25.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Service CD available
For customers with slow Internet connectivity or the desire to also own a copy of the latest updates on CD, IOSPIRIT is now offering a Service CD.
The CD contains the latest updates patches for fxPAINT 2, fxSCAN 4, VHI Studio 6, IOUSB and additional material (also available for download) for fxPAINT and fxSCAN.
The Service CD is immediately available for 5 EUR (+ P&P). (snx)
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24.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Official press release by the MorphOS team
In the last past weeks had the MorphOS team recognized the need to announce official MorphOS related affairs by an official MorphOS representative in a coherent way.
From now on all statements regarding MorphOS are only official and valid when announced and named as such by an official representative of the MorphOS team.
Official MorphOS representatves are:
Ralph Schmidt, Frank Mariak and David Gerber.
Thanks for your attention,
the MorphOS team
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: FlashROM card eFlash 4000 now with 2 MB memory
The Zorro III FlashROM card eFlash 4000 is now available in a new version with 2 MB FlashROM memory. And once again Elbox offers a special sale where many articles of the webshop are delivered worldwide without dispatch costs.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
ANF
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Golem: German court confirmed validity of GPL
As Golem.de reported, has the district court Munich acknowledged the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) as general terms of trade. They say that this would be the worldwide first court decision on the basis of the GPL. Further (German) information regarding this decision can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Video shows native MooVId player in action
The AmigaOS4 beta tester Crisot has created another inofficial video that shows this time the PPC native graphics system in conjunction with the PPC native video player "MooVId" that will be part of the AmigaOS4 release as standard program.
Download: moovidamp.avi (5 MB, DivX codec required)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar at the Games Convention in Leipzig
The company Eternity will be this year at the Games Convention (GC) in Leipzig from August, 19th to 22nd with a small booth and show there Tales of Tamar as PC, Amiga and Mac versions. As special highlight a first view on the almost complete 3D engine will be given.
Furthermore, Eternity will hold every day a speech of appr. 45 minutes length in the GC cinema. Subjects will be next to Tales of Tamar the games development in general.
Within the context of this piece of news it is pointed out that Amiga version now, too, can be played as shareware. To do so every Amiganer just needs to download the game and the latest update and enter the word 'Shareware' as serial when registering. As result you can play some time for free and therefore test the game for three to four weeks before you have to pay for continued playing.
Every gamer of Tales of Tamar who visits the fair and comes to our booth will get registered by us and receive 50 rounds for free.
The Games Convention is for the time being Germany's biggest games fair with around 90,000 visitors.
Tales of Tamar is a round based PBEM fantasy, strategy & role playing game similar to Kaiser or Civilization. The game runs already on an Amiga 1200 with 8 MB RAM and Internet connection. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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23.Jul.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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New website: PNG-Icon-Project
Under the title link a website has been created which is about a collection of
PNG-Icons with search engine. Should you be an author of such pictograms you can make them
available to other users with the help of this site.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jul.2004
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Amiga celebrates 19th anniversary
Exactly 19 years ago, on July 23th, 1985 the first Amiga which is the Amiga 1000
was introduced to publicity in Lincoln Center in New York.
Famous persons like Andy Warhol and Debbie were present and celebrated
the birth of the first multimedia computer of the world.
After one year the European premiere took place in Frankfurt (Main).
Happy Birthday to Amiga!
(sn) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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AutoDocReader Now Also Available in an AmigaOS Version
Up to now it's only been for MorphOS but now the display program AutoDocReader (current version 0.88) is available at version 0.7 also for AmigaOS 3.x (adapted by MiniQ) and AmigaOS4 (adapted by Zerohero). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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21.Jul.2004
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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CD tools: First release of "EpisodeAlbum"
With EpisodeAlbum it is possible to create "episode VCDs" with
only four production steps (each step supports easy and
advanced options).
- Selection of personal settings
- Movie selection and (optional) define texts
- Creation of the CD image
- Burning the CD-R/W
EpisodeAlbum requires an installation of ViCaDo and supports
eight movies maximum as well as up to 500 chapter per CD. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (#amigazeux) (ANF)
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MorphOS: Euph0ria plugin 1.0 for AmiNetRadio, Kaya and AmigaAMP
Euph0ria is a PowerPC native visual plugin for AmiNetradio, Kaya or AmigaAMP which is exclusively available for MorphOS. Besides the usual visualization Euph0ria also features a lot interesting extras like an inbuild Snake game or Overlay fullscreen modes.
Overview about Euph0ria's keyfeatures:
- PowerPC native (MorphOS)
- compatible with with AmigaAMP plugin API
- more than 1800 possible effect combinations
- GUI uses Magic User Interface by Stefan Stuntz
- highly configurable (effect options, task priority, framerate, etc.)
- 3 different fullscreen modes (Overlay and WPA)
- amazing colour sets by cecilia
- addictive inbuild game "Snake" with highscores
- configurable levelmeters
- informative on-screen displays (OSD) for framerate and effects
- it is freeware
Changes since latest public release (0.24):
- 11 new and amazing colour sets by cecilia
- added overlay fullscreenmodes (YUV4.2.2 and RGB16)
- added WPA (WritePixelArray) fullscreenmode
- improved highscore input of the "Snake" game
- new zoom effect: 'Rotating Vortex'
- new waveform: 'Collapsing Planets'
- reworked draw functions (e.g. improved look of connected line mode)
- "Check for update..." points now to the correct/new URL
- effects are trying now to react on music peaks
- initial effects (start effects) are now randomized
- changing framerate while playing snake now also kills the snake (I do not like cheaters ;)
- improved colour set initialization
- toggle menuitems are now working correctly in MUI's embedded menu mode
- a lot smaller improvements and cleanups
A more detailed list of all changes can be found inside the archive. The archive of the new version can be downloaded under the title link or by using the "Check for update..." function inside Euph0ria. (snx)
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21.Jul.2004
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM: Nightly Builds / Webdesigner wanted
As a new service every night at 2:00 CET there will
compilations of the current development status of the email
program YAM be made which are then available at
http://yam.light-speed.de/nightly for
AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
It is particularly stressed that due to the automatization the
created files are untested completely and thus, do not need to run
stable or run at all. Those files do not include manuals either
and might require system compounds which are unavailable to the
public yet. There is no warranty given, use the files on your own risk!
Errors of those binaries may be reported to the
bug tracker.
When reporting, please point out if you are using an official release or a
nightly build.
Further information is to obtain by the title link.
Additional the YAMOS team is looking for someone who is
interested in supporting this project by contribute some help during
the new YAM homepage creation. The new site will base on a
Wiki engine, more precisely on the Mediawiki framework
which is used at
http://www.wikipedia.org.
Further on the page must work with all common Amiga browsers
and have a unique Amiga look&feel.
The Wiki integration will be done by the YAMOS team,
therefore it is only needed to provide a HTML page which can
be used as basis for the integration. Furthermore graphics are
required also. The new site should replace the current one at
http://www.yam.ch. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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Feelin: New object orientated system for AmigaOS
Feelin is a new object orientated system for AmigaOS, which
consists of two compounds: the feelin.library (completely
written in assembler) as kernel and the expandable
system to create graphic user interfaces.
(Screen shot).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Jul.2004
Jens Schönfeld (e-mail)
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Individual Computers: Technical specifications of the new Catweasel MK4 (Update)
Under the title link you can find some technical specifications of the new Catweasel MK4, which is said to be released by Individual Computers in October 2004 and might be already demonstrated at the AmiWest on July 24/25. Since the complete list of new features is quite long, we are just quoting an extract here:
- The most obvious change is the size of the card: With only 2.5 inch (63.5mm) height, it complies with the low-profile PCI standard.
- Kylwalda built in: While the old Catweasel models always had their own floppy drives that were installed in addition to the existing controller and drives, the MK4 has the option of using the existing diskdrives.
- Suppot for auto-eject drives
- Hard-sectored disks supported
- More flexible read- and write operations
- Extensive timer-functions
- All events can trigger an interrupt
- Improvements on the keyboard interface: In addition to Amiga-keyboards, PS/2 devices can now also be connected. Not only keyboards, but also PS/2 mice are supported.
- Amiga mice supported in hardware
- Every signal can be programmed as output
- Compatible with CD32 pads
- Improvements on the SID audio part: a DC-DC converter eliminates noise and cycle-exact control is possible
- Digiboost for new SID versions: As opposed to the 'classic SID' 6581, the newer SID-chips 8580 and 6582 cannot playback samples any more. This option, which is also called 'the fourth voice', is replaced by two sigma-delta converters on the Catweasel MK4, so the fourth channel is also audible with the newer SID versions.
- Two SIDs for stereo sound
- Compatible with 3.3V and 5V PCI slots
- Two DMA interfaces
- Low power consumption
- Reconfigurable logic: The FPGA on the Catweasel MK4 is completely reconfigurable by the drivers. This means that a hardware update can be done through the Internet.
- Drivers for many operating systems: The Catweasel MK4 is delivered with drivers for Linux, Windows 98(SE)/ME/XP/2000, Amiga OS4, and for Mac OS X at a later date. MorphOS drivers are available for a surcharge.
Update: (15:13, 18.07.04, snx):
In case of a temporary inavailability of the Individual Computers server due to maintenance scheduled for this weekend, there exists an alternative link at http://www.siliconsonic.de. (snx)
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17.Jul.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C course for beginners enhanced
The known Amiga C course for beginners has been enhanced by a lesson about light, colors and pen sharing. Besides that have some notes been added to the lesson about shared libraries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 17. Jul. 2004, 21:34] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2004
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Commodore online museum
Information about various Commodore computers including the Amiga has Thorsten Kuphaldt gathered in his virtual Commodore museum. Not only the computers themselves but e.g. slot cards and single chips got a description.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
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HD installer: WHDLoad 16.3, new packages until July, 17th
WHDLoad is a collection of tools for hard disk installations of older games via so called "Installers". Since yesterday is version 16.3 available.
Direct download:
WHDLoad (users) (599 KB)
WHDLoad (developers) (1.35 MB)
Since we last reported about WHDload some installers have been reworked:
- Improved: "Untouchables" (Ocean) supports one more version, the installer got a complete rework
- Update: "Street Racer" (Epic) access fault removed
- Improved: "Conquests Of The Longbow" (Sierra) supports one more version
- Flink CD³² (Psygnosis) reworked, now uses the Kickstart emulation
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.06 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 4.0,
4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04 and 4.05 of fxSCAN to V4.06 is now available
for download to registered customers. Changes include a fix for some rare problems with PDF-export. A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive. fxSCAN 4 is currently available at a special price. (snx)
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17.Jul.2004
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Interview: The developers are bad, not PHP
»Zend founder Zeev Suraski in talks with Golem.de
The Israeli company Zend is responsible for the core of the free script language PHP that has been released recently in version 5 and offers commercial products for PHP. PHP 5 comes with many new functions that are partly due to the reworked object support of the Zend Engine II. Golem.de talked to Zend founder Zeev Suraski about the new possibilities but also about limitations of PHP.«
The complete (German) interview can be found here. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
Aminet
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File system: version 1.227 of SFS on Aminet
On the Aminet has the beta version 1.227 (268 KB) of the Smart Filesystem been released (readme file). Required are at least AmigaOS 3.0 and a 68020 processor.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
ANN (website)
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Titan Computer: English Papyrus website now online
The product page for the MorphOS and AmigaOS versions of the office package Papyrus is now available in English, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 17. Jul. 2004, 09:25] [Comments: 0]
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