06.May.2004
Michael Christoph (ANF)
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Solitaire: MyKlondike v. 1.00 Released
MyKlondike is an RTG-compatible solitaire card game that also runs without problems under AmigaOS 4 (at this time still using 68k emulation). The appearance of the cards may be changed to your own graphics; with the installation of mreko-datatype or sidreko-datatype you may also make use of a wide variety of card sets in REKO (Amiga) and RKP (PC) formats.
From here on MyKlondike offers the following qualities:
- Support for Soliton card sets
- Background graphics and colors freely selectable
- "AutoPlay" and "WallyWarpUp" automatically
- May be played in a Workbench window or its own screen
- optional display of possible game moves
- Fallback mechanism for screen-mode, background picture and card sets...
[some text not translated -DM]
MyKlondike is cost-free and ready for download at the homepage of its author.
[some text not translated -DM]
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.May.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Guido Mersmann
Amiga Arena spoke with Guido Mersmann about his programs ArakAttack and BoulderDäsh as well as his experiences with Amithlon.
The interview was originally conceived for the second issue of the PDF magazine AmigaInsider and is now available at www.amiga-arena.de. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Case Modding: Monster A1200 Wins Spanish Contest
Gaby "Keysoft" Martínez won a "case modding" contest in the most important Spanish PC magazine. The computer is comprehensively described in the current issue of the magazine.
In the case are an A1200/040/PPC with Busboard, a Playstation 2, and a mini-ITX PC motherboard combined, outside of that it has an integrated output monitor, on which the video signals from Amiga and Playstation may be shown.
Here are a few pictures of the computer, which measures 20 x 91 x 45 cm:
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
Picture 5
Picture 6
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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06.May.2004
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Glowicons: "Masonicons" Are Back
Martin 'Mason' Merz, responsible for lots of icon sets in the 'Glowicons' style, redesigned his homepage and now offers all of the icon packs he released during the last few years in one single archive: the "Masonicons collection 2000-2003" (5235 KB).
The archive contains the following icon sets:
- 3pmguiMI.lha
- adocartMI.lha
- amfMI.lha
- amicomsysMI.lha
- amimdcMI.lha
- aminetidxMI.lha
- amipanelMI.lha
- amisdmMI.lha
- amistartMI.lha
- apacheMI.lha
- appMI.lha
- audioMI.lha
- awebMI.lha
- charonMI.lha
- classMI.lha
- cmanMI.lha
- coolMI.lha
- cutnpasteMI.lha
- dataMI.lha
- dbackupMI.lha
- enoteMI.lha
- evenMI.lha
- ezpagerMI.lha
- ffnewsMI.lha
- flagsMI.lha
- giambyMI.lha
- glowflagsMI.lha
- ibrowseMI.lha
- mapplugMI.lha
- metalwebMI.lha
- mftpMI.lha
- miamiphoneMI.lha
- microdotMI.lha
- morehtmlMI.lha
- mreaderMI.lha
- muiMI.lha
- muisearchMI.lha
- ncoasterMI.lha
- nrogMI.lha
- opusMI.lha
- peditorMI.lha
- pfpaintMI.lha
- photoMI.lha
- picshowMI.lha
- pintMI.lha
- playMI.lha
- plotterMI.lha
- ppaintMI.lha
- prorenMI.lha
- prowinMI.lha
- quadraMI.lha
- reqMI.lha
- scalosMI.lha
- showMI.lha
- simplepostMI.lha
- spitfireMI.lha
- stfaxMI.lha
- stricqMI.lha
- tableMI.lha
- taskismsMI.lha
- transcatMI.lha
- turboprintMI.lh
- uaeappMI.lha
- updaterMI.lha
- videoMI.lha
- voimariiMI.lha
- voodooxMI.lha
- voyagerMI.lha
- vpamberMI.lha
- vpbigQMI.lha
- vpbubbleMI.lha
- vpcleanMI.lha
- vpglowMI.lha
- vpmacMI.lha
- vpmirrorMI.lha
- vpsapMI.lha
- vpvisualMI.lha
- vpwinMI.lha
- vpxenMI.lha
- wb2000MI.lha
- webplugMI.lha
- wordpadMI.lha
- workonMI.lha
- yamMI.lha
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.May.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphZone MorphOS Essentials Pack 2 Available
At MorphZone the second MorphZone Essentials Pack is ready for download.
The Essentials Packs gather together a lot of freeware und demo-versions to make things more convenient for new MorphOS users. Pack 2 contains more MCCs, text editors, shell utilities and libraries. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.May.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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PhotoKid V1.0 released
PhotoKid is a tool for a simple lettering of digital pictures. Text is written directly to the picture, therefore every picture viewer can show the lettering.
Such pictures a especially suited for a usage in photo albums on (S)-VCDs. Further information is available at the author's homepage. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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05.May.2004
Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Event: Time schedule for the 'AmigaOS4 Event' published
At the official website for the 'AmigaOS4 Event', which is going to happen at the City of Essen ('Ruhrgebiet', Germany)
on May the 15th 2004, there is a time schedule of the show published. Also a picture showing the
MicroA1 has been put on that site. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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Anachronism Industries/Matay: Prometheus price reduction, RTL8029 source GPLed
Anachronism Industries has reduced the price for the PCI bridge "Prometheus" for Zorro III Amigas. Additionally Matay put the sources for the RTL8029 network adapter driver under the GPL.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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TrueTypeFonts: TTEngine 6.6
TTEngine is a textrendered version for AmigaOS based on the FreeType2 project, these makes a simple support for the developers in TrueType possible.
The new version kills some latest found bugs. There are versions for AmigaOS 3 (68020) and MorphOS 1.x (604e).
Directly download: ttengine-6.6.lha (514 KB)
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Event: Genesi with Marvell on the Networld + Interop in Las Vegas
How Genesi publishes, the Luxemburgian company will take part at the
Stand 1935
of Marvell on the Networld + Interop event in Las Vegas, USA from May 9th to May 14th.
Presented are many operating systems and applications on the pegasos-based Open Desktop Workstation,
whose Northbridge is a Discovery-II-Chip of Marvell.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
Sebastian Buschko (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4 in the latest c't
The c't is publishing in the latest edition the coming delivery of the AmigaOS 4-Prerelease (Site 42). (cg) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5-20 published
MLdonkey for MorphOS is now available in the version 2.5-20
On networks there are supported of those Peer-to-peer for example eDonkey, Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Fasttrack, Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap.
It could be controlled local or from the distance with interfaces for example telnet and http.
News since yesterday (version 2.5-19)
- Applied patches: disconnect (Spiralvoice)
- Applied Savannah patches: #3003, #2988
- Fixed bug preventing connections with Overnet clients
- New command 'activity'
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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04.May.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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Event: Webbit 2004 in Padova, Italy
From May 6th until May 8th this year the event Webbit take place in Padova, Italy, one of the biggest and most important IT-events of this country.
Placed from the Amiga-area are: Virtual Works, Bitplane, Soft3 and Alternative Technology,
which have doubled their presentation area and there are more computers there, because so the visitors have the possibility to test the developer-prerelease of the AmigaOS4.0.
Special highlights are the AmigaOS 4.0 and the MicroA1 and also Alan Redhouse is called, who ist there for all the three days of this event.
More products of the event are: AmigaOne G4-933, MiniITX-Products, Linux/Linspire, ZetaOS (BeOS) and AmigaForever V6. And Bitplane will be there with his latest edition which contains on a preview for the coming AmigaOS4-developer-prerelease.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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03.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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The Crypt: No. 35
The Crypt 35 - Planet Exploration deals with Knoppix, Mandrake and Flash animation on Amiga. The first of a new series of articles about freely available Amiga Games and funny movies, pictures and jokes are included as well.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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03.May.2004
Bjoern (ANF)
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Filesharing: AmiGift update
A new update for the p2p filesharing client "AmiGift" is now available.
- Bug #946324 fixed - version v36 of rexxsyslib.library is required
- amigift.library bugs fixed
- Chat window scrolling changed
- minor bugfixes
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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03.May.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Hymn of AmiGBG 2004 available as mp3
Hymn of AmiGBG 2004 by 2XM is now available as mp3-file at AmiGBG.com.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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03.May.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Gentoo 2004.1 official support for Pegasos
Pegasos is now officially supported by Gentoo 2004.1. The Gentoo PowerPC-handbook now contains installation instructions for the Pegasos. The 2004.1-Universal-CD is required.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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03.May.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5- 19 released
Version 2.5-19 of MLdonkey for MorphOS is now available.
Changes:
- fixed bug causing lost of partially downloaded chunks.
- fixed bug in recover_bytes
- new edonkey command 'recover_bytes' to recover files at a byte level
- improved emule compatibility
- memory bug in bandwidth management (partially) fixed
- new command 'set_brothers'
- safer options-saving at exit
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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01.May.2004
ANN (website)
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Download portal AmigaShare.com open
The download portal AmigaShare.com has started phase I of its implementation and is now accessible by all users after the test phase. The providers hope for feedback by the visitors to optimize the website and invite to the availability of the most popular Amiga applications.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.May.2004
Darek Smietana / Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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EU eastward enlargement: Customer information by Elbox and Individual Computers
On the occasion of the European Union's eastward enlargement by ten countries today, the companies Elbox and Individual Computers inform their customers about its effects on future orders.
Elbox in the European Union
We are very happy that now we are in the European Union!
Today, customs borderlines disappear between Poland and: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
What does this mean for our customers?
Now our packages will reach you even faster!
Also, prices for shipment are definitely lower, starting from EUR 10.00 for customers from EU!
Check it for yourself...
Visit our Online Store at http://shop.elbox.com.
With best wishes,
Elbox Computer Team
Individual Computers welcomes the new member states of the EU
The European Union got ten new member states today. The new states Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia together have about 74 million citizens who's everyday life will most probably not change significantly. We want to spare you the polemics that's seen on all media today and point to an EU-directive that affects every EU citizen when shopping in other countries. Shopping on the Internet is either done with credit cards, PayPal or bank transfers. Customers from many of the new EU member states are not accepted by PayPal, and credit cards are not very popular in eastern Europe, so the only thing left is a bank transfer for mail-ordered goods from other EU states.
EU-directive 2001/C 363/01 (PDF) applies to these cases. It states that cross-border transfers within the EU may not be more expensive than domestic transfers, provided that the currency is EUR, the BIC/IBAN numbers are used (international account data), and the transfer has been entered online. This also applies to the states that haven't introduced the EUR currency yet. It works fine in Sweden for example, but some British banks prefer not to tell their customers about this directive, and charge high international fees.
Sometimes banks try to trick their customers into making a traditional SWIFT transfer by handing them outdated forms. This transfer method still works fine, but the sender bank and the beneficiary bank deduct fairly high fees from the amount. Since the EU directive does not apply to this older transfer method, the fees are justified. You should insist on electronic access to your account, so you can take advantage from this EU-directive.
(snx)
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01.May.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Online magazine NoCover: issue #122 released
On May, 1st issue #122 of the popular online magazine NoCover has been released and it has already been sent to all subscribers via email.
In the next days this issue will be put online on our homepage http://www.nc-mag.de as well as on the homepage http://www.apc-tcp.de, too. It will bve available on aminet and on the Amiga Future CDROMs.
Enjoy the new NoCover
Wolf Zimmer
Cord Hagen
Andreas Magerl
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.May.2004
Organizer: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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OS4 event Essen: Alan Redhouse as guest / AmigaOS4 on CyberstormPPC
As Andreas Weyrauch informs us Alan Redhouse (Eyetech Group Ltd.) will be at the AmigaOS4-Event on May, 15th in Essen. And Ralf Toenjes (OS4 beta tester) will demonstrate the current version of the operating system on his Amiga 4000 with CyberstormPPC.
A schedule regarding the presence of each person will be released in the next days. Further information can be found on the official website of the Essen event.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.May.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: VIM update, tools&demos package updated
The text editor VIM is available for MorphOS in the version 6.2.517. Besides that, Ali Akcaagac has also updated his tools&demos package (amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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01.May.2004
ANN (website)
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Directory Opus: Amiga source codes for sale again
As Dr. Greg Perry of GPSoftware informs on the official support mailing list for Directory Opus 5 the source code of the Amiga version of the file manager is for sale again after the former agreement with Hyperion has been officially finished in the meantime.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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30.Apr.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packets until 30-Apr-2004
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were originally meant
only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated since
our last message:
- 23.04.04 new: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Gametek)
- 21.04.04 new: Lombard RAC Rally (Red Rat/Mandarin Software)
- 21.04.04 fixed: Twylyte (Wicked)
- 21.04.04 new: Tornado (Digital Integration)
- 21.04.04 improved: Syndicate (Bullfrog)
- 21.04.04 updated: Railroad Tycoon (Microprose)
- 11.04.04 new: Tip Off (ANCO)
- 11.04.04 new: Civilization (Microprose)
- 11.04.04 improved: Air Support (Psygnosis)
- 07.04.04 new: Twylyte (Wicked)
- 07.04.04 improved: Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- 04.04.04 new: Tennis Cup 2 (Loriciel)
- 04.04.04 new: Space Racer (Loriciels)
- 04.04.04 new: Oriental Games (MicroStyle/MicroProse)
- 04.04.04 new: Black Shadow (CRL/Zen Room)
- 04.04.04 fixed: Shadow of the Beast 2 (Psygnosis)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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29.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Interview with Susumu Hirasawa (Japanese Musician and Amiga User)
Ikir Sector, the Italian web-portal for alternative computer systems, has conducted an interview with the well-known Japanese musician Susumu Hirasawa (Group P-Model, Soundtracks of Animes Berserk and Millennium Actress) as well as a long-time Amiga user (Bars&Pipes). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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New FreeCD: "small world FONTS" and "1984"
Two more CD-ROMs have appeared in the FreeCD series. "Small world
FONTS," contains about 2000 fonts, mostly in the TrueType format, and
is directed primarily at graphic artists and desktop publishers. The CD "1984" is a collection of different remakes of classic games, among them "Turrican" and "Barbarian". Each CD costs three euros for handling and shipping. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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LAME: WarpOS Version 3.96 Appears
The current version 3.96 of the open source MP3 encoder LAME at amiga.sourceforge.net now also has a WarpOS version. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Peter Topolnicki (ANF)
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Emulator: GenesisPlus Ported to MorphOS
The Sega MegaDrive/Genesis emulator GenesisPlus has been ported to MorphOS, and may be used with MUI-based graphic "skins." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
Heiko Kuschel (E-Mail)
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In Memoriam: Commodore Business Machines
Ten years ago today, on the 29th of April 1994, the onetime USA computer giant Commodore Business Machines declared bankruptcy. Commodore UK and Commodore Germany persisted a few more months, until the Amiga rights were sold to the German concern Escom and later to Gateway 2000. Today, the Amiga OS rights belong to KMOS, the trademark belongs to Amiga Inc., and the Commodore rights and trademark to Tulip Computers. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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29.Apr.2004
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 04/2004 (#146) - AmigaOS 4 & KMOS
AMIGAplus 04/2004 (#146) has been published including the following
reports:
- Preview of Amiga OS 4.0
- KMOS-Report
- ScummVM review and interview
- microgolded review
- reviews of Canon i865 and HP 5150
- Amiga Status Report
- Top 7 Shareware
- SVCD-workshop (part 3)
- demoscene-report (What happened to the demosceners?)
- and much more.
AMIGAplus Leser-CD 27 includes the PC-full versions of "Beneath a steel sky" and "Flight of the Amazon Queen (Talkie-version)" plus ScummVM, great icons for AmigaOS from Hemera and Ralf Himmel and the offline-version of amiga-news.de.
AMIGAplus may be subscribed or ordered directly from
falkemedia for 5 Euro including
shipping. (nba)
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29.Apr.2004
Ron van Herk (E-Mail)
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MediaPoint: 68k Source Code Again Online
The source code of the presentation program MediaPoint, originally released in mid-April (as amiga-news.de reported) and then removed from the Net apparently because of commercial software in the archive, has now been placed online again, thanks to the help of Gerd Frank. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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