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Archive 04/2003


12.Apr.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Today the following areas have been updated:
  • Europe
  • New Links List
  • Lost Links List
  • History 2003
(nba)

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12.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)


AmigaDE PocketPC Paks at CompUSA
At CompUSA there are from now on both AmigaDE PocketPC packages available and can be found using the search function of the website with the term "Amiga". Among other things do they contain the games by ZeoNeo. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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12.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.12 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh is an Amiga conversion of the good old BoulderDash on the C64. With now more than 10000 (ten thousand) levels in more than 400 game files should BoulderDäsh offer a long term gaming fun. If this is not enough for people they can create own levels and games with the level editor.

Compared to the version v5.11 supports v5.12 now also both C64 #?.GAM formats. Next to some small improvements contains this version approximately 5000 additional levels. The new version of BoulderDäsh RTX has already been uploaded and should appear on Aminet in the next days.

Here once again the updated feature list:

BoulderDäsh V5.12
  • 1:1 BoulderDäsh clone
  • Full speed under MC68000 Amigas with AGA, ECS or OCS
  • Full graphic board support! Up to 256 Colors (depends on graphic set)
  • Full sound card support (AHI)!
  • System friendly! Can be paused and resumed at any time.
  • requires OS 2.04 or higher
  • Commodore styleguide conform
  • Locale
  • Great GUI
  • Online Help
  • many preferences windows
  • Up to six players
  • New game elements
  • Unique record and play feature to show others how you solved the caves.
  • Internal music player with playlist
  • Optional full screen mode when running in RTG mode.
  • >10000 Levels
  • 35 graphic sets
  • 6 character sets
  • 5 sample sets
  • Several hiscorelists for each game (game, level and level time records)
  • Level and game editor
  • Supports C64 and Atari Construction Kit Level and game files.
  • Levels up to 100 * 100 blocks
  • Special gravitation modes
  • Create your personal game graphics
  • Create your personal sample sets
  • Create your personal game music
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


Liquid Skies releases audio CD
The demo scene label Liquid Skies has released a double audio CD that contains all songs of the Liquid Skies packs from #001 to #021 as audio tracks and as original packed data files.

The price is 2,50 EURO for both CDs in a double CD box. The packaging costs have to be paid additionally and depend on the country where the receiver of the CDs is living in (within Germany 1,44 EURO). For further information please visit the homepage of the group under the title link in the section "CD order".

Liquid Skies is very proud to be able to offer this product and is eagerly awaiting any feedback. (nba) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 12. Apr. 2003, 16:35] [Comments: 0]
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12.Apr.2003
Stefan Pietzonke (ANF)


Hardware: C64 Ethernet adapter
With the Ethernet adapter you can connect a C64 to a network. The hardware bases on an embedded Ethernet card that is universally usable. It should be possible to design a circuit to connect the card with the serial or parallel port of the Amiga. Then you could for example integrate the A500 into a network. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)


Catweasel: New multidisk.device (Update)
The new multidisk.device for Amiga OS (version 2.0 and up) and MorphOS now recognizes the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper in a PCI-slot of an Amiga, Amithlon or Pegasos. With this, individual Computers is the first to deliver a working floppy-driver for the Pegasos, which brings the aspiring system one step closer to the big role model "Amiga".

Burning CDs to transfer small amounts of data is no longer necessary, now you can use floppy disks of all common disk formats like Amiga 880K, Amiga 1760K, PC720K, PC1440K and many more.

The device is a public beta version, and it uses OpenPCI to recognize and activate the board. Unfortunately, neither the authors of OpenPCI, nor we could get hold of developer information about the Mediator PCI board, so this will not be supported until further notice.

Download: mdisk363.lha (16KBytes)

The homepage of the author of OpenPCI is located at http://www.chez.com/titan/.

Update 12.04.2003 from Jens Schönfeld:
Our initial news item claimed that we're the first to deliver a working floppy driver for the Pegasos. There is one more solution by a third party, but that will only allow you to access 720K and 1440K disks. (nba)

[News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 23:17] [Comments: 0]
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11.Apr.2003
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)


Amiga Inc.: AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4
»This description is meant as addition to our AmigaOS4 feature list. For first impressions about the new functionalities, please have a read in the mentioned document.

OS4's AmiDock allows to be configured by the user in a very high degree. Picture 1 shows 4 different examples of docks in icon mode. The top-most has a drag bar, and fully transparent backgrounds. If someone wants to see a border around a dock: no problem - this is shown in the second example. Of course you also can create a fully invisible dock which has neither a drag bar nor a border (third example). Finally we see a dock which draws a background, has a border but no drag bar. Of course it is possible to choose those styles for each different dock.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003



Several software news (11.04.2003)
 
Amigan Software
Tool: Report+ version 5.66b - Download: ReportPlus.lha - 312 KB

RC5-72 Clients
AmigaOS
[PPC/WarpOS] v2.9005.483 
[PPC/PowerUp] v2.9005.483 
[m68k] v2.9005.483

InstallerNG
'InstallerNG' is an alternative to the installer tool by Commodore. Only 'InstallerNG' supports e.g. MUI (via plugin) and offers a CPU recognition for the MC68060 as well as PPC processor. 'InstallerNG' will be part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. On 8th April 2003 version 50 was sent to the developer teams of Amiga and MorphOS for beta tests.

Burning software: MakeCD
Under the title link you can download the new makecdfs.module v45.8 and MakeCD beta v3.2d10.

MaxUAE - The Amiga emulator for MacOS X
There are the following new programs ready for dwonload for the emulator:
DMS2ADF - Tool for unarchiving of .dms-archives
ADFCreator - Tool for creating of Amiga Disk Files

LBreakout 2 for MorphOS
"The polished successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks, indestructible bricks, chaotic bricks). And if you're through with all the levels you can create complete new levelsets with the integrated easy-to-use level editor!"
Download: LBreakout2.lha - 2,5 MB

DTP: Pagestream for Linux
Second PageStream Linux beta released. Users who purchase a copy of the Linux version now will receive access to the interim and final Linux releases. Users who participate in the testing will also receive TextFX for Linux at no charge as thanks!

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003



Aminet Uploads (11.04.2003)
Here are the new Aminet uploads:
IBrowseSP.lha        comm/www    17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1c
tsl-mentro.lha       demo/ecs   210K+The Silents FR presents Intro? Dentro? M
FlashROM.lha         disk/cdrom  18K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl
DMS2HD_PL.lha        docs/help    9K+Polish locale for DMS2HD 1.6
amigazette_10.lha    docs/mags  883K+AMIGAzette 10th issue (10.02.2002) (ital
amigazette_11.lha    docs/mags  185K+AMIGAzette 11th issue (25.03.2002) (ital
boulderdaesh.lha     game/jump  852K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderdaeshfu.lha   game/jump  2.4M+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
Arkanos.lha          game/misc  405K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.0 **
wipes.lha            gfx/ifx     21K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.4 for IF
ambot.lha            hard/drivr  35K+Cybot (Real Robots) programmer v1.3
DiabloMon.lha        hard/hack   34K+Diavolo Backup monitor on i2c LED displa
ZXLive.lha           misc/emu    86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.16b
ANR-kickass.lha      mus/play    16K+Kickass Uproar skin for AmiNetRadio
ANR-Kickass_pr.jpg   mus/play    34K+Preview of Kickass Uproar ; skin for Ami
NewHomer.lha         util/misc   98K+Talkin' Homer V1.83 (yet some fixes, mor
StartBar-ITA.lha     util/misc   91K+Italian version of StartBar
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003
Kuno Hutter (E-Mail)


Pro-Linux.de:  PowerPC with preinstalled Linux
»Probably from Friday 11th April the AmigaOne will be available and if wanted with preinstalled Linux.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 11. Apr. 2003, 17:00] [Comments: 0]
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11.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF)


Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.6
Hopefully the commands are now complete. Instead like last version using values lower than 127 i now made them to send only values that are described in the manual. So now it wont confuse virus and are more safe and compatible. But something says me.... there will be another more complete package later.

I hope there is someone that has Virus and use this commands. However if there is other midiprogram makers that wants me to do versions for their midipackage. Sure i could do it. Just ask. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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11.Apr.2003
Mandrake Soft Website (ANF)


Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC published
Mandrake has published version 9.1 of the Linux-distribution for PPC.

The features are e. g.:
  • Linux kernel 2.4.21
  • XFree86 4.3.0
  • KDE 3.1
  • GNOME 2.2
  • OpenOffice.org 1.0.2
  • Mozilla 1.3
  • Apache 2
  • Samba 2.2.7
Mac-on-Linux is also integrated. The hardware support is there only for Macs. Furthermore there is an alternative kernel which is called the "BenH". We do not know if Ben Hermans is meant with this name! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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10.Apr.2003
Joachim Thomas - Bitplane (ANF)


Webb.it: Amiga-companies at the biggest IT-show in Italy
Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane Magazine will be present together at the next edition of "Webb.it", one of the most important IT-shows in Italy, attended by thousands of visitors every year.

Virtual Works and Soft 3 will show the more recent development on the Amiga-platform offering the possibility to see in action the two new systems, the AmigaOne and the Pegasos, together with some AmigaDE products. Bitplane, the only Italian printed magazine with CD, will be present with its more recent issue.

This year the show will be held in Padova from 9th to 11th of may at "PadovaFiere" (Padova Exibition Center). The team is pleased to meet all the Amiga users at their stand to let the world know that Amiga is finally coming back! (nba)

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10.Apr.2003



InterVideo: Microsofts Multimedia Format for Linux-based devices
InterVideo, Inc. announced today that Microsoft has chosen the company as a provider of its Windows Media Technology for Linux-based consumer electronics. Under the agreement InterVideo is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format, port them over to Linux and provide them to manufacturers who are interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other hybrid multimedia devices. (nba)

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10.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


WHDLoad: New Packets through August 4th, 2003
With WHDLoad, it's possible to install to your hard-drive games which were previously considered floppy-only. The following packets have been added or updated since our last announcement:
  • 08.04.03 improved: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) supports another version, new icon
  • 08.04.03 new: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) done by Galahad
  • 06.04.03 new: Red Baron (Dynamix) done by JOTD
  • 06.04.03 new: Kelly X (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by JOTD
  • 06.04.03 improved: Hostages / Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) access fault fixed
  • 06.04.03 improved: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) supports kixx xl version
  • 06.04.03 improved: Turbo Outrun (U.S.Gold) fixed keyboard and blitter routines
  • 06.04.03 improved: Plotting (Ocean) fixed audio and colour bit routines
  • 06.04.03 new: Elf (Ocean) done by Psygore
  • 03.04.03 improved: International Ninja Rabbits / Ninja Rabbits (Microvalue/Flair) supports another version
  • 03.04.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) supports AGA version, icon fixed
(nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
GoldED Website


GoldED: C/C++ IDE and PayPal Payment
The cprefs program, which is utilized in the C/C++ mode of the GoldED text editor in order to carry out compiler option for gcc and vbcc, has been updated and now contains online help for all options.
From here on out the secure online payment of the registration fee for GoldED Studio is immediately possible through the payment service PayPal. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Golem IT-News


Golem: New Copyright as Good as Succeeded
The new copyright regulation is almost completed: After lengthy parliamentary consultation the Rights Division accepted the government's legal draft for the regulation of copyrights in the information domain, in spite of the objections of the FDP [a German political party -dm] element and in spite of proposed changes offered by CDU/CSU [other German political parties -dm] and the FDP. The new copyright is being criticized harshly from several quarters, among other things it's feared that the new regulation will take away an individual's right to make private copies. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Richard Kapp (ANF)


GFX-BASE: Interview with Benjamin "Titan" Vernoux
The online magazine GFX-BASE spoke with Benjamin Vernoux about his OpenPCI Project. In this interesting interview Benjamin also speaks to other interesting topics, and gives a preview of some planned projects. Read this interview led by SOL-Invictus (English language) under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)


Kultpower.de: New Amiga Joker Test Reports and More
There are a few new developments on Kultpower.de, a Web project to which the game magazines ASM, PowerPlay, Videogames and Amiga Joker are dedicated.
  • New Amiga Joker test reports from the September and October 1990 editions: Back to the Future 2, Flood, Last Ninja 2, Loom, Neuromancer, Oops Up, Operation Stealth, Starblade, Wings.
  • New Videogames test reports from the September and October 1993 editions: Afterburner 3 (Mega CD), Batman Returns (Mega CD), Cobra Command (Mega CD), Ecco the Dolphin (Mega CD), Final Fight (Mega CD), Gunstar Heroes (Mega Drive), Jaguar XJ 220 (Mega CD), Night Trap (Mega CD), Sherlock Holmes (Mega CD), Shinobi 2 (Mega Drive), Silpheed (Mega CD), Thunderhawk (Mega CD), Time Gal (Mega CD).
  • A new Powerplay article from the March, 1995 edition: "From Pong to Pentium".
  • New cover under "More Mags": 14 additional covers of the newspaper Next Level.
  • New cover under "More Mags": the first 6 covers of the newspaper Telematch (very rare!).

The organizers thank all their helpers: Gerald, matze, Chronos and Ralph! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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10.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


individual Computers: C-One production started
After more than two years development time, the C-One production has started. It'll start selling on May 5th in Germany and the Netherlands. Our other European partners should have the boards by May 9th, when the board will also be launched in North America.

Many projects have dealt with re-configurable computers so far, but none of them is as consistent and flexible as the C-One. Other projects only kept parts of the hardware re-configurable, but the C-One can change the behaviour of it's chipset even during runtime. Therefore, the C-One is the world's first re-configurable computer. Read more on the official homepage of the C-One. (nba)

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10.Apr.2003
Terra Soft


Terra Soft discontinues development of ATX PowerPC-systems
Terra Soft Solutions has determined that it is not, at this point in time, prudent to carry the Teron mainboards nor offer Teron-based Boxer systems. This is as great a disappointment for the company as it is for many of you. Terra Soft Solutions were truly excited to bring this particular ATX PowerPC Linux product to market.

If you have read the rumor mills, there are a variety of supposed reasons why the company has been delayed in shipping, including unqualified statements and speculation at best. It is their corporate policy to not address specific issues regarding any strategic relationship within a public forum, where fact and fiction are not easily discernable, and their fiduciary responsibility to their customers, shareholders, and industry associates may be compromised.

Terra Soft Solutions regrets having launched a product initiative and built expectations prior to receiving first shipment. They have clearly learned a powerful lesson and do extend their apology to their customers, their existing and potential customers.

As the Teron mainboard and associated systems will be made available through other resellers, Terra Soft Solutions will encourage them to sign-on as official Yellow Dog Linux resellers in order that they may continue to support movement of what they hope to be a very popular product. (nba)

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