10.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Grzegorz Tanski (Kray Raytracer)
From the beginning of this year a new freeware "scene" raytraycer is under
development - "Kray".
The Amiga Arena talked to Grzegorz Tanski about why this development was started and
what we may expect for the future. There are other programs and interesting
demo versions of a 3D soccer game on his homepage. As the Amiga Arena came to know,
Grzegorz Tanski really is interested in developing high quality software, if
there is qualified hardware.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Jan.2002
Norman Thiel of Heise [Newsticker] (ANF)
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Heise: Macworld: Two new graphic boards for the Mac
The ATI Radeons now also exist in PCI versions for MACs. If those boards would
also work in AMIGAs, soon?
See title link for the Heise article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Jan.2002
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Mailprogramm: Anubis 1.1.0
Anubis an anonymous mail sender
supporting WinGate, encrypted TSL/SSL, anonymous remailing, news posting, and
much more. The program was released in version 1.1.0 and is also available for
downlaod in a MorphOS version:
Download:
anubis.lha -
anubis-mos.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Jan.2002
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)
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Today: IRC-Meeting of the DigiboosterPro Community
The DigiboosterPro Community invites to attend the second
IRC meeting. On Thursday, 10. January, 2002 starting from 20:00 CET
a DBPro Community channel is available under:
- Server: ie.altnet.org
- Kanal: #digiboosterpro
- Port: 6667
We would be happy about numerous chatters.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Jan.2002
Peter Eriksson (ANF)
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AROS Update
Over at the AROS website, another news update has been made. In summary,
some bugs have been dealt with, AROS for PalmPilots and the PCI hardware
interface are moving along, some fixes for AROS/Native have been made and
AmiTCP is currently being ported. (ps)
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10.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: First release version of xsurfadsl.device
The first release-version of the PPPoE driver for our networking
card X-Surf, as well as a new version of the appp.device for
Genesis/AmiTCP can be found in the support-area of our website.
The communication between the two devices has been speeded up again.
The installer-script is still in beta-phase. It helps you configuring
a T-DSL broadband internet connection, but other providers are also
supported.
(ps)
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09.Jan.2002
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)
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The Kickstart Archives V1.3
With permission of Alex Lupták, Gregory Donner and Ian Chapman you can now also browse through the newest versions of hardware reference Lex Site (ca. 80 MB), the Workbench Nostalgia and the Big Book of Amiga Hardware (ca. 90 MB) offline.
Changes:
- updated: Workbench Nostalgia of Gregory Donner (07/01/2002)
- updated: The Big Book of Amiga Hardware of Ian Chapman (27/12/2001)
- updated: Lex Site of Alex Lupták (21/11/2001)
- added: Haynie's Garage Sale!
- added: User Guides, Manuals, Service Manuals as PDF-files
- Commodore A590 Service Manual
- Commodore A1060 User's Guide
- Commodore A2088/2286 Manual
- updated: Search index for client offline search engine
Dave Haynie gave the permission using the pictures and texts of his eBay-offer "Haynie's Garage Sale!". These sites contain interesting background information of many products and prototypes of the Commodore's developing department.
Amiga, Inc. (Vince Pfeifer) and MacroSystem Digital Video AG (Ibrahim Tertemiz) gave the permission to publish manuals of their products as PDF-files on the CD. Manuals of XiPaint, Samplitude and MovieShop of MacroSystem are not included. The first manuals are included but more producers and manuals will follow.
The index of the search engine allows you search for headwords of all new sites which were added. For using it you must have a browser with full JavaScript support. This function offers none of the presently available Amiga browsers. Therefore you have to use different operating systems. Of course the link page works fine on each system. Unfortunately under Linux there are some restrictions because at the beginning the use of small/capital letters when creating files has been neglected.
You can look at all PDF-files on Amiga with the help of the current version of Apdf. THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES costs USD/EUR 10,- (without transport costs, Germany EUR 1,50, Europe EUR 3,- and worldwide USD 3,- normal and USD 5,- air mail). You have to pay USD/EUR 5,- (without transport costs) for updating your old version.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets (until 09.01.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were originally made for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 09.01.02 new: War In Middle Earth (Melbourne House/Synergistic) done by CFOU!
- 09.01.02 new: Robin Hood: Legend Quest (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
- 09.01.02 new: Kwik Snax (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
- 09.01.02 new: Kwasimodo (Courbois Software) done by CFOU!
- 09.01.02 improved: Invest (Starbyte) supports another version
- 09.01.02 new: Fantastic Dizzy (Codemasters/Purple Haze) done by Bored Seal & Abaddon
- 09.01.02 new: Carnage (Zeppelin Games/Warped Minds) done by Bored Seal
- 08.01.02 new: Transartica (Silmarils) done by CFOU!
- 08.01.02 new: Conan the Cimmerian (Synergistic/Virgin) done by CFOU!
- 08.01.02 new: Bobo (Infogrames) done by CFOU! (Info)
- 07.01.02 new: Wacky Races (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
- 06.01.02 new: Yogi Bear and Friends in The Greed Monster (Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
- 06.01.02 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) supports two more versions
- 06.01.02 fixed: Horror Zombies from the Crypt access fault removed
- 06.01.02 new: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2002
Patrick Beerhorst (ANF)
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A.D.A. Demoarchive with new design and more functions
During the last days the layout of A.D.A. (Amiga Demo Archive) site has been substantially improved and the database has been changed. Besides this you can now find a search option which e.g. allows you to discover which graphic artist has created demos. Wouter who is the administrator of the database will upload several updates in the next days add reviews and further information to each demo.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian
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Elbox: Mediator UP2.8
The MediatorUP 2.8 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200
and Mediator PCI ZIV users has been made available today. The update
includes the latest versions of the driver for Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.11
The new driver release eliminates background graphics errors, which could
appear in certain specific situations with the previous version.
(ps)
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09.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD 1.11
The MM CD 1.11 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and
Mediator PCI ZIV users, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD,
has also been released by ELBOX Computer.
The MM CD 1.11 update includes the new VHI Studio software driver:
- tv.vhi
Using the VHI Studio program, Mediator users may now grab and edit snapshots and
video sequences from their TV tuner cards.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- tv.library ver. 1.6
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.12
The list of 48 TV cards supported by the tv.library has been expanded with support
for 28 more cards.
In practice, it means support for all the PCI-standard TV cards now available
in the market. (ps)
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09.Jan.2002
Sven Ottemann (ANF)
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VideoCD: VCDImager version 0.7.12
Under the title link you can download the newest version 0.7.12 of VCDImager. VCDImager is a program for creating VideoCD-images. There are versions for 68020+ and WarpOS.
Video CD 1.1 and 2.0, Super Video CD 1.0 as well as PBC (playback control) are supported. VCDImage generates .bin/.cue files. Afterwards the image file can be burned with BurnIT or MakeCD.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AmiFIG 3.1 full version
With permission of Andreas Schmidt the registered version of AmiFIG is available at Amiga Arena. AmiFIG is a universal vector drawing program based upon the UNIX program Xfig of Supoj Sutanthavibul and other known ones. This version is nearly compatible to Xfig 3.1.
The surface is partly build with GadToolsBox 2.0b of JaBa Development.
AmiFIG has several drawing and editing functions and is one of the most powerful vector drawing programs on the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jan.2002
EnuZone.net (ANF)
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New Amiga CD32 Emulator for Windows - Project32
A beta version (1.0) of the first non commercial CD32 emulator Project32 had been released on 22.12.01 - barely noticed by public - and supports about 20 games of the CD32. The author promises a new version in the next fortnight, that fixes some problems with Windows2000 and offers an english localization. The homepage demonstrates the features and abilities of the emulator with screenshots from Gunship 2000, Dark Seed and James Pond 2.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jan.2002
Harald Frank (ANF)
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Amithlon-Tester for TV-card software needed
Harald Frank writes:
Michael Ulbrich is looking for testers for his Amithlon TV-card software. More information about the neede equipment you will find here.
If you are interested in Amithlon development notes to create your own projects write to Harald Frank with a little description of your planned project so we can join people with same interests or provide more informations.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Jan.2002
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS XL: Revised compatibility list and new addendum
The addendum "Using PC floppy disks with Amithlon" describes
the usage of PC floppy disks to transfer data from the Amiga to Amithlon.
Thanks to the help of some customers (e.g. Heinz Gyrole, Udo Gaßner, Paul
de Vries, Günter Wirth) we could add some more items to our software
compatibility list: ADM, ArtStudio, Digibooster Pro, Elastic Dreams,
Fantastic Dreams, Octamed Soundstudio, PhotoFolio, Photogenics, Picture
Manager, X-Trace, Xi-Paint und ZShell.
If you have tested a program that it not on the list yet, we would be
pleased it you would tell us about that. Please use our form. Thank you
very much.
(ps)
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08.Jan.2002
SixK
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Webserver: Amiga Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.1.1
On the 'SixK Port Page' is the version V1.3.20 (incl. PHP V4.0.5) of this
webserver for AmigaOS (version for 68040) to use with the official
Amiga Apache archive
available.
Download: apache1320_php411_040.lzx
(ps)
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08.Jan.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: VHI Studio - Mediator drivers
Elbox Computer is happy to announce availability of new drivers
for the Mediator busboard.
For users of the Mediator PCI for Amiga 1200 and Mediator PCI
for Amiga 4000 busboards with the Mediator Multimedia CD package,
drivers have been released as of today for the VHI Studio software.
These drivers have been prepared by Elbox Computer programmers.
VHI Studio produced by
Innovative, is a
video-editing and snapshot-software
including webcam- and timelapse-support and featuring (PPC-supported)
highspeed-MPEG-compression and realtime-preview-facilities.
It currently supports all major digitizer-boards and DigiCams on
the AMIGA and is the most popular digitizing and recording-software
on the AMIGA-market.
Using the VHI Studio program, users of TV cards in Mediator may
now grab and edit snapshots and video sequences from broadcast
and cable TV and any other signal sources connected to the input
of the TV tuner card, for example: video cameras, TV SAT tuners,
DVD players and VCR players.
All you need is:
Mediator PCI busboard
TV tuner card
Voodoo graphic card
VHI Studio software
Enjoy snapshots and videos to your heart's content.
More creativity. More fun.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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08.Jan.2002
Helmut Hoffmann (ANF)
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PhotoAlbum V6.6 und CyberShow V9.5a
Helmut Hoffmannrites:
After a longer break I have released new versions of my shareware programs "PhotoAlbum" and "CyberShow". The most important new features in both programs (PhotoAlbum 6.6 und CyberShow 9.5a) are functions to rotate pictures +/- 90° or 180°. For users of a Sony-CyberShot digital camera an automatical rotation detection is integrated.
Both programs are available in the Aminet (gfx/misc/photoalbum66.lha - gfx/board/cybershow95a.lha) and on my homepage (title link).
The shareware prices are adapted to EURO. For all internet users ordering online (order and delivery via email) a reduced price of EUR 20,- is valid. Ordering via mail and delivery on disks will cost you EUR 30,-.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Jan.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)
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News on Amiforce
On Amiforce you can find:
- At the download area you can find an Euro calculator and the gag program Speaker.
- The dynAMIte.styles Alienoid and PacMan are updated.
The poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz is still running.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Jan.2002
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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H&P: Freespace: at last available
Haage&Partner wrote:
At last we get the official permission to ship 'Freespace'. The advance orders are allready shipped.
Freespace was proted by Hyperion Entertainment and is surely the best the space-battle-simulation that was ever available for the Amiga. It offers a unique mixture of phantastic graphics, complex plot and an outstanding gameplay.
Freespace can be used with every Amiga with PPC-CPU and 64MB RAM or Amigas with 68060 and a 3D-accelerator-board (like Voodoo3, Permedia 2).
Additional information is available at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jan.2002
Marcel Rohles (ANF)
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Downloadmanager: Charon V1.98
Well, believe it or not, it's been released. Available from my
homepage or from Aminet in a couple of days.
Version 1.98 (6.1.2002)
- Introduced the concept of groups. Now each URL can belong to
a group and will take that group's settings as its default
settings. A new URL is by default placed in the group in
which the active entry indicator is currently found.
- Completely rewritten URL parsing routine which resulted in a
large speed up. This speed up would be even larger, but the
URL comparison routine was changed from simple string compare
to full-blown URL comparison routine which works properly.
- Rewritten detection of duplicates in the list. The code is now
much faster and works for any number of duplicates, unlike in
the last version.
- Charon now remembers the length of the file on server and
shows it all the time (if it is available).
- Many improvements and some fixes in the HTML parsing routine.
- Addressed some security issues.
- There's now a special treatment for %2F URL escape code (/)
because there are some filesystems that allow / in a filename.
- Added support for ftp://.../file;type=x URLs.
- When automatically creating filenames from the URL, %xx
sequences are now decoded.
- There's a new section in the documentation describing some
"hidden" features. Charon's tooltypes/arguments (LOG and
SETTINGS) are documented there.
- It is now possible to log all HTTP headers that were sent or
received through Charon for debugging purposes. More about
this in the advanced section of the manual.
- There's a new configuration option which tells Charon not to
read the size of the files on the disk during the startup thus
speeding it up. More about this in the advanced section of
the manual.
- DOS requesters are now blocked while the list of entries is
being loaded in order to prevent a bunch of the "Please
insert ..." requesters from a appearing if one of your drives
is dismounted.
- New gadget "Move & start" in HTML links and Internet search
windows.
- Changed the way Charon shortens the filenames when "Max
filename length" option comes into action.
- Changed the way the "Directory structure" option works. It now
also takes into consideration the name of the host.
- When a file is downloaded and Charon needs to check if there
are any queued files to be started, they are first searched
for in the same group in which the downloaded file was.
- Some changes in ARexx interface as a result of introduction
of groups.
- Updated some and removed some searches from Internet search
window. Ideas for possible additions are welcome.
- Fixed a bug in parsing dates in HTTP headers.
- Fixed a rare bug in display of percentage of the downloaded
file.
- Too long FTP paths would cause a crash while sending a
request. Fixed.
- Fixed a small memory leak during that occured only when Charon
was started from the shell.
- Charon would report that it couldn't resume a transfer when a
file had already been downloaded fully.
- SET Arexx command wasn't working properly for ages, fixed.
(ps)
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07.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: Old links re-activated, VarIO online manual
While analyzing our webserver-statistics, we have seen that there
are a couple of hundred accesses to pages that have been renamed
with the re-launch of the site in May 2000. These accesses are now
re-directed to the corresponding URLs of the new site.
The online-manual of the VarIO interface board is now available in
two languages, and the last missing part of the hardware
documentation is available in the insider-section of the support
area.
Users of Microsoft Internet-Explorer (Version 5.0 and higher) that
bookmark our site will see a fragment of our company logo as an
icon next to the URL in the favourites list.
(ps)
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07.Jan.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Matay: New homepage
Matay, producer of the well-known PCI-bridge "Prometheus" from Poland, relaunched theire homepage with a new design. A new and easy to use navigationbar lets you faster find the information you are looking for.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Jan.2002
Vapor
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Library: vapor_toolkit V15.13
Version 15.13 of the "vapor_toolkit.library" was released for AmigaOS and MorphOS. This library offers support functions used by most Vapor applications to reduce code size. The library's functions include the procedure of registration and watching for new versions at vapor.com. Changes in this version:
- Changed: Every character of an URL greater than 127 are regocnized as end mark. This should solve the AmIRC URL problem with the French catalog.
- New: URLs without scheme within quotation marks now are recognized ["www.blah.com"].
- Changed: Default memory needs of URL recognition reduced.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.7, Integrity V1.2
Version 17.1 of the virus detector "Safe" by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski was released. "Safe" recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible.
Safe contains a bugfix and the packet was splitted into three parts:
"Safe", "Integrity" und "WatchDog".
Changes:
- Bugfix: Fixed "mislooks" in VECS, SAVEMEM and DIS
anyway, seems only I use these options...
"Safe" runs on AmigaOS 2.04+ and requires xvs.library.
"Integrity" is a disk tool displaying any file added, deleted or changed since the last time "Integrity" was launched.
This is helpful to discover viruses / trojans in the system, but information also can be used to remove recently installed but not desired files, such like fonts, libraries, etc..
"Integrity" runs on AmigaOS v2.04+, the MMU version requires mmu.library.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Unix: NetBSD-Port for Pegasos suggested
At the "Suggested Ports" section of the open source unix system
"NetBSD" a NetBSD port for the Pegasos PPC system (bplan) is listed.
Who is interested in such port might contact
Allen Briggs (briggs@netbsd.org).
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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FAQ Amiga Francophone
The current version of the "FAQ Amiga Francophone" is available under
the title link.
This French FAQ answers general questions about the Amiga, e.g. about
emulators, PCI, USB, and more.
Vincent Alloy
(scanx@wanadoo.fr) maintains it.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Audio: Ogg Vorbis-Libraries for AmigaOS
On the
Da SixK Port Page
quick done ports of the libOgg and libVorbis were released.
The Ogg Vorbis format
is an open source audio format being an alternative for MP3.
The release of this developer kit is to encourage people to program a new
player or an Ogg Vorbis plugin for AmigaAmp.
The libVorbis directory contains examples for the use of the Ogg Vrobis libraries.
There also is "decode_example", a Ogg Vrobis to PCM decoder, contained.
There is also an example for how to code files to Ogg Vorbis format, but this does not
seem to work properly.
Ogg Vorbis developer site:
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/.
Download: libOGG+libVorbis_dev.lzx
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)
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Magazine: CD32 Outside No.4 released
The CD32 Outside No.4, German CD32 magazine, is available for free download.
Download: CD32outside4.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Amiga: NDK V3.9 released
Since Friday the update of the native developer kit on AmigaOS 3.9
is available for download at the AmigaOS 3.9 area of amiga.com.
The NDK v3.9 bases on the NDK 3.5 released on "Amiga Developer CD 2.1" and
is in part identical with this.
The example programs are mostly the same, as well as the tutorials and tools.
C headers and assembler headers, linker libraries, autodocs, and ARexx interface
documentaions for the Workbench have been updated. New are the "release note files"
and the so called "sfd files".
amiga.lib stubs, clib prototyp header-, pragma header,
and .fd files are all generated by the sfd files.
As an example tool for processing sfd files "sfd" is included in the tools
directory - but, one can also use third-party tools like "fd2pragma" (by Dirk Stöcker).
Note: sfd files of this release have been "sanified", meaning protected and internal
data are left out.
C header files have been cleared and their syntax were verified again. They now compile
problemless with SAS/C and GCC, even if all compiler warnings are enabled.
This release contains no specific GGC header files, but this might change in future
updates.
As of this writing, the specific requirements for GCC on the
native 68k and on the PowerPC platforms are still somewhat
uncertain. To the best of our knowledge, the compiler specific
header files would have covered the ROM interface, that is, the
pragma header files only. As the "sfd" files are provided with this
distribution, you should be able to rebuild your platform specific
header files yourself, or obtain a set from your compiler vendor.
This NDK update also represents a milestone regarding the assembler
header files. With this release these are no longer guaranteed to by
synchron to their counterparts in C.
Questions, bugreports, and wishes regarding the NDK 3.9 should be send directly
to that person, who created this updated: Olaf Barthel.
Thanks to all who contributed to this update, including
Martin Blom, Don Cox, James Jacobs, Gunther
Nikl, Alastair M. Robinson, Matt Sealey, Steven Solie, Martin
Steigerwald, Dirk Stöcker, Neil William, and others!
(Other sources: Stefan Kleinheinrich und MichaelV on ANF)
Download: NDK_3.9.lha (2,9M)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: Poll about SUBWAY / HIGHWAY started
During preperations for the first line of SUBWAY or HIGHWAY cards unfortunately
we happend to have some delays. We cannot fix delivery problems on the
semiconductor market, but we would like to take the resulting delay to match our
product with users' wishes, again.
That's why a
poll was put online, today,
where you can enter your wishes and suggestions.
We hope for active participation from the Amiga community. We are interested in your
serious opinion.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Ingo Schmitz (amiga-forum.de) (ANF)
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Amiga-Emulator: Sources of UAE 0.8.12 (WarpOS)
Ingo Schmitz of amiga-forum.de writes:
From today we are offering the specific source codes of UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS
in addition to the binaries. But remember that you will need the original
source codes of UAE, too. More information can be found under the title link.
Download: uae-0.8.12-R1WOS_src.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with Strips 181-184
The German issue of Eric W. Schartz's comic series "Sabrina Online"
was updated. The following was added:
- 181: The porno stars are allways the first to know, somehow
- 182: mind games
- 183: Employees are to be attacted by taffy
- 184: Taffy continues
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Magazine: Starmag stopped
The German disk and online magazine "Starmag" was stopped on 5. January 2002.
The website is reading the following note:
So, the magazine is offline now. If the "Starmag" would be revived some day
depends on the Amiga market getting well or not. But at the moment this is not
to be assumed :-(
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Amiga-Emulator: Amithlon explained by Bernie Meyer
In August 2001 Bernd Meyer has visited the Amiga User Group in
Australia and performed the third official presentation of the
Amiga emulator "Amithlon" there (the first one was done in St. Louis (Bill McEwen), the
second one with MAUG). He described the basics of the linux mini kernel and how AmigaOS was put on top.
Tony Mulvihill of the "Amiga User Group of Melbourne" has recorded this presentation with
his video8 camera. Craig Hutchinson then has digitized the video and splitted it into
18 MPEG files, which are available from Aminet under
/pix/mpg/Amithlon#?.mpg.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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amigapage.de: Amiga-History 2001
Marcus Neervoort has completed the
Amiga-History
of 2001 on his website.
Petro Tyschtschenko was disbanded on the Gateway 2001, the AmigaOne, AmigaOS 4.0,
as well as AmigaDE for Sharp Zaurus was announced.
In October the Amiga emulators AmigaOS XL and Amithlon were released.
In November the Pegasos board by bplan and the USB controller Subway by Michael
Böhme, and more were presented.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Markus Pohlmann about "Projekt Crashite"
"Projek Crashsite" is about a science fiction role game in which the player takes the part
of some kind of police force in a colonialized solar system. Beside of Markus Pohlmann there
are Daniel Hartlehnert (graphic rendering), Denis Comtesse (music), and Fredrike Schmitt (character drawing) working on development.
Markus Pohlmann answers questions about himself in person, the history of development of
the game, and the Amiga's situation.
Note: The editorial board
of the Amiga Future is urgently wanting users able to unsalaried translate texts for the
homepage from German to Englisch and vice versa.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Kultpower (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: Amiga-Magazin with Covers and more
There are additonal cover scans and editorials of the German print magazine Amiga-Magazin
online at Kultpower.de.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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Magazin: AMIGA aktuell 01/2002 published
Carsten Schröder writes:
The (German) January issue of the AMIGA aktuell magazine contains among other things:
- test report about the new version 6 of the route planner AmiATLAS
- test of the »Earth 2140 Mission Pack«
- review of the facturing software MT-Rechnung III
- background article about memory protection and virtual memory
- second part of the C++ workshop
AMIGA aktuell 01/2002 can be read online on our website or you can download it
in HTML or AmigaGuide format for offline reading.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jan.2002
PCTip
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PCTip: new Amiga computers - a myth on the way to its comeback?
Christian Bütikofer wrote in his (German) article extensively about the Amiga scene.
»They still exist, the Amiga users. And soon they could start to become
some more again. If all goes as planned, the Amiga, next to Atari THE cult home
computer of the 80's and 90's, will celebrate a resurrection in the new year!«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: interview with Jürgen Reinert (TTime Deluxe)
With the version 3.19 the phone costs counter software "TTime-Deluxe"
became freeware. Amiga Arena talked to Jürgen Reinert about the new version of
"TTime-Deluxe" as well as about the future of the program "Dragon Tools" and
about the features he likes most on the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Free-lance worker for Payback update CD wanted
Amig@lien has got the permission for a Payback update CD. Now we are looking for
some map designers who'd like to invest some time. Interested people may mail to payback@amigalien.de.
Thank you.
Ricco Clemens
Responsible at Amig@lien
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Nico Barbat (email)
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barbat media and falkemedia: employees wanted
For several commercial and non-commercial projects are
barbat media and falkemedia at the moment looking for the following staff:
- Translator English - German
- full time job with fixed salary
- very good English and German knowledge
- good knowledge of EDP and of the general games market
- Editors
- full time job or as free lance
- very good knowledge of the games and /or Amiga area
- good knowledge of language
- Web designer
- work on a voluntary basis on a new project in the demo scene area
For further information or if interested please contact directly Nico Barbat.
barbat media -
AMIGAplus
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Heise newsticker
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Heise: study is said to deliver ammunition against Linux
In the magazine The Register
has an internal email of the Microsoft vice president Brian Valentine been
released that caused a fuss as the mail reveals that the marketing strategy of
Microsoft are obviously directed against Open Source.
Heise article (German) see title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Kilian Servais (ANF)
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NoCover issue 94 released
Kilian Servais wrote:
Today has issue 94 of the freeware magazine NoCover been released. This is
available via Aminet (docs/mags), ACP&TCP homepage
or via email from me.
A free email subscription is possible any time. We're always pleased about
feedback etc. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)
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XAD-System Version 11
After a long time again a new release of archive extractor system XAD.
This system supports 93 filearchive, diskarchive and filesystem formats
nowadays (LZX, LhA, DMS, CAB, Zip, Rar, Ace, Arj, Wrapster, HA, ADF,
...). The most important new formats may be StuffIt, MacBinary, BinHex,
C64 filesystems and the SmartFileSystem. Thanks a lot to my three most active
supporters. XAD is still (relatively cheap) shareware. And there is
still a special price for OS 3.9 users wanting to update.
(ps)
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05.Jan.2002
ANN
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Payback Update 7 Released & Apex Website Redesigned
Apex Designs have released Payback
Update 7. Amongst
other things, the new update fixes several bugs and improves the appearance of
the water when running under hardware acceleration. The 680x0 version is also
significantly faster.
Secondly, Apex have extensively redesigned their website and are encouraging
people to drop by and take a look.
Finally, they've also posted an updated map on the
Extra Maps page. (ps)
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04.Jan.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.01.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use
with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or
updated:
- 03.01.02 new: Terry's Big Adventure (Grandslam) done by Codetapper & Galahad
- 03.01.02 new: Puffy's Saga (UBI-Soft) done by Codetapper
- 03.01.02 new: WWF Wrestlemania (Ocean) done by Codetapper
- 03.01.02 improved: Skweek (Loriciel) trainer added
- 03.01.02 new: Round the Bend (Zeppelin) done by Bored Seal
- 03.01.02 fixed: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) access fault removed
- 03.01.02 improved: Panza Kickboxing (Loriciel/Futura) supports another version, fastmem support
- 03.01.02 new: Off Shore Warrior (Titus) done by CFOU!
- 03.01.02 new: Ninja Spirit (Mediagenic) done by CFOU! & JOTD
- 03.01.02 new: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel) done by Abaddon
- 03.01.02 new: Monty Pythons Flying Circus (Core Design/Virgin) done by CFOU!
- 03.01.02 improved: Mega Phoenix (Dinamic) supports another version, trainer added
- 03.01.02 new: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 03.01.02 new: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) done by Abaddon & CFOU!
- 03.01.02 new: Horror Zombies from the Crypt () done by Abaddon
- 03.01.02 new: Hellraider (Atari) done by Bored Seal
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04.Jan.2002
Stiftung Warentest
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Stiftung Warentest: Computer monitors: Flat, good, expensive
»Flat screen or ordinary monitor? Modern flat screens mostly are better.
The tested TFT displays provide pin sharp pictures. They are compact, eye friendly and
save energy. Disadvantage: Flat screens are expensive. Price starts at 445 Euro. A good
ordinary monitor can be obtained for a price of 255 Euro, already.
«
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jan.2002
SPIEGEL online
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SPIEGEL: Tops and flops of the year
In his article Jochen A. Siegle describes the tops and flops of the year
2001. Listed as a flop is Windows XP by Microsoft while the
new website Wayback Machine, which allows a journey through time
to websites from the beginning of the internet is highlighted as website of
the year.
German SPIEGEL article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Dennis Lohr (e-mail)
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Psyria: Defender of the Crown title song for mobile phones
Dennis Lohr of Psyria has received the permission of Jim Cuomo to
convert the title song of Defender of the Crown for mobile phones.
Everyone with a phone with note editor can now enter the melody of
Defender of the Crown:
4C5, 8C.5, 16D5, 2C5, 4G5, 8G.5, 16A5, 2G5, 4F5, 4E5, 4D5,
4C5, 4E5, 8B.4, 16B4, 2B4, 4C5, 8C.5, 16D5, 2C5, 4G5, 8G.5,
16A5, 4G.5, 16F5, 16E5, 8F5, 8E5, 8D5, 8C5, 8F5, 8E5, 8D5,
8C5, 4E5, 8B.4, 16B4, 2B4, 4F5, 8F5, 8F5, 8G5, 8G5, 8A5,
8G5, 4C6, 8C.5, 16C5, 4C5
The first number is the note type:
1= full
2= half
4= quarter
8= quaver
16= sixteenth
The letter stands for the note itself (long with a "." where necessary). The third
number stands for the note height (octave). You are usually in octave 5 after
starting the editor.
The user should choose the speed for the piece himself since every mobile phone
varies the speed differently. For a Siemens mobile phone for example the optimal
speed would be "03".
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Gigabyte counts on ATI graphics chips - NVidia is out
»Graphics cards with Rage 128 Pro, Radeon 7000E and Radeon
7500LE announced
The Taiwanese hardware manufacturer Gigabyte has removed his graphics cards
with NVidia chips - among them a GeForce2 Ti 200 and GeForce3 Ti 500 -
from their program in favor of graphics cards with ATIs Radeon graphics chips
of the 7000 series.«
Full German article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Expensive free domains
Who has registered a free second level domain of Trinidad and Tobago
(for example www.amiga-news.de.tt) at TopNic
should read their terms and conditions more closely. According to them,
in case of inactivity of 40 days a deactivation fee applies. If your
domain generates no traffic over a course of 40 consecutive days, a
deactivation fee of Euro 29,-- has to be paid immediately."
Heise article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Freedom For Links
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FFL: Tim Berners-Lee: What is a link?
»Tim Berners-Lee is regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
1990 he developed hyperlinks at the Swiss core research establishment CERN
in Geneva hyperlinks - fast connections between a variety of documents.
He wrote the first WWW client (a browser editor under NeXtStep) and the
first WWW server in connection with the communication software which
defined URLs, HTTP and HTML defined.«
Read at the title link his thoughts on the nature of hyperlinks. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Ralph Debusmann
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Music player: EasyPlayer version 1.12
Version 1.12 of the music player EasyPlayer (EYP) has been released. With
this program Ralph Debusmann offers a user-friendly graphical interface
for shell-based programs such as mpega, GMPlay or SIDPlay. The program
is universally usable for all shell-based music player software.
Requirements are AmigaOS 2.04 (V37) or higher, reqtools.library
version 38 or higher, amigaguide.library version 34 or higher and a
shell-based music player program.
Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin (107 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
dynAMIte
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Game: dynAMIte SouthPark style improved
Oliver Tacke has improved his SouthPark style for the network game dynAMIte,
a Bomberman clone, and made it available for download in the area "styl'o'rama".
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed with new tests
New speed tests have been added to the Amiga Speed. For the first time
there are tests with an A4000 equipped with a G-Rex PCI card and a Voodoo3.
So have a look at the items Heretic2, Q***e and Voodoo3 (2D GFX).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (e-mail)
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Individual Computers: website partly updated
Besides a new price list and payment conditions for customers from
foreign countries there have been some cosmetical changes in the
product descriptions (especially VarIO).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future issue #34 released
Issue #34 of the German print magazine Amiga Future is shipping.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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