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Archive 08/2001


07.Aug.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)


AROS reachable at new URL
As reported earlier there was a hardware problem with the server hosting the AROS website. In the meantime you can get to the website with this URL: http://www.hepe.com/aros/ (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001
Emerald Imaging


Game: Demoversion of Aqua released
A demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is released. In this game you will find yourself in a mysterious world and have to try to get a way out.

Download: AquaDemo.lha - Readme (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001
Assembly


Event: Assembly 2001
At the Finnish Demoparty Assembly 2001, that has happen not long ago in Helsinki, MatureFunk has won the first place with the Amiga demo Lapsuus.

This demo and other you will find under the title link for download. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk. These are the new packages:

  • 05.08.01 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts)
  • 05.08.01 new: Missiles Over Xerion (Kingsoft/Cycletech)
  • 05.08.01 new: Garfield: A Winter's Tail (The Edge)
  • 05.08.01 enhanced: Fly Harder (Starbyte)
  • 05.08.01 new: Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17)
  • 04.08.01 new: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17)
  • 04.08.01 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software)
  • 04.08.01 new: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision)
  • 04.08.01 new: Castle Vania (Konami)
  • 01.08.01 enhanced: IK+ (Archer MacLean)
  • 31.07.01 enhanced: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Aug.2001



Aminet Uploads until 07.08.2001
YAT.lha              comm/mail  577K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
crossgcc_linux.tgz   dev/gcc    2.8M+Crossgcc linux to AmigaOS
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 952K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2001 (Itali
Aakt0801GFX.lha      docs/mags  542K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   73K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801HTML.lha     docs/mags  218K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
HBible.lha           docs/misc  1.2M+Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillatio
ChaosHeavy.lha       game/2play  16M+World's Best Magic Game! 1-8 players! Fa
AquaDemo.lha         game/demo  2.5M+Aqua demo version of great new adventure
mhi_MASPro.lha       hard/misc   10K+MHI MAS Player Pro driver
ASIE.lha             misc/emu    45K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
mhi_dev.lha          mus/play    56K+MHI Dev - The new standard in MPEG audio
mhi_MASStd.lha       mus/play     9K+MHI MAS Player Standard driver
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   785K+Skinnable multi-format player-GUI
PlayGUIShot.jpg      mus/play   172K+Screenshot of PlayGUI 3.2
arcadesnookeri.lha   pix/mwb      7K+Nice MWB icon for Arcade Snooker
doomicon.lha         pix/mwb     65K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
quakeicon.lha        pix/mwb      7K+Nice MWB icon for Quake
Robot.jpg            pix/trace   20K+Raytraced Robot
StarRacker.jpg       pix/trace   36K+Futuristic Rocket Car
Alecos-WB-1.jpg      pix/wb     141K+A nice desktop 800x600 16 Bit by Alecos
Ital301.lha          text/misc  566K+English to Italian Translator v. 3.1
GS-JAnim.lha         util/batch   7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species)
2b_Spiral.lha        util/boot    3K+A little toy to make Your Workbench look
e-bin.lha            util/cli    72K+Port of "e", a full expression evaluator
WarpDTPrefs.lha      util/dtype 122K+WarpDT preferences program V44.5
WarpTIFFdt.lha       util/dtype 209K+TIFF datatype V44.1 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
AslToRT.lha          util/misc   23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
envhandler.lha       util/sys    14K+A happyenv replacement (1.10)
Safe.lha             util/virus  35K+Virus detector v16.3
FlagsWB3.9_GR.lha    util/wb      3K+WB 3.9 Flags, Country files for Greece, 
sgrab.lha            util/wb     95K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.17)
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07.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9430
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9430 of the AIM-client AmigAIM. It is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger. Here is an excerpt of the history where you can see the changes:

  • Found bug in Mail Checking routine that could cause the program to go into an infinite busy loop under certain circumstances.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: gf)

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06.Aug.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)


Project: AmigaFFE status
I would like to give a short update of the topical status of the AmigaFFE-project. Due to the fact that the release of the source code of Frontier-First Encounters (quotation: "..when it's done.") I would like to suggest a small project that deals with Frontier, too.

Maybe some of you know the game "Elite - The New Kind". It is a Elite version, that looks slightly better then the original Amiga version. The Allegro-library (used for the new version of First Encounters, too) is used for the programming of this game (for Windows). Here is my question: Is out there any interest in a port of this game (for practice)?

Furthermore, I get an email containing the info that Alive Mediasoft already had a running version of First Encounters that was never finished. Does someone out there have any contact information (e-mail, snailmail) of one or more former employee of Alive? Because I would like to ask them if we could finish this version.

Additionally:
The analysis of the actual situation will be seperated in two parts:
  1. Technical information concerning the game (shortkeys, engine, and so on)
  2. Some kind list about what we can do and what we can not concerning the port.
In the near future I will put some impressions for example pictures on my page. I will publish the soundtrack (MIDI and maybe MP2 version, too.

If you did not hear anything about the AmigaFFE-project here are some information: The AmigaFFE-project wants to port the game Frontier First Encounters, the successor of Frontier Elite II, to the Amiga.

This is an "Everyone's Invited"-project. That means that everyone is welcomed to join the team wether he/she wants to program or 'just' write the documentation. Further details are available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Aug.2001
Amiga Security Page (ANF)


Information about SMH.com.au: 6000 Hacks a Week
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Because of the article (6,000 attempted hacks a week gets home user a bit annoyed) at smh.com.au I put together a small compilation of information concerning this topic. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Aug.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)


Filemanager: DiskMaster 2.5b12
Rudolph Riedel released DiskMaster 2.5b12 and DM2.guide 1.97. It is available at the Archive-section of his homepage. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Aug.2001
Amiga. Inc.


Amiga Inc.: e.p.i.c. about to produce programs for the AmigaDE
The well known software house e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment will produce games for the AmigaDE. These games will be released for PDA's and micro-computers like the Sharp Zaurus. The first three games will be "Boxikon", "Piles O' Tiles" and "Pegger". The whole press release can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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05.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.3
Virus Help Denmark released version 16.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible.

Changes since last version:
  • fixed ReadArg() template in order to remove wrong message on machines which users didn't noticed that TCPPATCH is dead!
  • optimization
  • small fix in xfd slave for new SMEGs
  • added analyse of SMEG2 viri
Name : Safe v16.3
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 36.032 bytes
Release date : 05 August 2001
Compilation date: 30. July 2001
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)


Download: Safe.lha (35K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Richard Hackelbusch (ANF)


Game: Spaceward Ho! for free download
Richard Hackelbusch wrote:
While searching for signs of life of one of the best Amiga games (Spaceward Ho!, AmigaMagazin rated it "very good, 10,2", issue 9/94), which even runs on graphics boards, I happened to find the homepage of the author who has ported Spaceward Ho! to the Amiga, (http://www.bebbosoft.de/), and it turned out that with permission of the manufacturer (Delta Tao Software) he has put the game online for free download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)


Developer tool: CVS V1.11.1p1
Version 1.11.1p1 of the AmigaOS port of 'CVS' has been released. This update among other things fixes another Enforcer hit, which occurred along with an error message when using the internal SSH client.

Beside of this bugfix two more new features have been added to simplify working with cvs and ssh a bit or to make it more compatible with the prior version.

Jens Langner advises any developer to get the latest version at the following and well known address: http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.

During the following days this update should be on Aminet, too. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net


AmigaDE: cnvtools V0.99a Beta
Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.99a of his 'cnvtools'. The archive contains four tools for image and audio formats supported by the ave/cnv tools, including cpm and rpm. Using these tools you can convert the formats, get information about audio or image files, and more.

The tools' source codes are part of the archive.

Download: util/conv/cnvtools.tgz (29K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net


AmigaDE: playsound V0.96 Beta
Patrick Roberts released 'playsound' for the AmigaDE SDK v1.1. Playsound plays audio samples and supports all AVE-CNV formats.

Download: unclassified/playsound.tgz (425K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Fun Time World


Graphics: ImageFX V4.5 Introdution
Nova Design introduced version 4.5 of the image editing and effects software 'ImageFX' on the AmiWest 2001 show.

New drawing modes and a new animations system were added. This animations system can load GIF animations, ANIM's, ANIM brushes, as well as a set of single frames and can operate those using keyframe animation.

Follow the title link for the full press release. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Bernd Gmeineder (ANF)


AMI Sector One: Update with additional games
Bernd Gmeineder wrote:
'Paradox Software' and 'Hartwerk' are two more companies allowing us to make their software available for free at AMI Sector One. Some of the games and applications, which now can be legally downloaded, are 'ST-Protector', 'War Zone', and the translation software 'Translate It'. Beside of these there is also Ed Scio's futuristic flight simulation 'Armour-Geddon'. Various interesting public domain games and new Emerald Mine clones round out this little update. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News


AmiWest 2001: 9 minuts movie from the show
On http://emrl.com/amiwest/ a 9 minutes movie from the AmiWest 2001 show was released. This movie shows the responsiveness to AmigaOS x86, views on the Boxer, AmigaDE programming, Amiga tatoos, and SOCK PUPPETS.

It shows Kermit Woodall, Joe Torre, Dr. Ryan of Merlancia Industries, and many more.

There are two versions of the movie, one of low (8,795k) and one of high (25,567k) resolution MPEG-1 video format.

A copy of this movie, the MP3 files of the speeches, and the Sheep screenshot are also available from http://amiga.mc-kenna.org/. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News


Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.8
On 4. August 2001 beta version 40.8 of the alternative Workbench 'Scalos' was released. This release in particular fixes several bugs and makes it easier to handle the different preferences formats of Scalos.

Now Scalos tries to load the latest format, at first. If not available it falls back to prior formats, but always uses the latest format for saving.

All changes can be taken from the history.

You can report bugs using the bug report page.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (210K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Kevin Orme (ANF)


Website: Amiga University updated
OK. We've done quite a bit of work since the last update, and while that was too long ago (mid May, blame too much work travel! :) we've got some cool stuff up there now for you!

1) New Pages. Not only have we gone back and re-verified links throughout the site (we are up to ~2,000 links, probably only about 15% of those are 'within site') we have added new AmigaDE, Draco, and TVPaint pages as well as a huge slew of REBOL links to the 'rebol on the web' page in our programming section. There are many other new links throughout the site in its various sections as well, please let us know if we missed *your* site. If it has to do with Amigas and especially learning how to use them, enjoy them, etc., we're all ears. :)

2) Site Mirrors and Archives. We are pleased to announce that thanks to Bob Maple, Paul R. Santa-Maria and Marc Albrecht we have been able to 'preserve' three Amiga sites otherwise having been taken down, namely 'Zip Drives and the Amiga', 'Motorola 68000 Resources' and the former Amiga-software.com website. Take a look from the 'site archives' link off the home page.

Even cooler is the generosity of David McMinn, who is allowing us to mirror his 'Blitz Basic 2000' site. This is still an active and growing site, even though at the moment he's changing servers on the home site in the UK, thus not all his content is online at the moment but that will soon change. Check it out!

3) Downloads. As you may or may not already know, we've had Bars & Pipes available for download for a long time, probably almost a year now. But we are pleased to announce that due to the generosity of NewTek, (who released Amiga TVPaint a while back as freeware), TVPaint is also now free to be distributed by other sites as well. We have created a ~4MB zip archive containing all you'll need to install this premier Amiga paint package (you'll need UnZip from Aminet as well as a graphics card, however, to use TVPaint - UAE/Amiga Forever users can also use it because they employ Picasso96 within the emulation). To help thank NewTek for their continued support of the Amiga community, if you use a PC, buy a copy of Aura, their newest and incredibly powerful paint/graphics package - you won't be disappointed.

In sum, come on back and check us out, we've got lots to offer and hopefully will have another large site update next month to announce. In the meantime, enjoy! (sd)

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05.Aug.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Game: New units for "Schlachtfeld"
Horst Diebel wrote:
Again, there are new unit pictures as in-game graphics by Eddy for the strategy game 'Schlachtfeld'. This should almost complete the vehicle fleet. Please, use the forum of the page to post any suggestions about the final design or textures. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM with new WWW and download addresses
The WWW and download addresses have changed for the instant messenger 'AmigAIM' by Richard H. Poser II to use the AOL messenger service.

The new addresses are: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Aug.2001
Robert Williams, Editor Clubbed Magazine (E-Mail)


SEAL: Clubbed Issue 8 Now Available
A brand new issue of Clubbed, South Essex Amiga Link's (SEAL) quarterly subscription Amiga magazine, is available now. All subscriber copies have been posted and should be received in the next week.

We are also happy to announce that you can now buy your Clubbed subscription online from at Kicksoft using a variety of credit and debit cards.

Highlights of issue 8 include:

Networking Explained: Find out how you can connect several Amigas or integrate your Amiga into a network with other platforms. This feature is complemented by a tutorial on setting up network printing with Samba.

Photogenics 5: What did we think of the latest release of this well known art and image processing package?

DrawStudio Tutorial: We guide you through combining bitmap and structured elements in this recently re-released drawing package.

Plus much more (including our first Reader's Wives section!)

If you'd like to know more visit our website for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues.

Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication. (mj)

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