27.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: "Uropa² HD" full version
With permission by Stephen Smith (Austex Software) the Amiga Arena makes the
download of the full version of Uropa² (shareware version 2.0) available. Uropa² is a game
based on isometric 3D graphics and lightsource vector graphics. The plot takes
place on the moon of Uropa. Fight the evil Kapones and find their leading head
that is responsible for their acts!
Available for download is the Aminet version of Uropa² as well as the Amiga Arena
archive with the keyfile, German guide and catalogue files.
Hint: Exclusively can the Final Uropa² CD version 3.0,
distributed by Vulcan Software, be found as full version on the
Amiga Future readers CD 33.
Exclusive II: For all owners of the orginal CD are all Final Updates for
Uropa² available for download, too! Including a new intaller for the CD
version by Stephen Smith.
Special thanks go to Stephen Smith for the support as well as to Gerd F.,
who made the shareware version available. Enjoy one more commercial full
version! With the best wishes from the Amiga Arena!
Next to Uropa² there are more commercial games available for free and legal
download like Burnout, Blade and The Prophet. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org - roadmap
Under the title link you find a comprehensive roadmap, how Amiga.org will continue. Among other things a new server, new partner sites,
an improved user login are planned as well as a new comments system. The forums system and
the poll scripts are to be improved during this complete overhaul, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Bernie Meyer (email)
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Amithlon.net now online with information
Bernie Meyer wrote:
As there seems to be the need for it I have gathered some information on http://www.amithlon.net/ and made downloads
available. In particular there are:
- a detailed guide how to boot Amithlon from the hard disk,
- bootable CD and floppy images for testing existing hardware
for Amithlon compatibility,
- an up-to-date FAQ.
Some parts are still in development and some parts are missing just completely
--- but regarding the discussions taking place at the moment I wanted to make
the existing information available as soon as possible.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - update and further news
Promised is promised: the latest update for DA III (to version
4.2) was uploaded to Aminet. Users of the program can download and decrypt the program via
in-built function automatically as soon as the update
appears on the recent list. For this you need an already installed v4.0 or
higher.
Here the most important changes:
- Complete Bayer/Flamsteed data base (historical naming of stars)
- The DA screen is now public.
- The printer output can now be previewed in a browser.
- Online information about several hundred stars.
The most important bugfixes:
- Drawing Deep Sky objects into the printer output caused crashes.
- The evaluation of the mouse position in the PPC versions had not always
worked.
And a short notice regarding the OpenGL version of DA III (issue 10/2001 of the
AmigaPlus):
This project was cancelled already several weeks ago as there was no speed gain
compared to the normal version.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)
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IRC-Kanal for GRex users
Michael Göken wrote:
As already mentioned we want to set up an IRC channel that offers a
possibility for the exchange of experiences to GRex owners.
If we'd have some flatrate owners we could maintain an online channel.
I post the server I'll open the #GREXX channel on from time to time.
Server: 141.44.163.6
Channel: #GREXX
Port:6667
(ps)
Update 28-Oct-2001:
The name of the IRC channel was changed. It's now
'#GREX' and it is set up on the server 141.44.163.6
(port: 6667).
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Volker Mohr (ANF)
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New site about self built Amiga laptops online
Volker Mohr wrote:
For all interested I have finally put together pictures of all Amiga laptops built by me as
well as some hints for assembling such on a homepage. I admit this
page was overdue but better late than never :-)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Oct.2001
Gerd Frank (e-mail)
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New AmiATLAS website online
At the title link you'll find the new website of the route planner AmiATLAS 6.
Alternately the website can be reached at
http://software.freepage.de/iss.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with James Daniels (programmer of Payback)
There's currently perhaps only one commercial Amiga game which is maintained
so well as Payback by James Daniels. Sadly, James' work does not reflect in
the sales. Because of the download count (updates) which are much higher than
the sales it has to be assumed that a huge amount of pirated copies endanger
the further development of Payback!
In the interview with Amiga Arena James revealed what the update 6 will offer.
Should the amount of sales not increase we will have to do without a very
talented "young" developer for Amiga.
Special thanks to Christian B. who made it possible that the interviews are
online in German and English.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Michael Dittmar (ANF)
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Blizkick - Bugfixed for the new (PCI)-Flash-ROM
A new update for the MAPROM tool Blizkick is available. Besides other bugfixes
the new version now works with BlizzardPPC boards which have been flashed with
the new (PCI-)flash ROM.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
eisblock (ANF)
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DiCaTool V0.81
There is a new version of DiCaTool which you can download again this weekend
(server is not online permanently). With DiCaTool you can configure your digital
camera, load pictures from the camera or use it as a webcam. Have fun with it.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.36
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. This is a major update
and you should download the update right away, just read about the changes.
And what must be one of the best news in the anti-virus scene in 2001, the 'man'
himself is back on the Amiga scene. Georg Hoermann, the original programmer of
VirusZ III and xvs.library is BACK. Georg Hoermann and Jan Erik Olausen will work
together on the update of xvs.library in future.
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.36
Achive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 82,452 bytes
Release date: 25 October 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann
News for v33.36:
- After several years on a journey the sourcecodes finally came
back home;-) Yes, it's me (Georg Hörmann) again, still alive
and kicking virus asses... Thanks must go to Alex van Niel and
Jan Erik Olausen for keeping the project alive!
This update was done by me alone, but in the future, Jan Erik
and I will keep the library up-to-date together.
- Rearranged and enhanced the security stuff inside the library
for 100% detection of any (illegal) function patches. Programs
like 'ZeebsVS' will no longer work with this version. Thanks
must go to Zeeball for his demonstration of security gaps in
the older versions.
- Added support for 'IOZ (512 Bytes)' linkvirus. Thanks go to
Zeeball for sending it.
- Added support for 'Rexxfunc' trojan. Thanks must go to Zeeball
and Jan Andersen for sending it.
- Totally redesigned the scanner for virus tasks/processes. The
new code scans all tasks/processes for every known virus in just
one step and can even handle several running copies of one virus
correctly (thanks Zeeball for the hint).
- Checked ALL the stuff that has been added in my absence since
xvs.library 33.18. See below for what I have changed/fixed.
Thanks must go to Jan Andersen, Jan Erik Olausen and Zeeball
for sending me the missing viruses and lots of other stuff.
Special thanks to Zeeball for the ZeebsVS sourcecodes!
- Fixed file recognition for 'Bastard Installer 1'.
- Renamed 'Miami 4.0 Fake Installer' to 'MUI 4.0 Fake Installer',
because that's what it really is.
- Renamed 'CCCP Clone' bootvirus to 'Anal Rapes' (its real name),
fixed its memory recognition and added it to linkvirus brain.
- Removed recognition for 'Doubledensity' bootblock, this is just
an intro boot.
- Fixed longword access to odd address in 'Jode Capullos 2' file
recognition. This caused crashes on 68000 systems.
- Fixed memory removal code for 'Zakahackandpatch' and 'Zakapior'.
The processes of these viruses might stay in memory up to one
minute after they have been detected, that's not a bug, but
their own call to Delay() that we have to wait for.
- Fixed recognition for 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Installers' and added
the plain version created by xfdmaster.library 39.13.
- Renamed 'MadRoger Short' to 'NoName (248 Bytes)' to follow the
guidelines of VTC Hamburg (idea by Jan Andersen).
- Renamed '212 Bytes Link' linkvirus to 'NoName (212 Bytes)' and
fixed its memory removal code.
- Renamed 'Explode Trojan' linkvirus to 'Port 9876' and removed
the repair code, we can use 'Fungus' code instead.
- Renamed 'Explode Trigger' filevirus to 'Port 9876 Trigger'.
- Renamed 'Port 4097 Installer' to 'Port 4097' and added memory
removal code for the trojan's process. The process will stay
in memory for a while without doing any harm, see explanation
at 'Zaka...' above.
- Fixed 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' memory removal code. The process gets
killed immediately, the patched stack addresses will disappear
one by one after a while without doing harm.
- Fixed memory and file recognition and the repair code for
'Motaba 3' linkvirus. Now it restores the correct library jumps
and can repair even files that have been damaged by the virus
(bad branch offsets!).
- Fixed memory and file recognition and the repair code for
'Bastard' linkvirus. Now restores all patched functions (inside
asl.library and VirusCheckerII) and repairs even big files with
bad branch offsets.
- File recognition for 'Bastard Installer 2' will now only detect
the plain, uncrunched virus as xfdmaster.library unpacks this
file correctly.
- Fixed brain entry of 'Port 2421' linkvirus (wrong virus length)
and added memory recognition. Moved 'Port 2421 Installer' from
linkvirus to filevirus brain as it cannot reproduce itself.
- Fixed 'Smeg 2a' and 'Smeg 2b' memory removal code. The processes
get killed immediately and the patched stack addresses disappear
one by one after a while without doing harm.
- Fixed repair code for 'Penetrator 2001' linkvirus to handle both
ways of infection and added memory removal code (removes the task
and 2 of 3 processes, the other one usually should already have
been run out or crashed because of bad coding!).
- Fixed memory recognition for 'Bobek 2' linkvirus and tuned the
file recognition/repair code. Thanks to Jan Erik Olausen for his
bug report about the beta-release of this code.
TO DO:
- Add some code to close TCP ports opened by several trojans.
- Add Neurotic Death 1-5 linkviruses. These are highly polymorphic, but
crash on my system if I try to infect some test files. I have received
several infected files already from other persons and will try to find
some solution for these viruses in the near future.
- Try to get and add GlobVec linkvirus. The only one who has it is Heiner
Schneegold (author of VT-Schutz) and VTC Hamburg, but Heiner doesn't
give his permission to the VTC to send me the virus :(
Authors:
Currently we are developing xvs.library together, so for bug reports, other
comments, new ideas etc. it's enough if you choose one of the following
addresses:
Georg Hörmann, Martinswinkelstr. 16c, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
email: ghoermann@gmx.de or ghoermann@epost.de
Jan Erik Olausen, Rødsveien 5, N-1671 Kråkerøy, Norway
email: virusexecutor@c2i.net
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE: New entries and review of Mira-WizARC
At the GFX-BASE you can once more read a new review. This time Kevin Hansen
has tested the archive manager Mira-WizARC. Besides our vote (which
ends in the next days) there are some new entries of games and scene demos which
support graphics cards.
Also new is an improved layout as well as a new logo which is meant to illustrate
a small change in direction of our magazine: the GFX-BASE magazine is now not
only for graphics card users but for Amiga high-end users in general.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)
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Game: AQUA distributed by FORE-MATT
FORE-MATT Home Computing have been appointed by Emerald Imaging as the new world-wide
distributors of AQUA, the graphical adventure game in the style of Myst. The game can now
be ordered direct from FORE-MATT Home Computing at the new Amiga Online Superstore.
Trade enquiries are welcome by mailing trade@forematt.co.uk or calling +44 (0)8700 11 22 34.
John Wilson of FORE-MATT stated "FORE-MATT Home Computing are pleased to be working with a
company who still believes in the Amiga platform. We are committed to selling and distributing
great games from the past, present and future for the Amiga community. Emerald Imaging have
shown that great original games can still be made for the Amiga and we hope to see this continue."
Kelly Samel from the Canadian company who developed AQUA had this to say
"Emerald Imaging is pleased to be working with FORE-MATT Home Computing
in the world-wide distribution of Aqua. Working with FORE-MATT will
ensure that Aqua is available world-wide for all Amiga users.
We look forward to Aqua being available through many Amiga dealers,
including FORE-MATT Home Computing and directly from our website.
It's all about opening up choice and offering quality software and
service to Amiga customers and dealers. We feel we will succeed in
this goal thanks to Aqua gaining a wide scope of availability and appeal."
For those not seen the game yet, it will be displayed on the FORE-MATT Home Computing stand at the World of Amiga SE Show on 3rd November.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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OSNews: Interview with Guillaume Maillard of the BlueOS team
There's an interesting article at OS-News about BlueOS,
a BeOS clone based on Linux. In this article a BlueOS team member answers questions about
the planned system. This article is also interesting from Amiga point of view for the following
reasons:
- BlueOS could become another alternative operating system for the bPlan PPC board
- BlueOS could show that it's possible to build an alternative operating system on a Linux
kernel which is compatible to an existing one (BeOS). Something similar would be possible
for AmigaOS for example with AROS.
All in all the BlueOS project seems to be in a very early state. Interesting for Amiga fans are the
aims of the project which read on the homepage as follows: "Call this project ´BeOS 8´
or ´AmigaOS 10, the revenge´ if you want, our dream is to make something better than
these great OSes."
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Chris Perver (ANF)
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Textviewer: Updated plug-ins for EvenMore
Using the new plugin feature of EvenMore, it is now possible for anyone
with a basic knowledge of any compiling programming language to create
plugins for EvenMore. I have created AmigaGuide, HTML, MSWord and
WordWorth conversion plugins to date. The possibilities are endless.
If anyone wants to create a plugin, let me know. This will also help me
to improve the plugin functions and expand the type and functions of
plugins that can be created.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Andreas C. Schmidt (ANF)
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Private G-REX 4000D performance tests by Andreas C. Schmidt
Last week I have promised in one of the comment threads to make real world
tests on my G-REX 4000D. Now that I have my G-REX together with Voodoo3-3000
working the results are available at the title link.
Amidog's AMP sadly does not run with the G-REX-Voodoo combination and
likes to crash on startup. I don't have a 100 MBit ethernet card yet since
the drivers are still missing. As soon as the drivers are available I will
do the tests.
One word on the 3D games: Heretic and Shogo run perfectly, Wipeout runs (on
my system) only on Workbench and the glQuake status bar is mangled and
unreadable. The main 3D graphic in glQuake is not affected, though.
Now a call to all Mediator users: I would *LOVE* to see my tests on the
most powerful Mediator environment (603e-240, Voodoo3-3000)! With the help
of my test notes it should be easily possible for anyone to execute them
himself (except the ethernet test).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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25.Oct.2001
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Survey: Which system do you want to use 2002?
In our forum some asked when we would start another survey
along with a precise suggestion to query for: "What system would you like to use in 2002?".
Possible answers:
- "Classic" Amiga / AmigaOS 3.x
- "Classic" Amiga / Linux
- AmigaOne / AmigaOS 4.0
- Pegasos / MorphOS
- Pegasos / LinuxPPC
- x86 / AmigaOS XL / Amithlon
- x86 / UAE
- x86 / Windows
- x86 / Linux
- Macintosh / UAE
- Macintosh / MacOS
- Macintosh / LinuxPPC
Unfortunately our script does not allow multiple entries. Suggestions for
other surveys are welcome.
Update: (30.04.2011, cg)
For archiving reasons, the results of the survey are added to this news item:
System Votes
"Classic" Amiga / AmigaOS 3.x 327 (13.09%)
"Classic" Amiga / Linux 20 (0.80%)
AmigaOne / AmigaOS 4.0 1000 (40.02%)
Pegasos / LinuxPPC 15 (0.60%)
Pegasos / MorphOS 611 (24.45%)
x86 / AmigaOS XL / Amithlon 269 (10.76%)
x86 / UAE 24 (0.96%)
x86 / Windows 84 (3.36%)
x86 / Linux 58 (2.32%)
Macintosh / UAE 3 (0.12%)
Macintosh / MacOS 55 (2.20%)
Macintosh / LinuxPPC 1 (0.04%)
Andere / Other 32 (1.28%)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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25.Oct.2001
Dreamoler-Caps
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Tool: ReqAttack Version 1.93
The tool to embellish system requesters programmed by Georg Steger and further
developed by Jaca/Dreamolers-Caps now is available for download in version 1.93
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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25.Oct.2001
Da SixK Port Page
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Database: MySQL version 4.0.0 for 68040 CPU
In this archive you will find MySQL version 4.0.0 (alpha binary).
Thus a corrected version of MySQL 4.0.0 alpha for the 68040 CPU
has been released fixing the 'Create Database' error.
Download: mysqld-4_bin_create_db_fix.lzx
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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25.Oct.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Amiga announces first release of its AmigaDE Player
As already reported in August
Amiga Inc. have released an AmigaDE player for Linux and Windows. You will find
the official press release of Amiga Inc. under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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25.Oct.2001
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Video editing: New effect movies by Motionstudio
Titan Computer released two new effect movies for download in the 'Shot/Movie' section,
which give a good impression of the plasma and fireworks effects. The Quicktime movies
can be displayed using any Amiga QT player.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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24.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Society Updates
There are some new updates on Amiga-Society again. There are many new entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware. There are also new pictures on the software site.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
AmigaRealm (E-Mail)
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AmigaRealm: Call for support of Amiga.org
Certainly you have already read that the website of the American news service called Amiga.org was hacked and the database destroyed. Under the title link AmigaRealm calls up everybody to support Wayne Hunt who is the maintainer of Amiga.org by contributing money so that he can bring the website online again.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail)
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AMIGA-Magazine: Extracts from issue #11 online
As usually the print-magazine 'AMIGA-Magazin' makes some articles available for reading. This time the highlight is a basis article for XHTML 1.0. It shows how you can design HTML-documents future-safe. Additionally you can find an editorial and a preview to the next issue as well as a programmer-workshop to "Warp 3D V4".
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
Paul Cardwell (ANF)
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GetBoinged! an Amiga application listings website goes live!
GetBoinged! is a place where Amiga developers can list their applications
on, be it for Amiga DE or Classic. It was developed by two Amiga fans, Paul
Beel my friend and myself. We do not host the "actual" applications, we
allow the developer to point to a location where the application resides
(html links).
We invite you to check out GetBoinged.org at
http://www.getboinged.org.
If you cannot find the application you are looking for, feel free to sign
up for an account and post the application.
We are currently in the process of gathering Amiga DE applications, Amiga
Classic is basically done (both will be updated frequently). If you have a
comment or suggestion, feel free to let us know, we want this site to be
enjoyable!
We look forward to your visit and hope you enjoy GetBoinged.org.
Thank you,
Paul Cardwell
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Software Update for Catweasel Floppy Controller
There is a new version of the multidisk.device in the support-area for download. The device works with all Amiga versions of the Catweasel Controller. On frequently request some new formats have been introduced which can also read and write hidden data on the disks. For the most common formats the track-line was extended and for PC-disks special formats with different sector sizes have been introduced.
The format for C64-disks has been extended on 40 tracks and a small bug has been fixed. Finally it should be now possible to write the disk-id in the sector-header correctly.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: Upgrade: ImageFX 4.5 is now available
Nova Design has just announced that the current update to ImageFX 4.5 is available. This version adds some new functions to the most efficienty programm package for picture manipulation. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
Golem - IT News für Profis
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Golem: Slashdot interviewed: "Trying the impossible"
Slashdot-editor Timothy Lord reports about the work behind the site
Linux-boom to and fro: No open-source-website has such a big influence as the Slashdot-offer with its motto "News for nerds, stuff that matters". Ben Schwan talks about the work behind the site, the power of good communities and about the future of free software after the end of the Internet-Hypes with slashdot-editor Timothy Lord.
Have a look at the title link for the full interview.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
internet.com
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internet.com: EU wants computer-programs under protection by patent this year
»The European Commission wants to set computer-programs under the protection by patent within the Union. This is reported by the 'Financial Times Deutschland' in its current issue. After disputing in the authority for months inland market commissar Frits Bolkestein pushed through his plan of patent regulation for software-programs. Still this year he wants to present a directive proposal to it. With it "an uniform protection by patent is supposed to be created to push innovations at developing software" says the Commission.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software
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Eternity: AmigaOS XL-demonstrating system in shop
In order to introduce AmigaOS XL something more transparent from now on at Eternity hard- and
software you can observe an Amithlon-demonstrating system in shop. At the same time some products will be set to an absolutely minimal price for three days.
Eternity Hard- und Software
Rosmarstraße 37
50226 Frechen
Telephon: 049 2234 / 272300
Telefax: 049 2234 / 271472
Mo. to Fr.: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Oct.2001
Access Innovation Ltd.
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Mick Tinker takes leave of Amiga market
Well time moves on, nothing stands still... The Amiga does not make me a
living, it hasn't for a long, long time and it doesn't look like it ever
will make me a dime. I have moved on in my life and its time that I left
the Amiga behind.
It has been an interesting time. I still love the concepts and elegance of
the Amiga, many of those concepts will move forward through the experiences
of all those engineers that have had contact with it. Amiga R.I.P.
Note of the editors board:
The Anti Gravity website, which have bought the BoXer project from Mick Tinker, is not available any more.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.Oct.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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Update of the project Crashsite website
The website www.projektcrashsite.de (title link) about the new role game of
the same denominator has been updated. An initial test picture of the 16Bit
Iso 3d engine, new music in MP3 format and the questions and answers so
far are part of the new content.
Since the game's graphic artist Daniel Hartlehnert is searching for a new
employer there are some examples for his work in the "Die Macher" section.
In the support section the programmers are asking for decision guidance regarding what
should take priority - development for 68k od PPC.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)
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Emulation: New version of Amigenerator released
The SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis) emulator Amigenerator is released in version V0.34. The
changes in V0.34:
- [VDP] Error in VSTAM removed (Pengo)
- [VDP] Unnecessary code in sources etc. removed
- [SOUND] Sound code reworked
- [SOUND] Support of On/Off of psg/fm/z80 and sound added
- [CORE] Welcome ROM added
- [CORE] Saving is added again
- [CORE] The saving of sound was reworked completely
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - Amithlon
Thanks to Harald Frank it was possible to present DA III running on
"Amithlon" on the event which took place last Friday in Mutterstadt, Germany.
There was greate positive responsiveness to that presentation.
Calculation speed did not rank behind comparable PC programs.
So, the only planetarium program left for the Amiga also runs under
Amithlon without problems.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Oct.2001
Tales of Tamar
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Game: Tales of Tamar - Amiga Version 0.38R3
The Amiga version v0.38R3 of the Internet and round based game Tales of Tamar
contains speedups on the map screen, and OnScreen animations for the trade- and
diplomacy screen. The game is only available for beta testers.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: AmigaXL: Selling since October 18th
H&P wrote:
23. Oct. 2001: On Thursday, October 18th sale of
AmigaOS XL started.
Delivery of the preorders still will take a few days. We ask you for understanding.
Last weekend the new version was presented and up for sale on the
Pianeta 2001
in Empoli, Italy.
(ps)
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23.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Carl Svensson (mp3Play)
The GUI "mp3Play" comes from Sweden. The developer Carl Svensson
answered the questions of the Amiga Arena.
Olaf Köbnik: "The Amiga Arena is supporting the freeware and shareware market and I just can
appeal you again and again to support the developers with feedback."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Oct.2001
m.w.VERLAG GmbH
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amiga-news.de in the 'Book of the 6,000 Most Important Websites'
amiga-news.de has been recorded to the Internet guide
"Das Web-Adressbuch für Deutschland - Die 6.000 wichtigsten deutschen Internet-Adressen"
(The Web-Address-Book for Germany - The 6,000 most importandt German Internet Addresses).
The editors board of the mv publishing company did a one year data-recall facility and tested about
250,000 web offers and read out the 6,000 best websites.
Base of this book is a concise structure, 19 chapters are partitioned into subject relating
rubrics. It contains an extended headword index and e-mail register. The arrangement of
sub-categories and the extended index enables the reader to quickliy find what he is searching
for and the short comments simplify to decide the optimal address. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Oct.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis and xlHtml Update
Fr3dY has updated two of his tools. First is version 1.0.3 of Anubis, an anonymous
mailer with many features, available for download. Also xHTML is updated onto version
0.3.9.1.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
OSNews
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OSNews: Interview with Carl Sassenrath about REBOL (Update)
You will find a complete interview with Carl Sassenrath about
REBOL under the title link. It especially has an eye
on the possibilities that
REBOL/IOS
will give
X-Internet
('executable' Internet), and the chances of REBOL in the market against .NET and other
systems.
The interview was held by Eugenia Loli-Queru.
REBOL is a platform overlapping sytem from Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec), that was
released first in November 1997. The REBOL language lets you use the Internet easily
including coding of CGI-scripts and the easy design of GUIs.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
The Amiga Alternative Audio Page
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MPEG-Audio-Player: MAD for 68040 and MorphOS
Today we have a brand new port-release for you .. madplay, the best
mpeg-audio player out there .. this will make a nice complement to
the LAME encoder...
The archive comes with binaries for 68040 and MorphOS...
Please read the included amiga.readme for special instructions on usage!
From the MAD README:
MAD has the following special features:
- 24-bit PCM output
- 100% fixed-point (integer) computation
- completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards
- distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
Because MAD provides full 24-bit PCM output, applications using MAD are
able to produce high quality audio. Even when the output device supports
only 16-bit PCM, applications can use the extra resolution to increase the
audible dynamic range through the use of dithering or noise shaping.
Because MAD uses integer computation rather than floating point, it is
well suited for architectures without a floating point unit. All
calculations are performed with a 32-bit fixed-point integer
representation.
Because MAD is a new implementation of the ISO/IEC standards, it is
unencumbered by the errors and copyrights of other implementations. MAD is
NOT a derivation of the ISO reference source or any other code.
Considerable effort has been expended to ensure a correct implementation,
even in cases where the standards are ambiguous or misleading.
Download: madplay.lzx (220 KB)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
Pagan Games
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Pagan Games: New game for AmigaDE - BLOBULA
Pagan Games proudly presents Blobula. The first next-generation platform
independent game for desktop machines as well as personal digital
assistants. Thanks to AmigaDE Blobula runs on most hardware but AmigaDE
will at first be available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and the Sharp
Zaurus PDA.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Image processing: SView ImageFX Loader Update
The ImageFX plugins (loader/Saver) for SView are updated and are available for download (title link).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
Ottawa Amiga Show Team
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Event: Ottawa Amiga Show - Changes
Against other statements the Ottawa Amiga Show will not take place on two days, only
on 17.11.2001. Also changed has the location. Now it is the Routhier Centre, 172
Guigues Street, Main floor, Ottawa, Canada. More informations under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Oct.2001
Kermit Woodall (ANF)
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Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Richmond, VA - Nova Design announced the immediate availability of the
latest upgrade to ImageFX 4.5. This release adds even more features to one
of the industries most powerful image editing and special effects package
and the top package for the Amiga.
Nova Design has been a long-time supporter of the Amiga platform. Their
software packages include ImageFX, Aladdin 4D - a 3D modeling, rendering
and animation package, Millennium - the ultimate upgrade for Newtek's
Toaster and Toaster/Flyer, and Cinematte - a blue-screening plugin for both
Photoshop and Aura.
New Painting Features
The painting tools have been improved with the addition of several new
Drawmodes. These Drawmodes allow a new range of compositing so you can
composite brushes into your images will all the same tools that the
composite tool offers you for full image compositing. When combined with
the Drawstyles, which control where your pixels come from when using
brushes, you have literally thousands of possible drawing options and
combinations!
New Animation Features
ImageFX 4.0 introduced the concept of being able to load an animation and
work on individual frames just like you would a layered still image
document. ImageFX 4.5 takes this much further with the all-new Keyframe
Manager.
The Keyframe Manager allows you to combine images, animations, or
animbrushes onto any animation you have loaded. You can completely control
the path of these images or animations by specifying precise positions at
individual keyframes at any point in the animation. You can do this with
single point keys, two point keys, or four point keys. You can scale during
single point animations, use two points to make easy 'squash and stretch'
cartoony effects, or use four points flip points around to make '3D' flying
logos and other simulated perspective tricks. With a little artistic talent
it's not hard to track something in an existing animation and add a new
effect on it or replace it with something new.
The Keyframe Manager can also process simple scripts without bothering with
compositing images or animations. You can track lightning into a scene or
have a wizard cast a glowing light with a lens flare. The possibilities are
enormous!
Ordering
Just call 1-800-IMAGE-69 or (804) 282-1157, fax (804) 282-3768 to order.
(ps)
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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Exotica (ANF)
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Amiga Exotica Update
This section provides complete unmodified rips with full credits for all
Amiga game sound tracks regardless of format. Unlike other collections
available elsewhere on the internet, UnExoticA's archive hasn't been
defaced with rip credits, which often replace comments left by the
original composer.
Huge thanks to all the people who have worked hard to make this section.
Full credits for the area can be read on its Main Page. At the time of
writing the area contains 3440 files packed into 615 archives. That's
269 different composers! Uncompressed there is currently 212 Megabytes
of music!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New packages for WHDLoad
WHDLoad gives you the possibility to install floppy-based games onto your harddisc. The following new or
updated versions are available:
- 21.10.01 new: Night Breed (Ocean) done by Bored Seal
- 21.10.01 fixed: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) install script debugged
- 21.10.01 new: Barbarian (Psygnosis) done by CFOU!
- 20.10.01 improved: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) various changes
- 20.10.01 fixed: Doofus (Prestige Software) highscore fixed
- 20.10.01 fixed: Hudson Hawk (Ocean) no more problems on 68060
- 18.10.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version
- 17.10.01 new: Megatwins (US Gold/SEGA) done by JOTD
- 17.10.01 improved: Marble Madness () new icon (Info,Image)
- 17.10.01 new: Geisha (Coktail Vision) done by CFOU!
- 17.10.01 new: Space Ball (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
- 17.10.01 new: F1 Tornado (Zeppelin/Quex Development) done by Bored Seal
- 17.10.01 new: Dark Fusion (Esprit Software/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
- 17.10.01 new: Battle Storm (Titus) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
Suite101 / John Chandler
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John Chandler: AROS: Native AmigaOS For Your PC
John Chandler is dealing with AROS the native AmigaOS for PC in his current article, published at suite101.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
Apex Designs
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Game: Payback Update 5, new demo and map-update
Update 5, updated maps and a new demo of Payback are now available for download. Update 5 fixes all bugs
reported since the release of update 4. If you still have some problems, please have a look at the FAQ.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P won't leave the Amiga market
Markus Nerding (Manager of H&P) wrote:
"There was a rumour at amiga.org saying that we would leave the Amiga market. This is not only complete nonsens but even hard to believe with reagard to the recently released AmigaOS XL and Freespace. Due to the fact that amiga.org is currently down I think that it was probably hacked by
someone else." (ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AmigaPage News - New pictures and fair movies
After a long time some new stuff, again. In the 'Amiga-Geschichte' (Amiga history)
section some pictures have been added. Also the 'Messe-Werbung' (fair advertising) and
'Amiga-Werbung' (Amiga advertising) sections have been updated.
A few weeks ago Marcus Neervoort has put the 45 minutes Fleecy Moss log from the WoA2000 in
Cologne in MP3 format at the download area. Have fun and so long until the next update.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Oct.2001
Salvador Fernandez (E-Mail)
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New pictures of the Pegasos mainboard with MorphOS v0.8
Under the title link you can see the latest pictures of the Pegasos mainboard taken at bplan's on last Thursday. Short after this the machine traveled to Italy to the Pianete 2001.
Michael Garlich, Titan Computer, picked it up in person last Friday.
Already now various Amiga applications and PCI hardware like graphic boards, network cards,
TV cards, etc. are working full featured.
Until WOA 2001 about 10 developer systems of second generation - the PEGASOS2 design -
will be available. This heralds the final lap to make the first fully working 'successor' of the
latest Amiga generation definite reality. The new multiprocessing sysem and MultiOS machine
will be available in different configurations and variations for endusers in 1Q02.
Soon we will make new announcements about this
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Oct.2001
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)
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Webcam with VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or VLab-Parallel
There is an ARexx script enabling to use a VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or
VLab-Parallel as a webcam available for download under the title link. Via Arexx a
picture get's taken within Movieshop which then will be exported. After that this
pictures will be loaded into ADPro where it get's scaled and date and time added
to it. If a VLab is used the VLab-ADPro loader will be utilized. The picutre get's uploaded
to the FTP server using "PutClient" (Aminet). The script is capable of setting MiamiDX
online and offline automatically, if desired. Moreover it is possible to save all of the
pictures taken.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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AMIGA 2001: Provisional exhibitors list
The editors board of the Amiga Future
is busy in creating a preliminary report about the
Amiga show in Cologne (17.-18. Nov.)
and published a provisional exhibitors list under the title link. Up to now about 20
companies or grous approved to attend the show.
(sd)
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21.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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amiNET.GUI: 'Message of the day' via WAP cell phone
The Aminet's "Message of the day" now also can be read using a
WAP capable cell phone. The URL is:
http://www.aminet-gui.net/wap/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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HTML: Preprocessor HSC V0.919
After a longe period of time a new version of the HTML preprocessor
'HCS' (HTML Sucks Completely) was released. To make this development
of the tool previously programmed by Thomas Aglassinger is now being
done by Matthias Bethke.
This preliminary version fixes some bugs and comes with new featrues.
Among other things HSC supports macros, qualified requests and expressions.
The elder support page gives you
a closer overview.
This version was released as source-only which should compile on
all systems previously supported by HSC.
Download: hsc-source.tar.bz2 (376K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Mailer: Simplemail mailing list on new server
Due to intensive spams the mailing list regarding the e-mail client
'Simplemail'
has been moved to
freelist.org.
You can subscribe to this list by sending an e-mail to
simplemail-usr-request@freelists.org.
The archive is available via
http://www.freelists.org/archives/simplemail-usr/.
More information about this list are available under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Database: MySqld V4.0.0 (Alpha)
On 18. October 2001 version 4.0.0 of the MySqld archive for Amigas with
68040 CPU was released on the 'Da SixK Port Page'.
Version 4 is about a definite enhanced version of this databench allowing to
implement previously missing features like requests within requests.
This version was not entirely tested by the MySQL team yet, what makes it alpha status.
As a first new feature one can test union-queries, which work good.
With 'InnoDb' a new format was added, but which does not work in the Amiga version yet and
therefore is disabled in the startmysqld script. Who is able to find a way to use this feature
on the Amiga might contact
sixk@ifrance.com.
Who would like to use special fonts, just have a look at the startmysqld script and
the mysql:languages/charsets/ directory.
More information about the MySQL version 4.0.0 released on 15. October are to find
at www.mysql.com.
Download: MySqld-4.0.0-Alpha.lzx
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
CodePoet
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.17 R3 - private beta-test
Version 0.8.17 release 3 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' currently
is in private beta-tests. So this version is not yet available
for download. The following has changed since the prior version:
- FIXED: No longer crashes in windowed-mode on XP Themed-view.
- FIXED: 68020+ bitfield instruction fix (stuck doors in Dungeon Master AGA)
- FIXED: Fix garbage display on Venus the Flytrap and Nightbreed Interactive
Movie. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Trying to delete a non-empty directory will now properly return
ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Increased the range of addresses checked for memory-mapping, in
order to make JIT "direct" mode work on more systems.
- FIXED: Selecting a Picasso96 8-bit mode in windowed-mode would complain
about not matching your desktop's depth, and switch to full-screen.
(Reported by Michael at Cloanto)
- FIXED: Installer won't install when WinUAE is already running.
- ADDED: AHI driver support. (Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: Option to disable use of overlays completely.
- ADDED: Jose's modifications to the sound routines and GUI. (Jose Gil)
NOTE: Read doc called "SoundSyncro Readme.rtf"
- CHANGED: Floppy-disk emulation, including .FDI support. (Toni Wilen)
(sd)
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21.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Aminet-CD #45
Aminet CD 45, dated October 2001, contains almost 1 Gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in over
800 archives. Since the release of Aminet 44 numerous new software has appeared. The current
edition includes the full Amiga Future Website. Read more
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21.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: Antivirus poll 2001
Under the title link Virus Help Denmark ask
"Who has done the most for the Amiga Antivirus scene in 2001 ?".
Until 31. December 2001 one can vote regarding this on the above page.
The winner of this poll will receive about 100 USD which VHT drawed
from antivirus disk sales (0.25 USD profit per disk). With your own
vote you are possible to decide who will win that money.
The nominees are:
- Alex van Viel - VirusChecker II
- Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor
- Zeeball - Safe
- Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ
- Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - Xvs.library
- VT-Schutz - Heiner Schneegold
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Tales of Tamar: Videos of the LARP I, the Ankou band
Around the 22nd of September the first
LARP
for 'Tales of Tamar' took place. Now, on the 19th of October a video of that meeting was
published showing the beautifull landscape of the LARP area, some battles, the live in
the tavern, and much more.
The video was done by Virtual Dimension, they
made it up from several tapes. From their server the video is available for download in MPEG format at three different sizes.
On the LARP evenings an medieval band called 'Ankou' made music plenteously and thus
cared for the proper ambience. Special was that the bard of the band made it to sing free-style for
seven minutes. This piece of music was ripped off the video and is available for download as
MP3 on the Tamar servers.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Page
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Event: Short report about the Pianeta 2001
There were some highlights to sight on the
Pianeta Amiga 2001.
Haage&Partner
presented AmigaOS XL running on an 1.4GHz Athlon. The Amiga software
compatibility is said to be very good. For example there were MooVID playing
two movies in two windows at the same time.
VirtualWorks showed both of the new
PCI solutions G-REX4000D and Mediator 4000 PCI in a show-case, but not working.
An absolute innovation was presented at the booth of
Titan Computer where one was able to gaze at
Candy Factory Pro running on the Pegasos system by
bplan GmbH with
MorphOS version 0.8.
Furthermore a new Italian print magazine called
Bitplane and done by Nicola Morcutti was presented.
This magazine is planned to be published bimonthly including a CD and will be available to
subscribers only.
Other exhibitors are Darkage Software, Digital Equipment, AGI, Il Piccolo Emporio, and Mirko Cipolla (CIP060) who presented an A1200 with MediatorPCI, Voodoo, SoundBlaster, and TV card.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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