07.Dec.2002
Chris Hodges (email)
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Chris Hodges: Time to say goodbye!
In his known humorous way Chris Hodges tells us that he'll be on vacation for the next seven weeks. He'll be in New Zealand till 2003, 24th January and has today uploaded an update for Poseidon with some bug fixes. Here's the original message:
Dear Poseidon users,
I'm leaving the Amiga. Yes, I've had enough of all that fighting and
bitching. Instead, I'll try to live on a green island with lots of sheep.
Good bye and farewell!
Now get up from the floor, stop crying, I'm only off to New Zealand for
about seven weeks of vacation and I will return to my one and only true
love (currently, just my Amiga :( ) on 24th January 2003. But before I'm
leaving on a jet plane, I've uploaded a small update of Poseidon for your
benefit. Not much has changed, however, a few bugfixes reported by some of
you have been incooperated. See changelog for details.
As I'm away from my machine, don't write private emails, if you have any
problems. Please use the Yahoo Mailing List instead, there are a lot of
people who could give a hand.
So, please enjoy the time off, I will certainly do so. And don't forget to
use Trident regularily >>>;-) (ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
several (ANF)
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ARC 2002: pictures of the fair
Pictures of the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002 that is taking place on December, 7th and 8th in Aachen:
Jochen Abitz (ANF):
Pegasos, Pegasos micro oven, AmigaOne, Amiga Future, KDH, fair
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF):
AmigaOne, Pegasos micro oven, fair
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Gamel: ScummVM 0.3.0 released
Version 0.3.0 of the popular interpreter for Lucasarts games has been released today. On the download page are executables for several operating systems available including the MorphOS binary. A complete distribution with PDF manual and Ambient PNGIcons will be released probably tomorrow by me.
ScummVM MorphOS supports now also MIDI music that is qualitywise much better than the Adlib sound used until now. What is needed for this is the Etude MIDI device that I unfortunately can't make available for download yet. People who should see me today in Aachen at the beta tester conference may ask me for a version.
Regarding the legal issues with Lucasarts there's still no solution. A comprehensive description of the situation as it is right now can be found on the ScummVM site.
The improvements in detail:
0.3.0b (2002-12-06)
- fix major race condition resulting in extremely frequent crashes on MorphOS/PocketPC (supercedes unreleased 0.3.0 version)
0.3.0 (2002-12-01)
- massive cleanup work for iMUSE. Sam and Max music now plays correctly
- many bugfixes for Zak256, + sound and music support
- music support for Simon the Sorcerer on any platform with real MIDI
- experimental support for Indy3 (VGA) - Indiana Jones + Last Crusade
- completed support for Monkey1 VGA Floppy, The Dig
- added akos16 implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle costumes
- added digital iMUSE implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle music.
- Loom CD speech+music syncronisation improved greatly
- added midi-emulation via adlib, for platforms without sequencer support
- code seperation of various engine parts into several libraries
- several fixes to prevent Simon the Sorcerer crashing and hanging
- hundreds of bugfixes for many other games
- new SMUSH video engine, for Full Throttle and The Dig
- new in-game GUI
- launcher dialog
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld tel.
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ARC 2002 News: Massimo Mancini unfortunately not there
As we just now heard from Jens Schönfeld via telephone is Massimo Mancini
not at the fair because of a sports accident and is therefore not able to introduce his new USB card by himself. The card itself will be presented, though.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
falkemedia (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: "Digital Camera Magazin" by falkemedia
From December 2002 on you can buy the worldwide popular print magazine »Digital Camera Magazin« in Germany, too!
It offers on a monthly basis everything you want to know about digital cameras, how to use them in the most efficient way and what to do with them to make full use of their potential. With it comes every month a CD with full versions, tools, filters, drivers and more.
DCM will be available 2002, 18. December throughout Germany.
You can buy the first issue of the »Digital Camera Magazin« already exclusively at the booth of falkemedia at the AMIGA + RETRO Computing 2002 for a reduced exhibition price of just 5.- Euro! (ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: AMIGAplus 12/2002 and more
Also at the booth of falkemedia at the AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002 in Aachen will visitors be able to get the new AmigaPlus 12/2002 with the main topic "Amiga allrounder - emulations with the Amiga".
This issue is available at the fair for a reduced price of 4,- Euro only, the bundle with the "Digital Camera Magazin #1" and "Mac Life 01/2003" only costs 10,- Euro! The regular subscription sendings of the AMIGAplus 12/2002 will take place at the end of the coming week.
Next to this latest issue you'll be able to buy all A+ issues of the last two years, issues of the st-computer and Mac Life, hardware like USB hubs and interfaces, CD pockets, the AMIGAplus readers CDs, Wildfire 7 for the special price of 29,- Euro and much more.
We are looking forward to your coming to the show and wish all visitors of the AMIGA +
RETRO Computing 2002 much fun at this weekend!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: FroggerNG at Amiga Arena / FTW available
You can buy the popular multimedia player "FroggerNG" version 2.0 on the Amiga + Retro Computing 2002.
The version of the fair will contain a temporally limited keyfile.
After the fair you will get your personal keyfile via email or post for free (they still just have to be
generated).
Demo CD available
Each customer will additionally get a special fair demo version with the products of the Fun Time World
and of Amiga Arena. You can buy this demo CD for 2,- Euro but if you will buy one of our products this
amount will be credited you later! So you have the possibilty to test our products!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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Two new Quake2 mods available
There are two new Quake2 mods on the Amiga Quake2 site (title link) available called "Blastchamber" and
"Jailbreak" (but which are very big: Blastchamber=60MB, Jailbreak=30 MB).
Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Guido Mersmann (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Guido Mersmann with 1st stand of Shareware
Guido Mersmann who is the author of programs like AmithlonTV, AView, AFind,
BoulderDaesh, GuideCheck, GuideFormat, Execute64, SiedlerBoot, R(equest),
DVBControl, MCControl, Simplecat, AvailCPU, VBRControl, TrackDisplayClock,
SnoopRouter, Meridian, MMKeyboard, ParKeyboard and WheelMouseSupport will have a
stand of Shareware on the ARC 2002 together with Timo Hegemann.
Guido Mersmann: "By the friendly help of Haage & Partner we are able to performance the current
Amithlon with some new applications on our stand on the "AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002".
You will see the new VHI-Studio v6.0 working together with the current driver for AmithlonTV. Of course
we will introduce AmithlonTV and will demonstrate the support of several boards which has been doubted.
You can also see the keyboard adapter hardware called "MMKeyboard" and the software packet which belongs
to it. But there will be no sale!
Furthermore we will answer questions concerning Amithlon, AmithlonTV, VHI-Studio, MMKeyboard, MCControl
and other software products as far as possible.
I will also answer questions concerning the support."
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Vesalia Computer (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Turboprint 7.40 available at Vesalia
For the first time the new version 7.40 of Turboprint Professional will be available at Vesalia Computer.
Besides this owners of version 7.x will get an update to 7.40 on our stand.
We hope we will see you!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed with the first Quake2 tests
On the site of Amiga Speed there are finally the first tests of Quake2.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 05.12.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated since our last message:
- 05.12.02 new: Dragon's Breath (Palace Software) done by Galahad
- 05.12.02 improved: Zaxxon (Bignonia) supports another version, skip greetings
- 30.11.02 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) supports another version
- 30.11.02 new: Return to Genesis (Firebird) done by Codetapper
- 30.11.02 new: Leatherneck (Microdeal) done by Codetapper
- 28.11.02 new: It Came From The Desert (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 27.11.02 new: Mini Golf (Magic Bytes) done by Psygore
(ps)
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06.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus
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AROS: SVGA-driver and mascot Kitty
AMIGAplus wrote:
There is the first beta version of the new SVGA-graphic driver for the operating system AROS which can
be activated over the boot menu. The driver may not work on some computers but nevertheless it shows
what can be graphically possible. The current used 4bit VGA modus is supposed to be substituted by
the 16bit or 32bit SVGA modus.
Besides this Eric W. Schwartz has given the AROS project a mascot: Kitty
should be worth a look.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Amigan Software
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Game: Saga version 1.23
Version 1.22 of the game Saga has been published. Saga is a port of the board game called Saga: Age of Heroes
which was published in 1981 from TSR. It can be played by up to six players and the players can
be controlled either by the Amiga or by men. You have to defeat monsters, find magic treasures and
support great kingdoms being glorious and heroic.
Currently the game is available in English and German and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0+, AGA/RTG.
The archive also contains the source code.
Download: Saga.lha (290 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: AmigaOne boards available on the ARC 2002
Last minute KDH news:
We have just got the AmigaOne boards by UPS Express and thus are available on the stand of KDH Datentechnik.
We hope we will see you all again.
Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2002
Sjoerd de Vries (ANF)
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Pictures from ArticiaS and April Chip
Pictures says more than thousand words...
(ps)
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05.Dec.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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AMHuhn: Update Available for Download (Update)
Under the title link you'll find in the downloads area a little update for AMHuhn. With this the crosshairs are color red and are seen more
easily. Many users had complained about this.
Offering AMHuhnXE
In a few day Abakus-Design's AMHuhn(X)mas(E)dition will be introduced. The game comes with completely different graphics and sounds.
But much more than the graphics and sounds have been changed.
Introduction of AMHuhnXE
As thanks to all who trusted us with the update, the download will made available early to registered users. This is our Christmas present to
these users. In the next few days accounts for the protected areas will be opened and sent to the users. For security reasons the entry will
be limited, in order to obstruct that the accounts are forwarded to others.
When Christmas time is over the archive will be offered to everybody.
Addition:
Notice:
We could only work through the entered registrations sequentially. As a result the new registrations first come to a close. Thanks for your
understanding. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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TV Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 200
There's a new beta version (200) of AmithlonTV available for download from the AmithlonTV homepage.
AmithlonTV is a really, genuinely modularly built driver system for PCI TV cards. Only the necessary components and resources are loaded.
New cards unknown to AmithlonTV will be automatically detected and may be configured by the user. In order to do this the components of
the card are detected in a setup program.
The advantage of such a system is that a new driver for any specific component will function on any TV card that has the component. Special
modifications by me are generally unnecessary. We won't be involving ourselves with a bunch of supported cards that haven't been tested.
AmithlonTV will run on practically any card. When certain components haven't been added they just haven't been added, but the rest of the
card works.
A further advantage of AmithlonTV is that multiple cards are supported. Two, three, or more are possible. This is easily managed and may
be used in a security system. It is all the same if one wants a picture from each, or a channel list to switch between cards.
The entire system is built so modularly that USB and Firewire may be possible. At this time there is support for the powerpci.library (Amithlon).
The openpci.library support is currently implemented and functioning but is not yet officially available.
What's new:
As is already known through other channels, Amithlon TV has a VHI_Studio driver. Your computer will become a multimedia center, especially
with the new accelerated functions of VHI Studio version 6.0.
The channel seeker has also been greatly accelerated. In contrast to other options (such as Windows software) there is a real channel seeker
here that doesn't just check for channels, but also VCRs and satellite receivers that are found between channels.
There are other small improvements in the works.
Especially noteworthy are the new audio drivers. All MSP cards should work with these.
The new Hauppauge drivers achieve an automatic configuration, whereby the copying of special configuration data occurs.
You'll find a lot more information by clicking on the title link!
Guido Mersmann
Author of:
AmithlonTV, AView, AFind, BoulderDaesh, GuideCheck, GuideFormat, Execute64,
SiedlerBoot, R(equest), DVBControl, MCControl, Simplecat, AvailCPU,
VBRControl, TrackDisplayClock, SnoopRouter, Meridian, MMKeyboard,
ParKeyboard, WheelMouseSupport, ... (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Vesalia Computer (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Hyperion Will Be Guests at Vesalia Computer Stand (Update)
Steffen Häuser and Timothy de Groote of Hyperion will present the Amiga One and various Hyperion games at Vesalia Computer's ARC 2002
stand on Saturday the 7th of December, 2002.
Additionally, as already known, Elbox and Creative Development will also be Vesalia guests and introduce their own respective products.
Update:
Vesalia indicated that the two Hyperion personnel are not closely involved with OS4 and will not be able to speak on questions relating to OS4. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Matthias M. (ANF)
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TV Card Software: Visionary Version 0.15 (Update)
There's a new version of Visionary (v. 0.14) available for download on the Amiga G-Rex homepage. Mainly, a few bugs have been removed.
The Visionary program is a TV service with a modern graphical overlay that allows one to fully utilize the Visual Reality System and modern
TV/Video Cards.
Visionary was designed to be very modular, in order to support a broad range of cards with different chip sets and TV tuners. Support for
documented new cards may be easily implemented.
Update:
Version 0.15 was just made available for download.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Game: Crossfire II Released
The game Crossfire II was released today. At the moment it can only be ordered from APC&TCP. It'll be available from specialty stores in
three to four weeks. In a few days there will be a new demo version as well as more screen-shots. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Preview Pictures of SOMS and AF #39 (Update)
Screen-grabs of the game "Secret of My Soul" (SOMS) have been released on the Amiga Future website in the "Articles" section. SOMS
is projected to be published next year by APC&TCP.
Update:
Issue 39 of Amiga Future was released today. It was mailed to all subscribers and single issue orderers. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Dec.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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FREE Virus Help Team Maillist
When the Virus Help Denmark web was down due to the changing of Internet
providers, we had to close the VHT-Denmark maillist. Now we want to bring
it back to all of you (a lot of people have been asking for it). But Charlene of
the Canadian Virus Help Team, has a maillist, and we don't want to a have two
maillists that writes the same things. So the Virus Help Team maillist will be up
at Charlene's Canadian VHT maillist.
If you join this maillist, you will receive emails about new updates of all the great
Amiga antivirus programs (ect. VirusZ, VirusExecutor, Mill and xvs.library).
You will also receive an email when a new virus or trojan is found. Notices can
only come from list operators, which is Charlene of VHT-Canada or myself
Jan of VHT-Denmark.
You can also see the maillist on-line at this webaddress:
VHT at Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vht-can/
You can join the maillist at the two Virus Help Team's websites:
VHT Canada : http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/links.html#world-services
VHT Denmark : http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/maillist.htm
Or you can write an empty email to this email to subscribe to the maillist:
vht-can-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
(ps)
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04.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Fun Time World / Amiga Arena presentation
Fun Time World / Amiga Arena setting "AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002" on fire!
The following products and news will be at the stand of Fun Time World
at the "AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002" in Aachen:
- "Aqua" German Version:
It's a "Myst" like adventure game.
You are looking for treasures of a sunk drilling platform.
The Atlantic Ocean is waiting for you!
- NEW Re-release "PuzzleBOBS"
"PuzzleBOBS" is a "bust a move" clone, which stands out from other puzzle games of this kind with it's many features and game modes
"PuzzleBOBS" is sold in a DVD package with all recent updates and a new set of levels.
"PuzzleBOBS" is now optimized for MorphOS also!
- NEW "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002"
As a thank you and tribute to all developers and users, who supported me recently, there will be at the "AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002" the "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002" be presented for the first time.
With more than 50 games from the commercial and shareware section there are the genres action, adventure, board/mind, manager, platform and strategie and number of classics, the offer is rounded up with several sceenshots, solutions and cheats.
The following games (extract) are by appointment with their developers on that CD:
commercial:
- Acid Software (Roadkill, Seak&Destroy, Kiros Quest, Woodys World and more)
- Applaud Software (Blockehaed I/II, Mobile Warfare and more)
- Austex Software (Uropa2 CD version)
- Blue Lemon Studio (Beambender exclusively)
- Black Legend (Embryo, Wheelspin, Fussball Total, Der Seelenturm, Der Trainer, Fatman and more)
- Mellon Design (Jimmys Fantasic J.)
- Revolution Soft (Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky CD32 Version with spoken language output)
- Sayonara Soft (Hollywood Manager, Flamigo Tours, Samba Partie Series, Samba Partie Worldcup - CD
version/spoken language output and more)
- Scorpius Soft (Burnout, Blade und Hilt II German version exclusively and more)
Shareware:
- Roketz, Sharks, BallMaster, Boulderdäsh, Doktor, HBMonopoly, myLocomotion, Mahjongg,
Tiles, Imperium Terranum II and more.
Bonus:
- Shareware "WHDload" installer special offer!
All games are available in German and English language. The CD is published in a DVD package and will be available firstly at the show.
- Distribution & sale:
Fun Time World c/o Sebastian Brylka - E-Mail - WWW
- Live on stage!!
The game "Aqua" and a "PuzzleBOBS" contest will possibly be shown and held at the stand! The Amiga Arena will be host at the stand of Fun Time World on Saturday.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Announcement: Malibu-Plugin for Hollywood
Andreas Falkenhahn:
Airsoft Softwair will soon release the first plugin for Hollywood. The
Malibu plugin extends Hollywood to accept also Scala presentations and
display them. This makes a dream come true for those Amiga users who always
wanted to display their old Scala presentations on Workbench or on an own
Intuition screen in a system friendly way. The Malibu plugin is scheduled
for release in the middle of January 2003 and requires Hollywood 1.0.
Additionally I want to point out that I cannot attend the ARC show in Aachen
unfortunately. Therefore Hollywood is not available for sale there either.
(ps)
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04.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus
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Amiga Award 2002: Reminder
Don't forget: Until Friday the 6th of December, 3 o'clock pm you can vote for he Amiga Award 2002 and the Amiga Award 2002 Extra!
Honour with that together with the AMIGAplus two members of the Amiga community for special efforts during the last 12 months!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2002
zErec (ANF)
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Eyetech Reply to BBRV open post
Under the title link you can read the reaction of
Eytech (the developer of the
AmigaOne board) about the Thendic statement
"...April, Mai and teamwork...". Read the complete statement from Alan also
here:
I'm afraid Buck has exceeded even his usual level of bullshit and innuendo
on this one.
My take on this:
Our announcement of the G4 availability and pricing, and of the (solved)
Articia problem at the WoA SE was not what he expected. Since then we have
been innundated for dealership agreements from ex-Amiga dealers who have
(and their customers have) good memories of the Amiga OS and a growing
hatred of Windows. The polls, such as they, are show that the A1-XE G4 is by
far the most popular PPC platform for the Amiga community and this must also
have been a bit of a shock. (Is it also a coincidence that we've been the
recipients of an intense, targeted virus campaign since then, I wonder?)
Meanwhile Hyperions work on PPCBoot and linux has allowed the Teron
reference boards to get to a level where they can be usefully sold in the
Linux Market. As most on this list will know we have the rights to
distribute these boards in Europe and now Terrasoft do in the US. (We also
have distribution rights on the Teron based designs for the Amiga marker
worldwide). This has knackered Thendics plans for world domination of the
PPC Linux market.
Reading between the lines it seems that they are prepared to drop MorphOS
altogether if they can get their hands on OS4 to at least salvage something.
Buck plans to do this by suing Amiga Inc (for what?) and bribing us to
abandon the AmigaOne and Hyperion to port OS4 to the pegasos hardware .
Sorry, thats not on. You can only have sensible business arrangements with
people who are trustworthy and behave with integrity. There are plenty of
instances (which are inappropriate to reveal here) where these principles
have been completely abandoned on his side.
On their so-called relationship with MAI, we/hyperion have done more to help
MAI get the Teron design to the linux market than ever bplan have, alltough
I don't doubt that Gerald Carda made an important contribution to
identifying the Articia bug - I've every respect for him as a hardware
engineer.
As far as Thendic making their own boards is concerned thats a complete
joke. Its a matter of public record that Thendic-France incorporated as a
one-man company with the minimum 7500 euros of capital. Thendic, like us and
MAI do not actually make anything themselves, manufacture is all
subcontracted. In our case its to a Tiawanese specialist, in Thendic's its
to DCE. Based on our past experience of quality assurance and after sales
service from DCE I personally would never buy any DCE manufactured products
for resale again.
Well you did ask
Alan
(ps)
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04.Dec.2002
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (ANF)
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Statement from Thendic about April, Mai and teamwork in the Amiga market
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Thendic France sent us an email to gain the attention for an important comment they both posted at the comments of
amiga.org (see title link). For simplicity we repeat the statement which they gave about the collaboration opportunities within the Amiga market:
OK, last word before Aachen Show....
The is no Mai without April. The Articia does not work as promoted. There. We have said it.
Everything that has been promised for the AmigaOne and the Pegasos will not work without
April -- April is *mostly* a "patch." With April the Articia will work as advertised,
without April the Articia will not. Betatesters of the A1 and the "Betatester (Pegasos)"
know that there are difficulties.
In September and October bplan developed the "patch" with Mai. There is no other patch for
the Articia and there was no other assistance from anyone else in creating it. This is why
the Pegasos, A1 and Teron are not available in quantity and why they will not be until the
patch is mounted on the respective PCBs and shipped.
Check out the estimated shipping dates at the YDL site. Do you think they will get anywhere
else sooner? Where is the biggest market? Is it MorphOS and OS4, or is it LinuxPPC? Where
do you think Mai will focus? Not here (MorphOS/OS4)! Our sales commitments for the first
1000 Pegasos went 817 to Linux and the rest to this community (less two for OpenBSD and
two for OpenBeOS).
Mai does not care about this market. They care about the Linux market. They want to sell
the Articia and their board. They make chips and want to sell them. LinuxPPC is a bigger
market for them. That will be their new focus. We are the poor stepchild now. Please
forget all the delusions about the new Amiga or the Pegasos that will re-conquer the world
when the hardware shows up. If we want success this is going to be hard work and a long
haul.
In the meanwhile, you won't have to worry about MorphOS or OS4 being pirated by someone
here now. There is a whole new world of potential users with an OpenSource/Freeware
mentality that is about to consume this market and make it more irrelevant. This is a
post-Napster world.... and Napster was only the beginning. Individual "freedom" has
replaced respect for others. Something is wrong with this picture and it needs to be
fixed, but it will not happen with dongles.
If this community wants a future it needs to start working together. We are spending
plenty of money to make the Pegasos successful, but it is not our final focus. We are
a niche market -- both OS4 and MorphOS. We need unity if we want to be more than a
lingering historical footnote.
The Mai story is not over yet. The first patch is not enough. We figured this out in
November when Mai was scurrying back to Tiawan to make what they thought would be the
final solution. It is not. There are more problems. We finally solved all this a week
and a half ago. Plus, we have added a couple of other features that are better
accomplished in hardware than software (and don't believe a few lines of code will make
the first patch work). If YDL sets off on their current course, they will "crash and
burn" in a month after they finally introduce the product. The Linux market is
unforgiving when it comes to hardware bugs. With all the success they will seem to
achieve their liability will grow correspondingly.
Before you think this is another marketing stunt, here is something new. We know what
Eyetech pays for the Teron/A1; we know what the A1 distributors pay. We would be
willing to match the prices all around less 5% and provide an immediate solution to
the community. We make the Pegasos. Eyetech does not. We have many of the same
distributors. We can compensate Allan Redhouse through his success (something he is
clearly about to loose with YDL Teron pricing). Hyperion too. Oh yes, you want to
buy a G4 A1? Wake up people! Read the disclaimers on the YDL site. Do you understand
what needs to happen before this will? There is a Pegasos G4 now. The question is not
how fast the processor *can* work, the issue is how fast the processor *does* work!
Let's get better organized. We are about to be crushed.
If we pulled eveyone together on this we might even honor those $50 coupons!
This market and community is in complete confusion. There is no leadership or vision
and we need both fast or we can forget it. This is a public statement in good faith
to Eyetech and Hyperion. Allan and Ben are formidible marketing opponents. We can
forget the past if you can. We need to get into the same boat. Amiga Inc. has lost
its leadership mantel. Selling coupons, promoting unachievable concepts and making
wild claims about the next deal have worn tired and false. Fortunately, all have not
blindly followed this route and Hyperion and Eyetech have a solid agreement in place
that protects them in the event of Amiga Inc bankruptcy. And, before you think this
is a "group hug" thing, we have paid our King County, Washigton legal counsel a
retainer. We will commence legal action against Amiga Inc. this month. This is not
some "get legal" BS. This is business and the Amiga Inc. management do not understand
what business is. They "blew it" and we have had enough of their interference in our
future.
The whole Mai/YDL collaboration has changed the situation dramatically. We hope this
statement helps you understand this better.
We will give Hyperion a board. We will support the A1 Betatesters as we have our own.
We don't have to trade sources or get Ralph having a beer with Ben, but we could all
move ahead this way. Eyetech can certify the Pegasos to meet Amiga specifications --
they are positioned to do this. Hyperion and Eyetech can promote OS4. Great. We might
even develop some collaborative efforts quickly. We should.
Things are moving very fast. We have alot to do. Thanks for reading this post and
please think about it carefully. See you in Aachen!
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
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04.Dec.2002
www.dreamworlds.de (ANF)
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Game: Crossfire II finished / Will be sold and introduced at the ARC 2002
Crossfire II is finished and will be shown at the show. The demo will be available in some days. Then the Dreamworlds home page will be updated again.
Crossfire II is a 2D shooter. It contains not only a single player mode with an atmosphereic story and complex missions, but also a freestyle mode for entertaining battles for one to four players.
Crossfire II runs on classic Amiga (min. 030, AGA
and 16 MB RAM), AmigaPPC (WarpOS) and Amithlon. Gfx cards
(HiColor), sound cards (AHI), 4 player adapters and much more is supported. A MorphOS support is currently under development.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Dec.2002
Russ Norrby (ANF)
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AmigaOne's available & Amiga Repair
Mr. Hardware Computers is happy to announce that we are selling AmigaOne
Systems and motherboards. We have packages on our site and can configure
any system to your liking. you should atleast order your AmigaOne
motherboard ASAP because there are a limited number of boards. We have a
huge listing of new and used Amiga parts. We even repair your Amiga
Classics. Based out of New York, USA we ship internationally.
Amiga since 1985
http://www.mrhardwarecomputers.com (ps)
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03.Dec.2002
OSNews / Anton Klotz (ANF)
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OSnews: Teron-Boards from Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Anton Klotz:
As OSNews reports will Terra Soft Solutions,
Inc. present an ATX board with PowerPC. It is a Teron board with a 600 MHz G3 PPC
with Articia Northbridge from Mai. The operating system will be Yellow Dog Linux.
As Nicolas Blachford states will MorphOS run on it.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Dec.2002
Steffen Häuser / Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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Two new Quake2 Mods downloadable
Steffen Häuser:
On the Quake2 Amiga page are the new mods
- Roughnecks - (if you have seen "Starship Troopers" you will maybe recognize
something)
- Napalm II (all weapons are replaced by fire effects)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Dec.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News from IOSPIRIT
As already stated previously, IOSPIRIT will attend the Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 fair with an own booth. This said, we want to give you further information and news here.
Just in time for the fair we have received the produced fxPAINT 2.0 CD-ROMs. Thus, you can buy updates and full versions of this graphics allrounder at our booth. More detailed information on the new features in the latest and brand-new fxPAINT-release can be found at our pages for fxPAINT 2.0.
Also in time for the fair, development on VHI Studio 6.0 has been finalized. Besides many small improvements, support for USB-cardreaders (Poseidon only for now) and PCI-TV-boards under Amithlon (via AmithlonTV) are the highlights of this new version.
fxSCAN 4.0, released just a few months ago, will of course be available as well as all other products we have in our product portfolio.
This will also include the possibility to directly purchase a Poseidon license and an updated version of AmiATLAS 6 with updated data.
Finally we want to point out, that we will only be accepting EURO-cash at our booth. If you want to pay via credit card or eurocheque, you will of course also have the possibility to place a postal order (under the special show prices!) at our booth.
We are looking forward to your visit!
(ps)
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03.Dec.2002
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive at the Amiga+Retrocomputing 2002 in Aachen, Germany
We will be guests at the stand of falke media during the Amiga +
Retrocomputing show in Aachen this year. Naturally you will be able to buy
all our Amiga products such as Software Tycoon, The Feeble Files or the
Earth 2140 series games a.o. at very special prices directly at our stand.
For the first time we will present some of our products in native MorphOS
versions on the Pegasos, among these will be bussiness simulation Software
Tycoon and Simon The Sorcerer 2. In addition we will also present two brand
new games for MorphOS/Pegasos. The first is our carzy arcade fun shooter
Birdie Shoot which we originally developed for Windows and Macintosh. Fans
of real-time strategy fans will be treated to a demonstration of empire
builder Knights and Merchants, which will be released shortly for the
Pegasos.
More information on both Knights and Merchants and Birdie Shoot can
be found in the projects section of our homepage. The first 25 customers at
our stand will receive a free Earth 2140 mousepad. So, make sure you visit
us early.
(ps)
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03.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Spider USB 2.0 working in High-Speed mode
Elbox is pleased to inform that development of the USB EHCI High-Speed
driver for the Spider USB 2.0 card for Mediator busboards has been completed.
The new Spider EHCI driver provides all three USB speeds: High-Speed,
Full-Speed and Low-Speed.
Up to now the EHCI controller (the main part of the Spider USB 2.0
controller) was not activated. The Spider cards worked as two independent
OHCI (USB 1.1) controllers with 5 USB ports. Now you can take advantage
of the EHCI (USB 2.0) and two OHCI (USB 1.1) controllers included in
the Spider board.
The first public demonstration of the Spider USB 2.0 PCI card working
in the Mediator system in the High-Speed (USB 2.0) mode will have place
in the AMIGA+RETRO Computing 2002 show in Aachen on 07 December 2002.
During the show, Spider USB 2.0 PCI cards will be available for purchase,
exclusively at the Vesalia Computer stand. Contact Vesalia before the show
to make sure the Spider USB 2.0 cards will not run out of the show stock
before you have one for yourself.
Spider USB 2.0, the fastest and most advanced USB solution for Amiga
computers, will be presented with various USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices
like USB HDD, USB ZIP, USB CD, USB card reader/writer, USB keyboard
and USB mice. Spider USB 2.0 will be working in the PCI slot of
the Mediator PCI 1200 SX.
All the registered Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card users will receive the
new Spider EHCI driver as a FREE software update just after the
AMIGA+RETRO Computing 2002 show.
(ps)
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03.Dec.2002
Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Genesi Press Release about the April® Chip for PegasosPPC
bplan GmbH and Thendic-France SARL
Announce Completion of April® Chip for PegasosPPC
Paris, France - December 3rd, 2002. bplan GmbH and Thendic-France SARL,
both soon to be acquired by Genesi
S.à.r.l. of Luxembourg, are pleased to announce the
development and final certification of the April® chip. The April® chip
adds new functionality to the successful Articia® chipset developed by
Mai Logic Incorporated of Fremont, California. Mai Logic, an
innovative technology design house of integrated circuits/systems,
worked with bplan to develop the first prototype of the April® chip. The
April® chip enables Mai and Genesi licensees to offer PPC based computer
systems that can compete in today's quickly evolving IT environment.
The Pegasos will be the first platform to offer
the April® chip and will be commercially launched at the Amiga+Retro
Computing 2002 in Aachen, Germany 7-8 December.
"We were very pleased to have worked with Mai Logic on this
development," said Gerald Carda, Chief Technology Officer of bplan.
"Through our collaborative efforts, we were able to leverage Mai's
expertise in PowerPC-based chipset/system development and manufacturing
technologies and our own knowledge of system design, architecture and
software to bring the April® development to a successful conclusion.
The Articia® and April® can be used together to promote an exciting
alternative platform for the desktop, portable computer and
sub-notebook marketplace.
The Pegasos incorporates the Articia® and April® chip with either a
PowerPC 750FX processor or a G4 processor, operating at 800 MHz or
higher. A dual CPU module release is planned for 2003. In addition to
the standard enterprise applications and other state-of-the-art
functions to satisfy the most demanding users, the Pegasos platform
will offer many state of the art functions. For example, smart card and
bar code modules have been prepared to work with the platform. A
handheld version of the Pegasos is currently being developed with a
planned release in 2003.
Genesi, Innovation for the Future
MorphOS is also being launched at Amiga+Retro Computing 2002. MorphOS
is a new operating system for PowerPC RISC microprocessors and was
developed for the Pegasos. MorphOS runs on the Pegasos and on the Mai
Logic Teron CX and Teron PX evaluation boards. MorphOS functions on
603e, 604e, 750 and 7400 (Original G4) PowerPC processors. In the
future MorphOS will also run on other Open Firmware based PowerPC
machines. Genesi will also be release an internally developed
CD-bootable version of DebianPPC at Amiga+Retro Computing 2002 for
Linux users. Additionally, a first quarter 2003 Pegasos release of
OpenBSD is expected.
The Pegasos on sale NOW!
The Pegasos can now be purchased through any of the following vendors:
And coming soon to:
- USA http://www.aztekcomputers.com/
- Australia/NZ http://www.boinghosting.com.au/
Articia® is the registered trademarks or trademarks of Mai Logic
Incorporated. April® is the registered trademark of Genesi S.à.r.l.
For more information, please contact:
Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck
+33 1 43662800
bplan@thendic-france.com
(ps)
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03.Dec.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga announces partnership with Extreme Computing
Amiga announces partnership with Extreme Computing to provide Amiga licensed merchandise
AmigaMall will provide on-line solution for customers desiring AMIGA®
products.
(Snoqualmie, WA) December 2, 2002 - Amiga has announced the creation
of a partnership with Extreme Computing to provide customers with a source
to purchase Amiga licensed clothing and merchandise. The "AmigaMall"
e-commerce site will provide both Amiga branded clothing and merchandise
as well as Extreme computer systems. The AmigaMall can be accessed from
the Amiga Website or via
mall.amiga.com.
"We are very happy to be able to enter into this partnership with
Extreme Computing to provide these types of products" said Vince
Pfeifer, Vice President of Operations. "Having Extreme handle all
of our physical product fulfillment allows us to focus our resources on
delivering software solutions for our customers. The timing of this agreement
allows customers to purchase products in time for the holiday season."
"We are very pleased to be able to work with Amiga Inc. on this
project" said Todd Gustafson, CEO of Extreme Computing. "We
feel it is important to keep the Amiga spirit alive, and the AmigaMall
is just one way to keep things going in the right direction. We plan to
continue offering unique and fun Amiga products, and we will update our
website with new products throughout the new year".
About Amiga:
Amiga, Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multimedia
technologies to the world. Its award-winning software has been a mainstay
for motion picture studios, government agencies, and entertainment enthusiasts
from around the world. Today Amiga continues to lead the way in multimedia
development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies
for writing and porting applications to a new hardware-agnostic, multimedia
platform. Amiga Anywhere powered with intent from the Tao Group, enables
applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including
ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K, and
Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including
Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, and XP. Amiga Anywhere applications
can be purchased online at www.shopamiga.com
Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, Wash. For more information, call 425-396-5660
or visit www.amiga.com (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: New hardware vendor "Creative Development"
The recently founded company Creative Development
will presumably show a
new USB card called Ultrabus for classic Amiga computers at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002
show at the booth of Vesalia. "Ultrabus" has got four USB ports and can
be used in Zorro Amigas as well as on the clockport of an Amiga 1200. In
Zorro mode, a flash memory with 512k capacity can hold the complete USB
stack, so USB devices are available right after a cold boot. This enables
booting from USB storage devices.
(ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI 4000Di sales begins
The first batch of the Mediator PCI 4000Di busboards for Amiga 4000
in the standard desktop case is available from today.
To find the distributor near you or to order directly from our on-line
store please go to our Where To Buy section.
If you would like to buy Mediator PCI 4000Di in AMIGA+RETRO Computing 2002,
book it in Vesalia (order@vesalia.de) as soon as possible, as the number
of boards for sale on the show is limited. A special FREE Mediator T-shirt
is reserved for everyone who buys Mediator PCI 4000Di during the show.
The detailed specification of the Mediator PCI 4000Di: see the
product page. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Workbench gallery Update
The Workbench gallery on the Amiga Future homepage was updated.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark started new Amiga forum
Jan Andersen:
Today we have started a new service for you all, and that is the new
"Virus Help Team Forum". Here you can write and ask about Amiga viruses
or anti-virus programs, or you can even help other Amiga users with
problems, that might not be caused by virus, who knows, that is up to
all of you. We will check the forum as much as we can, to help you out
if you have any problems with viruses or anti-virus programs on your
Amiga. You can find a link to the "VHT Forum" here:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/news.htm.
(ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New driver for Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card
The SpiderUP 1.11 update for the Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card has been
made available today.
Changes in usb.device ver.1.11: - speed improvements
The usb.device 1.11 requires the Poseidon stack ver.1.31 as a minimum.
Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS |
Mediator section. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MediatorUP 3.6 & MM CD UP 1.20
The MediatorUP 3.6 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX,
Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV and for the newest Mediator
model--Mediator PCI 4000Di has been made available today.
The update includes the new version of: · Voodoo.card driver
Changes:
Voodoo.card driver ver. 2.19 - improved quality of the display
generated by VSA-100 (Voodoo 4/5)
The MM CD 1.19 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T,
Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D,
Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV
and Mediator PCI 4000Di busboards, who are registered owners of
the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes the new version of: · Voodoo.card driver
Changes:
Voodoo.card driver ver. 4.19 - improved quality of the display
generated by VSA-100 (Voodoo 4/5)
Info on the current versions is available in DOWNLOADS |
Mediator
section. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Lotto / BabeAnoid News / Aqua-Demo
BabeAnoid:
Many of you will still remember the demo version of the Breakout clone
"BabeAnoid" by Richard Fhager. After he stopped the development due
to disappointing feedback, I am pleased to be able to announce that the work was taken up again and even an other PD
game will be developed. Richard Fhager is among other things well-known as the author of games
like "Dawn video Poker", "Titris", "Spaceball2000". I can
appeal only again and again to you to send a short E-Mail to the
developers if you like one of the mentioned programs!
Aqua - Demoversion Light
A new demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is now available. This playable
demo (9MB) contains no animations and intros.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Stefan Ruppert (ANF)
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Tool: UniView V40.9 Update, SDK dtwindow.class
Stefan Ruppert:
After some time of beeing away from the Amiga (due to time lacking and
defective hardware) I have found the time to release a small update for the MultiView replacement program UniView. This update does not add any additional functionality. The following modifications were
made:
- Some adjustments and smaller optimizations in dtwindow.class.
- Documentation adapted.
- UniView is Shareware without restrictions. Fee US 10$ or 10 EURO.
- Documentation of dtwindow.class created.
- SDK dtwindow.class
P.S.: The server is connected via DSL, thus please do not expect fast
downloads... Additionally I would like to publish my Amiga programs
and also source codes on my server. However this can take some time...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Andreas Kürzinger (ANF)
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Mail program: New developer version of YAM 2.4-dev [ 020 ] BETA
Since yesterday there is a new developer version 2.4 of the
mail program YAM available, which is now available as Open Source. This
version is a version in development, which possibly still contains
a lot of bugs. There will be no warranty or support by the
developer team. Inquiries to developer versions by E-Mail remain
likewise unanswered. Use it on own danger!
The changes made can be found in this document. Additional information can be found at the Yamos SourceForge-homepage.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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01.Dec.2002
Amiga Future
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Emulator: MAME V0.60 for MorphOS
Fabien Coeurjoly has released version V0.60 of his port of the Multi Arcade
Machine Emulator 'MAME' for MorphOS. The
following changes have been implemented, compared to the previous version:
- New: Publication of the MorphOS specific source code
- New: AHI sound support
- Change: Slightly accelerated gfx output
Beside version V0.60, MAME V0.37b16 with AHI support is available for download.
This also supports a colour depth of 8 bits, while MAME V0.60 works only with
a colour depth of 16 bits.
Further information on the emulator are accessible through the title link.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel (ANF)
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Emulator: Bernd Meyer of Amithlon fame calls it quits
Visitors to www.amithlon.net will have
noticed that the site has been closed.
In his statement Bernd Meyer is giving the reason for taking this step, and
that he will stop working on Amithlon and its potential successor Amithlon V2
aka Berniethlon, aka Umilator. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
AmigaArt
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GoldED Studio AIX: GoldED barebone package, service pack #4
Already on November, 28th 2002 had the editor 'GoldED' been released in a special
barebone version as well as had been the service pack #4 for GoldED Studio AIX been released.
GoldED Barebones:
The new GoldED Barebones package is a GoldED AIX distribution reduced to the
bare essentials at an attractive price, with the added bonus of
CygnusED-inspired configuration.
GoldED Studio AIX:
Service pack 4 is now available for registered users. Major new feature is the
integration with gcc. This update is only available in form of a replacement CD
due to the enormous increase in size after adding gcc (67 MB were added since the
last version). Price: 10 EUR.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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01.Dec.2002
AmigaArt
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AmigaOne: screenshots from Istanbul with Linux
At AmigaArt have screenshots from Istanbul of an AmigaOne G3 SE (PPCBoot revision) running under Debian Linux PPC 3.0 been released.
The photos show: Debian 3.0 PPC with KDE2 and Gnome 1.4,
Sin by Activision (port done by Hyperion) as LinuxPPC demo version, Mozilla 1.0 and UAE LinuxPPC.
The release of further photos has been announced.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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01.Dec.2002
Amiga Future
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TV: AmithlonTV Beta 177
On 1st December 2002, the beta version 177 of 'AmithlonTV' has been released.
This is a driver package which allows the use of TV cards under Amithlon.
TVWatch is a small and easy to use example of a TV application which offers all
features needed for the setup of TV and radio. Compared to version 166, the
following changes have been made:
AmithlonTV Beta 177:
This is a special test version for users experiencing audio problems with TV
cards with the msp3xxx audio chip.
Test results about the function of all audio sources (SVHS, FBAS, Tuner) may be
sent to the AmithlonTV developers.
AmithlonTV Beta 170:
New VHI-Studio driver offering Multi-Channel support and also supporting all
other features of AmithlonTV and VHI-Studio.
Some small bug fixes.
New audio_msptest.lib which is automatically loaded for bug hunting. All users
with audio problems are kindly asked to establish and activate all external and
internal audio connections and carry out the following test.
- CD player/Audio source as input.
- Start TVWatch, open channel settings
- Switch Audio input to all available types.
- Report each working Audio output.
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta177.lha
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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USB: 'Thankyou' to all USB HIGHWAY owners
KDH Datentechnik writes:
"On the occasion of the Amiga und Retro Messe in Aachen, E3B and KDH
would like to thank the owners of the USB card HIGHWAY. With your
purchase you have been supporting an innovative product on the Amiga Classic.
As a small thankyou we are offering the owners of the HIGHWAY card the chance
to win a NORWAY Ethernet card. At the Amiga und Retro Messe on 07/08
December in Aachen we will draw a winner on both show days.
Prerequisite for the participation in the prize drawing is that the
registration card for the USB HIGWAY card has been filled out, sent in and has
been received by us. All registration cards received by us until 6th December
2002 are eligible.
All decisions are final. The draw will be carried out by KDH Datentechnik and E3B." (sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: KDH Datentechnik show news
KDH Datentechnik write:
"KDH Datentechnik will be present at this year's Amiga und Retro Messe
in Aachen with a sales and demo booth.
E3B will be presenting the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY, as well
as the Ethernet module NORWAY live at our booth, and give you a survey
over which USB devices you are able to use on your Classic Amiga. The newest
POSEIDON Software (THE Amiga USB software standard by Chris Hodges)
will naturally also be present, and will be included as a full version with the
products HIGHWAY and SUBWAY.
Experience how the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY connect your Classic Amiga with
the newest developments on the computer market. Furthermore we are offering you
to try out your USB devices directly on our USB boards and have all open
questions answered by the USB cards' developer, Michael Böhmer.
Of course we will be offering attractive bundles of all USB boards with other
USB products for purchase at our booth.
Further Demo and sales highlights at the KDH booth:
The Amiga One will be presented by our Austrian partner 'Point Design'
Jürgen Schober, who will also gladly answer all questions regarding the AmigaOne.
Pegasos boards will be available in sufficient quantities for sale (this
joyous piece of news was received from Bill Buck of Thendic France
just in time for the show). All Pegasos boards will be delivered and sold by
KDH with the SE version of the new game 'Tales of Tamar'. The full
version of 'Tales of Tamar' will also be offered at our sales booth, and can be
viewed in full action at Eternity's booth.
All products by individual Computers will be available from us.
Especially noteworthy are above all the new 'Catweasel Flipper' and the
new 'X-Surf-2' Ethernet card.
Apart from all that we are offering the complete Amiga product pallette at
attractive show prices, including an antiquarian department.
As we also have MAC products in our product line, we will also offer a
wide range of MAC software at fantastic show prices.
Come to Aachen for the meeting of all friends of the Amiga, show your support
for the Amiga. Get to know likeminded Amiga friends, or meet old acquaintances
and talk shop about your favourite hobby, the Amiga. We will do our best to
make the event a success for the Amiga. Please help with your visit.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Yours
Horbach family
KDH Datentechnik"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Vector tracer: GUI for autotrace completed
Carsten Siegner writes:
"Today I have completed the 'Final GUI' for autotracer.
Autotracer is a very fast vector tracer for 68k (faster than XTrace!!) and
knows lots of different input and output formats:"
Input formats (a.o.):
AVI Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap image
EPDF Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
GIF CompuServe graphics interchange format
HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (http://)
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
MPEG MPEG Video Stream
PCL Page Control Language
PDF Portable Document Format
PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNM Portable anymap
PPM Portable pixmap format (color)
PS3 Adobe Level III PostScript
RLA Alias/Wavefront image
SGI Irix RGB image
SHTML Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
SVG Scalable Vector Gaphics
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
YUV CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2
Output formats (a.o.):
eps Encapsulated PostScript
ai Adobe Illustrator
svg Scalable Vector Graphics
fig XFIG 3.2
swf Shockwave Flash 3
mif FrameMaker MIF format
pdf PDF format
dr2d IFF DR2D format
"As autotrace can do pdf, ai or dr2d, it's excellently usable for Pagestream,
Drawstudio or Apdf.
However, you need a certain degree of understanding of tracing settings for the
use of 'Vectormaker', as there are loads of options.
I have made it available for download on my home page."
Download: Vectormaker.lzx
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01.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002: DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen sponsored by Thendic&BPlan
Press announcement re ARC 2002:
"The DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen's football team, which is sponsored by Thendic
and BPlan, will attend the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING on Sunday, 8th December
2002. We are wishing the team the best of luck for the match against the TuS
Wickrath, which will take place on 7th December."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New prize draw
Andreas Magerl writes:
"As of today, a new prize draw is online on the Amiga Future home page.
In order to win the full version of EaSys, you only have to send in your charts
to the editors.
http://www.amigafuture.de/interactive/verlosung.php"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
freecd (E-Mail)
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freeCD: Almost Real, Digital Postcard System, Racer
With 'Almost Real - The Directors Cut' (Amiga), a new CD has been released in
the freeCD series. The 'Digital Postcard System' (WWW) allows deferred sending
of holiday cards, and the CD 'Racer' (Linux, Mac, Windows) is announced for
February 2003. In case of enough interest, a port of this car simulation to
Amiga systems is possible.
Almost Real - The Directors Cut (Amiga)
This CD contains flight simulations and further material on the theme of
flying. In this version, the flight simulation 'flightcontrol' has been added.
Additionally there are now paper models of various military aircraft as well as
photos of the Airbus A320 and the Ju52.
Digital Postcard System (WWW)
This system allows to write the holiday cards already before leaving and later
have them sent automatically by the computer.
Photos of Argentine, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, animals, general
places as well as greeting cards are included.
Furthermore, own photos may be uploaded.
Racer (Linux, Mac, Windows)
'Racer' is a simulation for cars, which very accurately simulates different
cars from the domains classics, race cars and street cars. The cars can be
tested on tracks like Indianapolis and Le Mans.
Expected release date for this CD is February 2003 for Linux, Mac and Windows.
AmigaOS and MorphOS developers interested in a conversion are welcome and may
contact freeCD.
Further information on the products as well as supply sources are accessible
through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
AmiATLAS Development Team (E-Mail)
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Route planner: AmiATLAS 6 - new version for ARC 2002
The AmiATLAS Development Team writes:
"A new version of AmiATLAS 6 will be released for the Aachen show!
Although over the last months most of the remaining Amiga users have been very
reserved in their purchase behaviour, probably not least of all hoping for new
hardware, work on AmiATLAS 6 has been going on continuously...
For the show, a new edition will be released with fully updated (as per 4th
quarter 2002) and expanded data stock. Now, among other things, with the most
current touristic information and some more, like infos about number plates of
all supported countries.
That's an increase of about 200%, compared to the old version!
Not forgetting the updated map material, e.g. Germany now with the complete
Autobahn network with all clearances until end of 2002!
In the program itself, lots of reported bugs have been fixed and some
optimisations implemented, and of course, as far as possible, some users'
wishes realised. Supported languages now are German, English, French and
Italian.
The new version of AmiATLAS 6 including new improved cover design has already
been shipped in sufficient quantities to KDH Datentechnik and IOSPIRIT for sale
at the show. APC & TCP will also have some copies.
Due to organisational reasons, updates can only be shipped shortly after the
show. And of course, as always, only to registered users of AmiATLAS 6.
Please mail requests or wishes to:
AmiATLAS@gmx.net"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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30.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark is finally back ...
Good news all. The VHT-DK website is ready and will be up in about 3 hours.
All the pages has been updated, and are ready to be used. Nice to be back and
do some antivirus work. Please all send me any new viruses or trojan that you
might fall over. Thanks for your great support in the last few months!!!!
And another great thing has happend to VHT. After almost 15 years of fighting and
hunting virus the Virus Help Team has finally been nominated for our work at the
"Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees". Please all go and vote for VHT, it would
be nice if VHT could get this award.
The link is: amiga-award.org
Thanks all....
(ps)
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30.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Hollywood Screenshots - JP Credits & Senso
Today I have published screenshots that show a remake of the Jurassic Park
credits done with Hollywood and a game called Senso (a software version of the
popular board game Senso). The screenshots show again the extremely wide
ranged functionality of Hollywood: You can do everything from the simple
credits roll to the complete game. The only limit is your creativity. (ps)
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30.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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RiscPC: New computers for the Acorn fans
The one or the other perhaps remembers the RiscPCs based on ARM/StrongARM processors built by the Acorn company.
The manufacturer changed some years ago its name to Element 14 and abandonned the further develoment of its desktop computers. The rights for the operating system "RiscOS" now belong to the company
RiscOS Ltd.
RiscOS compatible computers are produced by smaller independant British manufacturers like Castle or MicroDigital.
As OSNews
report, is on the "Midlands RISC OS Show" the iyonix PC sold for the first time; priced at 1299,- UKP it offers the following features:
- Totally new motherboard design
- 80321 XScale 32-bit ARM processor. This processor runs at 600MHz and is a system-on-a-chip, containing all the necessary interface electronics for things like PCI under the hood.
- RISC OS 5 in FlashROM (Rewritten for 32 bit, equivalent to RISC OS 4.02 with added fun including updated font manager with unicode support and new icon set too)
- 128MB 64-bit DDR RAM for high speed access at 200MHz
- UDMA 80GB Hard Drive
- Support for industry standard interfaces:
- 2 64-bit PCI slots, 2 32-bit PCI slots
- 4 USB 1.1 sockets
- 2 RS232 serial ports
- 10/10/1000baseT networking port
- Dedicated high performance graphics card, nVidia GeForce2 MX400 (up to 2048x1536 in 16 million colours)
- CD quality 16-bit Soundblaster support
- CD-ReWriter (48x speed)
- 240 Watt PSU with two near-silent fans
- Wide range of bundled 32-bit software: Writer+ (word processor with enhanced Word import and export), Fireworkz (spreadsheet with Excel import and export), Oregano 2 (web browser), Messenger Lite (email client), PDF (for reading PDF files), Zool (game), CDBurn (CD writer). Also, USB printing support.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
JTs Homepage
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Spiel: ADOM version 1.1.1 for Amiga and Windows
On the website of Jochen Terstiege you can find Amiga ports
of the game ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) for the different
68k processor types, for PPC and also for Windows (beta) in version 1.1.1.
The game has been developed by Thomas Biskup. Further information can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Amiga Award 2002
Large acts must be celebrated on a grand scale. As of December 2002 the
German print magazin AMIGAplus and varyingly partners are assigning the
annual Amiga Award. With this price elected representatives of the
Amiga-community are awarded for special achievements during the last
12 months at a time.
The laureates of the Amiga Award 2002 will be honored at the AMIGA +
Retro Computing in Aachen, Germany, on 7 December 2002.
Take part in the elections!
Express your Thanks with us to all Amiga developers out there once in a year!
The elections will be put together by one third of these parties: Firstly you as an active or inactive Amiga user, secondly selected representatives of the community and thirdly the editorial staff of AMIGAplus. So you have the opportunity to take part in the appointment of the Amiga Award 2002 laureates!
Among all participants of the election we draw prices in the value of over 1000 Euro, among them one Amiga 1200/060 sponsored by eXpreSystems as well as various games and applications. The winners among the users will be announced on December 20th, 2002.
Participation conclusion is December 6th, 2002, at 15:00 CET. The course of law is excluded as always.
Amiga Award 2002 - Nominees
Please specify a candidate, who (from your point of view) distinguished himself by an innovative product or another special achievement in the year 2002 and who pushed the Amiga one step forward by this action.
The award in this category is sponsored by falkemedia.
AudioLabs (ProStationAudio)
- bplan GmbH (Pegasos)
- Bernd Meyer & Harald Frank (Amithlon)
- E3B - Michael Böhmer (Highway)
- Eternity Computer (Tales of Tamar)
- Eyetech (AmigaOne)
- Grasshopper LLC (PageStream)
- Hyperion Entertainment (Freespace u.a.)
- IOSPIRIT (fxSCAN u.a.)
- ZeoNeo (Planet Zed)
Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees
Additionally to the main category Amiga Award we are assigning the alternating Amiga Award Extra. This year a person or group representing the software developer community (shareware/freeware) shall be honored.
The award in this category is endowed by 250,- Euro and realized in this year by the financial support of Genesi, a fusion of Thendic-France S.A.R.L. and bPlan GmbH.
- AmiATLAS-Team (AmiATLAS)
- AWeb-Team (AWeb)
- Chris Hodges (Poseidon)
- Gabriele Greco (SDL)
- ScummVM-Team (ScummVM)
- SixK (diverse Portierungen)
- VHT-DK-Team (Anti-Viren-Software)
- WHDLoad-Team (WHDLoad)
- WinUAE-Team (WinUAE)
- YAM-Team (YAM)
Amiga Award 2002 - Free elections
- Best Amiga hardware 2002
- Best Amiga software 2002
- Best Amiga game 2002
(ps)
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30.Nov.2002
ANN
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TTEngine 5.2 released
TTEngine is a text rendering environment basing on TrueType Font for
AmigaOS. The version 5.2 can be downloaded from the homepage of TTEngine. The new version has the following new features:
- Fixed UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE encodings, now byte order mark ($0000FEFF) is skipped properly.
- Added low endian (UTF-16LE and UTF-32LE) and auto detect (UTF-16 and UTF-32) Unicode encodings.
- Added UTF-8 encoding (conforming to RFC 2279).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
Petra Struck
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ARC 2002 News: AmigaOne will be shown
After it was clear that neither Amiga Inc., nor Eyetech and Hyperion
Entertainment will present the new AmigaOne at the AMIGA + RETRO
COMPUTING 2002, we started thinking about how to get an AmigaOne to
the show anyway.
The solution is an offer from Computer City.
Owner Ron van Herk provides his own AmigaOne, and the members of the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet
will do the presentation.
The computer on display is an AmigaOneSE-G3 with 750CXe 600 MHz CPU,
equipped with 128 MB SDRAM PC133 and an ATI Radeion 7000 64 MB SDR
VGA graphics card with TV-Out, and of course the Cherry
Cybo@rd-keyboard that's being sold by Computer City. The operating
system installed is only a Suse LinuxPPC 7.3, but it'll give an
impression of the hardware. (ps)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Unofficial G-REX PCI homepage
There is a new website to the topic "G-REX PCI" which you can access under the title link.
You will be informed about products and software and there is also a
discussion board and a mailing list.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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First picture of ColdFire V4 CPU-card for Amiga
There is a picture of a very early prototype of a ColdFire V4 turbo card for the Amiga 4000
in the news section of amiga-coldfire.de (title link).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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KDH Advent calendar 2002
This year there is the annual Advent calendar at "KDH Datentechnik" again. We will offer you each day
until 24th December 2002 a very special Advent offer. You can daily expect a special Amiga highlight.
All offers will be valid for three days.
We wish you a good Advent time and hope many visitors will come to the Amiga fair in Aachen to our
stand.
Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Homepage for demofreaks
For those ones who like current demos, intros, diskmags, slideshows and packs there is a new homepage
where you can easily look for current releases. The site has been created in the Amiga BBS-software Fame
design but novices will also get on well with it after a short time.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT V2.0 demo galleries
Due to numerous requests, we have decided to put online two
demo galleries created with fxPAINT 2.0. The
first gallery
uses the dropshadow-skin and slideshow- and fxCARD-options were
activated. A second gallery
has been created without the use of skins. We hope you enjoy the two demos!
fxPAINT 2.0 can only be preordered until 9th of December 2002 at a reduced
price of only 79,00 EUR (89,99 EUR previously).
(ps)
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29.Nov.2002
Patrick Jung (ANF)
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Amigabest Updated
Amigabest, the website on which Patrick Jung kept busy with Amithlon, has
been updated and refurbished with new graphics and Amiga news. The
website is available in French and in English. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.Nov.2002
Björn Dehmel (ANF)
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PC-Magazin Reports on Amiga
PC-Magazin [refers to German edition -dm] reports in its January, 2003 issue on page 15 under the heading New AmigaOne Platform - OS4 Will be Delivered Afterwards about the new AmigaOne.
In this article (which will only appear in the print magazine) it is reported that Eyetech wants to bring the AmigaOne to market before the end of 2002. It is further reported that two mainboards, the AmigaOne GS-SE and the AmigaOne XE will operate under Linux because Amiga OS4 is not ready yet. Additionally it's explained that the boards are based on PPC G3 CPU, are fitted with PC133 SDRAM, work with the VIA-Southbridge 82C686B, but of all things only four USB-1.1 ports will be supported. It is thoroughly described that over two AGP, one 66-MHz-PCI and three 33-MHz-PCI cards may be inserted. Towards the end of the article the different CPUs and pricing are discussed, and in the article it is said to be unclear when Amiga OS4 will appear, at which point Eyetech suggests that the software could be delivered by the end of the year, or the beginning of 2003 at the latest.
A picture is shown in which part of a mainboard with a PowerPC CPU may be seen. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
M. Lueck (ANF)
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GRex Petition: Results So Far
M. Lueck:
Today at 10 pm we had in total 256 entries. This list of names was given to DCE and Thendic-France (Bill Buck).
T. Mangold (aka TriMa) and I sincerely thank everyone who participated by signing the petition. We hope now that the gentlemen give it some consideration.
The petition is being continued and we will provide the additional names at a later date. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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New AmithlonTV Beta 161, FAQ and GUI-Screenshots online
In the version AmithlonTV_Beta161.lzx
changes are some fixes to Installer Script and fix of small problem
that could only happen on systems with less than 2 tv-card or non-existent
channel list prefs :) You can simply download the new Beta from our Download
section or click just here on it's link name.
Finally we made the
AmithlonTV-FAQ
section up and ready and added some interresting question/answers that was
suggested inside of some comments on various Amiga related newssites.
In screenshot section
we added pictures of our current GUI, so that people can get some idea about how
it looks like from the user interface side.
Have alot of fun with it :)
(ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB Card: SUBWAY Update
SUBWAY will be delivered after a short delay. Unfortunately due to the adapting of SUBWAY to the new Xsurf II things were delayed a bit. So now SUBWAY will be shipped with the latest Poseidon-Update - so HID Classes and improvements are already in there :)
For anyone who would like to have a look at the installation before having the detailed instructions, have a look here and you will see a few helpful (hopefully) pictures that may clarify things for any coming questions. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
beauty (ANF)
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New Logos for the most popular programs
There are some new logos for Frying Pan, Yam, VirtualCD, Mp3 to CDDA etc.
on my homepage. (ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: OctaMED Soundstudio Notification and Poll
Olaf Köbnik:
After Amiga Arena was able to make possible the further development of the beloved route planner "AmiATLAS," and until today the free release of many shareware programs, we are very happy to share with you that another valuable part of Amiga software history will be further developed as we move into the future.
Through so far positive talks I succeeded in convincing RBF Software (Ray Burt Frost) that "OctaMED SoundStudio" for the Amiga should be further developed.
The sources are already in the possession of possible future developers for a closer look. After evaluating considerations and market conditions and the last contractual agreements of both parties the advancement of the development should proceed as quickly as possible.
To identify bugs in the short term and add new functions in the future everyone is requested to send reports and suggestions on these subjects Amiga Arena or alternately you could post these in the news forum of our partner site amiga-news.de.
Please share with me in this interest for further development of OctaMED, all your experiences and wishes!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
Andreas Just (ANF)
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Amiga Complete without Software for Tax Clarifications?
Andreas Just:
I got the following mail from Fa. Olufs yesterday (shortened):
Your update of the income tax program for 2002 is ready. All legal changes including the tax effects of the Riester pension. The self-printed forms are of good quality and the price has not been changed.
[snip ...]
Note to Amiga and Atari customers: we had to shutter this enterprise, but you'll have a lot of joy with the Windows version.
On the homepage there is no direct notice given, except that no updates are available for Amiga. It is such a shame to lose another program. (ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Thomas Frieden (ANF)
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False OS4 Beta Possibly a Trojan
In the last few days a so-named Amiga OS4 beta has popped up. It is anything but a real beta version. An investigation revealed that the program gives out a series of messages and pictures from WoASE that have been childishly altered.
It is unknown if the program also tries to harm one's data, therefore we wish to warn everybody to avoid running it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V1.32
Dear Poseidon Users,
some time has passed since I spoke to you the last time with good news, but
it tastes best, when you don't expect it. So let's get right to the goodies:
- The HID class is finally in a state that allows a release. Try it, you'll
love it :) There's now full support for wheels (as many as you have) and
any special key on the keyboard. Tablets are supported aswell (as long as
they're confirming to the HID specs). Some features are still missing,
but I don't think they'll hurt you right now. Just one thing: Please read
the docs. There's about 20KB of it for the hid.class alone, and don't be
offended, when I'll just reply with RTFM to some of your queries.
- This is only for the underpriviledged Highway/Subway-Users: The driver
has been optimized a bit and now allows reading in data at a speed that
is very much comparable to a certain PCI solution (at least if you've got
a fast machine).
- Trident has been updated. It now supports so-called forced bindings. This
allows you to fix an interface or an device to a certain class. Use with
care. But it comes in handy with the new...
- Rawwrap.class. Yes, this is a wrapper class that makes it possible to
speak to an USB interface through a standard exec device (usbraw.device).
This class can be used for BetaScan. It might also work with SpitFire
and some other programs.
- Some more options and workarounds for the massstorage.class were added.
- Heaps of bugs were fixed. Thanks to all those users who reported them.
The update can be downloaded from http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html as
usually.
(ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Jeri Ellsworth's flight confirmed
United/Lufthansa has confirmed Jeri Ellsworth's flight today. The young American
has become the star of the 8-bit scene with her C-One design. She will present
the Commodore One for the first
time in Europe at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002.
The new computer can be turned into nearly any home computer of the 80s, and
its reconfigurable hardware is a revolution in computer technology for home
use. Unfortunately, the board will not be for sale at the fair, because the
design has been improved to be even more flexible only a few days before
production start. The new date for production start is now January 2nd, 2003. (ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future Urgently Needs a Layout Person
The print magazine 'Amiga Future' is urgently seeking a new layout person. This new person should have the necessary hardware and software, and experience.
Amiga Future is a non-profit project. This means that collected funds, which are counted, are divided between the editors and the layout person. The publication itself doesn't earn anything.
So the layout person doesn't work for nothing... but he or she surely won't get rich! Interested layout people may apply as soon as possible to redaktion@amigafuture.de
or better give us a call 0174/9197036 (24h).
Because of this problem we aren't sure when the issue #39 of Amiga Future will be published.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Guido Mersmann (E-Mail)
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AmithlonTV homepage online
Guido Mersmann:
We're proud to present you the new AmithlonTV. For all those out there who never
heard about AmithlonTV here is a small summary:
The original AmithlonTV was made by Michael Ulbrich in the beginning 2002. Due a
lack of time I took over his project and started a complete new AmithlonTV
in June 2002. In the beginnig of November the hardest part was done.
Well, now at the end of November I came to a point, where I need more
information about the cards out there. So here it is: The new AmithlonTV!
I made AmithlonTV for you, so I need your help to support all the cards out
there. My personal card is already full supported! Your job, if you take em, is
to test AmithlonTV with a TV card available and send me debug information. I
need detailed information on the used card (name, vendor, internal and external
connectors ...) and the used chips on the card. It's also required to send in
the "AmithlonTV/Libs/TVCard_CardData/Autoconfig.card" file, which will be created
when running the tool TVCardSetup. When you're able to use Windows it would be
very helpful, if you could start "btspy" to create a setup logfile, which is also
available on the AmithlonTV homepage in the Support/Download section.
On the AmithlonTV homepage you can also find a hardware list containing all
tested cards. With your help this list will grow rapidly within the next weeks.
99% of the listed cards should at least deliver a picture on all available video
inputs.
There is also a new mailing list
"AmithlonTV" for AmithlonTV specific discussion available on our homepage.
(ps)
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27.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: A Few Clarifications and Explanations about the AmigaOne
On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) talked about a few points (click on the title link for the full email) that
were not clear until now:
The AmigaOneG3-SE will be delivered without an AMR (Audio-Modem-Riser) card, because Eyetech couldn't get any at
reasonable prices. AmigaOne Customers who buy an SE model must therefore rely on external modems and a PCI soundcard
instead of the integrated AMR slot.
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren (one of the AmigaOne testers) has personally developed an AR (Audio Riser) card, without modem. He will
offer these at a "very reasonable" [quotes are Alan Redhouse's] price.
The Amiga One-XE motherboards are not affected by this: they don't have an AMR slot, the audio output goes directly out on
this model.
Work is occuring on a list of hardware that has been tested with the Amiga One. It was stated that to use this stuff under
OS 4 is going to require Amiga drivers, so pay attention to what Hyperion says about it.
The "Earlybird" systems will come with an installation diskette and a minimal version of SUSE Linux. Additionally provided are
UAE and a licensed Amiga Kickstart ROM image.
The Escena PCI cards that were to allow the AmigaOne to access the custom chips of an attached A1200 motherboard are
considered by Eyetech to be "probably not existent," because no information about the current status of the cards could be
obtained from Escena.
Update: (26.07.2014, cg)
A complete copy of Alan Redhouse's mail (added since the Original has been moved elsewhere by Yahoogroups apparently):
Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20021127140602.01ffd840@192.168.1.5>
An: amigaone@yahoogroups.com
Von: Eyetech Group Ltd
Datum: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:39:40 +0000
Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Some answers
> > > The AMR 'was' there in May, now gone!
> >
> > The answer was "this has still not been decided yet". That's not the same
> > as
> > "is gone". I agree that the answer was late and is far from being
> > satisfying, but I don't see a need to start panicking
After having some feedback from the A1 dev list the AMR card issue has now
been decided.
The G3-SE boards will not come with an AMR riser card as we have not been
able to source these at a sensible price. However Ole-Egil is rolling into
production soon with and audio-only in/out card for the AMR slot and those
AmigaOneG3-SE purchasers that want one will be able to buy one directly
from him ad a very reasonable price. (If we were to sell them then the
additional margin, VAT and shipping that we would have to add would mean
that it would have to cost considerably more to the end user). However the
G3-SE boards will be shipped with (small, quiet) cpu fans and modified ATX
I/O backplates within the published price (ie ukp360/euro580/usd580 ex-VAT)
which I hope helps.
We did not consider the loss of the modem to be too important as most Amiga
users will have external modems - or ethernet broadband connections - anyway
For those that require an entry-level sound card to get going we can supply
the Creative labs Vibra 128 card for UKP10/euro16/usd16 ex VAT.
The production version of the AmigaOne-XE boards (now in manufacture) will
come with an onboard codec etc and audio sockets in the usual positions on
the ATX I/O knockout - and no AMR slot.
A list of tested hardware is being assembled by people on the A1-dev list
and will be made public shortly. Clearly as far as graphics and other
PCI/AGP cards are concerned these should be chosen from the OS4 support
targets, and not just those that are supported by PPCLinux. The Articia
northbridge uses server-type registered RAM and a list of tested, supported
RAM manufacturers/part numbers will also be included. Quite a few
non-registered SDRAM DIMMs will also work, but only as singles (ie you can
only have one slot populated) These also will be available types will be
included on the list as well.
For the 'Earlybird' systems the SuSE Linux PPC installer is now complete
and comes with a licenced UAE PPC + ROM image. We will be shipping bare
boards with this installer disk and a minimal SuSE linux distro, but unless
you are experienced with Linux we recommend that you buy the full SuSE
LinuxPPC distro with 8 CD's and manuals either from us or elsewhere.
Finally we have been unable to find out from Escena what, if any, progress
that they have made on their PCI-A1200 bridge card so I think that it is
fair to assume that this is unlikely to materialise. However the benefits
of that approach - over networking a 1200 to the A1 and using the latter as
a file etc server - are in my view minimal anyway. This is because most
non-retargetable (eg games) software will get no advantage by running on
the G4 (rather than the A1200+accelerator), and the keyboard and monitor
would have needed switching with either approach. We do still have some
Mk4/5 EZTowers available for anyone who would like to have their A1 and
A1200 networked together in the same case.
Hope this helps
Alan (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Early December a spam Internet archive will be opened
»spamarchive.org would like to support developers to fight against spam
On November the 20th 2002 the website www.spamarchive.org
opened it's doors and gets currently more than 5.000 mails with
spam content daily. The owners of this site want to publish a first
spam archive on December the 6th to support tool developers fighting
against those ad mails.
«
Complete article see title link (German). (ps) (Translation: ub)
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27.Nov.2002
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM: S-FILE 20: HOLIDAY SPIRIT
Nov. 28, 2002
Hi,
We have a major update for Amiga players. Basically, all of our "premium" files that were
available just to the Portal users are now completely free to everyone. Consider it our
gift to you for the holidays.
WE DON'T PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THESE FILES
QUAKE
Happy Holidays,
Sofia
(ps)
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27.Nov.2002
Nowee (E-Mail)
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OverShaker first birthday and contest
It's Overshaker's first
birthday, and we start a workbench grab contest. A good opportunity to
show us your skills! Send us your snaps, with NEW, previously not released
GUIs, at Overshaker@nowee.org.
Best GUIs/themes will be distributed, and the 2 winners will be granted
prizes!
(ps)
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27.Nov.2002
Dietmar Knoll
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Dietmar Knoll: Test Report of AmigaOS XL Expanded
Yesterday, Dietmar Knoll's test report of AmigaOS XL was brought up-to-date in the following points: "The hard-drive:
an overview of the partitions (new: Windows98)."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Thomas Würgler (ANF)
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Pagan Games Update
Pagan Games posted an official update on their website today regarding
current and future projects:
27th November 2002 - Hello everyone!
It's been a while since our last update, but here is a report on our
current status.
First of all we might as well get this out of the way - Dafel:
Bloodline is still on hold. It's not cancelled, but we're reconsidering
what the appropriate media for this title is. It is obvious that doing
a version for 68k Amigas would be futile nowadays, yet on the other
hand it would require a serious overhaul to be suitable for the
AmigaOne. We've been considering smaller versions of the game -
installments if you will - on AmigaDE, which would allow users to play
the game both on PDAs and Amigas, once AmigaDE is implemented in
AmigaOS 4. We do have plenty to do with our current projects, though,
so time will tell what happens. One day Dafel: Bloodline will be a
reality, but not just yet. The same goes for Scavengers and Magick by
the way.
What are we doing then? Well, first of all we are working on two
AmigaDE titles. One will be a puzzle/platformer called Quingle and the
other is a straight puzzle game. The latter is as of yet unnamed, but
will be rather different from what you've seen before. We're
progressing quickly on the unnamed title, and hope to have it out very
soon.
Quingle hit a bit of a speed bump some time ago, but is picking up its
pace again. Hopefully we'll have some screenshots for you to look at in
the near future. It is a very nice looking game. It has a old-school
cartoony pixel-style, which has been updated for the 21st century,
combining the best of both worlds.
We're also working on a shoot 'em up project. This is a somewhat
massive project, so it will be some time till it's done. We are
currently developing it with the Dreamcast in mind, thanks to the
excellent publicly available development tools, but we are definitely
interested in seeing it on other platforms as well. AmigaOne could do
with a bit of hardcore shooter action - don't you think? The game has
an unusually interesting story line, highly polished graphics and lots
and lots of action. If you have seen GigaWing 2 or Ikaruga, you know
what I mean when I say action.
Here's hoping that we'll all have shiny new AmigaOnes in the near
future. We want to express our gratitude towards Amiga Inc., for
providing excellent support, Hyperion for doing such an awesome job on
AmigaOS 4 and being generally nice guys, and Eyetech for making the
effort to get the AmigaOne out there to the people.
Sincerely,
Pagan Games
(ps)
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27.Nov.2002
AmiSpaTra
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Meeting: BAP 2002 in Armilla, Spain from 6th to 8th December, 2002
This year's BAP 2002 (Bestial Amiga Party) is taking place from 6th to 8th December, 2002
in Armilla (Granada), Spain. Tickets are 15 euros.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Ultron presents interesting and new products
ultron AG - successful vendor of
high-quality computer hardware - will present it's product line for the
first time this year at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002 show.
The visitors can see a wide range of computer accessories for all
applications from a small laptop mouse through networking products
to hightech-TFT monitors. The dolby surround sound systems combine
perfectly with the ultron sound cards. Furthermore there are a number
of cases that bring diversification to the grey monotony of computing.
New highlights in the product line are TFT-monitors that combine
hightech-technology with very attractive design. Silver cases make
every desk an eyecatcher. The removable black base enables easy wall
mounting. (ps)
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26.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Elbox will be present!
Elbox Computer, the company that pioneered
PCI adapters for classic Amiga computers, will be present at the AMIGA + RETRO
COMPUTING 2002 show. The hardware vendor and developer has hit the headlines
lately because of a disputed protection mechanism in their driver software.
Therefore we're especially happy that the company from Poland will face up
to the dialogue with the users.
(ps)
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26.Nov.2002
Dieter Groppé
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Tool: MCP Version 1.40
The multifunctional tool MCP ("MasterControlProgram") is available in version 1.40 for download.
It is an update archive which needs an installation of version 1.39 and a complete archive available.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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26.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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TTEngine 5.1 released
TTEngine is the TrueType font based text rendering engine for AmigaOS.
Version 5.1 can be downloaded from the home page of TTEngine.
TTEngine 5.1 has been released. New features:
- Recompiled with newest FreeType 2.1.3 sources. After some research I've decided to leave bytecode interpreter turned on by default (it is turned off in default FreeType config). Autohinter seems to be not that good as FreeType authors advertise.
- Two wersions of TTEngine are now distributed. One full featured and one without bytecode interpreter. Both have 100% compatible API and can be interchanged by just replacing library file. The "light" version of the library may be interesting for commercial applications authors, since bytecode interpreter uses some patented things.
- TTEngine now supports all ISO-8859 encodings (from 1 to 16, except 12 which probably does not exist), also UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE.
- Application programmer can specify custom 8-bit to Unicode character mapping.
- A few more precise global metrics attributes have been added.
- Added some example programs and "ViewISO" tool showing all ISO-8859 encodings for a font face.
Check "release_notes" file in the distribution archive for the full list of changes.
(ps)
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25.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Game: Quake I update
Frank Wille published version 2.00 of Quake 1.09, that supports AGA and
Cybergraphics, Amiga keyboard, mouse, Joystick, Joypad (CD32, PSX),
TCP/IP, AHI and Amiga-native (Paula) stereo sound, sound (audio.device) and audio CD playback. For an exact function
description please read the guidance.
Quake I is available for MorphOS, WarpOS, PowerUp V2.00, AmigaOS/68k
and as source code.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Nov.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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Game: New mods for Quake2
Steffen Häuser of Hyperion Entertainment:
I just added two new mods to the Amiga Quake2 homepage. This time: Headhunters and Headhunters CTF.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Nov.2002
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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No Mekka symposium 2003 (Update II)
As announced today on the Mekka Symposium homepage the Mekka Symposium 2003 will not be held. Further details can be found in the following original message or at the title link.
Dear Fellow Sceners,
We will keep the upcoming information as short and painless as possible:
Due to irreconcilable personal differences within the main organizer team, the Mekka & Symposium 2003 WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. Yes, we're serious.
Some of you will shout "NO, you simply can't do that!". Believe us, it was a hard decision for us, too -- but in the end, we had to make it. If you are interested in some more explaining info, read the next few lines.
A demoparty should be fun for everybody, and this is also valid for the organizers that set the whole thing up; a good event can only be organized in a good mood, otherwise it will be a disaster. We don't want the next Mekka & Symposium to become a disaster, so we're going to stop right before this can happen.
The last few years and events were a huge success and we all had a lot of fun; this should never be forgotten by anyone, neither visitors, nor organizers! We stop right at this point to make sure that Mekka & Symposium will always be remembered as one of the best demo parties ever. All the past years it was your support and contribution, your presence and your personal efforts that made Mekka & Symposium such a great, respected and productive event and we deeply say "THANKS" for that, to each and every one of you, be it visitors or organizers.
Sincerely yours,
The Mekka & Symposium Main Organizer Team.
PS: We were told that an alternative party in Germany is being organized at Easter. Stay tuned for details.
Update:
Petition: "Bring back Mekka Symposium Petition".
Update 26.11.2002:
Under http://breakpoint.untergrund.net
you will find information about an alternative event. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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25.Nov.2002
Amiga + Retro Computing 2002
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ARC 2002 News: Thendic France biggest exhibitor
Thendic France has increased their exhibition area, making themselves
the biggest exhibitor of AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002. The reason for
this extension is the amount of computers that they are presenting.
Visitors of the show have the opportunity to persuade themselves of
the combination of the new PPC board and MorphOS.
The same amount of computers will be provided for the
betatester-conference that will take place on the same weekend in
room "Berlin 1" of the Dorint-Hotel "Quellenhof", which is located
right next to the Eurogress. Thendic France has finalized the booking
of this room during a meeting that took place in Aachen on November
21st.
The new company Genesi that unites Thendic France and bplan Germany
will be present with all personnel at the show. More than 20 developers
of hard- and software will answer your questions.
Read more about the technical data of Pegasos,
that has been provided by Thendic France.
In addition to the new machines, Thendic will also bring part of their
museum to Aachen. Rare machines like the Walker (Amiga successor that
has never been produced) and 8-bit Commodore machines will be on display
at a separate booth. All the machines are still intact, so you can
experience them in action!
There will be the following persons on the show:
From bplan: Gerald Carda, Thomas Knäbel, Ralph Schmidt and
Emmanuel Lesueur.
From Thendic-France: Nicolas Sallin, David Gerber, Mark Olsen, Rakesh
and Sharwin Raghoebardayal, Nicholas Blachford, Bertrand Presles, Eric
Bertail, Céline Waldberg, Pascal Roe D'Albert, Sébastien Lokhamkhouak,
Matthieu Leroyer and of course Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck.
Plus, there will be other core MorphOS Developers and a number of
Betatesters.
(ps)
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25.Nov.2002
M.Lueck (ANF)
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GRex Petition status update
First of all we would like to thank you all for the support. Since
Saturday 16:00 h up to now Monday 03:55 h 149 users have 'signed' and we to hope for more.
We had to slidely modify the Petition, since we did not know currently, which hardware documents Hyperion will need. Thank you at Steffen Häuser for these info.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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24.Nov.2002
Telepolis
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Telepolis: Microsoft researchers - DRM no help against peer-to-peer file sharing
A team of four Microsoft researchers has come to the conclusion that DRM (Digital Rights Management) is no feasible way to act against peer-to-peer file sharing. According to the scientists, this also concerns watermark based copy protections systems, as devices with watermark detector are far less attractive to users than competitive products without detector.
The Telepolis acticle by Janko Röttgers is accessible through the title link. (sd)
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24.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Installer: InstallerNG integral part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS
It is reported on Jens Tröger und Jens Langner's
'InstallerNG home page'
that
"after successfull negotiations InstallerNG will
become a integral part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS, advanced
development is under way.".
'InstallerNG' is an alternative to Commodore's Installer tool. Compared to this
tool, 'InstallerNG' supports a.o.t. MUI (via plugin) and offers a CPU
recognition for MC68060 as well as PPC processors.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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24.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Screenshots of Hollywood - WBSwatch & Rainbow C
On 23rd November 2002, Andreas Falkenhahn has published further screenshots of
the multimedia authoring system 'Hollywood'. These show a fully transparent
24bit realtime workbench clock as well as a rainbow creator which demonstrates
Hollywood's rainbow functions.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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24.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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Magazine: AMIGAplus 11/2002 announcment - 11th anniversary
This month, the German print magazine AMIGAplus is celebrating its eleventh
anniversary. On friday, the 22th November 2002, the current AMIGAplus 11/2002 has
been published, sent to all subscribers, and single issues can be ordered
online. A.o.t., you can read the following reports in it:
Review Supreme
Two years after the second version of Extreme, the Italian software forge
Darkage Software is presenting a worthy successor and gives a crowning finale
to the distributed Video Special in the AMIGAplus: As is well-known, »Supreme«
stands for the adjectives highest, topmost or greatest - we have investigated
in detail whether the video effects software is able to fulfil the high expectations.
Vote hunting: Scene experts on Amiga future
Amigans all over the world have been going through exiting times, especially in
the last months, with numerous concrete product announcements. We wanted to
find out the opinion of central and respected figures of the demo scene on
the new Amiga systems and their potential future prospects.
Virtual Network Computing
"VNC" is a program package which allows to remote control other computers in a
network via their graphical user interface. For this it doesn't matter whether
this network is locally restricted to the home or expansive over many thousand
kilometres like the Internet.
GoldED Studio AIX
GoldED Studio, originally developed purely as a text editor, has meanwhile
grown into a multifunctional tool and has seen the light of day in August of this
year in a final version under the name of »GoldED Studio AIX«.
Please also read:
- AMIGAplus readers CD 18 - contents
- Co-operative software development, part 1
- WHDLoad: Interview with Bert Jahn
- Workshop ProStationAudio, part 2
- Workshop Pretty Good Privacy, part 2
- Amiga Status Report: Calm before the storm
- Show report WoASE 2002
- Review AMHuhn
- Preview AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002
- Interview with ARKTIS/OASE
- Short reviews: Hardware and shareware
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available on subscription, single issue order at EUR 5 (incl. p&p)
as well as in the Amiga trade partners. Size: 68 pages (4c). (sd) (Translation: cb)
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23.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Astrologic full version
Astrologic full version
With permission by Peter Schütz may the Amiga Arena offer the full version of ASTROLOGIC the astrology program offer for downloading.
What is ASTROLOGIC? - ASTROLOGIC for everyone
ASTROLOGIC makes it possible for all interested users to cast/create in the easiest way character and partnership horoscopes/analysises.
Expressive texts allow interesting comparisons referring to 'horoscope/reality'.
Together with this manual offers ASTROLGIC a deep view into the fascinating area of modern astrology the interested user.
ASTROLOGIC for astrologers: (excerpt)
ASTROLOGIC calculates exact birth, combin, composit, solar and
lunar horoscopes as well as monthly ephemerids tables, transite
and progressions until the year 4000 (!).
ASTROLOGIC knows next to the 10 stars/heavenly bodies the 5 most important planetoids,
the luck point, the moon knot, the Medium Coeli, the moon phases and of course the ascendent. All in all it masters the 10 most known methods for houses peak calculation. Complete and clear output tables ease the professional astrologer the individual Deutung of the horoscopes.
Hint:
ASTROLOGIC has been written with CanDo and only runs on PAL/ PAL interlace screens.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Nov.2002
M.Lück (ANF)
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Start of a GRex petition
M. Lück wrote:
Hello GRex users,
as you surely read on the homepage of CyberGraphX
there'll be no GRex support in OS 4.0 as Hyperion haven't received any hardware/software documentation.
Because of this we have decided to start this petition to get a chance to run OS4 on the GRex. It would only offer advantages to all, not only to OS4 but also to MorphOS, if the API of the cybpci.library would be open.
This is no flame call against DCE but the expression of the wish of the GRex users who want to have more drivers, programs and OS4 support. We hope that you'll take part.
The petition can be accessed under http://www.trimaweb.de/petition/.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Nov.2002
Aseq (ANF)
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Audio: Aseq site updated, new screenshot and more
The website for Aseq, an audio and midi sequencer, has been updated. You
can find a new screenshot and the feature list has been updated, plus
there is a little bit of new information.
I have been able to buy a cheap PowerMac 7300, which means a port to that
platform can start very soon. Likely when the first classic Amiga version
has been finished and released. This does not mean classic Amiga
development will stop or be delayed.
Expect more news and updates soon. (ps)
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23.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.0 preorder special offer
In a preorder campaign until 9th December 2002, we are offering you
fxPAINT 2.0 at a reduced price of 79,00 EUR (89,99 EUR otherwise).
fxPAINT 2.0 already runs natively under MorphOS on Pegasos, under 68K
AmigaOS, x86-native on Amithlon and will also run PPC-native on upcoming
AmigaOS 4.0 systems. So, no matter which system you choose, you'll see
fxPAINT make best use of it! Don't wait any longer, purchase fxPAINT
2.0 NOW and save money!
All previously submitted preorders have been adapted accordingly.
(ps)
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23.Nov.2002
IFA Online News (ANF)
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Intel Pentium 4 with 3 GHz in multitasking
The Intel Corporation introduced last week the new Intel Pentium 4 processor with Hyper-Threading (HT) technology and a clock frequency of 3,06 GHz. With this does the chip producer not only manage to jump over the 3 GHz mark but also to make desktop PCs up to 25% more powerful when using the new HT technology. These systems can execute several programs or requests by the computer at the same time with no delay they say at Intel. According to Intel, leading computer manufacturers worldwide will offer PCs with support for the HT technology and on the basis of the Pentium 4 processor with 3,06 GHz from now on. Computers using this processor technology will be recognisable through the "HT" symbol in the Pentium logo.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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23.Nov.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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New Quake2 mods online
On the Amiga Quake2 page are two new mods online - Matrix Quake 2 and
Threewave CTF.
Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Nov.2002
WinUAE
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R3 published
Version 0.8.22 R3 of the Amiga emulator WINUAE written by Toni Wilen has been published today.
Changes and improvements:
- Ports-tab crash fixed
- joystick handling fixes
- hard drive configuration save fixed
(trailing spaces are now removed from HD ID-string)
- fixed stuck keys when switching between WinUAE and Windows
- sprite fix (some games had flashing sprite garbage)
- thread priority tweaks
- setupapi.dll error when running under Windows 95
- emulation slowdown and sound stuttering in 68000 mode (finally?)
- Amithlon partition detection fixed (detection failed if drive's partition table contained more than 6 partitions)
- jumpy mouse fixed
- hardfile not found -bug fixed
- "The selected screen mode can't be displayed in a window, because.." now correctly forces fullscreen mode instead of repeating the message forever..
New feature:
- implemented harddisk and CD-leds that flash during HD/CD access
Download: WinUAE0822R3.zip
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Nov.2002
zErec (ANF)
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Update of Merlancia Industries site
You can look at the new beta layout of the homepage of Merlancia Industries under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Nov.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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bplan and Thendic merge to GENESI (update)
The bplan GmbH, Frankfurt, (Pegasos, MorphOS) and Thendic-France
S.A.R.L., Paris, merge to Genesi S.A.R.L. located in Luxemburg.
Genesi was founded this week and will start its activities on 1.01.2003.
The official start of sale of the Pegasos with MorphOS will be the fair Amiga + Retro Computing
which will take place in Aachen on 7. and 8. December 2002. On this fair the buyer of a Pegasos
will be offered a special game-bundle. No matter where the Pegasos will has been bought every buyer
has the possibility to buy this bundle at the stand of Thendic for 50,- Euro which consists of
Feeble Files, Software Tycoon and Tales of Talmar.
Genesi will also take part on the COMDEX and CeBIT. On the last mentioned one the MAI Logics Inc.
will also take part which has developed together with Genesi the chipset for the handheld Pegasos called
"Eclipsis".
There are also new dealers in USA, Canada and Great Britain. Additionally a well-known Russian IT distributor
will carry out the distribution in Russia.
The new founded company Genesi will create a webportal for developers before 01.01.2003 that registered
developers, user groups, which support and performance the Pegasos can buy the Pegasos or other
devices for a special price.
You can get further information under the title link.
Addendum 23.11.2002:
By inquiring Thendic France we have been told that also buyers of betatester I
and betatester II will have the possibiblity to buy the game-bundle on the
fair.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Nov.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 24.11.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were
originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been
added or updated since our last message:
- 24.11.02 improved: Indianapolis 500 (Papyrus Design Group) now uses fastmem, reworked install
- 24.11.02 new: Joe Blade 2 (Players) done by Codetapper
- 23.11.02 improved: Joe Blade (Players Software) supports another version, new icons
- 23.11.02 new: Roller Coaster Rumbler (Tynesoft) done by Psygore
- 21.11.02 new: Risk (Virgin) done by JOTD
- 21.11.02 fixed: Populous (Bullfrog) sound corrected
- 21.11.02 improved: Overdrive (Team 17) new imager, other improvements
- 21.11.02 improved: North Sea Inferno (Parsec Software) audio fixed
- 21.11.02 improved: Loom (Lucasfilm Games) better compatibility
- 21.11.02 new: Classic Board Games (Merit Software) done by JOTD
(ps)
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22.Nov.2002
Amifish
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Translation-tool for Babelfish: Amifish from 20.11.2002
With Amifish you get a small tool which helps you to get translated texts at Babelfish. Because at
Babelfish some routines have been changed there is a new version of Amifish. To get started the
program you will need: amarquee.library V54, MUI 3.8, betterstring.mcc, nlist.mcc and busy.mcc.
Download: amifish.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Nov.2002
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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New screenshots of AmigaOS 4 GUI
Under the title link you will find some new screenshots of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of
AmigaOS 4. The design will be freely configurable.
It follows the original message:
Even more preliminary screenshots of the AmigaOS 4 GUI
Nov 21, 2002 - This time around, the preview is focused on the great
configurability of the overall AmigaOS 4.0 GUI look.
None of the new screenshots show the default AmigaOS 4.0 appearance,
although some of them contain certain elements or concepts that will
become part of it. However, it is of little importance what the default
will be as most every aspect of the GUI can be customized.
A few of the examples are deliberately overloaded, just to be able to
show all the possibilities offered by the new GUI. We expect you will
produce much better results once the engine is finally in your hands.
You will find even more configuration capabilities in the consumer
release of AmigaOS 4.0 and in subsequent updates.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Nov.2002
Matthias Henze (ANF)
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Important information to HSMathLibs and to stormamiga.lib
Because of a change of the provider the homepages and the addresses of the emails were temporarly not
accessable. Unfortunately all emails, registrations and similar things which have been sent between
18. and 21.11.2002 I could not get. Therefore I ask all to send the these things again.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Alpha-GUI for Autotrace 0.31.1
Carsten Siegner writes: I've prepared an alpha version of my GUI (graphic user inteface) "Vectormaker." This GUI works with the program Autotrace, which was
released today (as reported). Autotrace is a vectorizing program with which one
can trace an almost inexhaustible quantity on graphic formats, or convert existing vector formats into others.
The list of entry formats numbers more than 50! I decided to make a GUI because there are more than a few shell options, and the program
is faster than Xtrace according to early tests.
This GUI acommodates first only the most important input possibilities, such as saving and loading file requestors and the possibility to
specify the input output file types. Because there are so many options, more and more will be added. Whoever would like to test this GUI, just send me an
e-Mail.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Stefan Robl (ANF)
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The Unmasking of the AmiDock Easter Eggs in OS 3.9... :-)
Yes, maybe you weren't expecting it, but AmiDock contains a little surprise as well... :) For
want of a shady character that might be used to reveal the activation code of the Easter eggs through rumors, I had to do it myself on my
homepage... ;-)
If you are interested, just click on the title link. German speakers click
here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Petra Struck
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Testing Report: Radio Keyboard and Mouse on Amiga
When I attended the club meeting of AmCluSt early
this month, I was impressed with the radio keyboard and mouse from Michael Göken. These were made possible through two components:
The MMKeyboard-Adapter from Guido Mersmann and the PS/2 adapter
building instructions (hard/hack/ps2m.lha) from Denis Sotchenko.
Following these instructions Guido built me a PS/2 adapter in more than an hour of detailed work, so thanks again, sincerely! Whoever is
interested in an MMKeyboard-Adapter from Guido Mersmann should send an email to him.
The opportunity to try out Tevion's radio-controlled keyboard and mouse came about because Aldi was offering it inexpensively. Both
adapters worked perfectly on my Amiga 4000 T. It's very pleasant to have a table top free of coiled cables.
In any case the crux of the matter is the program MMKeyboard.lha
by Guido Mersmann. It allows every key of the multimedia keyboard to be individually configured. Here is the official short description of the
program:
MMKeyboard allows the use of Windows keyboards on Amiga. Beyond that, it makes it possible to start programs with the multimedia keys
and much more. There are none of the driver problems as are found on the PC! A little Commodity activates all the "non-standard" keys on
every keyboard! Even future keys will work! MMKeyboard also offers a real hardware password login with an optional, selectable Amiga skin,
full reset handler compatibility, and many other configuration options.
All in all I find that these are very good and useful creations which allow me to write the news more easily :).
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002: Fun Time World is guest of Falkemedia
Funtime World will present their products on the booth of Falkemedia.
Only two weeks ago the situation of the powerful videoplayer called
Frogger has been clarified. The adventure games "Aqua" and "Puzzle
Bobs" - a very addictive title - will also be available. Find out
more on funtime-world.de. (ps)
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21.Nov.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Survey and PHP Orientation at Abakus Design
Current Survey
You'll find a survey on Amiforce, a survey which asks what should be tried for in the future. Whoever is interested may take part. Multiple
choices are possible.
Abakus Design
The webpage of Abakus Design has been completely changed to PHP, so it should be easier to maintain these pages in the future. If you spot
any errors, please let the Webmaster know.
Amiforce will be changed over shortly as well. It might take a little longer, because the website is bit bigger.
News about AMHuhn will soon follow. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Developer Tool: CVS Version 1.11.2 AmigaOS/MorphOS Port Bugfix Update (2)
Today Jens Langner prepared an important bugfix of the AmigaOS and MorphOS ports of CVS (Concurrent Versions System), the program he
jointly developed with Olaf Barthel. This may be downloaded by clicking on the title link.
In this version (of 21st November, 2002) the main thing is the bugfix, that corrected one big mistake in the last version. It had to do with
problems with "committen" of new files, but this should be taken care of now.
As always the update may be found at http://amcvs.light-speed.de and also downloaded
from Aminet in the next few days.
22nd November, 2002 addition:
Jens Langner made a comment:
I undertook another bugfix today, and uploaded the current version to the website. It was a bug in the temporary data routines. Everything
should now be stable, so far.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Ralph Debusmann
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Music Player: EasyPlayer Version 1.2
Version 1.2 of the music player EasyPlayer (EYP) has appeared. Ralph
Debusmann's EasyPlayer offers a user-friendly GUI for shell-based programs such as mpega, GMPlay and SIDPlay.
The program is universally useful for all shell-based music playing programs.
Requirements: AmigaOS 2.04 (V37) or higher, at least v. 38 ofreqtools.library, at least v. 34 of amigaguide.library, and a shell-based music
player program.
Download: EasyPlayer.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
OnyxSoft
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OnyxSoft: Diverse Software Updates (20th November, 2002)
OnyxSoft has released the following programs in updated versions:
- DagensTV
version 1.1 is ready for download. The program processes
information of TV shows that is sent via email from
http://www.dagenstv.com/.
Download: dagenstv.lha
- A new
betaversion( 3.2 Beta 7) of the Tetris clone
Detris has been released. Download: detris.lha
- Mit DRemind lets you remember your important
appointments.
The main program is at version 1.63, and the Prefs (settings) at
version 2.63. Download: dremind.lha
- The MPegEncGUI is a GUI for the MPEG Audio
Encoder. The program is available at version 2.22. Download:
thempegencgui.lha
All of these programs are authored by Daniel Westerburg, and require AmigaOS with
Kickstart 2.04+ and MUI.
OnyxSoft has also started a survey.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Amiga.SourceForge
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DCR8520 Amiga Ports: Updates of 20th November, 2002
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has uploaded a few ports to his SourceForge website, and they are ready to be downloaded. Yesterday
the following programs were updated:
- abcm2ps v3.1.14: converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript (142550 Bytes)
- anubis v3.6.1: outgoing mail processor. (1437594 Bytes)
- autotrace v0.31.1: convert bitmaps to vector graphics (935789 Bytes)
- curl v7.10.2: transferring files with URL syntax (893005 Bytes)
- muhstik v4.0.4: bounce to IRC servers from open proxies... (88378 Bytes)
- scmxx v0.6.2: handle all I/O of Siemens mobile phones. [not tested!] (103704 Bytes)
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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APC&TCP Hawk CD-Edition of DigiBoosterPro
On the occasion of Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 on December 7th and 8th APC&TCP are releasing the CD edition of DigiBoosterPro. This
edition contains v. 2.21 of DigiBoosterPro as well as completely new documentation. Because a very good programmer has been located,
there will be a program update soon. An update of the APC&TCP disk version to the CD edition costs 5 euros in Germany and 10 euros
anywhere else (inc. shipping and handling).
We ask that improvement suggestions, opinions, and requests concerning the program be written to us directly in our
support forum.
Unfortunately it is not possible for us to come to all the forums and news sites to collect the wishes of the users. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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21.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Deathbed Vigil DVD on the ARC 2002
Dave Haynie, one of the most popular developers of Commodore, has made
a special edition of his film "Deathbed Vigil" for the 8th anniversary
of the Commodore bankruptcy. Individual Computers will import the DVD,
and offer it for 39,- EUR at the fare. Please pre-order your copy via
E-Mail, so we'll have enough
DVDs for the show.
There is no country code on the DVD, and it can be played back on all
players. Audio is English only. Video and Audio haven been digitally
re-mastered, and new scenes have been added that have not been published
before on the VHS tape. The Bonus material contains the music video
"Chicken-Lips Blues", a new short film called "Amiga Impact", and a
photo album that Dave has compiled.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2002
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
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AROS Website down during the weekend
Aaron Digulla writes:
I'd like to notify everyone that www.aros.org will be unavailable
a couple of times during the weekend of the 23./24. November 2002
because the system is upgraded.
You can reach the website during this time at
http://aros.sourceforge.net
and the other mirrors. (ps)
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20.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Event: Photos from the Amiga meeting in Lodz 2002
On Saturday the 16th of November 2002, the Amiga meeting 2002 with the attendance of Thendic-France, X-Soft, eFUNZINe, Matay and others was held in Lodz, Poland. Thendic-France has published some photos and links to several more photos, which will give an impression of the event.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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20.Nov.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Forum update / Abakus-Design: note
Forum update
Today the Amiforce forum was brought to a new version. The update was done within a few minutes and brought some positive side effects with it.
The data base seemed to be fixed through the update and even the upload of avatars works without problems again. Furthermore there were some bugfixes with the update, an example given might be the possibility of a dial in without using cookies now.
The forum can be used now with all features again. Who might detect a bug is pleased to report it.
Abakus-Design
Obviously some people seem to have a problem with offering us their name and email before the download of AMHuhn. We emphasize again that we will not give these data to anyone else but are collected by us internaly only. Nobody will receive adverts or anything else.
Unfortunately there were some really bad form mails received.
To remember: AMHuhn is without any cost and we gain no profit with it. We are not sponsored by any advertising agency and spread no spam. AMHuhn and everything belonging with it took all our spare time and the webmaster recently had to pay real money, because the traffic limit was overridden.
Thank all of you, who are caring.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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20.Nov.2002
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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HCC-Commodore-Club NL: Little Update and Events
Hello all C= friends,
We are again present on the HCC stock exchange from 22 till 24 November at
the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, standnumber 10E068, Hall 10. We are one of the only
groups that are present from the beginning! Also we have a few updates on
our homepage:
There is some "new" news, a new
photo collection to give you an impression of our C= show activities and a
little report with pics about our birthday present for Jeri Ellsworth
(she's the lady from the CommodoreONE project). For those who can read a
little bit Dutch, there's a fine article about the C64 scene at
http://www.boomcha.nl/.
Greetings and keep the C= scene alive!
Ron van Schaik
(ps)
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20.Nov.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Letting the World Know (Executive Update)
November 19, 2002 - With the AmigaOne now shipping and AmigaOS4.0 in
its final stages of development and testing, the time has come to begin
letting the rest of the world know the good news, that the Amiga is alive,
well and ready to let the World have fun with computing again.
We all know that the current hard core of Amiga users is not enough to build
a sustainable and thriving community. We have to appeal to those who, for whatever
reason left the Amiga months and years ago but who still retain a fondness for
their old platform. Whether disillusioned with their existing offering, looking
for a new way or simply wanting to return, the marketing for the reborn Amiga
must concentrate itself on these people, the five million or so who once owned
an Amiga and who could do so once more.
The last six months has seen us experimenting with presence at various multi-format
shows and nurturing relationships with TV, web and paper publications
in order to test the waters and to set out our stall for the big push
forwards. Even in this informal process, the response has been fantastic,
whether in the US, the UK, Europe or Australia. People remember the Amiga
and want it back.
We have taken all this research and, in conjunction with Amiga developers,
retailers, user groups, publications, Amiga Inc, Eyetech and Hyperion
have decided that we will concentrate on four official large scale multi-format
shows around the globe, in order to maximize our presence, message and
exposure. This will compromise a show roughly every quarter, one for Europe,
one for the US and Canada, one for the UK and one for the Antipodes (Australia,
New Zealand and Asia).
The first of these shows will be the official launch of the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0,
to occur at the CeBit show in Germany in March (and before anyone asks,
this does not mean this is the release date for AmigaOS4.0, it means that
CeBit will be the public launch of it). With the huge exposure and attendance
that CeBit brings in, and being in Germany, one of the spiritual homes
of the Amiga, we think this an appropriate and exciting venue.
In addition we will support several other important national shows on a cooperative
basis with the dealers, user groups and organizations in those countries.
Commitments have already been given to attend the SINTEP show in Toulouse,
France in April 2003, and at least one of the Micromart shows in Birmingham,
UK.
We will also support local dealers and organizers of the main Amiga user
group shows worldwide (subject to fitting in with the schedule of the
larger shows above) such as the Alt-WoA and WoA-SE shows in the UK, as
well as the main shows in France, Germany, the USA and Canada. If you
currently - or would like to - organize such a show during 2003 and would
like Amiga Inc, and/or Hyperion and/or Eyetech to attend please contact
us as soon as early as possible during the planning stage. Given the limited
resources we all have, and the cost and complexity of planning for the
quarterly shows, we cannot guarantee attendance but we will do our best
to support the community wherever it gets together to enjoy the Amiga
platform.
So much for 2003 - what about the remainder of 2002, and in particular the
Aachen show? We have all, both as individual companies and together, thought
long and hard about this show. It has been decided that the timing could not
be worse from our respective points of view.
Eyetech is committed to delivering the Earlybird systems for Christmas that
week and Amiga Inc is fully occupied fulfilling an AmigaAnywhere contract, and
product launch. Whilst visiting with all of you is important, we believe that
it is more important to ship products right now, and we simply can not work
the show into our schedules.
We wanted to share this with you because many in the community have asked the
same questions that we have asked ourselves. How will the community grow and
thrive? It can only do so through increased sales, and that means increased
awareness. As we move from survival mode to growth mode, the small, local shows,
however much fun cannot provide this level of exposure and awareness. By marching
proudly and strongly into the mainstream shows, and taking the community with
us, we are announcing that we are back, once and for all.
Have no doubt that after 8 years of darkness, 2003 will be the year that the
Amiga once again makes the World remember that there is a better way.
Thank you, as ever, for your continued support and commitment.
Bill McEwen and the team at Amiga
Ben Hermans, Hyperion
Alan Redhouse, Eyetech (ps)
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20.Nov.2002
Michael Böhmer (E-Mail)
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E3B: SUBWAY USB controller for Amiga (clockport version) available
E3B is pleased to announce the availability of the USB controller SUBWAY, which has been
presented the public at the Amiga trade show in Cologne 2001.
Unfortunately we were very busy since this trade show with the Zorro USB card HIGHWAY and
its networking module NORWAY, but nevertheless we have not forgotten the "small" module SUBWAY.
Despite the not very good situation on the Amiga Classic market we haven't stopped further
development.
We at E3B believe that Amiga Classic should not drop of the edge of technology, even with the
long forecast new hardware platforms rising finally at the horizon.
As many Zorro card owners asked for compatibility of SUBWAY with common clockport featured
card like the Xsurf, isdn surfer or the Buddha Flash, we consequently improvemented the
SUBWAY design to fulfill these wishes. Due to the different timings and signals on these
non-Commodore clockports only one version of the SUBWAY exists now, which works with these
faster operated clock ports. We would like to thank Jens Schönfeld for supplying us with test cards.
Therefore SUBWAY can also be used in already fully equipped Zorro systems, which have no
Zorro slot free anymore for a HIGHWAY. Also Amiga 1200 users which use PCI as bus solution,
but having no PCI slot free any more or want to spare it for high volume data applications
can use the SUBWAY as USB solution out of the box.
By introducing the world's smallest USB controller SUBWAY E3B is able to offer a complete range
of solutions for USB and ethernet. Together with the USB stack Poseidon (by Chris Hodges) and
its GUI Trident (which both have been proven its feasability in every day work) it is possible
to use up to four modern USB devices from the PC market without any further additional hardware
(like hubs) directly on the Amiga 1200.
Distribution of SUBWAY will be handled by our distributor
KDH Datentechnik.
We at E3B would like to thank all people who have helped us to develop and improve our USB
products according to your wishes. Don't stop asking us.
Anyhow, we want to apologize for the long delay which has been made by us with the introduction
of the SUBWAY.
E3B will be present on the Aachen Amiga trade show at KDH Datentechnik.
You're invited to visit us there and test our USB controllers HIGHWAY / SUBWAY live.
We also are looking forward to meet you there for discussion.
If you are interested in an USB controller for Amiga Classic, feel free to test your
USB devices on compliance there!
(ps)
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19.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Event: Eternity shows T.o.T. on ARC 2002
Eternity, the software
makers from Frechen, Germany, will show the online-strategy game Tales
of Tamar. This is not the hectic kind of game that's being played at
so-called LAN-Parties, but a more "grown-up" game. A central server
analyzes every player's moves that are sent via eMail once per day,
and sends back the results through eMail as well. More information
about Tales of Tamar can be found on
www.tamar.net.
(ps)
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19.Nov.2002
A.D.A. - Amiga Demoscene Archive Website
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A.D.A.: 14 new Original-Amiga-Screenshots
A.D.A., the Amiga Demo Archive databank with search function has released 14 new Original-Amiga-Screenshots, made by Mdw/Encore, of the demo Sulaco/Encore.
A.D.A. is looking for users with a PPC Amiga who can help to take screenshots from demos. If you want to help send an email to z5.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Fleecy Moss
An AmigaSource interview with Fleecy moss you will find here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Nov.2002
Thylacine Website
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USB-Karte Thylacine: Simple GUI for the Stack
For the driver software of the Zorro2 Amiga USB-card Thylacine a simple GUI is released.
Download: usbgui.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Nov.2002
Various sources
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Different software updates (until 18.11.2002)
On the website of Dirk Stöcker there are now updates for the following Tools available:
Rekonet published new card sets for Klondike.
Michael Christoph released version 45.8 of ToolsMenu. In the file some catalogs are new. Download: ToolsMenu_V45.8.lha (97 KB)
Version 0.8.22R3 of the Amiga emulator WinUAE will soon be available. The following bugs were fixed in this release:
- Ports-tab crash fixed
- joystick handling fixes
- hard drive configuration save fixed
(trailing spaces are now removed from HD ID-string)
- fixed stuck keys when switching between WinUAE and Windows
- sprite fix (some games had flashing sprite garbage)
- thread priority tweaks
- setupapi.dll error when running under Windows 95 (not confirmed yet)
New feature:
- implemented harddisk and CD-leds that flash during HD/CD access
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Screenshots of Hollywood - AmigaSeeDC
Andreas Falkenhahn:
Today's Hollywood screenshots show AmigaSeeDC, a real application created
with Hollywood. AmigaSeeDC is an image viewer like ACDSee or IrfanView
that are very popular on the PC market. You can select a picture and then
browse through the picture's directory by simply pressing cursor up and
down. AmigaSeeDC is also able to zoom in and out. It took me only 1 hour
to program AmigaSeeDC with Hollywood. And of course this cool example
program is included on the Hollywood CD-ROM. If you've always wanted a
viewer program for your Amiga that is standard on every PC, order Hollywood
now. I also use AmigaSeeDC privately because it's really cool.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
x-cellence (ANF)
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Demo: Huhnvasion3D
Huhnvasion3D, which is under development for Amiga PPC for one year, was
published now as Freeware for the PC. It is a technology
demo for Wintel computers, which was developed, in order to find a
Publisher for the financing of the further development of the AMiga PPC version. Since this did not
succeed since early 2001, the demo is now made available
as Freeware for Wintel systems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 16.11.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were
originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been
added or updated since our last message:
- 16.11.02 new: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) done by JOTD
- 16.11.02 new: Populous (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
- 16.11.02 new: The Guild of Thieves (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
- 16.11.02 improved: Future Wars (Delphine Software) protection and sound fixed
- 16.11.02 new: Fish (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
- 16.11.02 improved: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software) supports German version, music improved
- 16.11.02 new: Corruption (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Bill Griffin, G&G Publishing Enterprises (ANF)
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Print magazine: 'the NEW AMIGANS' has lowered its prices
"the NEW AMIGANS" magazine (the only Amiga-centric magazine still
printed in the US), has lowered its prices. From now until December
31, G&G Publishing Enterprises is offering one-year subscription to
their magazine at a $5.00 discount. For more details check out our
website at the title link. (ps)
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18.Nov.2002
The Legacy
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The Legacy: Extension for the Game forum integrated
The Legacy is the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, which supplies the readers with screenshots,
cover scans and information about the developers. A small extension for
the Game-Forum
was integrated. The last forum entries can now be displayed in the
Sidebar of the Mozilla browser and will be updated every 15 minutes.
This can be activated on the front site as well as in the game forum.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New fxPAINT 2.0 benchmark page
On the fxPAINT-page you can now find benchmark results that document the
speed gains through native support of x86 and PPC. The routines, already
very fast on 68K, run - depending on the effect/operation - more than 7
times faster on an 180 MHz PowerPC, more than 40 times faster on Amithlon
running on a 850 MHz Athlon.
fxPAINT is an award-winning graphics program for AmigaOS, MorphOS, Amithlon,
PowerUP and WarpUP covering many different fields of graphical applications.
Besides others, more than 90 high quality effects for image processing,
natural painting tools, image-managment, batchprocessing- and numerous
Internet tools are available to you. More information on fxPAINT can be
found on the fxPAINT-homepage.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Game: ArTKanoid V2.0
A strongly revised version 2.0 of ArTKanoid is now available for download at the title
link or in the Aminet.
Main changes:
- 24Bit-Skins (can also be used with 256 colors or less)
- AHI-Sound
- 100% system friendly
- Adjustable framerate, for example 100 cycles per second for "smooth"
Gameplay also on graphic cards
Download: ArTKanoid2.lha
Much fun thereby, bug reports and suggestions are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Game: AMHuhn Version 1.1 and news
Franz 'CjStroker' Schlick and Telemar Rosenberger found a new name for their programming activities. The name is Abacus Design.
For AMHuhn and future projects a page was created, which is accessible at the title link. The page is a subpage of Amiforce and also uses its forum. Appropriate boards were also created. Updates on AMHuhn version 1.1:
An update of AMHuhn version 1.1 is now available. With the
update some problems are fixed. This update can only be downloaded after a
free registration. We ask all users, that are interested in the update,
to be honest. After input of the data the download starts automatically.
Changes:
An English version of AMHuhn version 1.1 is now also available. The guide is likewise included in German and English. For more detailed information please read the guide, which is on-line available in a HTML version.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: MediatorUP 3.5 & MM CD UP 1.19
The MediatorUP 3.5 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI
1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV has been made available today.
The update includes the new version of:
Changes:
pci.library ver. 5.9 - the PatchInt variable added
The MM CD 1.19 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI
4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX,
Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered
owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes the new version of:
Changes:
FastEthernet.device ver. 1.7 - code optimization
Info on the current versions is available in DOWNLOADS | Mediator section. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox Statement: Elbox against piracy
Under the title link you find a detailed statement of Elbox computer
concerning the discussions and various statements about the Spider USB drivers, RDB and RDSK strings in drivers.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
AmigaZone (ANF)
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AmigaZone: StAHG update available
StAHG (the Standard Amiga Help Guide) has received an update (version
1.1). This update is free, and replaces the previous version.
Bugfix: This version corrects an error in which some documents could
be missed during the scanning process.
StAHG is a free utility from AmigaZone as a gift to the Amiga
Community. It scans the HELP assign for various forms of
documentation and builds a single "WorkBench.guide" with links to each
document. The Workbench.guide is accessable by pressing the "Help"
key under AmigaOS 3.5 or higher.
We hope you enjoy StAHG,
Targhan
Programmer, AmigaZone
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel Software Updates, X-Surf News
The Windows-drivers for the Catweasel ISA have been extended by some
features. Mainly support for the new Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper has
been added. Also in the archive: a driver for Windows 2000 and Windows
XP that makes use of a keyboard that's connected to the Catweasel MK3
PCI/Flipper.
Download: cw_win_pci.zip (108 KB)
The Amiga-version of the driver has also been adapted to the new
controller, the new multidisk.device V3.62 now supports the Catweasel
MK3 in a Zorro slot, or on any clockport of an Amiga. This device is
prepared to support the Catweasel MK3 in a PCI slot of an emulated
Amiga (for example Amithlon or Amiga Forever).
Download: mdisk362.zip (22 KB)
Many people have asked for a picture of the new controller, because
it's hard to imagine how the same board can fit in the Zorro slot and
in a PCI slot. Here's a picture of the controller, taken out of the
running production. It shows the bare board without the metal bracket
and the second joystick connector.
cwmk3.jpg (113 KB)
Good news for all Amiga users who want to bring their computer to a
network: The most successful networking card in the Amiga market has
been updated, and the price will be lower. The reason for the continuous
success of the board might be it's software support: The X-Surf 2 will
remain the only networking card on the market that comes with PPPoE
drivers - these are necessary for most DSL modems. As opposed to the
older model, the new X-Surf 2 does not have a BNC connection any more,
all other technical details remain the same. If you need this connector
you should be quick, because the last boards have already been shipped
to our resellers a few weeks ago.
(ps)
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17.Nov.2002
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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FreeCD: Just Football (Amiga), Deimos (Windows)
Patrick Henz has released the CD-ROM 'Just Football' for Amiga computers as
well as 'Deimos' for Windows computers in his FreeCD series. 'Just Football'
contains a large number of football games and other software on that theme,
while 'Deimos' contains games from various genres.
Contents: Just Football (Amiga)
- Add Ons: Brazilian leagues by Ronaldo Figueiró for Eat the Whistle, Goal and SWOS.
- Disks: ADF-versions of Five-A-Side-Soccer, Football Glory AGA, Tactical Manager,
Airball and Amiga Soccer. Thanks to Incagold
and Brad Design.
- Games: Anstoss (thanks to Incagold ),
Anstoss-WM (thanks to Incagold),
BManager, Football Indoor (thanks to Incagold),
Football Business, Football Glory (thanks to Incagold),
FSV Santa Monica (thanks to Frey United),
Hallenturnier (thanks to Frey United), On The
Ball (thanks to Incagold), On The Ball - World
Cup (thanks to Incagold), PSV Eindhoven Manager
(Light Version) (thanks to Frey United), PSV-Guide,
Ruhrpott-Fussball Manager, Airball (thanks to
Brad Design).
- Information: Guides to the European Championships and the World Cup from Pasi Ylinen.
- Tools: ADF, ELFC, FLeagues, Football, Gol, Leagues and Liga 4.
- Online-Games: Football-O-Rama by Frey United.
Contents: Deimos (Windows)
Deimos, the smaller one of the two Martian moons. This CD-ROM includes
lots of cool PC software in these categories: 1982 (classic gaming),
Fantasy, Games, Internet, Languages, Science Fiction, Space, Star
Trek and Star Wars.
All programs have been tested under Windows 98, so they should run
without problems even on new machines.
- 1982: Ant Artic Adventure, Arcadia, Asteroids (Disaster), Bally (Ballist),
Break Out (Aquanoid, Web Breaker), Bruce Lee, Choplifter (Airlift Rescue), Commando,
Defender (Abductor), Galaga (Bugs), The Great Giana Sisters (spm2), Helicpoter Attack,
LCD-Games (Banana Mania, Bartender, Be a Slayer, Cronch, Dunk Candidate, Gasoline, Madman,
Peanut, Smackdown, Soccer, Sydney to Hobart, Uaaah), Lode Runner, Missile (Warhead),
Pac Man (Applegather, Pac Man), Paperboy (DnDelivery), Pong (Cmash), River aid (River),
Robotron (Bendertron), Shanghai (Shanghai Dynasty, Ultra Blast), Space Invaders, Subscan,
Tetris (Bubbles, Flashblox), Trix (Ballist), Tron (Lcycle), Worms (Nibbles, Stanley).
- Fantasy: Games (Cutie Quake, E-Gon 1-3, EgoBoo, Elf Bowling, Reptar, Samurai Asshole,
Sumocarrier Xena BraskOut).
- Games: Action Supercross, Bike Flyer, Black Jack, Bzzz!, Cavity Crusade, Duel,
Final Fighter, Flashgolf, Flashracer, Fun Run, Gubble 2, Hit Him, Super 1 Karting,
Rockpaper, Save the Goldfish, Snowcraft, Speedway, Virtual Startton.
- Internet: ICQ 2002, Mozilla, Zone Alarm.
- Mixed: Banja, Bored Meeting, Stress.
- Science Fiction: Games (Ace Speeder, Backtrak, Canopia, Deadlive, Deadly Weaponz,
Frontier 2400, Probe n Poke, Trick Style, Road Wars, GL Tron, Splatterfish, Starship,
UniBall, Freeride Trash, Horum).
- Space: Celestia.
- Star Wars: Wonder Dweeb, X-King.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: New games, a.o.t. Karate Kid 2 and scans
With permission of the copyright owners, Back to the Roots puts up original
Amiga games for download and furthermore offers freeware games, demos, musical
pieces, scans of game packages etc. In the current newsletter, Back to the
Roots are reporting about new items on the site. In particular, sports games have been added:
"Now that the summer here is over, we have prepared a couple of sports events
to test your physical shape. Get down to it:
Arms and legs are being exercised with 'Shadow Fighter' and 'Karate Kid 2'.
Thanks to 'Empire Soccer', football skills can be proven. If you want to show
us how skilful you can handle a motorbike, 'Super Hang On' is just the thing.
Btw, thanks to permission of Tynesoft, you can start in a whole lot of
different disciplines with 'Summer Olympiad' and 'Buffalo Bill's Rodeo Games'.
And to avoid the mind rusting in with all those muscle games, we have provided
you with 'K240', 'Millenium 2.2' and lots of other games.
Something really extraordinary awaits you with 'Exile'. Here you take on the
identity of a fully trained astronaut. And for phasing out after all this sport
the cute 'Tearaway Thomas' is presenting himself, with whom you will be faster
on the way than with Sonic.
This update also contains scans of mostly rare game packaging (e.g. Quik and
Silva, or XR35), as well as two articles about the Amiga demo groups Ephidrena
and Loonies!
Games, demos, music and more. What else do you want? Just have a look into
'Back to the Roots'."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Maja (ANF)
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Media: Self-destructing DVDs
The American manufacturer MGM has developed a technology by which DVDs become
unreadable after the expiration of a certain time span, e.g. 2 days after
opening the package. In the process chemicals are used which, when exposed to
air, trigger a chemical reaction which can't be stopped.
More about this under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Event: ARC 2002 - Advance ticket sale started
The advance ticket sale for the 'AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002'
fair taking place on 7th and 8th December 2002 in Aachen has begun.
The Web form for the advance ticket sale have been online since today. As of
now, tickets can be ordered with a price reduced by EUR 1,-. This is the first
Amiga fair making use of e-Tickets. Thus you don't have to pay for p&p. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Emulator: WinUAE.chm V1.8 and Amiga Emulator FAQ updated
After WinUAE V0.8.22r2 having been released on 14th November 2002, Peter
Hutchison has updated his
Amiga Emulator FAQ as
well as the
WinUAE.chm help file
of that Amiga emulator. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Matthew Monsoor (Amiga Open-ML)
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Amiga: Amiga-Logo on Microsoft web site
In the Amiga Open mailing list on 16th November 2002, Matthew Monsoor has drawn
attention to the Amiga logo being listed on the Microsoft web site's
'Enterprise Solution Providers - Partner Logos'
page.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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AGH: Voting form for Nov./Dec. 2002 Amiga Games Hit Parade online
Amiga Games Hit Parade (former Amiga Games Classifying) are bimonthly
determining the most popular games. Currently the form for participating in the
November/Decemter 2002 Hitlist vote is online.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: 60+ GameIcons for all genres by Frank
On 16th November 2002, 'PygmIconsGL_G2.LHA', a new games icons package, has
been published on GamesIcons.info.
This includes more than 60 AmigaOS V3.5 icons for all game genres. The package
has been compiled by Frank.
Download: PygmIconsGL_G2.LHA
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
ANN
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Text viewer: EvenMore V0.60
On 15th November 2002, version 0.60 of the text viewer 'EvenMore' has been
released. In this version the plugin system for the EvenMore preferences
has been updated. Chris Perver writes:
"The new plugin system will allow users to create user settings in the
preference window for their own plugins. EvenMore automatically loads and
saves the plugin settings whenever the main settings are loaded or
saved. This will allow more complicated plugins to be created.
An example of this plugin has been created for the Generic2Text plugin, to
allow you to open a binary file in readable or hexadecimal view.
The other plugins have had to be updated to support a change in the plugin
system and in the EvenMore executable."
Various plugins are available for download on the plugin subpage of the
EvenMore home page.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Heise (ANF)
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PDA: Sharp-Zaurus Enterprise version in collaboration with IBM
Together with Sharp, IBM is developing a version of the Linux PDA Zaurus
especially for business clients. This version's features include software
developed by IBM for wireless access to company networks including
data synchronisation.
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[News message: 17. Nov. 2002, 09:40] [Comments: 0]
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