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07.Oct.2002
Marco Neubauer (ANF)


Installer: WHDLoad Version 15.1
On the WHDLoad website you can download the new version 15.1.

With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your hard disk. Since our last message the following games are added or updated:

  • 07.10.02 New WHDLoad V15.1, minor fixes, manual translated to cz/de/fr, some changes on developer files
  • 06.10.02 improved: Wild West World (Software 2000) supports another version
  • 06.10.02 improved: Nebulus (Hewson) supports another version, new icons
  • 06.10.02 fixed: Moonstone (Mindscape) intro sound fixed
  • 06.10.02 improved: Maximum Overdrive 2 (Rage) interrupts fixed for 040/060, new icons
  • 05.10.02 fixed: Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin) slave was missing
  • 05.10.02 improved: A10 Tank Killer (Dynamix) another version supported
(ps)

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07.Oct.2002
Anu Seilonen (ANF)


Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Showed AmigaOne and Pegasos
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Showed AmigaOne and Pegasos

OULU, FINLAND - October 7th, 2002 - Finnish Amiga Users Group's annual meeting was held in Oulu, Finland on September 28th, 2002. The meeting was visited by some 60 people and this well exceeded last years visitor count. This didn't come as a surprise, even though the location was a bit remote for people living in the more populated south of Finland. After all, the users group had a lot more to show this year.

Travelling all the way from Holland, Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal of Coyote Flux/Thendic France, were there to demonstrate MorphOS on the Pegasos. This was the first public demonstration of Pegasos in Finland. Sharwin and Rakesh spent the entire afternoon showing off the speed and capabilities of their machine. Impressive demonstrations included J Miner, a photogrammetry software that created 3D images out of 2D photographs, and various features of MorphOS and emulation software.

Also on hand to discuss their work on MorphOS were the Finnish developers and long-time Amiga enthusiasts Teemu Suikki and Harry Sintonen. They travelled quite a distance as well, paid by Thendic France. Tomi Ollila of the original AmiTCP group was also present at the venue. Discussions about computer technology, operating systems and life in general were rampant throughout the day. Finnish Amiga Users Group offered free refreshments to all visitors, and some of the people went on to continue the discussions at a dinner later that night.

Gentle Eye Ky, the only active Amiga dealer in Finland, was also present with some of their inventory and two interesting pieces of new technology. The AmigaOneG3-SE and a prototype AmigaOne-XE motherboards were on display. Unfortunately the AmigaOneG3-SE had no working BIOS and the AmigaOne-XE, which was all ready to go and hooked up, didn't boot Linux all the way. This may be due to a configuration error or the fact that it was only a prototype. It was interesting to see AmigaOne there anyway.

Finnish Amiga Users Group also held their official annual meeting and the club is moving ahead with the help of new people and new ideas - although more input and involvement is always welcome. The event was covered on the Internet via IRC, a Shoutcast audio connection, digital photography and a webcam. Unfortunately technical problems delayed these services quite a bit. More photographs and notes from the meeting will be made available via the users group website (http://saku.amigafin.org) and the Saku e-zine.

Finnish Amiga Users Group is interested in showcasing all progress made in the extended Amiga community. In addition to the above-mentioned people, Amiga Inc. was also invited to participate. We were frequently asked about this by our members and visitors, but unfortunately Amiga Inc. did not respond to emails from group officials this time. We hope to display AmigaDE and other products from Amiga in the future, like we did last year with our demonstartions of the Party Pack and the AmigaDE Player.

If you or your company are interested in getting in touch with Finnish Amiga users, please contact the chairman of the Finnish Amiga Users Group, Anu Seilonen, at thoriel@sci.fi to organize something. You do not have to come here in person, we are happy to demonstrate products for you at our meetings. Finnish Amiga Users Group is operated by volunteers interested in supporting a common hobby, so our services are usually free of charge.

The Finnish Amiga Users Group would like to extend its warmest thank you to those who supported our meeting and made it a truly memorable event. We look forward to bringing together like-minded computer hobbyists in the future as well.

About Finnish Amiga Users Group

Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a registered, non-profit organization dedicated to helping Finnish Amiga computer users by preserving and advancing the Amiga hobby and knowledge of the Amiga computing platform in Finland. The group aims to reach its goals through volunteer efforts such as organizing events and publishing an e-zine called Saku. (ps)

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07.Oct.2002
Martin Merz (ANF)


New Themes for VisualPrefs
A new version of VisualMI is available on the MasonIcons homepage. The following new themes were added: AmberMI, MirrorMI, WinMI and XenMI.

Please visit MasonIcons.de (title link) for further information. (ps)

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07.Oct.2002
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)


Official Amiga and Retro Computing 2002 Website on-line
Today the official website for the German Amiga exhibition of this year is on-line. Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computer organizes this fair, which will take place on 7th and 8th December 2002 in the Eurogress Aachen. Thus Schönfeld breaks the good old tradition to let the exhibition take place in Cologne but Aachen is a city worth seeing, and the proximity to the Benelux countries is reliably a large advantage. Refrained from it the organizer gets ready to break with another tradition since he would like to turn around the trend of the last years after, and attract more visitor than before.

The current website is only a preversion of the final one. It will be filled up with contnent bit by bit. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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07.Oct.2002
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)


Elbox: New Product Reviews Section in the Elbox website
You are welcome to visit the updated website of Elbox Computer.

A new section --Product Reviews-- has been added in the NEWS area.

The new Product Reviews section offers tests and comparisons made in the Elbox laboratory as well as links to reviews of Elbox products published in the Internet. If you know other reviews of Elbox products in the Internet please inform us at webmaster@elbox.com. (ps)

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07.Oct.2002
Michael Mann (ANF)


TV-ads
At the title link there are two TV-spots advertising for Amiga available for viewing and downloading. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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07.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)


The music group Moods publishes the two-hundredth song
The music group Moods working on the Amiga published recently their two-hundredth song in the Internet. This Goatrack by the German musician Psycho is called "Schmerz_Verschmelzumg". All 200 songs are available as med, mod and mp3 file and can be downloaded free of charge from the MOODS-side. On further publications and contributions to various scene parties must be counted - Keep the trackers rolling! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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07.Oct.2002
Michael Carillo (ANF)


WOASE - Quake 2 Announcement
World of Amiga Southeast 2002 is proud to announce that the Amiga area will be demonstrating the soon to be released Quake2 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 by hosting a 4-player deathmatch using the Roadshow TCP/IP service on a custom designed Amiga level.

Come and marvel at one of the best games ever, now on the Amiga platform, and look forwards to it appearing on the newest incarnation of the Amiga platform.

All this and even more hot news to follow shortly. Buy your ticket now from Fore-Matt Home Computing or Kicksoft.

Tickets are only £3.50 (buy 5 or more you pay only £3.00 each). World of Amiga Southeast 2002, Happens on the 2nd of November, Don't miss it. (ps)

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07.Oct.2002
David Brunet (E-Mail)


Amiga Games Classifying: Results for Sept./Oct. 2002
Here the results of the elections by September/October 2002 by Amiga Games Classifying:
  1. (1) Napalm - 140 pts
  2. (4) Quake - 124 pts
  3. (2) Payback - 118 pts
  4. (3) Earth 2140 - 108 pts
  5. (5) The Settlers - 103 pts
  6. (7) Slam Tilt - 99 pts
  7. (6) Heretic 2 - 77 pts
  8. (8) Worms / Worms DC - 73 pts
  9. (9) SWOS - 64 pts
  10. (10) WipEout 2097 - 57 pts
  11. (11) Foundation - 55 pts
  12. (21) Fields Of Battle - 50 pts
  13. (18) Xtreme Racing - 50 pts
  14. (15) Colonization - 47 pts
  15. (33) Simon The Sorceror 2 - 47 pts
  16. (13) Civilization - 47 pts
  17. (17) Exodus : The Last War - 46 pts
  18. (12) Shogo - 43 pts
  19. (28) Speedball 2 - 37 pts
  20. (25) Nightlong - 35 pts

The next on-line election of Amiga Games Classifying for Nov./December 2002 for the most popular plays will start in the middle of November. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Oct.2002
ANN


A.D.A.: 9 new productions
On 5th October 2002, 9 productions have been added to the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.). The additions are:

  • Big!/Ephidrena
  • Toxik/Amnesty
  • Elektroboy Inside/Smoke
  • Multica/ Andromeda
  • Prism/Melon Dezign
  • Roots 2.0/ Sanity
  • Television/Bizarre Arts
  • Guardian Dragon/ Kefrens
  • Groovy/Lemon
(sd) (Translation: cb)

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06.Oct.2002
CyberGFX


Mediator: PatchInt V1.2 (3rd release)
Already on 3rd October 2002, Matthew Allatt has released version 1.2 (3rd release) of 'PatchInt' for the PCI board 'Mediator' from Elbox.

The tool gets rid of the lockups which occur with various sound, ethernet, serial and other PCI boards.

This update should fix the sound distortion which occurred with the SoundBlaster after some time of playback.

Matthew Allatt writes on this:
"I'd just like to let you all know that I've finished a new version of PatchInt..." - "I found that when using PatchInt, and playing tunes through the SoundBlaster card, the sound would become distored after a while. Others have reported this to me as well, so, having found some time, I've written a new version which should hopefully fix this."

Download: PatchInt1_2.lha, Readme (sd) (Translation: cb)

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06.Oct.2002
Amiga Society


Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld page updated and Status
From the Amiga Society site:
"The Schlachtfeld page has received a new design. The contents is not that far yet, but the first graphics for a second level can already be seen.

Over the next weeks, some submenus etc. will be added to the page and some more information will be provided.

Possibly the page will also get its own domain soon.

We still hope to have at least a beta of Phase I (with the old graphics) until the show in December.

According to current estimation of the situation, Phase I will probably not get over the beta stage.

The graphics of Phase II have advanced that much already that a parallel development of code and graphics is beginning to make sense." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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06.Oct.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage


Hard disk: Hard Drive Guide updated, UAEInstall disk
On 6th October 2002, Peter Hutchison updated his Hard Drive Guide and released a UAEInstall disk for hard disks.

Hard Drive Guide contents:
  1. Choosing a hard disk
  2. Installing a hard disk in your Amiga
  3. Partitioning a hard disk
  4. Changing or Upgrading the FileSystem
  5. Installing Workbench on your Hard disk
  6. Installing software on your Hard disk
  7. Looking after your hard disk
  8. Problems that may occur
  9. Using Large Hard Disks
  10. List of SCSI and IDE Devices
  11. About the author
The guide is available as an HTML version for online reading and as an AmigaGuide version for download.

Download: (sd) (Translation: cb)

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06.Oct.2002
GFX-BASE


Emulator: Petunia - Web site update about 68k JIT emulator
Already on 3rd October 2002, the Web site about the 68k JIT emulator 'Petunia' for AmigaOS 4.0 has been updated.

Some information has been added, as well as a benchmark test to compare your own computer with Petunia's benchmark results. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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06.Oct.2002
amiga.sourceforge.net


amiga.sf: SWFTools V0.4.2, cURL V7.10
The Amiga directory of Sourceforge.net by DiegoCR contains the following updates:
  • SWFTools V0.4.2 (020/040)
  • cURL V7.10
(sd) (Translation: cb)

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06.Oct.2002
amiga.org


Web catalog: AmigaSource online again
The Web catalog 'AmigaSource' has been online again since 3rd October. It currently contains 804 links in 40 Amiga categories. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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06.Oct.2002
aseq (ANF)


MIDI: Amiga version of 'Aseq' frozen
aseq writes:

"Part of my Amiga hardware died (bvision, perhaps more) so I have to freeze development of the Amiga version of a midi and audio sequencer called Aseq (www.aseq.de).

On a brighter side ;-) I can now spend more time on porting it to QNX, Macintosh and Linux. A version for Pegasos-Morhpos has been planned, but seeing as I can not yet even afford to replace Amiga hardware it will be a while.

In case you care about dead Amiga hardware, I am using an A1200 with ppc card and bvision, the system is not showing up any image through the gfx card and I have no way of detecting if the ppc card is working, but I assume it is as the system will boot normally from floppy. Not from hd though, a gfx card related thing in the startup may very well screw up, or blizkick, which could mean the ppc card IS dead (also) after all." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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05.Oct.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


Poseidon USB-Stack now available as online version from IOSPIRIT
Chris Hodges and IOSPIRIT have signed a contract on the online-distribution of the Poseidon USB stack. Thanks to the extensive distribution infrastructure of IOSPIRIT, the worldwide availability of Poseidon and various payment options are now guaranteed.

The Poseidon USB stack unleashes the power and possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) to you. With Poseidon you can now use modern and low-priced USB-devices such as mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flashcard-readers, ZIP- and floppy-drives, hard disks and many more! (ps)

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05.Oct.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)


USB-driver: New version of Poseidon version 1.31
Chris Hodges writes:
Dear Poseidon users,
during these gray autumn days, just when you seem lonely and sad, and all seems dull and dark, waiting for new things to appear, there is this small light on this virtual planet. This location for recovering happiness is called

http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html

That's the place, where you can download the latest, mindboggingly cheerful update of Poseidon. And no, it's not Christmas just yet. Therefore, the only new things you will get are more GUI's to play with (and I know you love to play with the settings ;) ) and the ability to finally mount RDB Amiga partitions automatically! But the good news does not stop here, no, you can even boot from RDB partitions now (and using boot95 from the fat95 package, you probably also can boot from FAT formatted media, if you prefer). Sounds good, eh?

For the people that cannot wait for the HID class to pop up, there is a new experimental wheelmouse mode in the bootmouse which supports a horizontal wheel on some mice. But be sure to have MUIWheelPatch installed! Don't be disappointed, if it doesn't work with your mouse, it's just a quick hack that works with one wheel mouse I've got here, but not with the other (because it doesn't send wheel information in boot protocol).

There is also something new, but this will be published in a seperate press statement.

So enjoy the new stuff, and wait what happens next.

Changelog
~~~
poseidon.library 1.31
  • Added stack config support.
Trident 0.12
  • Added stack config stuff.
  • Misc changes.
hub.class 1.17
  • Fixed a bug where the hub task wouldn't neccessarily fail out from the outer loop on hub removal.
bootmouse.class 1.11
  • Added experimental quick & hacky wheelmouse support. Will probably only work with a few mice (the ones that report wheel movement in byte 4 even with boot protocol enabled -- works with my Sigma mouse, doesn't work with my Logitech wireless desktop (no wheelmouse data in boot protocol). Be sure you have MUIWheelPatch installed.
  • Added class (defaults) and binding GUI to enable wheelmouse support.
massstorage.class 1.15
  • Booting from RDB implemented (added a flag for this in the GUI aswell). Thanks to Ralph Schmidt for contributing the CreateSegment() code.
  • Misc internal changes.
  • RDB Mounting added. Now RDB formatted partitions will be mounted automagically on media insertion aswell.
  • Mounting is not done from the device task anymore (as this could cause a deadlock, if the filesystem wanted to do device IO before returning from the mount call), but from a tiny seperate task, living only for the moment :)
  • Changed implementation of FIX_INQUIRY to fake inquiry. Old fix inquiry is still present for wrong inquiry requests. Fake Inquiry should fix a lot of broken devices.
  • Added option to disable the initial bulk reset, as some broken devices seem to choke on it (and crash their firmware, stupid thing).
  • Changed NakTimeout prefs value from ms to 1/10secs. This seems more reasonable. Please check your configs.
  • Added option to delay the device startup. This is needed for some broken devices, which crash their firmware, if they receive commands during their setup (Nikon Coolpix).
  • Added possibility to change the DOSType. If the DOSType is NOT 0x464154xx (FATx), LowCyl will not be 0 and autodetection of FAT95 will be disabled. This should allow the use of CrossDOS, but this has not been tested.
  • Added saving of default prefs.
  • Added default prefs GUI (class config).
printer.class 1.14
  • Added implementation of CMD_START/CMD_STOP.
  • Added class GUI with two options: one disables the sending of the init sequence on Epson printers, the other one disables the SOFT_RESET command which causes problems on some broken printers.
(ps)

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05.Oct.2002
Various


Software news (up to 2002, 05th October)
On the Amiga Community page of SixK is a port of the 2D SDL space shooter Starfighter for 68k computers available.
Download: starfighter.lzx

On the Prometheus support page of VGR you can find version 1.1 of the prm-rtl8029.device by Grzegorz Juraszek. The program fixes the problem with the DHCP protocol and some minor bugs.
Download: prm-rtl8029-1.1.lha


Update 06.10.2002:
Starcraft -> Starfighter. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Oct.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: full version Hollywood Pictures and Hilt II missions
Hollywood Pictures - full version
With the manager game "Hollywood Pictures" makes Amiga Arena one further full version by "Sayonara Software" available for download. This is the version "Starbyte Software" had released again at that time.

Hilt II - missions final
The last missions Retrieve, Starwreck and Skeleton had been translated. So now are all missions playable in the German version as well as the campaigns Tutorial, Terrorist and Holowar. "Hilt II" got a rating of 91% by the "CU AMIGA" magazine. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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