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Archive 09/2002


16.Sep.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


AF: New tradeguide & Clubguide update
Besides the well-known club-guide a new tradeguide is now available at amigafuture.de. The guides can be found in the database area of our webpage. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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16.Sep.2002
Michael Carrillo (ANF)


Event: WOASE 2002 - Update
We are happy to announce that our regular website is back up and running!

New! to our Exhibitors List:
100% Amiga Magazine
Total Amiga Magazine

For those of you who have been away from Planet Earth this weekend, the World of Amiga Southeast Show will be taking place on Saturday, 2nd of November 2002 in the UK. Tickets are available in advance from ForeMatt Home Computing. For more information, please visit our website. (ps)

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16.Sep.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


IOSPIRIT: 3 Software-updates
IOSPIRIT made three minor update available:

  • fxSCAN Update 4.04
    This update fixes some smaller bugs concerning the co-operation with Turboprint and improves the OCR-engine considerably.

  • IOUSB System Update (to 2.1)
    'Portleak'-bug of iousb.library, causing problems for example with Epson Perfection 1650 scanners, fixed.

  • VHI Studio 5.71
    Improved handling of ftp-servers that do not acting according to the standard.
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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16.Sep.2002
Suite101.com


John Chandler: Something for Everyone
In his new article at suite101.com, John Chandler is dealing with the realities and chances of AmigaAnywhere ready cellphones and PDA's, of AmigaOS 4.0, AmigaOne and Amithlon. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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16.Sep.2002
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)


Filemanager: DiskMaster 2.5RC5
Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5RC5 of his filemanager. It can be found at his Homepage.

Changes in version 2.5RC5 (02-09-15) 72924 Bytes:
  • Bugfix: 'Swap' did not initialise empty dirs. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!
  • Bugfix: 'Swap' did not update the gadgets properly.
  • Added a trailing "/" to "%d" - at least LHA seem to need it. Thanks for reporting to Jean Marie Boucher!
  • Bugfix: the arrow gadgets did not do anything. Thanks for reporting to: Richard Mattsson!
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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16.Sep.2002
AONE Gothenburg 2002


Event: AONE Gothenburg 2002 Fall Event
On 21st September the AONE-show will be held at Göteburg. The AONE is organized by AmiGBG (an Amiga-club), GGS Data from Sweden and some AmigaOne beta testers.

Futher information about the show and the new AmigaOne can be found at www.amigbg.com/aonegbg. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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15.Sep.2002
Raquel Velasco, Bill Buck (E-Mail)


MorphOS: AFUA converted into ASUM
'The Association of French Amiga Users' has been converted into the 'Association des Sympathiques Utilisateurs de MorphOS'. The web site's address remains unchanged at afua.amedia-software.com.

The web site contains a.o.t. a poll about the preferred combination of Amiga hardware and OS incl. LinuxPPC. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Karl (ANF)


WWW browser: Path-Amiga V0.6
Alexander Weber is currently programming a new WWW browser for Amiga systems. He writes on his web site:

"Path-Amiga is my attempt to write a web browser. It isn't very usable yet, but that will hopefully change soon.

I started with this project somewhen in the second half of 2001, because I wanted to learn to write AmigaOS programs with multiple threads. After I had a program that could open and close some windows, I thought I could perhaps make a web browser out of this, just as a challenge. And the result is this."

The browser runs from AmigaOS V3.5.

Download: path.lha (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Ein Liker (ANF)


Music: Tim Wright on the Web (Psygnosis' domestic composer)
Ein Liker writes:
it is not news in the original sense, still I regard the link interesting enough :)

Tim Wright, the famous domestic composer of Psygnosis, former Amiga games forge with titles the likes of 'Shadow of the Beast', who are now an inhouse team at Sony, has for some time now had his personal domicil under www.coldstorage.org.uk.

There you can find, besides 9 MP3s (a.o.t. two revamped songs from Wipeout, which btw were created using Bars&Pipes on an Amiga), also the two original tunes from the graphics classic 'AGONY', which in this form never managed it into the game, incl. interesting background stories. Additionally there are also the original modules from 'Shadow of the Beast II' and 'SotB III' (the music from 'Shadow of the Beast I' was done by Richard Joseph).

And finally you may contact Tim Wright directly, via eMail and forum, and maybe motivate him to produce further mixes of his old Amiga songs. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: 'FileX' source code available
After Amiga Arena has already published the full version of binary editor 'FileX', now there is also the possibility of getting the souce code from developer 'Klaas Hermanns' if interested.

So, whoever wants to further develop 'FileX', please write to klaas.hermanns@hybris.de. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Amiga Future


Kultboy.com: The Citadel, Erben der Erde, Fears a.o.t.
The following articles have been added to Kultboy.com:

3 new joke reports from issue 4/91, namely Larry VI - Love & Lust, Workbench, Porks Blood.

Amiga Games:
  • The Citadel - 3D shooter
  • Erben der Erde - CD32 adventure
  • Fears - CD32 3D shooter
  • Testament - A1200 3D shooter
Column:
  • Power Play 9/93 - 3D0 introduction
  • ASM 3/92 - Mega Drive CD-ROM introduction. Suitably a review of Sol-Feace for MD-CDROM.
(sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
ANN


Event: MicroMart Computer Fair 21st-22nd Sep 2002
The MicroMart Computer Fair will take place on 21st and 22nd September 2002 at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre in Great Britain.

From the Amiga sector, Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc, the Blackpool Amiga Club along with Sven Harvey of AmigaMart and Eyetech will attend.

68k and x86 Amiga products, AmigaDE on desktop and PDA as well as the AmigaOne G3DE 600 will be presented. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
AmiDog's Movie Player (ANF)


AmiDog: AMP movie player beta version 020914
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has made a new beta version of 'AMP', his movie player for PPC available for download. 'AMP' is currently able to play back the following multimedia types:
  • MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
  • MP2/MP3 audio streams
  • AC3 streams
  • (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD
Download: AMP2-BETA-020914.lha (Beta) (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
AROS - The Amiga Research OS (ANF)


AROS: Boot menu, font prefs for Zune
AROS have been mentioned in a news item at OSNews.

Sebastian Heutling implemented an intuition-based boot menu on AROS/x86 native. You can now choose to boot with or without executing the startup-sequence. The plans for this menu also include enabling HIDD switching at boot time.

Georg Steger fixed some text formatting bugs in graphics.library. He also renamed con-handler to con.handler to be consistent, and implemented eac_MatchString/MatchFunc in ExAll (DOS). He added an assign HOME: in AROS/linux to point to the current user's home directory.

Adam Chodorowski started porting the Font Prefs to Zune. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Pegasos Gothenburg Show 2002 (ANF)


Event: Pegasos Gothenburg Show 2002
A Pegasos show hosted by Swedish dealer GGS Data will take place on 22nd September 2002 from ca. 11.00h in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Itineraries, Pegasos specifications and lots of new Pegasos pictures can be found on the web site created especially for the show. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Chris Hodges (ANF)


Event: O.A.S.E. live web cam via USB
A USB web cam has been installed at short notice, which broadcasts live from the O.A.S.E. in Graz. For this purpose a small USB web cam is used which is hooked up via a Highway Zorro USB card. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Ned Kelly (E-Mail)


Event: Metroplex Commodore Computer Club on 19th Oct 2002
The Metroplex Commodore Computer Club (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area) is having its 16th annual show on 19 October 2002.

What:             Metroplex Commodore Computer
Clubs 16th annual show
and Flea Market
Where:            Brookside Convention Center,
Hurst, Texas
When:             Saturday, October 19, 2002
Time:             1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Admission:        Free
Club web address: www.AmigaMCCC.org
Contact person:   Ned Kelly,
email: nedkelly@ticnet.com
(sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Amiga Future


Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.22
On 13th September 2002, beta version V40.22 of the Workbench alternative 'Scalos' has been released.

The history lists 33 changes compared to version 40.21. Among these are bug fixes and new features.

Scalos runs from CPU 68020, AmigaOS 3.0, 1MB RAM and MUI V3.6 (MUI V3.8 recommended).

The beta archive contains only the executable program as update.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (240K), History (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
ANN


Music: Games soundtracks 'Immortal 2'
On 12th September 2002, the audio CD 'Immortal 2' has been published on synSONIQ Records.

This CD contains a.o.t. Amiga games soundtracks by Chris Hülsbeck, Jochen Hippel, Allister Brimble and Richard Joseph.

For the CD produced by Jan Zottmann the tracks have been reissued by their respective composers using studio equipment. All in all the CD contains 14 tracks and a bonus track:
  1. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 - Barry Leitch 4:26
  2. Lionheart - Matthias Steinwachs 5:08
  3. Final Countdown - Torsten Gellrich 3:06
  4. SWIV "Decimation" - Andrew Barnabas 5:41
  5. Body Blows - Allister Brimble 3:59
  6. Carcharodon - Torsten Gellrich 3:27
  7. Jim Power - Chris Hülsbeck 4:36
  8. Z-Out "Level One" - Rudolf Stember 4:22
  9. Shadow of the Beast 3 - Tim Wright 5:54
  10. James Pond 2 - Richard Joseph 3:58
  11. X-Out - Chris Hülsbeck 4:07
  12. Battle Squardron - Ron Klaren 8:28
  13. Lethal Xcess - Jochen Hippel 7:05
  14. Hero Quest "Ingame" - Barry Leitch 3:04
  15. Bonus Track: Rain - Jan Zottmann 4:31
Sound samples and ordering details can be found under the title link. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Stefan Kleinheinrich (ANF)


Tool: SpringMaus V0.8 (dual monitor operation)
SpringMaus is a commodity designed for the use with dual monitor systems which allows you to change screens by scrolling sidewards.

Testing has been done with an Amithlon system featuring a GeForce2 and a Matrox Mystique, but it should work with all other GFX cards.

The final version will appear on the Aminet, with some minor enhancemets like seperate screen list for each monitor.

Download: SpringMaus.lha (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Sep.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)


MorphOS: Ambient screen shots (update)
Gunne Steen has published screen shots of Ambient (MorphOS Workbench), the audio adjustments program "Pegasos-Mixer" and MUI. Additionally you can see the MorphOS shell on the pictures and make out that MiamiDX and IBrowse are running on the Pegasos. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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14.Sep.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


CD recording software: MakeCD 3.2 beta 10 released
Already on August, 24th 2002 had a new beta version of MakeCD been released. In this version have new CDR and CDRW drivers been implemented (especially for Yamaha recorders). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Sep.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Audio: Ogg-Vorbis encoder/decoder for Amiga
On August, 14th 2002 had the first stand-alone encoder/decoder for the new audio media format "Ogg-Vorbis" been released. This media format was until recently only implemented in the program "Lame". Now you can also listen directly to the Ogg-Vorbis files. The only requirement is a full AHI installation. The processor power needed is very high, probably higher than for MP3.

There's an 060 and a MOS version of both the encoder and the decoder. Next to one of these you need the ixemul.library. Advantage of the new format is the better sound quality at the same bit rate than with MP3. Furthermore it can encode/decode Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Sep.2002
Oliver Hummel/Amithlon ML (ANF)


Statement by Bernd Meyer regarding the upcoming AmithlonXL package
According to Bernd Meyer it is unclear to him for now whether the yesterday by VMC on amiga-news.de announced AmithlonXL is just an "add on" CD similar to the Elbox Multimedia CD or in fact a full emulator package.

In case that it should be a full emulator package, Bernd Meyer points out in his statement that VMC/Haage&Partner wouldn't have any license for the distribution of those parts of Amithlon that are basing on his work (e.g. optimized Jit), furtheron both sides don't have any license by Amiga Inc. for the distribution of the needed Kickstart/Workbench files.

Additionally he won't make future updates meant for users of the original Amithlon available for an AmithlonXL package.

Editorial comment:
We all cannot judge which of both sides (Bernd Meyer vs. VMC/H&P) is right or wrong here resp. respectively which of the sides is misinterpreting the concluded contracts. In any case it is clear that there are obviously two very different points of view existing. We ask therefore our readers to be very objective in possible comments and to do without any recriminations and insults.

Here the complete statement:

              Regarding so-called "AmithlonXL"
              ================================

* I have absolutely no knowledge of this "product" beyond that which is
  publicly available on Amiga news sites.

* I am not in any way involved with this "product".

* At the current time, it is unclear (to me at least) whether this is
  supposed to be an add-on for existing Amithlon users (akin to the
  Elbox "Multimedia CD", simply offering a collection of new drivers),
  or whether it is meant to be something including emulator executable
  and ROM files.

* If it is just a collection of drivers, I have no problem with it.
  About bloody time, I'd say.

* If, however, someone is planning to distribute my IP (as contained in the
  emulator executable), I'd strongly advise to reconsider, as neither
  Harald Frank nor Haage&Partner have any license to do so. Furthermore,
  to the best of my knowledge, neither of those parties have a license
  from Amiga Inc for the distribution of kickstart images. 

* The announcements on www.amiga-news.de and www.ann.lu also talked about
  the demo machine being equipped with a Dual Head Matrox card. I sincerely
  hope that this is not an indication that my multi-head capable
  gfx driver for Amithlon is considered or presented as part of
  "AmithlonXL", as the license attached to that driver quite clearly
  prohibits it.

* Let me also reiterate that of the contents of the amithlon_contrib*
  packages released by me, ONLY the parts under the GPL are available
  for inclusion with any Harald Frank or H&P product, and that inclusion
  of those parts would require the strict adherence to the licensing
  terms of the GPL.
  
* Obviously, I won't be supporting an "AmithlonXL" which violates my
  intellectual property rights in any way. This would certainly include making
  sure that the proprietary parts of any further contrib packages I release 
  for the users of the original Amithlon would not work with such an
  "AmithlonXL". Personally, I despise crap like that, but what can I do?

* I would finally like to ask everyone to recognize that at the current
  time, to the best of my knowledge "AmithlonXL" is purely a Harald
  Frank idea --- I have yet to see a single word about it from Haage&Partner.
  So please don't abuse H&P over something they, for all I know, might not 
  even know about.


       Bernd Meyer, 

       Main Amithlon programmer                                                  

(ps) (Translation: wk)

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