19.May.2002
Amiga Future
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Audio: RAPlay V3.1
On May 19th, 2002 version 3.1 of the RealAudio-Players
"RAPlay" was published. The player supports RealAudio
V1/2/3 files. The following changes have been made since
the previous version:
- Fixed stereo output.
- Updated liba52.
- Minor cleanup.
The archive also contains the source code.
Download: /mus/play/RAPlay.lha (383K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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19.May.2002
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Slideshows - Seven Seas, Never Liked UNO, Artcore
On May 19th, 2002 three slide shows were added to the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.):
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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19.May.2002
Amiga Future
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Printers: HP DeskJet 900C driver V40.11 by Peter Hutchison
On May 18th, 2002, Peter Hutchison
published version 40.11 of his printer driver for the HP DeskJet 900C series.
This version of the driver now supports data compression for faster printouts.
The driver is suitable for Workbench 1.3 through 3.1 and the printers
HP DeskJet 930C, 950C, 960C, 970C and 990C or newer.
Supported resolutions are from 150 x 150 to 600 x 600 dpi in b/w and colour.
Printing systems such as TurboPrint or Print Studio should not be used in combination with
this driver.
The archive contains the binaries for 68000, 68020 and 68040.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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19.May.2002
Amiga Future
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Holidays: Amig@lien on holiday until May 26th, 2002
Amig@lien, e.g. Payback and Freespace pages,
are on holiday until May 26th, 2002.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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19.May.2002
CyberGFX
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CyberGfx: CyberGraphX V4.3 RC5
On May 18th, 2002, Vision Factory Development (VGR)
published version 4.3 RC5 of the graphics card driver system "CyberGfx".
This update contains corrections for CL-GD5426/28 (PicassoII(+), Spectrum, Piccolo)
and CL-GD5434 (Piccolo SD64 & Pixel64) graphics cards. All changes can be gathered
from the Readme file.
As with all CyberGraphX V4 updates the original CGX CD-ROM is needed for the update as it is used as a base for the new files.
Further information can be gathered from the page behind the title link and the
CyberGraphX V4 support page.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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19.May.2002
ANN
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Pegasos: Video by Thendic-France (Update)
Thendic-France have published an MPEG video
of bPlan's Pegasos computer on
Aminet to give an impression of the running machine.
Download: Pegasos.mpg (92M),
Readme
Addendum 19.05.2002:
The video shows the installation of the hardware, the booting of MorphOS and a small
CandyFactory Pro test. Running time is approximately 6 minutes. (Source: Morphos-News.de)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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18.May.2002
AROS-ML
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AROS: server moving on 22nd of May 2002
Because we are so popular, the guys at trustec have to move our machine
to a new network with a flatrate. So expect our server to be unreachable
from Wednesday 22nd of May until the IP addresses have changed everywhere.
If you need to access the machine anyway, its new IP address will be
195.143.191.17. Sorry for any inconvenience.
(ps)
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18.May.2002
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: interview with Matthias Gietzelt (author of Emperor)
"Emperor" is a kind of object orientated programming language for the Amiga that
is happily available for free (giftware) on the Aminet or directly from the
author. A good thing is also that the program is in continuous development by
the programmer Matthias Gietzelt and a version for MorphOS is already planned,
too. That's enough reason to get to know the person behind "Emperor" better and
ask for an interview. The interview was done by Anton Preinsack and can be found
following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.May.2002
Play!Amiga
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Play!Amiga: PuzzleBOBS review
You can find at the online magazine 'Play!Amiga' a review of the game
'PuzzleBOBS' by Nexus Development.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.May.2002
Amiga Future
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Schatztruhe: holiday till 30.05.2002
The Schatztruhe is on holiday till 30.05.2002. Orders will be handled again
from June 3rd 2002.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.May.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: developer status and price decrease for Digital Almanac
The new beta version 2 of DA III contains further changes.
You'll be surprised! Detailed information can be found following the title link.
The sales price for the CD-ROM with Digital Almananc III on it has been reduced
for orders from Switzerland and Austria. The price now is just EUR 32.- for
first buyers and EUR 22.- for updates.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.May.2002
Bernward Hofmann und Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Amithlon: second contribution archive released
On the Amithlon site (title link) of Bernie Meyer can the following message be
read:
New on 18th of May 2002: The second collection of new and enhanced patches is now
here available. Please ensure that you have read the (unfortunately only
in English available) README.
Download: amithlon_contrib2.lha
With these patches should the problems with Pentium4 systems and VESA
framebuffer drivers as well as crashes of PGP 2.6.3 be fixed.
Besides that, there's an experimental patch for ZIP and LS-120 drives.
According to Bernd Meyer (Amithlon ml) should you install at least the patch for
PGP (patch2_vec.o) as it may also fix other problems. The other patches are only
thought for those having the particular problem.
Especially the ZIP patch is only for ZIP users. (quoting Bernd: "The things it
does are *not* nice.")
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.May.2002
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Software updates
There are some minor software updates. Several new entries have been made to the topic games and the application list has been started, too.
There is still the problem that "Schlachtfeld" works on some computers and on somes ones not. What exactly the reason is we do not know. Currently there are some tests on several computer platforms to solve this problem.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
Peter Sander (ANF)
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Loss of the #?@as-webshop.de e-mail address
Peter Sander of AS-webshop wrote:
Currently all e-mails which habe been sent to '...@as-webshop.de' will be sent back. There is a fault at our provider - we hope that Pelixon XII AG will solve this problem as soon as possible.
Please use the following e-mail address for all requests etc.: as-webshop@t-online.de.
We will inform you if the problem has been solved.
Thanks for your understanding in advance.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
PowerD
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Programming language: New moduls for PowerD
As we have already reported in the middle of April version 0.19 alpha 6 of the programming language PowerD by Martin Kuchinka has been published. Now some moduls of Miklos Nemeth have been added like AMarquee, HTML Text.mcc, MUI and many more.
You can find more information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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ToT: Exchange of experiences with programmers and musicans wanted
Martin Wolf wrote:
Because of a exchange of experiences we are urgently looking for an Amiga-programmer who is experienced in StormC gcc especially in the optimizing and who can help us a little bit.
Tales of Tamar has been ported to gcc. Unfortunately not everything works fine as it should after it has been started to optimate. Each help is welcome!
Besides this we are still always looking for somebody who wants to create cool Amiga moduls for ToT (Digibooster or Soundtracker-format). These moduls are not a must but they are a funny extra (besides the main soundtrack).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
Amiga Games Classifying
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AGC: Polling formulars for May/June 2002 games-hitlist online
On every second month AGC (Amiga Games Classifying) determines the most popular games. Since 15.05.2002 the formular for the participation of the poll for the hitlist May/June is online. You can also send your hitlist via e-mail.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
Greg Donner
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Greg Donner: Updated Amiga-information
Gregory S. Donner publishes many interesting information about the Amiga on his private English spoken Amiga website and updates it regularly. In the area 'Workbench Nostalgia' you can find for instance information of the first workbench up to the just published information about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can also find there detailed FAQs to the AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9 (just updated with hints and remarks by Martin Steigerwald) and reviews as well as detailed information about several hardware components.
On May 2002 Greg has updated his site seven times in several sections.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
GFX-BASE (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: DiamondBOX special - new version and Q&A session
On our GFX-BASE we have created a special service about the new version 1.50 of Nikolaj Kiær Thygesen's painting program DiamondBOX. DiamondBOX is a painting program like Photogenics which offers all 'big features' of commercial painting programs but which is for free!
Just for GFX-BASE Nikolaj has written an English spoken Q&A for the new version. There you will learn all important news of DiamondBOX and much more. You can also download the new version from our site.
But there have been some changes on our website at all - we work on a forum and the link list has been also reworked. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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Call upon all Amiga-homepage owners
To all Amiga-users and -companies:
AmiGate is going to create a section for homepage-addresses of Amiga-users and -companies on their website thus beginners who are not knowledgeable in the Amiga section will find the right Amiga-site on the Net. But also experienced Amiga-users are supposed to find always the right site about Amiga.
Please send your address of your homepage with the name of the owner to Maik Schultheis and it will be added!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Scores wanted
On the Amiga Future homepage there are diverse scores for download. This
section is supposed to become more complex. Therefore the editing stuff of the Amiga Future ask you to send them scores for publishing on their homepage.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.May.2002
Thomas Igracki (ANF)
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Tool: FSwatcher version 1.3
There is a major update for FSwatcher which contains many new features and one bug fix. FSwatcher is the name of FileSizeWatcher and therefore looks for the size of a file. For instance if you download a file with a program which has not a transfer window FSwatcher shows you how many bytes have been already transfered. You can use this program also with the file-sharing program Audiogalaxy Satellite.
Download: FSwatcher.lzx
Version 1.3 (16/17.05.02):
- FIX: Fixed the automatically closing of the finished requester
- NEW: You can now set the env-var 'FSwatcher' to your default args.
It will be parsed before the commandline is parsed.
Therefore all /S shell args are now /T args, if you want to
set a /T arg you have to put a "ON" or "YES" after it, and if
you want to unset it, you have to use "OFF" or "NO"!
- NEW: New shell arg QUIET/T [suggested by jah]
Should ALL error requesters be suppressed?
Well the "Dos.ReadArgs() failed!" isn't suppressed;-)
- NEW: New shell arg BPSBar/T
Should a small gauge showing the current bps relative to the
max bps be displayed?
- NEW: New shell arg TimeOut/N
If a transfer is stalled (-> the "---" display) AND AUTOEXIT/T is
used, the window will close after 'TimeOut' seconds.
Defaults to 10. You can use values from 0 to 30. 0 means, no timeout.
- NEW: New shell arg Delay=UpdateDelay/N
Update the display every x seconds. Defaults to 2.
You can use values from 1 to 10.
- NEW: New shell arg KB=ShowKBytes/T
If the current size and the filesize should be displayed in "kb",
then you should set this argument to ON or YES,
- NEW: the window doesn't gets activated when its opened
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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16.May.2002
RP-Online
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RP-Online: X-Box Competitor? Atari Makes Comeback
According to an article on RP-Online a US concern has a acquired a license to market Atari games and is coming out with a new console bundled with ten classic 2600 games, to attach to your TV set.
See the title link for the RP-Online article.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Counter-Strike Will Not Be Banned
BPjS decided against banning the game. The Federal Safety Bureau for Child-endangering Publications has decided against a ban of the game Counter-Strike. The chairperson of BPjS, Mrs. Monnsen-Engberding, clarified that although she was uncertain, she was in personally ready to be against the ban, in light of modern times. Click on the title link for the complete article (German).
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: NRW-Censor Infrastructure On the Way Out
»The attempts of the regional government of Duesseldorf, their continuing attempt since February to block Internet content through a filter-based censor-infrastructure, have now been shattered on technical grounds, on the basis of newly available information.«
See title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Amiga.org
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New Website With Many Amiga Ports
The Spaniard Diego CR 'dcr8520' has opened a new website at SourceForge for his collection of Amiga ports. You'll find a bunch of little tools, that will lighten your daily load with their usefulness. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
ANN
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Jan-Erik Karlsson: New BetaScan Drivers
Jan-Erik Karlsson has new BetaScan scanner drivers available on his website. He pointed out that you absolutely must run the corresponding test program to see if the drivers will work with your scanner. Further instructions are to be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Amiga Future
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Instant Messenger: JabberWocky V1.1 (4th Preview) Available
The fourth new preview of Jabberwocky 1.1, the Jabber client for Amiga, has appeared. This version requires additionally the mailtext.mcc V19.8 or higher.
Through the server module (Transports) you can download news with users of other instant messenger services, for example AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), ICQ, MSN Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and IRC clients. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Amiga Club Guide
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Amiga Club Guide Updated
To offer users the possibility of finding Amiga clubs in their area, Matthias Muench has established the Amiga Club Guide. Active clubs, societies and user groups in Germany are sorted geographically.
The Club Guide has been brought to an up-to-date state and refined somewhat. The IRC lists were removed, because there was not too much interest in that. At this time there are 36 clubs with 847 members registered in the guide.
Through this form
you can enter your own Amiga club, society, or user group.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
AmiDog
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AmiDog: Forum Has Moved!
The forum of AmiDog has moved and is now reachable at the following address:
http://www.amidog.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.pl
Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly. For all programs from AmiDog discussion boards have been put up, to wit:
- General Board
- Test
- AmiDog's Movie Player
- TrueReality
- AmiGenerator
- DarcNES/Amiga
- Handy
- GBE
- Frodo
- SOPE
- MAME
- MESS
- FPSE
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
AmiDog
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Emulator: FPSE Version 0.09 R3 (020515)
Mathias Roslund has made available Version 0.09 (Amiga Revision 3 020515) of the free Playstation emulator for Amiga PPC. This version has some slight improvements, and a simple graphic interface has been added which improves the handling of the emulator.
Download: FPSE009R3.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Richard de Rivaz (ANF)
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INET DIAL v3.851 provides dynamic link to your Home Server
Registered users of Inet Dial v3.851 (ID) now have dynamic links to their
Home Server. Users with dynamic IP addresses can now access their Home
Server via dynamic link service on the MDR website. Users can now link
via the Internet to their Home Server LOGIN page or to their WEBCAM.
ID supports login from full size browser or PDA. ID provides Internet and
remote computer connectivity for PCs AMIGAs and PDAs on local area
network.
(ps)
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16.May.2002
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)
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Workshop to Photo CD Making Opened
The making of a CD32-bootable photo CD was possible until now only with many special conditions. The program CD32Show has addressed this deficiency and now you can build a collection of your most beautiful pictures with only a few steps.
To make this easy you'll find a workshop specially covering the topic at the CD-32 Allianz homepage, a workshop that leads you through the steps to make such a bootable photo CD: the LISTFILES, the startup-sequence, as well as how to burn the recordable CD-ROM.
This workshop should also be interesting to non-CD-32 Amigans who want to use the program "AutoRunNG" to run such a CD on normal Amigas. We wish you all good success in the making of your personal photo CDs! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: New from Digital Almanac
Achim Stegemann writes:
Because of many inquiries about an OS4 version of Digital Almanac (DA IV) I brought the FAQ-page up to date. There I answer the most common questions about Digital Almanac and OS4.
From the 7th to the 9th of June 2002 all interested/nosy people are welcome to find out about the program at the computer party of Amiga-Friends of Pfalz
in Mutterstadt near Ludwigshafen from the author personally. On request there will also be presentations, so interested people will be able to get an insight into the actual state of development of the current beta version.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.May.2002
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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News on the Status of Project Crashsite
The webpage of Project Crashsite has been updated. The screenshot area has preview pictures, so even modem users can risk a look, without having to load all the full-sized pictures.
But not only the webpage has changed:
1) Our search to replace to loss of our designer has come to an end, and we'd like to welcome Sue to our team. Sue will be drawing the characters of our game. 4 examples of Sue's work may be viewed in the screenshot area.
2) The battle routine has been changed to a new design, and now runs completely with 16 bit graphics. Two new screenshots show the new interface, which is now offered during battle.
Our team is complete again and the guidance of the battle is now meeting the standards of quality we have always sought for the game. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 15.05.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 15.05.02 fixed: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) slave was missing
- 15.05.02 new: Gainforce (Infernal Byte System) done by Bored Seal
- 14.05.02 new: Tetris (MirrorSoft) done by Psygore
- 14.05.02 improved: Marble Madness (Atari/Electronic Arts) install script and keyboard fixed
- 14.05.02 improved: Elvira 2 - The Jaws of Cerberus (Horrorsoft/Accolade) protection removed
(ps)
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15.May.2002
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ Version 5.51
For users of the AmigaOS 3.9 is version 5.51 of Report+ available for download. With Report+ by Amigan Software can bug reports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports be done in an easy way. The program is freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.
Changes since 5.5:
Bug report editor, ACSE test: converted to ReAction.
Download: ReportPlus.lha (349 KB)
(ps)
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15.May.2002
kicko (ANF)
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Audio: Tracks & Fields v1.05
This is the last version from Jonas. This fixes the screenmode problem.
If it doesn't find the screenmode it opens up a requester now :)
And I am still looking for a coder that can continue on development
and fixing some bugs.
Get it from my page or wait until Aminet get's updated. (ps)
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15.May.2002
bplan GmbH
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bplan: Pegasos and MorphOS on German TV (3Sat)
The bplan GmbH would like to inform you about the Computer Magazine
taking place on the 27th of May at 9.30 pm.
neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin auf 3sat
One subject of the show will be the Pegasos Hardware Platform
developed by bplan GmbH in conjunction with MorphOS.
Our team is looking forward to the following live chat after
the show, in which we will be gladly respond to any of your
questions.
(ps)
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15.May.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Mark Reynolds
Recently "BlacksEditor" (see interview with Mauro Fontana
English,
German)
has been as surprisingly as the until that time very good and up to date
Anti Gravity clone "Roketz" released as full versions; Roketz development
should be continued, too!
The Amiga Arena spoke with Mark Reynolds about the past and the future of "Roketz"! This interview is available in
English and
German.
In own account:
Olaf Köbnik: "The interviews of "Amiga Arena" aren`t these standard questions, like those published before.
After there have been some critics all interviews since May have been reworked and made individually."
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.May.2002
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amiga-news.de: summer break from the 15th of July to August the 31st 2002
During four years we delivered day by day the latest news without any interruption.
Though it is now time for a breather and a time out for all persons involved. For that
reason we have planned a longer lasting summer break from July the 15th until August the 31st 2002.
During this period there won't be any news and translations, the commentary
function and the ANF (possibility to post news online) will be disabled.
The forum will be kept enabled. We will announce a talk master who will
be responsible for its content.
We discussed this issue thoroughly and controversial if, and if so in
which kind, we could/should realize such a summer break.
A short break will not result in any recovery and a longer break comprises
the risk to lose readers. A stopgap for urgend news seemed to be possible
but difficult, who wants to be responsible to decide wether a news item
is urgent or not? Further more this wouldn't be a real recovery, say
nothing half, nothing whole.
We trust in the hope that our readers will not have forgotten us after
such a long break :).
However we will go back to work after the summer break with a whole new
motivation. We ask for your understanding and therefore announce this
break that early.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.May.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.0 with enhanced OCR-engine and PDF-Export
We're pleased to announce to you version 4.0 of our powerful
scannersuite fxSCAN.
Among others, new features are a strongly enhanced and accelerated
OCR-engine (based on gocr 0.3.5, now also PPC-native and with the
ability to export embedded pictures and HTML), the all-new PDF-export,
an enhanced copying function with preview and correction features,
support for Turboprint® and an all-new documentation (in German and
English) with many illustrations in HTML- and PDF-versions.
A detailed list of all new features, first screenshots, a list of supported
scanners and much more can be found on the fxSCAN 4.0 site.
fxSCAN 4.0 is available starting from end of June on CD-ROM and as
download version and can now be preordered from our website! Be one of
the first to hold this exciting product in your hands! Orders via
credit cards are charged only a few days before delivery.
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15.May.2002
Spot / Up Rough (ANF)
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New Up Rough Soundsystem Release!
Up Rough Soundsystem has released a new musicdisk.
"Hits for kids LP" a cute 10-track chip experience.
Music by Goto80, famous for his many C64 SID's.
Download: up-lp001.lha (ps)
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14.May.2002
ANN
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Juha Niemimäki: Interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden
Under the title link you will find an interview with Hans-Jörg
Frieden done by Juha Niemimäki. (ps)
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14.May.2002
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Game: ScummVM 0.2.0 for MorphOS
ScummVM 0.2.0 was released today
ScummVM, the free interpreter for LucasArts-adventures was released today
in version 0.2.0 for MorphOS. ScummVM 0.2.0 needs the cdda.library for
Audio CD support. You will find this archive also on my homepage (title link).
New features (since the last CVS snap, not 0.1.0!) include:
- first non-Scumm games supported: Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
- in addition to the games that could be completed before,
Loom CD-ROM version, Zak McKracken 256 color and Simon 1 are fully playable now
- 32 color Amiga versions are supported
- choosable sound driver (Adlib, Midi, Midiemu)
- updated PDF manual (please read, because some command line
options had to change!) including compatibility chart
You can get the MorphOS distribution from
here
or later tonight from the sourceforge project page.
CD audio library
This is a high-level CD audio playing library designed to make your life easier
if you want to write games with CD audio, but it's equally suited for writing
a CD player with it. Features include automatic drive recognition and search
features, (kind of a) resource manager, direct CDID support, callback event hook
for time updates, track crossings, etc.
The archive can be found on
ScummVM page.
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14.May.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Parhelia-512 - Matrox comeback (Update)
The next generation of Matrox cards was launched today in Japan.
Other articles:
Heise: Matrox lässt Parhelia erstrahlen
Chip online: Matrox: Alle 2D- und 3D-Features des Parhelia-512
PC-Welt: Matrox präsentiert weltweit erste 512-Bit-GPU
futureZone: Ein Hi-Fi-Grafikchip von Matrox
HardwareZone: The Matrox Comeback
Tom's Hardware Guide: Matrox Parhelia-512 - The Challenger
The Register: Today is Matrox sundog day
Matrox: Introducing Matrox ParheliaTM-512
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14.May.2002
Jörg Dittmar Oldenburg (ANF)
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Amiga on TV: 3Sat 'neues' planned it for May, 27th 2002 (Update)
The programme 'neues' on German TV (3Sat) will report on May, 27th 2002
something about Amiga. This was reported in the show from May, 13th, 2002.
Update 15.05.2002:
bplan: Pegasos and MorphOS on German TV (3Sat)
The bplan GmbH would like to inform you about the Computer Magazine
taking place on the 27th of May at 9.30 pm.
neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin auf 3sat
One subject of the show will be the Pegasos Hardware Platform
developed by bplan GmbH in conjunction with MorphOS.
Our team is looking forward to the following live chat after
the show, in which we will be gladly respond to any of your
questions.
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14.May.2002
#AmigaZeux (ANF)
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dynAMIte - Special Collector's Edition - CD ROM released!
#AmigZeux is proud to present the long awaited
« "dynAMIte - Special Collector's Edition"- CD-ROM »
Features:
- new dynAMIte Version
- all maps, all styles + exclusive new styles for the CD-release!!
- new "dynAMIteAI.library" for 68k and PPC (MorphOS)
- 3D-Intro-FMV-Sequence
- Audio-Tracks
- detailed HTML-documentation
- many Extras, Backdrops, early-Intro-tests, first test-versions of dynAMIte, and many more!!
- in contrast to the normal version, you require about 93 MB of free harddisk space this time!
- The first 50 discs are limited, an "extra"-feature is included
The pre-ordered discs will be mailed today!
If you now think "dynAMIte is becoming commercial!" you aren't right since the game itself will stay freeware.
We just want to give the fans of that nifty little game we all love the chance to purchase a
"bigger, better, faster, more" edition which is even a way to say "thank you" to the programmer.
The price is as low as possible, we think every Amiga user nowadays can afford 15 Euro for a good game and its extras.
It's available for:
Germany: EUR 15,-
Great Britain: GBP 11,-
Europe: EUR 18,-
USA: USD 15,-
All prices including shipping-costs
For more information visit the official dynAMIte Homepage:
http://www.amisource.de/dynamite/ (ps)
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14.May.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 13.05.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 13.05.02 improved: Warzone (Paradox Software) supports another version, another icon
- 13.05.02 new: Jouster 3 () done by JOTD
- 13.05.02 new: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) done by JOTD
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13.May.2002
AmigArt (ANF)
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Computer City Will Demo AmigaONEG3SE on May 25th 2002
According to Computer City they will
be displaying the Amiga One on the AGGF meeting in Leeuwaarden (The
Netherlands) on the 25th of May.
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13.May.2002
AOG
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Amiga Online Games: New games in the database
The database of 'Amiga Online Games', a website about network-games for Amiga, now includes information about the following new games:
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13.May.2002
Rene Stelljes (E-Mail)
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New version of the Amiga-User-Liste online (Update)
Rene Stelljes wrote:
Due to my moving there have not been updates of the website. Today I
published version 11.10 of the Amiga-User-List which can be downloaded
from www.amiga-user-liste.de.
I have to mention that Stefan Martens and Robert Konrad are no longer
involved in the maintenance of the Amiga-User-List. Changes and additions can only be made by me.
Addition 14.05.2002:
Rene Stelljes wrote:
Because of some problems of my ISP Amiga-User-Liste is temporarly available at http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/future/351.
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13.May.2002
Matthias Bethke
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HTML-Tool: HSC V0.925
Today Matthias Bethke released version 0.925 of the HTML-preprocessor
'HSC' (HTML Sucks Completely). The update includes new features and an updated documentation. This one is online available, too.
Changes:
- shows errors for missing required tags in NORMAL mode now, only RELAXED disables them
- added /RCMD=RECOMMENDED attribute modifier. Useful for accessibility tags like ACCESSKEY, TITLE etc., this yields "bad style" warning #90. HSC.Prefs is still awaiting a full update according to the W3C guidelines
- user defines from the commandline are now processed before the prefsfile is read. This allows individual prefs to be used depending on commandline switches that needn't be built in but can be user-supplied in form of a DEFINE
This release is only available as source code. The source code should be compileable on every supported system (tested with SuSE 7.3 and HP/UX 10.20).
The archive includes up-to-date prefs and makro-files.
Download: hsc-0.925-src.tar.bz2 (342 KB)
An Amiga archive is available (Okt. 2001), too. But, for having the
newest version, you better compile the mentioned source code release.
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13.May.2002
MorphOS-News
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MorphOS: Workbench-background by Jobbo
André 'Jobbo' Siegel made some background pictures of the blue and white butterfly (Morpho Menelau) available for download. All pictures have a resolution of 1024x768.
Download: morpho_menelaus.zip (254 KB)
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