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Archive 09/2002


22.Sep.2002
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender Amiga-Club Hamburg (ANF)


Event: AmigaMeeting Nord in Bad Bramstedt 18th-20th Oct 2002
Thorsten Mampel writes:
The Amiga-Meeting Nord will this year again take place in Bad Bramstedt from 18th-20th October 2002.

Details about the event can be gathered from our home page where you can also register.

Contrary to the previous years we are planning to build up an RJ-45 network. If you are coming with your computer, please take along a cable of min. 5m length (NO crossover cable), longer cables are welcome. Two 8 port hubs and a 16 port hub will be supplied. If you want to bring another hub you are welcome to do so to keep cable lengths short.

A BNC connection can be provided for those without an RJ-45 equipped NIC (e.g. Hydra).

The popular hard and software exchange will be reworked completely and can be utilised from every computer in our LAN. There will be a computer for daily visitors without a computer which can be used to surf for free and take part in the exchange.

We will announce details about attending companies/guests and further planned activities shortly.

Best regards

Thorsten Mampel
1st Chairman Amiga-Club Hamburg e.V. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
amiga.org


Event: AONE Gothenburg 2002 - Report by SlimJim (Update)
SlimJim has published a report about the AONE Gothenburg 2002 event in Gothenburg, Sweden on amiga.org. This one contains further information as compared to Johan Rasten's report.

Hyperion have completed PPCBoot. Thus the rest of the developer boards (several hundred) can be shipped.

PPCBoot has been created by order from outside of the Amiga market and means additional earnings for Hyperion.

Stefan Burström held an (improvised) speech about IBrowse V2.3. This will mainly be a bug fix. New features such as CSS will only be included from IBrowse V3.0 - which will be PPC native.

According to Stefan Burström, MUI will be part of AmigaOS 4 and in the default settings will be a Reaction lookalike. (sd)

Update 23.09.2002:
Other reports:
(ps) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Amiga Future


Company: Katodev consider resumption of development
On 20th September 2002, Katodev have published the following text on their web site:
"Because of the new media ebay Katodev intends to re-invoke development activity. Many things are easier and cheaper because of the online market." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Aminet


MP3: id3tag.library V5.6
David Mevius has published version 5.6 of the id3tag library for reading and writing the ID3 tags (ID3V1, ID3V2) of MP3 files on Aminet. The ID3 tags contain information about the respective music title.

In details, ID3 versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 are supported.

Also contained within the archive are developer docs for C.

The library works from AmigaOS 3.x and CPU 68020. id3taglibPrefs requires Reaction or ClassAct.

Download: util/libs/id3tag_lib.lha (77K), Readme (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Aminet


Datatype: akPNG V45.3
Andreas Kleinert has published version 45.3 of his akPNG Datatype on Aminet. This version works with 68k Amigas including UAE and Amithlon.

The Datatype uses the current PNG source codes (zlib V1.1.4, libpng V1.2.4) and thus supports PNG files with up to 48 bits of colour information. These 48 bits are being reduced to 24 bits.

Download: util/dtype/akPNG-dt.lha (156K), Readme (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Aminet


Flash: Swfplayer V1.2b
Alexandre Balaban has published version 1.2b of his standalone Shockwave player 'Swfplayer' on Aminet. The player is based on Olivier Debon's libflash for Linux.

This update is a quick rebuild of Paul Hill's version of the player in order to make use of the newest libflash version.

This version should have solved the problems with other CPUs than 68040 and the crash upon quitting the player. Apart from that, this version is in no way to be considered a bug fix, the emphasis lies solely in the use of the newest libflash version.

The player works on CPUs from 68040 and from AGA (i.e. also on GFX cards).

Download: (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)


Event: O.A.S.E. 2002 - report by GFX-BASE team
The GFX-BASE team writes:
"The GFX-BASE team was at the O.A.S.E. 2002 in Graz/Austria. We created a huge report including 40 pictures and lots of information on the highlights (Pegasos, AmigaONE, USB-solutions, new ELBOX products and more) of the show.

We not only have some pics of the MorphOS desktop Ambient, we can also show you some AmigaOS.4.0 preview screen shots, thanx to Jürgen Schober, who sent them to us." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Apex Designs


Payback: Maps - Destra City and Alabastra City
On 20th September 2002, the new map 'Destra City' by Krzysztof Koplin and an updated 'Alabastra City' map by Krzysztof Koplin for the game Payback have been released.

The maps run from Payback update 6.

Download: (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage


Printer: Epson V40 update by Hutchison will not be released
The update of Peter John Hutchison's Epson V40 printer driver will not be released. The reason for this is that his Epson printer has gone faulty (colour is not dispensed correctly), and he will probably switch to an HP printer.

Yet if somebody is interested in this driver, as far as it has been tested, they can turn to Peter John Hutchison via eMail (PJHutch@blizzard.u-net.com).

He also writes:
"I am not sure what AOS 4.x Printer support will be like, and it will be unlikely that I will be developing for it either. TurboPrint seems far better anyway." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus


(S)NES-Emulator: Little John NG V0.1.39
On 19th September 2002, version V0.1.39 of NES and SNES-Emulator 'Little John NG' for PPC Amigas with MorphOS or WarpUp has been released.

Download: (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus


Tales of Tamar: MorphOS beta tester wanted, shipping delay
Eternity Computer are looking for a beta tester to test Tales of Tamar under MorphOS. Interested persons may apply to eternity@pride.de.

From the Tales of Tamar web site:
"Tales of Tamar is completed. Boxes, manuals and CD-ROMs have been manufactured. Unfortunately, the cardboard boxes are faulty. The print on them is 2.5mm off. Since we had the boxes especially made to have a high quality product, we negotiated with the manufacturer and they agreed to do a new, better production run. But this also means that it will take another two weeks until the game is ready to ship." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
GFX-BASE


AmigaOS 4: GUI design ideas by DJNick
On 22nd September 2002, DJNick has published his own ideas for the design of the AmigaOS 4's GUI on his web site.

The designs are available in a resolution of 1024x768 pixels with comments in the picture (299K) and without obliterating comments (194K). (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
GFX-BASE


GFX-BASE: Winners of Workbench competition
The winners of GFX-BASE's Workbench competition have been established. 35 screen shots have been sent in. The first prize went to Matt Zuhlke and the second to DJNic.

The screen shots incl. reasons for the decisions are accessible through the title link. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
Amiga Future


Video: Frogger V2.03 (update)
Already on 16th September 2002, version 2.03 of the video player 'Frogger' has been released. This version contains many bug fixes and new codecs (3ivx, indeo, mace, vorbis). Additionally there are many optimisations of the video and audio decoders.

Download for 68k and PPC Amiga systems (WarpUP, PowerUp and MorphOS) is possible through the title link and frogger.highantdev.de.

Addendum 22th Sep 2002:
Please note for this update that due to the PlugIn API changes all external codecs have to be downloaded and installed again. Whereby the present video codecs might still run, which isn't the case for the audio codecs.

(Source: AMIGAplus) (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
ANN


USB Thylacine: List of tested USB ethernet devices
A current list of USB ethernet devices for the USB stack tested with ping, telnet and ftp has been published.
  • Netgear EA101 und EA101C
  • Paracom Enet und Enet2
  • 3Com 3C19250
  • Linksys USB10T
  • D-Link DSB-650 und DSB-650C
  • AOX USB ETHERNET
  • ADS USB-10BT
  • Entrega E45
  • SMC 2202USB
  • Correga K.K.
(sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
ANN


Event: MicroMart Computer Fair - Short report by Radfoo
Radfoo has published three sentences about the MicroMart Computer Fair in Birmingham on ANN.

Attending the event was a.o. Fleecy Moss of Amiga, who was demonstrating the AmigaDE.

The AmigaOne was shown running Linux. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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22.Sep.2002
ANN


Event: AONE Gothenburg 2002 - Report by Johan Rasten
Johan Rasten has published a report about the AONE Gothenburg 2002 event in Gothenburg, Sweden on Devicetop.com.

Among others, Alan Redhouse of Eyetech, Ole-Gil Hvitmyren and Justin (AmigaOne hardware beta testers) and Gunne Steen of GGS Data (AmigaOS 4 beta tester) were in attendance.

A.o.t. the AmigaOne was demonstrated running Linux.

Eyetech are planning to also sell the AmigaOne motherboard into the Linux market.

Gunne Steen was demonstrating parts of AmigaOS 4 with the new Intuition, the new Layers library (forms the foundation for the windowing) and the Media Manager.

The full report with further information is accessible through the title link. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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21.Sep.2002



New poll: games - which genre do you prefer?
Many of us like playing games from time to time. We are interested in the kind computer games you are preferring. Possible answers:
  • Action games
  • Adventure games
  • Simulation games
  • Shooting games
  • Board games
  • Jump&run games
  • Online games
  • Role playing games
  • Simulators
  • I do never play computer games!
You can find the poll by following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Sep.2002
Dirk Baeyens (email)


Event: first pictures from the AONE show in Göteburg
Following the title link you can find a series of pictures taken by Johan 'Grak' Forsberg at the AmigaOne show taking place in Göteburg today. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Sep.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: page online again & updates
The Amiga Future homepage had been offline for a longer peroid of time yesterday. In the data center of the host had been a lack of power as three from each other independent main power lines were cut through during construction works for an ICE railway not far away.

Now everything is back to normal and the cheats and the Workbench gallery have been updated. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)


AMIGAplus soccer special: season finishing with Sensible Soccer
During the last six weeks has the editorial staff of the AMIGAplus because of the running 40th season of the German soccer premiere league gone through a virtual season with 34 reviews of more or less known soccer games for the Amiga.

As finishing highlight the A+ introduces today, on the digital 34th day, the champion of all soccer games, Sensible Soccer by Sensible Software.

So we look back on 34 reviews of these titles: Amiga Soccer, Anstoß/Anstoß World Cup edition, Bundesliga Manager, Bundesliga Manager Professional, Bundesliga Manager Hattrick, Der Meister (Ultimate Soccer Manager), Der Trainer (Tactical Manager), Eat The Whistle, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, Fifa International Soccer, Fighting Soccer, Five-A-Side Soccer, Footballer of the Year 2, Fußball Total (Football Glory), Goal!, Hattrick!, Italy Soccer 90, Italy 1990, Kick Off 2, Litti's Hot-Shot, Lothar Matthäus Soccer (European Champions), Manchester United Europe, Microprose Soccer, Player Manager 2, Premier Manager, Pro Soccer 2190, ran Trainer, Samba Partie Pro / Samba World Cup, Sensible Soccer (Sensible World of Soccer), Sierra Soccer, Soccer Kid, Soccer King, Starbyte Super Soccer, Wild Cup Soccer.
And do not forget: The round one must be placed in the cornered one!
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Sep.2002
GetBoinged-Redaktion (ANF)


Announcement: new online magazine - GetBoinged
There had been a change at the head of the AMIGA online magazine "NoCover". With a new chief editor and new ideas we want to look into a better future. For this several preparations had taken place so that our plan can be put into effect.

The first step was the name change from "NoCover" into "GetBoinged". The second step will follow in the next few days when our official homepage will go online under "www.getboinged.de". All further details can be read then there.

With the "GetBoinged" magazine we want to go another way than other AMIGA online magazines, here at "GetBoinged" you'll only read facts and nothing else that may possibly be released someday in the future. Furthermore we refer to already existing and usable hardware. There will definitely be no reports about the alternative operating system MorphOS.

Because only a small number of users is participating we'll only come up with specially chosen rubrics to offer a quite filled magazine despite this.

Point: new users
To secure our surviving you will be able to receive the "GetBoinged" magazine not only via the Aminet or various AMIGA CD-ROMs. Owners and buyers of Windows systems will be pleased as our magazine will be placed on several CD-ROMs of "Windows" magazines, too. The CD-ROM subscription of the "GetBoinged" respectively the once "NoCover" will be discontinued because of this step.

With kind regards,
Your "GetBoinged" editorial staff
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Sep.2002
Bernd Rösch (email)


Emulator: New WinUAE clipboard utility
There's now an improved clipboard utility (download updated clipboard utility for 0.8.22R1) for WinUAE to exchange data between Windows and AmigaOS. It works now with YAM, Editpad and everything that uses several hunks on the Amiga side.

The related Readme has been updated, too. The most important:
In YAM you choose the wanted block and press the winuaeclip hotkey (CTRL+c is default). The YAM message No area marked can be ignored, everything had been done correctly. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Sep.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Combined player/decoder/encoder GUI for .ogg files
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today I have finished the combined Ogg GUI for player/decoder/encoder. With this you can set up nearly everything in the programs you want to. Among other things the conversion of .ogg files to .wav files, encoding of AIFF, AIFF/c and WAV to Ogg files. You can enter additional information about the song in the Ogg file, too, like date, genre, track number, name of the song, artist, comment and serial number. Besides, you can set the audio quality of the Ogg file from 0 to 10.

This GUI can be obtained directly from me via email. The GUI has to be installed in the same directory where the Ogg player and Ogg encoder are placed. In addition you need a CLI program called "requeststring". But this is included in the archive I send as it is freeware, too. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Sep.2002
Martin Merz (ANF)


New MasonIcons
There are two new archives available: IBrowseMI and ScalOSMI.
  • IBrowseMI - new default images and a new transferanimation
  • ScalOSMI - images and icons in GlowIcons design
You can get further information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)


Start menu: AmiStart version 0.63 and new website
AMIGAplus wrote:
Darius Brewka has published the new version 0.63 of AmiStart. AmiStart is a Windows like start menu with quick-launchbar, drag&drop-support and a flexible graphical surface but also allows the transparency, rounded edges, background-textures and much more. In the new version AmiStart offers also the so called shape-layer which are flexible and programmable skins for controlling external applications like ARexx. The shape-layer of Songplayer is an example.

Besides this a new website of AmiStart has gone online which is hosted by GFX-BASE. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)


Event: Timetable of AONE Gothenburg 2002
On Saturday 21st September 2002 the AmigaOne show AONE Gothenburg 2002 Fall Event will take place in Göteburg, Sweden.

You can call the hotline number +46 70 586 85 99 if you for instance need a travel description or something like that.

The seminars will take place after the following scheme:
  • 12.00 h: Show-opening.
  • 12.30 h: Kjell Breding/AmiGBG and Gunne Steen/GGS-Data will hold a short speech.
  • 13.00 h: Ole-Egil from Norway and Justin from Denmark will present the AmigaOne and then answer questions.
  • 13.45 h: Alan Redhouse of Eyetech will hold a speech and answer then questions.
  • 14.30 h: Gunne Steen/GGS-Data will show parts of AmigaOS 4 on his Amiga 4000 CyberStormPPC, possibly additional seminars.
  • 17.00 h: Show-End, discussions between visitors, exhibitors and speakers.
  • 17.30 h: Clearance of meeting place.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)


PageStream also for AmigaOS 4 and Amithlon?
Most of the participants of a former opinion poll of Grasshopper LLC concerning the future of the DTP-program PageStream voted for a port to Amiga OS 4, MacOS X and Linux x86. Deron Kazmeier thinks that a port to AmigaOS 4 is practicable when the system will be available on market. A special adaption to Amithlon is also possible. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)


Bars&Pipes-developers left Microsoft
The developer of the MIDI-software Bars&Pipes Todor Fay and his wife Melissa Grey has left Microsoft and has founded a new company called NewBlue, Inc. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)


Event: New exhibitors on the Pianeta Amiga 2002
The Amiga fair Pianeta Amiga 2002 will take place from 21st to 22nd September 2002 in Empoli, Italy. Today further exhibitors have been announced:
  • The Italian print magazine Bitplane will present Amiga Anywhere Content Engine (AACE).
  • The following Italian Amiga user-groups will be present: AGI (Amiga Group Italia), Notizie Amiga, ATML (Amiga Transactor Mailing List) and ATO (Amiga Translators Organization).
  • The Italian BeOS-Group will be present as exhibitor.
  • Virtual Works will show the AmigaOne in Italy for the first time.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
Petra Struck


MorphOS-pics-message deleted
According to a statement of the MorphOS team the pictures have not been released. Because of that I have deleted the message with the link to the pictures as requested. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


First GUI of the Ogg-Vorbisplayer
Carsten Siegner wrote:
"Today I have finished my first GUI of the new Ogg-Vorbis-player. It contains of a simple Dos-script. Nevertheless you can choose the .ogg-files with a file requester. You only have to take attention of the Unix notation. I am going to create a combined player-encoder-GUI."

All those who are interested in this GUI may write an email to Carsten Siegner. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Sep.2002
eWeek (ANF)


Apple, IBM Team on 64-Bit CPU
In the article it is reported about a co-operation between IBM and Apple concerning the new 64 bit desktop processor of IBM. Next year this one is to start with 1.4 - 2 ghz and is to have the double power having the same clock frequency as the G4. The G5 of Motorola is shortly mentioned at the end of the article and is supposed to be published at the beginning of the next year. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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