15.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence News
News about DeepSilence - SOMS
On the homepage you can now subscribe to a
newsletter that sends the latest news regarding the game project.
For the moment is the forum inactive. As soon as it works again we'll inform you
via the newsletter. Besides that, the email address of the leader Sylvio Kurze
changed to Sylvio.K@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: minor updates
Today several updates had been uploaded. For one, some new entries have been
added to the software page - some will follow later this evening. Besides that,
there are now surveys for news, hardware and software where links corresponding
with the subjects will be entered in the coming time, and of course you can pass
on links regarding all subjects to us.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - special discount campaign
In co-operation with Sven Dröge the Amiga Arena makes a special price
available for "Bonds". Bonds is a finance software for the managing of
securities of all kind. The main focus are shares, though. The software
is specially adapted for the finance market Germany and handles best securities
that are dealt in Germany as it uses the security identification number system
of the Deutsche Börse.
Some features in overview:
- Management of objects of different cathegories
- Cathegories are: shares, fonds, subscription warrants, indices or currencies
- Graphical display of the price data as lines chart
- Opening, closing, maximum and minimum prices as well as traded volume
- Several chart levels (complete, 30 days, 1 year, etc.)
- Several gliding averages like 7, 38, 200 days lines
- Free scalable charts
- Graphically displayed function for comparing two charts in percentage
- Draw function for own technical chart analysis
Olaf Köbnik: "I'm once again pleased to be able to offer a software for the Amiga for
a special price that shows that the Amiga still covers versatile areas!"
Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena made a detailed interview with Sven Dröge, developer of Bonds. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Inutilis News / Timo Kloss (email)
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Developer kit: Inga on the shelves
The Inga developer kit for graphic adventures is from now on available in the
shops. This system is already used for the adventure "Ermentrud" that is in
development right now and can shine with the following features:
- Graphics: 640x480 pixel in 256 colors (CyberGraphX required)
- Voice and sound output via AHI possible
- Music from audio CD possible
- Easy usage without classical verbs list
- Easy to use developer tools
- Script language for flexible story design
The package contains three installation disks and a comprehensive printed manual.
System requirements:
- CPU: 020 (060 recommended)
- Graphics card with CyberGraphX or compatible (P96)
- AmigaOS 3.0 (3.5 recommended)
- Hard disk
- Also successfully tested on UAE with P96!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Flame article about AmigaPDA translated by Amiga Future
Following the title link you'll find the German translation by Markus Castro
(Amiga Future) of the article Amiga's Role in the PDA Market
by Amiga Flame.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga.org / Dirk Baeyens
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The question for the future of MUI
Remco Komduur, editor of the Dutch Amiga magazine
AmigaScene, has written an interesting
English article about the future of MUI (Magic User Interface, by Stefan Stuntz).
You can find the article using the title link.
Amiga.org has furthermore started a poll dealing with MUI as subject. You can
find the poll on the main page of Amiga.org
in the right menu.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Card reader/writer news
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today, slightly delayed, I have now tested my card reader/writer with Sony
memory sticks. These run as expected very good and I can access them like a hard
disk.
Some users say that the device would be too expensive. These users have to
consider that they'll own a universal key for all mobile digital devices.
These are among others digital video cams (especially those of Sony), digital
photo cameras (all cameras with card slot) and MP3 players (with card slot).
Additionally, I can imagine that in conjunction with IBM microdrives these
drives may be used for data exchange between laptops and Amiga. (Because of a
lack of money I wasn't able to test this yet).
A user asked whether compact flash cards would work, too. This can be answered
clearly with "YES".
Boot ability of memory cards:
Not tested yet but theoretically possible as I use mount lists to access the
memory cards.
A RDB block cannot be written on the cards as they have always to be formatted
in photo cameras or MP3 players.
This is absolutely necessary because of compatibility reasons though you
may probably be able to format these memory cards with an Amiga file system,
too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
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H&P: AmigaOS XL for x86
Under the title link you can find the promised details regarding AmigaOS XL,
two new Amiga emulators for x86 computers that are offered in a double pack.
Here's an exerpt:
AMIthlon - The fastest Amiga ever
Insert the CD-ROM, switch on your PC and boot into the fastest Amiga ever. There
is no complicated and boring installation. The development team of Harald Frank
(VMC) and Bernd Meyer even implemented native support for nVidia and Matrox
graphics cards providing maximum graphics performance. Opening windows on the
Workbench is so fast that you can barely watch it anymore.
With AMIthlon you can even use your old Amiga hard-disk in your PC. Simply
connect it to your PC, start AMIthlon and that's it.
AmigaXL for QNX - The most functional Amiga ever
The host operating system for AmigaXL is QNX 6.1. It is included in the package.
QNX has many similarities with the AmigaOS. It has a micro kernel and the
drivers are separate processes. Like devices and handlers in AmigaOS these can
be dynamically started and stopped. This makes the system extremely light weight
and resource efficient.
Features that QNX provides can directly be used within the emulated Amiga. This
includes network functionality and multimedia features. QNX applications like
the web browser Opera® can be started directly from the AmigaOS screen. One can
say both operating systems work together seamlessly.
System requirements:
Athlon-, Duron, Pentium-, Celeron-CPU with 500 MHz or more. AmigaOS XL supports
usual graphic, sound and network cards. A complete list is available on our
homepage amigaxl.haage-partner.de
or www.amithlon.com.
Availability: The delivery will start about 41st week. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Stock exchange software: Bonds V1.83 available (update)
The version 1.83 of the stock exchange software Bonds is available. Some smaller
bugs have been removed. Major improvement of the package is that there exists finally
an installer script. The NewInstaller by AirsoftSoftware is used to get an
appropriate scale. The tool "KursUpdater" is from now on not needed anymore as
Bonds now contains the shell option "JUSTUPDATE", and therefore makes the
updater needless.
Update 15.09.2001:
Sven Dröge wrote:
Unfortunately had the archive Bonds.lha on my webpage a CRC error. I apologize
for any inconvenience. In the meantime there's a corrected archive available.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Sep.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Spot (member of Up Rough)
Richard Kapp writes:
Again we have a new interview for you. This time we have talked to Spot,
member of the scene demo group Up Rough who have made the 9th place at the
Mekka Symposium 2k+1 with their demo 'April in Paris'. We have asked him
some questions about his group, but have also talked about the situation of
the Amiga scene and of course we haven't forgotten about the topic scene
demos and graphics cards (we also wanted to know which coder he currently
considers to be the best).
Other than that, our vote is still running and some new entries (such as
a couple of scene demos not available on Aminet) have been added as well.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (e-mail)
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Elbox: SB Power in Mediator
ELBOX COMPUTER - Krakow, 13 September 2001
SB POWER IN MEDIATOR
Elbox Computer hereby announces availability of the
software update for the Sound Blaster PCI128 sound card
for all the users of MEDIATOR PCI busboards, who have
registered as users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package.
This update expands the list of supported operation modes
of the AHI drivers with the '++' modes and introduces
support for the Sub_Update AHI function used by tools
software for edition of music.
The Sound Blaster PCI128 card working in the DMA mode
loads the Amiga processor when playing back uncompressed
music files much less than any other sound card connected
through Zorro II or the clock port. This feature, combined
with high playback quality and flexibility of configuration
resulting from the number of mixed inputs/outputs makes
Sound Blaster PCI128 the best sound card offered at any
time for Amiga computers.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence-SOMS is back
Sylvio K. writes:
The game developer team DeepSilence is back with their game
´The Secret of my Soul´.
For a long time, the developer team DeepSilence did their name great credit.
Due to the lack of personnel we had to put our activities for some time on ice.
Now we have found a new programmer as well as a new storywriter for our game.
Also, our page is back online with a new exclusive demo of SOMS. The demo comes
with PPC and graphics card support, as well as new effects and brand new graphics.
You can reach our page at http://soms.fanhp.de (no
advertising) or at http://soms.debox.de.
Sadly we have to say that our newsletter does not exist anymore. We thus ask
the subscribers for some patience. There'll soon be a new newsletter.
Also the IRC channel #Amigafun at ie.altnet.org is now the official SOMS chat
channel. Here you can chat with some of us (Sylvio K. = MangaClub and Markus B. = Trojan)
and ask questions.
Details are at http://amigafun.stefan1200.de.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Cyborg (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: CIM improved to current version 1.03_10
Cyborg's Instant Messenger in version 1.03_10 now supports PGP encryption so
that a communication cannot be read by others without huge efforts. A recognition
of the transmission by the system administrator is still ensured. No hidden
message is sent, it thus can hardly be considered a hacker method. The preferences
window can now be enlarged and the problems with some installations are fixed.
The next improvement should be the file transfer, but due to my job I won't have
the time to work on it in the next weeks except for some bugfixes.
Cyborg
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
PCWelt download area (ANF)
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Clock as Amiga ball for Windows
This tool is basically a "desktop improvement" - an analog clock which is shown without
window and frame. The background can be chosen from a list of provided graphics. Of
course there is a possibility to create own graphics for the background.
An individual color can be set for hour, minute and second clock-hands to achieve
an optimal user-defined design.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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SCSI card reader for Amiga, too (update)
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Two days ago I recieved hardware from Michrotech, which is able to read and write
SmartMedia 8-128MByt, Flashpath cards 8-256MByte, and PCMCIA type I-III cards.
By now I've done tests with SmartMedia and Flashpath cards, which worked terrific
with the Amiga. On Friday I will test Sony memory sticks, too.
As far as I can see now also Amiga users can use mobile MP3 players with the Amiga
(the Amiga can write to the cards!). This magic device is called "ICS-47-BH" and
is to be a CFA, SM, PC card reader with a SCSI-II interface.
The cards are accessed using a mountlist, as like with harddisks, at the speed of
4MByt/sec (read and write). I will create a website with more detailed information
including pictures.
Update 14.09.2001:
Changed title. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Andy Mueller-Maguhn (E-Mail)
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CCC argues against attacks against communication systems
Chaos Computer Club, 13.09.2001
CCC argues against attacks against communication systems
- International understanding more important than ever before
As a reaction on the unbelievable murder attacks in the USA there is an appeal
circulating in the hacker scene to destroy websites and other communication systems
in Islamic countries or organisations available in the Internet.
The Chaos Computer Club arguments against this appeal and asks to ignore this or similar
appeals. As a galactic association it is unimaginable for us to split the world in
good and bad now and to take religion as the measure of all measures for such separation.
These incidences are hard to operate in the global village for every human on this planet.
But as hackers we should try the world processing at issue now to handle in the sense of
human race. "We helplessly face the power of destruction. But we believe in the power
of communication, which eventually always turned out to be positive and more powerful than
hate", said Jens Ohlig, speaker of the CCC.
"Electronic communication structures like the Internet right now can make an important
contribution to international communication. In this understandingly tense situation
it may not happen that communication lines get broken giving more foundation for the lack
of understanding.", summarized Any Müller-Maguhn, speaker of the CCC.
The Chaos Computer Club, this time celebrating it's 20th anniversary, according to it's
statue pleads for freedom of information and a human right of at least world wide untrammelled
communication.
Already in 1999 the CCC together with a coalition of popular hacker groups
(Cult of the Dead Cow, 2600, L0pht, Phrack, Pulhas, Toxyn,
!Hispahack, and members of the Dutch hacker community) argued against the utilization
of networks as an electronic battlefield:
"Don't participate in warlike action in the so called 'cyber war'. Keep the networks alive, which are
for communication. These are the nervous system of human progress."
The original Infopeace statement can be read under
http://www.ccc.de/CRD/CRD19990107.html.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources
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Different software updates
On the Da SixK Port Page you will find
version 3.23.42 from 11.09.2001 of the MySQL database ported for Amigas with 68040 CPU.
Download: MySqld_32342_040_base.lzx
Since 10.09.2001 on the Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page, a homepage with many small and
useful tools, you will find updates of
IxEnv (Ixemul environment required for Fr3dy's programs) and the text based
browser Lynx now available
in version 2.8.5dev.2. There is also a MorphOS version of Lynx.
Download:
ixemul.lha -
lynx.lha -
lynx-mos.lha
Since 10.09.2001 a Spanish guide version for the MPEG1/2 decoder
Frogger is available for download.
Download: spanish.lha (40 KB)
REBOL announce REBOL/IOS
(Internet Operating System)
for twelve different platforms including the AMIGA.
"IOS lets people work together in real-time from anywhere in the world.
It transforms physically separated groups into productive, unified teams
by providing a direct, secure, and responsive environment for
collaboration and sharing."
Since 11.09.2001 on the website of the
Alternativer Computerclub
a new version of IFFAnzeiger, a shareware IFF-ILBM viewer by
Ralf Berg, which can display even extremely big
pictures directly from harddisk. With this for example picture at the size of 200 MB
can be displayed with only 0.5 MB of Chip RAM. Parts of the latest version of IFFAnzeiger are
assembler optimized.
With Stephan Rupprecht you find a fast alternative move
command version 37.10, since 11.09.2001
Download: move37.lha
At Peter's Amiga Home Page there is an updated printer driver for
HP Deskjet 870C.
Download: HP_Deskjet870C.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources
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More websites offline by solidarity (update)
Due to the terror attacks against the USA more websites decided to go offline by
solidarity or to change their main page:
Ian Chapman - The Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Bernd "Bernie" Meyer - JIT/Amithlon
FreedomForLinks
Amiga User Liste
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Matay
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Matay: survey results
Under the title link you will find the results of Matay's survey regarding
their products line. The results are displayed as clear graphics.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Frank Fenn
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Frank Fenn: Development of Amiga programs stopped
"Because my Amiga 3000 died and I haven't found a replacement yet
all further development is suspended. Registrations are also not
possible. Donations to revive the A3k are always welcome. In the
meantime I've started some development for MacOS X."
(ps)
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13.Sep.2001
Trinity (ANF)
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Amigan FX for Winamp (AVS plugins)
I have recently found a neat Winamp plugin on winamp.com. Its called
AMIGAN FX. I assume this demo-style AVS plugin is created by a former
Amigan, Daniel Joe Tandiman. Unfortunately, it works only for Windoze
and requires Winamp 2.76. You can grab it
here.
(ps)
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12.Sep.2001
Ricco Clemens (E-Mail)
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Amig@lien: Our site will be offline until 18.09.2001
Ricco Clemens wrote:
Until 18.09.2001 our site will be offline to protest the attacks against
the USA and to commemorate the victims. Only our forum will be accessible.
We hope that many other sites will follow our suit.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Sep.2001
Marco Miljak (Horst Hug, via E-Mail) (ANF)
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SmartBoy with AmigaOS isn
Earlier this year announced the company Thendic GmbH the
SmartBoy, a new handheld
terminal that should be equipped with AmigaDE. Since then nothing had happened
and the company was silent. Today I got (finally) the answer from Horst Hug, who's
working for Thendic, via email in which he wrote about the SmartBoy as follows:
- The SmartBoy is indeed in development.
- Pictures of the device can be accessed from the company's website (title link)
under "Entwickler".
- In the B2B version (Business-to-Business) the SmartBoy will be equipped with
Windows CE 3.0.
- In the B2C version (Business-to-Consumer) the SmartBoy may be equipped with
the AmigaDE, at the moment we are testing the available software, at the end
of the year a decision will be made.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Andre Sommer (ANF)
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Amiga User Baden-Württemberg with new URL
The Amiga User Baden-Württemberg have a new homepage address and can be reached
from now on via http://www.amigauser-bw.de/. Please edit
your bookmarks.
The old address: http://amigafreak.webjump.com isn't valid anymore as webjump
has ceased their service. The page is still incomplete but will be finished in
the next days.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Bianka Burmester (ANF)
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Event: Only a few days more until the AmigaMeeting
The countdown's running...
On the 12.10. it's starting! Everybody still not being enroled has the
opportunity to do so using the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Michael Burkhardt (ANF)
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Lightwave update for Intel platform
The company Newtek offers a limited update for registered Amiga users to the
latest and just released full version of Lightwave 7.0.
This "Lightwave 7.0 (Win) upgrade special AmigaW is valid until the 30.09.01.
After that date this cheap update price will increase remarkable.
Everybody owning an old Lightwave version with dongle should take the chance.
The version number of the dongle is needed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Hudson (ANF)
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Updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since today there are again several updates for the Big Book of Amiga
Hardware available. Among other things Ian Chapman is building up a
driver site!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
H&P
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H&P: AmigaOS XL announcement postponed because of the events in the USA
H&P wrote:
Since the beginning of the incredible events in the USA we are speechless
watching the pictures that are transferred by German TV stations. Our sympathy
goes to the victims and their relatives.
Due to these events we also cancelled the planned announcement of AmigaOS XL.
We will do this the next days. Thanks for your understanding.
Markus Nerding
Manager
(ps)
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12.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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clickBOOM: digital remake of "Defender of the Crown"
clickBOOM (title link) and Cinemaware
announce a digital remake of the Cinemaware game "Defender of
the Crown" for PC and Mac.
As already reported on
10.08.2001 Cinemaware has made the Amiga version available for free download.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)
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Emulator: AmiGenerator version 0.33
The Sega/Genesis emulator AmiGenerator is available in the version 0.33. More
information on Amidog's homepage.
Download: AmiGenerator033.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga makes statement about events in New York, U.S.A.
Today is indeed a difficult day for America and for the world.
We at Amiga lift up in prayer the families of those who were killed and injured in the attacks today.
It is truly a sad day for all of us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our nation's leaders, as they must now deal with this situation.
God Bless us, and may we be ever mindful of our blessings.
Bill McEwen
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AUG99 show their solidarity with the USA
We are shocked by the new terror wave in the USA, where thousands of innocent
people had to die. We like to show our solidarity and at the same time strongly
condemn this kind of force. Because of this our homepage won't be accessible for
one day. We ask for your understanding.
The AUG99 team
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Sep.2001
Michael/Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Event: Saku 2001 - pictures and report from Cloanto
You will find pictures of and a report about the Amiga show Saku 2001 under
the title link, which took place on 01. September 2001 in Helsinki, Finland.
Both pictures and report were put online by Cloanto.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Screenshots of Akiko (CD32-Emulator)
Informations and screenshots of the new CD32 emulator Akiko
for Windows were just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
(http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/)
Akiko runs with the help of an adapted version of WinUAE. Owners
of the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM" can
download a first version now. This version already supports over
80% of the CD32 games including CD audio and joypad emulation.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Bjorn Lynne
Today, an interview with Bjorn Lynne was published on the Amiga Future
Homepage. Lynne might be known by most of the users by the name of
"Dr. Awesome" of the "Crusaders". He composed all of the music for the
Crusaders demos, Megademos, and EuroChart.
As usual the English version can be found at the English section of the
site.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Status Update
Empire builder Knights and Merchants is in dublication and will be shipping
on september 19th. You can find more information on this real time strategy
game in the projects section.
RPG/strategy mix GORKY 17 is finally coming along nicely. Here is a longer
report on what is done and what still needs to be finished:
Conversion of the game data was among the toughest things with this project.
One reason for this was that a Little Endian engine was required; the other
was that the engine requires filemapping which is not available in Mac OS.
These problems are now fixed (only some minor endian problems in the Load
function need attention).
Gorkys 3D engine is running fine except for some colour problems as you can
see from the screenshots below. The Zoom function also has a couple of minor
problems. Porting of the engine was extremely difficult, because the
original developers used a lot of Intel ASM routines. The remaining problems
with the 3D engine are currently worked on and should be fixed within the
next couple of days. The speed of the game is great even at this stage. On a
350 Mhz G3 it ran at the same speed as the PC version on a 700 Mhz machine.
The game logic seems to be working fine, but intense beta testing on this
part is set to start this week. Sound and video playback is not yet
implemented. The other remaining problem is memory usuage. The game
currently requires a lot of memory, especially under MacOS 9 where you will
need about 200 MB to start the game . These problems do not exist with the
MacOS X version.
Below you will find the first public screenshots from the Macversion. Note
that they have been taken from the german version of the game. The first
public presentation of GORKY 17 will be at the Paris show later this month.
Another project that is in the final stages of development is an arcade fun
shooter. This is our first original release and it will come as a budget
title to MacOS, Windows and MorphOS. Expect more information on this title
in our projects section soon.
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11.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail Alpha 0.10
Version 0.10 of SimpleMail was released. Changes since last version:
- configurable headers in the reading window,
- Message/rfc822 content type support,
- encrypted mails can be read now (pgp 2.6.x),
- enhanced filter,
- automatic linefeed in the writing window,
- other smaller enhancements.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Event: Saku 2001 Displayed New Amiga Products
Saku 2001, the biggest Amiga event in Finland and organized by the Finnish Amiga Users Group, gathered about 300 visitors around Finland on September 1st. The venue was organized completely by volunteers and it proved that there is still a dedicated following of the Amiga in Finland.
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One of the highlights of Saku 2001 was the demonstration by Cloanto's Michael C. Battilana. He showed the latest JIT compiler version of Amiga Forever emulation software, which will be available as a free upgrade to all Amiga Forever users. Michael also hinted that Cloanto will soon release a completely new software to the Amiga emulation community.
AmigaDE Party Pack was demonstrated with three computers, two if which also ran the AmigaDE Player demo version, which was supplied for Saku 2001 by Amiga Inc. Other programme included an Amiga demo marathon in the auditorium, a Payback game competition, Mediator PCI demonstration and a popular Vaporware registration service. ImageFX, Aladdin 4D, Shogo and AmigaOS 3.9 were also available for testing. The event also generated interest among the media.
Finnish Amiga Users Group wishes to thank all the event contributors and visitors for joining Saku 2001 and making it a memorable event. A photo report and an IRC log will be published later this week. A webcam picture
collection will also be available soon.
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11.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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New design and status update "Amiga FFE - Project"
At last a reworked version of the homepage is online, from today.
This now (hopefully ,-) ) is more clear and more tidy than the last version.
Moreover the soundtrack can be downloaded in midi format (to have a try with Amidi) and
all of the sound effects in wave and 8SVX format.
A little late, but nevertheless the project definition now was determined, so the basic frame
of the project was set up.
As a next step now the IS analysis will come. For this anybody can send information about
FFE to me. To prevent a "Yes, but what information shall I send?", just have a look at
the (finally added) job list.
But many sections still are "under construction". Should there be any mistakes already now
(dead links, typing errors, etc.), just send an e-mail.
Short summary: The AmigaFFE-Project is an "everyone's invited" project which shall lead to
an Amiga port of the game Frontier First Encounters.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF)
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Offtopic: World Trade Center and Pentagon target of terror attacks
Even though this is off topic:
I just heard from radio and TV that both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, USA,
tumbled down. At least two airplanes directly crashed into those. Also the Pentagon is on fire -
probably by a car bomb or even another airplane (crash). New York looks direful. Any transatlantic flights
to the USA have been stopped.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Tao Receives $18 Million Investment
»Tao Receives $18 Million Investment From Bowman Capital Partners, NEC,
Sharp & Sony
Bowman's Cameron to Join Tao Board of Directors
Reading, England, 10th September, 2001 -- Tao Group, Ltd. announced today
that it has received an equity investment of approximately $18 million
from a team of investors led by Bowman Capital Partners. Tao has developed
intent®, a binary portable, language independent, high performance,
multimedia platform that is now used by many of the world's leading OEMs
in their client products for home and mobile networks.
Hazel Cameron, general partner at Bowman and who heads up the firm's
European operations, will serve on Tao's board of directors.«
The complete press release is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packages
WHDLoad lets you install floppy-based games to your harddisc.
The following packages were changed or added:
- 10.09.01 new: Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Lucasfilm/Atari Games/Mindscape) done by JOTD
- 10.09.01 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
- 10.09.01 new: Aaargh! (Arcadia Systems) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Drakkhen (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 improved: Volfied (Empire) supports NTSC version too
- 09.09.01 new: Ooops Up (Demoware) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Black Sect (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 fixed: RanX (UBI-Soft) wrong slave in archive fixed
- 09.09.01 fixed: IK+ (Archer MacLean) highscores and demo fixed
- 09.09.01 new: Vector Exterminator (Shining) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
- 09.09.01 new: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) done by Galahad
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10.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Stephan Rupprecht: Software Updates
Stephan Rupprecht released the following updates on his homepage:
envhandler.lha - 14K - 09-08-01 - a happyenv replacement (1.12a)
prtman39.lha - 195K - 09-08-01 - Printmanager for AmigaOS3 (39.33a)
Image2Icon.lha - 67K - 09-08-01 - creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.19a)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars Version 6.8
Version 6.8 of Worm Wars released. OS2.4+, PAL/DblPAL and MC68020+ are assumed. There are a new creature (a bird), support for a CD32-gamepad, animations, turbo mode, and some bugfixes.
Download: wormwars.lha (734 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
ANN
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ANN: new scripts
Christian Kemp, maintainer of Amiga Network News, is working on some new scripts for the page. He plans to use PHP and MySQL and to integrate old archives. Due to this reason the full service of ANN will not be available for some days. Christian Kemp will inform on the homepage about the actual progress of the transformation.
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10.Sep.2001
AmigArt
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Event: ITExpo/COMDEX Show Report
Tony Mulvihill summarized his impressions of the ITExpo/Comdex,
in Melbourn, and published this show report at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Felix Schwarz (Innovative)
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
One the few active developers in the commercial software market is
Felix Schwarz of Innovative, known by fxPaint, fxScan, and VHI Studio.
Amiga Arena asked Felix Schwarz about the current development status of
is products and their future.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)
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World of Amiga south east
Only two spaces remain and the entire exhibitor's area will be sold out for this year's show!
If you are an Amiga dealer and would like to take the opportunity to retail at one of the worlds largest Amiga shows, please send an email to exhibitors@worldofamiga.com
Due to a cancellation, both spaces can be purchased for £50.00 ukp.
Note to Attending dealers, your information packs will be sent out this week. Please act upon receipt and return as soon as possible.
Tickets for this year's event are £3.50 (ukp) and are limited. To avoid disappointment please contact our exclusive telephone/mail order dealer, Fore-Matt Home Computing, on +44 (0)8700 11 22 34. Don't forget if you order more than 5 tickets you only pay £3.00 (ukp) for each ticket.
All this plus the WOASE discussion forums from www.worldofamiga.com
World of Amiga southeast is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Amiga Fleamarket Extravaganza '01
The 15th computershow, organized by the Amiga Metroplex Commodore
Computer Club (AmigaMCCC), will be held on the 20.10.2001 at the
Brookside Convention Center , Hurst, Texas (Dallas/Forth Worth Area).
Further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
H. Ogino, Amiga Nut, Inc. (ANF)
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JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP organized
On September 8th, 2001 JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP (JAUG) was organized by
H. Ogino, owner of the only Amiga dealer in Japan named "Amiga Nut, Inc.
(formerly namded: Systcom Limited and then after Tokio Trading Co., Ltd.)
since 1990, JAUG hope overseas' Amiga users and developers to know that
many powerful Amiga users are still existing in Japan and waiting for
Amiga's new computer to be out soon.
JAUG also hope to contribute Amiga community in a way. All activities of
JAUG now or later would be uploaded as JAUG news on amgia-news.de,
JAUG's homepage with online magazine and a lot of other tips would be
available soon in English and Japanese (The title link's URL is
temporarily adopted). It is our hope that all the Amiga users and
developers would support us accordingly.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Ralf Himmel (E-Mail)
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Event: Pictures of the Sharp exhibiton at the IFA-Berlin
Ralf Himmel visited the IFA and made a small movie. Due to the fact that this movie has a size of 15mb he extracted some pictures and wrote some lines about what is depicted.
The special thing about the AmigaDE seems to be that the whole control panel fly into the visible screen area from the left
picture 1 (48 KB).
The controls of a game are looking realy cool. Picture 2 (64 KB) shows a megaball version. The blue background and the board came from the left side of the screen.
A program can be started by touching on a graphic of the controlpanel. Picture 3 (73 KB) shows a tetris clone. Apart from the costs it could become one of the most beautiful gameboys ever.
Picture 4 (82 KB) depicts the device running a 'normal' application that needs more power of the cpu then the AmigaDE (at least in my oppinion). This picture also shows that the display is still readable even if your point of view is not vertical above the device. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: memory_profiler_0colon2
On 5. September 2001 Fleecy Moss released an update for the memory profiler
for the AmigaDE SDK.
In this version the macros were moved to '/ami/sys/inc/', since the '/ami' directory
was supposed to contain anything regarding Amiga, including programs and files coming
from Amiga, third-party developers, and users. '/ami/sys/' will be the basic directory
for any Amiga in-house development.
Tao extended the ami_get_tmem macro with the possibility to determine the array.
Download: dev/vp/memory_profiler_0colon2.zip (5K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: shapes - Sprites with C++
On 7. September 2001 David White released the sprite example 'shapes' for
the AmigaDE SDK, which was written in C++.
This example opens a window with 50 sprites using the three pix-maps - one
for the sprite, one for the background, and one for a copy of the background in order
to restore the overwritten area.
Download: demo/ave/shapes.lha (31K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
tamar.net
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Tales of Tamar: LARP meeting, Amiga and Atari update
From 21. to 23. September 2001 the first medieval 'Tales of Tamar' meeting
will take place near Kassel,
Germany.
On that weekend a LARP-Con (a mixture of adventure, entertainment, fun, and suspense)
will take place in a comfortable and romantic ambient. LARP means LiveAdventureRolePlaying
and gives the Tales of Tamar players the chance to put their game character from the game
into reality. Everything will be of medieval style. The players will have to wear proper clothing,
they will talk medieval, there will be fights between the Draks and some players and in the
evening they will discuss the current political situation on Tamar and drink Met
(medieval honey wine).
Among others a medieval band will be there and even the radio station EinsLive ! This radio
station has several millions listeners each day and they want to do an one-hour broadcast about
the Con and Tales of Tamar.
Since the Amiga show planned for that date was canceled especially Amiga users are
heartily invited to attend that meeting. Detailed information about the LARP-Con are to
find here.
A new race was put to the world of Tamar in the AMIGA version V0.37 - the Orks.
So the ancient war between Orks and humans is blazing again. The Orks are a non-human race
and controlled by the ToT-server, only. Usually they come from the mountains and try to
create their own realms. They strictly start to fight against human players and will leave
nothing undone to displace the humans from Tamar, again.
Now it's the players' turn. They might have to put aside their quarrels in order to be able
to have the armies available required to fight the Orks.
Time will show if they will succeed.
The following was entirely ported from the Amiga version to the ATARI version V0.24:
the town, the tavern, the online chat, the mail editor, rune stone, the rain, the green triangles (vacation mode).
This makes the Atari version becoming more and more interesting. Also for that section still testers are wanted.
The Tales of Tamar team welcomes Atari users.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazin: MicroMart regulary with news about the Amiga
The British magazine 'MicroMart' now has a section regulary containing news about the Amiga.
The magazine is published every Thursday.
Issue #660 from 23. August 2001 already contained an
article about the
AmigaOne, which now can be read
online, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V16.7, Encyclopedia extended
Safe v16.7
A new update of Safe v16.7 has been released today. Safe is a small
CLI command to detect linkviruses in Your system. readme
- added possibility to change name of safe on installation.
It was necessary - new viruses like HH50 and SMEG2b
refuse to infect Safe file. This trend will surely remain,
so now Safe gives the user the easy way avoid that.
Big thanks for Antonio Noguera, who did this improvement!
This is piece of good work - even better I expected!
- removed some outdated info from html documentation
Note that the most useful information is here and in NewShit.guide.
Thanks to Michael Hendren for paying attention.
- removed SMEG2/PENETRATOR removals as xvs.library recognizes them now
- added analyze of HitchHiker5.00 the most advanced polymorphic bastard
in the Amiga universe
Download: Safe.lha,
Readme
Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
New virus translations added to the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
(sd)
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08.Sep.2001
Irseesoft
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Printer driver: Turboprint version 7.20
Turboprint 7.20 with Canon S600/800 and other Canon- and Epson drivers
was released yesterday. This version contains many new printer drivers:
- Canon BJC 1000, 2000, 4400
- Canon BJC 3000, 6000, 6100, 6200, 7100, 8200 with full support for photo
cartridge
- Canon S 400, 450, 600, 800, 4500 with full support for photo cartridge
- Epson Stylus Color 460, 660, 670, 760, 860,880, 900, 980
- Epson Stylus Photo 750, 790, 870, 890, 1200, 1270, 1290 with full photo
ink support
- HP DeskJet 810, 812, 815, 830, 832, 840, 882, 930, 950, 970, 98x, 99x
Irseesoft asks for your understanding that the new drivers cannot be made
available as a free upgrade.
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08.Sep.2001
Marco Frischkorn (ANF)
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German SoftCinema mirror
From now on a mirror for the product 'SoftCinema'
(movie/anim player) is available. The server has a high-speed connection to the Internet
and should please users who had a slow connection to the original server.
The mirror can be reached at http://www.highantdev.de/softcinema/.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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08.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)
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Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena - special price offer
In cooperation with Ronny Schütz the Amiga Arena makes a special price for XTrace
possible. XTrace is an image processing program which allows to trace pictures in
bitmap format and save them in a vector format.
This is very useful for the use of pictures in DTP programs. Some basic knowledge
on desktop publishing, especially technical terms, are required to make full use of
the possibilities of XTrace.
The pictures can be processed before and after tracing in a variety of ways to achieve
as good results as possible. Some features of XTrace:
- change of color
- digital filter sequences
- support of color curves
- internal list of about 400 colors with own names
- histogram view, stretching and equalization
- conversion between different color types
- powerful palette editor
- aspect / DPI change
- rotation (three-dimensional)
- full transparency support
- full clipboard and XPK support
- CyberGraphX/Picasso96 support
- fullscreen and font sensitive user interface
You'll find more information at the
XTrace-Website.
With this special price offer you have the chance to show the developer
Ronny Schütz that there's
still interest in XTrace. He'd be happy about feedback and suggestions.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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08.Sep.2001
amorel (ANF)
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Amoralplayer v1.6 now also plays Sid songs
This is a multiformat songplayer which now supports C=64 Sid songs. Other
than that it will play Octamed SoundStudio, Octamed 8 ch., Meds, Mods and
Digibooster songs, plus 8 bit iff samples. Also it features playing
playlists (also randomly) and can unpack xpk and powerpack files. This
program has regular development and updates.
It is fully functional, but shareware. Costing only $5,- Donations are
very welcome :-)
Download it
here
and check the readme
for details.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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08.Sep.2001
Boing! International
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Event: Pictures from ITExpo/COMDEX in Melbourne
Currently the ITExpo/COMDEX
is held in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Amiga usergroups participate
with their own booth. At the title link you'll find pictures of the
third day of the show.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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08.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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Tool: PlayMOD v1.8 released
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
PlayMOD was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
PlayMOD plays, as the name says, Protracker and Noisetracker
modules however with a slight difference from all the other
players: PlayMOD is primarily meant for playing MODs by double-clicking
the icon of the file. So it's useful for CD-ROMs
with a lot of MODs with icons which have PlayMOD as the default
tool. PlayMOD was also used on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair
Gold Edition" CD-ROM.
Additionally it plays IFF-8SVX files of any size. PlayMOD is
a small, system-friendly program and runs either with or without
a GUI (user-configurable!). PlayMOD is Freeware and can be
downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link).
(ps)
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08.Sep.2001
DCE
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DCE: First pictures of GRex 4000 T
The first pictures of the GREX 4000T are now online. The board has three
DMA-capable PCI slots and is suitable for the A4000T with Cyberstorm PPC.
The board is available from Vesalia Computer from 20th September 2001.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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08.Sep.2001
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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WarpSNES V7.0 released
Steffen Häuser writes:
I have released WarpSNES V7.0 today. The archive will appear on Aminet
and hopefully soon on the WarpSNES homepage at
http://raistg4.free.fr/warpsnes.
New in this version:
- Adaption to SNES9x 1.37c, the newest SNES9x source, a lot of games run much better with it
- auto frameskip implemented
- sound code completely reworked (thanks to Peter Annuss for the
faster sound code :) )
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
Idruna Software
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Photogenics nominated as "Best Graphics Software"
Photogenics was nominated by 'Pocket PC Magazine' in the category
"Best Graphics Design/Drawing Software". If you want to participate,
you can vote here.
More information at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
PerfectPaint
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Image processing: ARexx script for PerfectPaint 2.7
Georges Halvadjian has made a little ARexx script available on his Perfect Paint
website for inserting pictures in Perfect Paint 2.7.
Download: insertpict.lzx (1 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
AROS
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AROS news
AROS is an open source project to implement a portable version of
AmigaOS V3.1. Read here how the project advances:
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla has updated the
credits.
Still not everyone is mentioned but it's better than before :-)
He also fixed the URLs which were broken by the new web site
scripts.
Georg Steger fixed the strange keyboard problems (holding the right
Win key down for a while would suddenly print /'s on the screen).
He also added some printer- and datatype-specific header files.
They are needed
in the DataTypes.class. And he fixed a bug in the EOF handling of
the console.handler.
Fabio Alemagna improved flushing of Output() and
Error(). The shell will now print the boot and other
messages only when needed. PIPEFS: supports AbortIO()
now. He also added <Ctrl-C>-Handling to a lot of DOS functions
so that they will abort a pending IO if the task receives a signal
while waiting for the IO to complete.
Stefan Berger fixed two bugs in layers and intuition. Child windows
can now be moved with opaque running. He also implemented a helper
function which checks if a layer is the frontmost among the
layers that have the same relationship to the root layer and another
one which checks if a layer is hidden by any other visible (or invisible)
sibling with the same priority. And he fixed typos in rand48-functions
in c.lib. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (e-mail)
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Tool: SRename V3.0.0 beta 2
Constantinos Nicolakakis has made available another public beta version of
his program 'SRename'. It is a 'Rename' for AmigaOS 3.0+ with extended
functionality. Please send possible bug reports to
cnicol@ath.forthnet.gr.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (e-mail)
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World of Amiga tickets and group discount
FORE-MATT Home Computing have been appointed exclusive reseller for
telephone/mail order sales of World Of Amiga South East tickets. Tickets
cost £3.50 each or a special group booking price of £3.00 per ticket is
available for groups of 5 or more people. Tickets for the show are limited,
so call now and order using a Visa or MasterCard on 08700 11 22 34. Full
contact details are available on our website at
www.forematt.free-online.co.uk (title link) or
www.worldofamiga.com.
FORE-MATT Home Computing (Dept e)
PO Box 835
Wootton Bassett
Swindon
SN4 8RX
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)
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The Future Draws Near
Mikey C. writes:
We are proud to unveil the opening of the new World of Amiga southeast Discussion Forums.
- General - for discussions about the forthcoming show.
- Wanted - After a particular bit hardware/software? Want to buy it at the show and save postage?
Then log on and post your requirements. If an attending dealer has it, they will reply to you on the forum.
- Travel. Need further information on getting there by road/public transport?
What about overnight accommodation? Are you willing to Car share? Then post here!
- Games Arena. The forum for discussing any aspect of the gaming arena which is sponsored by Hyperion Entertainment.
The World of Amiga Southeast show is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine, taking place on Saturday 3rd November 2001 in Brentwood Essex.
Visit http://www.worldofamiga.com today!
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Sep.2001
Ingo Bowe (ANF)
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New Amiga link page planned
Ingo Bowe writes:
I'm in the process of building a new Amiga link page, but sadly I'm currently
lacking time and money to search for Amiga pages in a search engine. That's
why I ask you, dear Amiga community, to get a link collection as large as possible.
If you know a couple of good pages or your bookmarks spill over, simply send me
your personal link collection by e-mail
I will systematically categorize them. You'll find a small preview at the title link,
but the page is still under construction!
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Tool: LaunchHTML v1.0
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
LaunchHTML was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
With LaunchHTML HTML files can be displayed by just double
clicking their icon on the Workbench. LaunchHTML opens then
the system's default browser and displays the file. The system's
browser is determined by the OpenURL library which LaunchHTML
uses. LaunchHTML is extremely useful for use on CD-ROM.
It was
also used on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition"
CD-ROM to display the HTML files. LaunchHTML is freeware and
can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link).
(ps)
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06.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao and Terraplay Announce Partnership to Advance Real-Time Entertainment
»Reading, United Kingdom, September 6th, Tao Group, a leading
multimedia software and open platform provider for home and mobile networks,
today announces a strategic partnership with Terraplay, leading specialists
in enhancing the quality and performance of network-based applications.
The combination of Tao's intent® media platform and Terraplay's networking
system will provide a fast, accessible, and reliable solution for
real-time entertainment.
The partnership will enable unique end-to-end solutions in such areas as
networked gaming, entertainment and multimedia.«
Complete press release see title link. (db)
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06.Sep.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: Update pack for ALPS realtime plugins
There are new plugins for ProstationAudio. Read the original message:
Apparently some graphic board models don't handle masked images correctly.
A update pack for ALPS plugins is now available to fix display problems
with images placed on plugins' front panels. It uses a different masking
method, now working with any model. Updating is as
simple as decompressing the archive to the plugins drawer and rebooting.
ALPS is the name of a well-known European chain of mountains, situated
not far from here. ALPS is also the acronym for AudioLabs Plugin System,
a data exchange protocol for software DSP modules designed to let
ProStationAudio users expand their systems without limits.
Download: ALPSPatches120.lha
(ps)
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06.Sep.2001
Finanzial Times Deutschland / Volker Grabbe (ANF)
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FTD: US government contra divestiture of Microsoft
The US government no longer wants the world biggest software group to be split. No new law suite
shall be started.
Complete article see title link (German).
More links on this subject (German all):
Heise: US-Regierung verzichtet auf Microsoft-Zerschlagung
Golem: US-Justizministerium will keine Aufspaltung Microsofts
ZDNet: US-Justiz verwirft Aufteilung Microsofts
Spiegel: US-Regierung verzichtet offiziell auf Microsoft-Zerschlagung
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.34 and VirusExecutor v22.21
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. The code for removal of the
virus "Hitch-Hiker 5.00" should be there now. We got a helping hand from a former
antivirus programmer (Georg Hoermann, known from VirusZ & xvs.library).
We know that there have been a lot of updates of the xvs.library in the last 14 days, but
the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus was very tricky, and Georg Hoermann wrote this to me:
> - Quote start
It's never nice to see such ugly viruses, and the polymorphic code was
definitely the "finest" I have seen so far. With the knowledge of several
years, you can handle such a beast much easier, but Jan Erik will certainly
learn a lot about those things when he continues with xvs.library.
> - Quote end
And I was the one that 'draged' the programming of the xvs.library over Jan Erik's
head, when Alex van Niel did not have the time to update anymore. VHT-DK
needed a programmer they could trust 100% with viruses, and there was only one,
so I used all my 'charm' to talk Jan Erik into it. And I'm happy that we have Jan Erik
to update the xvs.library....
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.34
chive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.341 byteses
Release date: 6 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News for v33.33:
- Replaced the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 detection/removal code.
Thanks to Georg Hörmann for writing a better code ;)
- Cleaned up some code. Got some tips from Georg.
So the library is a bit smaller now...
- For developers: Added XVSLIST_DATAVIRUSES to xvsCreateVirusList()
so that you can view data viruses as well.
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
Also a new update of VirusExecutor, here is the news:
Name : VirusExecutor v22.21
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 285.082 bytes
Date: 6 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News in v2.21:
- Fixed font problem in the memory monitor.
- Fixed some gfx out of range when using VE on a Workbench screen
with a display width < 645.
- Starting to write a disassemble function in the memory monitor.
It don't know all the commands yet, but it will ;)
- You can now use the arrow keys or the numeric key pad to scroll
in the monitor window.
- Added 'Show data virus' to the menu. Requires xvs.library v33.34+
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/ve/ve.htm
(ps)
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06.Sep.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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New Linux_m68k kernel and programs for Linux APUS
Michael Heider wrote:
Under the title link a new kernel for Linux_m68k as well as a new kernel and
programs for Linux APUS are available for download. The programs are about a script
to configure sound under Linux APUS in case of sound drivers generated as kernel modules.
Most kernels downloaded from the developers page have such.
On my homepage you can download kernels up to version 2.4.8 each as both IDE and SCSI versions.
On this occasion I would like to thank Mario Frenzel for his effort.
One short note:
I ask the users to access the homepage using my old URL
http://home.germany.net/101-109037/index.html,
since there are some problems with the domain offeror at this time.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Idruna Software
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Job: US Channel Sales Manager for Idruna Software (Photogenics) wanted
Idruna Software is wanting an experienced sales manager on commission basis for the
US market to distribute Photogenics there. Interested people may please contact Paul Nolan
via e-mail.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Stefan Sommerfeld (ANF)
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New Repulse sound card drivers
From now on new Repulse sound card drivers are available for download. These
contain also the initial beta version of the new Toccata emulation. This new
emulation for the first time allows to use MovieShop (software for VLabMotion).
Furthermore an update for SoundFX is available for download enabling unlimited use
of this software with the Repulse sound card.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Boing! International / Harald Frank tel.
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Event: First pictures from the ITExpo/COMDEX in Melbourne
ITExpo/COMDEX is taking
place in Melbourne, Australia, where also Australian Amiga user groups are present with
their own booth. Bernie Meyer, co-author of the 'Amithlon' emulation, really is excited
about the great interest and the wondering eyes of the visitors while they have been
presenting Amithlon.
You will find first picture taken by Boing! under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
AmiLIVE
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Event: AmiLIVE! IV in Sao Paulo on 16. September 2001
The Brazilian Amiga user group AmiLIVE will organize a meeting on 16. September 2001
on which among other things the Amiga 4000 Toaster Flyer and miscellaneous Amiga computers
running OS3.5, OS3.9, MorphOS, and iFusion will be shown active. Take a look at some
pictures from the
last meeting on 17. June 2001 for some impressions.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org Demo Competition'01
The news service Amiga.org organize a demo competition for AmigaDE with categories
for 64k and 4k demos. Conditions of participation and more information are available
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tools: Printmanager V39.33 and EnvHandler V1.12
Stephan Rupprecht updated two of his tools. Printmanager, a printer spooler for
AmigaOS3, is available for download in version 39.33 and his ENV-Handler in version
1.12.
Download:
prtman39.lha - Readme (195 KB)
envhandler.lha - Readme (14 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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Editor: EDWord Version 6.01 now freeware
Martin Reddy has released the full version of his editor for Amiga computers EdWord
version 6.01 as freeware and is about to make available the source code, too. More
information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
Golem - IT-News for Professionals
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Golem: Free PowerVR SDK for Kyro and Kyro II available
»PowerVR Technologies published new documentations and development demos
PowerVR Technologies now also offers free available developer information at
www.pvrdev.com intended to support the Kyro and Kyro-II graphics chips
manufactures by STMicroelectronics. Programming examples, documentation, and drivers are offered.«
Complete article see title link (German).
Another message about this subject (German):
Chip: Hercules: Neue Kyro- und Kyro-II-Grafikkarten (cm) (Translation: mj)
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06.Sep.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench will be four years old soon
Press release:
Did you know that AmiBench will be 4 soon?
Alot's happened over the last 4 years.....
I still remember the day that AmiBench went live, September the 26'th 1997. I remember very vividly on christmas day of the same year, clicking on the refresh button in Ibrowse and seeing new adverts everytime I hit it.
I couldnt even begin to re-count how many emails I've had from well wisher's over the year's and how many friends I've made for life through AmiBench being what it is.
I guess there's alot to be said for the Amiga Community. I am sure that some of you know that I've not used a real Amiga in about a year (I just kept blowing them up..), Even through I dont have an Amiga, I'm still here... AmiBench still goes on, and I live in somekind of vain hope that maybe this year We'll be able to release version 2 of AmiBench...
I've long since given up guessing on when (if?) AmiBench 2 will go live, I don't know. All I do know is that We try our best, but not having the resources that we need to dedicate ourselves to making it happen in 3 weeks means it takes ages to finish. All I can say is sorry guys!, it'll happen one day...
Ugh, this little post sounds really depressing... Sorry :(
Anyway, We usually celebrate AmiBench's birthday by holding somekind of Quiz. This year I've sadly not had time to approach anyone and arrange anything. Is anyone interested in giving away some gifts for us to use as birthday prizes?
If so please do drop me a mail as soon as possible!
--
Mark 'tecno' Wilson : Team Member of AmiBench
Web: http://www.AmiBench.org
Email: mark@amibench.org
ICQ Number: 39814816
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06.Sep.2001
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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French User List: Annuaire Amiga Francophone
Sébastien Jeudy updated his user list 'Annuaire Amiga Francophone'.
At this time there are 563 users from France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Quebec
on the list. You should register to the list, too, and come in contact with
users near you.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Tool: Search v1.2 published
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
On the homepage of Airsoft Softwair Search v1.2 has been just published. This program enables you to search through text files but especially CD-catalogs with a small GUI. You can configure the program in the way that you can e.g. use it as a search program for whole CDs.
So it was used e.g. on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM. Besides this the program supports several languages and presents the results in practically formated AmigaGuide-file. Search is Freeware and is downloadable from the homepage of Airsoft (title link) from now on.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
(ANF)
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Amiga-Vip.net and Amiga-Info.net close down
Because of a lack of interest of the Amiga-users Amiga-VIP.net
(consumer portal), Amiga-Info.net and Amiga-FAQ.net have been closed down!
If there will be new possibilities to create a sensible database
Amiga-VIP.net will go online again with a slightly changed concept!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: From tomorrow Multimedia CD on the market
Elbox reports that from tomorrow the announced Multimedia CD will be on the market via the authorized distributors.
The CD contains the following drivers:
Original extract:
MEDIATOR TV TUNER Drivers
Mediator Multimedia CD provides support for
TV tuners based on the chipsets: Bt848A,
Bt849A, Bt878A, FUSION 878A, FUSION 879A.
Here is the complete list of currently
supported models of TV cards:
ADS Technologies Channel Surfer TV
Aimslab VHX
Anubis Magic TView CPH051/061
Askey Magic TView CPH051/061
AVEC Intercapture
AVerMedia TVCapture 98
AVerMedia TVPhone
CEI Raffles Card
Chronos Video Shuttle II
Diamond DTV2000
Dynalink Magic TView
Eagle Wireless Capricorn2
Fly Video II
FlyVideo '98
FlyVideo '98/FM
GrandTec 'Grand Video Capture'
Hauppauge new (bt878)
Hauppauge old
Imagenation PXC200
Intel
Intel Create and Share PCI
iProTV
Leadtek WinFast 2000
Leadtek WinView 601
LifeView FlyKit w/o Tuner
Little OnAir TV
MATRIX-Vision MV-Delta
MATRIX-Vision MV-Delta 2
MIRO PCTV
MIRO PCTV pro
Newer Hauppauge WinCam
Phoebe Tv Master + FM
Pinnacle PCTV Studio Pro
Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Rave
Pixelview PlayTV
PixelView PlayTV pro
Sigma TVII-FM
STB
STB2
Terratec TerraTV+
Terratec TV-Boostar
TurboTV
TView99 CPH063
Typhoon Magic TView CPH051/061
Typhoon TView RDS / FM Stereo
Typhoon TView TV/FM Tuner
Vobis TV-Boostar
Zoltrix TV-Max
This software will be developed further on
and the list of supported cards will be
expanded.
MEDIATOR SOUND Drivers
The Mediator Multimedia CD offers support
for ALL the models of Sound Blaster PCI128
cards based on the chipsets: ES1371, ES1373,
CT5880, EV1938.
The enclosed sb128.audio driver supports the
following AHI modes:
SB128: 8 BIT MONO
SB128: 8 BIT STEREO
SB128: 16 BIT MONO
SB128: 16 BIT STEREO
SB128: HiFi 8 BIT MONO
SB128: HiFi 8 BIT STEREO
SB128: HiFi 16 BIT MONO
SB128: HiFi 16 BIT STEREO
SB128_1: 8 BIT MONO
SB128_1: 8 BIT STEREO
SB128_1: 16 BIT MONO
SB128_1: 16 BIT STEREO
SB128_1: HiFi 8 BIT MONO
SB128_1: HiFi 8 BIT STEREO
SB128_1: HiFi 16 BIT MONO
SB128_1: HiFi 16 BIT STEREO
The Sound Blaster PCI128 card is the first
sound card for Amiga, which has two
independent DAC chips on board. You can use
them simultaneously, as if they were two
sound cards.
MEDIATOR GRAPHIC Drivers
The Mediator Multimedia CD includes the
complete 2D support for ALL the models of
the following graphic cards:
Voodoo4 4500 32MB
Voodoo5 5500 64MB
This support covers the following graphic
modes:
8 bit (CHUNKY)
15 bit (R5G5B5)
15 bit PC (R5G5B5PC)
16 bit (R5G6B5)
16 bit PC (R5G6B5PC)
24 bit (B8G8R8)
32 bit (A8R8G8B8)
32 bit PC (B8G8R8A8)
Y4U2V2
Y4U1V1
Full hardware 2D acceleration, resolution
of up to 2048x1536x32 @ 75.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz (E-Mail)
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Amiga Security Page: DDOS with the Amiga?
Cyborg writes:
After yesterday the firewall section and the first steps with Miami's IPFW have been upgraded now a first application for this upgrade is ready to demonstrate what DDOS-technology is, how you can find it and where it has its disadvantages.
The presented program could also be an enrichment of the Instant Messager scene on the Amiga if anyone would write a GUI.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Developing-Tool: CVS 1.11.1p1 AmigaOS-Port bugfix-release
Jens Langner writes:
After in the last weeks I have not got any new bugreports to the current CVS 1.11.1p1 AmigaOS-Port today I have released this version which has a small bugfix concerning the handling of the wildcard.
Thus all known bugs in the AmigaOS-port of CVS have been fixed. In spie of it if anyone should find a bug he you can directly contact me via email.
You can download the today published version under http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Stiftung Warentest
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Stiftung Warentest: Internet-searchengines: Google hits best
»Currently Google is the best searchengine in the Net. Google found ten times the suitable answer to ten questions. It follows Altavista, Lycos and Metager with nine hits. STIFTUNG WARENTEST tested 20 searchengines and catalogs. 13 are only sufficient and one is inadequate. The weak point of most of the searchengines: The results are falsely weighted. More than a half of the founded hits had nothing to do with the searched topic. test-online gives hints how you search and find.«
Look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Golem - IT-News für Profis
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Golem: Novum: Motorola connects silicon with group semiconductors
»Light-issueing semiconductors and silicon circuits on one chip
Motorola has announced an important breakthrough at developing of semiconductor-materials: The producer succeeded in putting gallium-arsenid-transistors in a narrow gallium-arsenid-layer which grows on a silicon-wafer. This breakthrough is supposed to enable new chip generations with combined silicon- and light-issueing transistors - with it cheap optical fiber-network-solutions are supposed to be enabled.«
Look at the title link for the full Golem-article.
Further links to this topic:
Spiegel: Motorola will clear up the market
Heise: Motorola reports breakthrough at producing chips
ZDNet: Motorola presents new chip-technology
Wired: Motorola's Blazing-Fast New Chip
Motorola PR: Motorola Creates Revolutionary Semiconductor Materials
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Atroxis
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Music: Markus Holler - New pictures of his studio
Markus Holler which is known to many Amiga-users by his music titles of Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity gives his fans an insight to his studio and introduces his equipment. Currently he works on project called 'Dreamwalker' which is a cinema advertisement.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Darkpage
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DeTeMedien retracts dissuasiveness against darkpage.de
Darkpage.de reports on its newssite that yesterday DeTeMedien written confirmed that DeTeMedien has retracted its dissuasiveness of 20.08.2001 concerning of the danger of confusion "yellow pages" and "the black pages".
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.33
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. There was
another big bug in the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus removal.
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.33
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.782 bytes
Release date: 4 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News is v33.33:Short:
- Fixed 2 bugs in Hitch-Hiker 5.00 removal + improved checking.
Thanks to Thomas Klein for reporting the bugs.
- Removed Sinister Syndicate 1/2 and French from the
bootblock recog. They were harmless.
Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for telling me.
Download shortcut:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Repulse Soundcard does not support Movieshop so far (update)
Carsten Siegner writes:
As you can read in the amiga-news.de news from 30.08.01 a new Toccata-emulation was
announced as the only emulation to work together with Movieshop of the VLab-Motion.
Unfortunately I have heard from Alien Design today that the 'Repulse' does not work
with the program Movieshop. Because the developers do not have a VLabMotion you need
to test the functionality.
I have offered help to test the software so it could be done in some time.
Update 06. September 2001:
Stefan Sommerfeld,
programmer of the Repulse Toccata emulation, posted in a comment to this message:
This message is wrong in some sense. The MovieShop support was almost finished and
will be available on our homepage
this very day. Since a couple of weeks tests with MovieShop have been done and
except for some little features every thing works quite good, already.
Anybody wanting to test the new Toccata emulation now, should download the new
drivers. Of course bugreports are very much welcome.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Etienne Alaurent (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: REBOL-Site for
Etienne Alaurant has set his REBOL-Site for his 'VIRTUAL Office' online. You can
reach it via 'REBOL.com > Sites > Etienne'. There you will find inside the
'V.O.'drawer a presentation of te project.
'VIRTUAL Office' is a personal, virtual office everyone has access to from around the
world via Internet. In this office you share rooms and areas together and can share
information and data.
(sd) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert
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Datatype: akPNG V44.123
Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.123 of his akPNG datatype. As usual
different processor based versions are available (title link).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Warp Emulation Suite: WES Version 1.0
Hitman/Code HQ is pleased to announce the release of
WES v1.0.
WES (Warp Emulation Suite) consists of a master controlling program,
WarpKickstart, and a suite of emulation engines, which allow you to
emulate a large number of machines. As time goes by, more and more
engines will be added to the suite. It currently supports six, most of
which are currently related to MAME, as follows:
WarpMAME - Based on v0.37 Beta 16 of the PC sources
WarpMAME Classic - Based on v0.37 Beta 5 of the PC sources
WarpNeoMAME - Based on v0.37 Beta 16 of the PC sources
WarpNeoMAMEClassic - Based on v0.37 Beta 5 of the PC sources
WarpMESS
WarpNeoPocott
The reason for there being two versions of MAME in the Suite (WarpMAME
and WarpMAME Classic) is that MAME is getting bigger and slower all the
time, and is moving to a 16 bit only screen mode system. This will make
it too slow for our old Amigas. So WarpMAME Classic was born. Play your
old favourite games using WarpMAME classic and the latest MAME games
using WarpMAME - probably quite slowly until the AmigaOne comes along! :-)
WarpNeoPocott is an early and quick port of a Neo Geo Pocket emulator.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Amiga Active
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Print Magazine: Amiga Active 2. Anniversary
The english print magazine celebrates it's second anniversary and for this reason has
started a survey to fit for it's readers' wishes (title link).
Congratulations to your 2nd Anniversary from the amiga-news.de team!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2001
Jörg Strohmayer
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Filesystem: Smart Filesystem 1.192 BETA
Jörg Strohmayer released version 1.192 (Beta) of the Smart Filesystem. The following changes were made:
- "findextentbnode: findbnode() can't find key 4711!" bug in
defragmenter fixed.
- Added timeout to some requesters.
- Check for correct number of free blocks is now only done
in about 1 out of 25 initdisk()s instead of each one.
This is a beta version! Please report bugs and success-stories to Jörg Strohmayer.
Download: SFS.lha (40 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailprogram: SimpleMail Alpha 0.9
Release of verison 0.9 alpha of SimpleMail. Changes:
- improved addressbook
- periodical maildownload
- needs the Popplaceholder Mui Custom Class
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new releases (until 02. Sept. 01)
Thanks to WHDLoad, you are able to install floppydisc based games onto your harddisc. The following packages were added:
- 02.09.01 new: Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal
- 02.09.01 new: Trivial Pursuit (Domark) done by CFOU!
- 02.09.01 new: Castle Warrior (Delphine Software) done by CFOU!
- 02.09.01 improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) supports CD³² version too, automatically load/save highscore
- 02.09.01 improved: RanX (UBI-Soft) supports french version too
- 02.09.01 new: New York Warriors (Arcania Systems) done by Wepl
- 02.09.01 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) program to display/merge highscores added
- 31.08.01 new: Victory Road (SNK/Imagine) done by Bored Seal
- 31.08.01 new: Paramax (KingSoft) done by CFOU!
- 31.08.01 new: La quête de l'oiseau du temps (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 31.08.01 new: Extase (Cryo/Virgin Losirs) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)
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AmigaShell for Unix
"AmigaSHELL makes your boring gray on black colored
bash shell revive like in the old days. Just like on
Amiga(tm), blue, white, orange, black at its finest.
With a nice informational bar at the top."
Annotation by Jazz_Rabbit: HOT!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Amiga FFE-homepage back online
Michael Asse wrote:
The AmigaFFE-homepage is online.
I'll try to improve the side in the next days and integrate a joblist.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)
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Article: CNN ... Amiga isn't dead
CNN: "Surprise: The Amiga isn't dead... technically. Although Commodore
is defunct, an Australian company called Amiga Inc. is still updating the
Amiga operating system and has created specs in hopes of finding friendly
manufacturers to release the first new Amiga hardware in six years. A
small but loyal fan base of Amiga nuts is holding its breath."
An Austrialian Company?
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Robert Sterff (ANF)
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Event: Party: XzentriX 2001 - 7. - 9. September
Hello computer users,
There are only some days left until the 4th Xzentrix computer-party for
alternative computer systems in Seeshaupt.
Additional information is available at the title link.
Ciao
Robert Sterff
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03.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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MPEG: Frogger V1.66
Frogger can be downloaded from http://frogger.rules.pl or http://highantdev.de/frogger/.
Please note, that audio is disabled in 68k version, due
to bug I could not find. As soon as I've fixed it, version
with audio enabled will be released. MorphOS
version is also almost finished.
- Video layer 1/2 decoding.
- Audio layer I, II and III decoding. Now also with very fast decoder in 68k version (through mpega.library)
- AC3 Audio decoder.
- Fast video & audio playback.
- Intelligent frame skipping.
- Overlay support.
- Fast C2P for AGA.
- Direct CGFX video memory access routines.
- Asynchronous disk reading.
- Video scaling on both CGFX and AGA.
- Support for reading VideoCD disks.
- Support for PSX movies and audio.
Look here for all current known bugs and on the future-page for features to come up.
1.66 pre 1
- fixed deadlocks after seeking. (damn, seems like this bug is still there)
- optimized video decoder (up to 10%). on the other hand, there was some changes in demuxer,
which causes slowdown. overall result: 0%.
- added TRACKSELECTION option (shows gui to vcd track selection, default no gui - start
playing first track immediately).
- changed minimal window size. it is now calculated based on system gadget size.
- fixed bug in vcd code, which caused crash if specified device could not be opened.
- fixed problems with slider (small know size at beginning, and slider movement).
- changed mpeg-audio decoder. completly new routines, layerII is as fast as before, layerIII is 2x
faster. there is no FREQDIV 4 (if specified, 1:2 division is used, ie. FREQDIV=2).
- AUDIOQUALITY works with this decoder (previous versions supported AQ only in 68k
version). default is HIGH. LOW and MIDDLE are the same. This decoder fixes also some
problems with LayerIII decoding.
- new ac3 decoder. faster, more reliable.
- fixed problems with multiple tracks vcds (lost of synch when starting new track). the same bug
appears on movies joined with join or mpegjoin, seems to be cured also).
- If user tried to play finished movie from beginning (SPACE key) deadlock occured if audio was
enabled). fixed. Hoppefully this also fixed deadlock with LOOP when audio is enabled.
- Slider size/position was wrong, when movie was on VCD/CDI media. fixed.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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02.Sep.2001
CyberGFX
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PCI: Grzegorz Kraszewski about the Prometheus bus
Grzegorz Kraszewski, Matay, talked about the status of the Prometheus bus on
the Prometheus mailing list. The current firmware is unidirectional, meaning
that the Prometheus can act as PCI master and Zorro-III slave, only.
After a firmware update the bus can be bidirectional. Then the master PCI board
can access the Amiga hardware. That means that the Amiga hardware acts like
a PCI board for a G4 PPC card.
Follow the title link for the original text.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: The Crypt #19
Issue #19 of The Crypt magazine contains topical news about Amiga Inc. including
an interview with Gary Peake, Amiga. Craig Daines deals with the subject
'port attacks and online protection' in his article. Dr. Greg Perry was asked
about Directory Opus and more in an interview. There are articles about
'how to back-up your PC' and 'how to properly re-install Windows OS' at the
IBM compatibles section of the magazine. Moreover there are many more articles
and graphics about fun and stories and more.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #010831 by Brad Webb
Monthly Brad Webb releases his English newsletter 'Amiga Update' reporting
about the most important ongoings all about the Amiga. Read the current
newsletter under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS: Installation, MorphVNC Client
In the Italian online magazine
Amigazette an Italian
installations guide
for MorphOS was released.
On 31. August 2001 Mark Olsen released the VNC client 'MorphVNC' for MorphOS supporting encodings like
raw, copyrect, RRE, and CoRRE.
VNC means
'Virtual Network Computing'. VNC allows to control one computer from another via the Internet
by transfering the GUI of one machine to the other, not constrained by the systems used.
Download: MorphVNC.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.32
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. There was a big
bug in the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus removal
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.32
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.666 bytes
Release date: 2 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News is v33.31:
Argh... Fixed major bug in Hitch-Hiker 5.00 removal.
The virus was removed, but the file was not fixed.
Thanks to Jean Holzammer for reporting this bug.
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
Download: xvslibrary.lha (57K)
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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AMI Sector One: DOpus 4, OctaMED 1.0, Adventures through Time, Covers...
AMI Sector One was extended with tools, games, demos, and cover scans.
With permission of GP Software now 'Directory Opus 4' is online on 'AMI Sector One'.
Information about newer versions and version 6 for PC are to find on the
GP Software website.
Many users asked for more tools on 'AMI Sector One', so there is new content for this
section: 'OctaMED Soundstudio 1.0' is a tracker for the Amiga. Note: This is about a
commercial product now being freeware according to the publisher.
With 'F.R.A.C' a program to create fantasy and role games was added.
'Absolute Adventurer' is a floppy disk containing walkthrus for adventure games.
'The Bible' consists of 4 disks and contains both the old and the new testament.
Keith Golden and Laurent Arditi allowed 'AMI Sectore One' to offer their games for download at
games area:
'Adventures through Time' was one fo the first point'n click adventures for the Amiga.
'Skweek' and 'Super Skweek' are about two Arcade / puzzle games with cute characters by Laurent Arditi.
'Cyber Man' is a very joyful 3D Pacman clone.
'Giddy 2' is Phillip Ruston's prior 'dizzy licenceware game' 'Giddy 3' for IBM-PC compatible, released on
his site.
'Grand Prix Simulator' is a realistic Formula-1 manager.
At the demo section with 'Ripped Gems' only one music disk was added, this time.
The following cover scans were added: Accordion 1.1, Arcade Pool,
Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh, The Art of Chess, Atomino, Ballistix, Calculation 1.1, Distant
Armies, Eye of the Beholder, Eye of the Beholder II - The Legend of Darkmoon, Fantasy World Dizzy,
Flight Path 737, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 1, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 3,
Inertia Drive, Las Vegas, Lemmings 2 - The Tribes, Magicland Dizzy, Mouse Trap, Obliterator,
PP Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon, Project X - Special Edition, Protector, Seahaven Towers,
Skweek, Super Skweek, and Turn It.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Printer-Spooler: PrintManager V39.32
PrintManager v39 is a so called printer-spooler, it intercepts all printer. device calls to the
parallel-/serial.device and saves the printer specific raw data to a file. This way, programs sending data to the printer
don't have to wait for the slow printer to continue. PrintManager also gives you some control over the data sent to the
printer. You can even print files directly from inside PrintManager using the datatypes-system.
'PrintManager' also can be configured to make the spooler catch printing commands
directly sent to the parallel or serial device.
Changes:
when changing the screenmode or screenfont of the workbench screen, PrtMan closes and
reopens its window, now. This feature requires OS3.9.
Features:
- caches only printer.device calls
- can cache all calls to parallel-/serial.devices
- allows to exclude certain tasks from spooling
- nice gui which works with proportional fonts
- files can be printed from inside Printmanager (uses datatypes.lib)
- works with datatypes.library v45 (v45 recommend, not required!)
- own FAST parallel.device (registered version only)
- localized
- after reset/crash unfinished printings are recovered
- delayed printing
- print count function
- allows to redirect printing to another device
- upto 10 devices can be spooled
Download: prtman39.lha (192K),
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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File Manager: DirOpus V4.16 Beta 4
This is the latest beta release of DirOpus4. This
archive contains only the files that changed since
the last public release, so you have to install the
latest public release before installing the beta
version.
Watch out for serial debug data. Use Sushi/Sashimi
to redirect it from serial port to WB window.
Changes:
- Supports "Copy archive bit too" option from ConfigOpus.
- Filesize column in lister has auto-calculated width.
- Fixed some display bugs in listers.
- Fixed few Enforced hits introduced in 4.16b3.
- ConfigOpus: "Copy archive bit too" option in Operation/Copy to fully control A bit.
- Dopus_Print: fixed directory printing introduced in DirOpus4.16b3.
Download: DOpus416b4.lzx (330K),
History
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02.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Tool - memprof V1.0
On 01. September 2001 Fleecy Moss released version 1.0 of the memory profiler
'memprof' for the AmigaDE SDK.
This tool does some crude but useful memory profiling. It works only for VP
apps at the moment and only profiles application memory (i.e. memory that a
developer asks for and frees). It does not cover system memory such as
pixmaps, etc.
Download: dev/vp/memprof_1.zip (5K),
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
Jochen Terstiege (ANF)
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Game: ADOM V1.0.0 for Amiga
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) Version 1.0.0 is available for the Amiga, now.
Download:
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02.Sep.2001
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)
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Graphics: PerfectPaint V2.7
PerfectPaint V2.7 is available
What's new:
- New Script (Arexx Box): Carve,Coral, OilPaint, FastPaint, OldMosaic, PatchWork, Pointillisme.
- New Arexx command
- At least PfPaint is Localised, Include the french catalog (98% made)
- Can be found in the Catalogs drawer
- PerfectPaint.cd
- PerfectPaint.ct
- PerfectPaint_Start.cd
- PerfectPaint_Start.ct
- New catalogs are welcome.
- Change the name of the Xen.font to PfPaint.font (Many users ask me for that)
this font is now in Perfectpaint:FONTS, add a new size '7', for the progress indicator.
You have to copy this font in your Workbench:FONTS directory.
- Zoom Window now have Realtime scrolling when you use scrollbar.
- Improve gradient effect with Wheel and linear options.
- New Keyboard shortcuts
- F6 - Pointer can be changed with Precise pointer (Prefs/Cursors or F6)
Precise pointer never show current brush or pen.
- F7 - Will open prefs of the current effect.
- F10 - Will close the toolbox window.
- Progress indicator for arexx script
- Improve control animation window:
- Asynchron
- New gui
- New option: Direct disc (PfPaint try to playback animation
directly from the disc, if you choose to store your animation on disc)
- Fast tools button.
- Improve buffers requester
- Always open at startup
- Color indication of the current buffer.
- When PfPaint Quit, it will save on disc some prefs like
position of some windows, current save format, state of the buffer window...
- New Painting effect: Median, Maximum, Minimum.
- Improve Brushes requester: Add color indication of the current brush.
- Move opaque window is much faster.
- Improve 'clone anim': mush faster.
- New 'Brush Tools': Convert to Picture, Reset Transparency.
- New Picture effect: Clone Picture, Scroll, Convert to Brush, Polar Coordinates
- New Color effect: Scroll RGB, Swap RGB.
- Improve some window.
- Improve Window detection (again)
- New processing tools option: Fade (RMB on icon).
- Improve gradient editor: Add Opacity, Increase number of gradient color to 10
Requirements
- Minimum 68030 + FPU
- Minimum OS 3.0
- Graphics card (Cybergraphx min cgxv41 r71 or Picasso96)
- Render.library
- Jpeg.library
- XPKmaster.library
- AsyncIO.library
Download: PfPaint_V27.lha (1,7M) (sd)
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02.Sep.2001
Vapor Amirc Mailing list (ANF)
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Instant-Messenger: AmIRC V3.5.19 Beta
Beta version 3.5.19 of the IRC client 'AmIRC' was released on 01. September 2001.
Download: amirc_3519beta.lzx (171K),
Readme
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02.Sep.2001
AmigArt / Frank Gutschow (ANF)
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Game: Earth 2140 Update
"Some people reported problems running the game from CDROMs connected to
their BlizzardPPC/CyberStormPPC SCSI controllers, getting "phase mismatch"
errors. This version fixes the CDDA code to support those controllers too.
In addition to that we have fixed some problems regarding the speed
setting within the game. So if the game is too slow now, just move the
speed gadget up again - it's better than the other way around, as before."
Download: E2140_English_020401.lha
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02.Sep.2001
(ANF)
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Swiss local store AMIGALAND closing down
Marianne E. Vokinger wrote:
For health reasons I, Marianne E. Vokinger, holder of AMIGALAND in Switzerland,
unfortunately have to finally close down the local store AMIGALAND after 9½ years
of business.
I will appeal to keep existing contacts and to go on working for the dispatch. But until
the entire liquidation was done and I'm of somehow stable health again it quite sure will
be October 2001 for me to able to be active again. I'm very sorry to not having another
option and I'm often remembering the 'GOOD OLD TIMES', these days.
I would like to thank all of my customers both at home and abroad for they have been faithful
for many years, as well as my distributors! Also a special thank to you, Petra, for you
already let me off the hook on the Neuss show :))
Who knows, maybe we will meet again on some show :-)
I wish you much success further on.
Marianne E. Vokinger / AMIGALAND
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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01.Sep.2001
Andreas Kleinert (e-mail)
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Image processor SViewIV: New ImageFX loader/saver modules
Andreas Kleinert writes:
There's a new version of the SViewIV ImageFX loader/saver
available for download on my WWW site.
It now allows to save images as well (previously only worked
as loader), the loading process is much more efficient and
less memory consuming and support for saving of paletted
(imagefx-rendered) images has been added.
This module requires a SViewIV keyfile to work.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
Amiga Active
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Print magazine: Amiga Active issue 24 available today
Since today the September issue of the English print magazine 'Amiga Active'
is at the newsstands.
This issue contains the following topics:
- Loading Nextgen...
The Amiga's future is deserving of more attention. Here's why.
- Repulse
New Amiga soundcard from Alien Designs reviewed and rated.
- Customise Your Amiga
It's not just Apple who can make attractive desktop computers. You can too! We show you how.
- MathEngineering
Making games come to life is a tricky task, but one that Oxford-based MathEngine have risen to.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Errorwear plans Guru Meditation (Amiga) t-shirt
'Errorwear' manufactures t-shirts with computer error messages. Now there are plans to
offer a t-shirt with the guru meditation.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Oliver Wagner reconsiders support of Amiga OS 4.0 and Amithlon
Oliver informs in his "plan" of 30th August 2001 that a new version of
V (Voyager) is to be expected in the next few days. He also says that he
won't develop V not exclusively for MorphOS, but considers AmigaOS 4.0
and Amithlon (the latter with x86-native code) for future versions.
More at the title link.
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31.Aug.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Haage & Partner announces another Amiga emulator
The German Amiga print magazine AMIGAplus reports in their current
issue (09/2001) that Haage & Partner GmbH will release an Amiga emulator
based on QNX. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
Ralph Torchia (ANF)
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Palm Desktop for Amiga: Spitfire² version 1.8
Version 1.8 of Spitfire² is now available and corrects problems with the HotSync
Manager and the installation script. Please see the
history
file for more details.
Spitfire² is a Palm desktop for AmigaOS. The software allows connection
to a Palm computer by 3Com or compatibles. The program among other things
offers HotSync functions between the Amiga and Palm.
More information on the program's features can be located at the
homepage.
Download: Spitfire2.lha (844 KB)
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31.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Webcam and IRC channel at Saku 2001
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2001 Web Site at
http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001
will host two webcams from the happening, and you can also chat with the
people attending the show on our IRC channel #saku2001 (IRCnet).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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31.Aug.2001
The Register
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The Register: Amiga flogs Win, Linux Amiga DE player for $20
Tony Smith has written a critial, partly unobjective, article for ´The Register´
on the AmigaDE Player which is offered in the AmigaDE Shop
for $20.
Here an excerpt:
»If Sun couldn't make it happen with Java on the basis of allowing
anyone to write JVMs and give them away for free, we can't help but think
Amiga's plan to make people pay for this stuff has even less chance of
success.
Doubly so when this allegedly advanced technology can only be used to
knock up half a dozen puzzle games of the kind we haven't seen since we
won an Atari Lynx in 1989.«
Full article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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30.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.31
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. In this new
update the xvs.library should detect 99.9% of all 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus".
The programmer Jan Erik Olausen, has been working very hard for the last
10 days to get the recog. right for this very tricky virus.
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.31
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.874 bytes
Release date: 30 August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News is v33.31:
- Improved the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Link virus.
Should be able to detect 99.9% of this virus now...
Thanks to Jan Andersen and Treveur BRETAUDIERE for the files
- Fixed bug in recog for Bastard Installer 1 File virus
- Added recog for 'EICAR STANDARD AV-TEST FILE'.
This is not a virus, but a testfile that can be found on
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm.
The purpose of this test file is to check that your favourite
anti virus program really finds it! Deep inside arhcives etc...
PS! This is a data file, so you might turn on the
'data file checking' in your virus killer.
Thanks to Sami Rautiainen for telling me about this file.
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
(ps)
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30.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packets (until 28.8.01)
Thanks to WHDLoad floppy disk only games can be installed to harddisk. The following
packets have been added or updated:
- 28.08.01 new: Advantage Tennis (Infogrames) done by Jeff (ReadMe)
- 28.08.01 improved: Obliterator (Psygnosis) various changes (ReadMe)
- 28.08.01 updated: Deuteros (Ian Bird) uses kickemu now (ReadMe)
- 27.08.01 new: Biplane Duel (Peter Mason) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
- 26.08.01 improved: Project X (Team 17) supports another version (ReadMe)
- 26.08.01 new: Phobia (Mirrorsoft/Imageworks) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold) misc improvements (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) better installation process (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 improved: Rockstar Ate My Hamster! (Colin Jones/Codemasters) supports another version (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 new: No Excuses (Arcana) done by John Girvin (ReadMe)
- 23.08.01 new: International 3D Tennis (Sensible Software/Palace) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.5
A new update of "Safe" has been released today. Also the programmer
of Safe has very big problem with the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus. But
we are working to make recog. for the virus in xvs.library. I have included
the test of 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' at the button.
Info about the new update of Safe:
Name: Safe v16.5
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 35.456 bytes
Release date: 30 August 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
News is v16.5:
- added possibility to change name of safe on installation.
It was necessary - new viruses like HH50 and SMEG2b
refuse to infect Safe file. This trend will surely remain,
so now Safe gives the user the easy way avoid that.
Big thanks for Antonio Noguera, who did this improvement!
This is piece of good work - even better I expected!
- removed some outdated info from html documentation
Note that the most useful information is here and in NewShit.guide.
Thanks to Michael Hendren for paying attention.
- removed SMEG2/PENETRATOR removals as xvs.library recognizes them now
- added analyze of HitchHiker5.00 the most advanced polymorphic bastard
in the Amiga universe
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/safe/safe.htm
=== Start of HitchHiker 5.00 Virus ===
Entry: HitchHiker 5.00
Alias(es): -
Virus Strain: Smeg2
Virus detected when: August 2001
where: Aminet
Classification: Linkvirus,memory-resident, not reset-resident
Length of Virus: 1. Length on storage medium: c.a. 3720 Bytes
Has most advanced metamorphic decoders seen
for Amiga and uses slow polymorphism!
2. Length in RAM: 8588 Bytes
--- Preconditions ---
Operating System(s): AMIGA-DOS Version/Release.....: 2.04+
Computer model(s): all models/processors (MC68000-MC68060)
--- Attributes ---
Easy Identification: -
Type of infection:
- Self-identification method in files:
- via unused bits visible in dos flags
- Self-identification method in memory:
- checks for 'HH5' process
- System infection:
- A new process entitled 'HH5' will be created
and this is the only visible change in the system.
That process infects files using the known
Smeg code, but the way of getting targets is new.
- The virus patches return address from Wait()
call of device's tasks. This is very clever idea which lets
the virus patch devices which's code is placed even in ROM.
The LOCATE_OBJECT and EXAMINE_NEXT packets will be stolen.
- Infection preconditions:
- HUNK_CODE is found
- device is validated
- at least 6 free blocks
- filename does not start with "vir" and "saf"
(case independant check)
- file is bigger than 4190 bytes
- file is smaller than 100377 bytes
Infection Trigger:
- The infection is based on the packet handling
of AMIGA OS. Every started or listed file can be
infected.
Storage media affected:
Interrupts hooked:
Damage:
- Permanent damage: - none
- Transient damage: - none
Damage Trigger:
- Permanent damage: - none
- Transient damage:
- none
Particularities:
- Uses slow polymorphism! Only this little fact
mislooked by Jan Erik Olausen (and Jan Andersen)
made filedetection in xvs.library the biggest AV
joke seen for Amiga computers ever!
At the moment xvs.library detects 3 variants
of virus from several millions possible!
- The stack patches are done very clever and the
code is flexible enough to handle differences
between OS versions (including newer than 3.1).
Most of code is equal to first SMEG virus.
If the accessed file starts with the string "VIR"
or "SAF" (case independant), the file will
be not infected.
Similarities:
- It could be seen as third kind of SMEG2, but the
polyengine made it one of the most advanced viruses
for Amiga.
Stealth:
- None. The virus does not put infected file
length like BOBEK viruses to ExNext's FIB,
so it is likely that under controll of virus
user will cut files. Salvage will be never
possible as it was for HH4.11 which's files
several times appeared in truncated form
due to it's stealth... :-)
Armouring:
- Uses so called HAVOC polyengine. This is the
best such engine in Amiga virus at the moment.
The decoders are placed after the decoder block,
and the loop could contain very much logical stuff.
The decoders are made metamorphically and are built
of various jumps backward and forward.
Such decoders can be detected only in alghorythmic
way. Detection of this virus is impossible with
technics like breaking the cryptings (lot of stuff)
and tracing (entry point!).
The decoder is generated on virus startup,
so after reboot files are infected always
with new decoders.
Comments:
- The virus contains text: HAVOC
I have been working with one copy of HH5.0.
Even there really exist clones of HH5.0 I think that if the polyengine
detection will be working for one, will be good for others.
--- Acknowledgement ---
Location: Pawlowice, Poland
Classification by: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Documentation by: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Date: August 2001
Information Source: virus disassembly, SMEG1 source code
Copyright: This document is public domain.
=== End of HitchHiker 5.00 Virus ===
(ps)
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30.Aug.2001
bplan / Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan: Pegasos meets MorphOS
«In observance of the development schedule, the Pegasos system officially
offers as of today a second operating system platform. In addition to Linux
( since this years` second quarter ), MorphOS now also supports the development
systems in its full functional range.»
Read the complete press release under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)
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Tool: ScreamerII Version 0.84 for Amiga-Lightwave
Alexander Fritsch wrote:
Ray Darrah III released a new version of his ScreamerNet controller
"ScreamerII". ScreamerII allows shared computing of Lightwave scenes
on several machines.
ScreamerII but is essentially more flexible than the built-in ScreamerNet controller
of Lightwave. For example one computer can render a picture while simultaneously another project
gets edited in layout .
Furthermore other computers dynamic can be added to or removed from ScreamerNet.
All machines can be reseted, computing will then be continued from the proper point ( no
new starting picture must be defined in the project).
Additionally the single RenderNodes can have their own names, instead of CPU1, CPU2 like
usual. The new version 0.84 fixes a small bug with the computer names display. A. Fritsch:
"I've tested the program for several days and I'm excited!"
Download: ScreamerII.lha
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30.Aug.2001
kdh news (ANF)
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Sound card Repulse available from KDH
A remake of the Repulse sound card (for Zorro slots) is available from KDH, from
now on. This new Repulse version fixes the initial quality problems. All newly
delivered cards now have gold-plated Zorro contacts. Moreover the CD, manual, and
drivers were reworked. There will be a new Toccata emulation, which will be the only
one on the market working with MovieShop for the VLab-Motion. This will make the
Repulse sound card the only full Toccata replacement.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Spitfire²
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Palm Desktop for Amiga: Spitfire² Version 1.7
Spitfire² by Ralph Torchia is a Palm desktop for AmigaOS, which was released
in version 1.7, yesterday. This shareware software allows connection to a Palm computer
by 3Com or compatibles. The program among other things offers HotSync functions between the Amiga and Palm.
All of the program's features are listed on the homepage. Beside of
the main archive additionally are the ClockSync plugin (v1.2), and
the YAMSync plugin (beta 2) are available for registered users there.
Download: Spitfire2.lha (844 KB) (ps)
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30.Aug.2001
Oliver Wagner (E-Mail)
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Net information tool: NetInfo II Version 2.9
NetInfo II was released in version 2.9. This program is to get net information
and offers functions like TRACEROUTE, PING, WHOIS, and FINGER.
Features
- "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick
succession to get a route overview very fast, then
does accurate timings for the individual hops
- "ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host
to measure network latency and stability.
- graphical display of hop min/last/max timings
- integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on
a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive
WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo
determines the WHOIS host to query.
- automatically retrieves WHOIS network information
for hosts
- automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP
server versions
- history for all queried hosts
- integrated FINGER client
- integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
- ARexx port
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Aug.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: New section, enhanced search engine, and survey
Richard Kapp wrote:
Again there are a lot of innovations to our online magazine GFX-Base:
A new section 'Customize' was created where you can find patches, hacks,
and tools to make your WB look better. We also enhanced our search engine to
make it even more easy to find e.g. all PPC scene demos or games supporting
graphics boards. Now our news archive can be searched in a comfortable way, too.
Furthermore we have started a new survey to learn which GFX-BASE area is most
important to you. As usual there are new entries with graphics board supporting
games and scene demos.
(ps)
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29.Aug.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Installer: Version 4.5 of CD32 Games Install Kit
Version 4.5 of CD32 Games Install Kit has been just published. For the
first time with this version it is now possible to play Simon the
Sorcerer with a perfect voice output which has seemed to be impossible
with an emulator until now. The current version can be downloaded by all
owners of 'The Best
Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM' in the protected download
section.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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New Exhibitor and Vaporware Registration Service at Saku 2001
Finnish Amiga Users Group offers a Vaporware product registration
service for visitors at Saku 2001. The group collects payments and
registration forms at the venue and forwards them to Vaporware,
who delivers registration keys directly to registrants via email
or regular post. Service is open for everyone, membership of the
user group is not required. More information about Vaporware
programs can be found on their web site at
http://www.vapor.com.
Also, Broadline Oy, a long time supporter of Saku and a well-known
Finnish Amiga retailer has decided to join the fun. Broadline Oy
will be selling their stock at Saku 2001.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science
Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00
and end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge. For further
information, visit Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at
http://saku.amigafin.org or
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
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amiga-news.de: Torsten Dudai stops drawing caricatures
Since July of 1999 Torsten Dudai has supported amiga-news.de by drawing of outstanding caricatures. But some time ago Torsten made him self-employed in the section of webdesign. As anyone knows at the beginning of a self-employment you have to bale all your power to lead the firm to a succesful way.
On the one hand this change but on the other hand also the fact that in the Amiga sector the amount of news reduces of which you could create a caricature were the reasons why Torsten decided to stop drawing caricatures.
We are very sad about this decision but we can understand it, too. We really enjoyed the caricatures many times. The caricatures reflected very precisly the respective situation.
Torsten, we know that you will become a very great webdesigner and wish you all the best for your future!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: ENVHandler V 1.11
Stephan Rupprecht has published version 1.11 of his Env replacement called 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha (14 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: IDF: Arapahoe to bury PCI and AGP
The Arapahoe Working Group (Compaq, Dell, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and PCI-SIG)
announced at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose that 22 companies, including
3Com, Nvidia, AMD, Adaptec, and Texas Instruments, will support the development
of the designated PCI successor by the internal code names of "Arapahoe" and "3GIO".
See title link for the Heise article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Invitation intro for Trsac Party published!
The danish scenegroup Loonies which participated on the production of the commercial game called 'Earth 2140' has published an invitation intro for the Trsac party. This one will take place in Kopenhagen from the 12.-14. of October. The intro and the english written invitation text are on the official Trsac party homepage and soon in the Aminet, too.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Corel sells its Linux-section
As Heise reported Corel will sell its Linux-section this week according to US news agencies. The buyer is supposed to be a firm called Xandros which was just founded. The offer for sale for the Linux-section is supposed to be two million US-Dollar.
Heise article see title link.
Another link to this topic:
Golem: Corel sells its Linux-distribution
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Gateway dismisses people
As we have already reported several times Gateway Inc. is going to rearrange and to dismiss employees in Europe. Heise now reports that a lot of people will be dismissed.
Heise-article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Metabox saved
According to Heise a not mentioned private man has given a credit over 2 million Mark to the settop-boxes-producer Metabox and with it has saved the company right before the end.
Heise-article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
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amiga-news.de celebrates third anniversary :-)
For three years our team delivers messages
of the Amiga-sector and topics which are generally important for computer
and Internet to you. The last year was espacially exciting for us because
the new scripts and with it the possibilities to post comments have been
a freshening aspect. Although sometimes the ´freshening aspect´
was rather a ´ half-hearted breath of air´. Nevertheless the
comments have become an important part of amiga-news.de. Since the
introduction in January of 2001 over 16,000 comments have been given
to our messages.
Interesting because it is still always exciting to see how the market
develops - or how it does not. In the present time it is quite difficult
to understand what will happen - or what will not. Sometimes it is really
hard to find the truth between promises, announcements, exaggerations,
rumors and disputes. But just this is the attraction - to see how
comparatively small groups of enthusiasts can finally start great
projects. This is a goad for us make us hopeful.
In our history read how amiga-news.de has
developed in the past three years, who collaborates and spends his free
time for our team gratuitously.
I personally want to thank all the helpful hands because without
work of each single one amiga-news.de would not be that what it is today.
I want to thank all the readers, authors, developers and programmers which
deliver all the messages. I espacially want to thank our advertising
partners which help us to finance our website with its banner
advertisement. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Ina Sielaff (ANF)
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Mexikon: Cactuses-lexicon in Amiga-guide-format
Under the title link you can find software for Amiga. One is called 'Mexikon' which is a lexicon about cactuses with many hints and suggestions. It also contains maps of Mexico and pictures of over 650 cactuses. Besides this there is the program 'AMIGA Workbench - Tuning'.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Earth 2140 mailing list
Pagan Games has created an English-spoken mailing list for Earth 2140.
E2140-player can discuss about strategies, the game, updates and new
levels (mission packs) there. The developers of the Amiga version of
Earth 2140 are also on the list and will try to answer your questions.
Subscribe: pagan-e2140-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: pagan-e2140-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Post message: pagan-e2140@yahoogroups.com
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Hugi Online (PC Demo-Szene Magazin) (ANF)
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Max Payne developer are (active!) Amiga-freaks
Silvio Senger writes:
Maybe the following message does not really fit to the news but I think
that it is interesting for most of the Amiga-fans:
For some weeks there is a new action hero in the PC-world called MAX
PAYNE. It lasts nearly five years to develop the game and it certainly
is one of the hits of this year, at least in the PC-fan-community. It is
known that some Amiga-Fans developed this game.
On the this year's ASSEMBLY in Finland (with nearly 5000 visitors one of
the biggest demo/LAN-parties;
www.assembly.org) where the best
freaks also compete in a "demo-competition" PC- and Amiga-demos have been
shown together in one competition. It was amazing to see that a team which
made its demo on a Amiga was the winner.
(as amiga-news.de reported).
And that is remarkable: The members of the group ´MatureFurk´
behind this demo all work at Mad Onion (known by its benchmark program
3DMark2001). The graphic artist mainly participates on Max Payne.
And there is another curious thing: Exactly the same group won on the last ASSEMBLY the PC-demo competition. The demo has the same name as the AMIGA winner demo on the ASSEMBLY 2001.
The following links are interesting:
Detailed interview with the graphic artist of the DEMO, which participates on Max Payne
Download of AMIGA DEMOS (requires 68060 + AGA + 16 MB memory!)
Download of the Amiga-Demo in MPEG format (13.3 MB)
PC-DEMO of the ASSEMBLY 2000 (same team)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Darkage offers trip to the past!
Fans of old crackintros from the beginning of the 90ies might be delighted about Stingray's new 100% fix! In the download section of Scenet you can find two crackintro packs and the 100% fix of Equinox'
Musicdisk Sonial Fantasia! We wish you a good time journey!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo group: 'Pic Saint Loop' publishes KissMyJazz Musicdisk
Last night the Polish demo group 'Pic Saint Loup' published the long
expected Musicdisk 'KISS MY JAZZ'. It has been advertised with an
intro on the MekkaSymposium for it. To this time the musican Jazzcat
was not sure if he would really ever publish his demo.
But now it is done. Have a look at the download section at Scenet.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scenet issue 37 released!
Issue 37 of the scene oriented database SCENET recently was released. There you can
nuzzle to the top of your bent for e-mail addresses, hotlinks, FTP servers, Telnet
mail boxes, ICQs, newsgroups, etc. in 522 KB of text!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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28.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Byte Magazin: He Who Controls the Bootloader
You can find an article from Scot Hacker about the license policy of Microsoft
in the American computer magazine Byte.
Hacker tries to explain with the examples BeOS and Linux why it is so hard to
establish an alternative operating system on the x86 market.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr produced song for amiga-news.de
It is a great honour! The musician Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr has composed and produced
a very nice song for amiga-news.de in his spare time. You can find the song at the
download area (title link) at "Amiga-News Theme" (about 7 MB, saved in high quality) or right here:
AmigaNewsTheme2001.mp3
As I listened to the song I had the idea it would be nice if a demo coder could
create an intro for this. Really would be if someone has an idea for lyrics for this
song. If you are interested send an eMail to ps@amiga-news.de
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New Mediator Drivers 'MediatorUP 2.4'
We are happy to announce the first release of the shared
MMU & NO_MMU version of Mediator drivers.
The new pci.library 4.1 can currently work in both modes.
Along with the new pci.library we release new versions of all
the drivers released so far.
All the new drivers have been re-written to co-operate with our
newest software: drivers for PCI Sound and PCI TV cards released
in the Mediator Multimedia CD.
More details: http://www.elbox.com/news_16-08-01.html
The following files are included in MediatorUP2.4.lha:
pci.library ver. 4.1 NEW
The way how the pci.library and all the drivers are working
(MMU / NO_MMU) can be switched over by the contents of
the MMU file located in the Envarc:/Mediator drawer.
Manuals:
ReadMe
UserManual
VoodooGuide
VirgeGuide
MediatorNET
Copyright
Software:
Mediator_Install
PciInfo ver.1.2
Drivers:
Voodoo.card ver.2.5 NEW
Virge.card ver.1.3 NEW
MediatorNET.device ver.2.1 NEW
Prefs files:
MMU
VoodooMem
VodooInt
VirgeMem
VirgeInt
For the newest Vendors.txt file, see:
http://www.yourvote.com/pci/vendors.txt
Please copy appropriate files to drawers:
pci.library to Libs:
MediatorNET.device to Devs:Networks
Vendors.txt to S:
MMU to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooMem to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooInt to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeMem to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeInt to Envarc:Mediator
Voodoo.card to Libs:Picasso96
Virge.card to Libs:Picasso96
Please read VoodooGuide before installing your Voodoo card.
Please read VirgeGuide before installing your S3 Virge card.
Please check CGX pages:
http://www.vgr.com/mediator
for the newest version of CGX drivers.
Note: CyberGraphXV3 S3 ViRGE driver does not work with pci.library 4.1.
If you want to use it still you should use pci.library 2.2
(enclosed in Archive drawer).
More information about the latest drivers, see:
http://www.elbox.com/news_arch.html
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #50
Issue #50 of 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was released at August, 25th. This
issue contains e.g. an exclusive interview with Hyperion Entertainment.
AIO uses its own viewer that runs with AmigaOS.
At the AIO website you will find an additional picture, that shows a
two-paged article about the AmigaOne. This feature is taken from issue #660
(Aug, 23th 2001) of the british magazine 'MicroMart'.
Download: docs/mags/AIOV50.lha,
Readme
(sd) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Saku 2001 brochure available in PDF format
The four-page brochure on the Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2001 event
is now available for download in PDF format from the official web site at
http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001/ (see title link).
Visitors are also able to sell their second-hand Amiga goods at Saku 2001.
The service is free of charge and available for all private persons,
membership of the user group is not required. A couple of the latest
Amiga games are also available for testing at the venue: both Payback
and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division are demonstrated.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science Centre
Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and end at
18:00. Admission will be free of charge. For further information, visit
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at http://saku.amigafin.org
or http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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27.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Realtime strategy "Voodoo Wars" announced
Melina Softworks, well known for some freeware and shareware programs so far,
announced the release of a new realtime strategy game for highend Amigas and the AmigaOne.
The development just started and they are still on the hunt for new developers.
Additional information is available at the "Projekte"-button at the homepage of Melina Softworks.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Mahjongg Tiles v1.1
Release of version 1.1 of the MUI-based Solitaire-clone 'Mahjongg' by R.E.D. This release includes a graphic-bugfix. Further
improvements are still under development.
Download: MahjonggTiles_v1.1.lzx (425 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis (E-Mail)
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Repulse-driver for NetBSD/Amiga
A driver for the "repulse" board by Aliendesign was added to the
NetBSD-current yesterday.
Repulse is a Zorro II interface to an AC97 compliant Audio CODEC and
additional S/P-DIF circuitry. The NetBSD driver currently only supports
8-48 kHz mono or stereo 8 or 16 bit audio data from/to the analog part.
The missing features will be added later.
The driver was added to NetBSD-current, the development branch of NetBSD.
The NetBSD projects invites volunteers to test this code. Problems should
be reported on the NetBSD port-amiga mailing list or (preferred) through
the NetBSD bug tracking system.
The repulse driver is expected to be available in the NetBSD-1.6 formal
release.
Additional information:
The NetBSD operating system
NetBSD on classical Amiga and Macrosystem DraCo machines
How to test NetBSD-current
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Marc Gutzwiller (ANF)
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New swiss onlineshop offering Amigaproducts
Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems, a dealer from Switzerland, is proud to announce the opening of their onlineshop.
The shop offers mobile phones, digital cameras, as well as hardware and software for the Playstation2, PC and Amiga.
Later on there will be products for the Macintosh and for Audio and Video available, too.
Marc 'Gutzi' Gutzwiller of Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems: "I would like to mention that the Amiga-area is still beta.
We know that the Amiga market is very small and that it is not possible to earn money in this market. There are only
some but really good Amiga-dealers. Due to this facts we will offer Amiga products as long as we do not loose any money
by doing this. Because I am using Amigas since the good old Amiga 500 I hope that we can support Amiga as long as possible.
Feel free to mail what you think about our shop. We are pleased about any reaction."
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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Game-CD: Almost Real
Patrick Henz released the game CD 'Almost Real'. The CD contains the following programs:
- Airbus A320 Vol.2, including english handbook (185 pages), NTSC- and PAL-versions, Europe-,
US-North and US-West-sceneries, High Quality-Photos
- Approach Trainer, including a german handbook (98 pages)
- Aufschwung Ost, german version
- Aunt Artic Adventure
- Charon 5
- Hannibal, german version
- Ju52
- Ports of Call, german and english version
- SeaLance
- Space MAX, german version
- Tie Break
- Train Driver 1.6
- Wreckage
The cd can be ordered at the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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MPEG: AMP V2.03
Version 2.03 of 'AMP', an MPEG-Video-Player, was released on the 26. August.
Changes in the new version:
- Added 24bit BGR/GRAY renderer, it's 27% faster than 32bit ARGB with the same quality!
- Added new CSS-key extraction code, made all DVDs I have work.
- Rewrote the motion compensation routines, made the MPEGV decoder 14% faster.
- Rewritten the audio.device routines, these are completely free from any context switches
what so ever.
- Wrote generic requester routines, just as ugly as the DVD ones, but now also used for VCD and CD-i
playback.
- Added OS9 (CD-i) and ISO9660 (VCD) filesystem parsers.
- Using the 56KHZAUDIO CGFX env-variable, one can now get 44100Hz playback through audio.device.
- Changed VCDDEVICE, VCDUNIT to DEVICE, UNIT. Removed VCDTRACK.
- Added pause (SPACE, ENTER to continue) and windowscreen switch (L-/RAmiga + ENTER).
- The window title now contain filename and video size.
- GUI: Updated to work with the new AMP executable.
AMP currently supports the following multimedia types:
MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional) and automatic frameskip.
MP2/MP3 audio streams.
AC3 streams, both standalone and embedded in MPEG2 streams.
(S)VCD, CD-i and DVD.
The features include:
Fast AGA support with 8 HAM modes and optional triple buffering,
CGFX support with optional triple buffering,
fast audio playback using audio.device or AHI,
CLI interface using ReadArgs or MUI GUI,
window support on any depth CGFX and AGA screens,
overlay support using cgxvideo.library.
Download: AMP203.lha
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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26.Aug.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - Update V4.0 and V4.1 (Update)
As already announced last weekend the update of Digital Almanac III
is available for all registered customers, now.
Unfortunately this update has to be delivered in two parts. The initial
archive (v4.0, 4MB) still contained two bugs, but which have been fixed
in the second part (v4.1, 1,4MB).
The update to v4.1 strongly requires v4.0!
The new and automatic update function of the program works with v4.1 only.
The update archives should appear on Aminet during the following days.
Extra hasty people may download the files from the mailing list.
More information under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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clickBOOM: Lawsuit against CD manufacturer
On July 9, 2001, in the Ontario's Thornhill court, PXL computers Inc. filed a
lawsuit against Duplium Corp.. clickBOOM's long term partner had failed to
produce replacement CDs for the Nightlong video game over the past 9 month,
therefore clickBOOM had no other option but to go to court.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Volker Mohr (E-Mail)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2001 deferred indefinitely
Volker Mohr wrote:
«As it turned out today unfortunately I have to defer indefinitely the Classic Computing 2001 show,
which was announced to take place on 08. Sptember 2001.
I ask you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
Volker Mohr»
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Andreas Günther (ANF)
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Scanner: French catalogs for ScanQuix
From now on French catalog files for the scanning software 'ScanQuix 5'
are available. The translations were done by
Frédéric Nicolas.
The archive can be downloaded from
http://www.scanquix.de/.
Download: ScanQuix5_FR.lha (20K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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ACBB live report from the IFA (Update)
A short report from the IFA (with the kind support of ifa-hammer.de) by
the ACBB.
In hall 3.2a you will find the Sharp SL5000 (Zaurus).
After initial problems (nobody knew about Amiga at the PDA booth) A4k,
Trion, and me, Gojira, found Mrs. Boxberg (Product Manager Sharp Germany).
She found very much time to show us a Zaurus with miscellaneous Amiga applications.
Later some guy with an Amiga logo on his shirt appeared. That was Sanjay Menon,
Vice President Engineering Amiga Inc.. He had a prototype with more applications
with him, too.
Mrs. Boxberg mentioned that Sharp is wanting contact with German Amiga developers
and there might be an announcement at amiga-news.de, soon.
This was the report by the ACBB so far. More information and pictures are on our
site. (sd)
Update 27.08.2001:
Here you can find some pictures:
http://Nosutta.bei.t-online.de/IFA2001/PAGE001.HTML.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Carsten Schroeder (E-Mail)
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Met@box: Refloating loan from the shareholder community?
On 22. August 2001 the 'Metabox AG' enquired a short-term refloating loan
in the amount of 1 million Euro from the 'Aktionärsgemeinschaft Metabox'
(shareholder community Metabox). This money is needed to maintain business operations
until the general meeting. Without this money already within the next few days
insolvency proceedings will be opened.
Thereafter the shareholder community formed a delegation, which is inspecting the Metabox AG
to estimate chances for sanitation, since last Friday.
From the inspections was derived (quotation):
«1) The company should be sustained. A sellout of the values created by the shareholder's
fund should be prevented without fail.
2) We should appeal to make available the required short-term sum of one million Euro.
The securities given let us estimate a low loan contingency risk.»
Complete press release under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: PDA - Interviews with Moss (Amiga) and Steiding (epic)
At Amiga Flame several texts were released for the subject PDA games and AmigaDE.
Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc., emphases in the interview,
that the main focus of AmigaDE is to provide an environment in
which content can be used hardware independent. So the agreement with
Sharp allows to use AmigaDE content on Sharp's devices, but Amiga also
works together with other companies. AmigaDE already runs on different
devices in the laboratory in Snoqualmie, including the currently most
popular PDAs as well as those soon to be released, and additional on
Linux and Windows desktops. From AmigaOS v4.2 AmigaDE also will be
available for AmigaOne machines.
To reduce language problems for the Japanese market in particular games
are created to be used via icons only, as much as possible. But in the
future there will be a localizing service offered, too.
Epic Interactive announced early August to develop AmigaDE software.
Amiga Flame asked Thomas Steiding about the reasons behind this PDA engagement.
On reason for Epic Interactive to support the PDA market are the development
times of 2 - 3 month for PDA games, which are definite shorter than for desktop
games (18 - 24 month). That gives clear less risk.
Since the PDAs don't match the currently popular 3D titles, these represent a
completely different market with card games, puzzles, and shoot'em ups which
sale well in the PDA market, but would not be accepted for desktops, these days.
Due to the PDAs low performance compared to desktops Steiding thinks
Amiga developers to well suit PDA games development, since those rather are
used to handle more inefficient machines than e.g. Windows developers are.
Finally he describes the titles Epic Interactive will release, soon. Those
also are listed on Amiga PDA Games
along with other titles.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Amiga: AmigaDE Shop online
The AmigaDE Shop went online.
The 'AmigaDE Player' for Linux and MS Windows is to be the first product
available there. The price is 14,95 USD for advance sale and later 19,95 USD.
This player makes it possible to use AmigaDE programs under Linux and Windows.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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A500: Viper 530 Relaunch Project
The 'Viper 530 Relaunch Project' is an initiative to re-produce the
'Viper 530' for the Amiga 500, which is about a CPU socket extension
for the A500 with the following features:
CPU 68030 (50MHz), FPU 68882 (50MHz) slot, one SCSI-2 interface,
3 IDE ports (1x2,5", 2x3,5"), up to 128MB RAM (72 Pin SIMM),
and Kickstart 2.04.
This project was started by Pablo Esteban Castineria. He asked DCE
via e-mail if they would re-produce this card and got in reply that
DCE would do so, if enough people are interested in this card. Oliver
Day then created the above website
to inform about this card and the project.
You can register for the list of interested via
(e-mail). There is no obligation to buy.
At first this is for learning how much people are interested in this card. The price
is up to the number of units produced. The initiators expect 180£.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Fun Time World
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Frogger: Audio decoder - ac3dec V0.9
Version 0.9 of the audio decoder 'ac3dec' was released. This version
us up to 5 times faster on 68k and 10% faster on PPC compared to the prior
version.
The archive contains both 68k and PPC version.
Download: ac3dec.lha (80K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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