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Archive 01/2003

`16.Jan.2003`	amiga-news.de: Amiga Link Directory Filled with over 1000 Links Our Amiga Link Directory (ALD) set forth in January, 2000 to fill the big hole left by the closing of AWD [Amiga Web Directory -DM]. Since then the result has been positive: 29 categories with over 1000 hand-sorted links. Alfred Sturm is the man who labors behind the scenes in this area, entering new links almost daily. If your own homepage has something to do with Amiga we would be happy if you would enter it in this area. You can also help by notifying Alfred Sturm of dead links or address changes. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 16. Jan. 2003, 22:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2003` David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)	Amiga Games Hit Parade January/February 2003 It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - January/February 2003. We need the classifying of your current prefered Amiga games. Send us your classifying (20 games max) at our address: daff1@club-internet.fr. You can also vote at our website: http://hitparade.amigagames.com. Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...). If your list don't have changed since last time, simply reply the mail with the subject "no change for me". Final classifying will be published in early February. (ps) [News message: 16. Jan. 2003, 18:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2003` Golem - IT News	Golem: Data Rights Group against the Collection of Flat-rate IP Numbers Regulations designed to protect personal rights have been twisted to do the opposite. After the government of Darmstadt, according to multiple press reports, directed Internet provider T-Online to archive which customers used which IP numbers at which times (because of many customer complaints), the Independent Center for Data Rights (ULD) commented on the decision. The Darmstadt oversight officials pointed out that the ruling was limited, and that the rights situation to the officials of other German states would be unchanged. Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 16. Jan. 2003, 15:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2003` Halvadjian Georges (ANF)	PerfectPaint V2.91 PerfectPaint V2.91 is available. What's new: A lot of new keyboard shortcuts Improve for Animation: Crop - Scale - Scale page Color correction - Gamma - Negative - ScrollRGB - Swap RGB Remove some requester when ARexx is on. Numeric keyboard to select brush (0-9) Preview effect for very small picture is fixed Minimum, maximum and median effect works well now for very small picture Improve creation of Animation when several pictures are dropped into the appicon. Improve drawing effect: Colorize Add Brush Handle (Alt x) New picture effect: Mirror 'Ctrl' can be used now to block cursor in X or Y position Improve addframe, delete frame and copy frame: Jiffies are now respected. New animation effect: Double each frame All frames will be duplicated with a mix option. Cel Number: This script places the cel number on each selected frame. Prefix and suffix can be assigned Insert picture works correctly now with indexed palette New ARexx command: pp_RemapBrush pp_SetRGBcolor pp_PickColor, pp_GetPickRed,pp_GetPick_Green,pp_GetPickGreen pp_AddFrames pp_TextGui pp_FixBrush Convert to RGB and Convert to CMAP works now with animation Improve Text_Gui and palette requester Add an 'Info Button' on some requester. Show Grid works now in "non classic" mode. New picture item: Erase All Buffers (K) And always several little bug fixed. Download: PfPaint_V291.lha Update 17.01.2003: There is an update, that eliminates a bug in version 2.91. Download: PfPaint_V291b.lha (ps) [News message: 16. Jan. 2003, 13:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2003` CHIP online (ANF)	CHIP online: Hacker-Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software? Roland 'Cyco Myco' Weigert writes: I just read two very interesting columns at CHIP Online. The first is from January 14th and covers the topic: "Hacker Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software." According to this there is apparently a hacker group in the service of the RIAA which uses a covertly installed worm in Windows and Linux media players to see what media files the user has, then sends the information back over the Internet to the music industry (RIAA). In the second article, from yesterday, comes this: (Music Industry: No Spying in File-sharing Software), denies the RIAA, who have something to do with all this. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 16. Jan. 2003, 01:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Jan.2003` Petra Struck	amiga-news.de: Small Changes in Design In order to make our menus a bit more readable we have removed the headings for 'Sub pages' and 'Special Pages.' These links may now be found in the upper menu under the link ´Sub Pages´ (bottom row, all the way on the right. The links to our Partner Pages, which were formerly in the upper menu on the third row, are now in the right menu under ´Amiga Network.´ This was reached by a clear division between internal (upper menu) and external (right menu), and the right menu has become considerably shorter and thereby more readable. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 16. Jan. 2003, 00:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` M.Schwarz (ANF)	Former Metabox Executive Stefan Domeyer accused Stefan Domeyer former executive of the Met@box AG has been accused last week by the public prosecutors of Hannover because of stock excange course manipulation. Full article (German) see title link. The set top box producer gained some interested within the Amiga community due to its announcement of a processor card for the A1200 in November 1999. Because of the unclear business methods Metabox reached the headlines several times in 2001. Met@box AG has been founded on May the 15th 1996 with the name PIOS Computer AG by Amiga-Commodore developer engeneers (Dave Haynie, Andy Finkel) and former managers of Amiga Technologies (Stefan Domeyer). The initial capital, contributed by seven formers, had the amount of DM 1.05 millions. Further details are to obtain from our info page from June 1999. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 19:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` Bernward Hofmann (E-Mail)	Amithlon: PuhDerBaer update Bernd Meyer writes: I just realized that the stereo-capable version of PuhDerBaer (the Paula-to-AHI redirector) never made it out to the users. Well, it's never too late --- download the archive and please make sure you read the included README. Please note that I packed this up under Linux, rather than under AmigaOS. So it is possible that permission bits may not be set correctly --- so if things don't work, look for that first. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` AMIGAplus	Event: Pictures from the CES 2003 by Genesi USA By the title link there are three photos available from the team who were presenting not only the Eclipsis but also the possibilities of the Pegasos computer at their own stand at the CES 2003 in Las Vegas. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` A.D.A.	A.D.A.: Four news demos at the Amiga Demoscene Archive On January the 12th 2003 the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) has been expanded with four new demos. Added are: Splinters by Mystic (1997, Slideshow) Diskobox by Abyss (1997, 40k-Intro) Flower Power by Anarchy (1992, Demo) Goa by The Black Lotus (1996, Demo) (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` AMIGAplus	#AmigaFun-Website will be abandoned After one of the founders of the IRC channel #AmigaFun has left the channel the official website for #amigafun will be closed at the end of January. Due to that the HTMLchat hosted at our forum will be shut down at the end of the month. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` The Legacy	The Legacy: 621 game infos updated The Legacy is the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad CPC, which offers screen shots, cover scans and information about the developers to its readers. Today 621 game infos (mainly at the screen shot area) were updated. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` UAE-X	Emulator: UAE-X Version 0.7 - Amiga emulator for the X-Box With UAE-X you are able to emulate an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 with your X-Box. UAE-X is available to the terms of the GPL. For compilation the Microsoft XBOX XDK will be needed. By the title link there are beside the new version 0.7 detailed information and some screen shots available. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - New packages (until 01-13-2003) With WHDLoad you can install games to your hard disk which were intended for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added/updated since our last post: 13.01.03 new: Tornado Ground Attack (Energize) done by Codetapper 13.01.03 new: Pharaoh's Curse (Bignonia) done by Asman 13.01.03 new: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) done by JOTD 13.01.03 improved: Body Blows (Team 17) another version supported 11.01.03 fixed: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) fixed access faults and VBR 11.01.03 new: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) done by Psygore 08.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed install script (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` AMIGAplus	New website by Lorence Lombardo Lorence Lombardo has put a new website online from that his software for 68k and Amithlon Amiga might be downloaded, among these are Amidiction, PegaThlon, HTMLStrip or BabelDoc. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003`	amiga-news.de: Amazon partner program buttons built in Along the discussion (German) during the last week about new possibilities of funding there was several times the proposal among the comments to join the Amazon partner program. We signed it up now and there are now the two buttons for that built in at the right menu. Many of you are buying books at Amazon. If you will do so in future by using one of the two buttons we will obtain a provision, which we can then use to fund amiga-news.de. So this is a kind of possibility to support us financially. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` amiga.sf	Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 01-15-2003 The following software ports were updated or added: SWFTools v0.4.3 - Info, Download UnRAR v3.10 - Info, Download WGet v1.8.2.NoSSL - Info, Download TTFViewer v1.0 - Info, Download (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 16:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2003` AmithlonTV	TV card software: AmithlonTV beta version 230 Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 230 of his TV card driver software AmithlonTV. New with this version: BUGFIX: Found the crappy crash bug, that caused the bt8x8 driver sometimes to crash. The same bug seems to caused the video freezing, the picture startup problem and some fuzzy system trouble. I made fullspeed resizing tests without any further picture trouble or crashes. Sometimes it's worth to rework a trouble making driver from scratch! FEATURE: The new reworked bt8x8 driver is able to process as many picture buffers as required. FEATURE: The new reworked bt8x8 driver is pre calculating the risc code size before compiling, which causes less memory usage. BUGFIX: Fixed a window sizing problem with smear (reported by Carsten Siegner). Download: AmithlonTV_Beta230.lha (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 15. Jan. 2003, 14:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2003` Alfie's Amiga Homepage (ANF)	OpenURL and RxMUI Update The RxMUI package is now released in version 31.5, and OpenURL is available in version 4.1. Some other projetcs have also new versions: BWin.mcc 20.3 GIFAnim.mcc 19.2 SpeedBar.mcc 16.2 Urltext.mcc 18.3 (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Jan. 2003, 22:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	Individual Computers: New year, new drivers, new prices Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is not only a PCI-card, it can also be used in an Amiga. The first SID-driver has now been released for AmigaOS: Stefan Haubenthal has written a 6581sid.library for common C64 emulators like Frodo or MagiC64. Download: 6581sid.lha - 1442 Bytes Unfortunately, the new year also brings bad news: Higher taxes, higher energy cost and higher wages at our contractors force us to increase some prices for the first time in the nearly nine-year old history of the company. This mainly affects the new products. On the other hand, we will decrease prices for the existing inventory. The new pricelist is valid from February 1st, 2003. Prices at your local reseller may be different from the prices listed here, especially because of differen VAT rates in the European countries. Prices listed here include the German VAT of 16%. Price lists published previously become invalid with the publication of this list. Buddha Flash IDE controller 49,90 EUR Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper 89,90 EUR Catweasel Z-II (incl. Buddha) 74,90 EUR Catweasel ISA (PC-Version) 39,90 EUR Gemini SCMS-killer (opto in) 149,00 EUR Gemini SCMS-killer (coax in) 99,00 EUR Graffiti Videocard 19,00 EUR IDE-fix Express upgrade A1200 24,90 EUR IDE-fix Adapter A4000 14,90 EUR ISDN-Surfer w/o OVP 59,90 EUR ISDN-Surfer w/ OVP 79,90 EUR Silversurfer 29,90 EUR Silversurfer limited Edition 34,90 EUR A600 adapter for Silversurfer 9,90 EUR X-Surf 2 ethernet 89,90 EUR Lyra keyboard adapter 29,90 EUR VarIO (Zorro/26-pin version) 49,00 EUR VarIO (A1200 version) 59,00 EUR PCI POST code display 39,90 EUR Indivision Flickerfixer 99,00 EUR Retro Replay 50,00 EUR Retro Replay incl. Silversurfer 75,00 EUR C-One reconfigurable computer mainboard aprox. 250,00 EUR The products Kylwalda and IDE-fix express A1200 will only be produced on special order. We're currently considering production outside Germany to keep the target price of 189,- EUR for the Delfina soundcard. Something funny at the end: Individual Computers is being massively attacked by viruses in the past few weeks. Up to eight emails containing a virus arrive every day. The amusing part about this is that it's viruses that only spread through Windows and Outlook. Those who want to harm us should know that we're not using sub-standard software, and attacks like this are simply ineffectual. (ps) [News message: 14. Jan. 2003, 17:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2003` Steffen Häuser / Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)	New Quake2 Update available On our website is a new Update for Quake2 available, for PPC and 68k, registered users can download it there. The new update fixes a bug in the GL renderer of the first update, a small bug in the GUI and has some optimizations. Also you can now save screenshots (with the GL renderer) as JPEGs as before only in TGA. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Jan. 2003, 12:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2003` amiga.org / Stefan 'Scholle' Czinczoll (ANF)	Pre-Releases of the new RC5-72 Clients available Under the title link the AmigaOS-Clients (68k, PowerUp, WarpUp) for the RC5-72 contest can be dowloaded. As said on amiga.org the PowerUp-version is 100% MorphOS compatible. The clients are so called "release candidate" versions. The versions have the numbers v2.9001.479. The aim of the project RC5-75 is with as many computers as possible to decode a 72-bit-key. There are trillions of possibilites to compute. To take part in this you do not have to have knowledge in programming, only free computer capacity. Jut install te client, get some blocks and after decoding send them back. Help, a FAQ and more explanations you will find at Amiga RC5 Team Effort. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Jan. 2003, 12:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2003` Andreas Kürzinger (ANF)	BlizKick Version 1.24rc5 und NewPatchMult64 Version 1.5 New versions of Harry "Piru" Sintonen's BlizKick (v1.24rc5, MapROM Tool for Phase5/DCE Turboboards, Readme) and NewPatchMult64 (v1.5, 060 Patches for UMult64/SMult64, Readme) are released. For both tools are new detected bugs fixed. Download: BlizKick-1.24rc5.lha - 280 KB NewPatchMult64-1.5.lha - (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Jan. 2003, 11:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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