studio including free shipping plus a free Pen Tablet drawing board at a special price. Further information about this promotion can be found at the title link. (snx)
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25.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Service CD available
For customers with slow Internet connectivity or the desire to also own a copy of the latest updates on CD, IOSPIRIT is now offering a Service CD.
The CD contains the latest updates patches for fxPAINT 2, fxSCAN 4, VHI Studio 6, IOUSB and additional material (also available for download) for fxPAINT and fxSCAN.
The Service CD is immediately available for 5 EUR (+ P&P). (snx)
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24.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Official press release by the MorphOS team
In the last past weeks had the MorphOS team recognized the need to announce official MorphOS related affairs by an official MorphOS representative in a coherent way.
From now on all statements regarding MorphOS are only official and valid when announced and named as such by an official representative of the MorphOS team.
Official MorphOS representatves are:
Ralph Schmidt, Frank Mariak and David Gerber.
Thanks for your attention,
the MorphOS team
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: FlashROM card eFlash 4000 now with 2 MB memory
The Zorro III FlashROM card eFlash 4000 is now available in a new version with 2 MB FlashROM memory. And once again Elbox offers a special sale where many articles of the webshop are delivered worldwide without dispatch costs.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
ANF
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Golem: German court confirmed validity of GPL
As Golem.de reported, has the district court Munich acknowledged the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) as general terms of trade. They say that this would be the worldwide first court decision on the basis of the GPL. Further (German) information regarding this decision can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Video shows native MooVId player in action
The AmigaOS4 beta tester Crisot has created another inofficial video that shows this time the PPC native graphics system in conjunction with the PPC native video player "MooVId" that will be part of the AmigaOS4 release as standard program.
Download: moovidamp.avi (5 MB, DivX codec required)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar at the Games Convention in Leipzig
The company Eternity will be this year at the Games Convention (GC) in Leipzig from August, 19th to 22nd with a small booth and show there Tales of Tamar as PC, Amiga and Mac versions. As special highlight a first view on the almost complete 3D engine will be given.
Furthermore, Eternity will hold every day a speech of appr. 45 minutes length in the GC cinema. Subjects will be next to Tales of Tamar the games development in general.
Within the context of this piece of news it is pointed out that Amiga version now, too, can be played as shareware. To do so every Amiganer just needs to download the game and the latest update and enter the word 'Shareware' as serial when registering. As result you can play some time for free and therefore test the game for three to four weeks before you have to pay for continued playing.
Every gamer of Tales of Tamar who visits the fair and comes to our booth will get registered by us and receive 50 rounds for free.
The Games Convention is for the time being Germany's biggest games fair with around 90,000 visitors.
Tales of Tamar is a round based PBEM fantasy, strategy & role playing game similar to Kaiser or Civilization. The game runs already on an Amiga 1200 with 8 MB RAM and Internet connection. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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23.Jul.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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New website: PNG-Icon-Project
Under the title link a website has been created which is about a collection of
PNG-Icons with search engine. Should you be an author of such pictograms you can make them
available to other users with the help of this site.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jul.2004
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Amiga celebrates 19th anniversary
Exactly 19 years ago, on July 23th, 1985 the first Amiga which is the Amiga 1000
was introduced to publicity in Lincoln Center in New York.
Famous persons like Andy Warhol and Debbie were present and celebrated
the birth of the first multimedia computer of the world.
After one year the European premiere took place in Frankfurt (Main).
Happy Birthday to Amiga!
(sn) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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AutoDocReader Now Also Available in an AmigaOS Version
Up to now it's only been for MorphOS but now the display program AutoDocReader (current version 0.88) is available at version 0.7 also for AmigaOS 3.x (adapted by MiniQ) and AmigaOS4 (adapted by Zerohero). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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21.Jul.2004
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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CD tools: First release of "EpisodeAlbum"
With EpisodeAlbum it is possible to create "episode VCDs" with
only four production steps (each step supports easy and
advanced options).
- Selection of personal settings
- Movie selection and (optional) define texts
- Creation of the CD image
- Burning the CD-R/W
EpisodeAlbum requires an installation of ViCaDo and supports
eight movies maximum as well as up to 500 chapter per CD. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (#amigazeux) (ANF)
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MorphOS: Euph0ria plugin 1.0 for AmiNetRadio, Kaya and AmigaAMP
Euph0ria is a PowerPC native visual plugin for AmiNetradio, Kaya or AmigaAMP which is exclusively available for MorphOS. Besides the usual visualization Euph0ria also features a lot interesting extras like an inbuild Snake game or Overlay fullscreen modes.
Overview about Euph0ria's keyfeatures:
- PowerPC native (MorphOS)
- compatible with with AmigaAMP plugin API
- more than 1800 possible effect combinations
- GUI uses Magic User Interface by Stefan Stuntz
- highly configurable (effect options, task priority, framerate, etc.)
- 3 different fullscreen modes (Overlay and WPA)
- amazing colour sets by cecilia
- addictive inbuild game "Snake" with highscores
- configurable levelmeters
- informative on-screen displays (OSD) for framerate and effects
- it is freeware
Changes since latest public release (0.24):
- 11 new and amazing colour sets by cecilia
- added overlay fullscreenmodes (YUV4.2.2 and RGB16)
- added WPA (WritePixelArray) fullscreenmode
- improved highscore input of the "Snake" game
- new zoom effect: 'Rotating Vortex'
- new waveform: 'Collapsing Planets'
- reworked draw functions (e.g. improved look of connected line mode)
- "Check for update..." points now to the correct/new URL
- effects are trying now to react on music peaks
- initial effects (start effects) are now randomized
- changing framerate while playing snake now also kills the snake (I do not like cheaters ;)
- improved colour set initialization
- toggle menuitems are now working correctly in MUI's embedded menu mode
- a lot smaller improvements and cleanups
A more detailed list of all changes can be found inside the archive. The archive of the new version can be downloaded under the title link or by using the "Check for update..." function inside Euph0ria. (snx)
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21.Jul.2004
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM: Nightly Builds / Webdesigner wanted
As a new service every night at 2:00 CET there will
compilations of the current development status of the email
program YAM be made which are then available at
http://yam.light-speed.de/nightly for
AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
It is particularly stressed that due to the automatization the
created files are untested completely and thus, do not need to run
stable or run at all. Those files do not include manuals either
and might require system compounds which are unavailable to the
public yet. There is no warranty given, use the files on your own risk!
Errors of those binaries may be reported to the
bug tracker.
When reporting, please point out if you are using an official release or a
nightly build.
Further information is to obtain by the title link.
Additional the YAMOS team is looking for someone who is
interested in supporting this project by contribute some help during
the new YAM homepage creation. The new site will base on a
Wiki engine, more precisely on the Mediawiki framework
which is used at
http://www.wikipedia.org.
Further on the page must work with all common Amiga browsers
and have a unique Amiga look&feel.
The Wiki integration will be done by the YAMOS team,
therefore it is only needed to provide a HTML page which can
be used as basis for the integration. Furthermore graphics are
required also. The new site should replace the current one at
http://www.yam.ch. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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Feelin: New object orientated system for AmigaOS
Feelin is a new object orientated system for AmigaOS, which
consists of two compounds: the feelin.library (completely
written in assembler) as kernel and the expandable
system to create graphic user interfaces.
(Screen shot).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Jul.2004
Jens Schönfeld (e-mail)
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Individual Computers: Technical specifications of the new Catweasel MK4 (Update)
Under the title link you can find some technical specifications of the new Catweasel MK4, which is said to be released by Individual Computers in October 2004 and might be already demonstrated at the AmiWest on July 24/25. Since the complete list of new features is quite long, we are just quoting an extract here:
- The most obvious change is the size of the card: With only 2.5 inch (63.5mm) height, it complies with the low-profile PCI standard.
- Kylwalda built in: While the old Catweasel models always had their own floppy drives that were installed in addition to the existing controller and drives, the MK4 has the option of using the existing diskdrives.
- Suppot for auto-eject drives
- Hard-sectored disks supported
- More flexible read- and write operations
- Extensive timer-functions
- All events can trigger an interrupt
- Improvements on the keyboard interface: In addition to Amiga-keyboards, PS/2 devices can now also be connected. Not only keyboards, but also PS/2 mice are supported.
- Amiga mice supported in hardware
- Every signal can be programmed as output
- Compatible with CD32 pads
- Improvements on the SID audio part: a DC-DC converter eliminates noise and cycle-exact control is possible
- Digiboost for new SID versions: As opposed to the 'classic SID' 6581, the newer SID-chips 8580 and 6582 cannot playback samples any more. This option, which is also called 'the fourth voice', is replaced by two sigma-delta converters on the Catweasel MK4, so the fourth channel is also audible with the newer SID versions.
- Two SIDs for stereo sound
- Compatible with 3.3V and 5V PCI slots
- Two DMA interfaces
- Low power consumption
- Reconfigurable logic: The FPGA on the Catweasel MK4 is completely reconfigurable by the drivers. This means that a hardware update can be done through the Internet.
- Drivers for many operating systems: The Catweasel MK4 is delivered with drivers for Linux, Windows 98(SE)/ME/XP/2000, Amiga OS4, and for Mac OS X at a later date. MorphOS drivers are available for a surcharge.
Update: (15:13, 18.07.04, snx):
In case of a temporary inavailability of the Individual Computers server due to maintenance scheduled for this weekend, there exists an alternative link at http://www.siliconsonic.de. (snx)
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17.Jul.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C course for beginners enhanced
The known Amiga C course for beginners has been enhanced by a lesson about light, colors and pen sharing. Besides that have some notes been added to the lesson about shared libraries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
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Commodore online museum
Information about various Commodore computers including the Amiga has Thorsten Kuphaldt gathered in his virtual Commodore museum. Not only the computers themselves but e.g. slot cards and single chips got a description.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
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HD installer: WHDLoad 16.3, new packages until July, 17th
WHDLoad is a collection of tools for hard disk installations of older games via so called "Installers". Since yesterday is version 16.3 available.
Direct download:
WHDLoad (users) (599 KB)
WHDLoad (developers) (1.35 MB)
Since we last reported about WHDload some installers have been reworked:
- Improved: "Untouchables" (Ocean) supports one more version, the installer got a complete rework
- Update: "Street Racer" (Epic) access fault removed
- Improved: "Conquests Of The Longbow" (Sierra) supports one more version
- Flink CD³² (Psygnosis) reworked, now uses the Kickstart emulation
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.06 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 4.0,
4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04 and 4.05 of fxSCAN to V4.06 is now available
for download to registered customers. Changes include a fix for some rare problems with PDF-export. A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive. fxSCAN 4 is currently available at a special price. (snx)
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17.Jul.2004
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Interview: The developers are bad, not PHP
»Zend founder Zeev Suraski in talks with Golem.de
The Israeli company Zend is responsible for the core of the free script language PHP that has been released recently in version 5 and offers commercial products for PHP. PHP 5 comes with many new functions that are partly due to the reworked object support of the Zend Engine II. Golem.de talked to Zend founder Zeev Suraski about the new possibilities but also about limitations of PHP.«
The complete (German) interview can be found here. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
Aminet
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File system: version 1.227 of SFS on Aminet
On the Aminet has the beta version 1.227 (268 KB) of the Smart Filesystem been released (readme file). Required are at least AmigaOS 3.0 and a 68020 processor.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
ANN (website)
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Titan Computer: English Papyrus website now online
The product page for the MorphOS and AmigaOS versions of the office package Papyrus is now available in English, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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16.Jul.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS: Several small tools ported
"Madgun68" compiled a few small tools for MorphOS:
CDIrip (20 KB) - Extract data from cdi (discjuggler) files
yydecode (28 KB) - Decodes yenc files (found on the newsgroups)
CheckSFV (23 KB) - Creates or checks sfv files
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Playstation emulator 'FPSE'
Mathias Roslund has ported the Playstation emulator 'FPSE' to AmigaOS 4. The port has not been tested extensively yet, the GUI is not ported to PPC code yet and there's no Warp3D support available.
Direct download: FPSE009R3-OS4R1.lha (390 KB) (cg)
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16.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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MorphOS: Unofficial GCC 2.95.4-Port by Marcin Kurek
Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek has uploaded a personal port of GCC 2.95.4 with all
required patches as well as some minor bug fixes on MDC and his homepage.
Please send your bug reports directly to the author because it is an unofficial version
of the compiler.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2004
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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Game: Updated Map for Payback
For the action game »Payback« by Apex Designs an additional map (extra map) of DestraCity
has been published. In this game you must try to get a gangster boss beginning as a nobody.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2004
ANN (comments)
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RISC OS: Castle Technology Ltd. and RISC OS Ltd. work together
After Chris Williams wrote an article at the end of April
(amiga-news.de reported),
where he wondered himself
"Are we so dissimilar?",
yesterday he could report of a historical event:
United at long last - RISC OS Ltd. and Castle Technology Ltd. have published a common press release
in which they explain their cooperation in future.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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AmiWest 2004: UGN will broadcast
As every year the Amiga User Group Network (UGN) will report of the AmiWest
which is the biggest Amiga event in North America which will take place on July, 24th/25th.
We will broadcast via webcam as well as audio and video streams. The highlights will be the
speech of Garry Hares on Saturday as well as the live interview with KMOS-CEO on Sunday.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2004
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Amiga-Emulator mobile: UAE-Versions for iPAQ and PocketPC
It is now possible to play old Amiga games on the way with the help of ports of the
emulator UAE for mobile devices:
PAQuae is available in an early
beta version which is an UAE version for the iPAQ. The Linux program uses the SDL-library and
does not require an X-Windows installation. PAQuae was tested on an H3760-iPAQ under
Familiar 0.7.2 and Opie 1.1.3; according to the author it should also work on a Zaurus.
Ismail Khatib writes the Amiga-emulator for Windows CE. A first beta version of
PocketUAE
should be available during the next days. Currently a support of the keyboard is still
missing. You can only use the on-screen-keyboard of the PocketPC.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Relay-card-software Relax for AmigaOS 3.x available
The relay-card-software Relax written by Rupert Hausberger is now available in
version 2.0 for MorphOS as well as for AmigaOS 3.x.
Download: Relax_OS3.lha (44 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jul.2004
Sven Drieling
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amiga-news.de: Commentary Script - Bugfixes
Sven Drieling took care of the following errors in our commentary script:
Update:
- Bugfix: URLs in the comments with the "|" symbol did not completely work with the referenced link when one clicked on them (Martin Heine).
- Bugfix: "mailto:" was changed around in a clickable link (Christoph Gutjahr).
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jul.2004
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AmigaOS 4: Zombie Apokalypse
"Zombie Apocalypse" is a 2D shooter written by Blackbird. An AmigaOS 4 version has been released today.
(cg)
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15.Jul.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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2D shoot'em up: Blackshoot
'Blackshoot' is a 2D shoot'em up written with AmiBlitz 2 supporting graphics and sound cards. Versions for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 are available. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Jul.2004
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os4depot.net: Recent uploads
rtgmaster-os4fix.lha dri/gra 71 KB RTGmaster OS4 fix
tactictowers.lha gam/mis 51 KB Sort the tower before the other player does.
amishots.lha gra/mis 108 KB AMIShots for Amiga. An Amiga clone of Webshots
sid4amigaos4.lha aud/pla 371 KB Sid4Amiga
addmenu.lha uti/mis 10 KB Adds more menus to the Workbench
ispell-3.2.06-aos40.tar.gz uti/tex 2 MB Ispell
sge.lha emu/uti 87 KB SGE: The Spectrum Graphics Editor/Ripper 68k/PPC (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Jul.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Movie player AMP (Beta)
"AmiDog" released a first beta version of his movie player for AmigaOS 4. According to the author, it's a "a quick and dirty port of the latest beta containing a lot of untested stuff".
Direct download: AMP2-BETA-040705.lha (899 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Jul.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOS 4: Status Update from Ben Hermans
An amigaworld.net member has released a transcript of Ben Hermans' speech at 'Amiga Alpe Adria' (3rd of July, Udine/Italy). (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Jul.2004
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)
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BSD: DragonFly 1.0 Released
FreeBSD branch DragonFly was released at version 1.0 this week. The beginner of the project is Matthew Dillon, an Amiga user known for DICE C Compiler among other software. You may find out more about this Unix derivative at Heise. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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German Translation of DiscreetFX Interview
On amigaworld.org a short time ago there was an English-language interview with DiscreetFX (responsible for Amizilla and so on).
As of today there is a German-language version of the interview at the Amiga Future Homepage.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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14.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.3
OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe". Other than with the original game several extensions and new features were added, e.g. many functions of the famous TTD patch were integrated directly.
The most important change compared to the official 0.3.2.1 release for MorphOS is surely working network support.
Interesting changes at a glance:
- network support for MorphOS
- improved German town name generator
- transparent station signs
- show total cargo per wagon type in train details window
- bridges on slopes
- Galician translation
- Extra dynamite, allow the removal of town-owned roads, bridges, tunnels for a popularity rating penalty
- magic bulldozer cheat, that lets you remove industries, unmovables and town-owned buildings, roads and bridges
- Enabled 'remove' button for stations
- Cheat GUI (activate with crtl-alt-c) The game remembers if you have used a cheat
- split canal/lock tool in two tools, one for building canals, one for locks.
- make the HQ generate passengers and mail
- made helicopters able to land on small airports again
- display number of houses in town overview window
- realistic train reversing
- added water quantity level "very low", which is the default for easy mode now
- various small improvement for the MorphOS build
- alt + f now toggles full screen (alt + enter still works)
- autorenew: autorenews vehicles if enabled.
- news history window
- larger smallmap size
- Austrian Citynames
- Polish translation
- Danish translation
- smooth economy changes
- TTDPatch-style gotodepot.
- helicopters get serviced automatically on helipad
- center toolbar on screen
- two new airports
- Resizing the window in all SDL builds
A complete list of all changes is to obtain from the changelog.
The archive is downloadable by the title link. Additional some selected files from the original game (Windows version) are required. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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IRC-Client: WookieChat version 1.2 released
The IRC client WookieChat is available as version 1.2 (353 KB) now. The enforcer hits are not solved yet but the author wanted to release the current state before he will go on vacations. If there are problems with the new version there is still the version V1.1 available for download.
Changes with V1.2:
- Installation script added
- "Perform on connect" support added. So you can join channels, register with nickserv, etc, automatically when you connect to a server. Edit the Group entry to change your connect script.
- Support added for server passwords
- No longer crashes when you are missing any of the three MUI custom classes that WookieChat requires. It will give an error message instead.
- You can now /part channels and close private message (query windows) tabs by clicking the X button in the top left hand corner.
- If you try to use a command that isn't yet supported, the "/" prefix in the line you typed will be removed and the rest of the line will be sent to the server. /mode and /nickserv now work because of this. This might help with future IRC developments too... i.e. when new commands become available on networks, the client doesn't have to be updated to support them.
- Bug fix: when you were disconnected from IRC by either the server or by typing /quit, the program would go into a never ending loop locking up the program. Fixed.
- Bug fix: When a server name was too big for its button, it created weird problems. Now when a server name is too long, the string is restricted to 10 characters. So hopefully multiple server support works better now.
- Bug fix: Can connect to the Galaxynet network fine now.
- Bug fix: when connecting to a server in a new tab, sometimes the previous tab you were in wouldn't change its selected state to FALSE.
- Bug fix: No longer crashes if you load WookieChat without first loading a TCP/IP stack. When you attempt to connect to a server, it loads bsdsocket.library if it hasn't been already, and if it fails it gives an error message.
- Change: Nicklist listviews are a fixed size now, so when the window is small, you can still see the status symbols to the left of peoples nicks
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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13.Jul.2004
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Various software updates
Solar Rescue
"Solar Rescue" is a small shooter created with the legendary "SEUCK" ('Shoot'em Up Construction Kit').
Direct download: SolarRescue.zip (346 KB)
BACK-IT-ALL-UP 9.8
Back-It-All-Up mirrors the content of one hard drive on another one. It supports up to eight partitions, partitions bigger than 4 GB, can use its own screen or open a window on the Workbench screen and offers a lot of features.
Direct download: backitallup98.lha (17 KB)
Worm Wars 7.82
"Worm Wars" ist a 'Tron' clone by James 'Amigan' Jacobs (screenshot). Version 7.82 introduces miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Direct download: WormWars.lha (542 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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13.Jul.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Alpe Adria: Photos and MP3 files (Update)
At the official Amiga Alpe Adria website 0xAA.org you can find further photos from this event which took place in Udine, Italia, on July 3rd (among other stuff some classic Commodore computers were shown) as well as mp3 files of the speech by Ben Hermans (Hyperion) and further presentations.
Update: (13.07.04, 14:24, snx)
At the Amiga Show Archive there is also a Video (43 MB) of Ben Hermans' speech available. (snx)
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10.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Mailing list for AteoBus owners
For the owners of an AteoBus expansion there's now a mailing list at Yahoo been set up.
This piece of hardware offered ISA slots for the Amiga 1200 and had been developed in 1997 by the French company Ateo Concepts. As slot cards available for it were among others a graphics card (Pixel 64) and an Ethernet card (AteoNet).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: BlackIRC keyfiles online available
In the near past we have received several requests regarding the availability of keyfiles for the software title BlackIRC (development ceased in 2000). To help these interested users we offer an online version of BlackIRC 1.1 for sale. The online version contains a keyfile and the last released version of BlackIRC.
We want to point out that there is no support for BlackIRC available anymore and that development ceased in 2000. This offer is therefore meant only for users who do not need any support and only want to buy a keyfile.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
PPA - Polish Amiga Portal (ANF)
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MorphOS board game: Kulce
Roman Grygier prepared a MorphOS game called Kulce. On the board there are some coloured balls which have to be put in horizontal, vertical or diagonal rows.
When there are five of the same colour in one row, the row disappears and the player gathers some points. Balls can be moved around the board - one per round. After making the move, additional three balls appear on the board. The game lasts until the whole board is covered with balls and the player has no field to move.
The game can be downloaded from PPA. The game is in Polish language but there is not many text to read. Review of the game (with screenshots) can be found here. Enjoy! (snx)
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10.Jul.2004
ANN (website)
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: datatypes akGIF and akTIFF for free
Because of the end of the LZW patent Andreas R. Kleinert now made also the datatypes akGIF and akTIFF available free of charge so that they should appear on Aminet soon. The akGIF datatype archive is available for download on the author's website, too, but not the akTIFF archive due to its size.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jul.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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BBoAH looking for musicians
The team of the BBoAH is still looking for people, especially songwriters and musicians/bands
or people who know to mix a song with the appropriate programs. It is planned to produce an AMIGA song that goes under the skin. For this they are looking for some helping hands to work on it within a non-profit-project. Idea and concept exist and are set.
People who want to spend some of their spare time for this project may write via e-mail to: Amigahardware@mariomisic.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Jul.2004
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Programming language: Mattathias BASIC (alpha) released
A new alpha version of "Mattathias BASIC" has been released yesterday. (cg)
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09.Jul.2004
Dude (ANF)
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Sun present three dimensional desktop
With Project Looking Glass Sun present a three dimensional desktop for their Unix operating system 'Solaris'. Detailed explanations and various screenshots can be found on the project's website.
A video showing the 3D desktop in action is available as well.
(cg)
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09.Jul.2004
PC-Welt
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US-government warns of Internet Explorer
Because of the several lacks of security in the WWW browser Internet Explorer the
"United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team" which is an organization where the US government
has also some members warns of using the browser, at least if you have not changed some
preferences. Meanwhile the free author Paul Boutin advises to use Firefox instead of
the Internet Explorer. That seems to be not very special but this advice has been posted
in Microsoft online magazine Slate....
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2004
Golem IT News
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Golem: Mozilla-products avoid Windows lack of security
»Patch for Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird published
After on 7 July 2004 a dangerous lack of security has been found which only appears
on Windows systems at the three web applications Mozilla, Firefox and
Thunderbird now a patch is available for download. The lack of security allows an attacker
to execute program code on a different system.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Another video of AmigaOS4 with nativ Picasso96
Under the title link an
AmigaOS4 beta tester has published a video (20 MB)
which shows the speed of the new PPC-nativ version of Picasso96.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Video of OS4-Prerelease-Party in Landskrona
Under the title link you can
download a video of the OS4-Prerelease-Party which took place from June 18th to 20th in
Swedish Landskrona.
You can watch a little performance of AmigaOS4 with nativ Picasso96,
MUI, MooVid and Descent Freespace.
The video which has also some music is there in three different levels of quality.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jul.2004
ChaoZer (ANF)
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MorphOS: ColdRebootPatch
ColdRebootPatch patches the ColdReboot() function, allowing you to delay or even stall a reset (screenshot).
(cg)
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08.Jul.2004
From Sebastian Brylka found in "Die Zeit" (ANF)
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Die Zeit Web-Magazine: Cool Computer Art
Creative programmers demonstrate how they also use modest means towards a goal of great works. Amigas are mentioned relationally to the growing demo scene in this article by Aaron Koenig.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Mario Misic (ANF)
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BBoAH Chat-Radio Session
This coming Saturday, the 10th of July, 2004, BBoAH is organizing a chat radio session at 8 pm. On this web-radio that evening the topic of Amiga shall be particularly discussed.
[rest of article not translated, the web-radio was also to include music by request] (ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Test Reports, Articles and Kult Packages
Kultpower.de, the fan site for classic computer magazines, has again an update, after a long time:
New PowerPlay Test Reports from Powerplay 12/92: A.T.A.C. (MS-DOS), Burning Steel (MS-DOS), Hexuma (Amiga), LHX Attack Chopper (Mega Drive), NHLPA Hockey 93 (Mega Drive), Quest for Glory 3 (MS-DOS), Rex Nebular (MS-DOS), Silly Putty (Amiga), Spellcasting 301 (MS-DOS), Summer Challenge (MS-DOS), Super High Impact (Super NES).
In the Kult Games area there are a few new game gems to marvel at: Wing Commander 1 and 2, Eye of the Beholder 1, 2 and 3.
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08.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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Garry Hare (KMOS) to Speak at Summer Breakout 2004
At "Summer Breakout 2004", an annual convention on the topic of networks, which takes place on the 14th of July in Petaluma, California, Garry Hare of KMOS Inc. will give a speech on wireless networks. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
Rene (ANF)
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New Law Forbids the Sending of Spam Mail
chip.de: From now on in Germany it's forbidden to spread unwanted advertisements by e-mail, SMS, and fax. This so-called spamming is forbidden in accordance with the Unlawful Competition statute that came into force today.
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08.Jul.2004
ARD-Teletext Page 135
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Punishment for ex-Metabox CEO Domeyer
As may be read in ARD Teletext, former CEO Domeyer of Metabox AG has been sentenced to seven months and a penalty of 10,000 euros.
The judge found that Domeyer inflated the value of Metabox shares by filing false reports.
Follow-up: More articles about this
N-TV.de on 8th July, 2004: Metabox CEO Sentenced
Heise on 9th July, 2004: Punishment for the former Metabox CEO
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08.Jul.2004
Dirk Martin (ANF)
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Convention: Fun Of Computing 2004
On the 2nd and 3rd of October the convention FUN OF COMPUTING is taking place in the main building of the Ilmenau (Germany) Technology and Founders Center. Since 1997 this gathering has been organized by Amiga-Center Thüringen, and is now offered for the 5th time. It offers interested visitor a look at news, developments and trends having to do with computers. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Emulator: MAME V0.84 for MorphOS
Fabien Coeurjoly has released version 0.84 (13.5 MB) of the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator for MorphOS.
Changes since version 0.72:
- Bumped to 0.84 common tree
- Optimized blit speeds, especially on Pegasos II
- Supports on-the-fly window/screen switch (alt-enter by default)
- Not compiled with GCC 3.x this time, as this led to some nasty bugs
- Improved GUI (history.dat and mameinfo.dat support, favorites list, ...)
- Command line interface mode changed:
- Now uses the official mame syntax (mame.elf -showusage) for help
- Also supports mamerc config files
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08.Jul.2004
Golem IT News
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Golem: Googles Against Google
«Stelor wants to terminate the trademark "Google."
Stelor Productions, a maker of child's toys and operators of the kids website Googles.com, has filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office that the trademark "Google" used by the search website Google must be cancelled. »
Read the complete Golem article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jul.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets through 8th July, 2004
With WHDLoad it's possible to play games from your hard-drive that were previously thought of as floppy-only. The following packets have been added or updated since our last announcement:
- 06.07.04 new: Tint (The Black Lotus) done by Psygore
- 01.07.04 fixed: Toki (Ocean) fixed missing imager
- 01.07.04 fixed: Street Racer (Epic) fixed another access fault
- 27.06.04 new: The Cycles (Accolade) done by Psygore
- 27.06.04 new: Speedboat Assassin (Mastertronic) done by Psygore
- 20.06.04 new: Explora 3: Sous Le Signe Du Serpent (Infomedia) done by
Psygore
- 17.06.04 updated: Enemy - Tempest Of Violence (Anachronia) icon added
- 13.06.04 fixed: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) fixed bug in protection
patch fix
- 07.06.04 new: Postman Pat (Alternative) done by Codetapper
- 31.05.04 improved: Overdrive (Team 17) completely rewritten, fixed
load/save records
- 30.05.04 fixed: Les Portes Du Temps (Legend) restarting game after game
over fixed
- 30.05.04 fixed: Cluedo: Master Detective (Leisure Genius) doesn't quit
anymore when starting
- 26.05.04 improved: Toki (Ocean) supports another version, new icons
- 26.05.04 improved: Asterix - Operation Getafix (Coktel Vision) supports
another version
- 23.05.04 new: The Kristal (Addictive) done by Psygore
- 23.05.04 new: Fusion (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 23.05.04 new: Cluedo: Master Detective (Leisure Genius) done by Psygore
- 19.05.04 new: Populous World Editor (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 15.05.04 updated: Battle Squadron (Innerprise) reworked, many changes,
see readme
- 08.05.04 improved: Superfrog (Team 17) project f fixed, easy entry of
level codes, added level skip
- 08.05.04 new: Alien World (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
- 07.05.04 improved: Theme Park (Bullfrog) rewritten for kickemu/whdload
16, manual and hints added
- 06.05.04 new: Saint & Greavsie (Core Design/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
- 05.05.04 improved: Tornado (Digital Integration) supports ECS version,
display fixed on AGA version
- 05.05.04 improved: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) fixed load/save problems,
supports ECS version
- 03.05.04 new: Asterix - Operation Getafix (Coktel Vision) done by JOTD
- 03.05.04 improved: Beyond the Ice Palace (Elite) supports another 2
versions, major changes
- 01.05.04 new: Luxor (Software Horizons Ltd/Paradox) done by Codetapper
- 01.05.04 new: Corx (Starbyte) done by Codetapper
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08.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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New APC&TCP Newsletter
As of today the new newsletter from APC&TCP is active. Updates to the pages of APC&TCP, DigiBoosterPro, and Amiga Future are posted in the newsletter. Beyond that there is information about software updates of the APC&TCP software house.
Subscribers to the old APC&TCP newsletter and the Amiga Future
mailing list are being automatically subscribed to the new newsletter. If you would like to subscribe, send an e-mail to newsletter-subscribe@apc-tcp.de.
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to newsletter-unsubscribe@apc-tcp.de. Both of the old mailing lists will be eliminated in the next few days.
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