18.Nov.2001
ANN
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Event: Report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show'
A short report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' can be found under
the title link.
Randall Hughes, Amiga Inc., introduced the Sharp Zaurus PDA running with
the AmigaDE and some games on the show.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)
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Route planner: Update for AmiATLAS 6
The first update for the route planner 'AmiATLAS 6' was released and is
available for registered users from now.
For example the assign and path bugs were fixed and 'AmigaAUTO'
was re-integrated and is run capable again.
The first extensive update with e.g. multi-lingual version of AmiATLAS will be
released around the middle of December.
The updates are available for free thru 30. June 2002.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures by AUG99
Matthias Münch wrote:
We've visited the Amiga Show 2001 in Cologne and put some
pictures
from it online.
Absolute highlights to us were the game Freespace and the presentation
of the Pegasos system at the bplan booth.
Unfortunately we found the show to be a little desaster regarding organization
and space utilisation.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Datatypes: akPNG V44.130
Andreas Kleinert released version 44.130 of his PNG datatype
'akPNG' for 68k- and PPC CPUs.
'akPNG' now utilzes version 1.2.0 of the 'libpng'.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Screenshots of 'Akiko'
New screenshots of the Akiko emulator were just released
on the Airsoft Softwair web site.
Akiko emulates CD32 and CDTV systems under the Windows operating
system. Akiko is a Shareware emulator and can be ordered
now. A public demo version will be made available in near
future. If you order Akiko now, you'll get the latest
beta version which already runs most of the CD32/CDTV games.
The released screenshots show the now much more flexible
GUI and the CD audio player of the CD32 and CDTV.
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18.Nov.2001
Petra Struck (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pre-report 2. day by amiga-news.de
The most interesting of the second day of the show without doubt was our talk to
Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about
AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It is fixed by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0
for PPC. Aspired date for completion is February 2002.
Hyperion will cooperate with bplan, to let the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC run on the Pegasos
machine, too. Additionally Hyperion talked to many other hardware and software
developers to keep their product compatible, too. This set a very positive
sign, cause after a long time a corporate line and goal is being followed, again.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
ANN
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Programming language PowerD V0.19
Today, Martin Kuchinka released alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'.
This early alpha version now supports creation of shared libraries.
Download: alpha.lzx (159K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
ANN
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AMIGA 2001: IRC conferences with Nerding and Garlich (Update)
English logfiles of the IRC conferences with Markus Nerding from Haage&Partner and Michael Garlich from Titan are available now. The log from Nerdings chat has been published on ANN, he answers questions about AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS V4.0, and H&P's work within those projects.
The log of Michael Garlich's chat has been provided to us by Jürgen 'Antibike' Lucas, Garlich answers questions about MorphOS, Pegasos, and the projects of Titan:
Amiga2001: Hello Michael
Titan: Hello Guys
Nico4k: Micheal, Could please describe your plans about MorphOS/Bplan ?
Nico4k: Plan = project if you prefer
Titan: Yes of course we have presented 4 new products for Morphos / Bplan e.g. Papyrus Office and
Nico4k: For example will Papyrus be ported on MorphOs ?
Nico4k: ok
Titan: and the new videosoft Motionstudio which support DV Video
Titan: and we have also presented Rage Hard a new multiplayer tactic shooter
Nico4k: Well, you said on MorphOS ML what there will something to connect an Amiga floppy drive on Bplan made by third part, Could you give more detail ?
Nico4k: Titan sound like great news
Titan: Yes, this connecter will be able to read write "old" Amiga DD and HD Floppydisc
Nico4k: to connect an "Amgia" drive or to use old disk with the Bplan one
Nico4k: Where it will connected on the motherboard ?
Titan: to connect an "old" Amiga drive may be later also PC-Floppy with modifications too
zacman: hi michael. do you plan to release your software together with the pegasos start or already before? and are there plans for bundeling your software with pegasos?
Titan: Nico4k there is a floppy connector for PC Floppys on the Bplan mainboard
Titan: zacman: Together with the sales start on Feb/March 2002
Burman: Titan Do you know anything about support for Newtek VideoToaster/Flyer HW. (PCI-card)...?
Titan: Burman: we have asked Newtek but nothing is clear atm it will take some further negotations ga
djnick: Hi Titan will there be newer / improved versions of Fantastic Dreams?
Titan: djnick: Yes this will be released later in 2002 ga
ID4: Titan Are you planign a game like QIII Arena?
Titan: ID4: We will release a pre-video of Rage Hard take a look and you will enjoy it :) ga
Bifford: hi there ;-) what sort of speeds can we expect from pegasos? in normal operation and in real-time with cpu hungry things like 3d graphics
Titan: Bifford: This really depends on the used CPU we think for DV Videoediting a 500 G4 is the minimum. ga
Nico4k: As you devellop for MorphOS/bPlan, I suppose you already use it on Bplan, So how does it work ? (sorry for all this MOS related question but I want to konw)
Titan: Nico4k It runs really good we are sadisfied with the support of the MOrphos Team. ga
AlphaFoX: hi Titan, two questions: 1. do you know if there will be an 'AGA-on-a-Card' for the Pegasos? 2. Will
Titan: port its software also to AmigaOS 4.x if available? GA
Titan: AlphaFoX: AGA card is atm not longer in development but if there is more demand we can think about such a solution
Titan: Regarding AmigaOS 4 we have nothing heard from Amiga no specs no hardware nothing simply. We cant say we will support it if we have no information at all. Ga
Bifford: do u have any other projects on the go atm (hard or software) or is it strictly MOS/pegasos ?
Titan: Bifford: we concentrate on what is available now this is Morphos and Pegasos ga
zacman: what graphics card do you recommend for games like Rage Hard? Do you know if it is correct that bplan has contacts to nvidia?
Titan: zacman: I cant commend this atm :) ga
Zarf: is RS on the show? ga :)
Titan: Zarf: No but Frank Mariak was here ga
TheFab: Titan hi, do you plan to develop new softare or buy license (like old software like lightwave...)
Titan: TheFab: new and licencing too. E.g. AlienNations and Majesty
ID4: Titan Will you software run on Elbox SharkPPC?
Titan: ID4: We are open to support everyone who wants Morphos. If Elbox support theMorphos team with hardware then there will be also a SharkPPC version ga
Zefram_: what is the maximum cpu speed we can expect on Pegasos, 1Ghz ?
Titan: Zefram_: its upto 2GHz atm but higher clockrate are also possible ga
zacman: isn't AlienNations and Majesty licensed by hyperion?
Titan: zacman: No Hyperion has not licenced AlienN or Majesty.
Titan: owns this licence ga
Zefram_: What will are the graphics cards drivers available for Pegasos, Matrox ?
Titan: Zefram_: In a few weeks there will be update on Morphos.de with all supported Gfx-boards. ga
Nico4k: Do you think Bplan will be able to release Pegasos in February/March 2001? Not a vapor this time ? (I have been so disppointed by previous project: AmigaNG, A1). Ps: A MOS/Bplan related question again ... But who do not believe that this time is the good one ...
Titan: Nico4k Bplan will make a pre-release before christmas 2001 and the main release is trageted for March 2002. ga
Titan: Zefram_: The morphos 3d api is NOT rave ga
Nico4k: Pre-release means Developper release ?
Titan: Nico4k Also for normal customers but there is only a limited stock of boards available. ga
AmiGR: Could you enlight us about which 3d api will be used?
Titan: AmiGR: Sorry atm not, please wait for the next official Morphos press release ga
JoeAFUA: Titan So will we be able to pre-order for the pre-release boards? If yes, when?
Titan: JoeAFUA: Take a look on the bplan website there will be an "order" form. ga
ID4: Titan nowdays.. What are your contacs with Amiga Inc?
Titan: ID4: we are in touch with Amiga but they follow different ways atm. We will see if we can cooparate in future or not. ga
Zefram_: Will it be possible to place a pre-order from local dealers ?
Titan: Zefram_: No, only direct from Bplan ga
darklite: will you only support morphos, or also os4? ga
Titan: darklite: We have no information about AmigaOS4 therefore i cant say yes or no . ga
ID4: Titan THANKS !!!! From me no more questions, I hope the best for your bussines ;)
Titan: ID4: Thanks. ga
Nico4k: Will Pegasos be shit with screen, keyboard, Hard drive, Or will it be possible to buy only the Motherboard ?
Amiga2001: ship instead of shit ;-)
Titan: Nico4k shit ??? ;)) Yes it will be shipped as complete system too this will be a g3 350, 128MB ram, gfx-board,hD and DVD-drive ga
Zefram_: Will there be a Pegasos motherboard with more than 3 PCI slots ?
Titan: Nico4k and motherboard only is also available .ga
Titan: Zefram_: Yes there is a adaptor for 4 slots available.
Nico4k: Are all drivers ready (I mean for internal ethernet, audio, USB ???)
Titan: Nico4k a lot of drivers are already finished but some are still in development. ga
Amiga2001: more questions?
Nico4k: Will we show amazing think on Bplan at the show like Divx movie ?
Titan: Nico4k We have shown DV editing on the show. DIVX is also possible but was not presented. ga
Amiga2001: Ok Guys, Michael has to go
Amiga2001: thx Michael
Update: (17.06.2016, cg)
Integrated the logfile provided by Jürgen Lucas into the news item. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Wolf Faust (ANF)
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Update: V2.03 of the scanner colour correction software ICS
The free scanner colour correction software 'ICS' is available
in version 2.03 on
http://www.ics.coloraid.de.
This latest version will run until August 2002 and comes with some
enhancements for the supported file formats. Some TIFF pictures are
substantially faster loaded, now, and Mac binary files are recognized
automatically. Some small bugs have been fixed.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Falcon (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures from the Cologne show
Falcon published photos
from his today's show visitation on his homepage.
But, the comments (German) are sometimes meant in good fun.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Marcel Rohles (ANF)
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Game: New adventure game under development, nostalgica all around Space Rat
Marcel Rohles wrote:
Who did not fell for the adventures of old tradition in the style of
Lucas Arts or Sierra?
Probably nobody can exculpate himself from this. Everyone of us once was
bound to this fever to free Guybrush from an embarrassing situation, just to
see him stumbling right into the next one.
But, what has happened to this? What about the adventure genre? Does it
have to be 3D all the time?
If you are able to unhesitant and in peace of conscience say no to the latter question,
I recommend the page about 'Space-Rat Tukult'
warmly to you.
Yes, it's true - Space Rat will come back. A mind-blowing combination of
classic adventure game and Ziggy, the Space Rat, which enriched the ASM until lastly.
By some kind words certainly the team would be willing to develop for the Amiga, too.
The news of November 17 already question that, for example.
Last but not least I would like to cite the Tukult team, for I even wasn't able to say
it better: 'So, if you also belong to those people grown up with rubber chicken with snap-hooks
underside and jerrycans on Mars, it is to say that you've discoverd the Holy Grail by comming to
this page.'
There's only one thing left for me to say in this sense: 'Ziggy to the (A)miggy!'
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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BTTR: Golf - Leaderboard und World Class Leaderboard
The Back to the Roots team wrote:
In a surprising move Microsoft allowed us to include the
golf simulations from Access Software, a company which
they acquired two years ago. Enjoy 'Leaderboard' and 'World
Class Leaderboard'. 'Links' will come online soon, too.
Please visit BTTR for a full list of all games which have
been added or you'll miss masterpieces like Realms,
Thexder, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Super Skidmarks CD32 and
many others.
As usual many scene-demos, music files and pictures have
been added to our archive.
(sd)
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18.Nov.2001
Stefan Popp (E-Mail)
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AMIGA 2001: Report by Stefan Popp
Stefan Popp wrote:
Here my small report about the 2001 Amiga show (absolute subjective and incomplete).
There were more booths than the last time (about 12). Unfortunately they took that good
advantage of the exhibition space, that the walks between the booths were quite narrow, which
lead to bothering tailbacks.
Bplan
Like known Bplan is creating a PPC machine. This was presented run capable.
I've seen MorphOS. Reportedly Linux was no problem, too.
A complete machine (20GB HD, 128MB RAM, ...) was said to cost about 1,000 Euro.
But the boards would be available solitary, too (from distributors, but not from BPlan
directly).
The problem about this whole thing: The system still is at beta test stage, and if
someone would order a certain amount of boards today, delivery would not be
expected before end of 1Q02. Major reason for this: It is hard to get low quantities of
the components.
To the question, how much of the specifications have been revealed, I was told, that the
computer meets the Motorola Open-Bios conception and to adapt it to
other operating systems would be no problem.
BPlan's documents consciously don't mention the Amiga, to not tie the machine
down to some special field of application.
Elbox
Showed their busboards. Again, the TV card and the TV picture was
presented as Workbench background.
Unfortunately the SharkPPC was shown inside a show-case.
Of course I asked, why this card wasn't performed. The employee illustrated,
that though development would have been finished, but it would be to wait
for AmigaOS4.0. Ermh, if I consider this, my questions actually wasn't answered by this
statement. Allegedly the card would run with WarpOS drivers, too (so please, why to
wait for 4.0). Well, doesn't make any difference, isn't that important, anyway. :).
Haage & Partner
Actually just showed Amithlon and AmigaXL on three computers.
Meal booth
Meat balls, noodle salad, coffee, and Snikers at cheap prices.
The lectures (at least those I attended)
1) Amithlon - Jürgen Haage
In advance: The room was to narrow and of bad equipment. Reportedly this also was due
to the fact, that some parts did not survive the transport to Cologne. But, after some
bricolage everything worked.
Mr. Haage explained the step to develop the Amiga emulator with the good availability of
and the cheap prices for PC hardware.
The price for the complete package is at 299DM (incl. Kick 3.1, OS 3.9, QNX,
Arteffects, AmiWriter, and StormC3.0 ).
According to Mr. Haage the development of the emulation bases on UAE. Amithlon
utilizes a Linux kernel in addition, which was said to simplify the implementation of
additional hardware. AmigaXL uses QNX as 'hosting' operating system.
2) Hyperion about the subject Amiga 4.0
Amiga Ltd. did not attend the show. And to say it honestly, nobody missed
them. Some kind of announcement sure would have coused people to shake their heads, again.
The lecture was done by the CEO of Hyperion (I just forgot the name). The facts in short:
Hyperion and H&P obtaind a license for a PPC port.
With the help of many developers (with H&P and Hyperion as the core team)
the OS will be ported step by step. At first the TCP/IP stack, Exec and possibly DOS.
Furthermore there is a new library concept.
- In the beginning memory protection will be limited to prevent access to not allocated memory.
- New Warp3D will be implemented (with Matrox-, Permedia3-, and Radon1/2 support).
- WarpInput for input device management.
- Generic PCI drivers to better integrate the different PCI boards
(hardware drivers will have to be developed only once, at last).
- USB support.
- New TCP/IP stack ('Roadshow').
- Picasso96 as standard in a PPC native version.
- It's said to run on any PPC Amiga, while Blizzard cards might suffer from low performance.
- 68k emulation (JIT version) will be integrated.
- AmigaDE will be on it.
- Java was sait to come, too (but not already in the initial version).
- Price: In the range of AmigaOS V3.5 or V3.9.
- Amiga ZorroII and ZorroIII would be supported (at least the most prevalent cards).
- PPC datatypes.
- AHI for Sound.
A version would be available from January, already.
I could not keep more in mind. Maby someone would publish the Scala presentation.
The CEO of Hyperion wasn't very optimistic in regard of AmigaOne, Shark, BPlan.
One reason to decide to port 4.0 to existing hardware and to not let down the owners of PPC cards.
The OS theoretically runs on any PPC hardware.
But nothing was performed. Explanation: Due to the still bad look one would get a bad
impression, which just would cause people to review things from a wrong point of view.
At the booth of Haage&Partner I was told, that a PPC native version of the AmigaOS
would have been possible already two years ago, but Gateway would have disliked that.
I think this is nothing new, but to celebrate the day I once more was happy about it . (sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: Chat-Room
«The Virus Help Teams around the World has opened a chat room,
where you can chat with members of any Virus Help Team (if we
are in the room), and other members that might have some virus
problems. To coincide with being a browser-friendly environment,
we have not left any chatters hanging, without a way to join up with
us to chit-chat, the easy way.
No JavaScript or IRC program is required. All you need to do is
register your handle, with a password, and come on in. :-)
The Handle registration link, is found on the login page.
Please bear in mind, this is a family type chat room, and all normal
courtesies and language is expected. Thank you
The chat time is set at Eastern Standard Time (EST), so if you would
like to check the EST zone against your own, you can check the time
zone at the log-in page.
You can join our chat-room at this address:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/vht-chat.htm.
(Thanks to Charlene VHT-Canada, for setting this chat-room up)»
(sd)
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18.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)
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Live Amiga 2001 webcam at amigaforever.info
Pictures from Cloanto's live webcam at the Amiga 2001 show are online at amigaforever.info.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: The first day's pictures
Here you will find a selection of pictures from the first day of the AMIGA 2001 in Cologne, taken for amiga-news.de by Meike Hilke:
Maciek Binek (Elbox) |
Elbox Computer |
Projekt Crashsite - Denis Comtesse / Markus Pohlmann |
Vesalia Computer |
DCE |
Guido Does (Vesalia) |
Titan Computer / DCE |
bPlan / Titan Computer |
Gerald Carda (Development bPlan) |
Fabio Trotta (No Risc No Fun) |
Titan Computer |
Dennis Lohr (Psyria Music) |
DCE (Michael Göken present G-REX ) |
Virtual Dimension (Messe-Video) |
Amiga Club Deutschland |
COOLbits / APC&TCP |
Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) / Thomas Dellert (DCE) |
Thomas Dellert (DCE) / ? / Toni Ianiri (Power Computing) / Petra Struck |
Benno Markert / Martin Strobl (COOLbits) |
APC&TCP Team |
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Richard Small (GTI) |
"Orgasmatron" (GTI) |
Markus Nerding (H&P) |
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Bill Buck / Raquel Velasco / Petro Tyschtschenko |
Jürgen Haage (H&P) |
Sebastian Brylka (Fun Time World) / Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena) |
PEGASOS |
Michael Battilana (Cloanto) presents Amiga Forever 5.0 |
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18.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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OOP4A: Update of the ODK released
Beside of little useful tools, e.g. to display formatted source code, there are
new classes and features for the pre-processor, again.
OOP4A is a system to bring the world of objects to not object oriented programming
languages. OOP4A is able to unite different programming languaes and offers
certain run-time protection machineries.
A continuously extended online documentation is all time available on the homepage.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Markus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (AmigaPage)
You will find pictures from the Amiga 2001 taken by Markus Neervoort, AmigaPage,
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: first report
To give you first impressions of the fair here's a beforehand report in which
we concentrate on current hardware products.
Highly interesting is the first official presentation of the Pegasos computer on
which the operating system MorphOS is running. Gerald Carda demonstrated us a
test program that displays plasma effects. Not accelerated (68060 speed) the
program displays 4 frames per second (FPS). The same program compiled for
MorphOS shows 192 FPS.
In conversation with Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda we have got still more
interesting information which we'll present comprehensive in our final
report. This beforehand:
Developer systems will be available in the beginning of January 2002, computers
for end users will follow appr. 8 -12 weeks later.
The highlight of Haage&Partner is a x86 computer built into a luxury tower
with stylish design and installed Amithlon. The corpus of the computer is of
aluminium, the front side is made of azure blue plastic.
Of course, the developers of the PCI busboards didn't miss the show, either.
Elbox presented their Mediator system and DCE the G-REX board.
Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development presented us the prototype of the Melody
successor. In addition to the functions of the Melody has this card the
following particularities:
- MP3 audios can not only be decoded in real time but alos encoded.
- Analogue mixer function
- Digital input/output (optical/coaxial)
Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers presented us a preseries model of the
interface card VarioIO that will be available before Christmas. The Delfina
could unfortunately not be shown.
Based on a Logitech 2 buttons mouse Schönfeld has developed a real Amiga resp.
Atari mouse. Here will the production begin in the next days, too.
Michael Böhmer presented his USB controller Subway with which you can connect
common USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four external devices
can be used without any additional hub. VMC has already started with the driver development. For now there are drivers for mouse and keyboard available. Planned
are drivers for printers, digital cameras and scanners. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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MagicMenu 2.33 released
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Version 2.33 of MagicMenu fixes (hopefully) the problems with the PPC support
that was introduced in v2.32.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Nowee (E-Mail)
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Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes Website Updated
The makers of the 'OverShaker' website dedicate their efforts to prettify the Amiga-Workbench.
There are themes for GUI tools like VisualPrefs and icon samples available for download. At the
'Work' area there are tips on how to deal with colours (palette) on the Workbench.
Somewhat few content on this site? Send your self-made themes and icons to
Nowee, the webmaster, to get the site filled with
content!
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)
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Amiga-Info.net: pictures directly from the fair
On Saturday between 10.00 and 12.00 o'clock there'll be the first pictures from the
Amiga 2001 at Amiga-Info.net. As we are at the fair the next update of our site
will be at around 18.00 o'clock.
P.S.: Hopefully the equipment won't fail.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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V3.61 of ISAcatweasel.device
Just before the finishing of the fair preparations we have managed to
release a new version of the ISAcatweasel.device.
The driver is downloadable from the support area (title link).
Note by Jens Schönfeld:
The driver is "blindly" programmed, I therefore ask the users with a working
Amithlon system to try the device. For the time being it is only possible to
read from disks, the writing is locked yet (floppy disks appear as being write
protected).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: interview with ACBB
Amiga-topcool has interviewed the PR director of the Amiga-Club-Berlin-Brandburg
(see title link). He's talking about the club life and his expectation of the
Amiga fair. Read also his sum up regarding the AmigaOS XL (he'd been one of the
first being able to test it). Additionally he's talking about the club's future
plans and what Thomas Nosutta is doing when he's not busy on his Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC available
After a long waiting it is time again. SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC
is now available at SuSE GmbH and at the retailers.
8 CDs contain more than 2000 software packages. To mention only a small
selection of new software here are some examples:
KOffice, OpenOffice, Ogg/Vorbis (DivX), KDE 2.2.1, Gnome 1.4.1
But the distribution's highlight should be the availability of the filesystems
Ext3, JFS and ReiserFS (all journaling filesystems).
As in the past I'll create an installation guide for Amiga systems. In any case
I'll let you know when these are available on the net.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland
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Webcam and Shoutcast stream from the Amiga 2001
The Amiga-Club Germany offers some fair atmosphere to all interested people
staying at home:
Under 195.185.110.189:8000 is a Shoutcast audio stream available, under
http://www.a500.de/webcam/ a webcam recording at least the happenings on the
lower floor.
And there's an "official" Amiga2001 IRC channel (linux.us.amiganet.org #amiga
2001) where you can always reach us during the fair.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback: One New And Three Update Maps Available
One new map has been added to the
Extra Maps Page,
along with three updated ones. Don't forget that you can buy your own
copy of the game anywhere in the world using our
secure on-line shop.
Also, Amigalien has announced that he has added French and German
discussion lists (as well as a textures page) to
his Payback site.
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 5.0 / Cloanto at AMIGA 2001
Amiga Forever 5.0 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM
Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition.
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major
needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data
on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems.
Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to
be of interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included.
Features include:
- Just-in-time (JIT) version of emulation software, carefully
configured and publicly
benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous
versions of Amiga Forever
- Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by
Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all
emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
- New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version)
- All software tested on Windows XP
- All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be
available for the "Classic Amiga"!)
- CDTV and CD³² boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to
play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM)*
- MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49
minutes)*
- GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
- Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
- Amiga Explorer 4.0 (includes revolutionary self-install over serial
cable, plus new Cut, Copy, Paste functions)
- Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware)
- TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix)
- Personal Paint 7.1b
- Built-in support for ADZ and DMS disk image files
- Print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows,
bypassing parallel port emulation)
- New MenuBox launcher
- New emulation and Workbench configuration results in even faster
emulation of the Amiga CPU
- Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested by Cloanto
- Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons (drag-and-drop LhA,
ToolManager, etc.)
Cloanto at Amiga 2001 (Köln)
Seminars will be held at 12:45 on both Saturday, November 17 and Sunday,
November 18. You are most welcome to join the presentation of Amiga Forever
5.0, the demos, and the debates. (ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Dino Papararo (E-Mail)
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Fractal Graphic: FlashMandelWOS 1.5
Version 1.5 of FlashMandelWOS
has been uploaded on Aminet in gfx/fract
directory. With FlashMandel you can create fractal graphics.
This has changed in the new version:
- FlashMandel has a new Reaction-GUI. You need OS3.5 (or higher) for this feature. Now it's possible to use all features only by mouse.
- Added support for Localization for Italian and German languages, others are welcome ;-).
- A new installer-script makes it easy to install, update or delete FlashMandel.
- The ppc-routines are reworked, so the speed increases about 12%.
- Better print-routines for better output, now should be printed the whole A4 paper.
- Some minor internal changes and optimizations increasing compatibility with all future Amiga clones ;-).
- and much more...
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
David McMinn (ANF)
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Blitz2000 site updated
The Blitz-2000 site has finally had its design updated. It is an unofficial support site for all you Blitz Basic 2 coders :)
Feedback on the site would be welcome, especially how easy it is to read and understand the Programming section. Note: the mailing list archives and search engine are currently broken.
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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DigiBoosterPro update
An English version of the unofficial homepage for DigiBoosterPro, the
popular tracker, is now online. It was created with the help of
translation software.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Nov.2001
Batman (ANF)
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Game: "Dynamite" needs more active beta testers
Help: Development of DYNAMITE currently is about to stop due to a lack of participants.
Who wants to drop in for at least one houre twice a week at #amigazeux (example server: irc.amigazeux.de), run Enforcer, Muforce or Muforce&Muguardian, and would like to
discuss possible changes, as well, can announce his interest on the same IRC channel.
Or can contact the programmers via e-mail:
dynamite@amisource.de.
Thank you very much in advance.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus
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Event: Seminar-events at AMIGA 2001
At AMIGA 2001 the visitors may take part in several seminars and
conferences to be held on both days between 11 and 17 o'clock, for
example:
- Amiga Forever (Cloanto)
- Amiga OS 4.0 (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Amiga OS XL (Haage & Partner)
- DigiBoosterPro (DBP Community)
- Freespace (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Mediator PCI (ELBOX Computer)
- FunMedia (Atari, Patrick Eickhoff)
- MINT/N.AES (Atari, woller systeme)
Furthermore of course there will be additional presentations, e.g. of
Pegasos and G-REX. (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus
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Event: More exhibitors at AMIGA 2001
Three new exhibitors will attend the AMIGA 2001: "16/32-Bit Systems"
from Great Britain will offer new and well-known Amiga-products.
"Newsell" will concentrate on the sale and presentation of the Mac-
Clones by Umax. Visitors may buy equipment for their printers,
especially refill-sets, from "Refill 24".
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Eternity Computer
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Eternity: The 51,111th visitor wins a bonus
Eternity: "Unfortunately we have forgotten to organize a prize project for
customer # 50,000 and would like to make this up now :-). The user with a screenshot
for the 51,111th hit will gain a bonus of 50DM for the next product purchased from
Eternity. Please, send your screenshot to our
webmaster."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Dreamolers
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Dreamolers: MP3TagEditor Version 2.0
After a very long time a new version of MP3TagEditor by Rybcia/D-CAPS was
released! MP3Tag is an ID3 tag editor for Mp3 files. It offers many
features like creating tags from filename or filename from tags. Program
uses MUI and id3tag.library.
For all those have been waiting for a GlowIcon style button set for
VisualPrefs we've got a nice surprise.
SHORT: Coll mp3 tag editor
AUTHOR: Rybcia/Dreamolers-CAPS
REQUIREMENTS: MUI, OS3.0, id3tag.library
Invented and developed by Rybcia/D-CAPS.
MP3TagEditor features: reads/saves ID3Tags version 1.0 to 2.4, has a nice
MUI based GUI, supports drag&drop and more...
Future: multiple selection, cooler GUI
Download: MP3TagEditor.lha (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.5 / xlHtml v0.3.9.5
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.5 and an update
of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.5, which converts Excel/Powerpoint files
to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs are also available as MorphOS
versions.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Event: Dreamworlds Development on the show, too
Some people of the Dreamworlds team will put their machines at the booth of ATC&TCP
and presentate the current status of Crossfire II to the interested. Who would like to even may
take his favourit joystick with him and test the game. And if someone has problems to
find us:
Just follow those never ending explosion sounds and you will stumble either upon us
or Descent: Freespace :-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 (Update)
ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 available in
the download section.
- fixed Play Object and Play Region (were routed to the wrong busses resulting in noise)
- correctly loads older format projects, useful for tutorials
- variable bitrate DSP plugins now fully supported
- added "mouse-over" help text for new console buttons
As both the "project format" and "variable bitrate" modifications remove the
chances of possible system crashes, it's strongly recommended to replace the
older demo with the new 5.01 version.
Update 16.11.2001:
Download: psadm501.lha
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Event: Elbox on AMIGA 2001 in Cologne
ELBOX COMPUTER invites all the interested in the latest hardware for
Amiga to visit our stand in the AMIGA 2001 fair in Cologne.
Our products are available for purchase in the stands of our distributors:
Vesalia Computer and KDH Datentechnik.
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MediatorUP 2.6 & Mediator MM CD UP 1.08
The MediatorUP 2.6 update for Mediator PCI users has been made available today.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- pci.library ver.4.4
- MediatorNET.device ver.2.3
- Voodoo.card ver.2.8
The MM CD 1.08 update for Mediator PCI users, who are registered owners
of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been made available by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- sb128.audio ver.4.3
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.9
Changes:
MediatorNET.device - double buffering (pingpong) added
SB128.audio - preselection of audio frequency added (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Event: e.p.i.c interactive on the Amiga 2001 in Cologne
e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will attend this year's Amiga show at the Mediapark in Cologne.
Our booth will be marked by our realtime strategy hit EARTH 2140. The EARTH 2140 mission pack
will be introduced and for the first time available to the customers on the show in Cologne (if UPS
will not let us down). The mission pack extends the Mac and Amiga version with 80 new
single player missions and the multi-player mode (LAN) long awaited for the Amiga.
Another innovation is the latest version of the movie player MooVID PRO which was optimized in
many parts. Of course there will be all of our product line, like Simon The Sorcerer II and Foundation Gold, at amazing show prices. Furthermore we will presentate some of our products on an Apple Mac,
which also will be available for Pegasos/MorphOS, soon.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Jools Smyth (E-Mail)
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ExoticA - Logo competition
The ExoticA website about the musical skills and history of the Amiga
started a logo competition. They are wanting a logo to decorate
the start page of the homepage.
Furthermore the website and many rubrics have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Hendrik Höner (E-Mail)
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Event: UGN IRC conferences on the AMIGA 2001
On occasion of this show UGN will organize an IRC conference, again, on
Sunday from 12:00 MET.
Those agreed to participate so far:
12:00 Michael Garlich (Titan Computer)
13:00 Darek Dulian (Elbox)
14:00 Markus Nerding (Haage & Partner)
On the show we will try to get more participants. The conference will be held at
the booth of the Amiga Club Deutschland. In IRC on the AmigaNet (example servers:
thule.no.amiganet.org, linux.us.amiganet.org, whiterose.us.amiganet.org,
port 6667).
Other participants and the channel will be announced near term.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Amiga Forever now available from individual Computers
The Amiga emulation package Amiga Forever is now available as a bundle
with the Catweasel ISA controller. Amiga Forever turns your PC into an
Amiga. The package which is available since 1997, includes a license of
all Amiga-patents, trademarks and copyrights that are necessary for an
emulation. Therefore, an official Amiga Notebook "Powered by Amiga" is
available since 1997.
Amiga Forever makes all the hardware of the base system also available
on the Amiga side: Virtual memory, Fast- and GBit Ethernet, sound- and
graphics boards as well as DVD and USB.
Further information about Amiga Forever can be found on the publisher's
website http://www.cloanto.com/.
Individual Computers will continue to support both Amiga Forever and its
developers. There will be no support for the QNX version of Amiga OS XL
for the Catweasel ISA in the near future, whereas for Amithlon we will
provide a software that uses the ISA Catweasel just like a real Amiga
Catweasel.
Amiga Forever developers are even going a step further, they use the
Catweasel to emulate the internal Amiga diskdrive.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Sigbjørn Skjæret
Amiga Arena - Interview
After the mpega.library was not developed any more there is now clone of the library of Sigbjørn Skjæret. Amiga Arena spoke with Sigbjørn S. about how it came to it and about the future of his projects. Support the developer with your feedback!
After two years the guestbook of Amiga Arena was reactivated. Please sign in!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)
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Amiga-Info.net: Opinion poll / Car sharing
There is a small opinion poll to discover if Amiga-Info.net is useful for you. Amiga-Info.net would be delighted if you took part.
Car sharing to the Amiga 2001:
Here it is the last chance to find or offer a place on the car sharing action. We will see us on Amiga 2001!
(ps)
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14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Event: H&P on AMIGA 2001
On the AMIGA 2001 which will take place this weekend we will present and offer our newest developments and products. Amithlon/AmigaXL, Freespace, ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 4.1,
StormC 4, ArtEffect Plugins Collection and much more.
The new combination of Athlon-Hardware and AmigaOS XL are highly newsworthy. The top-system consists of a noble aluminium-tower and has the new Athlon XP 1800+ as its heart. We also offer a suitable 15 inch LCD-monitor. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Great Freespace-presentation on the fair
There will be a great presentation of the final version of Descent:Freespace on the fair. You can watch the game on two computers around the clock. Additionally there will be a presentation of half an hour on Saturday and Sunday. At the same time the analog-joystick-interface will be together introduced with the game which supports it. The Amiga-port of Freespace has finished for 99.9% so the game will be available after the fair.
On the fair the demo-version of Freespace will be published. All those who order the game on the fair in advance will get a CD with the most current demos of Freespace, Heretic II and Shogo for free. Freespace as well as the new version of Heretic II which is on the CD will get graphic improvements for Warp3D v4.2.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Online-magazine: Currently Starmag with new url
Because Arcor has deleted the webspace without any premonition the online-magazine Starmag has not been accessable for some days. You can now access the magazine under http://www.Starmag.de.cx.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
AmiDog
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Emulation: Playstation emulator FPSE 0.09, Amiga Revision 2
Mathias Roslund has released a new version of the Playstation emulator FPSE. It is the second Amiga-version which is based on version 0.09. You need a Playstation Bios-rom to emulate. There are some screenshots to the Amiga-version.
It follows the original message:
A new release with some bugfixes and added features. Memory card support
is fixed, and compiler (dynarec) and PSX Port support has been added.
There is also a switch to use READ_CD for CD support. This was used by
some of the FPSE/Amiga 0.08 revisions and might work better than CMD_READ
with some CD-ROMs.
Download: FPSE009R2.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Mailbox: Stardate-bbs accessable again via Internet
After a month of hard problems with DSL in Muenster you can access again the Stardate-mailbox via Internet under (http://stardate.2y.net). The very popular Dynamite-server is also accessable under the same url.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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First routines of Project Crashsite on the Amiga 2001
Here are two news on the Project Crashsite status:
On the Amiga 2001 there will be the first routines of Project Crashsite to
look at. There will be the rudimentary playable combat and the space flight
will invite to fly along the planets of Future II. I hope for many visitors and would
be happy about numerous suggestions and comments.
The poll on www.projektcrash.de (title link) turned out that five of six
votees prefer a PPC version.
As a first answer to this I would like to announce the following:
- The interlude animations in the game will be MPEG animations.
- Mathias Roslund gave permission to use AMP for playing the animations
in Project Crashsite, which makes an effective animation player for PPC and
CGFX available for the game!
Greetings,
Markus Pohlmann
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBs
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni, Nexus Development, the Amiga Arena and
Fun Tim World present the game PuzzleBOBS, which is about a "Bust'n Move" clone
to be available on the "AMIGA 2001" show.
From now on the demo version is available on
http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html,
and on the support page of the Amiga Arena.
About PuzzleBOBS
The game was developed by the Italian software company Nexus Development which
was founded by Emanuele Cesaroni. Worldwide distribution will be done by
Fun Time World in cooperation with the Amiga Arena.
Previews of "PuzzleBOBS" can be found in the current issue of the "Amiga Future" #33 (German Amiga Game print magazine), and in "No Cover" issue #88 (German Amiga disk magazine).
Technical background and more:
PuzzleBOBS is completely configuralbe:
- Screen mode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX comaptible graphic boards).
- Bitplanes (up to 16 and 24bit screens).
- Playable in three languages (German, Itatlian, English).
- Playable from HD, full or partial installation (min. 14 MB).
- Written in 100% assembler.
- Level and sound import.
Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of
other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.
The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are
bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full
multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.
When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is
a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released - pure culture multitasking. Further and detailed informaiton can be found in the demo version's guide.
Ditribution / contact / developer
Distribution:
Fun Time World www.funtime-world.de
c/o Sebastian Brylka
Tel.: +49 209 / 1485620 (after 17:00 h)
Fax: +49 209 / 1485720
E-mail: funtime@t-online.de
Support:
Amiga Arena http://www.online-club.de/~ARENA/
Olaf Köbnik olaf.koebnik@online-club.de
Developer:
Nexus Development http://space.tin.it/computer/emacesar
Emanuele Cesaroni emacesa@tin.it
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Nov.2001
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amiga-news.de: Server Move finished
After the first try did not work, last week, we finally completed our server move, now. :-)
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
NewsCoaster
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Newsreader: New documentation for NewsCoaster
Mark Harman put online a new documentation for his shareware newsreader
NewsCoaster. This is automatically converted to HTML from the AmigaGuide
documentation, so don't expect anything too pretty ;)
Version 1.44 put online in the download area; this version fixes the
security hole.
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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StormC: New documentation
We just released a completely revised manual for StormC 4.
It's 3,8 MB of Guide files and the archive is about 1,1 MB of size. There
is an English and a German version available.
Download: ftp://ftp.haage-partner.com/Storm
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13.Nov.2001
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Pages Updated
Mediator PCI 1200,
Mediator PCI ZIV,
Mediator PCI 4000
and Mediator PCI ZIII
pages were updated today.
Wojtek Kozlowski
ELBOX COMPUTER Webmaster
e-mail: webmaster@elbox.com
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13.Nov.2001
Computer City (E-Mail)
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Video titling: MediaPoint News
MediaPoint, the video titling & presentation package for Amiga computers, will
be for sale for the first time on an international Amiga event, following its
re-release in its current MP2000 form. German-based distributor Schatztruhe /
GTI will sell MediaPoint at their booth on the Amiga Show in Cologne on
november 17th and 18th.
More information on MediaPoint can be found at: http://www.compcity.nl/mediapoint/ (ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Markus Bonet (ANF)
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MUI under Windows XP?
Markus Bonet wrote:
To find out about why Windows XP should be so great I looked around a little
on the Microsoft website. I really was not aware, that MUI was released for
Windows, too ;-))
"Multi-Lingual User Interface - MUI -
allows to change the interface's language to display menus, help files, dictionaries, spell checking tools, ect. in the desired language."
But this sure would mean something different, somehow. ;-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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VarIO archive extended
The new VarIO software archive now also contains Parallelport drivers
for the Goldsurfer (Hypercom 3 module). Please mind that the ZIP driver
can only be used with Goldsurfer models not older than 15 months.
For use with older models, a hardware patch is necessary that is
also described in the support-area of our website.
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12.Nov.2001
Wouter Derdeyn (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive - Database of the best Amiga demos ever released
I'm working on a site about amiga demos. Basically, I'm trying to create
an archive for the best demos/intros ever released on the most stunning
scene machine ever (the amiga ofcourse). It's still early days yet but
I've got 123 demos and 900 screenshots online. Feedback is welcome!
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12.Nov.2001
Jörg Strohmayer (ANF)
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MUI Security Bug-Fix (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer wrote:
PINT (mailtext and nlist) is affected by this Bug too. A bug-fix is available at the titlelink.
Instead of just fixing this problem for PINT I patched the muilowlevel.library.
Download: muilowlevel.library
Addition:
This patch protects all MUI-programs but not all other programs that use APIPE or AwnPIPE.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
HCS Lange
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Absolute rarity to auction (CMB 8296)
HCS Lange on their website (title link, see hardware rubric) auctions
an CBM 8296 machine from 1984. Here are the data of this collectible:
- CBM 8296
- Release date: 1984
- Processor: MOS 6502, 1 MHz
- RAM: 128 KByte
- ROM: 18 KByte with Basic V4.0
- Operating system: own, LOS-96
- Graphic chip: ---
- Text mode: 80 x 25 (monochrom)
- Graphic mode: ---
- Sound chip: ---
- Sound: piper
- Keyboard: typewriter, QWERTZ, 73 keys, seperate num-block, removable keyboard.
- Drive: none internal, (for 8296-D: CBM 8250), external any Commodore drive with IEEE488 bus can be connected directly.
- I/O: 1 x IEEE488, 2 x datasette
- Special: built-in monitor (12", green)
This machine optical is as good as new and it's an absolute rarity.
The lowest bid is at DM 100,-. Bids are accepted till 17. November 2001.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers has licensed appp.device from Haage & Partner
In the course of development of the ADSL-driver for the X-Surf ethernet
card, we have licensed the appp.device from Haage & Partner GmbH. Our
goal is to speed up the interface between our xsurfadsl.device and the
appp.device, so the CPU load will be reduced dramatically. New versions
of the device for AmigaOS 68K will be available for free. (ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Bernd Rösch (ANF)
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New Blitzbasic2 (now AmiBlitz 2)
I got the permision from Acid Soft to publish the sources and binaries of Blitzbasic 2 (due to the PC-version it is now called AmiBlitz 2) into the Aminet (dev/basic).
The sources will be available one week from now.
I just uploaded a binary-update of AmiBlitz 2 V2.2 that introduces many new features.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
Scalos
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Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.14 / Homepage with new layout
Betaversion 40.14 of 'scalos', an alternative workbench, was released on the 11th November 2001. This new release fixes some bugs.
Additional information is available here.
The modules Persistent Windows, WB3.9, Volume Gauge and the WBRexx Plugins were updated too.
Furthermore the layout of the homepage has changed and the webmaster requests your Feedback.
Download
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12.Nov.2001
Thomas Zahren (ANF)
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Nostalgica: Amiga Graphics artist + programmer Jim Sachs
While looking around the news pages of CHIP.DE
I found a link to the aquarium screensaver in the news on the new Windows XP and
it's "self-made plus package". This screensaver was programmed by Jim Sachs.
Until then I had no idea of this name, but as I then looked at "About the Author" (title link)
on the serenescreen.com website, some
known pictures of the author from Amiga days turned up. A link on this page shows
many pictures of his
work history, too.
With another link on the same site the Amiga is mentioned again in an
interview.
To smile:
To the surprised interviewer's questions, how it comes that the download of this
emotive Windows screensaver is just about 600k in size:
RADEONIC: Probably one of the things that surprised me most was the size of
the download. Did you spend a lot of time optimising the code, and did you
have any special tricks for compressing textures?
JS: No, I haven't really started to optimize the code yet. Coming from
the Amiga, where everything had to fit on a 770k floppy, I am utterly
amazed at how huge PC apps have become. What could these programmers
possibly be filling up all those megabytes with? The whole ascii source
code for the program? The phone book for their area code?
It was a pleasure to me to accidently stumble upon this programmer and those Internet sites and
thereby to learn, that he still likes the Amiga, allthough he changed the system.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM 2.3p1 Bugfixing Release
The YAM Open Source Team released today a bugfix for the reported security hole and other well known bugs of the 2.3 release.
The fix can be downloaded from the following URL
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yamos/YAM23p1.lha.
There will be a major release in the weeks to come that will introduce missed features and will fix bugs.
(ps)
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