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.
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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.
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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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28.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Emulator: Aosolin 0.8.24 (AmigaOSoverLinux)
The aim of the Aosolin project
("AmigaOSoverLinux") is to offer a special suited slackware
Linux distribution which boots directly into an Amiga emulator.
Curently the author tries to join the sources of LinuxUAE
0.8.22, LinuxUAE 0.8.21/JIT and WinUAE 0.8.22 to improve UAE
to his demands. A first version of his emulator (Aosolin
0.8.24) is available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
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Tulip presents the "C64 Mini Game Console"
Tulip presents the "C64 Mini Game Console" by the title link:
A console fitted into a joystick case with 30 preinstalled C64
games (Summer Games, Winter Games and California Games are
mentioned) which can be connected to a TV directly.
The device, which is a cooperation with Ironstone, is
announced to be released within the 2nd half of 2004 and will
be priced around EUR 30. It's said to be the first device of
an entire line.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Holger Krefting (ANF)
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Map editor for Tales of Tamar
For the round based strategy game "Tales of Tamar" there is a
new map editor available which has been developed by a ToT gamer. Further information is
available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
PPCNUX (ANF)
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Motorola/Freescale announces forthcoming PPC product line
"Freescale Semiconductor", Motorola's semiconductor division,
announces their
forthcoming
PPC product line.
An illustrated, detailed German article about Motorola's plans is to get
at
ppcnux.de.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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BabelDoc V2.9 released
Lorence Lombardo has released version 2.9 of
BabelDoc. This program uses the according service by
Altavista to translate text documents. The reqtools.library, a
TCP/IP-Stack as well as the KingCON handler are required to
run the program.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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New download link for PegXMac (for newly registered users only)
David Bentham offers a faster server access for his software package
PegXMac now. But it's
required to get a new registration to log on that server and
get the ISO
file.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Apr.2004
Thorsten Mampel, 1. Vorsitzender Amiga-Club Hamburg e.V. (ANF)
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"5. Amiga-Meeting Nord" in Bad Bramstedt
During Friday the 29th October till Sunday the 31st October
2004 there will be the 5. Amiga-Meeting Nord
held at Bad Bramstedt, a bit north from Hamburg, Germany. Up to 40
computers can be brought up and get connected.
Planned is:
- Beamer demo and film presentations
- Hard and Software market (Amigas and accessoires) free of charge
- Creation of a party CD by the participants
- Network with Internet access (DSL)
- Webcam
- Further more...
Of course the main focus will be set to the fun of it.
This year we want to offer the remaining hard and software
developers the possibility to introduce their products to a
broader audience. It is planned to record a movie from those
presentations and to put that to the Internet and cover disks.
Developers interested in this are welcome to contact
Thorsten
Mampel to check the details.
All Amiga users (AmigaOS 1 to 4, MorphOS and Emulator users)
are invited to register at our homepage or directly at the
Hotel "Tanneneck" speaking to Norbert Kapahnke on phone by +49 4192 500071.
The fees:
- For the full weekend from Fri to Sun including two
nights, twice a full dinner (warm) and
twice a (continental, buffet) breakfast the fee is EUR 75.-.
- For the half weekend from Fri to Sat or from Sat to Sun
including one night, one full diner (warm) and one breakfast
(continental, buffet) the fee is EUR 37.50.
- for a day only guest the fee is EUR 5.- (registration
not urgent, those day guests who plan to bring their own
computer must register also!).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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27.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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Pegasos: PegXMac available (Update)
The Live-CD PegXMac from the PegXLin developer David Bentham (amiga-news.de reported), which allows it to boot MacOS on a Pegasos using Mac-on-Linux without a hard disk-installation of Linux, is now available.
Main features:
- Live-CD (no hard disk-installation required)
- Mac-on-Linux (MOL) 0.70-3
- Automatic hardware-detection (specific for the Pegasos)
- One CDROM, DVD or CDRW drive required
- Easy to use interface for setting up MOL
Advantages of PegXMac:
- PegXMac is the first existing Live-CD which is specifically configured for the Pegasos I/II
- No installation required (except for the MacOS part), just boot from CD if you want to use MacOS only
- Everything is set up for installing the (not included) MacOS, therefore no need to burn the midnight candle for installing and configuring Linux before
- Fast booting
- Easy to use
Update: (27.04.2004, 23:44, cg)
The author's homepage has moved to http://pegxmac.zftp.com/. (snx)
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26.Apr.2004
amigaworld.net
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New IDE for AmigaOS
"Ecommerce Logic" announced a new IDE for AmigaOS. The package contains an interpreter, compiler and the IDE itself.
The supported programming language is developed by "Ecommerce Logic" and is similar to Java and C#. Examples are available at the title link.
(cg) (Translation: sk)
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26.Apr.2004
Amigaworld.net (Website)
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Short-software-news: Updates at amiga.sourceforge.net
Updates of the following ports are available at amiga.sourceforge.net:
hotwayd v0.8 hotmail/msn email client
xpdftools v3.00 pdf files collection tools
cdrtools v2.01 CD burner collection tools
lame v3.96 mp3 encoder
cdrdao v1.1.7 Disk-At-Once burning collection tools
vcdimager v0.7.20 VCD and super VCD collection tools
mjpegtools v1.6.2 mpeg files collection tools
swftools v0.5.1 swf files collection tools
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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26.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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Review: USB-Stick "Pendrive" with Amiga (English)
A review by the South Wales Amiga User Group (SWAUG) about the usability of the Pendrive with the Amiga is now available at the titel link.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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26.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: CPU-Monitor (Update)
Ecologically friendly CPU Monitor for MorphOS
I'm very proud to annouce that we could finish today the first ever ecologically friendly CPU Monitor for the MorphOS operating system.
CPU Monitor 1.0 is completly based on old and recycled source code. It is also completly recyclable for further use and all non recyclable parts, like the falled out hairs of the development crew, are 100% biodegradable. It was for the first time ever possible to renounce animal experiments, therefore no coders were harmed during the several years lasting development of CPU Monitor.
We're very proud and excited about this success!
Please visit http://www.the-recyclable-cpumonitor-project.org for more information and corporate inquiries.
We opened the shop so you can order your 100% chloroform-free copy of CPU Monitor 1.1 for the MorphOS operating system (C.O.D.) NOW! Also a CPU Monitor Brochure for immediate download is available for free.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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Amiga ports of avilib, bzlib and libxm12
At amiga.sf there are now Amiga ports of some libraries from the Unix world. Right now avilib, bzlib, and libxml2 have been ported. The Amiga implementations are shared libraries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Organizer: Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Hyperion and the MicroA1 at the AOS 4 event in Essen
The following employees from Hyperion Entertainment will be at the AmigaOS4 event on May, 15th in Essen: Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden (AmigaOS 4), Steffen Haeuser (AmigaInput and several OS 4 ports) and Timothy De Groote (sales manager).
Besides that, the MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4 will be shown for the first time in Germany. Further information can be found on the official AmigaOS4 event website.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
ANN (website)
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MPEG player: RiVA 0.48
Stephen Fellner has released a new version of the MPEG player RiVA with AHI support and several bugfixes. Details as well as a demo version (restricted in displaying no colours) can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Apr.2004
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.9.0
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released version 3.9.0 of the tool SRename. Using SRename, which requires AmigaOS 3.0+, you can rename files easily.
New features:
- Improved the benchmarking functionality of the STATS option. Added a more
meaningful "Renamed objects per second" statistic. This figure is displayed
only if the given rename operations take at least a second, and an
additional
message is displayed if this figure doesn't represent performance accurately
because of given options or other factors.
Also added the percentage of processed files that are or would be renamed.
- Added the FORCEPATH option to force the entire filepattern to be taken as a
path regardless if it ends with a slash or not. This was added to avoid
having
to add a slash at the end of a path every time a path has to be supplied.
- Display of warnings when the parser detects problematic command sequences
that
can still be executed.
- More speed in Indirect mode and less code size by streamlining the internal
workings of Indirect mode. Several storage buffers were unified into one
making the code that handles Indirect mode much less convoluted and much
more robust.
- Further reduced startup time when Indirect mode is used.
Bugfixes:
- Mishandling of separators under certain conditions.
- Sometimes error messages weren't displayed.
- The Main component failed to be created under certain conditions.
- Incorrect number placement when modifying the Basename using swapping,
shifting or unifying 2-component basenames since version 3.8.0.
- Incorrect operation of Indirect mode in some occasions.
Other changes:
- Added the script "RenumberNoBase" for renumbering batches of filenames that
don't share a common basename.
- Fixed the "HexToChr" script to process only byte hex values.
(snx)
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24.Apr.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amiga-User-List: Old GAUHPIL website deactivated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of
Amiga users, ordered by continents and countries. Meanwhile, the
GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL based database solution.
Today, the old website http://gauhpil.home-pages.de/ was completely
deactivated. From now on, the GAUHPIL can only be reached at http://gauhpil.dietmar-knoll.de. The moderator kindly asks all webmasters to check
their links and update them if necessary. (snx)
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