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13.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future: Preview of issue 35 online
Today the German print magazine Amiga Future has published on their website a preview of the coming issue #35. (ps)

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13.Mar.2002
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)


Pegasos-advertisement on a private car
Thorsten Schölzel writes:
Who does not know the impressive title page of the AMIGAplus with the PEGASUS designed by Alexander Scholz. This PEGASUS now decorate the rear window of my car (look at the title link) and thus I advertise a little bit for bPLans PEGASOS computer and MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Mar.2002
Lee (E-Mail)


Competition for Amiga websites
Only Amiga-user who maintain a website can take part on the competition. You can win 10 opinion-poll-accounts without advertisement at ragonvote.de. The competition will finish on 18.03.2002. You can get further information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Full version update "Pferderennen 1.1b"
There is a new beta-version of the game "Pferderennen" ready for download. Pferderennen as the name says is match where you can back one from six horses.

Pferderennen offers:

  • Entertainment for up to eight players
  • Detailed "horsepowers" ;)
  • Up to 30 stables with respective up to 50 horses
  • A horses editor
  • Possibility of saving game scores
A special thank to Markus Pohlmann who is the developer of "Pferderennen" for making this update possible despite the lack of time. Please send your feedback, ideas and bugs to Markus Pohlmann. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Mar.2002
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)


Update to Inga-developer packet version 1.0/6 beta
There is a new update of the Inga-developer packet. Inga is an engine for the classic graphic adventures like Monkey Island 3 which can be easily created with the help of this developer packet.

The update includes the following things:

  • Inga-engine version 1.0/6 (beta)
  • Audio-CDs can be played (via cdplay.library).
  • New script commands: pre-loading, clearing, ilkabove, ilkdown, "LadeLaufkarte", "AusDieMaus", "Leistensperre", "LeistensperreAus" and menu.
  • The two mouse colours were changed to be equal to the workbench-standard.
  • Developer modus integrated. Thus it is possible to load old game scores with processed script versions. Besides this the inventar and the variables can be changed during the game.
more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Mar.2002
Timo Kloss


Graphic artists wanted for the adventure 'Ermentrud'
A graphic artist is searched for the graphic adventure "Ermentrud" for animating the persons. You have to paint the animation phases for already existing fixed-images. The graphics will be created with a constant palette of 64 colours.

You can find further information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Mar.2002
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


e.p.i.c.: Foundation Gold update now available
Users of "Foundation: Gold Edition" will find an update which solves all of the currently known problems with this edition of the game in the download section of our homepage as well as on the Foundation Support page.

Users of the Mission Pack CD "The Undiscovered Land" will find an about 2 Mbyte large fix on the Foundation support site. (ps)

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13.Mar.2002
Tom Duin (ANF)


Tool: RealPlayerInfo 1.6 update
RealPlayerInfo 1.6 update. RealPlayerInfo shows the Title, Author and Copyright text stored in Realmedia files. Included DefIcon for DefIcons support. (ps)

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13.Mar.2002
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


Sharp: New portal-site for Sharp Zaurus
Sharp has opened a German portal-site (title link) for the new Sharp PDA SL5500G to the Cebit. But you can see that this site is still under construction because many information sites are still empty.

The German homepage of Sharp was also completely new designed. In the section products you can now also find information to SL5500G. In the section Sharp Place / Office /PDA you can find an animated demo of the PDA. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)


Now Amiga content is available - Anywhere and Everywhere
Amiga, Inc. announces the Amiga® Anywhere line of products for PDAs, Cell Phones, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances, Desktops, Digital TVs and more. more ... (ps)

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13.Mar.2002
Manfred Rauer (ANF)


Bill McEwen to appear on TechTV
Amiga Inc. reports on its website that on 13.03.2002 Bill McEwen will present Amiga products in the show "Screen Savers" of the station TechTV.

TechTV has announced that McEwen will present AmigaDE on WindowsCE, Linux and on the media-terminal of Nokia. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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12.Mar.2002
Amiga Arena


Amiga Arena: Interview with Mathias Roslund
Mathias Roslund is known to many users by his software "AMP". Besides "AMP", a multimedia player, he has ported many PPC emulators like FPSE, AmiGenerator, DarcNES and others.

Many thanks to Christian Busse for translation and follow the call of Mathias Roslund - send feedback, a feature request or simply a good joke!

You will find the interview here. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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12.Mar.2002
Onlinekosten.de


Onlinekosten.de: Creative buys 3Dlabs for own gfxchips
3Dlabs, known as producer of powerful 3D-gfxboards, was taken over by Creative. More details you will find in the press release of 3Dlabs. Creative plans to produce its own gfxchips. Due to this transaction Creative will be a direct competitor with NVIDIA (Quadro4-Series).
Onlinekosten.de article (German): title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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12.Mar.2002
StrICQ (ANF)


Instant-Messenger: StrICQ v2 Beta6
Douglas F. McLaughlin released beta 6 of the Instant-Messenger 'STRICQ' (version 2). Compared to the previous version the following changes have been made:
  1. Fixed the '*** NULL POINTER ***' text some people reported showing up in the contact list. It was caused by sending or receiving a message to/from a UIN in the 'Not in List' group.
  2. Now that the above bug is fixed, sending or receiving a message to/from a UIN will cause that UIN to remain in the contact list even after restarting STRICQ. However, there will be no status changes for those UINs.
  3. When a UIN shows up in the 'Not in List' group, STRICQ will now request that UIN's short info and display the Nick in the contact list.
  4. Fixed a long-standing bug in the contact list display that would cause a crash if the existing nick was changed after the UIN was already inserted into the contact list.
Download: STRICQ v2 Beta 6 STRICQv2.lha more ... (ps)

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11.Mar.2002
H&P


H&P: 1,000,000 visitors
H&P welcomed the 1,000,000. visitor of theire homepage at the last weekend. H&P: "We are proud of the interest for our webside and we will do everything to offer an interesting page for you."

Congratulations! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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11.Mar.2002
Elbox (E-Mail)


New Elbox-Tower: MIRAGE 4000
Elbox is offering a new Elbox A4000 tower that includes the Mediator 4000 PCI board and a 300w powersupply.

Features of the Mirage 4000 Pro:

  • Mirage 4000 Tower-case with 300W powersupply
  • Mirage A4000 Zorro III/PCI Busboard
  • Mediator PCI 4000
  • Mediator Multimedia CD
This case will be available from the 21. March 2002. Additional information is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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11.Mar.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Easter-events with individual Computers
Several events that are supported by individual Computers take place around Easter this year. Compuquick Media Center will represent us at the Amiga Expo 2002 in Baltimore, MD. Cloanto will make a very good offer for the ISA version of the Catweasel controller at that show.

The Scene-event The Gathering takes place in Norway, where our retail partner Data Kompaniet will hand over our contribution to the competition prices.

As in the past seven years, the scene-party Mekka & Symposium takes place around Easter this year as well in Fallingbostel, located between Hamburg and Hannover, Germany. Just like in the past years, our biggest financial engagement is dedicated to this party. In addition to prices worth more than 1000,- EUR alltogether for the winners of the different multimedia competitions, we have arranged an opening of a near LPG (autogas) filling station outside the usual shop hours for party visitors. This will enable the drivers of enviroment-friendly and cheap LPG-powered cars to refill for about 0,50 EUR/liter. We hope to attract visitors from Belgium, the Netherlands and France with this, as LPG cars are much more popular in those countries than in Germany. Closer informations about this via E-Mail. (ps)

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11.Mar.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Digital Almanac III - AmigaXL Problem
Bug reports showed that the current version of DA III (v4.7) may cause problems with AmigaXL. For fixing this problem the next release will contain a NOJOYSTICK-tooltype.

Furthermore the upcoming update will contain:

  • Online-access of GSC-2 catalogue of stars
  • Improved zoom-function
The next update will already be available this week. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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11.Mar.2002
Jens Langner (ANF)


Tool: CVS 1.11.1p1 Amiga Port Bugfixupdate
There is a new update of the Amiga-port of CVS 1.11.1p1 by Olaf Barthel and Jens Langer available.

This update contains some minor bugfixes of a bug that is not fixed in the original unix version.

Download: http://amcvs.light-speed.de/ (ps) (Translation: sk)

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11.Mar.2002
Urban Müller


Aminet 47 problems
There were some problems during the production of the Aminet 47 CD's. Unfortunately one CD was shipped. The new version of Aminet 47 will be available in two weeks from now and will be shipped together with the Aminet 48. Owner of the buggy version can execute the following command to use the CD: "assign AMINET47: CD0:". (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Mar.2002
osOpinion


osOpinion: Microsoft - Apple's Enemy or Savior?
«Microsoft and Apple have enjoyed five years of symbiotic relations and are looking to make their ties span a decade. In an exclusive interview, Kevin Browne, general manager of Microsoft's Mac business unit, told NewsFactor: "We felt that making the strongest possible statement of support was vital to customer acceptance of OS X, so Office v.X runs only on OS X. We're out of business if OS X does not succeed."» more ... (sd)

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10.Mar.2002
CyberGFX


Mediator: Vendors.txt with ca. 85 updates
The vendors.txt for the Mediator PCI board from Elbox was updated on Sat, 16 Feb 2002. There are about 85 new cards added, updated or changed. You can find a link on the Mediator Software Page page. (sd)

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10.Mar.2002
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)


Games: playamiga.de as developer portal
Jürgen A. Theiner writes:
I have a dream: Soon there'll be as many cool fun games (Moorhuhn, Sven Bomwollen) on Amiga as on the PC. And: I have an idee how we can accomplish this: if some coders, graphicers and musicians get in touch with me, we can actually found our own developer team Get in touch. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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10.Mar.2002
Amiga Future


WWW: JunkBuster V2.9.11 Beta
On 4 March 2002 the beta version V2.9.11 of 'JunkBuster' was already released. 'JunkBuster' is an open-source web proxy with filtering capabilities to protect privacy, filter web page content, manage cookies, control access and remove ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. more ... (sd) (Translation: sr)

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10.Mar.2002
Amiga Future


Demos: ADA updated - demos, music links
On 9 March 2002 the Amiga Demoszene Archive (ADA) was updated with the following: Q[r]cov/Industry, Global Trash/Silents, April in Paris/Up Rough and The Gate/Artwork. Download links for the music from Substance/Quartex, Impossible possibility/Mystic, Napalm/Floppy and Technological Death/Mad Elks were added. There's also a link for MPEG Video of Extralife/Abyss. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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10.Mar.2002
ANN


C=history: photos and graphics of 'Lorraine'
On 'The Secret Weapons of Commodore' web site there's a lot of information about developments of Commodore, which have only reached prototype form, haven't been very successful or which have been more special versions of well-known hardware. One of these is the Amiga prototype "Lorraine", well-known photos and graphics of which can be found on the web site. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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10.Mar.2002
amiga.org


Magazine: The Crypt #22
On 9 March 2002 issue 22 of the English online magazine 'The Crypt' was published. This issue mainly deals with the news that 'Vulcan Software' have now ported the Valhalla series over to IBM compatible PCs. In an exclusive interview Paul Carrington tells us his views on why he left the Amiga games market to concentrate on the PC games area. There's also further information about the company and walkthroughs to the Valhalla games (Amiga versions). more ... (sd) (Translation: sr)

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10.Mar.2002
stricq.com (ANF)


Instant-Messenger: STRICQ V2 Beta5
On 9 March 2002 Douglas F. McLaughlin released beta 5 of the Instant-Messenger 'STRICQ' (version 2). Compared to the previous version the following changes have been made:
  • Offline messages are now requested, displayed, and cleared from the server.
  • When a message window opens, it will no longer grab the current window focus.
  • Message history is now saved. No GUI support for this yet, soon, of course.
  • Login packets now match the latest ICQ2001b build 3659 release.
more ... (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Mar.2002
Volker Weber (E-Mail)


Cartoon of the day from glasbergen.com :-)
Cartoon from Saturday. Without words :) (ps)

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09.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)


Amiga Future: Workbench gallery updated
The Workbench gallery on the Amiga Future homepage was updated. The editorial department would be pleased about new sendings. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Mar.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: VirusZ III version 0.98
Georg Hoermann has made an update of VirusZ III, and the bugfixed update is now available for download at our homepage. Here is some info about the update:

Name: VirusZ III v0.98
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 54.288
Date : 9 March 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library more ... (ps)

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09.Mar.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)


Amiforce: German catalog for eNote
There's now a German localization available for the electronic notebook eNote. Interested people can download it from the download section of Amiforce (title link). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Mar.2002



Surf tip: Abmahnungswelle.de
While searching for comprehensive information about the topic "warnings" I came today across the website "Abmahnungswelle.de". The website offers many details about the topic and gives many useful and up-to-date hints for homepage provider. For all who run a homepage, no matter whether private or for business, is this website a treasure house for important information.

Many private homepage owners may possibly not be aware of the fact that the new laws TelediensteGesetz (TDG) and/or Mediendienste-Staatsvertrags (MDStV) provide for example that everyone running a website that is publicly open has to fulfil his/her information duties about "purpose and identity". That means among other things that it is one's duty to make the name and address of the responsible person available. In the (German) article Information duty for purpose and identity by Abmahnungswelle.de you can find comprehensive tips for this. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Mar.2002
Amiga.org


Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden withdraw from public discussions
Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden from Hyperion have decided to not take part anymore in public discussions on mailing lists, newsgroups and forums and have unsubscribed from all lists. This counts from now on.

For questions and discussions on personal basis, though, they are still at your disposal.


Here's the complete message in English in which they explain their move:
Recent events have given me the impression that it has become impossible in the Amiga community to speak up in self-defence without someone taking offence in it. Thomas and me have therefore decided (in in fact already did so) to unsubscribe from all amiga-related public mailing lists, newsgroups and web forums, and we have deleted all our Amiga bookmarks.

Work on our projects will not be affected by this. OS 4 will still be developed in the same way it used to be. We're just pulling out of the public.

I'm sorry we have to take such drastic measures, but it simply doesn't work otherwise anymore. You can still contact us personally, we're open for discussion, but no longer in public. Fact is that everything we say will end up on some web page or forum, being dissected to death and commented with all sort of nice wording, so the best solution is obviously to say nothing at all.

Thanks for reading this.

Best regards,
--
Hans-Joerg Frieden
Senior Software Developer, Hyperion Entertainment
Mail: Hans-JoergF@hyperion-software.de
Web: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Mar.2002
AGC (Amiga Games Classifying)


AGC: poll form for March/April 2002 games hit list online
AGC (Amiga Games Classifying) ascertains every two months the most popular games. Since 07.03.2002 is the form for the participation in the election for the hit list March/April 2002 online. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Mar.2002
Apex Designs


Game: Payback wins AGC Award 2001 - new maps
As already reported has the game Payback by Apex Designs won the AGC Award 2001. On the website were yesterday new maps for the game released. You can find these maps in the area Extra Maps.

In Payback you are taking on the role of a young driver being on the run. The goal is to become a big gangster boss.

Besides the finished Amiga version are versions for Intent/AmigaDE and Apple Mac in development. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Mar.2002
AMIGAplus


Domain quarrels: AMIGAplus 03/2002 with delay
Nico Barbat wrote:
As reported have the editorial department and the publisher of the AMIGAplus been warned by a lawyer in the case Cyberdyne-Systems. To avoid further conflicts we have decided yesterday to remove a planned article covering this case in the news rubric of the coming issue. Further legality steps in the way of a collective suit and complaints at the lawyers association against the sueing side are in discussion right now.

The AMIGAplus 03/2002 that was to be released on March 13th will be delivered because of this printing delay about three days later than planned. We ask for you to excuse this.

Furtheron we ask all readers who have got a similar warning writing to contact the AMIGAplus editorial department (info@amigaplus.de) or directly Stefan Kost (ensonic@sonicpulse.de). Please do not rushly sign an omission statement that is not lawful this way! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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09.Mar.2002
Eyetech


Eyetech: Recent website and email problems
Eyetech write:
For those trying to reach us recently, you may have noticed that our email and website services were down from Thursday 28th February until Tuesday 5th March. We apologise for this inconvenience, and our main website and email services should be back to normal now. Our www.eye-play.com site should be back within 3-4 days.

If you sent us an email between these dates, please re-send it, as is unlikely to have reached us. Many thanks for your understanding. (ps)

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08.Mar.2002
Matthias Münch (ANF)


Programmer for Jabber client sought
Matthias Münch writes:
I am looking for a new Amiga Jabber client programmer who would be interested in realizing such a project. Jabber is a multi instant messenger and is based on the open XML technology. Besides its own Jabber protocol, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN and IRC services can be used as well.

Planned so far is the programming language C and ReAction as GUI. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Mar.2002
Martin Merz (E-Mail)


MI newsletter problem
Martin Merz:
As you maybe mentioned there was no newsletter with this release of the new MasonIcons due to problems with my email account and the amount of new subscribers.

That's why I decided to change to YahooGroups. As far as I know not everybody is satisfied to be stored in a YahooGroup so I deleted the old subscriptions completly.

To subscribe to the new newsletter please visit the MasonIcons homepage. Please contact me if you have any suggestions. (ps)

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08.Mar.2002
Dennis Gronewold (ANF)


SoftCinemaReAction-GUI v1.1 released
At the title link is a new version of my ReAction GUI for SoftCinema available for download. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Mar.2002
John Chandler / Suite101.com


John Chandler: What's The Intent?
John Chandler writes monthly articles at Suite101.com based around the Amiga. In the current article he's writing about Intent. (ps)

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08.Mar.2002
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 07.03.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 07.03.02 improved: Xybots (Tengen) supports another version, minor changes
  • 07.03.02 fixed: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) SMC removed
  • 07.03.02 updated: Street Racer (Epic) misc changes
  • 05.03.02 new: Crack (Linel) done by Psygore
(ps)

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08.Mar.2002
Stephan Rupprecht


Tool: SGrab version 1.20
Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.20 of his screen grabber SGrab.

Download: sgrab.lha - (179 KB) (ps)

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08.Mar.2002
Amiga Future


Emulator (Sinclair): ASP version 0.82
ASP, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Amiga by Ian Greenway, is available in version 0.82.

Ian Greenway:
This version has a small amount of code changed in the Z80 core which I was hoping would offer some small speed increase. Despite the fact it is shorter code, fewer clock cycles to execute, and cleaner, it seems to actually run about 5% slower on my '060. :-( Still, the code was optimised for '030, so maybe it will help there!

Main features of this release are a ROM Configuration GUI, .SP snapshot support, better drag-and-drop, and some extra TZX stuff. The full list is, as usual, in the guide. (ps)

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08.Mar.2002
AmiGBG


Event: AmiGBG 2002 - Showreport by Kjell Breding
On 2nd March 2002 the Amiga Show AmiGBG 2002 took place in Göteborg, Sweden. Under the title link you will find a show report by Kjell Breding. (ps)

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08.Mar.2002
eisblock (ANF)


Amiga Online Games: New games added to database
Amiga Online Games, the website about Amiga network games, added new games to its database: Micro Machines, TeleChess, TeleCheckers and TeleBackgammon. (ps)

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08.Mar.2002
Manfred Rauer (ANF)


Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.21 Release 2
On the website of WinUAE is available version 0.8.21 release 2. See the following changes:

WinUAE 0.8.21 Release 2 (07.03.2002)
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- FIXED: custom chipset emulation fixes (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- FIXED: JIT FPU (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: filesystem emulation (Bernd Schmidt, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: PC joystick 2 (me)
- FIXED: mouse 2 emulation (me)
- FIXED: multiple CD32 CDROM and uaescsi.device updates (me)
- FIXED: bsdsocket (Bernd Roesch, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: configuration GUI memory leak fixed (Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: keyboard problems (me)
- FIXED: CD32 pad button emulation
- FIXED: serial port updates (Bernd Roesch, me)
- CHANGED: sound emulation (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- ADDED: CD32 media eject/insert support (me)
- ADDED: CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA-ALT resets and clears chipmemory (me)
- ADDED: "pause emulation while minimized"-option to misc-page (me)
- ADDED: FDI-support is back (me)

Important notes, known bugs and workarounds:

  • WinUAE freezes before GUI appears? Delete Configurations/default.uae.
  • Check your CPU speed settings, they may not be correct if you load old configuration file.
  • Sound buffer size is not comparable with old versions. 3 or 4 is usually the best size.
  • When using CD32 emulation, keep "Hard Drives"-tab empty.
(ps)

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07.Mar.2002
Amiga Arena


Amiga Arena: Interview with Steven Solie

With "Axis and Allies Game Master," developer Steven Solie set his sights on creating an Amiga computer version of the boardgame "Axis and Allies." more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Mar.2002
Martin Merz (ANF)


New MasonIcons

New and reworked GlowIcon Archive is available... more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Mar.2002
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)


Linux (for PlayStation 2)
From: ps2linux-announce@playstation2-linux.com
Dear PlayStation and Linux Enthusiast,
Now is the time to put yourself inside the next generation in computer entertainment! In response to your request for information on LINUX (FOR PLAYSTATION 2), we are excited to let you know that this accessory is now available for pre-order in the United States and Canada* exclusively at http://www.us.playstation.com/?refUrl=linux, with an expected shipping date of May 22, 2002. more ... (ps)

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07.Mar.2002
RP-Online


RP-Online: Microsoft recalls "Xbox" in Japan

Just a short time after its introduction in Japan, Microsoft has had to recall its "Xbox" video game system. Reason: the device leaves scratches on inserted CDs. Click on the title-link for the full story. more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Mar.2002
Sharwin Raghoebardayal (ANF)


Coyote Flux: Mail Server Down
Since one week there have been some problems with the mail server of Coyote Flux. This caused the e-mail address to be unrecognized for almost one week now.

However, this problem should be fixed within the next two days. If anyone needs to send an e-mail urgently, there is another address that can be used: sharwin@thendic-France.com.

As soon as the old address is valid again, it will be posted on amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: ps)

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07.Mar.2002
aNTibikE (E-Mail)


Game: ScummVM CVS Update
Rüdiger Hanke has released a new CVS-snapshot of ScummVM for MorphOS, a program which interprets data files of classic LucasArts adventures, allowing the game to be played on the Amiga. New in this version: more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Mar.2002
Coyote Flux


Coyote Flux: JMiner revealed, AuroraRadio online
JMiner, a photogrammetry package developed on the Amiga, has been revealed. This program allows sequence- and image-based correction in three dimensions and can automatically map a two dimensional map from a (special) video stream. Take a look at the JMiner page to find out more!

One thing we would like to mention is that JMiner and the 3D engine are two completely different projects: The 3D objects are compatible with both engines but the renderer is by no means the same. The FPU-based J Miner runs slower when more polygons are added, the integer-based 3D engine will always run at one speed.

AuroraRadio is now officially online and is a Shoutcast radio station dedicated only to quality music. Every style and age of music is played, including Amiga modules and C64 SID music. Currently, the radio station is in its test phase, which means that sometimes the server is down, but under normal circumstances it should be available 24 hours a day...!

There are a lot of other big secret hard- and software projects going on right now, although we cannot say anything about it yet. However, this will change when release dates get closer. Be prepared for something unexpected! (ps)

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07.Mar.2002
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)


SOMS (Gameboy Advance) Group seeks Amiga Programmers

Sylvio K. wrote: more ... (ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Mar.2002
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)


playamiga.de: Feeble Files Test
Jürgen Theiner wrote:
It's hard to believe. It seems to go on for months without a full-version, then two great games right on top of each other. After we took on Descent: Freespace we are now testing "the Feeble Files." Click on the title link for details.
(ps) (Translation: dm)

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07.Mar.2002
djnick (ANF)


d-tronic design studio and djnick.com presentations redesigned
d-tronic design studio can't be reached via www.d-tronic.com anymore. Please use www.d-tronic.co.yu (title link) for now. Note: d-tronic design studio is a company that uses Amiga & PC technology for professional work (music, gfx, art, dtp (magazines, books, flyers), internet presentations, music videos... etc.). For English version use http://www.crosswinds.net/~dtronic/indexe.html link.

Since last week you are available to download some of older music songs in mp3 format from "The Resurrection" CD album created entirely on Amiga, directly from www.djnick.com internet presentation. Please go to downloads section. (ps)

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