15.Jan.2003
M.Schwarz (ANF)
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Former Metabox Executive Stefan Domeyer accused
Stefan Domeyer former executive of the Met@box AG has been accused last week by the public prosecutors of Hannover because of stock excange course manipulation.
Full article (German) see title link.
The set top box producer gained some interested within the Amiga community due to its announcement of a processor card
for the A1200 in November 1999. Because of the unclear business methods Metabox reached the headlines several times in 2001.
Met@box AG has been founded on May the 15th 1996 with the name PIOS Computer AG by Amiga-Commodore developer engeneers (Dave Haynie, Andy Finkel) and former managers of Amiga Technologies (Stefan Domeyer). The initial capital, contributed by seven formers, had the amount of DM 1.05 millions.
Further details are to obtain from our
info page from June 1999.
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15.Jan.2003
Bernward Hofmann (E-Mail)
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Amithlon: PuhDerBaer update
Bernd Meyer writes:
I just realized that the stereo-capable version of PuhDerBaer (the
Paula-to-AHI redirector) never made it out to the users. Well, it's never
too late --- download the archive and please make sure you read the
included README.
Please note that I packed this up under Linux, rather than under AmigaOS.
So it is possible that permission bits may not be set correctly --- so if
things don't work, look for that first.
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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus
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Event: Pictures from the CES 2003 by Genesi USA
By the title link there are three photos available from the team who were presenting not only the Eclipsis but also the possibilities of the Pegasos computer at their own stand at the CES 2003 in Las Vegas.
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15.Jan.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Four news demos at the Amiga Demoscene Archive
On January the 12th 2003 the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) has been expanded with four new demos. Added are:
- Splinters by Mystic (1997, Slideshow)
- Diskobox by Abyss (1997, 40k-Intro)
- Flower Power by Anarchy (1992, Demo)
- Goa by The Black Lotus (1996, Demo)
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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus
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#AmigaFun-Website will be abandoned
After one of the founders of the IRC channel #AmigaFun has left the channel the official website for #amigafun will be closed at the end of January.
Due to that the HTMLchat hosted at our forum will be shut down at the end of the month.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: 621 game infos updated
The Legacy is the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC, which offers screen shots, cover scans and information about the developers to its readers.
Today 621 game infos (mainly at the screen shot area) were updated.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
UAE-X
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Emulator: UAE-X Version 0.7 - Amiga emulator for the X-Box
With UAE-X you are able to emulate an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 with your X-Box. UAE-X is available to the terms of the GPL. For compilation the Microsoft XBOX XDK will be needed. By the title link there are beside the new version 0.7 detailed information and some screen shots available.
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15.Jan.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages (until 01-13-2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games to your hard disk which were intended for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added/updated since our last post:
- 13.01.03 new: Tornado Ground Attack (Energize) done by Codetapper
- 13.01.03 new: Pharaoh's Curse (Bignonia) done by Asman
- 13.01.03 new: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) done by JOTD
- 13.01.03 improved: Body Blows (Team 17) another version supported
- 11.01.03 fixed: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) fixed access faults and VBR
- 11.01.03 new: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) done by Psygore
- 08.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed install script
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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus
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New website by Lorence Lombardo
Lorence Lombardo has put a new website online from that his software for 68k and Amithlon Amiga might be downloaded, among these are Amidiction, PegaThlon, HTMLStrip or BabelDoc.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
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amiga-news.de: Amazon partner program buttons built in
Along the discussion (German) during the last week about new possibilities of funding there was several times the proposal among the comments to join the Amazon partner program. We signed it up now and there are now the two buttons for that built in at the right menu.
Many of you are buying books at Amazon. If you will do so in future by using one of the two buttons we will obtain a provision, which we can then use to fund amiga-news.de. So this is a kind of possibility to support us financially.
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15.Jan.2003
amiga.sf
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Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 01-15-2003
The following software ports were updated or added:
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15.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV card software: AmithlonTV beta version 230
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 230 of his TV card driver software
AmithlonTV.
New with this version:
- BUGFIX:
Found the crappy crash bug, that caused the bt8x8 driver sometimes to crash.
The same bug seems to caused the video freezing, the picture startup problem
and some fuzzy system trouble. I made fullspeed resizing tests without any
further picture trouble or crashes. Sometimes it's worth to rework a trouble
making driver from scratch!
- FEATURE:
The new reworked bt8x8 driver is able to process as many picture buffers
as required.
- FEATURE:
The new reworked bt8x8 driver is pre calculating the risc code size before
compiling, which causes less memory usage.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed a window sizing problem with smear (reported by Carsten Siegner).
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta230.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2003
Alfie's Amiga Homepage (ANF)
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OpenURL and RxMUI Update
The RxMUI package is now released in version 31.5, and OpenURL is available in
version 4.1.
Some other projetcs have also new versions:
- BWin.mcc 20.3
- GIFAnim.mcc 19.2
- SpeedBar.mcc 16.2
- Urltext.mcc 18.3
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: New year, new drivers, new prices
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is not only a PCI-card, it can also be used in an
Amiga. The first SID-driver has now been released for AmigaOS: Stefan Haubenthal
has written a 6581sid.library for common C64 emulators like Frodo or MagiC64.
Download: 6581sid.lha - 1442 Bytes
Unfortunately, the new year also brings bad news: Higher taxes, higher energy
cost and higher wages at our contractors force us to increase some prices for the
first time in the nearly nine-year old history of the company. This mainly affects
the new products. On the other hand, we will decrease prices for the existing
inventory.
The new pricelist is valid from February 1st, 2003.
Prices at your local reseller may be different from the prices listed here,
especially because of differen VAT rates in the European countries. Prices
listed here include the German VAT of 16%. Price lists published previously
become invalid with the publication of this list.
Buddha Flash IDE controller 49,90 EUR
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper 89,90 EUR
Catweasel Z-II (incl. Buddha) 74,90 EUR
Catweasel ISA (PC-Version) 39,90 EUR
Gemini SCMS-killer (opto in) 149,00 EUR
Gemini SCMS-killer (coax in) 99,00 EUR
Graffiti Videocard 19,00 EUR
IDE-fix Express upgrade A1200 24,90 EUR
IDE-fix Adapter A4000 14,90 EUR
ISDN-Surfer w/o OVP 59,90 EUR
ISDN-Surfer w/ OVP 79,90 EUR
Silversurfer 29,90 EUR
Silversurfer limited Edition 34,90 EUR
A600 adapter for Silversurfer 9,90 EUR
X-Surf 2 ethernet 89,90 EUR
Lyra keyboard adapter 29,90 EUR
VarIO (Zorro/26-pin version) 49,00 EUR
VarIO (A1200 version) 59,00 EUR
PCI POST code display 39,90 EUR
Indivision Flickerfixer 99,00 EUR
Retro Replay 50,00 EUR
Retro Replay incl. Silversurfer 75,00 EUR
C-One reconfigurable computer mainboard aprox. 250,00 EUR
The products Kylwalda and IDE-fix express A1200 will only be produced on special
order. We're currently considering production outside Germany to keep the target
price of 189,- EUR for the Delfina soundcard.
Something funny at the end: Individual Computers is being massively attacked by
viruses in the past few weeks. Up to eight emails containing a virus arrive every
day. The amusing part about this is that it's viruses that only spread through
Windows and Outlook. Those who want to harm us should know that we're not using
sub-standard software, and attacks like this are simply ineffectual.
(ps)
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14.Jan.2003
Steffen Häuser / Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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New Quake2 Update available
On our website is a new Update for Quake2 available, for PPC and 68k, registered
users can download it there.
The new update fixes a bug in the GL renderer of the first update, a small bug in the
GUI and has some optimizations. Also you can now save screenshots (with the GL
renderer) as JPEGs as before only in TGA.
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14.Jan.2003
amiga.org / Stefan 'Scholle' Czinczoll (ANF)
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Pre-Releases of the new RC5-72 Clients available
Under the title link the AmigaOS-Clients (68k, PowerUp, WarpUp) for
the RC5-72 contest can be dowloaded. As said on amiga.org
the PowerUp-version is 100% MorphOS compatible. The clients
are so called "release candidate" versions. The versions have the numbers v2.9001.479.
The aim of the project RC5-75 is with as many computers as possible to decode a
72-bit-key. There are trillions of possibilites to compute. To take part in this you
do not have to have knowledge in programming, only free computer capacity. Jut
install te client, get some blocks and after decoding send them back. Help, a FAQ and
more explanations you will find at Amiga RC5 Team Effort.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Jan.2003
Andreas Kürzinger (ANF)
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BlizKick Version 1.24rc5 und NewPatchMult64 Version 1.5
New versions of Harry "Piru" Sintonen's BlizKick (v1.24rc5, MapROM Tool for
Phase5/DCE Turboboards, Readme)
and NewPatchMult64 (v1.5, 060 Patches for UMult64/SMult64, Readme)
are released. For both tools are new detected bugs fixed.
Download:
BlizKick-1.24rc5.lha - 280
KB
NewPatchMult64-1.5.lha -
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13.Jan.2003
Jürgen Schmitz (E-Mail)
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Amiga Inc.: AmigaOS4 Feature Set: Release 1
January 13, 2003 - Snoqualmie, WA
Amiga is pleased to publish this first version of the feature set of the up
and coming AmigaOS4.0. The document will undergo revision in subsequent issues
but because of the massive demand for information made by the public, we have
decided to release it in its current state.
Due to the large amount of work and the obvious technical nature of OS development,
the document is both considerable in size, laden with jargon and, to save download
time, diagrams have not been included.
For those using older Amiga based PDF viewers, there may be a few minor issues
with displaying the front page graphics but this is due to issues with these
viewers. On official PDF viewers, and on the new AmigaOS4.0 viewer, the document
is rendered true.
Amiga would like to thank both those in the AmigaOS4.0 project team, who have
worked on this project with passion and commitment and those who have patiently
waited for their favourite platform to bloom once again. It has been a huge
undertaking and no one company, entity or person can take the credit. It has
been a fantastic demonstration of what makes the Amiga platform so special,
the coming together of like minds to build something extraordinary.
AmigaOS4.0. The legend continues.
Click here to download/view the
AmigaOS4 Feature Set PDF
Update:
There is also a HTML version of this PDF document:
http://www.ryusworld.webhop.net/OS4Features/features.html
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13.Jan.2003
Sylvio (ANF)
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New Screenshots of Soms3D and innovation
There are new Soms3D shots on the Anime development web page to admire,
which shows the first progress of the engine. In addition one can now chat
with the developers of Soms3D. On the IRC server phatnet
(irc.phat-net.de #amigafun) and/or at this URL.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads 13.01.2003
Here the current uploads:
rno-urea.lha demo/aga 1.6M+RNO: "Urea" demo from M&S 2000 (7th)
eviled.lha dev/e 75K+Editor with source in E
php-4.3.0-bin.lha dev/gg 717K+PHP 4.3.9 - AmigaOS 68k binary
fdisk.lha disk/misc 206K+PC partition table editor for Amiga
CyberGazetka01.lha docs/mags 406K+Skubaniec - simple polish mag
WormWars.lha game/misc 624K+Worm Wars 7.3: Advanced snake game
Sv5Fix100.lha gfx/misc 284K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.00 (11.1.2003)
3c589.lha hard/drivr 54K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
Lame68k.lha mus/misc 324K+Lame 3.93.1, mp3 encoder
cvs-1.11.4.lha util/gnu 1.1M+CVS 1.11.4 - Concurrent Versions System
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 305K+Report+ 5.64: Multipurpose utility
idle1_4.lha util/moni 12K+A (working) cpu monitor
idlewos.lha util/moni 12K+A cpu monitor with WarpOS Support
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13.Jan.2003
John Klas (E-Mail)
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Sixgirls Computing Labs is under attack
John Klos from Sixgirls Computing Labs writes:
Sixgirls Computing Labs, which is known for being one of the only hosting
services which uses an Amiga as a full time server (reva.sixgirls.org), is
experiencing a massive denial of service attack of unprecedented
magnitude.
A previous attack saturated the 10-base-T connection of the Amiga server
with over 7 Mbps of syn packets, which caused loss of most connectivity
for part of a day, but the machine was put behind another Sixgirls server
with 100-base-T connections which filters this traffic.
Another attack began at midnight EST Sunday morning. Information from the
upstream router shows that this attack is using 150 Mbps of traffic to
make the connection unusable. Measures will be put into place to block
this traffic upstream, and normal service should resume sometime Monday.
The authorities are investigating.
Temporarily, you may have trouble accessing sites which are hosted on
reva.sixgirls.org, such as:
http://distributed.amiga.org/
http://www.totalamiga.org/
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/
http://ireland.amiga.org/
and others.
Please check back.
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13.Jan.2003
Grasshopper LLC
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DTP: PageStream V4.1.5.5 for Amiga OS and Windows
On 12 January 2003 Grasshopper LLC published version 4.1.5.5 of the
DTP program 'PageStream' for Amiga and Windows. This
update is available for registered users on the Grasshopper LLC Website at
the disposal. Currently this update contains only the new files until the
test of the package is finished.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV software: AmithlonTV beta version 229
Guido Mersmann published beta version 229 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV.
- CHANGED:
Complete rework of the current video_bt8x8.lib.
Many routines replaced, improved or completly removed.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed a memory allocation problem. The video_bt8x8.lib didn't
work on non powerpci.library systems, now this is fixed.
- BUGFIX:
TVCard.library is now able to detect the Philips video chip
which is using the pci subclass "other" instead of video.
- FEATURE:
New option "Push in screen"! When using PowerWindows you're
able to drag windows out of the screen, which is very useful.
My TV window is placed at the right bottom of the screen by
default. When using the menu/hotkey to enlarge the window it
stays there and grows into the screen border. By using the new
option the window position is automaticaly changing to fit
on screen.
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta229.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
SAKU
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Meeting: Pictures of the Alternative Party 2003 (update)
Under the title link you can find some pictures of the Alternative Party 2003, which took
place last weekend in Helsinki, Finland.
Supplement 14.01.2003:
Further pictures can be found
here and
here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Meeting: Amiga party in Braunschweig asks for registration
Marius Schwarz wrote:
"For planning reasons of the Amiga Lan party in Braunschweig, which will take place
on 8 and 9 February 2003, we would like to ask all of you, to announce your coming by using our web form. We need the
registration because of the food supply, are thus in your
interest. THX."
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13.Jan.2003
Velcro_SP (ANF)
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Meeting: Pictures of CES 2003 (Genesi)
I placed pictures of the CES 2003 on-line. Much fun when looking at!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Jan.2003
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amiga-news.de: 1000th news ticker mailed!
More than 600 subscribers make use of the possibility to have our news sent to
them via eMail. Jürgen Müller, who we are extending a big thankyou to, has been
creating a ticker almost daily for more than 3 years, and yesterday the 1000th
ticker was sent in the German section!
If you hadn't yet known about this possibility, you can learn how to subscribe
and unsubscribe under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Jan.2003
Jörg Thomas (ANF)
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New URL for ylf's home page
As Amiga browsers apparently are learning and thus are slowly getting problems
with my hitherto domain redirect service in the form of annoying banner ads and
popup windows, I have now set up a new URL. As from now my site with the well
known hardware tips and the \"Amiga ist ...\" page can also be reached under
http://www.ylf.de.vu.
At the same time I would like to thank everyone for their feedback, and ask
those who have linked to my page to update the link at the next opportunity.
Regards, Jörg Thomas (ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New review online
Today a review by Tristan Mangold of the online game 'Inselkampf' has been
published in the Amiga Future home page's articles area.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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11.Jan.2003
Stefan Ruppert (ANF)
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Red card for Internet investigators
Stefan Ruppert wrote:
Just stumbled across the above mentioned site. Don't know if this has already been posted here but it seems to me to be interesting for all Internet users.
Some words about the content:
"The Bundesrat has decided concerning a bill that intends the saving of all available data in the area of the classic telecommuncations (calling via cellphone and mobile cell phone, SMS, fax etc.) as well as all data available on the Internet on stock. The goal is to make it possible for the secret services and the offices for prosecution to find data they can access if is needed. Details shall not be handled in form of laws but through the Federal Government via a statuory instrument."
For those who are interested I came via fiff.de
to this site.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Conrad Elektronik: USB/Firewire to IDE interface
At Conrad Elektronik you can buy an interface for USB/FireWire to
IDE. With this interface it shall be possible to run an external IDE tower with hard disks for example via the USB interface card Highway. This interface handles on the IDE side ATA and ATAPI (PIO 0-4 and UDMA 0-4).
Interesting though is the question whether this interface can work also in the other direction. IDE to USB/FireWire.
Supplement:
Link to the interface removed as they use with single session IDs. So all interested have to wade through to the interface's page themselves.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Jabberwocky
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky v1.3 - 6. preview (Update)
Tom Parker has released preview 5 of the Instant Messenger 'JabberWocky' for
Amiga computers. Jabber
is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections to other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and
Yahoo are possible via gateways.
Download: Jabberwocky030109.lha
Update 12.01.2003:
Today was released preview 6.
Download: Jabberwocky030113.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Ralf Himmel (ANF)
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Replacing floppy discs with MiniCD-RW
The company Memorex will offer from Februar 2003
on rewritable CDs for the waistcoat with 8 cm in diameter as a replacement for the floppy discs. The small CD-RW that can be rewritten up to 1.000 times and can contain a maximum of 210 MB of data is suitable for mobile
users. The Pocket CD-RW fits in every pocket and therefore suits perfectly for the mobile use, e.g. in the laptop, MP3 player or in the digital camera. Using the standard audio compression mode MPEG you can record 210 minutes of music. They are said to be available from February on for a price of 6,99 Euros for five Pocket CD-RWs in a slim jewel case.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
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Aminet uploads of 11.01.2003
Here are the latest Aminet uploads:
opentriton-hun.lha dev/gui 3K+Hungarian catalog for OpenTriton GUI sys
fat95hun.lha disk/misc 20K+Hungarian translation for fat95
AmigaFuture40.lha docs/mags 1.0M+Great german paper mag preview
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Stefan Schulze (ANF)
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Collected Dreamworlds news - Crossfire II update (update)
There are many news to report:
The new homepage of Dreamworlds Development is online. The base design is already complete as well as are the news and the downloads. Information about projects and the team will follow in the next few days. Until then there's a link to the old homepage.
Crossfire II has experienced a big update. There's finally a demo version
(download: cf2_demo.lha - 11,7 MB)
and an update (download: cf2_upd101.lha),
containing the following:
- Alternative graphics functions that don't need ChunkyPPC;
solves problems of ChunkyPPC on Pegasos systems.
- Mission mode completely translated into German.
- Optionally playable in the Workbench window.
- The tutorial can be skipped when starting a new game.
- Active weapon is marked with light effect.
- New music piece specially for mission #11.
- Many missions details changed.
- Wrong colors when playing in 8bit without screen fading fixed.
- Crash in mission #26 fixed.
- "File not executable" error fixed.
People ordering the full version now will get already the new version with all known problems fixed. The demo version is up to this level, too, and lets you play the tutorial, 2 missions from the middle of the game and test the multiplayer mode. To keep the archive small in size were all animations and musics removed. A more complete demo will be released e.g. on the next AmigaFuture CD.
Crossfire II is a kind of Wing Commander seen from above with complex and varied missions, a thrilling background story, lavish effects and explosive multiplayer fights.
Update:
On the APC&TCP homepage have recently further screenshots of the game been released. The game is available at APC&TCP and in a few days also on the shelves in the stores. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jan.2003
TTEngine
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FAQ for TTEngine written
Grzegorz Kraszewski has written an English FAQ to the topic TTEngine.
TTEngine is a text-rendering environment for AmigaOS based on TrueType font.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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GetBoinged.de will go online in two weeks
Thorsten Schölzel wrote:
The website www.getboinged.de which has gone offline some time ago will be online again
in two weeks. The goal has clearly determined: Supporting x86 users who use AmigaOS
via WinUAE.
The workshops describe the installation of AmigaOS3.9 for getting the best sound
as well as the creation of an Internet connection with Genesis. I try to show that
the use of AmigaOS is very easy with the help of an Amiga emulator. The proper
preferences are very important.
But before I will present you this issues I want to finish designing the homepage.
You will be able to watch the site with AWeb, IBrowse and Voyager in any case.
Now I want to speak a few words to the "negativ thinker": "Currently there is a
stagnation at users and developers. Why is it so? By working with UAE I could convince
users having the Amiga system. Today they use Windows and AmigaOS/WinUAE in a friendly
coexistence because there is good software on both sides. Try to expect the future
a little more positive!"
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Peter's Amiga Homepage: WinUAE FAQ updated
On the homepage of Peter the following sections have been updated:
- Winuae FAQ
- Windows XP guide will be available soon
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Amiblitz 2.27 distribution published
Amiblitz2.27_Ger-Distribution:
From now on the full distribution of Amiblitz version 2.27 is available on Amiforce.
The update for Amiblitz 2.27 still had a few bugs which have been now fixed.
During the next days this archive will be completed by adding additional translations.
Please get the changes from the history which the guide contains. The Amiblitz download
section will be reworked and the date will be added.
The mailing list filearchive was created and data will be permanently added.
This will be also written in the info site.
SN-archives:
The programs SN-KontoArchiv and SN-AnlagenArchiv can be now accessed under Amiblitz/Developer
support. Additionally to a short describtion and the download there is also an online
formular for registering directly at the author Steffen Nitz. This section is being
reworked and has been still not finished.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Ancor Productions
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Website of Ancor Productions has a new design
The website of Ancor Productions which is well-known by projects such as 'The Last Seal'
, 'PTOE' and 'AFP' has been completely new designed.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Instant-Messenger: AmigAIM V0.9443 beta
Richard H. Poser has published the beta version 0.9443 of the AIM-messenger "AmigAIM".
The following changes have been made compared with the previous version:
- Fixed, I believe, a long standing bug with the reconnection system.
This is only a small maintenance release, as I'm sure that was
annoying.
For further details please have a look at the
history-file.
Downlaod:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
AmigAIM.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
d!RT!E & Zito of mOOdS (ANF)
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mOOdS now also without frames and Javascript!
Additional to some minor improvements you can now watch the homepage of "mOOdS - Music For Your Instincts"
which is a music group based on Amiga without frames and without Javascript.
Have much fun you IBrowse fans!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2003
Petra Struck
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Interview with Urban Müller (Aminet Administrator)
Interview with Urban Müller
by Petra Struck - 09.01.2003 (In Deutsch)
As we had to report in early January, the Aminet series of CDs was cancelled. So Aminet CD
#52 will be the last one put together. This turn of events compelled us to ask a few questions of Urban Müller, the person who does the CDs and is
also an Aminet administrator.
Amiga-News: Who is Urban Müller?
Urban Müller: I'm an Amiga fan since way back when. I first satisfied this passion during my IT studies and then as I worked as a search machine programmer.
Amiga-News: What constitutes Aminet and what is Aminet?
Urban Müller: Aminet was the attempt to ease the load on our university's Amiga archive through the use of mirrors, and it succeeded through the help of volunteers.
Amiga-News: How many years have you busied yourself with Aminet?
Urban Müller: Oh my God, it's been almost ten years! :)
Amiga-News: How is Aminet organized? Who does what and how long does it take to do it?
Urban Müller: The two moderators - Matthias Scheler and I - proofread all uploads for correct *.readme file, to make sure there are no viruses, for appropriate content and correct category designation. Normally this doesn't take too much time, however new features (for example the new web interface from Andrea Kareth) and the maintenance of the many mirrors take some time.
Amiga-News: What sort of difficulties have you had to overcome in this enterprise?
Urban Müller: Almost everything has gone quite well. Only occasionally are mirror admins difficult to reach, and I myself have a network card problem with the Amiga :)
Amiga-News: How is Aminet financed?
Urban Müller: Luckily Aminet's financial requirements are not very high, because bandwidth and storage space have been provided by universities.
Amiga-News: The cancellation of the Aminet CD series will leave a hole that will not be easily filled. Why exactly is it being stopped?
Urban Müller: The number of breaks shrank steadily, also in part it's due to the fact that almost everyone can connect to the Internet and therefore doesn't need a CD.
Amiga-News: Under what circumstances would it be possible to carry on the CD series, for instance would it help if we had a subscription campaign which registered 500 new subscribers?
Urban Müller: I think that would only postpone the cancellation a bit.
Amiga-News: Could you possibly turn over the rights to make Aminet CDs to someone else?
Urban Müller: I wouldn't rule that out, if someone is interested.
Amiga-News: What feelings do you have about the current Amiga situation?
Urban Müller: It's going to be difficult for the Amiga to expand the tiny user base after such a long period of standing still, but I would like to be surprised by positive developments.
Amiga-News: Do you still have an Amiga?
Urban Müller: Of course, but now I spend more time using Linux.
Amiga-News: In closing, is there anything you would like to say to readers?
Urban Müller: I thank all the people who have contributed to Aminet, especially the software authors, who have invested countless hours. Without them the Amiga would never have been useful for as long as it has.
Amiga-News: Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to our questions. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jan.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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New FAQ Page for HIGHWAY / SUBWAY
E3B is offering a compilation of frequently-asked questions (and answers) on their website. If you have USB problems they recommend that you first take a quick look there, perhaps the problem is already known and may be easily solved.
This FAQ is offered as support for customer service. If you have problems or questions E3B is also available by email, of course! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jan.2003
H & P
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Haage & Partner Website Revised
The webpage of Haage & Partner has been completely revised. At the first glance it seems that Amiga will not play a big role at H&P
in the future. The resisted decline of the Amiga market is apparent. The Amiga pages are there as they were before, but the principle
focus of H&P is now visibly in other areas. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jan.2003
PageStream.de
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PageStream News for January 2003
PageStream News for January, 2003
It's version 4.1.5.4 of PageStream for Windows and 4.1.5 for
Amiga. The versions are still in testing stage and only available in English versions. A Macintosh version will follow shortly. A Linux version is also announced, but exact dates can't be stated yet.
Registered customers can download the new version and the German localization in the download area. Customers who have not registered yet can do so now: Registration.
PageStream area revised
To honor the new year the Pagestream area was revised and now meshes with the new design of the main site. Shortly the text area will also be updated and reorganized. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jan.2003
Golem - IT News
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No Soldering Required: Radeon 9500 Conversion to Radeon 9700
Driver patch enables functions only offered by more expensive products. After the Russian website Overclockers.ru publicized a modification in which one could change a Radeon 9500 with 128 megs RAM to a better-performing Radeon 9700 with a BIOS update and a bit of solder, the story continued: tinkerers found new ways to do the same thing without any hardware modification nor warranty voiding, although there are a few restrictions.
Click on the title link for the complete article.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jan.2003
Amigaworld.net
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Amiga Inc. Website Covered in Computeractive's Netcharts
The website of Amiga Inc. has landed in the "Netcharts" section of the English-language computer newspaper 'Computeractive.' The website is described as follows:
www.amiga.com
Unlike the rest of the 1980s home computer systems such as the Sinclair
Spectrum and Commodore 64 that went west during the early 1990s, the
Amiga is still reasonably common. All sorts of software and applications
are still being developed and Amigas are still widely used to create
video effects for TV and film. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads 09.01.2003
Here the current uploads:
CDCat30PL.lha docs/help 14K+Polish Locale for CDCat 3.0
AmigaBG.jpg pix/back 395K+A simple Amiga wallpaper
(ps)
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09.Jan.2003
TecChannel (ANF)
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tecChannel: T-Mobile Offers Microsoft Smartphones
According to tecChannel: Microsoft Germany has found a new partner in T-Mobile for their efforts in the Handy market. This quarter T-Mobile will market the first telephone with the Handy software, the Microsoft SmartPhone. Click on the title link for the complete article.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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09.Jan.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF)
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New Category at CD32 Alliance: Instructions
On account of many requests for the original instructions of CD-32 stuff we decided to meet the challenge and create a category
for instructions. Additionally there are also the instructions for the SX-32 expansion module and diverse CDTV accessories. In the
CD-32 Games area, there are the instructions for Lotus Trilogy. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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