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`13.Feb.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Eyetech: Status Update Concerning AmigaOne-XE Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group Ltd.) talked about the status of the AmigaOne-XE on the AmigaOne mailing list (see title link). Here's a summary of the most important information related to that, from Christoph Gutjahr. More AmigaOne-XE computers and G4 modules have been produced than the number of preorders. The motherboards are currently in Taiwan. When they get the okay from the testers these boards will be equipped with AmigaOne-ROMs and sent to Europe. Redhouse goes on to say that these boards will leave the factory in the direction of Europe on the 24th of this month. It takes about 4 days for the computers to reach Eyetech from Taiwan. Eyetech themselves can then test about 40 to 50 boards daily, assign a serial number, and "put them in the mail." The G4 modules for the AmigaOne-XE machines include a PPC processor of type 7451 (G4) at 800 MHz, 32 KB +32 KB L1 Cache, 256 KB L2 Cache and 2 MB 64/72 Bit L3 Cache. Update: (26.07.2014, cg) A complete copy of Alan Redhouse's mail (added since the Original has been moved elsewhere by Yahoogroups apparently): Message-ID: <009f01c2d38e$57a5dde0$2501a8c0@alan> An: Von: "Eyetech Group Ltd" Datum: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:26:45 -0000 Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Re: Situation of XE boards? - a couple more answers In the final pre-launch stages of a project like this there is an awful lot of work to be done, and that means that none of us here can spend as much time as we would like reading and commenting on mailing lists and making website updates. And a lot of the time we have allocated for that unfortunately has to be spent defusing unfounded false allegations of one sort or another. Speaking of websites some of the developers have put up a new A1-linux site at sourceforge which is well worth a checkout at http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net Status update (Get the fire extinguishers ready!) Enough A1-XE's and G4 modules (800MHz 7451 with 32+32k L1; 256 L2 & 2M 64/72bit L3) to more than satisfy all earlybird orders have already been built and are currently in Tiawan waiting to ship. All these boards are fitted with the new Articia chipset (date code 0103). We received a number (more than several, less than lots) of these boards three weeks ago, but only received the cpu modules early last week, and the modified UBoot code (to initialise the 7451) last Thursday. After going through our own tests all these initial boards/cpu's have now been shipped by us to those volunteer developers (and Hyperion) who have existing experience of running the A1-SE under linux. This is so that they can spend a week or so making sure that the various PPC Linux distributions run well on with the G4 cpu and that no further modifications to the initialisation code in UBoot are required. I am visiting the manufacturers in Tiawan next week (2 days travel/recovery each way) so don't expect much more from me until the week after. We should have had the green light from the A1-XE/g4 board users by then which in turn means that we can give the green light to the factory to blow the final ROM's and ship the boards by 24th. Shipment to us will take around 4 working days, and we should be able to test, serial number, order process and despatch around 40-50 boards/day. First boards will go to the original - March last year :-( - developers who have opted to wait for the A1-XE/G4, then to dealers and customers in chronological order. These are of course target dates, and cannot possibly be taken as a promise or guarantee. All I can say is that we are as keen to have your money as you are to spend it, and do not, and never have had any intention of deliberately holding back shipments just to be awkward (as some people seem to think). However we will not as of policy ship any product before we are satisfied that it is fully functional - including an installable and working operating system - other than to developers for testing purposes. The AmigaOne and Teron series of motherboards are new technology in the 'unbundled' - ie non-mac/non-RS6000 - marketplace. That is why it has taken some time - and a lot longer than any of the parties involved anticipated - to get the A1 into your hands in a usable condition - albeit with Linux at this stage. I am sufficiently confident that the developers will be very impressed by the new A1-XE/G4 that I'm sure that they will want to start posting their findings here from early next week. BTW I'm sure that many of you will have seen H-J Frieden's posting on running SIN on a Duron 1200MHz vs an A1XE/G4@800MHz(no L3 cache), both under Linux, both with software rendering. He got 2x the frame rate from the A1 than from the Duron, and that was without any use of the Altivec processor in the A1. Imagine what it will be like with OS4. Hope this helps Alan This email and the information it contains are a confidential and privileged communication for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this message and are not the intended recipient(s), please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Tiernan To: Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:13 PM Subject: RE: [amigaone] Re: Situation of XE boards? - a couple of answers > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Steven Solie [mailto:ssolie@shaw.ca] > > >--- "Kevin Tiernan" wrote: > >> Well I have heard that the XE have arrived and are > >undergoing testing > >> ATM. So I would suspect to see them being sent out to customers in > >> a week or so. > > > >Please state your source when posting such info. It helps us > >all determine whether we should take this info. with a large > >or small grain of salt. > > I would if I could. > > >Thanks in advance! > > Wish I could be more helpful but I can't say anything other than I already > have. > (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. 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`13.Feb.2003` Alexander Weber	WWW-Browser: Path Version 1.0 Path-Amiga is an attempt to build a new Internet browser from the ground up. The project began in the second half of the year 2001 (as amiga-news.de reported) and slowly it began to take concrete form. With this version HTML support has been started, which accounts for the version leap to 1.0. The support is still very primitive, so a reasonable websurfing experience is hardly possible. This situation will improve with each successive release. Requirements: Hardware: An Amiga with a 68k processor or a computer which can emulate such. Software: Amiga OS 3.5 or higher Features: ReAction GUI Minimal HTML support Clipboard support Supports DOS data Supports HTTP 1.1 Graphic buttons Selection windows for the changing of symbol text, colors, GUI. Graphic printing functions German and English localizations Protection against pipe security holes Known deficiencies: The HTML display still has some problems. Please be patient, it's the author's first try... When the author tested an earlier version of Path under Amithlon, it bogged down occasionally. But one Amithlon user has reported that Path works correctly for him. When printing, instead of a background a very light gray tone appears. The author has no clue what is causing that. Download: path.lha (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Feb. 2003, 18:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Feb.2003` Simon Neumann (ANF)	Amiga Speed: Update There's a new speed test of Quake 2 to marvel over. Additionally the speed of the BVision in 2-D has been tested again, after a long time. The website Amiga Speed stays busy with speed comparisons. You experience how quickly current Amiga games run on different Amigas. Through this you'll discover what software and hardware you need to play the games at their optimal speeds. But you can also merely keep informed about the speed of currently available Amiga games, processors, and graphic cards. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Feb. 2003, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Feb.2003` Nokia (press service)	Nokia N-Gage: Mobile Game Revolution? Nokia, once an official partner of AMIGA, Inc., has shown the new mobile game system "Nokia N-Gage " in past weeks at "Get Ready to N-Gage" conventions in London and Sydney. The game deck allows the execution of high value games, among other things, over Bluetooth networks, but also the use of a variety of services, the playing of MP3 and radio music, and the use as a Triband GSM 900/1800/1900 mobile telephone. Participating game companies reportedly include Activision, Eidos, Sega, Taito and THQ - thereby providing a bit of serious competition to Nintendo's GBA. An overview of N-Gage features: Color picture with backlighting, 176 x 208 resolution at up to 4096 colors Series 60 platform and Symbian operating system Bluetooth wireless technology for games 8 way controller "Rocker" Multimedia-messaging (MMS) Triple-band GSM (900/1800/1900), GPRS mobile phone Digital music player (AAC/MP3) & Stereo FM radio Nokia Audio Manager PC SW for management of music data Broad selection of applications: e-mail and personal information management XHTML Browsing Java Application Support Connection possibilities: calendar synchronization with PC/Mac, USB for music data and downloading of applications Use duration: games about 3 to 6 hours, speaking about 2-4 hours, standby up to 150-200 hours, MP3 music up to 8 hours, radio up to 20 hours Dimensions: (L x W x H) 133,7 x 69,7 x 20,2 mm Weight: 137g Volume: 139cc Delivery: 4th Quarter 2003 (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Feb. 2003, 12:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Feb.2003` Golem IT-News	Golem: Motorola is Working on a Linux Smartphone Motorola wants to bring a smartphone with the Linux operating system to market this year, planned first for Asia. The Motorola A760 will include a digital camera, a color display, an MP3 player, and Bluetooth and Java functions. Read the complete report at Golem IT-News (under the title link). (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Feb. 2003, 12:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Feb.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)	New Website on the Theme of Linux on the AmigaOne A new website was started with amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net, a website which occupies itself with the theme of Linux on the AmigaOne. On this website you'll find everything that could interest you in the way of proper kernels, useful descriptions, and pictures. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Feb. 2003, 11:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Feb.2003`	HP Leads the Sales Charts for the Pocket PC Market Segment Hewlett-Packard is at the top of Pocket PC sales charts, with 3 million IPAQs sold so far worldwide. HP was also able to begin this great success in the PDA market in 2002. As the worldwide #1 in the Windows Pocket PC market HP has reached a market share of 52 percent, according to previous statistics from Gartner Dataquest. These numbers show a steady growth in market share by HP for all four quarters in the last year, thereby remaining the second largest producer of PDAs worldwide. According to the figures from Gartner HP sold about 1.6 million units in the last year. From the third to the fourth quarter HP clearly grew more quickly than the market in general, with sales growing from 292,850 in the third quarter to 438,069 in the fourth. From there HP was able to break the three million mark and show a thoroughly successful result of their post-merger plans. The three million milestone was reached nine months after the two million milestone, which came eight months after the merger with Compaq was finalized. HP introduced an innovation in handhelds in November 2002 - the HP iPAQ Pocket PC H5450 was the first to have biometric security functions, wireless LAN networking capabilities and Bluetooth functionality. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Feb. 2003, 00:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Feb.2003` The Legacy	The Legacy: 700 New Screenshots - 100 New Covers The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad CPC, that provides the viewer with screenshots, cover scans and information about the developers. Today 700 new screenshots, 100 new covers and a few goodies were added. The Legacy: "A big thanks to everyone who has helped us. I'd like to point out new information on the games page, as applicable: should there be a new edition of a game, it's now appropriately notated; the reference to an earlier original is provided in the new edition." (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Feb. 2003, 00:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Motorola introduces PowerPC-processors MPC7457/47 As to read in the heise article (German) the Motorola G4 processors MPC7457 and MPC7447 with up to 1,3 GHz clock speed and reduced power consumption are officially available. Motorola produces theses processors for computers, embedded and network applications with a 0,13-µm process with copper and silicon on insulator technique (SOI). According to Motorola nine layers of copper are used. heise-article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 22:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Amiga Arena (ANF)	Game: FlagSweeper v0.5b Olaf Köbnik writes: With FlagSweeper version 0.5b is a new tiny minesweeper game by Richard "DawnBringer" Fhager at this homepage (title link) online. This is an early version! Richard told me by the way, he still works on the Akanoid clone "BabeAnoid" but doing it slowly! After Richard thought of abandon further development due to a lack of feedback I would like to ask you for letting the programmer know if you like the program. This is also valid for "BabeAnoid", just let the programmer know. Richard Fhager is known for his freeware games like dawnVideoPoker, Spaceball2000, Tittris or Fnurr2000. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 22:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` GFX-ZONE	Hidden Messages of the GFX-ZONE Gallery revealed A little while ago GFX-ZONE posted the fifth edition of the hidden message gallery. Now the team post a new gallery with the same great 8bit images, but this time the hidden messages have been revealed. Did you find all the messages? (nba) (Translation: nba) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 15:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 12.02.2003 Here are the Aminet-software-news which where uploaded since our last news post: GetAllHTML.lha comm/tcp 15K+Auto download or link-check entire Web s agsaku07.lha docs/mags 270K+AmigaGuide-Saku #7 (5/94). Finnish diskm MameRomGI-02.lha pix/gicon 1.3M+MAME ROM GlowIcons Vol.2 for use with em (ps) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 15:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003`	News from Paul Burkey's "Sneech" Paul Burkey writes on his Sneech-homepage: If you've been to this page before, you may have noticed the Sneech page has now been redesigned and brought into my current game development style. I've recently been working on various small scale game projects including two puzzle games called BoXiKoN and WordOMatic. These games marked a return to independent game development as well as a first entry to Windows and Pocket PC game development. I had hoped to be working on Sneech quite some time ago but the project has been pushed back so many times. I still don't have a clear timeline for Sneech development because I have so many other development commitments but I am able to clear up some details of a future for Sneech. My first aim is to recreate the Classic Sneech game almost exactly as it was on the Amiga 10 years ago. There will of course be some obvious changes, the graphics will be redrawn in True Colour (16bit/32bit) and the resolution will be doubled to 640x480 (Modern Retro Size!). There will undoubtedly be other changes but I want to try and create a Sneech game that is as faithful to the original as possible. I will also be developing this game for Pocket PC and I expect mobile phone versions also, I'm particularly interested in SmartPhone and Symbian based phones. The aim of this project is to create the ultimate retro style Snake Game across many platforms. Sneech will be available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Pocket PC and Linux and any other platforms I can get my hands on! Sneech 2 is still planned and will include many changes to the original game including Network mode and (optional) 3D/OpenGL mode. Other changes will include: Variable size game arenas, New CPU players with advanced AI, Up to 16 Worms in each game, New objects such as bridges and tunnels, New bonus items and much more. Development of Sneech 2 will not start until the Sneech remake is completed so this is all way off at the moment. (nba) (Translation: nba) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 15:17] [Comments: 3 - 14. Feb. 2003, 02:54] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` ExoticA Website	ExoticA: Updates at all levels The demo scene website ExoticA! has been updated significantly early this month. The "High Voltage SID Collection" has been turned up to version 5.3 and includes now 20,325 music tracks of the Commodore 64. Navigation is done now via an HTML interface and the tunes can be downloaded as one big archive. The area of UnExoticA game music has been improved as well: Here you might find an amount of totally 6495 files in 1272 archives - all in all 357 megabytes of music. The "Demo Scene Reference Manual" reaches version 4.43 with this update. Since version 4.33 more than 100 new entries have been made. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 14:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` AMIGAplus	Debian joines Desktop Linux Consortium The Debian project is one of the founders of the Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC), which has been founded recently and is registered as an organization for the benefit of the public. A current poll at DesktopLinux.com shows that Debian is one of the favorite GNU/Linux distributions for the desktop. The internal project Debian Desktop is an example of our contineous efforts to empower Debian for the Desktop. The Desktop Linux Consortium is a manufacturer neutral assossiation of comercial and organizations from the open source background which develops desktop technologies for GNU\Linux. The assossiation will assist to improve the future of GNU/Linux at the desktop and focuses at users of firms, institutions and home users. Debian Linux PPC will work as well on the PowerPC systems Pegasos and AmigaOne. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 14:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` st-computer.net	New SAP player released For the music archive ASMA new players for Amiga and Linux are available. The "Atari SAP Music Archive" is the largest collection of Atari 8 bit tunes. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 14:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Boing! International	USB: New HCD for Thylacine Thylacine is a Zorro 2 based USB adapter for connection of USB extensions to the Amiga. On Februar the 11th 2003 a new version of the HCD class for Thylacine has been releasded. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 14:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Chris Hodges (E-Mail)	Ignaz Kellerer passed away Ignaz Kellerer has died on the 3rd February 2003 after a short and hard disease. Kellerer has been known within the Amiga comminity as author and maintainer of the Amiga FAQ pages (title link). The funeral has been on Friday the 7th February 2003 at the Munich Westfriedhof with his family and friends being there. The editorial staff of amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus want to offer their condolences to the relatives. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 14:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003`	Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.02.2003) With WHDLOad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated: 11.02.03 improved: Pinball Illusions (Digital Illusions/21st Century) supports CD³² version too (Info) 11.02.03 new: Tangram (Thalion) done by Harry (Info) 11.02.03 improved: Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley/Imageworks) supports another version (Info) 10.02.03 new: Materialized (Cryptoburners) done by Codetapper (Info,Image) 10.02.03 new: Rody & Mastico 4 - Rody Noel (Lankhor) done by CFOU! (Info) 10.02.03 new: Legend Of Kyrandia (Westwood Studios) done by CFOU! (Info) 10.02.03 new: T-Bird (PAL Developments) done by Codetapper (Info) 10.02.03 improved: Switchblade (Core Design/Gremlin) added infinite lives trainer (Info) 10.02.03 new: Ultimate Body Blows (Team 17) done by JOTD (Info) 09.02.03 updated: Archer Maclean Pool / Archer Maclean Billard Americain (Virgin) supports French version, miscellaneous improvements (Info) (nba) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 13:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003`	Mai Logic Inc. earns "Ready for IBM Technology" Validation FREMONT, CA. February 10, 2003. Mai Logic Incorporated, a technology design house of integrated circuits/systems, announced today that it has achieved "Ready For IBM Technology" validation for its Articia S system controller and Teron CX and Teron PX evaluation system boards for IBM's 750CXe and 750FX PowerPCTM processors based applications. "MAI Logic has successfully developed optimized supporting devices and reference designs for PowerPCTM microprocessor application platforms which have passed a rigorous PowerPCTM compatibility validation testing process by IBM Microelectronics labs," said Lisa Su, Director of PowerPCTM and emerging products, IBM Microelectronics. "Solutions like MAI's 'Ready for IBM Technology' chipset and evaluation systems give developers more ways to enhance their applications, resulting in improved time to market, more cost effective designs, and improved performance products by our OEM customers." "We at MAI are very excited about this latest achievement," said Jason Hou, CEO of Mai Logic, Inc. "We will continue working closely with IBM to better our product designs and development following IBM's PowerPCTM processor roadmap. By leveraging the strong ties we have with our manufacturing partners in Taiwan and the close relationship with the leading developers worldwide, MAI intends to deliver the most cost-effective, highest-quality PowerPCTM offerings to the traditional PowerPCTM market place and expanding it into new applications presently not in the PowerPCTM application domain. This validation will further enable IBM's and MAI's customers to accelerated time to market coupled with significantly reduced resource deployment and management costs." Articia S Articia S is the first in the Articia family of chipsets designed with the revolutionary "Bus-Centric" methodology to achieve a more balanced and efficient architecture serving both CPU and peripheral bus requirements. Articia S can support single- or dual-processors at 133MHz CPU bus speed. It is also the first commercialized system controller to provide AGP support for RISC processor based systems. Next-generation Articia Sa and Articia P will soon be available. For product details, please visit: http://www.mai.com. Teron Teron CX and Teron PX evaluation systems are generic ATX motherboards built with PowerPCTM processors. The former is the first PowerPCTM processor based board with enhanced AGP option and the latter equipped with a 300-pin MegArray connector, provides easy configuration to a range of development platforms driven by single-processor and dual-processor CPU module cards (including the latest PowerPCTM 750FX processor). The "Ready for IBM Technology" program is developed to help OEMs identify hardware or software of IBM Business Partners that have received validation with IBM's products. Eligible participants must complete the validation process to obtain the approval and use of the "Ready for IBM Technology emblem as well as to further distinguish their product listings in the IBM Global Solutions Directory. For more information, please go to: http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/wired/alliances/rfit.html. Mai Logic Incorporated, A Technology Power House With 52 invention patents granted, 100 more pending in the fields of IC design, security, and system engineering, Mai Logic proves itself again and again to be a technology power house. Mai Logic's innovations in chipset solutions include: Intelligent Memory (iMemory), which enables the industry's first to run in-field DRAM fault detection and real-time fault recovery without the need of a system reboot; Control Pipeline allowing flexible timing on various system clocks and low power consumption; Genetic Computing for high-level security and privacy; and Floating Buffer to achieve a true concurrent system. Mai Logic's major products include system ICs and modules for PowerPC compatible systems, system ICs for wireless applications, System-on-A-Package (SOP), and revolutionarily re-configurable ICs with patented Genetic Computing technology. (nba) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 13:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Amiga.SourceForge	DCR8520 Amiga Ports: Updates from 08.02.2003 Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has put some programs up for download on his SourceForge website. On February 8th, 2003, the following programs were updated or added: 08 Feb 2003 Download gofish v0.27 08 Feb 2003 Download SHighlight v1.6.2 08 Feb 2003 Download stunnel v4.04 (nba) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 13:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Amiga Future	Amiga Future: User Workbench gallery extended Along with some new screen shots the gallery of GFX-BASSE has been integrated into Amiga Future's gallery so 170 different screen shots of user Workbenchs are included actually. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 13:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)	e.p.i.c.: Puzzle game BoXiKoN finished for MorphOS The addictive puzzle game BoXiKoN from e.p.i.c. interactive has been finished for MorphOS. Originally developed for the Amiga computer this game has become very popular on other desktop and handheld platforms including Macintosh, PocketPC and Windows. BoXiKoN is a fun and addictive new puzzle game of strategy and logic. The game belongs to the family of shape games but BoXiKoN really is quite different. There is a large emphasis on planning, organization and selection and less on arcade style quick reactions. You can find out more on BoXiKoN in the projects section of the e.p.i.c. homepage (see title link). (ps) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 12:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Alfred Faust	Sequencer: BarsnPipes V1.19 Of BarsnPipes, one of the best sequencers for the Amiga, Alfred Faust has released the version 1.19 on February the 10th 2003. New within version 1.19: Screenmoderequester, GadTools UI, most requesters are controlable with the keyboard, CAMD library, new 32 colour Design, localised, German catalog included and much more. Read the history for the changements and the included BnP_Addenum.guide. Download: BnP1_19.zip (822 KB) The source code of BarsnPipes has been made freely available on May the 25th 2001 by Todor Fay. Since Alfred Faust develops this professional program it has become freeware. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 03:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Charles Jacob (ANF)	Get your Amiga "Boing" water tank! Your Amiga is not complete if you don't have your own 'Boing' Water Tank! By following the title link, you will see something that looks familiar. They [American Models] call it an "Automatic water tank" but we Amigans know better: It's really a 'Boing' water tank! This is not intended to be an advertisement for American Models (a model railroad supplier), but just in case you do like it and want to have one, you'll know where you can buy one... (it's item #772). (ps) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 00:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Feb.2003` Virtual Dimension (ANF)	Video: Trailer about ARC2002 video from Virtual Dimension The video about the Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002 from Virtual Dimension is quickly nearing completion and will be available for download at the week-end. A small glance on what awaits you is already granted by a short trailer. (ps) [News message: 12. Feb. 2003, 00:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2003` Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)	Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood Version 1.5 - Statusreport Here's a quick status report of the current Hollywood development. Version 1.5 is now going through beta testing and should be available by the end of February. Hollywood 1.5 will feature some major improvements. Here's an overview of the new features in Hollywood 1.5: Full support for AHI (sound samples & music modules) Multiple layers can be used now Joystick support Big improvements to the inbuilt undo system FPS can be limited now (useful on Pegasos) Introducing support for off-screen rendering Even more of those cool 24-bit transition fx! New flexible object moving system Many other innovative improvements Hollywood 1.5 will be made freely available for all owners of Hollywood 1.0 and can be bought directly from the developer for 49,- Euro. (nba) [News message: 11. Feb. 2003, 23:29] [Comments: 1 - 25. Apr. 2003, 13:26] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2003` VMC Harald Frank (ANF)	TV-cards Software: AmithlonTV Beta 262 with OpenPCI Support Guido Mersmann has released Beta-Version 262 of the TV cards drivers software AmithlonTV with minor updates and bugfixes. What's new: BUGFIX: The auto full screen mode at TVWatch startup caused a system crash. CHANGED: The old tvtest utility is gone! TVCardDump is taking over from now! FEATURE: Activated the OpenPCI support for the public. Don't blame me if the stuff is slow or just crashing. The OpenPCI support is testet and working fine. The driver may not work correct due the endian trouble. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 11. Feb. 2003, 17:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2003` Scalos	Workbench: Scalos Beta-Archiv Version 40.27 The Beta-Version 40.27 of the Workbench-Alternative Scalos is now available for Download. Also a new module named WBRexx plugin V39.15 is available. The new version 40.27 contains the following changes and fixes: Bugfix: In 40.27, WBStartup execution of ARexx type icons was broken - Fixed Feature: Added display of estimated remaining time to file copy/move progress dialog Bugfix: Window backfill pattern re-layout didn't occur when "backdrop" was turned on and off Bugfix: Fixed enforcer hits/crashes during window zoom/resize when "always relayout" was enabled (code tried to use ptn_bitmap after FreeBitMap()) Bugfix: Added locking mechanism for asynchronous backfill to avoid crashes when windows are closed while async backfill process hasn't finished Bugfix: Fixed enforcer hits when CLI project icon contained no default tool Improvement: Program list now contains full path for each program started instead of only program name New feature: Added SCA_ScalosControl() subcommand to get/free list of menu commands Bugfix: Cut & Paste didn't work when AsyncWB was installed - Fixed New feature: Added new FONT and VALIGN attributes to TOOLTIP STRING Download: ScalosBeta.lha (257 KB) (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 11. Feb. 2003, 16:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2003` ELBOX (E-Mail)	Elbox: Spider gathers USB 2.0 High-Speed ELBOX COMPUTER is pleased to announce that from now on, Amiga has the possibility of using new generation USB 2.0 devices in the USB 2.0 Hi-Speed mode. This has become possible with the Spider EHCI USB driver developed by Elbox for the MEDIATOR PCI busboard series. When Spider USB 2.0 controller was released in September 2002, it was supplied with the OHCI USB 1.1 driver. EHCI USB 2.0 support was lacking but promised as soon as possible. Today Elbox made good on that promise. The Spider EHCI USB Hi-Speed driver is now included in the Spider CD. All registered Spider users are now receiving this new driver as a free update. USB 2.0 is the fastest USB standard released so far, supporting data speeds up to 480Mbps, that is 40 times faster than USB 1.1. This makes USB 2.0 an ideal technology for external storage devices, digital cameras, webcams and much more. Spider USB 2.0 card features: Five USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports: four external ports and one internal port Compatible with both USB 2.0 (480Mbps) and USB 1.1 (12Mbps) devices Compliant with EHCI, OHCI and PCI 2.2 standards All ports can handle Hi-Speed, Full-Speed and Low-Speed transaction 5-port EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) USB 2.0 controller Two independent OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface) USB 1.1 controllers Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Hot Plug Capability (nba) [News message: 11. Feb. 2003, 14:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2003` David Brunet (E-Mail)	Magazine: Obligement N°37 Issue 37 of the magazine Obligement is now available. This version is in HTML format. You can read in this issue: news about OS4 and MorphOS, interview of Matthew Kille (thanks to Amiga Future), interview of Jacques Vanhove, review of Quake 2 and fxPAINT 2, hardware reviews with the Pegasos (commercial release), EZ Mouse, Mediator and lots of others articles. Download it from the title link. (nba) [News message: 11. Feb. 2003, 13:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2003` VMC Website	TV-Karten Software: AmithlonTV Beta 259 Guido Mersmann has released Beta-Version 259 of AmithlonTV. New in this version: CHANGED: Fixed and optimised some card files. CHANGED: The libs drawers content is using a complete different layout. This should be the final state. I strongly suggest to use the installer to get a proper installation! CHANGED: The driver_hauppauge.lib is now a little more flexible for future extension. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh a (405 KB) (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 11. Feb. 2003, 03:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	individual Computers: New drivers, higher shipping costs individual Computers writes: "Dirk 'Doj' Jagdmann has updated his Linux-drivers for the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper. In addition to SID functions, joysticks and an Amiga keyboard is now supported. The drivers, as well as the source codes, can be found on the author's website: http://llg.cubic.org/cw/. The Amiga One now supports our PCI POST code display. The diagnostic tool shows valuable information during system startup that can be debuggin-information for developers, or give hints for technicians in case of a defect. The cooperation with the development team of the Amiga One and Amiga OS4 has also been intensified on another field: Parts of the source code for the keyboard driver for the Catweasel MK3 have been given to Hyperion. We're especially happy to announce that individual Computers has found a new distribution channel: The wholesaler APi has started selling the PCI POST code display under article number 11008. Several tenthousand PC-resellers and workshops now have an easy possibility to get hold of this useful tool. APi does not sell to end users. Deathbed vigil DVD in stock: The must-have collector's item, the DVD-edition of Dave Haynie's movie about Commodore's demise and lots of bonus material is available and in stock. It's a DVD+R in NTSC video standard. All players convert automatically from NTSC to PAL-60 if necessary. Since some stand-alone DVD players have problems with DVD+R media, please check for compatibility before you buy. In any case, the DVD can be played back with a PC. The best thing: Each DVD has Dave Haynie's signature! Price: 39,- EUR. Bad news at the end: The Deutsche Paketpost has informed us in an automatic mailing that shipment cost will go up by more than 68% on March 1st, 2003. Therefore, we can only offer the special domestic rates of 4,- EUR for pre-paid goods and 8,- EUR for cash-on-delivery until the end of this month. Starting March 2003, we'll only ship with the Deutsche Paketpost in exceptional cases, we're already negotiating with UPS and DPD/German parcel service. International shipping rates are not affected." (nba) (Translation: nba) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 23:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)	Results of the AGHP Amiga Games Awards 2002 The on-line magazine "Amiga Games hit parade" accomplished a vote in the last days about the play of the year 2002. The winner of the "Amiga Games Awards 2002" is, like in the "Amiga Awards 2002" of the AMIGAplus, the on-line strategy game of "Tales of Tamar" by Eternity computer. The official ranking: Tales OF Tamar Quake 2 Crossfire 2 Feeble Files Software Tycoon FreeCiv FreeCraft Crimson Fields Chaos 4 Axis and Allies The complete list can be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 18:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` VMC Harald Frank (ANF)	OpenPCI-1.0 and rtl8139-network-driver released Yesterday Benjamin Vernoux released the first public version of his OpenPCI software package for PCI-systems Amithlon, Pegasos and Classic 68k/PPC Amiga with GREX 1200/4000 or Prometheus PCI Busboard This first release contains new rtl8139-compatible network driver for the popular 10/100MBit-network-devices. VMC has tested these drivers for several weeks and they are glad to make them available to the public. Additional information about this new software can be found on the Website of OpenPCI for the Amiga at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 17:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` Richard Kapp (ANF)	GFX-BASE: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES-review The on-line magazine GFX BASE published a review of the new "THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES" (2-CD-Set-Version). The KICKSTART ARCHIVES is a collection of documents, arranged by Thomas Unger on CD-ROM, dealing with the history and the technology of the Amiga. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 16:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` TTEngine	Font: TTEngine Version 6.2 TTEngine is a text rendering environment for Amiga OS, which is based on TrueType Font. Yesterday the author of TTEngine Grzegorz Kraszewski released version 6.2. Changes: Style and weight selection gadgets added to the font requester. Added algorithmic italic font face generation. If a choosen font family does not have italic faces, TTEngine automatically generates them by shearing regular ones. Works only if requesting application opens fonts using the database. FPU version of TTEngine compiled. Faster 30 to 50% on the same machine in antialiased modes. Download: ttengine-6.2.lha (609 kb). (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 14:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` VMC Website	TV-board software: AmithlonTV Beta 254 Guido Mersmann released a new beta version (254) of his tv-board software package AmithlonTV. Changes: Improved TVCardSetup utility with support for auto setup. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (393 kb). (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 14:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` Patrick Henz	Amiga freeCD: Racing Weekend A new issue of the freeCD series of Faces OF Mars published: "Racing Weekend" contains the full versions of "XTreme Racing" including many additional tracks and add-ons as well as "Wheelspin" (AGA Version). Furthermore, this CD contains several freeware games and demos as well as a formula 1 data base and many pictures of Ferrari, Nuerburgring, Zolder and Monaco. The CD-ROM is available for the price of 3,- euro and can be ordered at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 13:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 09.02.2003 Additions to the Aminet: FFS4514p.lha biz/patch 11K+Unofficial patch for the 45.13 FastFileS netcat-1.10.lha comm/net 106K+Netcat v1.10 - network data read/write t umsspamc1_1.lha comm/ums 15K+SpamAssassin client for UMS IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 21K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1a MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas SegTracker_pch.lha dev/debug 14K+Patches SegTracker V37.73 or V37.74 to V eviled.lha dev/e 121K+Source Editor written in E GoPortscan_src.lha dev/e 294K+E Source Code to Go Portscan! V1.0 Flexy.lha dev/misc 119K+FLEXY 1.4 A very user-friendly GUI for OMon2.7.lha dev/moni 48K+Monitors memory and system structures agsaku01.lha docs/mags 186K+AmigaGuide-Saku #1 (1/93). Finnish diskm agsaku02.lha docs/mags 145K+AmigaGuide-Saku #2 (1/94). Finnish diskm agsaku03.lha docs/mags 324K+AmigaGuide-Saku #3 (2/94). Finnish diskm agsaku04.lha docs/mags 220K+AmigaGuide-Saku #4 (3/94). Finnish diskm agsaku05.lha docs/mags 169K+AmigaGuide-Saku #5 (4/94). Finnish diskm 3SubGames.lha game/actio 77K+3 small subgames. (AGA/68k) qrdq_addon.lha game/data 7.6M+Quake redone Quick Vocale Add-On qrdq_deluxe.lha game/data 14M+Quake redone Quick Deluxe Mattonite.lha game/demo 671K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress Anim2qt.lha gfx/conv 176K+Converts and rescales an amiga animation ldisplay.lha gfx/edit 30K+Make AnimGif with scroll-text x web page tileripper.lha gfx/pbm 9K+TileRipper (29.01.2003) (TinyPic's compa tinypic.lha gfx/pbm 116K+TinyPic (29.01.2003) (Photomosaic for Am BetaScan_v3.lha hard/drivr 124K+BetaScan v.3 with Raction based GUI imdbDiff030131.lha misc/imdb 3.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase venti-lotto.lha misc/misc 60K+Venti di Lotto (08.02.2003) (Photomosaic JD-Digication.mpg mods/mpg 2.5M+Digication by JaDe JD-Dreamscapes.mpg mods/mpg 3.6M+Dreamscapes by JaDe JD-Evofinal.mpg mods/mpg 1.1M+Evolution Final by JaDe JD-Evolution.mpg mods/mpg 4.3M+Evolution by JaDe JD-Independenc.mpg mods/mpg 1.3M+Independence by JaDe JD-Overloaded.mpg mods/mpg 2.7M+Overloaded by JaDe JD-Piano.mpg mods/mpg 1.4M+Piano by JaDe JD-Revolution.mpg mods/mpg 2.4M+Revolution by JaDe mp3info-0.2.16.lha mus/misc 96K+Mp3info - cool command line mp3 ID tag t HD_Play103.lha mus/play 53K+Plays long samples direct from HD VakumTryne.lha pix/anim 812K+Short funny animation by RHz Mephisto-icons.lha pix/nicon 444K+Yet Another Cool Icon Pack [by cYbo] WorkbenchXP.lha pix/wb 47K+Windows XP Theme for VisualPrefs mufs4514p.lha util/misc 27K+MultiUser patch for OS3.5/OS3.9 FastFile AWeb2IB_HL.lha util/rexx 1K+(0.2) Converts AWeb hotlists to IBrowse Breaker.lha util/wb 102K+Stops programs running in the background (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 13:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Feb.2003` Jukka Varsaluoma (ANF)	New Freeware puzzle game: AlyBox Jukka Varsaluoma released a new puzzle game "AlyBox". By using the MiniGL technology 3D-accelerated diagrams, fast camera moves and impressive blending effects are possible. The game, which offers numerous sound effects, can be used in the full screen mode or in a window on the Workbench and can be controlled by keyboard or joystick. System requirements given by the programmer are an Amiga with 68040 CPU (PPC to become supported by WarpOS), executable Warp3D-Installation, executable AHI installation and installed Lucyplay.library on. The game was published as Freeware. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Feb. 2003, 12:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Divinorum & Aural Planet CDs close to publication Former Amiga musician Björn Lynne, better known as Dr. Awesome, has recently joined the musicians of the group Aural Planet to record a new joint album with them. Furthermore he is currently working on new material on his Divinorum label. This is progressive trance, or, broadly speaking, electronic sounding music pieces. All audio CDs are handled through his own distribution, Lynnemusic.com, where also numerous albums of other former Amiga demo sceners can be found. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 15:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Demo scene: Scene.org Awards 2002 This name is none other than an international jury who nominate the best demo scene productions of the year 2002 and later determine the winner. The nominations are not restricted to a computer platform, country of origin or a certain party. Thus also demos created on the Amiga, C64, Gameboy Advanced, PS2 etc. can be nominated and awarded. The sole requirement is that the demo was published in the course of last year. The announcement of the winners and the award ceremony itself will be held on the Breakpoint Party 2003. A list of all nominations will be announced in the course of February on the Awards Web site. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 15:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Scene: Shakwave Web site completely reworked The personal home page of musician and trader Shakwave, formerly better known as Chavez, has been completely renewed. A large number of older music modules and MP3s which he has composed over the years on the Amiga and later the PC are awaiting the visitor. This is mainly stuff that might become interesting for techno fans. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 15:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Scene: New music by Moods published Various new songs by the music group Moods have been published. In one of the news entries of Diskmag.de one of the mainly responsible people, D!rtie, in a way apologises for their productivity, resp. for the fact that he has been able to announce new modules in the news nearly on a daily basis. As always all music pieces of the Moods Web site are freely available at no cost. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 15:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Amigart / Robin (ANF)	Soft3 Hardware: Photo of AOne-Dual G4 Module Under the title link you'll find various photos of the AmigaOne, a.o. also a photo of the AmigaOne Dual-G4 Module. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 14:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Ricco Clemens (ANF)	Descent Freespace: MultiplayerPack02 released Ricco Clemens writes: The MultiplayerPack02 for Descent:Freespace with 5 multi player missions has been released, and all older MODs have been uploaded to the Aminet. Moreover, I'd again like to draw attention to our Freespace Forum which unfortunately is not yet being visited enough. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 14:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Rene (ANF)	Amithlon and Adaptec 19160 The Amithlon emulator can also be operated with a U2W 160 SCSI card by Adaptec. The name of the card is "19160 Adaptec". This is interesting for all those who have a hardware test on their internet site for Amithlon. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 02:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2003` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	AmiChess: New version with increased playing strength Under the title link there is a new version of AmiChess which has been recompiled with StormC 4. Apart from some minor bug fixes, the WarpOS version in particular has benefitted from the recompilation. Calculation speed of the WOS version could nearly be doubled! Thus AmiChess with the GNUChess engine is a match for "Crafty" (see Aminet), the chess engine with currently the highest plaing strength! I wish all chess friends a good time with the new version! (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 09. Feb. 2003, 02:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Feb.2003` Olaf Köbnik (email)	Amiga Arena: interview with Michael Lanser (Realms of Power) Olaf Köbnik wrote: Michael Lanser is developing already for some months a Civilization clone for our Amiga with the name "Realms of Power". We wanted to know the current developing state of "Realms of Power" and talked to the developer Michael Lanser about his project. The interview is available in German and English. Amiga Arena - Back in business! The basic design has been finished and further rubrics are now following. For the time being some software titles are not accessible. But I may already tell you that with the opening of the download area further new programs will be released. I want to thank you for your patience and hope that you will remain loyal to the Amiga Arena! (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Feb. 2003, 17:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Feb.2003` Rupert Hausberger (ANF)	Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 v0.922 full-release Rupert Hausberger writes: Today it's time to release a full version of AmigaMARK LPA 2003. The release includes versions for M68k- and MorphOS-native! Both versions are fully compatible. Read docs before start. (ps) [News message: 08. Feb. 2003, 16:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Feb.2003` Jurassic Pack Homepage	Scene: website version 1.2.4 of the mag Jurassic Pack online Next to the repair of dead links that came to live due to our moving were the WinUAE tutorial and reactions to the issues #9 and #10 put online. All older issues of Jurassic Pack (#1 to #6 have also been made available online. Enjoy the reading! (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Feb. 2003, 13:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Feb.2003` Mikey C (ANF)	TOTAL AMIGA Magazine: Issue 14 coming soon - to a post box near you HOLLYWOOD The new multimedia authoring package for the Amiga. But can it topple SCALA? Our reviewers sit in front of the screen and bring you their verdict. Our main Feature is: WEBDESIGN! A true epic struggle, starring brave and determined reviewers, see if it can be done using an Amiga. SOFTWARE TYCOON The good, the bad and the ugly. Oscar Nominee or Turkey of the Year? QUAKE II - On the Amiga A long established Title, but will the latest Hyperion Entertainment port leave you reaching for more popcorn or heading to the exit? The latest, eagerly anticipated issue of Total Amiga Magazine issue #14 is coming soon via subscription, individually, and at an Amiga vendor near you! For more details including release date, visit our website at www.totalamiga.org. (ps) [News message: 08. Feb. 2003, 13:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Feb.2003` Robin (ANF)	AmiBench online again As update to the yesterdays AmiBench news telling AmiBench had been closed because of violent attacks can today be told: The Amiga Community lives! Because of many encouraging emails Marc 'tecno' Wilson decided to continue amibench.org. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Feb. 2003, 03:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Feb.2003` Falcon (ANF)	Interview with Petra Struck (amiga-news.de) online Falcon wrote: Since today is the interview with Petra Struck (recorded on January, 25th 2003) thanks to the help of the 'User der Nordseeküste' (udnimweb.de) finally online. Download: interview_amiganews.mp3 - 6,15 MB Sorry for the not so good sound quality but as the interview has a lenght of around 20 minutes and I wanted to make it available to as many users as possible I had shrunk the file to the end lenght of appr. 6.15 MB (40 kb/s). Soon there'll be a CD released containing an exhibition video and the interview in word and picture (I'm just doing the video cut). On the CD may be a little surprise (if the timing's good) - no more words about it right now. As soon as the CD's finished I'll tell you right here. Enjoy! (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 08. Feb. 2003, 03:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 07.02.2003) With WHDLOad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated: 07.02.03 new: Rody And Mastico 6 (Lankhor) done by CFOU! 07.02.03 new: Rody And Mastico 5 (Lankhor) done by CFOU! 07.02.03 new: Rody And Mastico (Lankhor) done by CFOU! 07.02.03 updated: Space Harrier (Elite) supports finale compilation version 07.02.03 new: Night Shift (Lucasfilm Games) done by JOTD 07.02.03 new: Lemmings 3 (DMA Design/Psygnosis) done by JOTD 07.02.03 new: Rody & Mastico 3 (Lankhor) done by CFOU! 07.02.03 new: Rody & Mastico 2 (Lankhor) done by CFOU! 07.02.03 new: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) done by JOTD 05.02.03 improved: Combat Air Patrol (Psygnosis) added support for intro 05.02.03 improved: Another World (Delphine Software) supports another version, uses kickemu (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 22:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)	Image Editing: SView5 Carnival Discount Since requested by several registered SViewIV users, there's now the limited offer for a discount when registering SView5 as a previously registered SViewIV user. If you sent in your SView5 registration form before 5th March (before carnival is over) you are allowed to subtract 5 EUR ($5 outside Europe) from the bill's total. Please write your SViewIV registration number on the form, since otherwise the discount can't be granted (postal stamp date counts). (ps) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 21:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 07.02.2003 It follows the Aminet uploads which have been added since our last message: IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 20K+IBrowse 2.x spanish cat. v2.3.0 DC2Lvl-C64.lha game/data 191K+81 levels for Diamond Caves II FS_25thyear.lha game/data 42K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_ACSacrifice.lha game/data 34K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_admnt10.lha game/data 38K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_alliance.lha game/data 77K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_attack-1.lha game/data 58K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_babylon5mod.lha game/data 232K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_BFAv2.0.lha game/data 82K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_BForSol.lha game/data 32K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_Black_H.lha game/data 532K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_cap-node.lha game/data 32K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_competition.lha game/data 107K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_DDaunting.lha game/data 94K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_DukeSquad.lha game/data 83K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_FAway-Multi.lha game/data 33K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_Lilith2.lha game/data 32K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_LPrototype.lha game/data 32K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_MultiPack01.lha game/data 47K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_Nightfall.lha game/data 33K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_pilotspic.lha game/data 336K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_Prelude2.lha game/data 31K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_SlaserCamp.lha game/data 77K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_soc01.lha game/data 34K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_startrekmod.lha game/data 295K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_starwarsmod.lha game/data 88K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_SWUO.lha game/data 73K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_SWUO2.lha game/data 72K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_ugep1m03.lha game/data 177K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_wk_100b.lha game/data 184K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD FS_W_P_Legacy.lha game/data 124K+Descent: Freespace 1 MOD wNpSnaps1.lha game/wb 419K+Snaps of 'Picture' mode in watchNplay (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 21:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Opera-browser gets wrong data of msn.com »msn.com prevents a correct view when visiting it with Opera browser In a current message Opera blames msn.com delivering wrong style sheets to the Opera 7.0 to give the user the impression the Norwegian browser would not show the sites in a correct way. Already in October 2001 there was an eclat because Microsoft had locked out users with the browsers Opera, Mozilla and Knoqueror of the website msn.com.« Have a look at the title link for the full message (in German). (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 18:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Good Old Adventures - Guybrush Threepwood meets Larry Laffer »Multi player versions of old Sierra- and LucasArts games based on browsers The Dutch company Q42 brings back old Sierra- and LucaArts adventures on PC. The web-developers have copied parts of worlds together with the characters from Space Quest 1 and 2 as well as Police Quest 2 to an Internet version where several players can meet online in contrary to the original version.« (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 18:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` VMC Harald Frank (ANF)	TV-card software: AmithlonTV Beta 253 with new TV-cards supported Guido Mersmann has published beta version 253 of the TV-card driver software AmithlonTV with support of new TV-cards. New in this version: BUGFIX: Fixed the hauppauge driver to enable the msp audio chip. FEATURE: Added "Terratec TValue FM" card data. NEW CARDS: Added new card entrys into current supported TV-Card List. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 18:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)	ReDesign of CD³²/CDTV-Corner planned - Help needed We are looking for an experienced Web designer who can develop a new design for the CD³²/CDTV-Corner. Thorsten Schölzel can answer questions via email. Thorsten Schölzel: "The current design of the CD³²/CDTV-Corner is old-fashioned. With the new design we want to present the sites more clearly and professionally. Above all because it is the biggest homepage on the Internet which is for CD³² and CDTV. I especially want to point out that the CD³²-Alliance is a non-profit business. We invest our time and money. But we enjoy it otherwise we would not do it." (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 18:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` A.C.T. (ANF)	A.C.T. with new website A.C.T. - until April 1999 successful Amiga hard- and software producer - is accessable with a new website for a few days. For Amiga users it is interesting to know that a German support forum has been created for users of the Prelude and Samplitude products. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 12:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` Michael Dittmar (ANF)	Inofficial MorphOS-Patch for IBrowse 2.3 Unofficial MorphOS version string patch for IBrowse 2.3. IBrowse 2.3 falsely claims MorphOS system is using AmigaOS. (Particularily misleading since MorphOS systems are reported as running AmigaOS 4.0). This is a crude hack that just replaces all "AmigaOS" strings with "MorphOS", and "3.1", "3.5", "3.9" and "4.0" with "1.1" or "1.2". Better solution should be provided by the IBrowse authors. There is no warranty. Use at your own risk. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 12:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` ANN	Advertisement: AmiBench closes website Mark 'tecno' Wilson who is the maintainer of Amibench which is the website for international and free advertisement has announced that he will close his site. The reason are users who insult him for admitting sales of pirat copies. Completely enervates and disappointed of the remained users he decided to close his site. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 02:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Feb.2003` Mirko Naumann (ANF)	Mail program: YAM 2.4-dev [060] from 06.02.2003 Since yesterday there is a new version of the current beta 2.4 of the mail program YAM which is compiled for the 68060. It is OPen Source and can be downloaded under the title link. Download: yam2.4dev_20030206.lzx - Readme The archive only contains the new main program. But before running it you must install the archive of the developer version. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 07. Feb. 2003, 02:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003`	amiga-news.de: New Glossary Under the title link you will find a newly formulated glossary, which is based on the old Internet-ABC. In order to tend the slogan designations better, Sven Drieling has put together a small databank that allows cross-connections to be made. Whoever has suggestions for further concepts can send them in an email to Petra Struck or enter them here in the commentary function - if at all possible, with an understandable description of the keyword. The glossary has been reachable for some time through the upper menu in the last row, in the second spot. The link had to be led through to the guestbook, which is also reachable through the footer. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 21:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` VMC Harald Frank (ANF)	TV Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 252 Guido Mersmann released Beta-Version 251 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV. New in this version: What's new: BUGFIX: Again some small MSP audio fixes! BUGFIX: Fixed subvendor setup within the TVCardSetup. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 16:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Manager Magazin	Manager Magazine: Will UMTS Flop? »The adventure UMTS costs millions and the new technology won't bring in a profit until 2014. A mistaken investment? Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, Siemens and Nortel Networks still claim to be optimistic that UMTS will be a success.« Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 16:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Filesharing: DirectConnect Client for AmigaOS Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has ported DCTC ("DirectConnect Text Client") to the Amiga (see also today's report). DCTC is a text-based client for the file-sharing network "Direct Connect". An early beta version of Amiga-DCTC is ready for download. Diego needs beta testers to support him in debugging the program. More information about DC (DirectConnect) may be found on the website of the manufacturer publisher's website for the Windows version. Diego shows how one may get the initial results with DCTC. First you need a list of all usable HUBs: run: hublist >ram:HubList Each line of the list looks like this: [DK]Moviezone©\|moviezone.dyndns.dk\|Min 60 GB. [MZ-Group]\|507\|\|\|\|\| Next you pick out a HUB (in the above example "moviezone.dyndns.dk"), additionally you must select a pseudonym and put in your IP Address (it should work with these minimal entries): dctc --nick=YOURNICK -a=YourHost/IP --hubip=moviezone.dyndns.dk If everything works, you'll now be connected to the HUB and the HUB will show a few bits of information (read it!) and now you may begin to send orders to the hub. HINT: You might be banned for the HUB, when your combination of "Connection" and "Shared Bytes" is not meeting the standard. In such a case you should use the command "/CNX T3" to set the server to a higher connection speed ("Connection") or "/OFFSET 1234567890" to raise the "Shared Bytes" (the amount of the data you are offering). Please BE SURE to read the supplementary documentation, and let us know your experiences with it. Direct download: dctc-0.84.1.lha [HINT: DCTC was unavailable on the master server (title link). The link for the direct download may in that case be accessed via a mirror]. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 15:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Hewlett-Packard Decides Against Package Fee on PCs »HP: "12 Euros Just for the Designation 'VG' - Requirements of the GEMA stand out" Sharp criticism is directed by Hewlett-Packard at the ruling of the German Patent and Trademark Office because of the fee on PCs in the amount of 12 Euros for every purchased machine. The regulatory officials of the Evaluation Society (VG) placed this fee for carrying the VG designation on the 31st of January. Originally it was to be 30 Euros.« Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 15:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Golem IT-News	Golem: GNOME 2.2 - New Version of Linux Desktop Appears "New Features, Better Performance and Increased Stability" Five months after GNOME 2.0 and so a month earlier than planned, the GNOME-Team has released version 2.2 of their Unix/Linux Desktops for all of their development platforms. The new version is expected to have raised performance and higher stability, as well as numerous new features and tools. Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 15:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Amiga.SourceForge	DCR8520 Amiga Ports: Updates from 04.02.2003 (Update) Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has put some programs up for download on his SourceForge website. The day before yesterday the following programs were updated or added: 04. Feb. 2003 Download dctc v0.84.1 04. Feb. 2003 Download HyperMail v2.1.6 Followup: January updates resolved, as earlier reported. If the above links don't function all the time, you may give this download link a try. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 14:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Kultboy.com	Kultboy.com: Interview with Richard Löwenstein (PC Joker) Under the title link you'll find an interview with Richard Löwenstein that was conducted by the fan site of the game magazine 'Kultboy.com.' In this interview Löwenstein talks about the Amiga situation. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 13:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Amiga.org	OS4 Team seeking Translators As you can see in the title, translators for German and other languages are being sought for OS4, because the translation service ATO can't help in all areas. Other needed translations include: Bosnian, Croatian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Persian, Portugese and Swedish. Whoever wants to help must sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement = silence stipulation) at Amiga Inc. Other requirements are an Amiga with AmigaOS 3.9 and Boing Bag #2 installed, and a PGP key of at least version 2.6.3 (or compatible). Interested people should send an email to the coordinator, David Rey. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 13:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Feb.2003` Chris Hodges (E-Mail)	Thomas Richter in c.s.a.p.: Further Developers Needed Thomas Richter writes in the newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.programmer: As you may or may not know, my Amiga "died" a few months ago and I decided to shelve all support for my Amiga software, starting with DiskSafe and ending with MuLib Packet. A new Maintainer must also be found, one who is interested in further developing all or part of my software. The terms are that the software must continue to be publicly available on terms simlar to the ones that I've established. I will NOT agree, to release this stuff under GPL or LGPL. The skills needed are C (ANSI-C) Programming for one half of the projects and advanced Motorola 68k Assembler for the other. Additionally needed (naturally) an Amiga and a C-Compiler, possibly SAS/C, because the projects are based on this. And Motorola-Assembler, possibly the DevPac, because I used a lot of notes with the macro-functions. The PhxAss is not sufficient for most Assembler-based projects. The "earliest works" (not the MuLib Packet of course) are documented in German (...). The sources are completely backed up and available and usable, because I was always a bit concerned about backups, and rightly so. Please send inquiries to my normal email address: thor@math.tu-berlin.de. So long and see you later! Cordially, Thomas (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 06. Feb. 2003, 10:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Demo scene: Genesi sponsors Equinoxe For the Demo-Contest by Equinoxe Genesi donates Pegasos mainboards as prizes. Furthermore all contributors for Pegasos/MorphOS will get polo shirts with the slogan "MorphOS Demo Team". At the comments regarding this news item at MorphOS-News.de Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco by Genesi explain which meaning they apportion the demo scene and their contribution for making the Amiga that which it is known for. Genesi's goal is to bring the demo scene back along with their creative and technical skills which were characteristically for them. In the end the remained teams are invited to ask Genesi if they are looking for a sponsor. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 23:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Jabberwocky	Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.3 - 8. Preview Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released preview 8 of the Instant Messengers 'JabberWocky' version 1.3 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages. Connections to other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways. Download: Jabberwocky030205.lha (ps) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 19:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` YAM	Mail program: new YAM developer version dated 05.02.2003 Since today there's a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA of the mail program YAM available which is Open Source for some time now. This version is a pure developer version that may still contain bugs and for that the developers team doesn't give any warranty and support. Request regarding the developer versions via email aren't answered, either. Usage at your own risk! The made changes can be taken from this list. Further information can be found on the Yamos SourceForge page. Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (ps) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 19:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` David "Daff" Brunet	Amiga Games Hit Parade - Results from Jan./Febr. 2003 Because the website of 'Amiga Games Hit Parade' is down actually David 'Daff' Brunet sent the results of the poll from January/February 2003 via email: 1. (2) Payback - 150 points 2. (3) Quake - 135 points 3. (88) Tales Of Tamar - 114 points 4. (1) Napalm - 109 points 5. (6) Slam Tilt - 99 points 6. (5) The Settlers - 94 points 7. (4) Sensible World Of Soccer - 73 points 8. (16) Foundation - 70 points 9. (7) Earth 2140 - 67 points 10. (14) Heretic 2 - 61 points 11. (23) Wipeout 2097 - 61 points 12. (60) Quake 2 - 57 points 13. (18) Freespace - 55 points 14. (9) Exodus The Last War - 54 points 15. (13) Fields Of Battle - 51 points 16. (11) Colonization - 50 points 17. (8) Civilization - 49 points 18. (10) Worms / Worms DC - 45 points 19. (15) Moonstone - 44 points 20. (21) Nightlong - 43 points The problems regarding the website will be solved within some days. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 18:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` The Amiga RC5 Team effort (ANF)	Amiga RC5 Team Effort: RC5-72 status The "Amiga RC5 Team Effort" reached in the meanwhile position 15 of the team charts at RC5-72-Contest. In January the team got position 18/19 avaragely. More participants are allways much appreciated! Within 64 days only 0,006% of the RC5-72 key space were determined. There is still enough time to show which kind of power is among the Amiga community! (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 17:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Etienne Vogt	Filesystem: muFS- and FFS-Patch (both V45.14 Beta) By the title link there is a patch (beta version 45.14) by Etienne Vogt for the multi user filesystem 'muFS' for AmigaOS 3.5 and better available. Please read the Readme for more details. Furtherore the author provides a patch (beta version 45.14) for the filesystem FFS for OS3.9-BB2. Like above the Readme will offer more information regarding this release. Download: muFS4514p.lha FFS4514p.lha (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 16:11] [Comments: 3 - 12. Feb. 2003, 17:40] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Genesi sues Amiga Inc. According to a posting by Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco at ANN Amiga Inc. has been sued by Genesi already because of breaking a contract. This is to obtain from the following document, found at the 'U.S. District Court Western District of Washington'. The assigned Judge is Robert S. Lasnik. Details about the actual content of that charge were not given by Bill Buck. Ben "HyperionMP" Hermans (managing partner of Hyperion) says the following at the according thread at Amiga.org regarding this issue and tells the charge would be about the AmigaDE license for the WinCE based handheld "Smartboy". According Hermans Genesi means this license would be valid for the Pegasos as well - therfore the action Within the comments of Morphos-News.de Bill Buck says that it might be possible to get a verdict still this week. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 15:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Martin Wollert (ANF)	the inquirer: Playstation3 architecture revealed Like from the article above by 'the inquirer' is to hear the new Playstation3 will be powerd by a PowerPC-CPU. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 14:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` GFX-Base	GFX-Base: Interview with Gregory Donner The English online magazine has interviewed Gregory Donner known from his huge and helpful website. The detailed and informative interview is available by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 14:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Michael Asse (ANF)	Game: Mac version of Payback published On January the 15th 2003 the Mac version of 'Payback' has been published. You can order it at the Virtual Programming Website. With 'Payback' you jump into the role of a young driver who is on escape and tries to become an important gangster boss. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 12:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` VMC Harald Frank (ANF)	TV card software: AmithlonTV Beta 251 Guido Mersmann has released beta version 251 of the TV-Card driver software AmithlonTV. New in this version: BUGFIX: Many small changes. Nothing realy important. FEATURE: Well, not realy a feature. There is a new debug setup window for the msp sound chip. You are only able to open it, if your card is using such chip. The usage is very simple! Start AmithlonTV and select a TV picture. Make sure that your audio mixer is not muted and the volume is at maximum. Now use the debug menu and open the msp debug window. There are three cycle gadgets. Start with first one. Cycle it. If you hear any sound, than report the gadget status and make a TVCardDump. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 11:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	Mailer: SimpleMail 0.19 / NListtree 18.6 The new version 0.19 of the mailer 'SimpleMail' is available from today. The following changes have been made since the last version: PGP works again like before the version 0.18 (de- and encode) By scrolling through the mails within the read window the status is updated correctly (Bernd Gollesch) Secondary sorting mode is implemented correctly now (Bernd Gollesch) Signed S/MIME messages are shown in the right manner (AmiSSL is needed) The import of the addressbook of newer YAM versions works now Some more bugfixes The new NListtree version is available at http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/ and solves the problems which were reported from the recent version. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 11:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Feb.2003` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Centsible buy up should be avoided Brad Webb asks within an extra edition of the Amiga Update Newsletter for support to avoid the buy up of the US Amiga dealer Centsible by a third party and following clearyfication. Bill Griffin, chief editor of the print magazine "the NEW AMIGANS", tries to save the business with his own funds and with the help of the Amiga community and so to avoid the sell out of the existing chip warehouse. Interested people who think of support this action with funds or loans are asked for help to get the required amount of 2000 US$. Further information is to obtain from the newsletter available by the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 05. Feb. 2003, 03:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2003` Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)	Tool: SRename Version 3.6.1 Beta Constantinos Nicolakakis has released beta version 3.6.1 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool (AmigaOS 3.0+) you can comfortably rename files. This version is a bugfix. Download: SRename361.lha (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 04. Feb. 2003, 21:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2003` DeliPlayer (ANF)	Music: Public-Beta of Deliplayer2 for Windows A few days ago from the well-known DeliTracker a new public beta version for Windows was published. This multiformat player for Windows is available as public beta for download under the name Deliplayer2. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 04. Feb. 2003, 20:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2003` Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)	e.p.i.c. and GTI team up for Pegasos distribution GTI and e.p.i.c. interactive sign an exclusive distribution agreement for the upcoming Real Time Strategy game Knights and Merchants for the Pegasos/MorphOS. Knights and Merchants will be the first commercial game release by e.p.i.c. interactive that is exclusively available for MorphOS and the Pegasos. Knights and Merchants is priced at Euro 49,95 and will be shipping from Februray 12th, 2003. More information on Knights and Merchants can be found at www.epic-interactive.com. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 04. Feb. 2003, 16:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2003`	Aminet uploads until 4th February 2003 Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet: SN-KontoArc.lha biz/dbase 93K+V1.10 Accout archives (Germany only) XBaze-7.2.lha biz/dbase 518K+Very easy2use flexible and fast database FServ.lha comm/irc 3K+Shell-type file server for AmIRC amiycoders.lha comm/mail 17K+V0.3beta yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the gelbesPanel.lha comm/tcp 35K+Another MiamiDx Control Panel ib2email.lha comm/www 2K+ARexx scripts to pass mailto: links from ibmht.lha comm/www 5K+Adds support for .mht files to IBrowse v SegTracker_pch.lha dev/debug 13K+Patches SegTracker V37.74 to V37.75 amigatalk.lha dev/lang 1.3M+V2.3 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI) ThePolice.1.45.lha docs/hyper 48K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.5M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 01/2003 (Itali nocover107.lha docs/mags 1.6M+Great german diskmagazine AxisAlliesGM.lha game/board 1.2M+World War II strategy wargame DC2Lvl-EMine3.lha game/data 508K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II Liga2002-03.lha game/data 25K+Up-date of Liga 2002-03 for SWOS game Montezuma.lha game/data 233K+Digital map for Montezuma's Revenge (C 6 Mattonite.lha game/demo 671K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress Skeleton.lha game/misc 174K+3D Maze game for AtariVCS, translated to AS-Freecell.lha game/think 156K+The well known game AS-Memory.lha game/think 209K+Finding Pairs in fewest moves possible MazezaM.lha game/think 55K+Puzzle game, Sokoban Alike. Aye_Q.lha game/wb 43K+My version of a peg game... Hexa_Q.lha game/wb 43K+Surprise!! A peg game... updated! robotfindskitt.lha game/wb 17K+Robotfindskitten clone for AmigaOS with JPEG2MOV.lha gfx/conv 30K+Creates a QuickTime-Movie Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 557K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 1/8 Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 155K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 2/8 Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 3a/8 Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 326K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 3b/8 Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 4/8 Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 143K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 5/8 Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 6/8 (opt Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 157K+SView5 V1.10 (31.1.2003) - Part 7/8 (opt imdbDiff030124.lha misc/imdb 1.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase AmiBiorythme.lha misc/misc 68K+MUI Biorythm tool. Now localised. v1.2 LiFun4speed.lha misc/sci 175K+Ant and flee like simulation. Optimized. TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 281K+GUI 4 Lame,OggEnc,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode, EP_MFP.lha mus/play 16K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext XenoMorph_pk01.lha pix/icon 272K+XenoMorph's Icons PACK I MMX anl-strip_8.lha pix/misc 51K+[ancor] a normal life nwo-strip_11.lha pix/misc 49K+[ancor] now way out sgf-strip_3.lha pix/misc 50K+[ancor] StarGround flashback sgf-strip_4.lha pix/misc 51K+[ancor] StarGround flashback HowDif.lha util/cli 9K+File comparison/examination utility TxtToHTML.lha util/conv 92K+Converts txt files to HTML Docs (+GUI v1 Alkotest.lha util/misc 68K+Calculate how much you`re drunk PL Frogger-GUI.lha util/misc 20K+Reaction GUI for FroggerNG ReportPlus.lha util/misc 307K+Report+ 5.64b: Multipurpose utility AmberRAM.lha util/sys 56K+Replacement RAM disk. AmiMemos.lha util/wb 28K+A memo utility for OS 3.x. C sources. V0 (ps) [News message: 04. Feb. 2003, 13:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2003` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.02.2003) With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added: 03.02.03 new: Battle Master (PSS) done by CFOU! 02.02.03 improved: Space Harrier (Elite) supports another version, new icons 02.02.03 improved: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) supports another version, new install script 02.02.03 improved: Iron Lord (UBI-Soft) supports another version 02.02.03 new: G.Nius (Lankhor) done by CFOU! 31.01.03 updated: Murder (U.S.Gold) supports another version, keyboard fixed 31.01.03 new: Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess (Interplay) done by Psygore 30.01.03 new: Virtual World (TomSoft) done by Psygore (Info,Image) 30.01.03 updated: Puffy's Saga (UBI-Soft) supports hit squad release 30.01.03 improved: Combat Air Patrol (Psygnosis) added support for intro 27.01.03 improved: Space Crusade (Gremlin) extra files, access fault fixed 27.01.03 fixed: Lunar-C (Mindscape) fixed install script, more icons 25.01.03 new: Combat Air Patrol (Psygnosis) done by JOTD (ps) [News message: 04. Feb. 2003, 11:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2003` Elbox (E-Mail)	Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.22 The Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.21 update for users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today. The update includes a new AHI driver: fm801.audio This driver handles Fortemedia FM801-based sound cards in all currently produced Mediator busboards. It allows using all analogue and digital (S/PDIF and TOS-Link) inputs and outputs provided in the user's FM801-based sound card model. The update includes the new versions of: sb128.audio mixer.library tv.library FastEthernet.device Changes were made as follows: sb128.audio driver ver. 4.8 - support for the Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital sound card added - supports for the digital S/PDIF output added mixer.library ver. 1.5 - support for new revisions (rev.3 and 4) of the CT5880 chipset added tv.library ver. 1.14 - I2C software support added FastEthernet.device ver. 1.8 - internal changes Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS \| Mediator section. (ps) [News message: 04. Feb. 2003, 10:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Feb.2003` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030131 Under the title link you will find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for January. His newsletter is a monthly summary of all news around the Amiga. (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 04. Feb. 2003, 04:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)	File manager: DiskMaster beta version 2.5RC9 Rudolph Riedel today published the beta version 2.5RC9 of his file manager. The download is available at the title link. The following details are changed: 2.5RC9 needs new locales as we needed to expand it by one string! a) Copy the new DM2.catalog for your language. b) Quit your older DM2 version. c) Run "avail flush" from a shell to remove DM2.catalog from memory. d) Start current DM2 version. The reason for not just making the new catalog a V2 is that all 2.5xxx versions are only steps to 2.5 final. And some translators haven't answered my request to confirm the changes Download: DM2beta.zip (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 21:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` T.o.T.	Game: Tales of Tamar - Amiga Public Update V0.48R1 Dear players, it is our pleasure to announce the third official update to the Amiga version. New features in V0.48 R1: rebellion of town added new town anims executables are now crunched (Bitmap-Brothers- or Team17-Style :-)) improved memory management in SetPeople, BlitFigur and Motion, flickering start anim fixed Residencedownload now goes offline immediately after downloading the turn and before decoding it ResidenceUpload shows more progress information Bugfixes in V0.48 R1: hardware check bug with MorphOS/Pegasos fixed memory for CloseAllPattern is properly freed now bugfix with loading/unloading units slider in report screen activated training of armies with more than one part didn't create a figure. fixed towns at the worlds turning point can have ports now if the capital was lost and thus the town with ID 0 disappeared, Bardstale and diplomacy created a new town with Id 0 SMTP Auth problem with some servers fixed If two or more towns were founded at the same time, names could be messed up A word about rebellions: Rebellions are a way of stopping players growing uncontrollably. From a certain size of a realm onwards you need to have town guards or risk that town rebelling against you. A rebelling town can no longer be controlled. You need to send a big enough army to restore order. Rebelling towns are also easier to take over for other players of course. Soon, there will be another update that will introduce the option of taking vassals. This makes it possible to extend your power even further and ascend through the ranks towards emperor. Unfortunately, the test phase of this feature is not completed yet. The current version should also please users of a Pegasos and MorphOS. There had been a problem with registration but this is now fixed. What else is going on around Tales of Tamar? Quite a lot, actually... First and foremost, we would like to thank AmigaFuture [a German Amiga print magazine] for the new "Messenger from Tamar" feature. It appears in every issue and reports the current events on Tamar. Georg Breitsprecher sums up updates, events, tips and tricks and rank lists. We are very pleased about this co-operation with this magazine. We were also reviewed in the current issue of AmigaPlus [another German magazine]. In the four page long report, we received 6 out of 6 points. A very gratifying result. Thanks to Nico Barbat and the team. We would also like to thank the Amiga community for the award as Game Of The Year 2002, which was also hosted by AmigaPlus. Even if the sales don't show it yet, the still active Amiga users show us that it is still worthwhile to support the market. We know that there are more active users out there and we hope to convince some of you to buy this game as well :-) Meanwhile the PC version is progressing equally well. We recently received an offer from Vivendi Universal, which is a real honor for us. Vivendi Universal is a publisher of high-quality games, the whole line of Blizzard games, for example. Last but not least, we would like to point to another event. On February 28th 2003, the third Tales of Tamar con will take place at castle Hessenstein. This time, we will take it slow and just celebrate in a dignified way. Unfortunately, the event is booked out completely already, but we will report from it. Until the next update, we remain, with best regards and saying "Amiga forever" Wolfen & the ToT-Team (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 21:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` Maxworld	Book of budget: HomeBank Version 2.1 (Beta 3) With the Shareware program called HomeBank you can manage your finances and e. g. calculate the costs of your car. There is the possibility of displaying the cost in graphical statistics. The new version 2.1 (beta3) fixes again some bugs from v2.1 beta 2 and the add of an import/export into csv format. Download: HomeBank21beta3.lha - 312 KB (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 21:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` Greg Donner	Greg Donner: AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ (Miscellaneous section) updated Greg Donner has added a couple of notes to the bottom of entry 14 in the Miscellaneous section of the OS3.9 FAQ. (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 20:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` GAUHPIL	GAUHPIL: Many sections updated (02.02.2003) GAUHPIL (Geographic Amiga User Home Page Internet List) is a list of websites of Amiga users which has been created by Dietmar Knoll which has been sorted considering continents and countries. The following sections have been updated: America Australia Europe New Links List History 2003 Furthermore Dietmar Knoll updated the following sections: Music Movie (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 20:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` AmithlonTV	TV card software: AmithlonTV Beta 247 Guido Mersmann has released beta-version 247 of the TV-Card driver software AmithlonTV. Neu in dieser Version: BUGFIX: Fixed the color setup of the video_bt8x8.lib. FEATURE: Added a volume slider to the former picture quality window, which is now an audio video setup. FEATURE: English online help added. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 20:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` TTEngine	Font: TTEngine Version 6.1 TTEngine is a text rendering environment basing on TrueType Font for AmigaOS. Yesterday the author Grzegorz Kraszewski has released TTEngine version 6.1. Following three bugs are fixed: Font requester gadgets now remember their state after window resizing. Removed requester layout bug preventing window from opening in some circumstances. Font handle returned by TT_OpenFont() can be now shared between different system processes. It allows for using TTEngine in multithreading applications or BOOPSI classes. Download: ttengine-6.1.lha (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` Stephan Rupprecht	Tool: SGrab Version 1.23 Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.23 of his screen grabber SGrab. With this program you can create screen grabs and save them in different formats. You can also grab single windows and parts of pictures. Download: sgrab.lha - 182 KB (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 14:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Demo scene: Scenery 1.41 released Version 1.41 of the English language scene book Scenery was published today. This book is an overview of all current and erstwhile groups, which are or has been active in the Amiga and C64 demo scene. This encyclopedia contains also various reviews and an overview, which good productions were published in which years. Scenery can be read on-line or downloaded as text files. Amiga fans with English knowledge will get a good first glance into the demo scene. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 14:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003`	Amiga-news.de and Amiga plus announce co-operation Cologne, Erkrath, Germany, 03 February 2003 -- Amiga news.de, the internationally visitor-strongest Amiga portal, and Amiga plus, the world-wide strongest independent Amiga print magazine, announced on 3 February 2003 their comprehensive co-operation. The partnership between Amiga news.de, Erkrath, and AMIGAPlus, Cologne, leads to a bundling of the know-how, to garanty and expand a daily competent reporting about the Amiga market and the adjacent surrounding field. In the context of the partner contract laid out on a long-term basis the team of amiga-news.de, wich is highly recognized in the industry, will be supported by the AMIGAPlus editorship in terms of creating content and write reports. Furthermore the four exisiting amiga-news.de pages will be incorporated into the AMIGAPlus. Current short messages are published on-line on Amiga news.de with the well known authority and regularity, while the AMIGAPLus homepage will concentrate on deep-going reports and service sides for the print version of the magazine.. "This could be the beginning of a developable partnership." Petra Struck says, editor-in-chief of amiga-news.de. "We understand this co-operation also as an encouraging call for a closer co-operation between the numerous enterprises in the Amiga market." explains Nico Barbat, editor-in-chief of the AMIGAPlus. About AMIGAplus The print magazine AMIGAPlus was published for the first time in November 1991 by the ICP publishing house. In January 2000 the Amiga pluses fused with "Amiga OS" and published by the Kieler publishing house Falkemedia from then on. Today the AMIGAPlus is the strongest independent Amiga specialized magazine world-wide. Parallel the editorship is active in the on-line range, with the meeting of fairs and at the organization of the Amiga Awards. About amiga-news.de The on-line EMS magazine Amiga news.de was created in August 1998 by Petra Struck and is today, with 100.000 hits daily, the prominent german-language web project for Amiga related reporting. The contentwise emphasis lies on News, which are supplied by different Backends. Apart from the Web version also by WAP, E-Mail, KDE and PDA. The subregions of the Website cared for by 17 active volunteers cover the Amiga link directory, the Free Amiga job, a well visited forum, meeting calendar, search archives and other interactive elements. Contact: AMIGAplus / falkemedia Dürener Str. 387, D-50935 Köln Tel: 02 21 - 430 82 933 E-Mail: info@amigaplus.de www.amigaplus.de amiga-news.de Petra Struck Trills 9, D-40699 Erkrath Tel: 0 21 04 - 17 16 97 e-Mail: team@amiga-news.de www.amiga-news.de (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 12:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` Alexander Greye (ANF)	C-One is not delivered yet Alexander Greye wrote: Against the statements of some persons the C-One is not delivered yet. According to Jens Schönefeld the board was not yet sufficiently and completely tested and therefore it will not be delivered before these tests will be finished. An exact date for the release date is not certain. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 12:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Feb.2003` Jim Steichen; Author of AmigaTalk (ANF)	AmigaTalk V2.3 uploaded to Aminet The latest and greatest version of AmigaTalk (V2.3) has been uploaded to Aminet. The most significant change is the addition of catalogued language support to the main program. Please send me any translations that you develop for inclusion into later versions of the program, thanx, Jim Steichen, author of AmigaTalk. For version 2.3 the following enhancements/bug fixes were made: Added catalog support for the program (now, send me your translation files!) Added Layers.st to the Intuition/ directory to support using layers.library (why anyone would want to put themselves through the torture of using layers is beyond me). Fixed some bugs in GadTools.st so that the test files now run correctly. Added ARexx.st to the System/ directory. Added MsgPort.st to the System/ directory. Download: amigatalk.lha (ps) [News message: 03. Feb. 2003, 12:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Feb.2003` Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)	Amiga Inc.: First issue of Amiga Club Magazine published Amiga Inc. have published their first Amiga Club Magazine. This issue is currently only accessible at Amiga Inc. by logging in with a password, i.e. only for club members and developers. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 02. Feb. 2003, 13:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2003` sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)	Soms3D voting results new shots and help wanted The online poll regarding the future of the Soms3D engine has been finished. The Silent Hill like engine was voted by 51 voters, role playing game got 41 votes and the GtA3 like engine got 31 votes. So a game like Silent Hill got the most interest through the online and the mail vote. Because of that we have already put two new screen shots online. Furtheron we are looking for capable raytracers respectively 3D object creators who are willing to work with us. Pixler are welcome, too. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 01. Feb. 2003, 23:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2003` Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)	Scene party Kindergarden will take place! The Norwegian scene party Kindergarden, originally planned for last year, is now scheduled for February, 28th to March, 2nd 2003 in Haga near Oslo. The organizers have recently released a very nice Flash animation, aiming at the classic "State of the Art" by the Norwegian group Spaceballs. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 01. Feb. 2003, 18:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem interview: why and when are computer games placed on the index? »Interview with lawyer Thorsten Feldmann Discussions about placing computer games on the index are quite often in the public but do often lack the legal base. To get knowledge when and by whom a computer or video game can be placed on the index and what this means to the distributors, buyers and to people publishing fan sites for such games we talked to the lawyer Thorsten Feldmann.« Full article can be found following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 01. Feb. 2003, 16:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2003` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	AmiChess: bugfixes There's an update for AmiChess on the home page (title link) that contains some bugfixes. Small fixes in the source code. The loading of PGN files (game files) and the creating of the openings book is now possible in the PPC mode, too! So there are now limitations of the WarpOS version compared to the 68k version anymore. The archive on the Lycos server was unfortunately defective. I have now corrected this and have uploaded an unpackable archive (has been successfully tested). Sorry to all who wanted to download the archive. My thanks go especially to Georg Steger of the AROS team who has helped me very much. By the way, he has already managed to do an AROS port of AmiChess! (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 01. Feb. 2003, 07:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2003` AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)	RPG: eVe status update In January 2003 announced Emerald Imaging, known through the adventure game 'Aqua', a new role playing game (RPG) called 'eVe'. The game will contain hand drawn scenarios and chosen music is said to improve the gaming fun. Here a current status update: Well, it's been a month since eVe was announced so it's time for a quick status update. The programming is coming along great and already the main play screen and character/collision detection etc. are working. The graphics work is moving a bit slow right now but Darko Ponos has recently signed on to help with some great graphics. Quite a bit has been done on the game design too. Hopefully within another month some screenshots of a nearly fully working version can be shown and maybe some concept artwork etc. before then. The game will be targeted at OS4/MorphOS/Amithlon users. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 01. Feb. 2003, 07:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Feb.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Linux on mobile cell phone Invair Technologies from Stuttgart releases a Smartphone with Linux (Kernel v2.4.18) as operating system. The mobile cell phone can be used in contrary to other PDAs without a pen and can be controlled completely with one hand. Full (German) article can be found following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 01. Feb. 2003, 07:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2003` David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)	Amiga Games Hitparade: Amiga Games Awards 2002 The most important vote for Amiga gamers has come. It's time for the Amiga Games Awards 2002. Vote for the best Amiga games of the year 2002. Please go to our website and send us your vote. Final results will be published the 10th of February 2003. (ps) [News message: 31. Jan. 2003, 16:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2003` heise Newstiscker (ANF)	heise: Suit against Gateway? Gateway which is our previous mother company went back to minus in the fourth quarter. Additionally a suit of the American stock supervision is imminent. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Jan. 2003, 13:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2003` Elbox Computer	Elbox: Mediator AHI drivers for FM801-based sound cards Elbox Computer is pleased to announce releasing Mediator AHI drivers for the ForteMedia FM801-based sound cards. The ForteMedia AHI drivers are prepared for all the currently produced MEDIATOR busboard models. The Mediator ForteMedia AHI drivers support many various PCI sound cards based on the ForteMedia FM801 chipset. As an excellent and cost-effective FM801-based card we recommend the Terratec 512i Digital sound card. This card has won many worldwide awards for its sound quality. The comprehensive list of various supported sound cards will be available in the Mediator Driver Guide. The Mediator ForteMedia AHI drivers will be available free of charge for all Mediator Multimedia CD registered users, who have any of the Mediator busboards listed above. Please find the complete press release under the title link. (ps) [News message: 31. Jan. 2003, 08:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Fans are to continue further space shooter According to the Heise report the game Parsec is supposed to continue further as open source at the beginning of May. Maybe there will be a possibility of making an Amiga version? (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Jan. 2003, 03:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`31.Jan.2003` Maja (ANF)	Network from the socket At this Cebit the company devolo from Aachen will introduce its new product "devolo MicroLink LAN" (title link) to the market. With this device it should be possible to realize a DSL network over the mains supply of the house - without boring holes or pulling cables. "Simply put it in the socket and connect it with an Ethernet card on the PC." According to the documentation a bit rate of up to 14Mbit in a circuit of 200 m is possible. The data transfer is described as safe. The electric meter is supposed to work as a firewall and a DES encoding with a 56 bit key will be used. The device has a driver. All operating systems like Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and all TCP/IP operating systems will work with it. Maybe the Amiga, too...? (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 31. Jan. 2003, 03:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	PowerConverter Update Carsten Siegner writes: Today I uploaded an update to PowerConverter. New: Production of stop-motion video Support of the variable bitrate (VBR) in ffmpeg Snipping (Crop) of videoframes with almost any amount of pixels There is also an expanded Readme.pdf on my homepage. All the fine points are there. Download: Powerkon-2.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 22:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` IOSPIRIT (ANF)	IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.0 demo version completed We are pleased to present you today a demo version of fxPAINT 2.0 - immediately available through our download section. Limitations/specialities of the demo version: saving is disabled DEMO-text on every image the demo version is noticably slower than the full version a small refresh bug due to the DEMO-text-effect when zooming is lower than 100 percent. This bug ONLY exists in the demo version some features of the full version are missing completly or are disabled The demo version comes with all native modules for 68K, PPC (WarpUP, PowerUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon) and gives you - except for the limitations of the demo - an impression and some insight of fxPAINT 2.0. (ps) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 17:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)	AMIGAplus 01/2003 - Comeback 2003 2003 could be the year of the Amiga-comeback. In the new German print magazine AMIGAplus 01/2003 you can read several reviews of upcoming and current software and a forecast for 2003, just as Audio Evolution (Preview), fxPAINT 2, Hollywood, Tales of Tamar, a.s.o. Read on. Content of AMIGAplus 01/2003 in Detail: Preview: Audio Evolution 4 Review: fxPAINT 2.0 Review: Hollywood Review: Tales of Tamar Workshop: Simple DirectMedia Library, part 1 Looking back on ARC 2002 Amiga Award 2002: The winners Deathbed Vigil DVD - Endzeit-atmosphere on DVD New column: Flying visit... at Computer City Review: Amiga Arena CD Games Edition Amiga Status Report January 2003 Demoscene anno 2003 Review: Cherry-Keyboard with Boing-Keys News from the world of emulation Workshop: Pro Station Audio, part 4 Workshop: Cooperative software-development, part 2 and much more AMIGAplus is available via subscription, single issue shipment and at your local Amiga dealer for 5 Euro. (ps) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 17:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Ponos Homepage	GlowIcons for Beat-Em-Up Games In the download area of the Ponos homepage you'll find an archive with GlowIcons for the following games: Samurai Shodown Shadow Fighter Real Bout Simultaneously, different pictograms for the different characters in the games may be found in the archives. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 15:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` gW3S	WWW-Server: gW3S Version 1.0 Final Carl Svensson, the author of mp3Play, has released a small WWW-server written in ARexx. The current version 1.0 Final offers the following functions: HTTP/1.0 200 OK HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found Rudimentary request logging Built-in directory listing (for dirs without an index document) Embedded ARexx command execution Embedded Execution of external ARexx scripts (with QueryString as argument) Query String/URL unescaper Complete parsing of external ARexx CGI scripts (.xgi files) Fancy Files (Support for unsafe characters in file names) External config file Command line admin tool Download: w3s_10sharp.lha (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 15:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Workshop Collection Expanded The workshop collection (title link) and the link list of the Amiga Future homepage have been updated. If anyone knows of some German-language workshop not already in the list, please write an email to the editor. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 14:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)	New Screenshots from Robin Hood : Defender of the Crown A few days ago, some new screenshots appeared of Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown. This game is a 3-D remake of Defender of the Crown, which will appear in PC and PS2 versions. In contrast to the recently released remake for PC, few aspects of gameplay have been altered here. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 14:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)	C-One Report in Computer Bild Spiele In the current issue of Computer Bild Spiele 2/2003, a two page article may be found about Jeri Elsworth and her C-One. This report goes a bit into Jeri's history and the development of the C-One. So there is some information about the C-One and the original C64. Two pictures of C-64 classics and two funny pictures of a Lara Croft-style Jeri complete the report. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 14:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Abyss: Extralife Demo from 1998 released as Mpeg! The classic demo Extralife, by the mostly German group Abyss, has now been released as an mpeg for all interested fans who don't have an Amiga. On the homepage of the group many other different demos can be accessed, as can a multitude of graphics such as Cyclone, Acryl, Jcs, etc. Abyss played a decisive role in the international demoscene a few years ago, with their fresh designs and good ideas. Nowadays a few of them are developing for Gameboy Advanced and Gameboy Color. Download: AYS-Extralife.mpg (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 14:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` VMC Harald Frank (ANF)	TV-Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 245 Guido Mersmann has released beta-version 245 of the TV-Card driver software AmithlonTV. New in this version: WARNING! Due the latest changes I cleared the libs/tvcard_carddata/ drawer. If you perform a fresh installation just drag and drop the required tv card file(s) from the storage_carddata into the tvcard_carddata drawer. This change was required, because several cards are using the same hardware ids, but they also need a different setup. FEATURE: Added the missing global setup which is required for non card specific drivers like audio mixers. FEATURE: Optional Volume_AmiMixer.lib allows to modify the volume within applications (requires amimixer.library). BUGFIX: TVFakeInterrupt() wasn't working correct in special cases. FEATURE: The missing "Notify" interrupt feature implemented. "Volume_AmiMixer.lib" enhanced to support this feature. BUGFIX: Removed the ghost card which appeared with the bt8x8 audio section and the Philips enhancement. Currently the section will be suppressed by the library. Later this will be handled by the configuration, but currently this is the best solution. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 14:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Cerpheus (ANF)	Elite - Darkness Falls - Open Source The Elite Fan Project "Elite - Darkness Falls" is open source. It looks very interesting, perhaps there is an Amiga programmer who would like to port it. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 13:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Jan.2003` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	AmiChess: Information Pages Established A promise is a promise. On the Digital Almanac Homepage (see title link) may be found an information page for AmiChess. All chess fans will find a link there, for a download. On the information page you'll see offerings about system requirements, features, and a few screenshots that show the new layout of AmiChess. Have fun playing chess! (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 30. Jan. 2003, 13:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2003` WinUAE	Emulator: WinUAE V0.8.22 release 5 (update) On January the 26th 2003 the feature list for version 0.8.22 release 5 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows has been released. The emulator itself will be published in February 2003. Compared to the last version the following has been changed: Bugs fixed: CD32-mode media change detection SlowRAM detection fixes (commando and more) more compatible CIA keyboard emulation (Back to the Future 2 and more) another bsdsocket.library emulation update another state restore fix fixed mouse problems in Space Crusade, Billy the Kid etc. writing to custom floppy images was unstable primary sound buffer-checkbox removed and disabled. It is useless and usually only caused huge slowdown problems. NOTE: Users of R3 or R4: Make sure primary sound buffer-checkbox is disabled. New features: configurable boot priority and device name for regular (non-RDB) hardfiles and virtual directory filesystems FPU state file support more compatible Action Replay 1 support "Middle-Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" works now in fullscreen mode configurable keyboard LEDs (DF0, DF1, DF2, DF3, POWER, HD, CD) Supplement: We were told within the comments that "WIP" doesn't mean it would be published already but still a work in progress. Because of that the news item has been modified accordingliy. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 29. Jan. 2003, 19:20] [Comments: 1 - 30. Jan. 2003, 12:24] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2003` Constantinos Nicolakakis	Tool: SRename version 3.6.0 beta Constantinos Nicolakakis has released the beta version 3.6.0 of the tool 'SRename'. With this tool, working with AmigaOS 3.0+, it is possible to rename files comfortably. Download: SRename360beta.lha (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 29. Jan. 2003, 19:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2003` 21 ST CAP	Information about 21 ST CAP "The new site for AMIGA" The new site for AMIGA is come back, 21 ST Century amiga production opening your site for the Amiga's user, your site is French and your site propose the information about AMIGA, there are lot of images of 3D realised on AMIGA and lot of information about the utilisation of 3D in general in the first party and the two party is for the new encyclopedie for AMIGA, "les chateaux de la loire en sologne" (CASTLES OF THE LOIRE IN SOLOGNE), 100mo of complete history of the monuments French, lot of musics and prochainement the encyclopedie in the WEB the encyclopedy is on the CDROM for the moment, in the future, lot of projects of new encyclopedy (THE VAR/cote d'azur in FRANCE and the PYRENNES). (ps) [News message: 29. Jan. 2003, 18:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2003` XBaze	Data base: XBaze version 7.2 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has released version 7.2 of his data base 'XBaze'. This program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data sets and for the layout (drag&drop). It works with AmigaOS V3.0. Further information is to get from the XBaze-7.2.readme. Bugreports and suggestions might be send to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl. Download: XBaze-7.2.lha (518 KB) (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 29. Jan. 2003, 14:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 29th January 2003 Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet: AYS-Extralife.mpg demo/file 53M+ "Extralife" by Abyss RBGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 54K+ Real Bout glow icons (ps) [News message: 29. Jan. 2003, 14:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Jan.2003` IOSPIRIT (ANF)	IOSPIRIT: IBrowse 2.3 released We are pleased to unveil that a distribution agreement with Stefan Burström and the IBrowse Team has been signed and we are now the worldwide distributor for IBrowse (support for IBrowse is still done by the IBrowse development team, though). Furthermore, we are pleased to announce the immediate release of the eagerly awaited update to IBrowse 2.2. IBrowse 2.3 brings web browsing on AmigaOS to a new level - below is a brief summary of the changes since version 2.2: Heavily enhanced JavaScript support, based on JavaScript 1.5 and revision 3 of the ECMAScript specification, allowing access to sites which was not possible before Secure connection support is now available via AmiSSL v2, which can be configured extensively in the IBrowse preferences. Importing and exporting of certificates is now also supported. Greatly improved general stability and memory leaks plugged Improved GUI, including enhanced browser tab functionality (such as drag'n'drop, keyboard support) Issues with the ARexx interface have been fixed and new commands added Hundreds of other minor and major bug fixes + improvements, and more workarounds added to improve compatibility with broken sites All these improvements greatly improve the browsing experience, and allow IBrowse to offer compatibility with many more websites than before. For further information, news and product support, please visit http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/ and our IBrowse-subpages. (ps) [News message: 29. Jan. 2003, 13:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2003` Maja (ANF)	Linux: KDE 3.1 released The GUI for Linux, KDE, is now available in version 3.1. In the long list of new features are mentioned e. g. 'Tabbed Browsing', a new download manager, new themes and a theme manager, and enhancements of the system management. Its look is orientated on Windows XP and MacOS X as the screenshots show. Binaries are available for ASP Linux (7.3 Intel i386), Conectiva Linux (8.0 Intel i386), Debian (Intel i386, IBM PowerPC), Slackware (8.1 Intel i386), Suse Linux (8.1 Intel i386, 8.0 Intel i386, 7.3 Intel i386 und IBM PowerPC, 7.1 Intel i386), Turbolinux (8.0 Intel i586, 7.0 Intel i586, Yoper (1.0 Intel i686 tgz), and VECTORLINUX (3.0 Intel i386). Download: http://www.kde.org/download.html (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Jan. 2003, 22:46] [Comments: 2 - 23. Feb. 2003, 01:47] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2003` Markus Nerding (ANF)	H&P: StormC 4 Special Offer Glashuetten, 28. January 2003: H&P has a special offer for all Amiga developers - for just 49,95 EUR you can get the complete version of our C/C++ development system StormC 4. As there has not been much movement in the Amiga software field during the past two years we want to get find out if there is still interest in such a development system. Besides many other features the highlights of StormC 4 are: network capabilities, distributed Make, CVS, modified GCC compiler with Amiga hunk format, global full text search, extended editor, debugging of tasks and shared libraries, and the new StormDOC. Here you will find more informatin on StormC. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 28. Jan. 2003, 20:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Jan.2003` Ralf Steines (E-Mail)	Back to the Roots: Statistics Each year, when we look at our server statistics we ask ourself where all these Amiga friends are hidden. The traffic increases and increases. How comes people still say that the Amiga is dead? ;-) To see a few facts from our server stats, use the link. (ps) [News message: 28. Jan. 2003, 12:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003` Dirk Baeyens	Einde van de Nederlandse / Vlaamse vertaling van amiga-news.de Our Flemish speaking readers will be surely sad to read the following message from Dirk Bayens in which he announces that he stops the translation of amiga-news.de. Hallo de Amigafans in Nederland en België, ik ben tot mijn besluit gekomen om te stoppen met de vertalingen van het Amiga Nieuws. Ik had er de laatste tijd niet veel zin meer in om de vertalingen te doen en daarom heb ik besloten om er mee te stoppen. Ik heb nu ongeveer 3 ½ jaar het nieuws vertaald en ik ben zeer tevreden met dit resultaat. Als je maar bedenkt dat ik eigenlijk bijna geen noot Duits kon en dat ik zeker geen vertalingslessen gevolgd had. ;) Mijn eerste en belangrijkste gedachte (nog steeds) was om de nog resterende Amiga Gemeenschap wat bijeen te houden en te informeren over het Amiga Gebeuren. In het begin was het wat stilletjes maar nadien waren er vooral uit Nederland veel Hits te noteren maar laten we zeker die enkelingen uit Vlaanderen in België niet vergeten! Ook kreeg ik af en toe eens een leuk emailtje of had ik ergens een leuk gesprekje met iemand wat mij dan terug oppepte voor enkele maanden. :) En nu na meer dan 3 jaar zijn we hier nog altijd bezig met onze Classic Amiga, er zijn er wel al een paar afgevallen maar langs de andere kant zijn er enkele ex-Amiga Fans teruggekomen of hebben in ieder geval hun 'ouwe doos' terug bovengehaald. :)) Ik denk dat zolang onze oude Machienes het fisiek uithouden dat er nog wel altijd ergens een Amiga Fan zal opduiken die het wel nog eens wil proberen. En het doet toch nog altijd goed als we zo iemand kunnen helpen, wat ik vooral op de AmigaScene en de amig@club mailinglijsten heb meegemaakt, bedankt jongens en doe zo voort! Op deze moment werk ik nog altijd op mijn Amiga 1260/603 maar stilletjes aan ga ik deze vervangen door mijn nieuwe AmigaOne, vanzodra deze volledig in orde staat natuurlijk, zodat ik dan al mijn huidige Amigasoftware er op kan draaien. Het is op dit moment een traag maar amusant gebeuren, vooral met dat linux gedoe enzo, maar geen nood mijn beste vriend Stany zal mij hier wel bij helpen. :)) Ik heb nog nooit een andere Computer gehad dan een Amiga (en ik heb hier zo wat vanalles staan) maar deze AmigaOne (of Pegasos, voor wie dat systeem verkiest) is toch wel een heuse stap in de nieuwe wereld van vandaag. Ik ben nu bezig met Suse er op te zetten met nadien UAE voor PPC, maar ik zal toch wel echt blij zijn als ik er terug een snel werkende Workbench op te zien zal krijgen met AmigaOS 4.0. Zo, ..., ik heb in ieder geval veel bijgeleerd over de Amiga (en andere systemen) in de laatste jaren alsook over de Amiga Gemeenschap op zichzelf, en ik ben blij dat ik er een deel van mag uitmaken. Voor mij gaat in ieder geval alles gewoon verder op zijn Amiga's en zal de Toekomst moeten uitwijzen waar we naar toe moeten gaan. Ik denk wel dat we op het goede spoor zitten, maar we moeten wel zoveel mogelijk elkaar helpen en verdragen (andere systemen). Ik denk zo dat je het mag vergelijken met dat van de evolutie van de auto's. Ikzelf heb hier een 17 jaar oude opel staan en hij werkt nog altijd prima, maar als ik naar het nieuwste model kijk van exact hetzelfde merk en model, dan is het toch wel heel verleidelijk om niet toe te grijpen. Een nieuwe auto zit er voor mij helaas niet in, maar een nieuwe Amiga dat kon ik me juist wel nog permiteren. ;) Ik denk ook dat het in de Toekomst met de computers een beetje zal worden zoals bij de auto's, namelijk alle merken die sterk op elkaar lijken, bepaalde stukken die door gespecialiseerde firma's worden gemaakt, het samenvloeien van bedrijven, enz.. . Ik denk dat we stilletjes aan de strijdbijl mogen begraven en onze vredespijp eens mogen opblinken. :) Maar een Amiga Fan blijf ik voor altijd in Hart en Nieren! Zo, hier ga ik afsluiten met mijn voorlopig laatste vertaling. Mijn Site blijft natuurlijk verder online zodat jullie het nog altijd eens kunnen nalezen. Als er iets verandert ofzo zal ik het hier laten weten. Bedankt iedereen voor de belangstelling en zeker ook nog een grote bedankt aan het amiga-news.de team welk op vrijwillige basis nog altijd verder gaat met het brengen van het nieuws en een heel grote bedankt aan Petra Struck de oprichtster en leidtser van amiga-news.de. Als er onder jullie zich moesten geroepen voelen om deze vertalingen van amiga-news.de verder te zetten mogen jullie me altijd wel een emailtje sturen. Ik weet dat velen onder jullie het gaan missen maar op de amig@club site vindt je ook wel 'up to date' Amiga Nieuws in het Nederlands en vergeet vooral het AmigaScene magazine niet wat toch nog het belangrijkste is wat we hier hebben in de Benelux. Bedankt allemaal. De groetjes, Dirk. Links: AmigaScene: http://www.amigascene.nl/ AmigaScene magazine: http://www.amigascene.nl/actueel/actueel.htm amig@club : http://www.amigaclub.nl/ Mailing lists: amig@club (Dutch) AmigaScene (Dutch) BBCC Amiga (Flemish) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 19:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003` heise Newsticker (ANF)	heise: Yamaha closes CD burner production Yamaha will manufacture no more burners. In the Amiga range Yamaha burners are far common, since they are well supported in terms of software. The complete (German) article can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 19:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003` Tim S. Müller / Binary Distillery	Library: render.library Version 40.6 API-conformant re-implementation of render.library in ANSI C. This version is a drop-in replacement for render.library, which was written in 68k assembler (versions prior to v40). If your software doesn't work with this release, submit problem reports to tmueller@neoscientists.org. Download: renderlib.lha - 137 KB (ps) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 15:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003` z5 (ANF)	A.D.A.: CLASSIC time Amiga Demoscene Archive was updated with two classics in Amiga demoscene history and one very promising newcomer! Productions added are: Tint/The Black Lotus: no need to introduce this one, is there? Offa and Equalizer, backed up by a whole bunch of talented graphicians (Rodney, Louie, Danny and Facet) and Azazel responsible for the music. Tons of effects, cool graphics and real party atmosphere. Do you smell the flowers? Gift/Potion: From the duo who are probably from another planet, Mavey and Skip, comes this 64Kb intro. Lasting for more than 10 minutes, with very cool music, effects and design, this is one mindblasting intro! Trauma/Unique: A very promising newcomer to the Amiga demoscene, pc demogroup Unique released their first Amiga intro a couple of weeks ago. Well worth checking out! (ps) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 14:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003` Faces of Mars (ANF)	New freeCD: World Factbook 2002 The CDROM version of the World Factbook 2002 (publisher: CIA) contains English language information to all countries in the world, like short history, geography, inhabitants, system of government, economy, communication, infrastructure, military and more. Furthermore a map and the flag are included, the latter to each country also with description. All information is also available in a special formatting for printing purposes. The whole World Factbook is written in HTML, thus it can be run problem-free on all computer platforms, including Amiga, Linux, Mac, MorphOS and Windows and costs 3,- euro. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 12:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003`	Aminet uploads until 27th January 2003 Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet: gelbesPanel.lha comm/tcp 35K+Another MiamiDx Control Panel DAmikiss.lha game/misc 337K+Deluxe AmiKiss AmiBlocks.lha game/wb 146K+A puzzle game for OS 3.x. C sources. V0. WBTriz_v07c.lha game/wb 538K+The best Tetris for WB! PfPaint_V291b.lha gfx/edit 2.1M+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits Sv5-IFX.lha gfx/misc 14K+SView5 - ImageFX loader/saver V1.1 (15.1 Sv5-UX.lha gfx/misc 24K+UXFormats 1.0 for SView5 (15.1.2003) Sv5Add100.lha gfx/misc 90K+Add-On for SView5 V1.00 (15.1.2003) imdbDiff030117.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase amoon.lha misc/sci 100K+Map of the Moon WeatherStation.lha misc/sci 209K+Interface to Heath ID-5001 Weather Compu EP_TomyTracker.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "Tomy Tracker" external repl PlaySID.lha mus/play 20K+Playsid.library for Catweasel H/W SID QuickSketch.lha text/edit 19K+A simple WB-prg to sketch and write in. Textloader.lha text/edit 632K+TextEd (V 8.2c) german/english SuperED!! PLConverter.lha text/misc 46K+Text Converter for Polish users only (I BibVision.lha text/show 99K+Bible text viewer for 68k/WarpOS. V1.5 LzxRepacker.lha util/arc 17K+Repack LHA/ARJ/ZIP/RAR/... to LZX. UnRAR3-10B1.lha util/arc 270K+UnRAR 3.10 Beta1 LockEye.lha util/boot 425K+Lock Eye MemTrailer.lha util/boot 4K+Allocates 16 bytes for memory-protection TxtToHTML.lha util/conv 91K+Converts txt files to HTML Docs (+GUI v1 PPDecrypt.lha util/crypt 16K+Decrypts PowerPacker executables ChkIndex.lha util/misc 10K+Check aminet indexfile for equal entries DagensTV.lha util/misc 23K+Viewer for the TV-guide e-mail from Dage Frogger-GUI.lha util/misc 19K+Reaction GUI for FroggerNG MultiRen.lha util/misc 194K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (MUI) ReportPlus.lha util/misc 305K+Report+ 5.64a: Multipurpose utility AmiStart_PL.lha util/wb 12K+Polish Locale for AmiStart 0.63. (ps) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 02:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Music: New modules by Moods The Amiga based music group 'Moods' published some new songs. They are available as OctaMED as well as MP3 files. Furthermore the homepage has been rewritten. Now should be displayable with every common browser currently available for the Amiga. Like before, everyone is invited to comment the songs and by doing this help others to find the music he is looking for. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 01:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Jan.2003` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Music: New module by Liquid Skies Record Also the music group 'Liquid Skies' was not inactive in the meantime. Lcr published with 'Another drink' psychedelic hip hop song. A new expenditure of the chippack liquidation is likewise in the preparatory phase. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 27. Jan. 2003, 01:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2003` Dirk Ohms (E-Mail)	AmigaFun Homepage News The AmigaFun homepage is accessible again under the following address: http://amigafun.amigaworld.de/ The page has been revised in best time by DJBase (Matthias Münch) and has a new Web space. A new Web chat is in the works and we will keep you informed about that. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 26. Jan. 2003, 22:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2003` Mirjam Streit (ANF)	Survey - Which surfing type are you? If you want to find out which surfing type you are you should take part in this (German only!) survey. It also serves a study in the area Paid Content and Web Services for a degree dissertation at the UAS Würzburg-Schweinfurt. We are happy about every filled-out questionnaire. For the protection of your personal data, the survey is carried out anonymously. The data are deleted immediately after evaluation. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 26. Jan. 2003, 22:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Powerkonverter finished (incl. VideoCD authoring), picture lists, etc. Carsten Siegner writes: The full version of Powerkonverter is herewith finished. I have split the installation archive into three separate archives: Powerkon.lzx - The main program Powerlibs.lzx - The program libraries vcd-ffmpeg.lzx - The newest versions of vcdimager and ffmpeg (Powerkonverter only works with these). I will do the documentation subsequently. I will start writing soon :) Please note for picture lists that these are treated automatically, so please do not enter %04d or similar. Powerkonverter now allows to write data strictly in accordance with the Codec directives, so that they are also compatible with Windows computers. I have tested this initially with ASF and Mpeg on a Windows 2000 system. ffmpeg, however, is not able to write WMA audio data into the ASF file (only AC3, mp2 and mp3), so one can only create videos without sound. Then again, the Mpeg playback doesn't get stuck anymore. Please note: Of late, Powerkonverter creates a copyright string in the video file. Thus no Internet videos may be converted which are to be put on one's home page. Btw, the string can be displayed with the Windows Mediaplayer. VideoCD authoring New: Now 7 instead of the former 5 video tracks are supported. Ceased: All ISO strings which used to be important for the old Philips players (DVD players don't need them). Ceased: Only VCD2 mode is supported anymore as the other two are unimportant (they can't be played back by DVD players). (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 26. Jan. 2003, 20:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2003` Amiga Lan Party Team (ANF)	Amiga Lan party in Braunschweig cancelled The Amiga Lan party in Braunschweig, which had been planned for 8th and 9th February 2003, has been cancelled due to lack of participation. At the current number of registrations the operating expenses for a LAN party don't make sense. We, the organisators, regret having to realise that there is hardly any interest within the region, and thus cancel the party. Sorry to all of those who had registered. If the assessment should change some time during the year, we would be glad to start a new try. Cyborg & Maniac (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 26. Jan. 2003, 20:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2003` Andreas Bähren (E-Mail)	Greenpeace energy: Internet to become nuclear energy free Press release - Greenpeace energy: Internet to become nuclear energy free Nationwide provider with clean energy opens portal "atomstromfreies-internet.de" - Operation of Web sites now possible without nuclear and coal power. Please read the English fact sheet (PDF, 108k) for more information. Hamburg, 26. Januar 2003 - Ohne Atom- und Kohlestrom startet Greenpeace energy eG in Kooperation mit dem Hamburger Provider NMMN Internet Services GmbH ab morgen sein Internetportal "Atomstromfreies Internet". NMMN versorgt alle seine Server mit Strom von Greenpeace energy und bietet sowohl für Privat- als auch Geschäftskunden Leistungspakete für alle Bedürfnisse an. Damit setzt die Genossenschaft den dramatisch wachsenden Stromverbrauch durch die Internetnutzung auf die energiepolitische Tagesordnung. Mehr als die Hälfte aller Menschen in Deutschland nutzt bereits das Internet. Die rasant wachsende Infrastruktur des Netzes (PC, Leitungen, Anschlüsse, Server, etc.) frisst immer mehr Strom - trotz zunehmendem Einsatz energiesparender Geräte. Wie das Wuppertal-Institut Klima, Umwelt, Energie errechnet hat, wuchs der Stromverbrauch für das Internet in Deutschland in den Jahren 2000 auf 2001 bereits um rund 35% auf 6,8 Milliarden Kilowattstunden. Das entspricht in etwa dem Jahresstromverbrauch von rund 220.000 Haushalten. Für 2010 erwarten die Klimaexperten einen Zuwachs um bis zu 460% auf rund 30 Milliarden Kilowattstunden. Entgegen dem relativ stagnierenden Gesamtstromverbrauch entwickelt sich der Stromverbrauch durch den Internetbetrieb zu einem erheblichen Umweltproblem. Zur Zeit kommen in Deutschland über 80% des Stroms aus Atom- und Kohlekraftwerken. Ausgehend von dem derzeitigen Strom-Mix trägt das Internet zu erheblichem Umweltschaden bei. So gehen auf das Konto des Web in Deutschland fast 5,8 Tonnen hochradioaktiver Atommüll sowie 4 Mio. Tonnen des klimaschädlichen CO2. "Sollten die Prognosen zum Stromverbrauch eintreten, so würde das Web allein in Deutschland in 2010 eine Strommenge fressen, die der Jahresproduktion von drei großen Atomkraftwerken entspräche", fasst Robert Werner, Vorstand des Hamburger Stromversorgers, zusammen. "Dagegen möchten wir mit unserem Portal aktiv werden". Mit dem Portal "atomstromfreies-internet.de" wollen Greenpeace energy und der Provider NMMN - New Media Markets & Networks, beide mit Sitz in Hamburg, dazu beitragen, das Internet auf eine saubere Stromversorgung umzustellen. Die Strom-Zusammensetzung für die Server kommt zu ca. 70% aus regenerativen Energiequellen und zu rund 30% aus gasbetriebenen Kraftwärme-Kopplungsanlagen. Ab Anfang Februar wird das Angebot um ein kostenloses E-Mail-Postfach für jedermann erweitert. Kunden von Providern, die mit Greenpeace energy-Strom hosten, können sich das Label "Atomstromfreie Website" auf die Homepage setzen und damit ihre umweltfreundlich gehostete Internetseite dokumentieren. Die unabhängige Genossenschaft Greenpeace energy eG ist einer der führenden Anbieter von sauberem Strom auf dem liberalisierten Energiemarkt und versorgt zur Zeit bundesweit über 17.000 Privatkunden sowie rund 400 Geschäftskunden. Mit über 10.200 Mitgliedern ist sie binnen drei Jahren zu einer der mitgliederstärksten Verbrauchergenossenschaften in Deutschland gewachsen. Die NMMN Internet Service GmbH ist Internetdienstleister und Spezialist für Security-Lösungen. Sie hat sich vor allem im sog. "Open-Source"-Bereich und der Linux-Szene einen Namen erworben und gehört zu den wenigen in der IT-Branche, die entgegen dem Branchentrend wachsen. Please address any queries to: Andreas Bähren, GREENPEACE energy eG, Norderstraße 99, 20097 Hamburg andreas.baehren@greenpeace-energy.de; greenpeace-energy.de (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 26. Jan. 2003, 17:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jan.2003` Christopher (ANF)	Instant messenger: mICQ Version 0.4.10.1 for Amiga and other systems Version 0.4.10.1 of mICQ has been released for Amiga and other systems. mICQ is a very portable ICQ program which runs in text mode - it runs on Linux, BSD, AIX, HPUX, Windows, AmigaOS and, with restrictions, BeOS. Originally it had been written by Matthew D. Smith, yet largely rewritten since by Rüdiger Kuhlmann, in particular the necessary support of version 8 of the ICQ protocol, internationalisation, file transfer as well as some code restructuring. Download: micq-0.4.10.1-AmigaOS.tgz (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 26. Jan. 2003, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2003` sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)	Soms3D: Online poll and new screenshots On the 'Anime Development for Amiga Page' is now the poll regarding the question what to do with the Soms3D-Engine online. The poll can be accessed via a link on the main page (title link). Furthermore had some screenshots been put online. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 25. Jan. 2003, 20:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2003` derStandard	derStandard: Worm makes the Internet swaying »"Slammer" starts DoS attack and uses security leak in Microsoft's SQL server 2000 A worm brings big parts of the Internet to a standstill. It seems to use a security leak in Microsoft's SQL server 2000. The pest starts a kind of DoS attack over the UDP port 1434 reported the security mailing list BuqTraq. The Internet traffic is said to show already massive disturbances. Further Internet sites measuring the Internet traffic can be found here.« For the full article follow the title link. Another article regarding this subject: heise online: Worm brings parts of the Internet to a standstill (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 25. Jan. 2003, 17:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2003` Jabberwocky	Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.3 - 7. preview Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released preview 7 of the Instant Messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.3 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages. Connections to other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways. Download: Jabberwocky030125.lha (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 25. Jan. 2003, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2003` Linux Games (ANF)	WaterRace Source Released Jonathan Gray wrote in to announce that the source code to WaterRace (screenshots) has been released under the terms of the GPL. WaterRace is an OpenGL offshore racing game originally written for the classic Mac OS. The source is available only as a Stuff-it Expander file. (ps) [News message: 25. Jan. 2003, 13:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2003` Kultpower.de (ANF)	Kultpower: New cover scans and Powerplay reviews On Kultpower.de are some new cover scans as well as six new PowerPlay reviews taken from the Powerplay 1/1999 online: Baldur's Gate (PC CD-ROM) Die Siedler 3 (PC CD-ROM) Fifa 99 (PC CD-ROM) Grim Fandango (PC CD-ROM) Kings Quest 8 (PC CD-ROM) Tomb Raider 3 (PC CD-ROM) Because of the smaller print of the later Powerplay issues are these reviews quite big (200 - 500 KBytes), so I wish you a "Happy Download" :) New magazines under "Mehr Mags": Next Level with seven cover scans Sega Magazin with 25 cover scans PC Joker with ten new cover scans (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 25. Jan. 2003, 13:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2003` Elbox Computer (E-Mail)	Elbox MIRAGE for A1200 Elbox announces availability of a new tower system for Amiga 1200 computers. Mirage 1200 is a modern functional and spacious tower case. It is designed targeted for these Amiga 1200 users who have upgraded or want to upgrade their computers with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX busboards. Mirage 1200 allows also using other busboards like Mediator PCI 1200, Zorro IV, Zorrro IV with Mediator PCI ZIV and Zorro II. Mirage 1200 tower system with 5 bays for 5.25" drives, 6 bays for 3.5" drives and a powerful 300W ATX PSU is ready for massive expandability of your A1200 hardware. Mirage 1200 replaces the discontinued E/BOX 1200 (also known as A1200 Power Tower and A1200 Winner Tower), the award-winning Amiga tower system. With the new design, we are offering you even more Amiga expandability, right at your fingertips. For more information see the complete press release under the title link and the Mirage 1200 website. (ps) [News message: 25. Jan. 2003, 01:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jan.2003` Christian Krenner (ANF)	'Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading' website updated The, for now only in English available, website Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading has been updated in the area "Modifying the Apollo". The website documents an upgrading project for the Amiga 600 and delivers comprehensive information around the small Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 25. Jan. 2003, 01:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2003` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Amiga.org: First AmigaOne review On Amiga.org there is a first review of the AmigaOne. An "Earlybird" customer describes his experiences made of the system and of the installation of Linux. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2003, 18:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2003` Norman Thiel von Heise News (ANF)	PCI Vendors list available again... The PCI Vendors list is available again after a threat of a lawyer because of an inadmissable use of protected trademarks. Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2003, 17:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Statement of Genesi concerning trouble of delivery On MorphOS-News.de Genesi has given its opinion on the current trouble of delivery of the Pegasos. It is said that Genesi is waiting for more Articia-chips of Mai. Until Genesi will get and afterwards test it a delivery of the present chip version is expected which works without any errors thanks to the April chips in the Pegasos. Besides this Genesi tests an alternative but something more expensive chip so in future it may be possible to work together with a different seller. At the end of 2003 MorphOS may also be published for Macintosh computers but probably only as an executing second unit for applications which should be also offered for the Mac. In this connection it is asked if there is anybody who is interested in porting "wxwindows" on MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2003, 16:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2003` M. Lück (ANF)	End of GRex petition M. Lück wrote: Today is the end of the GRex-petition. Until today 296 users have subscribed. TriMa and me want to thank you for your support. Unfortunately this petition has failed. I want to explain in the following lines why it is so. Two weeks after the start of the petition I have sent the first list with all signatures (without email addresses) to DCE per email. I got an answer of DCE at once. DCE wrote that they would be glad about a support of OS4 and that they are interested in the current discussion. We got the information of Steffen Häuser that the cybpci.library written by Ralph 'Laire' Schmidt will not work in the 68k emulation because of the 68k MMU setup. So the petition still became more important because presently GRex users have no chance of getting AmigaOS 4.0 started. We got all information per email which Hyperion needs to support the GRex. Four addresses are needed: The base of GRex I/O address The interrupt acknowledge address The base address of config space mappings or the PCI-config and PCI-data address No circuit diagramm, hardware or software documents are needed. These information I sent DCE per email. I have not got any response until today. Then we got the information that bplan has the hardware rights. This means DCE has only a licence for the GRex. If this is true or not we do not know. One week ago I contacted Mr. Carda per email for getting clearness. But I also have not got any response until now. That is a pity. Now we hope that we can attract attention by posting this article. Thank you very much again to all participants... The attempt of moving something forward means so much to us - also if it may fail. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2003, 16:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2003`	Aminet Uploads until 24.01.2003 Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet: TinyGL.lha dev/c 188K+Subset of the OpenGL API for AGA/CGFX/P9 AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2 ShFGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos littlejedi.mpg pix/mpg 13M+Science fiction made on Amiga/Draco Milk.lha pix/wb 139K+Creamy white 1024x768 desktop snapshot b XenoMorph_Icon.jpg pix/wb 228K+XenoMorph's MMX Icons conversion PREVIEW IBGold.lha util/wb 17K+Gold appearance for IBrowse 1+ IBSilver.lha util/wb 28K+Silver appearance for IBrowse 1+ (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2003, 11:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jan.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	First working beta of Powerkonverter Today I have published a working version of my program called "Powerkonverter". Currently it supports all important basic functions of ffmpeg and additionally the "Motion Estimation" preference. Videos can be splitted or changed. Besides this all formats are supported which has been newly added. But in this version pictures series will not be recognized. This will be the next step. Installation: Unpack the archive, copy the corresponding libs to your Workbench/libs directory. For starting the program you need to be installed the PNG datatype. ffmpeg must be in the system path (c:, s: or something like that). I have copied ffmpeg to c:. I have programmed a PNG-GUI because then the program itself has only the half size compared with an IFF version. Additionally PNG datatypes are also available in PPC versions which accelerates the program. Shortcuts: ESC: Quitting the program Return: Starting ffmpeg Control + C: Aborting ffmpeg Space: Stopping the console output of ffmpeg Backspace: Continuing console output of ffmpeg I have not implemented a seperate button for starting ffmpeg because it is simply unpractical. You can confirm the shortcuts on each place in the GUI like e.g. the Return key. If you want to test a newly preferenced figure only push the Return key for starting ffmpeg with the new figure. If you want to program yourself new figures in the cycle buttons it is quite simple. The program directory contains several text files ".txt". These ones you can rewrite up to a certain level. The only thing which can be not changed is the amount of the entries. In the same way it works with the format lister. You can write your own formats if they are not there yet. Later I will also add the automatic picture identification and the VideoCD option. Download: Powerkon_beta.lzx (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 24. Jan. 2003, 09:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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