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29.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)


 Video/Audio-clips of a speech by Alan Redhouse' in Bath
There are some additional video and audio clips of the speech of Alan Redhouse of Eyetech held at the OS4-On-Tour-Exhibition in Bath available. These new audio clips have a higher quality than the ones published shortly after the speech.

Download:
WMV (33 MB)
Real (27 MB)
MP3 (11 MB, only audio)
(cg) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Stavros (Forum)


 Homebanking: compatibility list for Amiga-Browser
Stavros, an amiga-news.de reader, is offering a list of homebanking sites which can be used with Amiga browsers. The new update takes IBrowse 2.3 into account, too. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)


 Mr. Hardware publishes photos of the Micro-A1
Under the title link, Mr. Hardware published some photos of the new Micro-A1 mainboard together with its specifications and a few questions and answers.

Users from the New York area can have a look at it themselves at the meetings of the LICA (Long Island Computing Amigans), each third Friday a month. (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)


 Server-move of Virus Help Team
Due to a server move the URL www.vht-dk.dk is currently not available. According to the carrier it will be back online within seven days. If you are looking for information about or of the Virus Help Team please use the alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
bplan GmbH (E-Mail)


 Pegasos II: Urgent Firmware update necessary! (Update)
As bplan GmbH announces, the version of the Open Firmware shipped with the Pegasos II is faulty! Before you make any changes using setenv, you have to update your Open Firmware!

You can find the needed update at http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/update_e.html.

Update: (29.12.03, 18:29, snx)
Under the title link now you also can find a way how to make an affected system bootable again. (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
A/NES CGX homepage


 Emulator: Future of A/NES CGX uncertain
From the A/NES CGX website:
That's nice. If I get this bounch of e-mail each time I kill a project (amiga-news.de reported), I should start killing projects more often. :-)

So, what's up now, a few of you asked. To be honest, I am not quite sure really. Time will tell if I decide to start working on something new.

And can someone PLEASE hurry up those guys and make AmigaOS4 run on BlizzardPPC soon :) I'm pretty tired of talking to AmigaOS4 beta testers (have you noticed, they're obviously everywhere), I want to try the OS myself. :p (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)


 Source code of 2D-Adventures "Patrimonium" now freely available
The programmers of Chuck Team released their 2D adventure 'Patrimonium' for Windows based computers. For encouraging other developers the team also released the complete source code of the game at the 'Patrimonium' homepage. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Diverse


 Short software news (29.12.2003) (Update)
The following applications and updates were released over the last few weeks:
Update: (29.12.2003, 17:45,cg)
Amendment: There is now new version of vbcc (see below) available, but a new version of the PosixLib for vbcc.
AmigaMARK
Version 1.001 of AmigaMARK, a benchmark program, is now available for AmigaOS Classic and MorphOS.

Chromium
The French developer SixK released a port of the shoot'em'up Chromium (v0.9.12) for AmigaOS. The game is using OpenGL.

GameIcons 2003
The archive GameIcons 2003 contains 275 icons, 150 of them are new.

HSC
Matthias Bethke released version 0.930 of the HTML preprocessor 'HTML Sucks Completely' (HSC). The source code can be compiled on every supported OS, these are Linux, HP/UX 10.20 and AmigaOS. A HTML program documentation is available, too. Furthermore the archive contains current Prefs and macro files.

ilbmdtPPC
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.11 of 'ilbmdtPPC', an ILBM-PPC-Datatype for displaying IFF-ILBM-pictures on WarpUP.
Changes:
fixed decoding of truecolor images with alpha

Software by Diego Casorran
Diego "dcr85020" Casorran released ports of the following programs: OpenSSH v3.7.2p2, bzip2 v1.0.2, NetPBM v10.18.4, OpenSSL v0.9.7c, UnRAR v3.30b3, Wget v1.9.1 und cURL v7.11-BETA.

vbcc
A new version of PosixLib for 'vbcc', a portable ISO C compiler by Frank Willes, is now on hand. PosixLib emulates important POSIX functions not available in the vbcc C library. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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27.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)


 Pegasos 2: First user report
Treveur "Nowee" Bretaudiere has released a short report about the Pegasos 2 he received:

My Pegasos 2 finally arrived this morning, in its nice protective box, along with its 1 GHz G4 CPU module, the MorphOS installation CD, two booklets, and a backplane.

The two documentations are very clear. A VERY simple booklet, written in English, French and German, explains how to install both MorphOS and the computer itself, whilst the other, in German, is a fairly detailed technical documentation, with ports description and such.

The motherboard in itself is very well made, and once filled with a DDR 333 memory module and my radeonVE, booted MorphOS 1.4.1 without any problem straight from my DVD burner.

I'm still astonished by the speed difference between my already fast Pegasos 1 and the Pegasos 2. The G4 behaves very well, the stability so far seems okay, the computer sound is perfect. Ambient opens a 300+ files folder in less than a second (!). I performed many MD5 sums test over 800 mb files and no problem occured.

As for the installation process, it was especially simple for me that already had MorphOS 1.4. I simply copied the boot.img from the supplied CD to my MorphOS partition, rebooted, and typed 'boot hd:0 boot.img' (Where 0 is the partition number of my hard disk).

For someone that would prefer a clean installation, though, there is a slight problem: the install script checks for a bad MD5 sum. The solution here is to copy the installation script in ram, and remove the MD5 check with ed. Another solution, even simpler, copy the whole CD to the freshly formatted HD. The problem was already known and a fix should be available already.

Finally, it makes several hours the computer is turned on, I had no crash so far. Compatibility seems to be perfect with the Pegasos 1, without the bugs of its predecessor.

My comment: It's been so many years we've been expecting a G4 Amiga compatible system, I think the product fulfills more than a necessity. It's a dream come true.

Nowee^SKT (snx)

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27.Dec.2003
Vinnny (ANF)


 Anniversary: Russian AIC online for four years
The news and information resource for Russian Amiga users Amiga Information Center is online now for four years.

Since 1999 the site's two administrators - Efim Shuvikov (site developer and maintainer) and Vlad Vinogradov (news editor and content manager) - published more than 5200 news and have welcome more than 650 registered users. (snx)

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26.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)


 Audio-Sequencer: HD-Rec Update (MOS fix)
On download site of HD-Rec which is an audio- and MIDI-sequencer for AmigaOS there is an update for the version 0.9beta. The update fixes some bugs which occured under MorphOS - HD-Rec should now run perfectly on a Pegasos.

The author asks for other bug reports if you should find some ones. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)


 Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis announce an AmigaOS4 version of Gorky17:

"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003

Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis Software have extended their existing license agreement for "Gorky 17", Metropolis' critically acclaimed RPG/Strategy title, to cover not only Linux but also the upcoming AmigaOS 4.

Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. The player commands a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The city is being terrorized, the area is surrounded by NATO troops and media from all over the world, and the first group sent into the city disappears without a trace. The main hero of the story is the 40-year old soldier Cole Sullivan, a commando team member with extensive scientific knowledge. His team's task: to explain the hybrids' presence and to find the missing members of Group One. But that, of course, is just the beginning...

The AmigaOS 4.0 port is already well under way as can be seen on the screenshots published with this press release.

The Amiga and Linux ports are being carried out by Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies who are recent "converts" to the Amiga platform after they recently joined the Hyperion Entertainment game development team.

Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies have an impressive track-record in the field of Linux (gaming) related development." (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail)


 Hyperion announce "AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release" CD for early 2004
Hyperion Entertainment announce the release of an AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release for all current AmigaOne owners for early 2004:

"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003

Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4.0 development team are pleased to announce that OS4 development has now sufficiently advanced for a comprehensive Developer Pre-release of Amiga OS 4.0 to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.

In view of the fact that quite a few of you reminded us that you do not have broadband internet access, the original idea to offer an initial version of OS 4.0 for download was abandoned in favor of an "easy to install", self-contained distribution on CD.

Whilst this will obviously entail more cost to Hyperion and require more time for duplication and distribution, the upside is that we will be able to provide developers with everything they need to start developing for OS 4.0.

The developer material will include sample source-code, an initial version of the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK as well as native OS 4.0 compilers (GCC 2.95.3, GCC 3.4 and VBCC) and cross-compilers for various platforms (Linux x86/PCC, Mac OS X etc.).

The Developer Pre-release will require an upgrade of the AmigaOne firmware which was bumped from U-Boot 0.1.1 to U-Boot 1.0 and which is currently undergoing final testing.

Further details will be announced shortly.

Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4 development team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and patience.

The fact that you are still here, 10 years after the demise of Commodore, has been a tremendous encouragement to us during these 2 years of laborious development.

Make no mistake: your patience will finally be rewarded with the fastest and most powerful incarnation of AmigaOS ever.

Merry X-mas and a prosperous 2004 to all of you!" (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF)


 Hollywood Presentations: the 100th PowerPoint Presentation Appears
Because of the positive vibrations as well as the high number of takers, Amiga user "McFly" released some more Hollywood presentations after converting them from PowerPoint. Altogether there are now more than 100 presentations for download that may be viewed on Amiga (or compatible) computers.

McFly thanks all the users for supplying feedback and wishes everyone a Happy New Year. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 RxMUI: Update to Version 40.1
RxMUI from Alfonso Ranieri has now reached version 40.1 and is available for download from his homepage.

Graphic user interfaces in MUI may be programmed in ARexx macros through the use of RxMUI. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Classic Amiga "Cracktros"
Because us upstanding Amiga users may naturally not utter such names as Skidrow, Paradox, Red Sector or Vision Factory, Melon gave us the opportunity to retroactively amuse ourselves with the sights and sounds of those intros from old cracked games, a nostalgia that will warm our hearts. Here is the conversion of the old Amiga "Cracktros" in Macromedia Flash format.

More Flash ports of C64 and Amiga Cracktros may be found at Doc Snyder and Nostalgia. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Comments)


 Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Amiga Classic "IK+"
Under the title-link may be found a Macromedia Flash port of the classic Karate game "IK+" - including a Kickstart-1.3 screen. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)


 MorphOS: Update of PTPDigCam to Version 0.9
The program PTPDigCam by Christophe Genre has reached version 0.9.

PTPDigCam is a MUI-based program that makes it possible to load and erase pictures, videos, and sounds from PTP-compatible digital cameras (such as Kodak, Canon and Sony).

Currently the program has been tested with the following cameras: Kodak LS443, Kodak DX3500, Canon A70 and Sony DSC-P52.

The main new aspects:
  • Camera serial number added
  • Sounds management added (usefull for Canon camera)
  • Canon A70 is supported
  • Sony DSC-P52 is supported
  • PTP protocol enhanced to take into account Sony and Canon PTP limitations and specific capabilities
  • Fixed bug: Status always display no video available
  • Fixed bug: The 10 Mo input buffer was not released (oups!)
(snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)


 Instructions for the Installation of PNG Icons
For users of MorphOS or users of PowerIcons under AmigaOS, Cecilia has written an (APDF-compatible) PDF document (137 KB) that explains the installation of PNG icons with alpha channel while utilizing ImageFX 4.5.

Along with that she has created a few example icons (195 KB, from butterfly pictures). (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)


 Benchmark Program: Update of AmigaMARK to Version 1.001
Rupert Hausberger released an update to his benchmark suite AmigaMARK LPA for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

Alterations:
  • ADDED checking whether gethostbyname() successes
  • ADDED checking whether xen.font is avail
  • CHANGED os-requirement from 3.1 to 2.x (untested)
  • CHANGED layout of settings-window to a virtual-group so it opens also on non gfx-card screenmodes like ecs, aga
  • FIXED bug that forbids the use of chip-ram test in some situations
  • FIXED little gui-bug in module-information at "mhz"
  • CHANGED logo to a nicer one
  • CHANGED splitted archives to base, aos, mos
  • BUMPED revision to .001
(snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ESA Garching/München (ANF)


 TV Tip: Mars Landing of the ESA
The touching down of the European Space Agency vehicle on Mars will be televised live and carried on WebTV on 25th December 2003 at about 2:25 MEZ. Early supporters of the European planet missions should not miss this important event! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
Dennis Lohr (ANF)


 Music: New Track on the Psyria Homepage
After nearly an eight month pause, there was an update on 24th December 2003 to the Psyria homepage. Because it was musically very quiet around Psyra this year, there's just one new track exclusively for free download. "Overflow" is sort of an Ambient-style track. It was produced by Yel.C vs. Psyria, and is available for download from the download area.

At this point we'd like to wish all our fans happy Christmas and a great New Year. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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24.Dec.2003
Nico Barbat


 Christmas greetings from the AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de
The AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de editor teams as well as the publisher team of falkemedia wish all Amigans a merry blessed Christmas and a comfortable transition to 2004. We are thankful for your faith in us and are looking happily forward to the next twelve months which might see the long awaited revival for the Amiga market thanks to the PegasosII and MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.0.

Editorial team AMIGAplus:
Nico Barbat, Wolfgang Böhl, Sebastian Brylka, Marc Cloppenburg, Thomas Franziskowski, Frode Hansen, Heiko Kuschel, Uwe Pannecke, Robbie Schäfer, Alex Scholz, Carsten Schröder, Kilian Servais.

Editorial team amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat, Ulrich Beckers, Jens Begeschke, Christian Busse, Stéphane Campan, Christoph Dietz, Sven Drieling, Guido Fehst, Dr. Eric Gillé, Christoph Gutjahr, Stefan Hägele, Martin Heine, Hendrik Höner, Sven Kirmse, Daniel Miller, Jürgen Müller, H. Ogino, Piotr Pawlowski, Daniel Reimann, Christian Rosentreter, Gerhard Schmid, Carsten Schröder, Felix Schwarz, Petra Struck, Alfred Sturm, Rolf Tingler. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003



 Pictures from the Pegasos 2 - a slightly different Christmas story...

"Four against Murphy" or how the Pegasos 2 made it at least against all odds for Christmas:

At that time there was the order by Genesi that all already produced Pegasos 2 boards should be shipped until Christmas. And this Pegasos shipping 2 was the first at all.

So Gerald Carda and Thomas Knäbel from Oberursel went to Oberhausen, to DCE where the Pegasos 2 should be produced when the plain circuit boards should arrive there.

But there were no boards... TNT sent the boards to "DK" not to "DE" and now they had to be moved from Denmark to the right destination. Two worthful days went by...

But not enough, Murphy not satisfied yet - there was potential for more things going wrong. And seeesh!!! - a soldering machine went broke and needed a repair!

Holy evening approached and the question was not if something else might go wrong but what it will be this time. The answer came quicker than hoped: just on the first day of production one of the SMD machines left synchronity...

But Thomas and Gerald just kept the track and with the help of the whole DCE team the sailed through all these problems!

But: Worthful time was lost and the board production lasted till the afternoon of the 23rd...

Also the programmers were busy all day and night and worked coordinated by Ralph Schmidt on the new firmware and on fitting MorphOS 1.4.1 to the Pegasos 2. André Siegel had hands full of work with making the 61 page manual perfect and let it translate with two fellows to German and French.

The last day before Christmas Eve! How should the boards go on their journey just in time? Sure: His Pegasos 2 boards share Guido Does by Vesalia picked up just at the production site - but what shoud be done with the orders of the other customers?

Then Christian Kemp surprisingly came along offering his help - coming from his home in Luxembourg he offered to make a 600 km trip to bring the boards from DCE, Oberhausen to Ron van Herk, Rotterdam just that evening so that the boards could be sent to all the world an December the 24th.

So it came the day of Christmas Eve Christian and Ron supported by his wife Cindy packed Christmas packets with mainboards, CPU cards, slot panels, manuals and self burned and printed MorphOS CDs and brought them on their way.

At least Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco were able to announce the good news at morpos-news.de: UPS just got the boards intended for Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA - including Hawaii.

The following pictures may be used as evidence that the Pegasos 2 boards are really produced and sent away:

Pictures of some Pegasos 2 boards

The Shipping: In the beginning there was chaos...

...but at least...

...and one by one...

...it was fullfilled by Christian and Ron:

The boards ready to go at ComputerCity in Rotterdam.

Merry Christmas!

 
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 SimpleMail v0.21 released & X-mas greetings from the developer team
The SimpleMail team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Additionally there is version 0.21 of SimpleMail available now. Changes are:
  • Import of mbox files
  • Several memory leaks wiped out (bgol)
  • The layout of important list elements is now saveable (bgol)
  • Simple remote filter: Messages can be left on the server
  • SimpleHTML support is now within a shared library
  • Ported to OS4
  • Documentation describes the spam identification
  • Bug fixes and several other improvements
(nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter (ANF)


 MorphOS: Euph0ria 0.24 released
Using this announcement Christian Rosentreter wishes a Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year and there is a new version (0.24) of Euph0ria!

Christian writes: Special greetings to all amiga-news.de members all guests of the #amiga-news.de IRC channel, to #amigazeux and to all others I forgot to mention now. :)

About Euph0ria:
Euph0ria is a visual plug-in with MUI-GUI for AmiNetRadio, Kaya or AmigaAMP. It's been tested under MorphOS 1.4 only but should work with other versions flawlessly. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


 ArakAttack USB driver update v0.94 released
The version 0.94 of the USB driver package for Amithlon and OpenPCI is available at the Aminet and at VMC.de now.

Guido Mersmann wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga users and developers and to the amiga-news.de team. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)


 kickstart archives v3.1 - DVD release
kickstart archives is a collection of historic and current websites, information, documents, patents, wireing diagrams, manuals, hardware libraries and more all about the Amiga. The collection is html based and features a search engine to browse the archive.

kickstart archives runs with all common operating systems and can be installed to the hard disk just by copying it there. The search engine does not operate with AmigaOS due to the lack of a browser capable of complete JavaScript1.2.

kickstart archives costs EUR 10,- plus EUR 1,44 p&p.

Thomas Unger wishes a blessed Christmas and a successful new year 2004 to all readers and amiga-news.de members. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Christmas greetings from Coyote Flux and individual Computers
Merry Christmas from a new team in the Amiga market: Coyote Flux and individual Computers are working together on a basis of a contract that has been signed on October 1st, 2003.

The young programmer-team also has a new website under www.coyoteflux.nl. The two brothers Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal became famous in the Amiga community for various projects like PPC680x0 (a 68K to PowerPC assembly translator), the sound editing system Coyotesound, photogrammetry software J Miner and more high-quality software.

Individual Computers is known for many hardware products for Amiga computers, specialized PC hardware and retro-computing projects. Serving private customers and professionals like the US computer forensic department of defense, individual Computers mass-produces own designs, and does contract work for other parties.

With more than 50 years combined experience and detailled knowledge about the target markets, the newly formed team is geared towards development of new hard- and software applications. The sales and marketing contacts of individual Computers will make the products available worldwide in more than 40 countries.

The first project of this cooperation is Kickflash OS4. Coyote Flux provided the firmware of the product that has been sent to the resellers yesterday. We hope that all users of classic Amigas will enjoy a fast cold-start time of their computers with this product, and are looking forward to more projects in the near future.

In time for the Christmas days, the toplevel domain server problems in Gabon have been resolved. Our domain http://ami.ga is working again. (nba)

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24.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 AmiDiction: Version 2.6c of the dictionary available
Lorence Lombardos AmiDiction is now available in version 2.6c (31 KB).

AmiDiction is an English online dictionary which utilizes the services from dictionary.com and can be launched from the Workbench or CLI. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
(ANF)


 Update: DriverDescriptorBox V5 for the HardwareAssistent
The DriverDescriptorBox has been published in version 5 today.

Since the last version several bugs have been removed. The DriverDescriptorBox offers the user information about drivers being used by the HardwareAssistent.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga fans. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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22.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)


 Mail program: New YAM 2.5 Development version (Update)
A new snapshot of the current development version of YAM can now be downloaded. Changes made are to be found in the ChangeLog.

Amendment 23.12.2003, (ps):
This version is realy a development version and may contain bugs that can cause lost of data. The development team does not offer any support or garanty for this version. Support requests will remain unanswered. Use it at your own risk! (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)


 Software News: News by amiga.sf.net
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran updated some of the many utilities ported from Linux. They are available at amiga.sf.net. Updates of the following programs are available:
  • cURL
  • NetPBM
  • Wget
  • OpenSSL
  • UnRAR
  • bzip2 (now contains a shared library)

All programs are native ports. That is you do not need the ixemul.library. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 GPSInfo: GPS-Navigation system for Amiga
Carsten Siegner developed a basic navigation system for AmigaOS based on common GPS hardware. 'GPSInfo' displays the current position (longitude and latitude), the altitude above the sea, current speed, date and time as well as some GPS details like the quality of connection, currently available GPS satellites and so on. Furthermore it displays the current position by listing nearby villages or geographical points.
Additional information can be found at the title link.

Direct Download (15 KB) (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003



 Update: DriverDescriptorBox V4
Version 4 of the DriverDescriptorBox released. It contains driver descriptors for the Hardware Assistant. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)


 IOSPIRIT wishes a Merry Christmas
IOSPIRIT wishes all friends, partners, customers and their families a Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and successful new year 2004. (nba)

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22.Dec.2003
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)


 AmiGBG 2004 - Swedish Amiga Fair
For the third year in a row, the Swedish Amiga fair AmiGBG is arranged in Gothenburg, Sweden. The date set for AmiGBG 2004 is the 17th of April next year. The AmiGBG fair is an event which is focused on the Amiga computer platform and is once a year gathering companies, user groups, users and visitors who are all interested in or curious about the platform that created the essence of multimedia - the Amiga.

This year's fair is held by three Amiga user groups all situated in Sweden; AmiGBG from Gothenburg, ACGGBG (Amiga Computer Group) from Gothenburg and Syntax Society from Landskrona in the south of Sweden.

In the year 2002 the first AmiGBG event was held. It was a huge success with around 450 visitors. The year after, it was yet again time to open the gates for another great AmiGBG fair at Lindholmen, Gothenburg.

AmiGBG is an event that partly looks back upon the history around the Amiga personal computer, but the main focus lies on the promising future that this platform now has - in terms of new hardware (the AmigaOne) which is based on the PowerPC processor and a new version of AmigaOS (Amiga Operating System) for this new hardware - AmigaOS 4.

At the fair, you will have a chance to see the new AmigaOne systems based on the G3 and G4 processors and also have a look on the classic Amiga computers that many people were brought up together with - these days gathered under the concept Classic Amiga.

At AmiGBG 2004 we also hope to be able to present a complete version of the AmigaOS 4 running on the AmigaOne. If so, that will be the highlight of the fair and a starting shot for the comeback of Amiga!

Furthermore; Linux will be demonstrated on AmigaOne, user groups will have a chance to present themselves - the fair is a gathering force for everyone interested in the future of Amiga. The target group is of course people interested in Amiga, but also people that are interested in alternative computer platforms.

Among the exhibitors, you will find everything from Swedish and European companies to Swedish user groups. Not only pure Amiga related companies have been invited - but also other hardware retailers.

For some more information about the previous events held by AmiGBG, please check these links:

For further information about AmiGBG 2004:

Web: www.amigbg.com
E-Mail: info@amigbg.com (nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003



 Magazine: The Crypt #33
Issue #33 of 'The Crypt', an English online magazine, published. The online version is to be found at the title link. If you want to have the download version feel free to use the following link:

Download: ZIP-Version of The Crypt #33

Content:
  • The real story of Christmas
  • Creation of desktop wallpaper and icons for PC
  • New PC game: "Call of Duty"
  • New News-Website about Amiga
  • Alternative use of CDs and DVDs
  • Using two computers with one monitor - Howto
  • Reciptes
(nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)


 Audio: HD-Rec 09 Beta Demo
A new beta version of 'HD-Rec' is now available at the title link. 'HD-Rec' can be used to arrange audio and MIDI recordings within the same window and play them simultaneously.

Addtional information can be found at the title link.

Download:
http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/HD-Rec_09Beta.lha

Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots

Demo Songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download (nba) (Translation: sk)

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21.Dec.2003
Chris Perver (ANF)


 Textviewer: EvenMore updated
I have updated EvenMore exe and plugins to use the OpenURL library for the clickable links, both in the MSWord and HTML plugins, so now if you click on an email address or a Web address, the appropriate app will open.

I have also updated the MSWord plugin to find the correct start and end file positions from the FileInfoBlock (before I was just estimating, which sometimes didn't work). (snx)

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20.Dec.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)


 New Audio Evolution 4 screenshots on OS4 on the AmigaOne released
Now that Audio Evolution 4 is running natively on OS4 for some months, it is time to present you with some screenshots.

Please look at the screenshots section of Audio Evolution 4 at http://www.audio-evolution.com/AE4/Screenshots.html.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!

Davy Wentzler
Audio Evolution (snx)

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20.Dec.2003
ANN (comments)


 A look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003 / Genesi mentioned
In the lead article of the December issue of the IBM PowerPC processor news, PPC Marketing Managers Kalpesh Gala and Jesse Stein look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003. Mentioned in brief, although without further individual details, are also Genesi, Mai and Marvell. (snx)

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20.Dec.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion


 AMIGAplus 12/2003 (#142): Weihnachtszeit
Am 19. Dezember 2003 erschien die Ausgabe 12/2003 (#142) der AMIGAplus (Versand am 17.12.2003) mit folgenden Themen:

A1200 im Acryl-Glas-Tower
Fast jeder Amiga-Anwender mit einem Amiga 1200 in einem Towergehäuse kennt das Problem, ganz besonders aber alle, die ihren Amiga in einem Towersystem von MicroniK untergebracht haben: Wenn die Anzahl an eingebauter Hardware zunimmt, geht die Stabilität des Towers verloren. Mit etwas Geschick und Fleiß können auch Sie Ihrem Classic Amiga 1200 auf seine alten Tage ein würdiges und vor allem ein stabiles Gehäuse selbst bauen. Die Materialwahl fiel auf das dem Glas in der Konsistenz ähnliche Material Acryl.

Tipps für Santa Claus
Nur noch wenige Tage, dann quetscht sich der weißbärtige Dicke mit dem roten Mantel wieder durch die Schornsteine in allen Nationen. Damit der gute Santa das Weihnachtsfest nicht durch das falsche Geschenk verdirbt, sollten Sie noch eilig einen Wunschzettel ausfüllen und an der rechten Stelle platzieren. Die schönsten Geschenke für Amiganer, Technik- und Design-Liebhaber finden Sie in der AMIGAplus – auch für den kleinen Geldbeutel fernab vom Kommerzialismus.

Digitalkameras im Aufschwung
In keinem Jahr zuvor hat sich das digitale Aufnahmemedium so schlagkräftig durchsetzen können. Die Absatz kurve der Hersteller verläuft steil nach oben und zeigt, dass Fotografen aller Themengebiete dem neuen Medium vertrauen und es vermehrt einsetzen, den Schritt in die Fotografie wagen oder den Wechsel von der Analog- zur Digitalfotografie vollziehen. Wir präsentieren die Highlights des zurückliegenden, hervorragenden Jahrganges 2003 und geben den einen oder anderen Tipp für den Weihnachtsmann.

AMIGAplus CD #25
Schwerpunkte: PNG-Icons für das AmigaOS (Icons, Tools, Infos); Video und Fotos von der VideoBörse 2003 in Bremen; Die 40 besten Scene-Demos 2003; Updates zu aktuellen Spielen; alle Tools- und Games-Neuheiten wie AmigaAMP 2.10, SCouT, NewsCoaster, Virus Executor u.v.m.

Lesen Sie außerdem:
  • Belesen: Literatur-Tipps
  • Geisterbeschwörung: GhostScript-Workshop (Teil 3)
  • Besser drucken: TurboPrint-Workshop (Teil 2)
  • 1, 2, 3, Brutzelhexerei: 3CaDo
  • TurboCalc-"Nachfolger": StarAm Plan
  • Top 10: Die Shareware-Highlights
  • Emulatoren: Neues von WinUAE und Amithlon
  • Digitale Bolzerei: Eat The Whistle 3
  • Lauscher aufgesperrt: Audio-CDs
  • News: Aktuelles aus dem Amiga-Markt
  • Amiga Status Report: Weihnachtszeit, Wartezeit
  • Demoscene: Retrospektive 2003
  • und vieles mehr

Sie können die AMIGAplus für 5,- Euro bei falkemedia bestellen oder im Abonnement beziehen. (nba)

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19.Dec.2003
ann.lu (Website)


 Turbo-Patch: New version of SystemPatch
A new version of "Systempatch" has been published which is a patch that patches diverse system routines to get a better performance on classic Amiga computers. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


 MorphOS port of "Njam" released
"Njam" is a full-featured cross-platform pacman-like game written in C++ using SDL library.

Features:
  • Single and multiplayer mode (local or network)
  • Duel games (players compete against each other to get more points)
  • Cooperative games (players cooperate to finish as many levels as they can)
  • Great music and sound effects
  • Runs on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS X, MorphOS
  • Customizable level skins
  • Many different levels
  • Integrated level editor
  • Open Source (GPL Licence)
(cg) (Translation: cg)

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19.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)


 HardwareAssistent: New version 0.32 (Update)
Version 0.32 of "HardwareAssistent" has completed.

In the previous version 0.31 of the archive the directory Installed was unfortunately not packed. Therefore the program HardwareAssistent could not remember which cards have been already installed. This bug has been cleared.

The launcher was also updated. It now uses the assign HardwareAssistent: to start the HardwareAssistent.

Please consider that there can be still bugs in this early version. If you find bugs then please write a mail to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.

DJBase will take care of the Driver Descriptors. The official support page where you can download the current Driver Descriptors is http://hwa.amigaworld.de.

Download of HardwareAssistent v0.32 (228 KB).

If you have a card that the list do not contain please use the program DriverDescriptor Creator to create a DriverDescriptor for this hardware. Then please send this file (with .info file) via email to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.

Update: (19.12.03, 13:25, snx)
Norman Walter wrote the following lines: I got the messages that the install script would not work. But this is only the case if you unpack the archive with the bugy version of Unarc which AmigaOS 3.9 contains. Unarc replaces blank characters by underscores. Therefore please use a different program or unpack the archive via lha x.. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)


 AmigaOne: "EasterEgg" in U-Boot
In a thread on amigaworld.net Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden explained a first "Easteregg" which has been hidden in U-Boot.

Those ones who do not want to know something of PPC, multitasking and graphical user surfaces can activate the second modus of its AmigaOne by entering the following command lines in the U-Boot command line:

setenv easteregg 1
saveenv
reset

Deactivate:

setenv x86_mode
setenv vga_fg_color 'n'
setenv vga_bg_color 'n'

'n' stands for standard ANSI colour values where you have to enter e.g. "0" for black or "7" for white. The variables "vga_fg_color" and "vga_bg_color" can be used to modify the optical surface of the BIOS screen. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)


 Emulation: "SheepShaver" Emulates a MacIntosh PPC on x86
"Sheepshaver" is the first Mac emulator for x86 PCs capable of emulating PPC-based Macintoshes. The software currently emulates a 604 CPU, requires a ROM image from a PCI-based "Old World" Macintosh, and works with MacOS up to version 8.6. Sheepshaver is Open Source, and right now only a Linux version is available.

The program's homepage is currently just a clean building space, with a files section in which you can get the sources for the current version.

On emaculation.com there's a support forum for the emulator. Those interested will find there a few hints for the use of the software, and there are also ready-compiled binaries there for download. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
Heise Newsticker


 Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Officially Released
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton have released the final version of the new Linux kernel 2.6.0. Under the title link, near sections on characteristics and improvements, may be viewed the article from the Heise news-ticker. (cs) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)


 Amizilla Project: Prize Markedly Raised
As Bill Panagouleas shared on ANN, a previous high-ranking executive of Netscape who wishes to remain unnamed has contributed $2000 to the pot for the Amizilla project.

The executive is a longtime Amiga user, who still makes frequent use of WinUAE and the Video-Toaster-Flyer. Altogether there is now the sum of $6200 as a reward to the person or team who ports Mozilla or Firebird and thereby helps the Amiga with a modern browser. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)


 MorphOS: TranspoClock Released (Update)
Jacek Piszczek released as freeware a transparent digital clock for MorphOS . Transpoclock (23 KB) makes use of the transparency function of MorphOS' intuition.library.

Update: (7:30 PM, 20th of December 19:30, snx)
Today Version 0.70 (67 KB) was released.

Changes since 0.30:
  • Commodity support has been added
  • WBStart support has been added
  • MUI-Prefs have been added
  • Gfxpath support for different graphics sets has been added
  • Optimized transparency routine
  • Icons and graphics sets from Jobbo have been added
(snx) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)


 MoJoMeter: Analog Indicator for Hard-Drive Activity
MoJoMeter from Joe Torre and Kermit Woodall may now be ordered from Retrosystem.com.

MoJoMeter is an illuminated analog indicator for computer cases which measures the amount of hard-drive activity.

Interested dealers may inquire directly of Kermit Woodall. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF)


 Shareware Package SiteWay Released for Free
Christian Effenberger decided to release freely all his Siteway programs, in order to give the Amiga community a little present before Christmas.

All restrictions have been lifted and there is no longer any requirement that the programs ImageEditor and PicBase be installed in Siteway.

All keyfile resources have been removed from the programs and the opportunity has been taken to offer for download the latest versions of ImageEditor and PicBase.

Effenberger wishes all Amiga users a nice Christmas and a successful new year! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 Show Report: OS4/MorphOS Show in Saragossa (Spain)
There's a report on ann.lu about the OS4/MorphOS convention that took place last weekend in Saragossa.

Update, (ps): Corrected the title link thanks to a tip-off from the comments section. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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17.Dec.2003
djnick deetronic (ANF)


 New multimedia CD ROM by DJNick/deetronic
Nikola Tomic (DJNick/deetronic) known for example for his soundtrack for the beat'em'up game "Capital Punishment" has published his first multimedia CD: "Aural Respiration" includes masses of music modules, videos, graphics and photos and is optimized for use with Amiga webbrowser. The CD is purchaseable directly from the author for EUR 22.22 (incl. pp) following the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Richard Drummond (ANF)


 New Linux UAE version by Richard Drummond
Richard Drummond has released a new version of his experimental Linux-UAE which should enable many of the improvements from the latest WinUAE version for Linux user as well.

The version 0.8.22-20031215 suppoarts now hardfiles up to 2 GB. Further there were many bugfixes, for the x86 useres the JIT problems were removed and MacOS x user will be happy to use the mouse properly in full screen mode now.

The sources are available now, compiled versions for several platforms will follow soonly. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Aminet (Website)


 Aminet uploads until the 17th of December 2003
Here is the list of all recent Aminet uploads since our last report: 
StarAm_Plan.lha      biz/misc   752K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha   biz/misc   747K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
amiycoders.lha       comm/mail   29K+V0.6 yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the Amig
DVBFontUpload.lha    comm/misc   40K+Font upload for Nokia D-Box via SCSI. 68
gng_SP.lha           comm/www     9K+GNetGrabber 1.x spanish catalogs v1.0.0
vbcc_PosixLib.lha    dev/c      108K+POSIX compatibility library for vbcc
Amitekst_E.lha       dev/e        6K+AREXX scripts for use with AmiTekst Pro 
amiycoders_src.lha   dev/e       20K+E Source Code to AmiyCoders! V0.6
objectbrowser.lha    dev/e       11K+Object Browser / System Debugger 0.8
AmigaTalk.lha        dev/lang   1.4M+V2.5 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
SFS.lha              disk/misc  268K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen
ThePolice.lha        docs/hyper  52K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
saku44.lha           docs/mags  8.4M+Saku #44 (3/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Labyrinth2Chts.lha   game/hint   12K+Cheats for the game Labyrinth 2.
WormWars.lha         game/misc  539K+Worm Wars 7.72: Advanced snake game
MicroWorld.lha       game/think 6.2M+Simple logical game (CGX Friendly)
kray.lha             gfx/3d     830K+Freeware raytracer v1.4
ambot.lha            hard/drivr  62K+Cybot/Real Robots programmer w/ C source
PoseidonMain.lha     hard/drivr 420K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.2
TestGear-Extra.lha   hard/hack  223K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc   358K+GUI 4 Lame,Ogg,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,Mus
MrCarlitoWb-06.jpg   pix/icon   314K+First full FREWARE PNG-Icon replacement 
Dale_font.lha        text/bfont  14K+Fixed topaz rep. in sizes 5,6,8,10,11,12
AddLF.lha            text/misc    2K+Add LineFeed to textfile at column ~80
OnyxPrelude.lha      util/cdity  34K+Comprehensive mixer for Prelude. MUI.
DegasDT.lha          util/dtype  30K+Datatype for Degas pictures
MathLibs881.lha      util/libs   12K+Free 68881/2 math-libraries with source,
AObjView.lzh         util/misc   31K+Displays the Hunk structure of Amiga Obj
DigiConverter.lha    util/misc   13K+Handy dec/hex/bin/float/ASCII-converter
xPackBest.lha        util/pack   18K+Pack using XPK, adaptive, recursive
ARxShellV1.2b.lha    util/rexx   99K+A shell for ARexx V1.2b
parename.lha         util/rexx   11K+AREXX script to rename images within Pho
popsearch.lha        util/rexx   15K+Quick searching from IBrowse, AWeb and V
DRemind.lha          util/time  308K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.67!
VE_SP.lha            util/virus  11K+VirusExecutor 2.3x spanish catalog v2.33
windowbar.lha        util/wb    272K+Window mimizer and program launcher
(nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)


 eTeacher 6.20 distributed by Fun Time World
Fun Time World is pleased to announce that they are doing the distribution of the multimedial course eTeacher 6.20. This package is unique on for the Amiga. You can learn English or German with the aid by pictures, little animations and perfect spoken 16 bit output.

With the help of the multimedial exercises and tests the learning will become a real pleasure. The program fits the demand of both, adults and children. The usage is easy and partly customizeable. There is support for gfx cards and sound cards.

The program offers the following features:
  • More than 200 exercises
  • 3 hours 16 bit spoken language output
  • 1000 illustrations
  • Context sensitive grammar help
  • Customizeable
  • Support for gfx and sound cards

Information about the program and screen shots is to get from www.funtime-world.de/eteacher.shtml.

Introducing prices til/from 5th of January 2004:

  • Englisch - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
  • German - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
  • Both versions - 50 Euro / 59.90 Euro

Order by email (mail@funtime-world.de), fax (+49 209 - 95 717 865) or telephone (+49 209 - 95 717 884) or directly at the online shop of Fun Time World.

(nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)


 Amiga, Inc.: Calling All User Groups!
Community has always been the backbone of the Amiga platform; indeed, without it, the platform would have folded long ago. With AmigaOS4.0 approaching release, the community has taken a lead once again, with dedicated individuals and user groups throughout the world working to show AmigaOS4.0 running on AmigaOnes.

We are now at a stage where we are looking to bring the user groups together into a more formal forum, providing feedback to Amiga, Inc. on how best it can support the user groups whilst also allowing the user groups to be able to bind themselves together in a mutual organization for self help and support.

This new organization will be a crucial element in the growth of the Amiga platform as AmigaOS4.0 is released and the community begins to expand. We are thus making a call to all user groups to submit their details via this form so that we can begin the construction of this organisation and get the resources in place to service it. (nba)

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17.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 New website about hardware do it yourself projects for Amiga, Amithlon and Pegas
Carsten Siegner has opened a new website with the URL "www.Pegasossoft.de" which covers information about his all of his hardware projects.

Now there is not only the known analog data capture system for the serial RS 232 port but also a hardware for the same port for a multi purpose controler device. This hardware is called "Multiprogrammer" and is a board with three decoded 8 pin universal ports. These ports can be programmed independently. Furthermore the board has a data in port which can read serial data directly.

Further information about this project as well as the circuit design is available from the website. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003



 Season Greetings from Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc. would like to, on behalf of our staff and associates, wish the Amiga Commmunity and their families a safe and happy holiday. Be safe, don't drink and drive! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! (nba)

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16.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)


 HardwareAssistent-Update
The version 0.31 of the programm HardwareAssistent, which reconizes and installes new hardware components by starting the system is now finished.

After the last version the install script was processed and the bugs in the DriverDescription were deleted, also the documentation was extended.

But look in the old version there could be still bugs, if you find a bug please send an e-mail to: walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)


 WHDLoad: Version 16.1 published
From WHDLoad, which makes the hard disk install of the not therefore floppy possible the version 16.1 was published (Download, 1.17 MB).

New games which could now be installed or were updated:
  • Hellfire Attack (Martech)
  • Twintris (Digital Marketing)
  • Waxworks (Accolade)
  • History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
  • Super Street Fighter 2 (US Gold)
  • Jupiter's Masterdrive (Ubi Soft)
(snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)


 PDF-Magazine: Amiga Point of View, edition 1
The retro-gaming community of abime.net, which operate the Amiga gaming database Hall of Light has puplished the first edition of their retro-gaming.magazine "Amiga Point of View".

The magazine should reincarnate the old spirit of old gaming magazines with test reports, letter to the editor corner, gaming tips and complete solutions. You can find the first edition (19.5 MB) under the tiltle link.

Update: (16.12.2003, 15:30, cg)

The contacts of the homepage are not valid. You can find the APoV-Team under following e-mail addresses:

Editor: apov.editor@abime.net
Letter to the editor: apov.letters@abime.net
Competitions: apov.competitions@abime.net
Gaming tips: apov.wham@abime.net
Gaming tests: apov.pdgames@abime.net
(cg) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)


 New and updated tools from OnyxSoft
The Swedish shareware-developer-group OnyxSoft released two new and three updated tools:

AddLF (Version 1.0)
This is a very simple tool that makes text files that has no linefeeds in them become readable in non-wrapping text-viewers/editors. It tries to wrap after 80 characters but might go 10 chars longer if it means not breaking a word. If a word is very long when AddLF wants to wrap it will cut the word and insert a dash "-".

OnyxPrelude (Version 1.0)
This is a new fresh mixer for the Prelude sound cards! You can test the mixer even w/o a prelude =) Everything concerning audio can be controlled by ARexx! Everything concerning audio can be controlled by userdefinable hotkeys! There are two different mixer GUIs, pick the one you like! The mixer can popup on hotkey or ARexx event! The mixer can close again after a userdefinable delay! A very small, configurable and slick bevel can popup instead of the mixer on hotkey or ARexx events! It also has all normal features of a mixer, like the ability to change the display name of a channel, hide channels you never use, reset the card on startup etc. And it uses MUI...

DigiConverter (Version 1.1)
Now you can also convert from and to floats. Useful mainly for handling floats where you only have access to for example hexadicimal values.

DRemind (Version 1.66)
Now you can make your remind *Bold*, /Italic/, _Underlined_ and/or coloured in the remind list! Fixed a bug which caused Single reminds to never pop up. (a 2<->4 digits year bug). --BAR--'s couldn't be moved since they where excluded from the sorting routines in DRPrefs. Which gadgets to be shown as default was not correct. See Main GUI Settings/Show'n'Hide for other gadgets.

TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.31)
Now full CDDB-support is built-in into TheMPegEncGUI! You don't need to use some other program to get those CD-IDs from the net and then try to figure out what file it was and load that into The_GUI, all is now automated. Insert a CD, add files (previously leached off the CD, or directly from the CD if you have f.ex. AllegroCDFS), then select Obtain CDDB from the ID3-Tag menu. When drag'n'dropping files into the file list window some menu options were not enabled. You had to add a file using the Add-button. There were some dublettes and inconsistencies of hotkeys for the menus. Switching between Lame/Mpega in Lite didn't work from the menu. The bitrate was not correct in the full and Lite-versions. (nba)

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16.Dec.2003
Matthes (ANF)


 Magazine: Latest edition 8 of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64"
The 8th edition of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64" is published. The magazine is dedicated to old and alternativ computer systems. The center of gravity is the C64, but also reports of other 8-bit-computers. Old entertainment systems and Amigas are considered, too. The magazine is published as a PDF-File for free. Interested persons could also order a printed edition or subscription. The 8th edition contains following aspects:
  • Lotek64-Special: Music
  • Commodores last trick: Amiga CD32
  • O.A.S.E. 03: News of the Amiga OS4 and the C-One-Board
  • Hobby + electronics 2003
  • Interviews
(nba) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
PIK (ANF)


 Smart Filesystem v1.214
SFS is an alternative Filesystem for the Classic AmigaOS, which is famous for the high writing-, reading- and search speed defiance its Beta-status. After a few test updates the SFS.lha which you can find in a few days on Aminet (1.214, 273,995 bytes size of the archive) makes no problems in defragmenting.

SFSdefrag was debugged. The old SFS.lha-archives are deleted with update automatically, especially the 1.213 distribution

You can get quick information under: http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find.

A tool which could configurate the number of files in .recycled will be available until week3/2004. The tests are running. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
CD32-Allianz/Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)


 New support of the CD32-Allianz-Homepage
From the 1st January Robert Konrad is supporting the online offer of the CD32. You can get more information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
Jim Steichen (ANF)


 Programming language: AmigaTalk V2.5 in Aminet
Jim Streichen has uploaded AmiTalk V2.5 to the Aminet under dev/lang.

The new variation of the version 2.5 of Little Smalltalk (V1.0 of Tim Budd) shows a better memory manager. Until now the memory of AmigaTalk wasn't released after ending.

(snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF)


 New PNG-Icon-Set
After Christmas (27.12.2003) new PNG-Icon-Set for 68k-Amigas will be published. Screenshots are available at Lorraine Design.

Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4 (snx) (Translation: gf)

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15.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (YIM)


 Raytracing: New Kray binaries
Of Kray, a raytracing program with a text interface, there are new binary versions for AmigaOS, Linux and Windows available. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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15.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 CygnusED Professional 4.22 PPC released
Version 4.22 of the text editor CygnusED for MorphOS is now available at MorphOS.org.

Download (294 KB) (snx) (Translation: sk)

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15.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)


 USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V2.2
Chris Hodges announced the release of version 2.2 of the USB stack 'Poseidon'. Read his announcement:

After my seven months break due to my diploma thesis, I have reworked the HID class quite a bit. It now supports digital and analogue joypads via the lowlevel.library. Moreover, the class now supports changing of HID Output and Feature items (i.e. for keyboard LEDs or Force Feedback/Rumble joypads). Input values for items can now be scaled and clipped and flipped. There is support for local and global variables. The value that is used for the action can now also be redirected to origin from these variables, timers, click counts, etc, or randomly (e.g. for auto fire). Actions can now be triggered upon definable condition codes, making it even more powerful (you want to do a special action on three clicks with the middle mouse button, or when shift is pressed?, no problem!). The default keyboard mapping can now also be changed. All this comes with a price -- the GUI is now a bit more complex. But no worries -- you don't have to use these features, if you don't like to. The English version of the manual has been updated a bit to reflect the changes -- unfortunately, the German translation (done by Michael Böhmer) has been lost in a crash. I will update the guide accordingly, but this will take some more time.

Several classes have been updated, such as the massstorage.class. It now has some new default settings and fall back options.

The poseidon main library now fixes the problems created by broken Olympus cameras not being bound to the MSD class. It now also tries to assign better names to devices that don't come with string descriptors.

Trident has been rewritten into subclasses for the MorphOS mprefs and is now a bit more stable (I hope).

The installer script has been slightly updated and now contains Spanish strings, kindly translated by Dámaso Domínguez.

The AddUSBHardware command now has an "ALL" option, allowing to take the stack offline by just issuing an "AddUSBHardware REMOVE ALL" line -- handy for game starting scripts.

Finally, the device driver for the Algor has been optimized a bit, and also a bug had been fixed.

Now for something completely different. In August, I stopped taking registrations, because Elbox treated me badly (as a summary) and I hoped, that they would change their mind. I should have known better. They kept selling their cards, even though they knew that the users wouldn't be able to use them. They didn't care at all about the users and their fate.

As of today, the registration process is open again. Keyfiles can again be obtained from me directly (cash or bank transfer, no credit cards!). Please note that the licence fee has been increased a bit to reflect the new features added. Of course, no new keyfile are required for current users to use the V2.2 version.

IOSpirit will offer a bundle for ArakAttack users soon, details will be announced by IOSpirit in a few days (please don't bugger them right now). ArakAttack currently works on Amithlon and OpenPCI supported PCI bridge boards for OHCI and UHCI PCI cards (and onboard USB). EHCI (USB2.0) is being implemented and will be available later.

ArakAttack currently does not work on Mediator boards, but means are being prepared to get it running on these machines to offer a high-quality USB driver for any PCI card (including the Spider).

That's it for now. Hope you will enjoy the new Poseidon release and have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Who knows, maybe we will see many nice things happing during 2004. Such as the AmigaOS4 release or the Pegasos II.

Stay healthy! There's still much to come. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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13.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)


 Announcement: new demo version 0.9beta of HD-Rec
There'll be a new beta demo version of HD-Rec available for download before Christmas.

"HD-Rec" is a MIDI and audio sequencer, i.e. audio and MIDI recordings can be arranged in the same window and replayed synchronously.

Particular improvements in V0.9beta:
  • Audio mixer with 16+1+1 true stereo channels and 4 Aux ways
  • realtime audio effects (reverb, delay, chorus, equalizer...)
  • strongly improved softsynth "Sweeper" (resonance filter, samples)
The aim of HD-Rec is to be able to do a whole music production from the composing to the mastering within one application. Using the softsynth and the audio effects of HD-Rec you'll need no external sound producer or effects devices. The music signal doesn't leave the computer at no time and can be exported directly as WAV or MP3 file. The quality is always excellent and independant from the sound card. Noise, buzzing or whimping are now part of the past.

The whole scenery (mixer settings, effects, sounds, notes) are saved on the computer and are reproduced 1:1 when being reloaded.

The softsynth "Sweeper" offers independant from the computing power always exact sample timing and can be played in realtime via an external master keyboard if needed. Though, for this you need a fast computer with 500 MHz clock or more.

Sweeper has very different synthesis algorithms and supports multisamples. Because of this, a wide sound spectrum is possible, from the old C64 sound across Techno to a realistic piano or string ensemble.

HD-Rec is a system friendly 68K application and doesn't make any use of the custom chips - therefore it runs on the "classic" Amiga as well as under WinUAE and Amithlon. In addition, the program has already successfully been tested under MorphOS.

Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots

Demo songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download

(Neither have external effects or sound producers been used nor have any samples been included except the drums and the piano solo.) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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13.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website)


 Retailer: APS with reworked webshop and separate Pegasos URL
The French Amiga retailer APS has reworked his Webshop and added a PC area. You now can find here prices for complete Pegasos-2 systems, too.

In addition, an own address for Pegasos customers has been prepared under PegasosPPC.fr. There you can find detailed information about the computer and the operating systems that come with the computer. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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13.Dec.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (email)


 Magazine: Obligement N°42
The issue #42 of the French digital magazine Obligement has been released. Read a report about the Alchimie 3, interviews with Kevin Picone (Underware Design) and with Yannick Bridier (president of the 4A Association), reviews of IBrowse 2.3 and dynAMIte, an article about the DOSBox, a review of the Spider 2 USB and the Mirage 1200 tower, an article about the installation of PegXLin and much more.

Download: Obligement 42 (nba) (Translation: wk)

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12.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)


 Plug'nPlay: Hardware assistant v0.3 published
The version 0.3 of the Amiga Plug'nPlay system "HardwareAssistent" is now available under the title link.

Short description of the features:
  • Automatic hardware recognition
  • Automac selection of the right driver
  • Automatic installation of the driver
  • Download of the driver from the Internet
  • Support of 40 Zorro- and Turbo cards (amount is increasing)
  • Maximum transparency and flexibility
  • User friendly
  • Fast

Direct download (209 KB) (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2003
Nova Design (ANF)


 3D-Software: Aladdin4D on CD
The very known 3d animation software "Aladdin 4D" is now available on CD. It contains the last version of Aladdin (with all updates which have been published later) as well as the full website of Nova Design, all available tutorials for Aladdin, examples and the full content of the Nova Design FTP-server. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 New product: IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle Pro
As a special gift to its customers, software-developer IOSPIRIT for the first time offers a bundle with all inhouse graphics programs at an especially attractive price of only 99 EUR (you save 40%, more than 60 EUR).

The "IOSPIRIT Graphics Megabundle Pro" contains the respectively latest, full versions of fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0 and VHI Studio 6.0.

The bundle is only available as 3 CD-set and only as long as stock lasts. (nba)

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12.Dec.2003
Scenia (Website)


 Diskmag: Cows'n'Snakefights #5 published
The Swedish demoscene group has published its fifth issue of the in English written Amiga Diskmag "Cows'n'Snakefights". You can read there different party reports, interviews and other articles. You can download the archive from the website under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2003
Apple Insider (ANF)


 CPU-News: PowerPC 750VX of IBM
According to a report of our colleague of the online magazine AppleInsider Big Blue IBM has completed the new micro processor "PowerPC 750VX".

The chip is supposed to be used in the next generation of the iBooks of Apple. L3 cache with up to 4 megabyte is to be possible. The Front Side Bus with up to 400 MHz DDR and Altivec-implemantation like at the PowerPC 970 (G5) are further features. The processor is supposed to work with 1.8 GHz while the successor of the 750VX, the planned 750VXe, is supposed to work with 2 GHz. The processor will probably introduced in the third/fourth quarter of the year 2004. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2003
Captain HIT (ANF)


 Emulator: A/NES CGX Final Version
Because of the low interest and the missing support today the final version v1.33 of the NES-emulator A/NES CGX has been published. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2003
Kermit Woodall (ANF)


 ImageFX 4.5 Studio available (update)
As Nova Design reported ImageFX 4.5 Studio is now available for AmigaOS and MorphOS. The MorphOS version contains native PowerStation-modules and 32-Bit-Icons made by André Siegel.

According to a press release ImageFX 4.5 Studio contains ImageFX 4.0, 4.5, PowerStation and additional extensions. The CD also contains the complete website and FTP site of Nova Design. The upgrade price depends on the existing version and reach from 39.95 up to 79.95 US Dollar. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2003
Thomas Knäbel / bplan (E-Mail)


 Christmas greetings from bplan GmbH
The second production and delivery of the Pegasos II (KW51) is close to be done. As a "little" apology for the delay bplan presents as a Christmas gift the following outtakes of up to today never shown pictures on its website.

bplan: "We wish all visitors of our website Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2004."

The pictures are under the copyright of the bplan GmbH and are not allowed to be published without permission. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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11.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)


 Pegasos Guardian: Pictures from Infosecurity 2003
Under the title link Genesi shows photos of the Infosecurity 2003 convention in New York on 9th December, where the Pegasos Guardian system was displayed (as amiga-news.de reported).

On this subject MorphOS-News.de, reports that in the meantime the Guardian was listed at the Open Market Corridor (OMC), which is a trade market of the US government. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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11.Dec.2003
Pixelart


 Startmenu: Pixload 4.2c Released
The new version, 4.2c, of "Pixload" has been released. PixLoad is a Startbar/Tool-Dock Clone for AmigaOS and MorphOS. German language instructions for the English and French localized software is in the program archive.

News:
  • PowerIcon's "French touch"
  • Add some features while known devices ejection, Miamidx control panel loading, etc...
  • News icons (Better rendering with PowerIcons)
  • Removing German comments for files on FAT95 formatted devices (USB key)
  • Changes in Pixload's Prefs (luminosity background included, replacement icons by drag&drop)
  • Bugs corrected again

Functions:

  • Several Pixload bars at screen (fully independance between bars)
  • Ejection of removable media closes ALL windows of THIS media
  • Contextual menu under MENU button
  • Help key loads this file
  • Drag and drop a pictures folder will load a thumbnail program (Amiga)
  • New formats : GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, IFF, Rexx, Text, Modules, TIFF, TARGA via datatypes
  • New formats : HTML (local file only)
  • New formats : LZX, LHA, UNZIP identified for decompression
  • Miamidx Control Panel included
  • Programs loading window
  • Clock included with RTC / DSL connection, time and date
  • Pixload is scalable
  • Help text can be displayed under icons
  • Pixload can open folders / volume instead of program
  • Shortkeys for all icons
  • Pixload's icons "organisation" by a Drag & Drop (Amiga)
  • Choice of number of icon's columns
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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11.Dec.2003
Gary7 (ANF)


 Emulator: WinUAE Reaches Version 0.8.23
The new version 0.8.23 of the Windows-based Amiga Emulator WinUAE has been available since 10th December, 2003. This free software may be downloaded from the title linked website. An overview of the changes:

Bugfixes:
  • mousebutton getting stuck randomly when WinUAE lost focus
  • floppy drives' state was not restored fully
  • fixed crash when switching from 68000 to JIT-mode
  • bsdsocket browser freezes/slowdowns
  • SPTI CDROM media change detection
  • parallel port joystick adapter works properly again
  • saving state in ce-mode with blitter active created broken state files
  • serial port/MIDI randomly lost received characters
New Features:
  • maprom emulation (BlizKick support)
  • first CDROM is always uaescsi.device unit zero, second is zero etc. and then other non-CDROM SCSI devices.
  • improved priority settings
  • improved filter options
  • compatibility improvements
  • bsdsocket emulation improved (Jabberwocky)
  • faster Picasso96 solid window moves
  • improved AHI emulation
  • IRQ level 7 shortcut in input-tab
  • percentage of CPU in use-meter added next to FPS-counter
  • immediate state save (no need to exit the GUI anymore)
  • dropped release numbers :)
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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11.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 Event: AmigaOne/OS4 and Pegasos/MorphOS Show in Spain
There's a Pegasos/MorphOS and AmigaOne/OS4 show in Zaragoza, Spain this Saturday, the 13th of December, 2003.

This event was equipped by the Amiga User Group of Zaragoza (CUAZ) and Amiga Group Asturias (aGas). There is no charge for admission. You'll find all the details on the show's website here. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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11.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 Game: "2 Pairs 2 Furious" Released
2 Pairs 2 Furious by Anarkskt of La Sekta is a memory game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (68k, RTG) that has themes that support additional graphics and music.

The current version has just one theme. You can view a screenshot under the title link. If you have some comments to make, you can send the author an email at this address. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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10.Dec.2003
ann.lu (Website)


 Sources of the Amiga demo "I am Back" published
The demo group The Gang has published the assembler sources of their only two week old Demos "I am Back". The demo reached the third place within the "old school demo competition" at the scene party Dreamhack

The demo, the complete sources (100% 68k assembler) as well as all other needed data files are available by the title link. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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10.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Advent at individual Computers
Special price for the X-Surf 2
The advent season has already begun at our trade partners, now we want to announce it officially again: Participating resellers have the X-Surf 2 networking card for 69.90 EUR. This price is also valid for direct orders. You're saving 20 EUR compared to the recommended retail price, but only until December 31st!

Kickflash in production
Kickflash OS4 which has been announced in June is now in production. It's going to be available starting December 22nd - if the parcel services work fast enough, this might be in time for Christmas Eve! Kickflash reduces the boot-time of classic Amigas dramatically, because it gets rid of all the reboots that today's Amigas have to do. Romupdates ("setpatch"), every resident-capable program, Blitzkick-modules and tools like Prepareemul (Macmem) can be stored in the 1M flash memory. They're executed without reboots on a cold start of the Amiga. Price: 34.90 EUR.

Deathbed Vigil DVD now in PAL
By the end of next week, we expect a shipment from Dave Haynie. The DVD of his film "Deathbed Vigil" is now available in PAL video norm, and is shipped on a DVD-R. This format can be played back on nearly all players in Europe, and should be a lot more compatible than the NTSC-DVD+R that were only available for a long time. The price per DVD is 39 EUR, and Dave has promised to sign each cover again.

Fresh 5.25 inch disks with 48TPI
We have produced disks in the USA for the European retro-computing fans. For a lot of years, disks of the 5.25 inch size were available in nearly every store, but since more than one year, all inventories are sold out. Trying to use 96TPI or 135TPI disks is not always successful, because the heads of Commodore and Apple drives are only made for 48TPI. Other disks have errors, or seem to lose data for no appearent reason.

We have found a company in California that has started the production machines for us. To get the disks to Germany at a reasonable price, we found a complicated but cheap way to transport them: First by train nearly 3000 miles to New York, then by ship to Antwerp, and the last part to Aachen by truck. Starting December 17th, we can offer 25 disks DS SD (48TPI) without envelopes, with stickers at a price of 9.90 EUR! (snx)

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10.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)


 Protovision: New C64 online shop
With Protovision a new C64 only online shop has opened its doors. The offers include for example a 4 player interface, a PS/2 adapter and a turbo board or an option to use IDE hard disks. (snx)

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10.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


 Review Journal (Las Vegas) reported about the new offices for Genesi USA
In the issue of November the 20th 2003 the Review Journal from Las Vegas, USA included a feature about the planned office for Genesi USA (amiga-news.de reported).

The complete English article is to obtain by the title link. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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10.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)


 Web: VooDoo-Amiga-News with new address
The Croatian website VooDoo-Amiga-News is now reachable by a new URL: VooDoo-Amiga.com. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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10.Dec.2003
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)


 Magazine: CAM (Club Amiga Magazine) Christmas edition published
Yesterday the Christmas edition of the "Club Amiga Magazine" has been published. There are some interesting details regarding the OS4 status update. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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10.Dec.2003



 Aminet Uploads until December the 10th 2003
These are the latest Aminet uploads since our last report: 
IBrowseSP.lha        comm/www    17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1e
PluginDemo.lha       dev/c       11K+V1.1 plugin demo using LoadSeg
Annotate.lha         dev/cross   44K+Comments/reformats DASMX 2650 cross-disa
insomnia092.lha      dev/e      307K+E Source Editor 0.92
insomnia093upd.lha   dev/e       81K+E Source Editor 0.93 update from 0.92
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 11/2003 (Itali
nocover117.lha       docs/mags  2.1M+Great german diskmagazine
RXDraughts.lha       game/board 445K+(2.3) WB Draughts game for Amiga
DC2Lvl-XmasIII.lha   game/data  398K+81 levels for Diamond Caves II
TotalChaosAGA.lha    game/misc   39M+640x512 256 colors 50fps Magic & Monster
WormWars.lha         game/misc  539K+Worm Wars 7.71: Advanced snake game
GIFsplit.lha         gfx/conv    25K+Splits GIF animations into individual GI
ADC-WinUAE.lha       hard/hack   11K+ADC For Amiga Forever 5, WinUAE, GPL.
TestGear6A.lha       hard/hack  190K+Encoder for RF engineers.
TestGear6B.lha       hard/hack  516K+WinUAE version of Encoder.
WinUAE-AFW.lha       hard/hack   69K+AF Wattmeter, for use with WinUAE-ADC.
Paradox4.mpg         mods/mpg   2.3M+Paradox Crack Tune Remaked ....
Paranoimia.mpg       mods/mpg   804K+Paranoimia Crack Tune Remaked ....
Tristartetr.mpg      mods/mpg   1.7M+Tristar Tetris Crack Tune Remaked ....
viruscommands.lha    mus/midi   111K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields 
MrCarlitoWb-06.jpg   pix/wb     314K+First FREEWARE full PNG icons replaceman
xadmaster020.lha     util/arc   264K+V12.1a Powerful unarchiving tool (68020)
xadmaster060.lha     util/arc   264K+V12.1a Powerful unarchiving tool (68060)
IRS-GLMatrix.lha     util/blank 979K+Port of glmatrix from xscreensaver
SRename.lha          util/cli   105K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.8.0
MathLibs881.lha      util/libs   11K+Free 68881/2 math-libraries with source,
ARxShellEngDoc.lha   util/rexx  152K+English help file (update) for ARexxShel
ARxShellV1.2a.lha    util/rexx   99K+A shell for ARexx V1.2a
mmscripts.lha        util/rexx   20K+Arexx Scripts for Logitech Keyboards
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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09.Dec.2003
SPIEGEL Online (ANF)


 SPIEGEL: Motorola-Handy MPX200: Windows Inside
»As first manufacturer of cell phones Motorola has developed a cell phone working with software from Microsoft. It is a cell phone that is nicer from the outside than the inside.«
Read the complete article (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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09.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)


 Hardware Assistant: First screenshot published
This project should enable in future the installation of drivers with automatical hardware recognition on the Amiga.

News

A first screenshot of the program "HardwareAssistent", that recognizes and installs new hardware on system boot, can be admired here.

If possible a first version of this program will be available before Christmas 2003. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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09.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)


 Graphic program: ProChart published
Dan Ritchie has released two gfx programs on his website, that are not really spread.

ProChart is a gfx application comparable with a Visio concept. It is coded completely in Assembler and very system friendly - also UAE was a tested system.

A second program is an icon editor available for download. This one offers different export functions and is able to take over bitmaps of screens into classic Amiga screenmodes. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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08.Dec.2003
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)


 Antivirus program: VirusExecutor V2.33 and PatchBrain V1.53
Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.33 of VirusExecutor and version 1.53 of PatchBrain.
Download

Changes since last version: 2.33
  • This version wont upload new updates of the xadmaster.library when there are changes in the XAD/ drawer and not the library itself.
  • Version 2.32a would get uploaded from v2.32 cause the fix was made in v2.32a... So I hope v2.33 will fix all those problems :)
    PS! You have to run the update twice the first time for VE to remember.
  • Also fixed bug after added catalogs to the update.. Some xad text was was printed as xfd...
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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08.Dec.2003
EMBYTE GbR (ANF)


 New AmiDynDNS version 1.19
The Amiga DynDNS client AmiDynDNS is released as the new version 1.19 and may be downloaded for free from our download area as usual. Changes in v1.19:
  • Web based IP detection works again. This error caused the up2date check of hosts to fail and to get some of these hosts blocked.
  • EMail, snailmail and WWW addresses updated.
  • Now the logfile gets also entries for skipped (because up2date) hosts.
  • Tooltype MINUTES now accepts values between 2 and 3600 minutes (3600 minutes == 24 hours).
  • Default of update interval changed to 30 minutes.
  • Timer now shows remaining time as HH:MM:SS.
  • If ADD is paused the status line now shows "Paused..." and if it's resumed again the status shows "Ready...".
Changes in v1.18:
  • Rarely happened error in the authentification fixed.
  • Internal IP detection for OS4 modified.
DynDNS.org is a service which provides one or more static hostnames to users with dynamic IP addresses for free to easily make webserver, FTP server, etc. available to other users. For further information visit the website of DynDNS.org directly please. (snx)

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08.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Webseite)


 Equality: unpublished game now available as ADF
An ADF file of the game 'Equality' is now available at the title link. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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07.Dec.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


 IOSPIRIT: VHI Studio 6.01 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 6.0 of VHI Studio to V6.01 is now available for download.

Changes include:

  • adaptions to MorphOS: support for the MorphOS skinsystem
  • adaptions to MorphOS: speed-increase
  • support for new drivers
  • the VHIStudio assign is now longer needed
  • Bugfixes

A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive.

VHI Studio 6 is currently available at a special price of 29.99 EUR. (nba)

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06.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (website)


 Screensaver: GlMatrix ported
Steen Lund Nielsen has ported "GlMatrix" from the XScreensaver package to the Amiga.

The archive (1 MB) contains a 68k and a WOS version for PowerUp accelerators. Required is a fast processor, a 3D graphics card, Warp3D v4 and AmigaOS 3.5. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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06.Dec.2003
www.technoids.de (ANF)


 Magazine: Technoids issue #4 available
Now available is the issue #4 of the PDF magazine Technoids for BeOS fans.

Despite the magazine's undeniable main focus is the term "Amiga" used several times and the topics this time contain in coincidence the second part of a BeUAE workshop and an introduction of the Pegasos forum.

Further contents of the 4th issue are among other things a review of Zeta, a report about how things are on the BeOS market and a report about the BeGeistert 011. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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