30.May.2003
Gunnar 'GunaTM' Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R7 published
Version 0.8.22 release 7 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' written by Toni Wilen
for Windows has been published. This version contains the following bug fixes and new
features:
Bugs fixed:
- printer didn't work if serial port emulation was enabled
- palette wasn't updated properly when entering and exiting the GUI
in fullscreen 8-bit Picasso96 mode
- button or key mapped to mouse horizontal or vertical axis
- random crash when horizontal centering was enabled
- bsdsocket emulation, ping, traceroute, AmTelnet SSH connection freeze
- config save crash and non working keyboard
- ShapeShifter-support improved, all Kickstart 2.x/3.x versions supported
- lores-mode support for "sprites outside display window"-feature
- and more..
New features:
- emulation compatibility improvements
Elfmania, Rainbow Island (broke accidentally in R6),
Mission Elevator (properly fixed this time...), SWIV,
Old Timer, Inferior, Sub Rally, Sargon History, TBL demos,
Sound of Silents, Cardamom, Cardamon etc.
- analog joystick (paddle) ports emulated
- improved hard/ZIP disk RDB detection
- Action Replay 2/3 state file support
- sound "power led" filter emulation
- freely selectable sound sample rate (8000 - 48000)
- "direct" serial port support, fixes PC to PC Lotus 2 serial link
problems. (two player only, 3 or 4 players require lower serial
latency that is not possible under Windows)
- zipped CAPS-image support
- updated AHI driver included
A German mirror is available under
webwood.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
Amiga Club Augsburg (ANF)
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OS4.0 on Tour - News
Amiga Club Augsburg and KDH Datentechnik wrote:
"With an opinion poll we would like
to get an overview about the amount of people who might will come. If there are any
signs that more visitors will come than we expect now there is the possibility open
the event on Sunday, too. Therefore we would be very grateful if you could help us.
Especially we are very delighted to present some developers and members of Hyperion.
At this event the following persons will be present: Steffen Häuser, Hans-Jörg Frieden
and Thomas Frieden.
Christian Krenner will exhibit and present his
'Monster A600' (Motorola 68030/40 MHz, 34 MByte RAM, 10 GByte hard drive,
PCMCIA-Net work and USB-ports).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
Debian (Website)
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Debian Weekly News: Debian for Pegasos
In its issue 21/2003 the Debian Weekly News which is a newsletter of the Debian
community reports about how Debian works on a Pegasos computer:
"Debian on the Pegasos platform. Eugenia Loli-Queru has reported that Debian GNU/Linux
has been preinstalled on the Pegasos computers which are beased on PowerPC G3 and G4.
With the help of Mac-on-Linux you are able to run the Debian system, MacOS or OSX without
Apple hardware."
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets until 31.05.2003 (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games which have been formerly meant only for use with
disks on your hard drive. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 31.05.03 new: Psycho Santa (Bullfrog) done by Agressor
- 31.05.03 fixed: Zool (Gremlin) rawdic imager fixed for disk 2
- 31.05.03 fixed: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) install problems fixed
- 31.05.03 fixed: King's Quest (Sierra) install problems fixed
- 29.05.03 fixed: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) access fault fixed
- 29.05.03 new: Lords of the Rising Sun (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 29.05.03 new: King's Quest 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 29.05.03 new: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 24.05.03 improved: Boston Bomb Club (Silmarils) supports another version
- 24.05.03 new: King's Quest (Sierra) done by JOTD
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (E-Mail)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - further names wanted
Steffen Nitz wrotes:
I need your ideas again. This time I am looking for positive messages of the workers
like:
- Yes, Sir!
- As you like it!
- Finally good work!
- Will be done, Sir!
- Your wish is my order!
and I am looking for negative messages like:
- Not already again!
- Is there not somebody else who can do this?
- I am fed up with this!
- No, I will not do this!
This one who will send me the most good sentences will get a keyfile of the Gilde or
of SN-Münzarchiv as well as an entry in the credits.
The game principle
This game is a round based economy simulation which takes place in the Middle Ages
(1400 until 1600). Furthermore it is also a realtime strategy game with elements of
role games and it is a simulation of the life.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.May.2003
derstandard.at (ANF)
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Mention of Amizilla on Standard
During the last time good news have been a really rare thing. But the Austrian
newspaper "Der Standard" reports sometimes about our system.
The online article reports about the project "Amizilla" which tries to make possible
the porting of the Mozilla browser to the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.May.2003
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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USB Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1
There's a new update of the Poseidon USB Stack. It consists mainly of improvements and bugfixes of the Mass Storage Class, for Highway as well as Subway drivers. Through this a whole lot more pieces of equipment should run, which had formerly balked.
Newly come is a program for USB-Radios from D-Link, respectively GemTek. One can purchase these very cheaply on eBay, because it was put together in a friendly manner it was just a few hours work to create the drivers.
A bit more was invested in the new program for the management of my MP3 Player (Valencia MPX), which was available for purchase at Lidl in December 2002. This (and many similarly built units) are unfortunately not MSD equipment. With the Uproar tool this MP3 player may nonetheless be conveniently used. In case anyone else has such a gadget, I'd be very appreciative to hear some feedback.
This time there are two separate archives, for classic Amiga as well as MorphOS systems -- this allows simple installation.
That's just an intro, further details may be found in the ReadMe. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
(ANF)
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Amiga Access Homepage Update
On the homepage of the Amiga-Clone 'Access' (title link) there are now some more benchmarks. The modules may be downloaded and tried on your own computer. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Roger Stamm (ANF)
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ahs-amiga.ch Is Moving
Roger Stamm of AHS-Amiga Handel Stamm writes:
"AHS-Amiga is moving. Because of this it may happen that the pages at
www.ahs.amiga.ch are not readily available. If you want to get in touch with us, use email: info@ahs-amiga.ch.
We will send a confirmation within two days for the receipt of the email. If you don't get confirmation, you can also reach us at
rstamm@gmx.de.
Many thanks for your understanding."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Amiforce: Snapshots of Aquarium and Port Royal
Telemar Rosenberger, known to many for his software "AmHuhn," has authored a screen saver
named "Aquarium" and a game named "Port Royal," with the help of the multimedia authoring system
Hollywood. Under the title link you'll find the first screenshots
for both of these programs. The programs will be published as soon as the
announced Hollywood
Version 1.5 is out.
The deal with Aquarium is that it's a screen saver with images of swimming fish, already known from other
platforms. Now AmigaOS too gets the enjoyment of this pleasing screen saver.
Port Royal is a new combat game, which is about ships firing cannons. With this one may, for example, calculate wind
direction in directing a strike, and naturally the enemy ships shoot back. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: New Audio Track
As of now there is a new MP3 (Trance) to be downloaded from Amiforce, for all interested.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.May.2003
Dennis Pauler (ANF)
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Star Empire II: Last possibility to join
Tomorrow, Thursday, a new round of the email based space strategy game
Star Empire II will start. The aim of the game is to become the leader of the universe
but there are 32 human beings trying to do this and several computer controled pirates.
Diplomaty, alliances, but also armed space crafts are strongly indicated to fulfill this.
Who wants to join has now the last possibility to do so
Btw.: The server program of Star Empire II is powered by AmigaOS... :-)
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
pcgames.de (ANF)
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PC Games: Munich decides for Linux
»The Munich city council has decided today that in future on all 14,00 PCs and notebooks of the city Linux software will
be used instead of Microsoft programs.
The council followed with this decission a claim of the 1st municipal
Christian Ude. The migration to the open source operating system should be done steadily during the next years. Initially the public offices
which use mostly office applications should be changed to the new software.
The costs of this change including teaching courses are guessed to nearly 30 million Euros«.
Read the full article (German) by the title link.
Further links regarding this topic:
Golem: München pro Linux: Stadtrat lässt Microsoft abblitzen
heise: IBM: Münchener Entscheidung ein "Ritterschlag für Linux"
heise: CSU kritisiert Münchener Entscheidung als "Software-Abenteuer"
SPIEGEL: MÜNCHEN WÄHLT LINUX SuSE beißt Bill
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Lorraine Design (Website)
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New YAM toolbar icons
At Lorraine-Design there are new icons for the YAM toolbar available for download.
Here is a preview.
Download: NewYam.LHA
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Game: 'Die Kleine Gilde' - lookong for further names
Steffen Nitz writes: "'Die Kleine Gilde' version 0.25 will be released within the next
4 - 5 days and I ask for the following: Actually I am binding the new profession smith to the game and need
20 to 30 house names regarding the smith profession. I am looking for names like "Heavy Hammer", "Hot Iron" etc. There is a keyfile to win for
'Die Kleine Gilde' or for `SN-Münzarchiv'".
Update:
Steffen Nitz has published this
screen shot from the game. Under the title link you will find some others.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Marc Albrecht (E-Mail)
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amiga-news.de: Comuter center maintenance
Tomorrow night (i.e. from Thursday to Friday) there will be some hardware compounds changed at that comuter center which hoste amiga-news.de
therefore between 23:00 and 03:00 that night it might be that the pages are unreachable.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Preview from PairsNG and an own domain
The one or other user might remember the game "Pairs" which was released in 1996 for the first time
in version 1.0 by Tobias Lenz. Seven years later Christoph Kimna is working with "PairsNG" on more than a
honorable successor. The preview reports about Olaf Köbniks first impressions of "PairsNG" and with the
screen shots you can see yourself that there will be a real classic one soon, which won't release you too easy.
Furthermore there is additional information given about the author
Christoph Kimna during the interview and one more surprise. The
interview, the preview and the screen shots are at the section "Interviews". The interview is currently available in
German.
Amiga Arena - Now with an own domain
it took long but with the friendly support of the Fun Time World the
Amiga Arena is reachable at
http://www.amiga-arena.de
from now on.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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Official release of YAM v2.4p1
The email client YAM (Yet Another Mailer) has been released by the YAM open source
team to be publicly downloadable. Read with the following the list of the new
features:
- Fixed: failed to quote messages containing attachments (damato)
- Fixed: the "Abbreviation" string gadget in the Glossary reset
itself to "- new -" every time the contents were deleted (damato)
- Fixed: it could happen that a temporary letter file was used for
several Write windows at once (damato)
- Fixed: would try to delete an inexistant ".autosave0" file if the
AutoSave option was set to 0 (damato)
- Fixed: couldn't exit if ConfirmOnQuit was enabled and YAM was
iconified (damato)
- Fixed: the HIDE option prevented the application from popping up
if MUI's own appicon or the commodity system were used (damato)
- Fixed: the FOLDERINFO ARexx command returned the wrong ID number
for folders containing "sent and received" mail (damato)
- Fixed: changing the folder type failed to refresh the message
list (damato)
- Fixed: forgot to pack messages when they were imported into
compressed folders, causing all sort of calamity (damato)
- Fixed: folders that "lost" their directory were
automatically recreated as folders of type "outgoing" (damato)
- Fixed: cancelling the password requester in the folder settings
window would create a folder protected with an empty password (damato)
- Fixed: the "Export..." item in the popup menu would export the
whole folder contents (damato)
- Fixed: the "Check PGP signature" menu item in the Read window
was sometimes disabled even if the message had a signature to
check (damato)
- Fixed: the "Save decrypted message" menu item in the Read
window didn't work as it should in compressed/encrypted folders
(damato)
- Changed: it is now actually compatible with the most common MBOX
formats, e.g. MBOXRD (damato)
- Changed: added support for the DST variable created by
Facts, rendering SummerTimeGuard emulation obsolete (damato)
- Changed: no longer disables the pattern field in the ASL
file requester opened to attach files (damato)
- Changed: no longer complains if it can't save ENVARC:mui/YAM.cfg
on exit (damato)
- Added: new hidden option "AutoColumnResize" for YAM to resize
the NList columns when switching folders if the option is enabled,
which it is by default (damato)
- Added: confirmation requester before cropping attachments (damato)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Dia-CD (Vacation pictures burned as VideoCD)
Today Carsten Siegner finished his project "Dia-CD"
(at his home page at "rexx"). With this program you can watch your pictures from the vacation easily utilizing a TV and a DVD player.
The program creates automatically a slide show and compiles a VCD-Image by demand.
Features:
- any picture archive convertable
- any picture format usable (utilizes the datatypes)
- adding a soundtrack
- Later navigation with the keys of the DVD rc
- Written in ARexx competly; so to use with all Amigas.
- Every picture or every picute sequence might have its own presentation time (10 s - 100 s)
- If demanded the source pictures are added to the VideoCD as well, so they won't be lost
- To every VideoCD a ReadMe file can be added
- There is a brief online help optional
Requirements:
- RexxTricks_386.lha (from Siegner's home page)
- Tritonrexx (at the RexxTricks directory)
- triton.library (at the RexxTricks directory)
- dttoppm.lha (Aminet)
- sox.lzx (from Siegner's home page or Aminet)
- Multiviev
- execute
- AREXX
- vcd-ffmpeg.lzx (from Siegner's home page)
- min 1 GByte free hard disk space
- min 64 MByte free RAM
Installation:
Install RexxTricks with the installer. That will install all data for
Tritonrexx and the
triton.library also. Unpack dttoppm.lha and copy the program to C:. Unpack vcd-ffmpeg.lzx and move
vcdimager and ffmpeg to C:. ARexx needs to be stated at boottime, Sox must be at C:.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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28.May.2003
James Daniels (E-Mail)
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Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #7
On May the 27th 2003 James Daniels by Apex Designs released the seventh
status report about the port of the game 'Payback' to the Gameboy
Advance.
The update focuses to the new features and performance increase which were done during the last month.
The report includes four new screen shots and a video clip of the game in action.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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27.May.2003
KDH News (ANF)
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AmigaOne: German mailing list
A German-speaking mailing list for AmigaOne-customers was built up today. This mailing list should help AmigaOne-customers
to communicate with other customers in the German-speaking scope (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), also it should be a authority for tips and tricks
because of the AmigaOne.
This mailing list is supported by the Amiga dealer
Point Design and KDH Datentechnik
and is made as a completion to the official Amiga mailing list.
You could announce at here.
Source:
Jürgen Schober - Point Design
Günter Horbach - KDH Datatechnic
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
David Rey (E-Mail)
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YAM Newsletter 12 - visits in the YAM future
The YAMOS team, developer of the e-mail client YAM (Yet Another Mailer), have been published the YAM newsletter No. 12 today.
There they related to the new features of YAM-Release 2.4p1 which explains
hidden options "AutoColumnResize" of this version and visited to the future of YAM. Read the complete English-speaking newsletter under the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Call to Logo competition
The face of AROS in this way. So a logo competition is organized, that is open for designer and graphic artists.
After the delivery date there are public selections, at its end a winner is announced.
All logos had to be delivered until the 30th June, and they are not allowed to contain copyrighted elements. They had to be in a vector or a bitmap format.
Following formats are supported: SVG, EPS, EPSF, PS, AI, PNG, GIF, TIFF, IFF-24 oder PSD.
The winner will be fame and honour.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS: Status Report May 2003
Another whole month has gone by, which means that it's definitely time for another status update. Doh, why do have all the status updates to begin like that? :) I'd like to thank all the people who showed interest in AROS in the last months, and there have been a lot! Anyway, let's not wait longer, here are the juicy bits, in this relatively uneventful month...
Hardware
Johan Grip received the Pegasos board at the end of April, installed Debian GNU/Linux on it, and started working on the hosted AROS port. However he was no longer able to continue for personal reasons, so he sent the board to Michal Schulz, another talented hardware hacker.
In the meantime, Michal, who already had a PPC PReP board, worked on the native PPC port. He merged his sources in the AROS CVS tree, creating the new 'arch/ppc' directory. To this day, he went as far as implementing task handling and scheduling. Congratulations Michal! Sources as well as a PReP boot image can be found at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~misc/AROS.ppc.tar.bz2
Michal is also reworking exec.library to make it hardware/platform-independent, by moving dependent stuff in resources like kernel.resource, OpenFirmware.resource...
Build system
No fundamental changes to this sometimes hated system, but lots and lots of little bug fixes and improvements by almost every active AROS Team member in tools, config files, makefiles... So much activity caused quite a few broken nightly builds, but it seems now stabilized.
Also the newer gcc 3.3 that got installed on the build machine led to some problems, but nothing that couldn't be handled.
We now use bzip2 instead of gzip, and a custom, simpler package format than tar to create the AROS floppy and squeeze every possible byte. In the quest to more space, some less useful programs were removed from floppy. Thanks to Adam Chodorowski for the cleanup and optimizations!
i386-pc Installation
The installer for the i386 native port, install-i386-pc, is currently broken, but a graphical bootsector installer is in work, as well as a bootmenu editor, courtesy of Sebastian Heutling, who also still works on the HDToolBox partition editor.
User Interface
Adam Chodorowski began to work on the Zune custom class PreferencesWindow.mcc which implements the AROS standard prefs window buttons and look.
Paul Smith continued his huge work on the next iteration of Wanderer and the underlying desktop.library. It draws icons, and different views are possible (large icons, small icons, details).
Fabio Alemagna added horizontal and vertical color gradients to Zune images. Take a look at the obligatory screenshot!
By default, the Boot Shell is now closed after Wanderer is started. To open a new shell, use the Wanderer/Shell menu item, or use Amiga-W shortcut (Amiga key is the right Win key on pc105 keyboards)
Localizations
Thanks to Olivier Adam for his French translation of dos.library catalog, and to Paulo Silva for the Portuguese keyboard description (which Georg Steger implemented).
Miscellaneous
Some miscellaneous things that have happened:
- Staf Verhaegen continued to work on diskfont.library.
- Stefan Berger worked hard on ports of gtlayout.library and term 4.7, which can be found in contrib.
- Adam Chodorowski imported AHI 5.8 in AROS CVS, following Martin Blom's release of the AROS port.
- Georg Steger worked on the unix hosted kernel to allow nesting supervisor, so that signals occuring during a signal handler execution are not ignored. It should improve the stability of the serial device.
- and of course, lots of fixes here and there by many developers: for a rough idea, already more than 350 CVS commits this month (although we won't beat the record of 890 last month, according to the AROS-CVS mailing list archive).
Documentation
AROS documentation, in source and HTML-rendered form, is now available on the download page.
Web
Randy Vice set up an AROS support site, TeamAROS, at http://thenostromo.com/teamaros/.
Be sure to check their bounty program if you want to sponsor AROS development.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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27.May.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: Changes and votes
Forgot your password or username? Just click Log in on demo list page, enter your email address and the username and password will be send to you. Now there is no excuse anymore not to get active. By the way, about 120 votes were added in the last week. Thanks and keep them coming! (nba)
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26.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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AA: Interview with Bill Panagouleas / 'DNA - The Variety of Life'
Amiga Arena Interview with Bill Panagouleas (DiscreetFX)
Olaf Köbnik talked with Bill Panagoules about the Amiga port of Mozilla and about upcoming products for the Amiga.
The (English) interview.
Amiga Arena Fullversion: DNA - The Variety of Life
"DNA - The Variety OF Life", the first work by "Applaud
software" is now available for download. The game is a strategy
game. The story is somewhat similar to the one of "UFO - Enemy unknown". The earth is threatend by mutants.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates - 26.05.2003 (Update)
New Ports of Amiga.SF: abcm2ps and cURL
abcm2ps Version 3.5.3
abcm2ps is a program which converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript.
It was developed mainly to print barock organ scores which have independant
voices played on one or many keyboards and a pedal-board.
abcm2ps-3.5.3.lha
cURL Version 7.10.5
cURL is a client to get documents/files from or send documents to a server,
using any of the supported protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET,
LDAP or FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction or
any kind of interactivity. cURL offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy
support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections,
cookies, file transfer resume and more.
curl-7.10.5.lha
IRC-Client: BenderIRC Version 1.5b14
Download: BenderIRC.lha
Tools: LCD-Test and Changer
Philippe Bourdin released two new programs:
- "LCD test" tests LCD screen on defective pixels, as certain
colors are faded in, which facilitate a finding.
Download: LCD-Test.lha
- "Changer" is a program for looking for and replacing in files (also
recursive by sublists). The program uses "Regularexpressions" and Perl-5
must be installed. The program has unfortunately no graphic user
interface, but is started from the Shell (see homepage for documentation).
Download: changer.pl
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
Amiga Society (Website)
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Amiga Society: Update of Little Book and Schlachtfeld News
There are some updates for the Little Book available - short entries about games like Dune II or Celtic Legends.
For the fans of Schlachtfeld there are the following news: There
is meanwhile an Alpha9-Version - this runs among other things also
under UAE. Some systems, as for instance the A4000 from Horst Diebel
want to get along however not so completely with it. On the computers,
on which the play runs, one can select, against an opponent advance
its team and supply oneself with the opponent of engagements. At
present there are however still problems with aiming accuracy and the
shots generally - Christian works however on these problems. It gave
already large progress and moves the end of the alpha phase within
easy reach.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 26.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
McA45a.lha biz/dbase 67K+*McAgenda* is a phonebook very easy to u
mca45CAT.lha biz/dbase 3K+Catalonian catalog for database McAgenda
mca45ESP.lha biz/dbase 5K+Spanish catalog for database McAgenda
SN-KontoArc.lha biz/dbase 94K+V1.11 Accout archives (Germany only)
XBaze-7.2.lha biz/dbase 533K+Very easy2use flexible and fast database
OpenURLDevBas.lha dev/basic 45K+Using OpenURL library from HBasic
OrpheusV1_0.lha dev/basic 40K+AGA copper creator for BlitzBasic2
FusionV1_0.lha dev/misc 217K+AGA palette manipulation & editing
nA_impulse_src.lha dev/src 2.2M+Music disk asm source
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 43K+A simple backup tool.. v1.4
nA_Cracker1_0b.lha disk/misc 65K+NDOS utility tools ;)
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 50K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42a: Advanced snake game
supertvCAT.lha gfx/board 3K+Catalonian catalog for SuperTV
AmiFig_Koch.lha gfx/edit 1K+Draws Koch's Snowflake using AmiFig's Ar
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
FroggerSP.lha gfx/show 17K+Frogger spanish documentation v2.06.0
nA_showLOGO02.lha gfx/show 6K+View mobilephone logos
038_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
039_mpfree.lha mods/moods 7.8M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
040_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.5M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
042_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
043_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
044_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
hum_m220.lha mods/moods 117K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m221.lha mods/moods 634K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m222.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m223.lha mods/moods 163K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m224.lha mods/moods 114K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m225.lha mods/moods 233K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m226.lha mods/moods 295K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m227.lha mods/moods 464K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m228.lha mods/moods 1.2M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m229.lha mods/moods 2.7M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m230.lha mods/moods 209K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m231.lha mods/moods 141K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m232.lha mods/moods 150K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m233.lha mods/moods 770K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m234.lha mods/moods 1.1M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m235.lha mods/moods 1.0M+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
hum_m236.lha mods/moods 217K+Moods - Music For Your Instincts
kof2kxIcons.lha pix/gicon 106K+King Of Fighters 2KX glow icons
Webbit2003_04.lha pix/misc 15M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04
Webbit2003_05.lha pix/misc 5.9M+Webb.it 2003 archive 04
nA_ConFile04b.lha text/misc 60K+Compare from 2 to 5 files
FileComp.lha util/cli 3K+CLI tool for comparing files.
MakeList.lha util/cli 6K+Create file listing from directories (68
NoLed_v1.2.lha util/misc 4K+Low-Pass Filter Killer v1.2
DRemind.lha util/time 292K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.65!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #037
There is another new track by 'Liquid Skies' available. The details of release no. 37:
- Title: "Transarktyka"
- Musician: Maxus
- Duration: 5.10
- Style: Trance
- Format: MP3
The whole package, including the cover and some additional information (text files), has a size of 4.8MB.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Die Kleine Gilde v0.2
Die Kleine Gilde (The Little Guild) V0.2 is available as of now on Steffen Nitz' homepage.
Changes in version 0.2
- Added 8 computer players
- Fixed bugs
- Other changes I don't want to go into right now
- The game is now shareware (10 Euro), though the price may still change
The future gaming principle
The game is a round based economic simulation set in the Middle Ages from 1400 through 1600.
Furthermore it is also a realtime strategy game and a lifecycle simulation. The fascinating thing about "Die Kleine Gilde" is that you can and have to found a whole family dynasty if you don't want to stop playing after the death of your character but rather continue playing with one of your children.
You are a merchant who in the beginning takes on one of the starting trades, as there are: blacksmith, carpenter, stonemason, alchimist, perfumer, innkeeper, thief or preacher. When you have snatched up a little money you can also change trades, e.g. to become a money lender or choose one of the other starting trades. In addition you can run for office on country level, at the town council, the Church, as town civil servant, town myrmidon or informant.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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25.May.2003
amiga.org
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Tao: intent 2 raring to go
In a comment to the article "Amiga DE a Good Idea, Poor
Execution" in the forum of the American news service amiga.org, Francis Charig, CEO of Tao, announced intent2 and clarified a couple of points. Please read Charig's full comment below:
"We will be announcing the launch of 'intent 2' in June. I can't say too much about it here as this is a public forum so please forgive me and remain patient through the next few weeks.
A few comments....
intent is a software platform targeted at resolving fundamental commercial issues faced by network operators, OEMs, ODMs, applications developers and content creators. We have been building a series of technologies in areas such as AV, Java and various new components and tools that get announced during June. To be able to provide a solution that meets the market's expectations, we have been working on threading them together so that we have a true platform. You'll find that we've been extremely successful in achieving this. The previous ADK and SDKs weren't good enough to enhance our reputation but that should shortly change.
During the last year-and-a-half we have had strong support from the OCPA which ratified the intent core APIs as its standard last year. Membership includes Sega, Konami, Bandai, Capcom, Taito, Qualcomm, TI, Motorola, Intel, Hitachi, Sony, Fujitsu, Pioneer, Epson, Kyocera, JVC, Sharp and Toyota, and so forth. Products on the market or being developed by Philips, Sony, Kyocera and many others supporting devices (DVCs, remote controls, home servers, PVRs, phones, PDAs....) incorporating MIPS, X86, PowerPC, ARM, SH, Embedded Linux, Smartphone, Pocket PC, iTRON, Symbian, VxWorks, the native intent RTOS show the unique breadth of the product as we had promised. We're getting traction from all of the targeted markets of our business.
Comments in the thread about Java support relates to the desktop where memory constraints and other factors make those solutions inappropriate for the kind of devices we are focussed on. In our area, intent is massively outperforming the capabilities of any alternative. Consequently we have been rapidly gaining network operator support.
However, while the Java language is an important part of the platform (I cannot understand comments in this thread that indicate Java has failed or doesn't have momentum), Java cannot be the entire platform because of its many limitations and the ability to transmit to networked devices fun content written in any language including scripting languages is important if we are to talk about truly open platforms.
I don't remember having had a single cross word with Bill McEwen since we began our Amiga relationship. We still see Amiga as an important potential contributor of content and other areas of value-add and we have made introductions of Amiga to various blue chip partners or customers of ours including some in the last few weeks. However, remember that intent has not been developed to be a replacement o/s for the desktop but nor have we ever claimed that it was. We have been entirely consistent in our aims and Tao, and we're making strong progress.
All the best
Francis Charig" (nba) (Translation: cb)
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25.May.2003
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Milestone 1 of Jazilla released
After the appeal incl. fund-raising campaign initiated by DiscreetFX for porting the Web browser Mozilla for the Amiga, the works on various porting projects are apparently picking up speed.
Thus a first alpha version of Jazilla has been presented, requiring Java however, but which might in the mid-term be compatible with AmigaOS 4
and MorphOS, if these will fully support Java.
Significant features of Jazilla:
- chrome:// support
- JavaScript implemented for the GUI thanks to the Mozilla.org Rhino engine. HTML Scripting coming.
- GUI in part, uses XUL and W3C DOM
- Written in 100% Java
- Open Source
- Uses the NetBrowser renderer, which is actually based on Jazilla-classic work.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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25.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos-Chronicle by Martin Heine
Starting from his German translation of Bill Buck's and Raquel Velascos' Articia adventures, Martin Heine has compiled a (German) "Pegasos Chronicle".
Corrections or events to be added are of course welcome (Senex@gmx.de). (ps) (Translation: cb)
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24.May.2003
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-KontoArchiv V1.12 and "Die Kleine Gilde" overview
SN-KontoArchiv v1.12 released
SN-KontoArchiv is an account management software with many input and statistics functions. The program is email ware. New in version 1.12 is a bug fixing related to reading the keyfile.
Game: Die Kleine Gilde
Soon will a new version (V0.2) of the economy simulation "Die
Kleine Gilde" be released. The game status changed from email ware to shareware. The price will probably be 5,- or 10,- Euro.
The author Steffen Nitz needs your help for the game: people who can give him appr. 30 names in medieval style for a pub and/or 10 names for houses gets the keyfile for free.
When forty names will have been found v0.2 will be released.
Besides that beta testers and a graphical artist are looked for. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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OS4.0 on Tour News
We have the pleasure to announce that the 'OS4.0 on Tour' event will expand
into two more countries:
- 21.06.2003 Schweiz / Basel
- 28.06.2003 Schweden / Goetheborg
On all these events we will have 'OS4.0 on Tour' merchandising products
available for sale. These products can also be bought from your
participating partners. For more information see title link.
(ps)
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24.May.2003
Diverse
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Software news (till 24.05.2003)
Here's a short sumary of software updates of the last few days:
Game: Worm Wars version 7.42a by Amigan Software
Download: WormWars.lha - 585 KB
Game: Saga version 1.26a by Amigan Software
Download: Saga.lha - 306 KB
Installer: WHDLoad - new packages till 23.05.2003
- 23.05.03 new: Battlehawks 1942 (Lucasfilm) done by Galahad
- 23.05.03 improved: Doman (World Software) fixed display problems
- 23.05.03 improved: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) supports 2 more versions, memory size fix
- 22.05.03 new: Powerdrome (Electronic Arts) done by Galahad
- 18.05.03 improved: Silent Service (Microprose) supports NTSC version
- 17.05.03 new: Zombi (UBI-Soft) done by Agressor
- 15.05.03 new: Spot (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by Codetapper
- 14.05.03 new: The Settlers / Die Siedler (Blue Byte) done by JOTD
CD burning software: MakeCD module - makecdromfs version 45.10
Download: makecdromfs_45_10.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: The games museum with rating possibility
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today they integrated the possibility to rate single games. Read now the original (German) announcement:
"Manche Sachen sind ganz einfach und dauern trotzdem ewig lange, bevor sie
realisiert sind. Dass es eine Bewertung der Spiele durch die Besucher geben
soll, das wird wohl schon fast seit einem Jahr versprochen. Heute war nun der
Tag, an dem ich es einfach einmal umgesetzt habe. War auch garnicht schlimm...
Auf jeden Fall habt ihr nun die Möglichkeit, pro Game genau einmal eure
Bewertung abzugeben. Achso, die Funktion der Bewertung steht nur
registrierten Mitgliedern offen."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Stiftung Warentest Online
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Stiftung Warentest: 0190 numbers - search engine shows netprovider
Stiftung Warentest reports in this article about a
search engine
in the Internet that is supposed to give information about which 0190 number belongs to which provider. This is an offer of the German "Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post". The search engine is active since Wednesday. Unfortunately it shows only the net provider of the calling number, therefore it's still complicated to search the people in the background behind the numbers. This search engine is a correct but only a first step in the fight against the unscrupulous dialer money makers.
Read the full (German) article following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MUI: new gradient feature for MorphOS v1.4
On MorphOS-News.de you can find an unofficial screenshot of the upcoming MorphOS version 1.4 showing a new MUI feature: gradient creation in realtime (these are no bitmaps).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
(ANF)
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New webpage for Amiga clone Access
Following the title link you will find a new launched homepage for the Amiga clone Access by Index Information LDT. As there are several Access boards circulating but without an official place to turn to have all available data been collected and a forum has been installed. This can be used to exchange experiences and possibly to remove problems or to answer questions.
As there's only a small number of boards spread throughout the world is the page been held in the international comprehensible English. In the forum itself you may of course write in other languages, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Pixel Art (email)
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StartMenu: Pixload final version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS 1.3
The Amiga Classic version 4 of the start menu Pixload is finished, only the German localization is still in the works. The version for MorphOS 1.3 is 99,99 % finished. Here is the final feature list:
- Drag & Drop of image directories loads a thumbnail tool
- New graphics formats: TIFF and TARGA via datatypes
- New sound formats: AIFF and WAVE (no datatypes needed)
- Control bar for MiamiDX integrated
- New program loading window
- clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- some bugs fixed
- Pixload is scalable
- Pixload can open directories instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organization via Drag & Drop
- Choice for number of icon columns
- Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version
N.B : All functions linked to drag and drop, not work because of
MorphOS 1.3 version (ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Disk mag Generation now online available
Three issues of the legendary Amiga demo scene disk mag Generation
by Artwork, later Endzeit, are now for all interested visitors online available. The former main editor Henning
RokDaZone Brau had already months ago a HTML version of his ork prepared but never put it online. This has now been completed and released by the Diskmag.de team.
For all those who had been active in the mid 90s there's much to read. And much you still can and probably also will remember.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.May.2003
Thorsten Mampel, 1. Vorsitzender ACH e.V. (ANF)
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Amiga meeting North 2003 in Bad Bramstedt
From October, 10th to 12th 2003 takes in Bad Bramstedt (north of Hamburg) the 4th Amiga meeting North place. A full weekend party and fun all around the Amiga. The program:
- Demo and film shows via beamer
- free hardware and software market (Amigas and equipment)
- Workshops
- Creating a party CD by the participiants
- Network with connection to the Internet via DSL
- Webcam
- Guest book
- a. m. m.
Up to 40 computers can be setup and connected. You can register via a form on our homepage (VISITORS FOR A DAY, TOO) or directly via phone in the hotel Tanneneck (04192/500071, ask for Norbert!).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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