19.Jan.2004
Raquel Velasco & Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Thendic-France will be closed
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck announced today that Thendic-France would
be closed in February.
Due to the difficulties associated with the
bankruptcy of Pretory SA, Thendic-France will be closed. The original
intention was to convey Thendic-France and/or it assets directly to
Genesi to allow for an uninterrupted transition of services and
coordination. This did not happen and will no longer be possible.
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck will seek to arrive at an agreement with
the proper authorities to close out the Thendic-France in a manner that
reflects the original intent of the shareholders of Pretory and the
Board of Directors/Management of Pretory as well as all valid legal
obligations.
Thendic-France will continue to operate until the closing
and will do whatever possible to properly conclude the operation. (snx)
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19.Jan.2004
#amigazeux
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MorphOS: dnetc v2.9007.488 (prerelease) available
The distributed.net client (short: dnetc) allows to take part in distributet.net projects. Current version is capable of working on 2 ongoing projects: The brute-force decryption of a RC5-72 message, and the search for Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR). Both are long-term projects that will go on for some time. Because the RC5-72 contest has a finite number of keys to test, however, the OGR contest is selected as the default.
The MorphOS release comes with a nice MUI GUI (screenshot) and with AltiVec support (cores only activate under MorphOS 1.5). The archive can be downloaded under the title link.
Please note, it's a Prerelease, but this version is not time restricted and will generally become release-worthy in at minimum 4 days if no significant bugs will be found. (cr)
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18.Jan.2004
Franciska Schulze (ANF)
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TEKlib: Krypton release and new website
The TEKlib developer team has announced that the modules Exec, HAL, Time
and Util have finally reached v1.0 and are therefore regarded stable.
The website has undergone some major changes, the documentation section
has been enhanced. Currently maintainers for several platforms are wanted
for AmigaOS and others. Contact the authors via the project's mailing list, if you are interested.
TEKlib is a cross-platform multimedia library distributed under the
terms of a free software license. It is a collection of shared modules
that can serve as a virtual operating system for regular applications.
TEKlib very much resembles a modern, task-based incarnation of the
AmigaOS.
Features:
- displays supporting windowed, fullscreen and offscreen rendering
- audio device driver
- virtual filesystem including a unified namespace
- plugin support for png, jpeg, bmp, fli, ogg vorbis, mod
- LUA scripting interface
Supported platforms:
- Linux
- Windows
- FreeBSD
- MacOS X
- AmigaOS
- MorphOS
- TAO Intent
(snx)
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18.Jan.2004
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX - Andreas Kleinert (ANF)
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PPaint 7 plugin: SView5 loader/saver
For SView5 from Andreas Kleinert (PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX) today a loader/saver module (personal IO library) for Personal Paint 7 has been released for free download (10 KB).
The plugin utilizes SView5 loader/saver objects for importing/exporting images to/from Personal Paint and requires an SView5 keyfile. (snx)
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17.Jan.2004
Murakami (ANF)
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Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR 25 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a newspaper issued by the French association AFLE. Since its creation in 1998 the magazine became one of the leading French Amiga publications.
Among other reports you can find the following topics in the current issue number 25:
- AmigaOS4
- Pegasos II
- Gorky 17
- Bourriquet
- AmiTradeCenter v1.4
- fryingPan v0.3
- Arak Attack v0.93
- GoldEd Studio AIX SP14
(snx)
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17.Jan.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: LAME v3.95.1 recompiled using libnix (Update)
The current version 3.95.1 of the MP3 encoder LAME (amiga-news.de reported) was recompiled (296 KB) by Christian Rosentreter using libnix - this makes the ixemul.library obsolete for LAME. The user has to take care for a big enough stack, though (see readme file).
Update: (18.01.2004, 07:04, snx)
The archive has been updated on Jan. 17th, 22:43 - it should work now without manually setting the stack. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jan.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Amiga Magazin: preview of AmigaOS 4
On the website of the Amiga Magazin (German print magazine) has been a preview of the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 been released that has been written by Martin Steigerwald and was originally published in the issue 01/2004:
"In defiance of all claims AmigaOS 4 would never see the light of day: AmigaOS 4 runs on the AmigaOne as well as already before on Amigas with PPC turbo cards!" Read the complete article following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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16.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Kray: Version 1.4 of raytracer now also available for MorphOS
The raytracer Kray is now also available in
version 1.4
(1.4 MB) for MorphOS.
Additional to optimations and bug fixes the new version has got new features like
subsurface scattering and texture prefiltering based on ray-differentials.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New alpha version 0.3 of Horny Midi-Sequencer
Horny is going to be a midi-sequencer like "Logic" or "Cubase"
which are easy to use. But Horny will stay a pure midi program without the
possibility of recording audio traces.
In this new version you can now configure it.
You can download and get further information on the product site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)
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XAD is Open Source
Since the beginning of the year the XAD system has become Open Source software.
Yesterday the CVS directory was completed in the most important sections. Anybody
who is interested in developing further XAD is very welcome and can contact Dirk Stöcker.
Probably a version without keyfile will be published during the next days.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Changes at VHT Online Help Forum
After massive problems with the Bravenet-Service the Virus Help Team
has changed the VHT Online Help Forum.
You can access the forum under http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/forum.html.
You can find the VHT Amiga Help Forum under http://www.vht-dk.dk.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
AMIGAplus Redaktion
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AMIGAplus 01/2004 (#143) - Amiga hits MTV
She was the video-monster of a whole decade. It should increase the pride
of the last Amiga men standing that even today many clips on MTV are
created on Amigas and Dracos. "Amiga hits MTV" - AMIGAplus on tour at
iMagic Films in London. Read this report and more articles in the new
issue #143 (01/2004) of AMIGAplus:
- A+ at iMagic Films
- Workshop: Compiling UAE
- Report: Amiga on Mac OS X
- Review: Burnit Evolution 3
- Review: papyrus Office
- TurboPrint: Printing through the network
- Review: eTeacher 6.2
- Amiga Status Report: Relations
- Web complete: Siteway
- Top 10 shareware-tools
- Quake 2 MOD: Nighthunters
- News: AmigaOS 4, software & hardware
- Prices: New and second-hand products
- Demoscene: Interview with Darkhawk (Eurochart)
- and much more
German monthly print magazine AMIGAplus (68 pages) may be ordered from
publisher falkemedia for 5 Euro
per issue including shipping costs or via subscription. (nba)
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16.Jan.2004
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AtariST-Emulator: Amiga-Port of "STonX"
Frank Wille has published an Amiga port of the AtariST-Emulator called "STonX".
There are versions for AmigaOS3 (with WarpOS and PowerUp), AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
If you you want to run the program properly you need a ROM image which has been not
added to the archive.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)
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MorphOS: New version of "TranspoClock"
"TranspoClock" is a transparent clock for MorphOS. The new version 1.0 can now also
remind you of a date.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
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Further changes at amiga.org
From tomorrow on the team of amiga.org will start switching the used "Content Managament Systems"
to a newer version. Therefore there might be some restrictions.
Afterwards there should be a better compability with Amiga browsers, some new features
and an individual look.
The email service will be closed because of technical (SPAM) and legal reasons.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2004
anonym (ANF)
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Beat'em up: Source code of "Beats of Rage" available
"Beats of Rage" is a tribute to the Beat'em Up games of the "Streets of Rage" series.
Additional to a new version of the game which is available for MS-DOS the source code
of the program is available, too. (cg) (Translation: dr)
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15.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Anti-Virus Software: xvs.library Version 33.41
Georg Hörmann released an update to version 33.41 of the xvs.library. You may download the library from the website of the Virus Help Team and soon from Aminet as well.
Program Name: Xvs.library v33.41
Programmer: Georg Hörmann
Release Date: 15th of January, 2004
Archive Name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive Size: 93,522 Bytes
Change in v33.41:
- Added AmigaE/libraries/xvs.m developer file. Thanks must go to
Ronald van Dijk for this contribution.
- Once again rewritten taskscanner in xvsSurveyMemory() to avoid
Disable()s lasting longer than 250µs. Thanks to Christian again
for reporting the problems with his FastEthernet card.
- Fixed bootblock recognition of "GXTeam" bootvirus to avoid false
alarms. Thanks to Ronald van Dijk for the example file.
- Fixed problem in xvsCheckFile() that caused Enforcer hits under
certain conditions with damaged executables. Thanks again for the
example files to Ronald van Dijk.
- Added "ASS Protector 1.0" bootvirus clone and its installer and
modified recognition for the original virus. Fixed recognition of
"Liberator 1.21" filevirus to avoid false alarms. Thanks once more to
Ronald van Dijk for the report and example files.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Starkiller Sequel Online
In the Starkiller section of the retro website "KultPower" the eleventh Starkiller sequel is online: "Starkiller: the Prisoners of Zelda," as always with exclusive commentary from Heinrich Lenhardt!
Beyond that there is also a cool Kult editorial with photos of the notorious ASM Crew and the prime ASM special editions, sent in by Dominik. And then something else quite special: Powerplay fan art! A Powerplay wallpaper from Martin. And then also issue one and two of the 1996 Sega magazine, scanned by Vitek. Many thanks to you all! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IBM Holds PowerPC Seminar at AmiGBG 2004
The Amiga convention AmiGBG 2004 is to take place on the 3rd of April 2004 in the Swedish city of Göteborg. The show organizers are expecting Mikael Haglund, a technical expert from IBM Sweden, who will present a treatise on the future of the PowerPC platform. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Announcement: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004
Cloanto announced today that Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 will take place on
Saturday, July 3rd. The provisional event home page, which includes
pictures from last year's event, is at 0xAA.org.
Planned features include the latest Amiga news, a selection of items of
historical interest, a contest (with a C65 computer as the first prize),
an excursion by boat (on Monday), and of course Amiga friends from all
over the world. Other cultural events taking place in Udine at the same
time include the Sunsplash
music festival.
Cloanto would like to thank Amiga, Inc. for granting permission to use the
"Amiga" trademark in the name of the event. (nba)
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15.Jan.2004
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote in January and February 2004
The organizers of Amiga Games Hit Parade are calling for a vote of games for January and February 2004. You may take part in the vote by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet
or participate online at hitparade.amigames.com.
You may include any type of game you like (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.). The final results will be released at the start of February, 2004. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena Presents "HollyRecord"
In collaboration with Telemar Rosenberger, Amiga Arena presents "HollyRecord" for AmigaOS and MorphOS. With "HollyRecord" you can record the animations and presenations you have created with Hollywood.
To do this you also need the tool SGrab by Stephan Rupprecht.
"HollyRecord" can save your presentation in PNG, JPG, or ILBM format pictures, which may then with a program of your choosing be processed and joined into an animation or an mPeg video. You'll find "HollyRecord" under the "free commercial - utilities" logo at Amiga Arena. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Jan.2004
anonym (ANF)
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Strategy game: News about "Schlachtfeld"
The beta test of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld" has begun now.
Currently documentation is under improvement, later on the game will be made available to a bigger user base.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Skinplayer: Professional skins for Frogger, AmigaAMP and others
Skinplayer is a GUI programm for Frogger, AmigaAMP, Mplayer and other
audio tools which are capable of using professional skins. Those are available
here in terms of freeware.
Skinplayer supports the buttons only currently, sliders, state displays or fonts are not supported by now.
More information is available within the readme.
Because of an error within Hollywood's brush refreshment the position of the
skinplayer has been fixed by the author, i.e. the window cannot be moved. It is possible to disable the fixed window within the tool types
but then the buttons will not be updated until they are clicked on.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
karibu@gmx.net (ANF)
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Novell publishes correspondence with SCO according the Unix law suit
Novell, Inc. emphasize their copyright claim of Unix.
In a chronologic, German summary the company published the correspondence between them and the
SCO group since May 2003 as well as many Unix copyright registries, which should bring evidence that Novell are the holders of
all Unix rights.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: SCO supplies evidences
SCO announces in a press release they delivered the evidences asked by IBM
according the order by judge Brooke C. in time. SCO said the papers aren't complete and not public.
Further news regarding this issue:
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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LAME: Update of the MP3 encoder to version 3.95.1
The LGPL MP3 encoder LAME is now available at amiga.sourceforge.net in
version 3.95.1 (702 KB).
Changes include the wipe out of that bug crashing the program if used with vbr-new and the
ReplayGain reference level was set to 89 dB.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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13.Jan.2004
Thomas van Spitjoud (E-Mail)
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First screenshot of "Civilisation - Call to Power" for OS4
Thomas van Spitjoud is currently working on the port of the
strategical "Civilisation - Call To Power" to be released
for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0. On his webpage under the
title link he pusblished the first public screenshot of the
alpha-version ctp2 v0.1 so people can see it is real. For now
the game only runs in window-mode, there is no sound yet and
of course the overall stability is quite bad so a first
beta version is expected to be released not earlier than
in a few weeks. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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13.Jan.2004
ANF
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SystemPatch: Version 2.2 published
Sante Nocciolino's SystemPatch, which is patching many
different system routines for getting a better performance on Amiga computers (68020 or better) ist published now
in the version 2.2.
The RemIBob-Patch was cancelled, because he had bugs. Also an installation script is installed.
Download (27 KB).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
MaxWorld (ANF)
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HomeBank v3.0 beta for testing released
With the shareware programm HomeBank you are allowed to manage your finances, f.e. you can count the costs of your car.
The new version, which is available now in the beta version will publish following new features:
- subroutines
- payment receiver
- budgets
- a few standard improvement
- a few news
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
Christian Hviid (E-Mail)
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IRIS published Eurochart 47 and new 3D-Matrix-Screensaver
Better late than never. The demo scene group IRIS published the 47th edition of the legend Eurochart
which you can download under the title link. This edition was processed by Darkhawk/IRIS,
Dr. Doom/IRIS und Zerox/Gods. You can read an interwiev with Darkhawk in the new edition of AMIGAplus 01/2004.
Also a new version of a screensaver "3D-Matrix" was released, which is now compatible to graphic cards with 3D-chip
and AmigaOS 3.9.
The IRIS homepage is getting a new design with new contents shortly. So please look there in the next few months!
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Cloanto licenses MPEG-4- and HighMAT-technologies
Cloanto announced today that they entered into a licensing agreement with
MPEG LA, LLC to use
MPEG-4 Visual
technology, and with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and
Microsoft Corporation to use
HighMAT technology in its products.
Cloanto plans to use MPEG-4 to produce high quality cross-platform
encodings of a new series of Amiga Forever videos, and HighMAT for quick
access and indexing of such video files on the next version of the Amiga
Forever CD-ROM.
The growing list of third-party items already licensed for use in Amiga
Forever includes the portfolio of Amiga patents, copyrights and
trademarks, technology such as GIF/LZW by Unisys Corporation (used in
Cloanto's Personal Paint) and hundreds of contributions such as Amiga
applications and other items of historical interest. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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