amiga-news DEUTSCHE VERSION
.
Links| Forums| Comments| Report news
.
Chat| Polls| Newsticker| Archive
.

Amiga events
13.-15.06.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany)
01.-02.08.25 • Amiga/040 • Mountain View (USA)
11.-14.09.25 • Classic Computing 2025 • Hof (Germany)
17.-19.10.25 • Amiga40 • Mönchengladbach (Germany)
14.-16.11.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany)

04.Dec.2001



 neo Award: Intermediate Result - Position #23
As already reported amiga-news.de was nominated for the Internet-Award neo, category "favorit website". At the time being we rank on position #23 what we think to be a huge success. We thank all readers who voted for us! Since you can vote every week, you can vote for amiga-news.de using your password again, this week. Put please, keep being fair and vote only once per week, cause otherwise we would disqualify ourselfves.

One word about data security: The organizer assures explicit that your registering data will be treated strictly confidential. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 04. Dec. 2001, 12:35] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Future: Interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' Team
Andreas Magerl did an interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' team for the 'Amiga Future' magazine. Schlachtfeld is about a strategy game. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 04. Dec. 2001, 11:51] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Dec.2001
W.F.M.H. (ANF)


 Electronic Teacher 5 - special offer + new site
W.F.M.H. has launched a new internet site for one of its flagships: Electronic Teacher 5 CD. The multimedia language tutor home can now be found at http://eteacher5.com . Besides, the package can now be ordered at promotional price (even 50% off)!

As publishing house informs, the software is still under heavy development and among tons of new features (including even animation support) then new release will bring us, the two new language data CD are expected to be released as well, with lessons of German and French! Electronic Teacher 6 is expected to be released at the end of April 2002. (ps)

[News message: 04. Dec. 2001, 11:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
04.Dec.2001
Christian Hujer (ANF)


 Adobe SVG Viewer for Unix
Since a couple of days Adobe is offering the SVG Viewer for downlaod on the page for unsupported versions as version 3.0 beta 1 in English for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Solaris 8.

The SVG Viewer is a web-browser plugin for displaying vector images of the XML basing W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (see Heise's articel, German). The Windows and Mac versions have an ActiveX interface for the Internet Explorer and a Netscape plugin interface for Netscape 4.x (and by this it is supposed to run with Konqueror and other browsers supporting the Netscape interface at 100%). Contrary to that the Linux version has a Mozilla interface and does not support Netscape's plugin architecture which is poorly documented, anyway.

In a first try this plugin could not be used under SuSE Linux 7.2 with Mozilla 0.9.5 RPM, it was not recognized, but Mozilla 0.9.5 and the plugin still are beta versions. For the final versions a better cooperation of both may be expected.

With the Adobe SVG Viewer available for Linux and Solaris the popularity and use of SVG might increase very much.

Of course the Linux port is available as binary only unfortuantely, meaning that it mainly contains of .so files (libraries) compiled for x86 Linux. That is, though there is a x86 Linux port now, an Amiga port is as far away as ever. Even the efforts of Mozilla.org are promising more remedy. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 04. Dec. 2001, 02:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Dec.2001
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)


 Music: DBPro Mod-Compo - Rules
Plans about a DBM-Compo by the Digibooster Pro Community. But they do not want to make the according rules without requesting the ideas and opinions of the users. Proposals can be made until Friday (7.12.2001) by posting them at the DBPro-Community forum at the title link.

It would be grade if as many as possible users would participate in this discussion and in the upcoming competition. (ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 03. Dec. 2001, 22:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

03.Dec.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets
WHD-Load lets you install your floppy-based games on to your harddisc. The follwing packets were updated or newly included:

  • 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
  • 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
  • 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
  • 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
  • 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) joypad support added
  • 30.11.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) supports another version
  • 30.11.01 new: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) done by Psygore
  • 30.11.01 improved: New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) supports another version and some fixes
  • 30.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) supports another version
  • 30.11.01 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) joypad support added
  • 30.11.01 new: Friendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 new: Death Bringer (Empire) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 new: Black Crypt (Raven Software) done by CFOU!
  • 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 03. Dec. 2001, 21:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Dec.2001
Amiga.org


 Amiga.org: Interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion
There is an (English) interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainmet available at Amiga.org (title link). (ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 03. Dec. 2001, 20:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Dec.2001
Håkan Parting


 Instant Messenger: AmiComSys Version 2.1
Håkan Parting released version 2.1 of his program AmiComSys.

Changes:

  • BUGFIX: When all the checkboxes in the Client list settings/Show which information were checked the computer crashed. So if you had that setting in v. 1.34 and tried 2.0 the computer just crashed.
  • BUGFIX: It didn't work to install plugins directly from the plugin installer, by setting the environmental variable ACS_INSTALLPLUGIN.
(ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 03. Dec. 2001, 20:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Dec.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)


 DCE makes "Visionary" TV-Software online available
The TV-software "Visionary" for the G-Rex PCI-board is now available at the homepage of DCE. This release includes the skins for this program. A driver for 100MBit network adapters (based on RTL8039) is still beta and will soon be available at the DCE-supportpage. (ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 03. Dec. 2001, 19:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Dec.2001
Oliver Wagner (ML)


 Vaporware: New Regtool with Euro-support
The offline-regtool 'Regtool' by Vapoware is now available with Euro-support and contains all new Vapor-products. All prices can be converted with the help of MUI (short help system). Products can still be paid and registered online by using a credit card and with the help of Silicon Circus Ltd. (UKP).

Download: regtool.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 03. Dec. 2001, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
03.Dec.2001
Martin Strojek (E-Mail)


 AMIGA in the media: 'Bild am Sonntag' of 02.12.2001
In the yesterday's issue of the German newspaper "Bild am Sonntag" the Amiga was mentioned in the special column "VIVABamS" on page 3. There is a draw with ATB (André Tanneberger, musician), mentioning the Amiga. Tanneberger said that his first computer was an Amiga on which he made electro songs. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 03. Dec. 2001, 17:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Andreas Steup (ANF)


 Emulator: Amiga Forever 5 Benchmark
Andreas Steup writes:
In the stated URL you can find a few short Benchmark-Tests for WinUAE-Emulators from the Amiga Forever 5 package.

Result: A 300MHz Pentium is almost enough to emulate a 68040 Amiga with 80MHz, which means double the speed.

The English version of the tests are available. (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 22:50] [Comments: 1 - 05. Dec. 2001, 02:47]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
ANN


 Workbench: Scalos with new Domain
You can now get access to the website of the Workbench Replacement "Scalos" under the new domain www.scalos.co.uk. This means that all the e-mail addresses have also changed as they now end with "@scalos.co.uk".

We've got outselves a new domain because the previous one Domain expired and was taken over by namezero.com. (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 21:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Gabriele Greco (sdl-amiga ML)


 Library: SDL V1.2.3 Beta
On 2. December 2001 Gabriele Greco published the Beta-version 1.2.3 of the Multimedia-Library "SDL" for AmigOS and MorphOS. All the improvements and bug fixes of 1.2.3. should have been implemented in this version.

The following amiga-specific improvements have been made:
  • Completely compatible with libnix (the 68k as well as the MorphOS version). Some demos (testsprite, testpalette) show that the libnix-version is 30% faster than the ixemul-version
  • Bugfix: A crash or a corruption of the memory list was possible in the hardware-accellerating and full-screen mode.
  • Modification: General clean up of the CyberGFX-Codes. Maybe this has also removed the Colors-Bug of Picasso 96 (wasn't tested).
Gabriele Greco is hoping to finish the final version by next weekend in order to add the new sources to the official Source and Development-Package on the official site SDL-Site.

The archive contains: include, docs, gcc 68k lib, SAS/C 68k lib and gcc MorphOS PPC lib.

The SDL enables the platform-independent programming of games and multimedia products.

Download: SDL-1.2.3-Amiga.zip (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 21:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
V3Portal


 VNC: zvnc V1.0
On 1st December 2001 David Gerber published Version 1.0 of VNC-Clients "zvnc".

This is a small VNC-Client without Display-Support which is supposed to controll a second PC with monitor.

The advantage of "zvnc" is that only minimal data is transferred through the network since there are no graphics. In this way the mouse and keyboard input is very direct.

"zvnc" applies to AmigaOS V2.0 (68000), AmigaOS V3.0 (68020) and MorphOS (PPC).

Download: zvnc_1.0.lha (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 20:22] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Aminet


 XML: Expat as Shared-Library
The porting of the XML-Parser-Library "expat" for AmigaOS was published by James S. Perrin in Aminet. This version is available as Amiga-Shared-Library.

Expat is among other things used by the Web-Browser "Mozilla" for parsing XML-documents.

"Expat" was originally developped by James Clark, who also was technical manager of the XML Working Group of W3C for the drawing up of the XML 1.0 specification.

Download: (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 17:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
ANN


 USB: Information about "Subway" (USB about Clockport)
KDH Datentechnik has published Information about the USB-Controller "Subway" for the Clockport of Amiga 1200:

  • compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0.
  • integrated 4 Port-HUB.
  • all ports are protected against over-tension and over-burdening.
  • integrated Power-Management for all ports.
  • energy is saved due to 3,3V Technology.
  • compatible with all 68030/40/060 and PPC-Turbo Cards.
  • no technical problems with Amiga 1200-Busboards.
  • compatible with all Amiga 1200 Tower Casings.
  • Standard Amiga 1200 Clockport-Connection.
  • Highspeed-Clockport-Connection for a quicker transfer of data.
  • Works on every Amiga 1200 compatible clockport.
(sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 16:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
ANN


 IRC: AmIRC V3.5.21beta
Oliver Wagner published the beta-version 3.5.21 of the IRC-Clients "AmIRC" on the 30th November 2001. This version solves various little problems.

This update can only be used by registered users. The package contains text input V29.3.

Download: amirc_3521beta.lzx (222K) (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 16:46] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: Free classified advertisements relaunched
Daniel Orth writes:
Apart from the new design of our webpage for the Amiga-Magazine "amiga-topcool" we have also designed the section for the classified ads in a new way. The advantage is that you don't have to wait that somebody inserts an advert since this is now done by a small CGI-Script.

It's also now possible to buy advert space by means of an auction. Offers from 1 DM onwards are accepted. (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 15:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Ralf Hasemann (ANF)


 Trade fair: Amiga Expo announced (Update)
The trade fair "Amiga Expo" takes place in Baltimore, MD USA in the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn on 29th until 31st March 2002.

Further information about the trade fair can be found under the title link.

Appendix 02.12.2001:
date corrected as follows: 2002. (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Jens Henschel (ANF)


 BASIC: AmiBlitz User-Site now also for Amiga-Browser
Jens [bruZard] Henschel writes:
I have completely changed the design for the Blitzbasic-Site (www.blitz3d.x-cellence.de) since Amiga-Browser wasn't able to bring it up. From now on problems won't come up any more. Should it nevertheless come to some incompatibilities here and there, please inform me, so that I can solve the problem. Contact address: bruzard@x-cellence.de.

The site and the forum have been enlarged by an AmiBlitz-Section because of wide-spread interest. This will be filled up over the next few days. First, a tutorial for beginners will be published so that the Blitzbasic-Community might increase after all.

happy programming,

Jens [bruZard] Henschel (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Amiga-Society.de: It's all over
Horst Diebel writes:
1.12.2001 - This is the end of the Amiga-Society.de. Why should we create such a site that is of no use at all and that only causes trouble?

This question has occurred to me over the last few weeks more and more frequently.

After our relaunch we had more and more attacks on our site and in particular on my PC, that is to say my e-mail address. A week ago it finally happened that I gradually switched off the e-mail addresses because only virulent e-mails were arriving.

The initiators will know what I mean.... maybe they have reached their objective in this way.

By the end of the year I will have the site switched off! The competition will of course be finished - relevant addresses will be available before the end of the year and approximately until the 6th January 2002. The announcement of the lucky winners will be around mid-January 2002.

After this event I will retire completely. The project "battlefield" will certainly be continued by some of the participants - alternative Internet addresses will probably be announced very soon.

BI would like to thank all the people who have helped create the site.

Bye....

Horst (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
02.Dec.2001
Alexander Pfau (ANF)


 Amithlon.net now also in German
Bernd Meyer's Website "Amithlon.net", which accompanies the Amiga-Emulator for x86er-Systems, is now also available in German.

It was translated into German by Alexander Pfau. (sd) (Translation: sr)

[News message: 02. Dec. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Dec.2001
Michael Ulbrich (ANF)


 Amithlon-"Party" in Berlin
An Amithlon event is being planned to be held in a little local Internet Café in Berlin.

More information (German) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 01. Dec. 2001, 17:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Dec.2001
Virus Help Denmark


 Virus Help Denmark: Interim results of the vote
The survey of Virus Help Denmark about the anti-virus programmer who has done the most against viruses is still running for a month. Here are the current results:

  • Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor: 169 votes
  • Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library: 168 votes
  • Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe: 18 votes
  • Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II: 9 votes
  • Heiner Schneegold _ VT-Schutz: 4 votes
  • Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III: 3 votes
Who hasn't participated so far can still vote at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 01. Dec. 2001, 16:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Dec.2001
(ANF)


 Preordering the Show Video CD
Due to not only a few users showed me their interest in my video CD within a short period of time I've put an order form on my homepage, with which you can preoder the CD online. Just enter your name and address an you will receive the CD for free. You'll have to pay postage, only.

If you happen to have problems submitting the order, please send an e-mail with subject 'Video-CD' to me. Of course names and addresses will be treated strictly confidential and deleted after this project.

Best regards,
Falcon (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 01. Dec. 2001, 16:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Dec.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


 C't reports extensively about Amiga
The German computer magazine c't reports in its current issue (issue 25/01 on Monday at the newsstands) extensively on a full page (page 46) about the Amiga 2001 show and the Pegasos board! Also mentioned are AmigaOS XL, Hyperion, PCI boards and the USB port. (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 01. Dec. 2001, 15:56] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
01.Dec.2001
amiga.org (ANF)


 Apex Designs: Payback being ported to AmigaDE and Macintosh
Apex Designs' 'Payback' will be ported to Intent/AmigaDE and Apple Macintosh. The port to the AmigaDE will be done by Apex Designs, the port to MacOS by Vitual Programming. (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 01. Dec. 2001, 15:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
Martin Kuchinka


 Programming language: PowerD V0.19 Alpha2
Martin Kuchinka has released an update for the alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'. In this version some bugs were fixed and the possibility to insert local objects was added.

Download: alpha.lzx - alpha.readme (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 21:22] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

30.Nov.2001
KDH News (ANF)


 KDH advent calendar with draw (Update)
Between December 1rst and December 24th we will offer you a daily highlight at a special low budget price. Just click on the appropriate door on our KDH advent calendar and enjoy our daily highlight.

We recommend a daily visit to our site and you may see a item you always wanted at an affordable price. Each highlight is valid for two days. All orders submitted via our advent calendar with take part in a draw. The 1rst winner will receive a copy of Descent Freespace, 2nd winner Shogo, 3rd winner Wipeout.

Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik

Update 03. December 2001:
Dear customers, since the draw we have been planning on occasion of our KDH Advent calendar possibly would violate the rules of the competition rights, as it already was pointed out to us, we decided to stop this draw in the interest of a fair and justly unobjectionable competition. Currently it is being investigated to find a legal form to continue the draw.

Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 19:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: Aggressors put Hompages at Freenet on hold
Due to a hacker's offense currently all user homepages at Freenet.de are not accessible. Freenet is investigating how this attack was done and will try to fix the possibly existing security gap, hence it is not clear when the user websites will be available again.
See title link for Heise's article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 19:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
bruZard's blitzbasic[3D][bbb3D] (ANF)


 BlitzBasic PC & BlitzBasic AMIGA
For some weeks the site www.blitz3d.x-cellence.de (title link) is now online. It deals with the topic BlitzBasic on the PC. Since I come from the Amiga BlitzBasic I would like to create a section on this topic as well. Especially now that the development of BlitzBasic for the Amiga continues. It only justifies the efforts though if there are interested people who would appreciate that. So: who has interest in a BlitzBasic AMIGA site should show it by leaving a comment.

There already exists a bulletin board on the site which would also be extended by an Amiga section. I'd like to thank you already for your interest.

Jens [bruZard] Henschel (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 19:03] [Comments: 1 - 01. Dec. 2001, 17:36]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium finished
The full version of the audio software ProStationAudio Titanium is now ready and is currently distributed with all plugins for a special price. Also AudioLabs announced a ProStationAudio benchmark tool for next week. The tool measures the performance of ProStationAudio on 68k computers with AmigaOS as well as on emulated Amigas. More details at the title link. (ps)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 18:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
Matay


 Matay: S3 Virge PCI graphics cards driver (beta)
Matay today published a beta version of the S3 Virge chip based PCI graphics cards driver for Prometheus. His author, Alexander Kneer, bewares it can still be not fully functional (some overlay problems can appear), yet should work.

Download: Prom-s3.lha (ps)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 17:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

30.Nov.2001
ANN


 Programming: JumpED Version 5.0
Bruce Steers today released version 5.0 of his tool JumpED. Jump to functions in your editor via MUI listview. By default it translates source code for ARexx, Amiga_E, AmigaGuides, Javascript/PHP and Perl/CGI. JumpED has editor support for BED, TurboText, GoldED and Quill.

Download: JumpED.lha (ps)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 16:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)


 Magazine: Clubbed total Amiga magazine
The trial issues as well as full subscriptions to CLUBBED/TOTAL AMIGA magazine can now be made at the store using our 128 Bit Secure online ordering system (Amiga Online Superstore). (ps)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 15:42] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
Prelude Software (ANF)


 Prelude.library V5.3 released
V5.3 of the prelude.library was released by Thomas Wenzel. Some Enforcer hits were removed.

Download: prllib53.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 15:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

30.Nov.2001
Gabriele Greco (E-Mail)


 SDL-Amiga mailinglist created
Gabriele Greco has created a new mailing list: SDL-Amiga. This list is dedicated to Amiga SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) programmers. The list will be used mainly to discuss problems of the SDL amiga implementation or related with the development or the porting of SDL applications for Amiga (68k, WOS/PUP, MorphOS).

To subscribe the list you can send an empty e-mail to: sdl-amiga-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to the following URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdl-amiga/join. (ps)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 14:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
Macwelt Online / Jorge Pino (ANF)


 Macwelt Online: Bugfixes and G5 speculations
»Bugfixes and G5 speculations:
Due to a report of the British website The Register, Motorola has released two new CPUs. The two chips PowerPC 7451 and PowerPC 7441 are the successors of the G4+-named PowerPC 7450 and the energy-saving PowerPC 7440. The specifications of the CPUs do not differ from their predecessors, according to The Register there were only some bugs fixed in the chips.«
Full article in German at the title link.

More links on the topic:
Heise (German): Apple wants to join the Gigahertz club
(ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 13:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

30.Nov.2001
Der Standard / Suka (ANF)


 "Der Standard" reports on Amiga show O.A.S.E.
The online issue of the Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" reports about the Amiga show O.A.S.E. taking place this weekend in Graz/Austria. (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 13:05] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001



 amiga-news.de is nominated for the neo Award

neo Award amiga-news.de is nominated for the neo Award (German internet award)! If you want to participate in the awards and support us, please click here. You'll find amiga-news.de in the category "Beliebteste Website" (most popular website). To vote you'll have to register in order to make sure you only vote once.

We are very happy that we were nominated by our readers for this award :-). For voting some nice prices can be won, of which the first prize is a Smart. (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 13:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
30.Nov.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Future: Interview with Jürgen Schober of point.design
Anton Preinsack interviewed Jürgen Schober of point.design. for Amiga Future. Jürgen Schober is Amiga dealer in Austria and organizer of the Open Amiga Southeast European Show O.A.S.E. taking place this weekend for the first time. The point.design home show takes place on 1st and 2nd December 2001 in Graz. Anton Preinsack talks with Jürgen about the show and how you struggle through life as the last Austrian Amiga dealer. (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 30. Nov. 2001, 02:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Nov.2001
OnyxSoft


 OnyxSoft: DRemind V 1.58 and MultiRen V 1.46
Onyxsoft updated the reminder tool DRemind to version 1.58. MultiRen, a tool for renaming files, now is available as version 1.46. Both of the tools have been programmed by Daniel Westerberg.

Download: dremind.lha - multiren.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 15:53] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

29.Nov.2001
Bernd Lachner


 Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
On Bernd Lachner's homepage at the "Amiga Software / UAE - SDL" section you can find the UAE SDL being an extension of the Amiga emulator UAE to let it use the SDL library (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for graphics output and keyboard and mouse input.

Advantages of the SDL version:
  • Display of the UAE Amiga screen in fullscreen mode possible trouble-free for ordinary users, too.
  • Display of the UAE Amiga screen even possible on the frame-buffer console of Linux, that means without X-Windos.
Detailed information (German) and download links are to find under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 15:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Nov.2001
Amiga Demoscene Archive


 A.D.A.: New Demos from the Demo Scene online
The new website A.D.A. (Amiga Demoscene Archive) containig scene demos for download was completely switched to PHP. Currently the 'Amsterdam Blessing/Mawi' demo was added, which made it to position three on the Mekka Symposium 2001. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 15:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Nov.2001
Hyperion / Steffen Haeuser (ANF)


 Hyperion: Freespace Demo - Update 3 available
Today, the third update of the FreeSpace demo version was released on our WWW-site, which now fixes the "freeze bug", at last. So there is nothing left to prevent the full version from being released, soon.

We are still busy to fix some little things (also in reply to feedback for the demo version), but this should be finished, soon.

Additionally I will upload the demo version including all bugfixes to Aminet within the next days.

Steffen Haeuser (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 15:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Nov.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


 Event: Big Christmas Festivity of the ACBB
The ACBB is organizing an Amiga Christmas festivity to take part on 16. November 2001. They will take care to have coffee, cakes, Advent songs (MP3) and atmospheric Workbench backgrounds at hand. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 13:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Nov.2001
AIO


 Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #53
Issue #53 of the online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was published. AIO uses their own viewer program which runs under AmigaOS.

Download: AIOV53.LHA (ps)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 12:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

29.Nov.2001
MorphOS News


 MorphOS-News: RageHard Infos about Multiplayer-Game for MorphOS & Mac
Jürgen Lucas, MorphOS News, talked to Michael Garlich, Titan Computer, about their new multiplayer game (up to 32 players) 'RageHard'. You can find the interview (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 11:55] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
29.Nov.2001
Kevin Orme (ANF)


 Amiga University site updates
We have added more than 150 new links, link-checked the entire site, as well as added new pages on Amithlon/AmigaOSXL and Amiga DiskMags (online archives of The Crypt as well as Amiga Information Online).

We have also added a major new site mirror, that of Gareth Knight's Amiga Interactive Guide, as well as the newly replaced mirror of the Blitz Basic 2000 site (David McMinn just redid their entire site, as he announced about 1.5 weeks ago here on ANN). In short, a lot of 'new' and plenty of 'old' for your use and enjoyment.

Kevin Orme
Amiga University
AmigaU (ps)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 11:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

29.Nov.2001
AmigaSDL-Pages (ANF)


 Library: SDL V1.2.2 for AmigaOS with OpenGL-Support (StormMesa/Warp3D)
Beta version 1.2.2 of the 'Simple Directmedia Layer' library now is available as versions for Amiga PowerPC/68k with and without OpenGL support (Warp3D/StromMesa). The Amiga port was done by Glenn Hisdal.

The SDL library by Sam Lantiga is available to various other platforms including MorphOS, BeOS, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. It offers fast access to the graphics and audio capabilities of the respective system. With this it allows platform comprehensive development of games and other multimedia products like MPEG players and emulators. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 29. Nov. 2001, 02:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Nov.2001
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)


 Event: AmiGBG 2002
AmiGBG 2002. That's the name of the first Swedish Amiga fair since 1998. AmiGBG 2002 will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The fair will contain both swedish and foreign exhibitors, both companys and user groups.

At AmiGBG 2002 you will get a glimpse of the future Amiga system, both of Amiga OS 4 and Amiga DE. You will also see existing and coming systems with modern hardware from different manufacturers.

Welcome to Gothenburg in 2002! (ps)

[News message: 28. Nov. 2001, 23:03] [Comments: 1 - 30. Nov. 2001, 00:59]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: New xsurfadsl.device with appp update
A new version of the xsurfadsl.device, the PPPoE driver for our networking card X-Surf, can be found in the support-area of our website. For the first time, the archive also contains an updated version of the appp.device that has been licensed from Haage & Partner (see article from November, 12th).

The source code of version 2.7 that we got from Haage & Partner was different from the binary that is being sold with the Genesis package in OS3.9 (V2.3). Questions about the changes between the two versions could not be answered until now. The new version provided by us (V3.1) has been updated mainly on internal structures: The device-base code (the interface to the OS) is completely re-written, so opening up to eight units, and freeing all resources after closing them (especially memory) is ensured. Therefore, we also recommend installing the new appp.device, even if you do not own an X-Surf Ethernet card.

At this point, we want to draw your attention to the ISAcatweasel.device, which allows using the PC-Catweasel under Amithlon. Since we have not been able to run Amithlon on any of our computers, we depend you your help in testing. The new archive is now packed with LHA, so difficulties with unpacking the ARJ archive are eliminated. Adapted Catweasel mountlists should make the installation a lot easier. (ps)

[News message: 28. Nov. 2001, 22:27] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Nov.2001
MorphOS


 Library: SDL V1.2.2 Beta for MorphOS (Update)
On 28th of November 2001 Gabriele Greco has published a beta version 1.2.2 of his MorphOS port from the multimedia-library 'Simple DirectMedia Layer'.

This library is available for a wide range of platforms - AmigaOS, BeOS, Linux, Macintosh and Windows belong to them. The library offers a fast access to the graphic and audio abilities of the corresponding system. It therefore enables to develop games and other multimedia products like MPEG players and emulators at several platforms.

Download: libSDL.a.gz (sd) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 28. Nov. 2001, 21:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Nov.2001
Kultpower.de


 Kultpower.de: 12 new ASM-test reports
Kultpower.de has the following 12 new ASM-test reports and the editoral of the ASM 12/89 online:

  • Blockout (Amiga)
  • Chambers of Shaolin (Atari ST, Amiga, C-64)
  • M1 Tank Platoon (IBM PC, XT, AT)
  • Might & Magic 2 (C-64, IBM, Amiga, Apple)
  • North & South (Amiga, ST, PC)
  • Powerdrift (C-64, Amiga, Atari ST, CPC, Speccy) inkl. Werbeanzeige
  • Rings of Medusa (Atari ST, Amiga)
  • Scapeghost (Atari ST, Amiga, Schneider CPC, Spectrum, Apple II, C-64, IBM)
  • Shufflepuck Cafe (Amiga, ST, Apple II, Mac, PC)
  • The Untouchables (C-64, Spectrum)
  • Their finest Hour (IBM)
  • Tiger Heli (PC Engine)
(ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 28. Nov. 2001, 19:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)


 PNG- and JPEG-generator (V4.50) for SuperView
Yesterday Andreas Kleinert has uploaded version 4.50 of PNG-box and JPEG-box to the Aminet. With these tools you can convert graphic-files either to PNG or to JPEG by the help of SuperView-library. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 28. Nov. 2001, 14:51] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
28.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever 5.0
Cloanto released today version 5.0 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga emulation and connectivity package for PCs. New features include just-in-time (JIT) compiler technology to dramatically increase execution speed, new ROM and operating system files to emulate not only the Amiga computers but also Commodore's CDTV and CD³² game consoles, and Software Manager, a content delivery and management system for one-click news, updates and downloads.

An experimental version of the revolutionary Disk2FDI software, which makes it possible to read Amiga floppy disks on the PC, is provided for the technically inclined. Other improvements include support for new Windows XP and DirectX features and new Picasso96 technology to better map Amiga graphics calls to low-level DirectX functionality and native x86 code, in order to achieve maximum performance without sacrificing compatibility. Cloanto publicly benchmarked the new version of the emulation software to be 30 times faster than the previous version (which already matched the CPU performance of the fastest Amiga 68060 silicon).

Amiga Forever can be installed or run from CD-ROM (no installation or reboot required), and is also available in a downloadable Online Edition. In either case, Amiga application can run side by side with the host operating system and its applications, while taking advantage of features such as virtual memory, advanced power management, digital rights management, NTFS filing system, wireless networking, and thousands of past, present and future drivers for peripherals, specifications and gadgets which the Amiga would otherwise not be able to support. For additional information please refer to the Amiga Forever home page at amigaforever.info. (ps)

[News message: 28. Nov. 2001, 14:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Nov.2001
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)


 Play!Amiga: Test of both Quake-Mission-Packs
Though there are no new games for the Amiga, Jürgen Theiner from Play!Amiga has tested games for you. This time it were the Mission-Packs for Quake. Also the new charts are available. You can take place when you send an eMail with your favourite game. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 27. Nov. 2001, 21:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Nov.2001
Simon Neumann (ANF)


 Amiga Speed Update
Amiga Speed has now integrated Bubblefish, a new poll, and some new speedtests. The Heretic2- and the Quake-test were updated and the Actionhit Payback was taken in the 3D game area. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 27. Nov. 2001, 16:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Nov.2001
AmigArt (ANF)


 Hyperion Gives More Info about Amiga OS4
"First of all, the idea is to get the AmigaOS from 68k to the PPC. Of course, there's a lot of code in the system, and lots of code that's beyond our reach (hardware drivers in ROMs, for example). So one of the core components is of course the 68k emulator. The JIT version is already very fast, if you have a 040/25 and a fast 603e, you'll actually be able to run some programs faster than on the physical 040/25...

The second core component will be Exec SG. This is a reimplementation of the original Exec, written in C and placed onto a hardware abstraction layer so that it ports easily from one hardware to the other (remember, we intent to support a lot of different hardware, some of these will not have the Amiga chipset anymore). New features (compared to the old Exec) will be virtual memory. Don't worry, you'll not have to select "Shutdown" from the "Start" menu, you can just switch off ;) We also want to introduce some weak form of memory protection, like protecting code from being overwritten.. Later version will also include resource tracking.

The third mayor (new) building block is the new-style library interface. The cool thing about this is that it enables old 68k libraries to act as new OS4 libraries. To OS4 applications, 68k libraries will look like PPC native libraries. OTOH, new PPC only libraries will look like old 68k libraries to emulated 68k programs. This is achieved by the new library loader: Whenever a library is loaded, the "missing" part of the interface will be generated on-the-fly (by creating so called "stub" functions). So, even though a library is not yet ported to PPC, it can be used as if it were a PPC library, and as soon as it's ported, the program using it will use PPC code, even without recompiling the program (sorry if that comes out a bit complicated....)

For the initial release, we want to have at least the new Exec SG (otherwise, the whole system wouldn't work, anyway), a PPC native DOS, the TCP stack, new file system, and some devices. If there's still time, we'll port as much as possible to native PPC.

I think we have around 20 developers working on OS4.

A solution we're thinking about is loading a kernel image from the hard disk's boot block. The Amiga's disk structure allows arbitraty sized boot blocks, so theoretically, a whole kernel could fit there. We will in any case offer the possibility to use something like SetPatch (including the dreaded reboot). This means that you do not have to reformat your harddrive or even repartition or something like that. As another possibility, we will try to offer the bootblock loading.

We discussed the possibility to include a UAE in the system that will kick in when binaries are executed that require the chipset. That way, running old games could be made transparent

We will apply for BPlan Pegasos developer program, but we will not get special treatment.

We will make as much information as possible available as soon as possible. This includes documents as well as pre-release version of OS 4 for developers. Of course we want as much stuff on OS 4 as possible, so this is going to be a high priority."

- Frieden brothers (ps)

[News message: 27. Nov. 2001, 16:39] [Comments: 2 - 27. Nov. 2001, 23:42]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Nov.2001
Matthias Henze (ANF)


 HSMathLibs and stormamiga.lib will be updated
Because I got well again I will develop on HSMathLibs and the stormamiga.lib again. But do not expect wonders, I have not worked on these projects for over eight months and need some time to get back into the source codes. Also there are other important things for me to do. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 27. Nov. 2001, 16:37] [Comments: 1 - 30. Nov. 2001, 02:44]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Nov.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 26.11.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Trivial Pursuit Genus 2 () install script corrected
  • 26.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) many improvements
  • 26.11.01 new: Fire And Forget 2 (Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 26.11.01 new: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) done by Psygore
  • 26.11.01 improved: Buggy Boy (Elite) supports another version, more icons
  • 26.11.01 new: Buck Rogers (TSR) done by JOTD
  • 25.11.01 new: Trivial Pursuit Genus 2 () done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 improved: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) supports another version
  • 25.11.01 new: Metal Masters (Incal Product/Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 new: Logical (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 new: Iron Lord (UbiSoft) done by CFOU!
  • 23.11.01 new: Hostages/Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 23.11.01 improved: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) keyboard handling fixed
(ps)

[News message: 27. Nov. 2001, 11:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Nov.2001
polarboing.com (ANF)


 Interview with Tomas 'Tjomp' Jacobsen
The Norwegian Amiga news site polarBoing has an interview with Tomas Jacobsen, one of the guys responsible for AmigaDE's first 4k demo. (ps)

[News message: 27. Nov. 2001, 10:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
27.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Pictures from Spoletium 4
On November 24-25, 2001, Cloanto attended the Spoletium 4 event in Spoleto, Italy, providing a wireless webcam service. Pictures are now online at http://cloanto.com/news/20011124spoletium4.html

In a computing world in which hardware and software have exploded beyond imagination, where lone pioneers have been displaced by billion-dollar investments, where programming manuals that used to ship with affordable home computers have been replaced by multi-volume and constantly changing SDKs which are beyond the reach of the average user, the demo scene continues to remind us that writing software can still be a sublime fusion of expression and creativity, of technology and art, a medium in which the germ of talent can be discovered and nourished, where individuals exchange ideas and compete with others, but, as they build universes of which they are to be in full control, are also confronted most of all in an intimate challenge with their inner selves. Thank you, friends at Spoletium, for keeping the flame alive! (ps)

[News message: 27. Nov. 2001, 10:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Nov.2001
ISIS


 ISIS comments blocking of websites
On 22. November 2001 the Chaos Computer Club published that the Internet provider ISIS is practicing censorship (we reported about) by blocking particular websites. This was stopped this morning, as the company became aware of this situation. They said, that those blockades were a result of some experiments of one of thier technicians.

The company pointed out, that whatever they would do, they would be the fool, anyway. If they block sites people will complain about censorship, if they don't they are supposed to support radical right-wing content. ISIS declines this technical solution, which offers so much backdors that the expense can't be justified. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 26. Nov. 2001, 14:39] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Nov.2001
Anton Preinsack (ANF)


 Open Amiga Southeast European Show (O.A.S.E.) in Graz/Austria
The "Open Amiga Southeast European Show (O.A.S.E.)" will be held on the 1.12. and 2.12. in Graz/Austria. The show will open at 10.00 and close at 18.00. This show is organized by point.design. Some of the highlights:

Amithlon, various AMIGA-PCI-devices and maybe a fully useable Pegasos-system. Furthermore there will be a presentation (made with Scala and designed by Ben Hermans) of the upcoming AmigaOS 4.x. The admission is free. Further information is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 26. Nov. 2001, 13:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Amiga Society News - LBoAS / Schlachtfeld
There are some minor updates of the webpage, for example the 'little book of amiga-software'-page - Horst Diebel would like to say thanks for the provided help.

The work on Schlachtfeld is still proceeding. And there will soon be an update of the homepage and some new pictures.

The ICQ-number, published when the graphics-competition started, is no longer valid due to the spaming of the according email-address. (ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 26. Nov. 2001, 11:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
26.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 Programming: OOP for All with new Featurs
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Another week is over and again there is a new version of OOP for All (Object Oriented Programming for All or OOP4A). New possibilities now are statistical contexts and methods synchronisation. The compiler backend was enhanced and the documentation got one more page. You can find all this under the above link.

OOP4A offers an OOP interface to non-object oriented programming languages and it's language comprehensive. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 26. Nov. 2001, 11:08] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)


 Instant-Messenger: AmiComSys V2.0
Version 2.0 of the instant messenger "AmiComSys" has been released. This version contains a line of changes including a security bugfix closing the APIPE / AWNPIPE security gap in combination with MUI.

This program runs on AmigaOS V3.0+ and CPU 68020+.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 22:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
ANN


 Graphics: Translators for PerfectPaint wanted
Halvadjian Georges, author of the 24-bit paint program Perfect Paint, is looking for people who can help with catalog translations. French and English are not needed, other languages are.

Contact: gothic.fr@chello.fr (sd)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 22:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
Amiga Arena


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Florac Roland (AmiCAD)
Olaf Köbnik wrote:
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
The Amiga still offers specialized application software solutions, today, but which unfortunately aren't widely spread due to small usership. "AmiCAD" is one of those programs, which is being developed by Florac Roland. This software is about an editor for creation of electronic wiring diagrams.

The Amiga Arena talked to Florac Roland about developing "AmiCAD" and regrettably it turns out again that there is less than few feedback from the users.

Florac Roland still is urgently wanting users to help him in translating and creating a guide.

"AmiCAD" really is an interesting software and ought to be supported to ensure further development.

Who would like to help with the German localization or manual might write to: Florac Roland (roland.florac@fnac.net. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 20:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
Vapor


 PDA: AmigaNCP V2.2 Beta 2
AmigaNCP is an implementation of the Psion link protocol which is e.g. built into the Psion S3/S3a/S3C and Psion S5 palmtop's ROM. It's main purpose is to provide vice-versa nfs-like file access.

This small update (untested, due to lack of Psion), tries to fix the following two reported issues:
  • NCP_LinkRemoteRun() now allows up to 128 chars file names in EPOC32 (S5) mode
  • AmigaNCP-FileSystem now (hopefully correctly) implementes ACTION_SET_DATE; this should fix the "datestamps not set for backup" problems reported by some people
  • fixed file format for Amiga2Psion clipboard functionality (hopefully)
  • now sends a "Clipboard changed" message to the remote clipboard server when a clipboard exchange has been executed (hopefully)
AmigaNCP requires:
  • AmigaOS 2.04 or better (localization supported).
  • the IBM-PC version of the 3-Link cable.


Download: amigancp_22beta2.lha (27K), README (sd)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 20:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
CyberGFX


 Mediator: List of 3rd Party Software
The worlds oldest Mediator support page has been updated with the 3rd Party Mediator Software Page. Has a complete list of TV, Scanning software and much much more. If you see a program missing e-mail the information here. (sd)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 20:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
Amiga Future


 HTML: Pre-processor HSC V0.922 Beta
Matthias Bethke released beta version 0.922 of the HTML pre-processors "HSC".

This version now has an experimental XHTML support.

This version was released as source code only. The stable version V0.921 (title link) additionally contains the documentation.

Download: hsc-0.922b-source.tar.bz2 (192K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 18:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Akiko released
The CD32/CDTV emulator Akiko for Windows is now available for download on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.

Akiko emulates a CD32 and a CDTV on PCs with Windows with the help of an enhanced version of WinUAE. Akiko does not need the so called extended roms of those consoles, it just requires Kickstart rom 3.1 for CD32 emulation and Kickstart rom 1.3 for CDTV emulation. The enhanced version of the WinUAE is included with the Akiko distribution archive.

The source code of this WinUAE version is available for download on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Akiko is Shareware and the demo version has some limitations. (sd)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 16:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
Kicko (ANF)


 MIDI: Tracks & Fields now For Free, Programmer wanted
«It was ages when v1.02 was released and it was shareware (demo). Both authors (Anders & Dick) left amiga so Jonas Hulten has been updating it for me. As he has not much time for it he gave me the last source code so i can search for another coder.

As i can't get in touch with the first original coder Anders Larsson (also made far updated pc version) i can't upload the source for free on aminet but i can give it to a serious coder who want's to continue on it.

So if you are a serious coder and want to continue on tracks&fields please contact me and tell me what programs you made so far. You have to know assembler.

In the package there is a full registered version 1.02 and 1.04. There is a bug that comes more on latest version that crashes when editing patterns so there fore i put up the older v1.02.

- Warning. Backup your old preference as v1.04 saves also screenmode u use and it doesn't work if you change to another gfx card and use the saved prefs from the first card. This should be fixed if i find any coder out there.

History:

1.04
  • Used the 1.02 source instead
  • Ctrl F3-F5: cut-copy-paste only the column the cursor is on
1.03
  • Works on graphics cards - sadly the cursor looks wierd as a result.
  • Doesn't scroll several rows at a time when playing. This is good.
  • Removed writes to address 0 when config was loaded.
  • Minor spelling corrections.
  • Screen mode selection in config.
  • Scaling now autoselects the current position
  • About screen doesn't show up at program start
» (sd)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 16:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
H. Ogino, Japan Amiga User Group (ANF)


 Club: JAUG with New Areas
H. Ogino wrote:
Japan Amiga User Group's homepage has now three new areas: "Buy/Sell/Free", "TechAdvice" and "AmiPics".

You can buy and sell or offer for free your Amiga stuff at the "Buy/Sell/Free" area.

At the "TechAdvice" area you can read technical solutions on problems that Amiga computers and hardware have. It is, for instance, about heat problems, etc.

At the area of "AmiPics" there are many vivid and significant pictures of Amiga computers, cards, chips, mice, etc., taken by one of Japan's Amiga power-users. Really beautiful pictures!

Many non-Japanese Amiga users subscribed already to Japan Amiga User Group (JAUG) such as from Germany, U.K. France, Rumania and Mexico. So it is the time for you too to subscribe to JAUG (title link)! The subscribing fee is FREE, of course! (sd)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 16:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
25.Nov.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)


 Game: Freespace Demo-Version available
On www.hyperion-entertainment.com the demo version of the current Hyperion Entertainment port of "Freespace: The Great War" is available for download, now (download section, about 30 MB).

Freespace runs on any PPC machine (with or whithout 3D graphic board) and on 68060 systems with Permedia2 or Voodoo 3 graphic board. According to the manufacturer the 68k version also runs on Amiga OS XL and Amithlon.

Freespace requires 64 MB RAM on PPC Amigas, and 32 MB RAM with VMM (virtual memory management) on 68k Amigas.

Also new at the downlaod section are two updates of the Hyperion/Freespace demo CD from the Amiga 2001. Some errors with CD32 pads were corrected.

More information and pre-order options are to find at freespace.haage-partner.de or www.hyperion-entertainment.com. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 25. Nov. 2001, 15:12] [Comments: 2 - 25. Nov. 2001, 22:32]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Nov.2001
Der Standard (ANF)


 Der Standard: Alternatives for Windows & Co. - Part II
An article (German) of the Austrian daily newspater 'Der Standard' on ElateOS, AmigaDE, AmigaOS, and MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 19:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Nov.2001
Marc "Zito" Oberst (ANF)


 Scenediskmag "Jurassic Pack" Celebrates ist Revival!
The legendary diskmag from the Amiga scene named "Jurassic Pack" celebrates it's revival in the night between 23. and 24. November 2001. After three years of delay issue #8 in English was released, today.

With more than 80 articles, 5 pieces of music, 2 title pictures, and more than 30 cliparts this magazine is intersting not only for so called "sceners", cause for example also discerning articles on the current Amiga situation were added. Interested people will be able to download it from Aminet, soon, or right now at Scenet (dkg-jpo8.lha - 2,9 MB) and from the demo secene BBS "Uphold The Law". Have much fun while reading! (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 18:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Nov.2001
EvenMore


 Textviewer: EvenMore Version 0.59
The freeware-textviewer 'EvenMore' has been published in version 0.59. With the plugins it is now possible to convert HTML to text.

Download: EvenMore.lha (585 KB)

Recent history:

  • Removed messy filetyping code. Created a plugin which allows filetyping, which can be easily changed using a textfile.
  • Created basic HTML2Text plugin.
  • Created a Linux manual to tex conversion plugin.
  • Updated all plugins with an extra PROC, em_begin(). This is used as a pre-parse PROC, and is needed to tell EvenMore if it is necessary to create a new memory space for the file if the resulting contents from the plugin will be bigger than the original. Older plugins will no longer work properly!
  • Thanks to Raul Silva for the português catalog!
(ps)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 18:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Nov.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 22.11.2001)
The website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 22.11.01 new: Wings Of Fury (Broderbund) done by CFOU!
  • 22.11.01 fixed: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) access faults removed
  • 22.11.01 new: Future Wars (Delphine Software) done by JOTD
  • 22.11.01 fixed: Fire and Forget (Titus) icon corrected
  • 22.11.01 new: Feud (Bulldog) done by CFOU!
  • 22.11.01 fixed: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) interrupt handling fixed
  • 22.11.01 improved: Amazing SpiderMan () protection removed
  • 21.11.01 new: Fire and Forget (Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 21.11.01 new: Total Football (Domark/Akklaim) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Syndicate (Bullfrog) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Striker (Rage Software) done by Galahad
  • 21.11.01 new: Sensible Soccer CD³² (Sensible Software) done by Galahad
  • 21.11.01 new: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Prehistorik () done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Monkey Island 2 (LucasFilms Games) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) minor change
(ps)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 17:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Nov.2001
Oliver Roberts


 Datatype: WarpTIFF Version 44.6
Oliver Roberts has released Version 44.6 from his 24-bit TIFF picture datatypes WarpTIFF for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.

Download: WarpTIFFdt.lha (280 KB)

Changes since 44.5:

  • Fixed TIFF descriptor file - no longer mistakes MED modules as TIFFs :)
  • Images in 12-bit (or less) RGB format are now decoded correctly.
(ps)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 17:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Nov.2001
Amgia Future


 Amiga Future: AWeb Workshop
Under the title link you will find a workshop for AWeb 3.3+ in German language from Ricco Clemens. (ps)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 17:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
24.Nov.2001
Slashdot (ANF)


 Quake and Wolf3D for Linux PDA
Not one, but two classic id games were ported to not one, but two different Linux PDAs! Quake (see screenshots) is available for the Sharp Zaurus and the original Wolf3D is out for the Agenda VR3.

Unfortunately in both of the cases the AmigaDE doesn't play any role. (ps)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 17:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

24.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Cloanto Webcam at Spoletium 4
Live camera from the Spoletium 4 demo event, held in Spoleto, Italy.

amigaforever.info (ps)

[News message: 24. Nov. 2001, 16:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

23.Nov.2001
DVD


 DVD Press Release on "Black List" Start
The German Vereinigung für Datanschutz e.V (consortium for data protection), short DVD, together with many experts from the fields of IT security and data protection found out that users of websites often got forced to use cookies, JavaScript or ActiveX, because there's no alternative version available.

That's why from now on the DVD publishes a black list as an official directory of such addresses.

"Offerors who cannot tolerate that users want to decide about their security settings on their machines indepentently, should ask themself if they realy are set up for the Internet future. Who thinks to have to punish users for their conscience of security by withholding his pages from those, did not understand what e-commerce and online services actually are about", said Karin Schuler, member of the DVD steering committee. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 18:26] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

23.Nov.2001
GeoWorld®


 Geography Program: GeoWorld® - Update 13 finished soon
The geography program GeoWorld® allows to insight the upcoming update 13. This update, which is expected to be released in December 2001, will consist of two substantial parts:
  1. Update of the main program with some new functions and data update as well.
  2. Release of a "GeoWorld-DeveloperTool" allowing to change and extend existing information texts about countries, towns, an organisations.


Two screenshots showing two of the new features were published on this website. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 17:12] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
Fun Time World


 Image cataloging: PhotoFolio update to version 2.2
PhotoFolio by Steeple Software (Paul Huxham) is a program for managing, viewing and cataloging images which can also create thumbnails. The program can be registered either directly with the author or be ordered from Schatztruhe.

On 16.11.2001 an update to version 2.2 has been released. The patch updates version 2.0 from the CD. The update contains new libraries and modules. You'll find more information about the update here.

Download: PhotoFolio22.lha (476 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 16:59] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page


 Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.6 / xlHtml v0.3.9.6
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.6 and an update of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.6, which converts Excel/Powerpoint files to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs are also available as MorphOS versions. (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 16:37] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
ExoticA


 ExoticA: New additions with music
ExoticA and UnExoticA are occupied with the musical capabilities and the history of the Amiga. Yesterday UnExoticA was again updated. New additions include the music from Pac-Land, P.P.Hammer, Toki, Cannon Fodder, Mr. Nutz, Pegasus and many others. For full information about the changes you can read the UnExoticA - Updates Page. (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 16:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Astronomy pogram: The Digital Universe v1.03
If you haven't yet purchased "The Digital Universe" for the Amiga, now is the perfect opportunity. As long as you are able to download a 11.6 Mb archive from our web site onto your computer, you can now obtain the full V1.03 for a shareware payment. The online distribution is in every way identical to the earlier CD-ROM distribution, other than the change of format and a reduction of price.

The entire user manual is integrated into the software as a context-sensitive help system.
For a full description of the Amiga version of "The Digital Universe", we invite you to our web site at http://www.syz.com/DU/amiga/. There, you will find a description of the features of the software, sample screen snapshots, and an online order form.
If you have moved on to a Macintosh or Windows environment, we are currently shipping a version of the software for the Mac and are at work developing a Windows port.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to write to support@syz.com, or phone us at 780-961-2213. Thanks for your continued support! (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
Starmag


 Online-Magazin: Starmag #29
The German online magazine Starmag has released issue #29. Read it online or download the complete zip-archive (1,9 MB). (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 14:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
MorphOS


 Editor: CED PPC 4.21b for MorphOS
This is the official MorphOS PPC port of CygnusEd Professional 4.21. You need a properly installed MorphOS release as well as the original CygnusED 4 CDROM to install the PowerPC port, the 68k version of the program won't be modified. After installation you can still use the 68k version of CygnusEd if you plan to install it on the same partition. The updated ed frontend automatically detects if it's run under MorphOS or AmigaOS and uses the proper CygnusEd main binary. Please note that you need the original CygnusEd4 CDROM to apply this patch/ppc update. It is available from various sources including Schatztruhe.

Fixes: Current directory is now correct if launched from WB, the -keepio and -sticky arguments now work properly & printing shouldn't crash anymore.

Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd421b.lha (202 KB) (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 14:43] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter


 3D Chat: Multimediabot MacGuyver Citizen Available for Free
The show- and multimediabot MacGuyver which was developed for the ActiveWorlds® 3DChat-system is now available for free in the version "Citizenbot". It can be downloaded at http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/3DChat/ordere.html. Additional information about the bot and the AW-3DChat itself can be found under the title link.

The ActiveWorlds® 3D chat is the next step to the future of the internet, it brings a virtual 3D-world to your home. Virtual Worlds Productions produces tools and special bot software which enhances these chat software. (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 12:42] [Comments: 7 - 25. Nov. 2001, 20:31]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter


 Audiosoftware: AudioCutter Cinema: English Documentation Available
An English translation of the AudioCutter Cinema's (available for Windows and Linux) documentation is now available as a first draft. It can be found under the title link and will be part of the coming soon version 1.1. (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 12:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)


 Online magazine: AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German games editor
The online magazine AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German editor for the games section.

Carsten Schröder wrote:
"After Malte Mende unfortunately was forced to quit his work on the AMIGA-aktuell games part due to lack of time, last month, and regettably his designated successor abandoned his promis because of the same reason, a few days ago, we are now urgently wanting a game knowing Amiga user willing to take over the unsalaried leadership of the game section, along with Jürgen Theiner, and mainly would care for the PD tests rubric and preface and closing words of the game part."

If you are interested or would like to ask questions, please contact Carsten Schröder. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 12:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

23.Nov.2001
AmigaPage


 AmigaPage: Workbench-Competition "Amiga Passion"
"Amiga Passion" competiton was born to take you part of the AmigaPage (italian online magazine) life. The target of the competition are all the Amiga users and you'll attend with one or more of your WB Grab (max 3) that will be send to kanuka@ciaoweb.it with "Concorso" as subject.

The competiton goes on till the 31st December 2001. The first four positions will win a copy of the game 'Extreme' donated by DKGStore. In addition AmigaPage offer a mousepad, a brooch and a poster rispectively to 1st, 2nd and 3rd classifier.

The judges are Marco Lovera, Sandra Lovera and Claudio Marro Filosa. After 31/12/01 we'll have the time to take counsel for a unanimous vote. All grabs that you send will be show below and after "Amiga Passion" we'll move all in the "Computer Passion". In conclusion I remind you that all grabs sent since now can't attend to the competiton. After this I'll invite you to take part of the "Amiga Passion" competition. (ps)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 12:01] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
23.Nov.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


 Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
With the extension which is available at the title link the Amiga emulator UAE can now use the SDL library for graphics output under Linux.

SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. The SDL library is a cross platform library and offers functions for graphics and sound output as well as querying input devices.

The version modified for UAE currently only works under Linux, but there are some benefits from using SDL:

  • It's now possible to use UAE in fullscreen mode as a normal user.
  • The emulator can now be used directly on the console (with activated framebuffer), e.g. without X-Windows.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 23. Nov. 2001, 11:36] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
AmigaGames.com


 AmigaGames.com: Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia
The Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia, or in short GAGE, contains information from over 500 games, with compatibility information, cheats, docs, walkthrougs, screenshots, and more. Maintained by Dr. Zarkov since 1998, it is one of the most comprehensive information resources for Amiga Games. (ps)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 21:52] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)


 Tool: SRename Version 3.0.1
SRename is a program which has some more functions as the common 'rename'.

Changes in this release:
  • Fixed bug that caused the "no objects would be renamed" message not to be displayed in some cases with the SIMULATE option.
  • Enabled the simultaneous display of messages related to SELECTED and SIMULATE options in a case that one canceled the other.
  • Internal restructuring and various changes.
Download: SRename3.lzx (ps)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 21:30] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
Haage&Partner


 H&P News: AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list / Show: AMIGA 2001
AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list
The FAQ list now offers 6 new solutions to frequently asked questions and problems. Thanks to the help of some customers we could add some more items to our list: Aladdin 4D, Audio Evolution, CandyFactory, Diavolo Pro, Digibooster Pro, Magic Menu, MAME, MaxonTOOLS, MaxonTwist, Monzoom 3D, PageStream, Samplitude, Shapeshifter, Superbase 4, TurboCalc, TV Paint, Wordworth and may others. AmigaOS XL site.

Show: AMIGA 2001
This years Amiga show was again very crowded because everyone wanted to see AmigaOS XL working. On three workstations we presented Amithlon and AmigaXL for QNX and answered all questions of the astonished Amiga fans. The resonance was very positive and the people really liked our new design tower very much. There will be more offers around AmigaOS XL the next days. Pictures of the show (ps)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 20:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
DeepSILENCE


 Game: New Demo-Engine for SOMS available
The new demo engine is better and faster, furthermore graphics have been enhanced and according to Silvio Kurze contains sound now, too.

SOMS is about an action adventure like never before released for the Amiga. Action devotees well be have fun with the about 100 different enemies, numerous screen filling final enemies and extended levels as well, especially if they get supported by 20 configurable weapons and the same amount of spells!

If the adventure devotee gets horrored by the above, it is to say that combats can be avoided by cleverness, if you deal with the numerous puzzles.

Also the role game devotees, disliking the minimal possiblities to equip the characters in action games, can knock down satisfyed! The variety starts with free naming of the 4 main characters, goes thru the continuous enhancement of features and capabilities of your own character, the detailed multiple-choice dialogs with about 100 persons, the sophisticated weapon system, thru the 10 characters with own tactics, views and goals of life joining the force one by one.

Download: deepsilence.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 20:33] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: New Repulse driver for ProStationAudio
Alien Design has made available a new Repulse driver (analog and S/P-DIF board) for ProStationAudio. You will find the driver at the download area. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 19:56] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
Scalos


 Workbench Replacement: Scalos-Plugins, Moduls, Betaversion 40.15
Scalos added some moduls and plugins for the Workbench replacement Scalos to their download page. Furthermore a little problem was fixed in the WB3.9 plugin. The updated archive can be found at the download area, as well. The current beta version is v40.15. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 19:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
VaporWare


 Statement from Oliver Wagner about the "Security Issues in MUI Apps"
Under the title link you will find a detailed statement by Oliver Wagner Vaporware) on the "security issues in MUI applications" recently revieled. He describes and clarifies that not only MUI applications are affected. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 18:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)


 SuperView: ImageFX Saver Version 1.4
A potential memory leak in the ImageFX saver for SView was fixed in V1.4 (now on download page on my WWW site). (ps)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 15:42] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
22.Nov.2001
Telepolis


 Telepolis: Under the token of the Boing-Ball
Torsten Kleinz published a German article about the AMIGA 2001 at Telepolis containig a good sumarize of the past years. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 22. Nov. 2001, 15:23] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)


 Sequencer: BarsnPipes version 1.07 published
Version 1.07 of the improved sequencer BarsnPipes has been just published. Many bugs have been fixed and a lot of new functions have been added which were wishes of users from all over the world. You can read on the History which new things have been added.

This super multimedia sequencer for the classic Amiga is a must-have for all midi-musicans. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 22:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

21.Nov.2001
amiga-topcool / Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: Interview with Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding the manager of Haage&Partner has been interviewed of amiga-topcool. He speaks about Amithlon, AmigaOS XL, Amiga.Inc, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.9, iFusion, PageStream and the current situation of Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 22:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Graphic competition: Schlachtfeld
For one month there is the graphic competition to "Schlachtfeld". Today Horst Diebel gave some more details for the graphics to be made.

In contrary to the "old" Schlachtfeld units and background will stand in a relation 1 to 1 that means 64 pixels are ca. 20 m. The size of the pattern will be 64x64 pixels and you can use 256 colours or more. The developer would be very delighted if you took part. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 19:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

21.Nov.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)


 Pegasos-Boards will be produced on DCE SMD-line
Under the title link you can find some pictures of DCE which show how PEGASOS-boards are being placed on the SMD-line of DCE. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 19:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
CCC-ML


 Chaos Computer Club: Censorship is being done
A provider from Nordrhein-Westfalen (German county) starts to block Internet sites.

In some sort of hurrying obedience at least one Internet provider in Düsseldorf (Germany), the ISIS company, has constricted access to several Internet sites by changing the DNS entry on the ISIS name server. Yesterday, the Chaos Computer Club got aware of this censorship effort.

On a hearing of the county government of Düsseldorf with diverse Internet providers it was discussed by what means providers would be able to block access to diverse outlandish websites, [1].

This was in main about sites spreading radical right-wing content, but also rotten.com, specialized to collect more or less tastily picture material from the Internet, was condsidered to be dignified to be censored. Rotten.com quote thier extreme photo collection, among other of of casualties, as serious dealing with the manor of freedom of speech.

Philipp Schulte of CCC Düsseldorf in view of this faint-hearted censorship effort said: "It is to assume that the still very short list of objectionable websites will increase very much in the future and other providers will follow the example of censorship outrider ISIS".

To use a different name server appears to be a work-around for customers. eg. 194.246.96.49 (dns2.denic.de), 194.246.96.25 (dns3.denic.de), 194.25.2.131 (dns02.btx.dtag.de).

The Chaos Computer Club's considered opinion is that censorship by technical means is not a suitable way to handle content supposed to be problematic. "The massive restriction of the citizens in exercising their freedom of opinion is beyond the pale", added Jens Ohlig, CCC speaker.

Though the hearing of the county government in Düsseldorf on November 13 ended 'result open', according to numerous particitpants, customers of those providers, who are in hurrying obedience complyed with the governments suggestions, on access to several sites instead of the original notes receive an 'informer form' [2] to announce Internet sites thought to be problematic to the county government NRW.

The county government's approach to filter the Internet offers and by this to attempt to establish censorship is a critical step into the wrong direction in the opinion of the Chaos Computer Club .

"Instead of establishing technical filters, which reconcilableness with the constitutional law at least is questionable and which technical implementation is easy to avoid anyway, the government authorities rather should focus their efforts to sponsor the loom of media competences. More important than technical methods would it be to emerge a social immunity for content thought to be problematic", added Andy Müller-Maguhn, club speaker, to the club's statement. [3]

To what extent other companies in NRW followed the suggestions of the county government, without being legally bound to, is being reviewed. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 15:24] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


 Newsletter: Amiga Update #011030 from Brad Webb
Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter under the title link. (ps)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 14:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


 EARTH 2140 Missionpack: The Final Conflict shipping now
Missionpack THE FINAL CONFLICT for real-time strategy hit EARTH 2140 is now shipping. The new missionpack brings 80 new single- and 30 new multiplayer missions to the game. In addition there are 6 new units, 2 new buildings and a new terrain. (ps)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 12:48] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
AmigART


 Burner software: MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8
There is a new beta version (MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8) of the burner software 'MakeCD'. In order to use it you have to install version 3.2c first.

Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_8.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 12:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

21.Nov.2001
Kees Witteveen on amiga.org


 Coding GUI programs in VP - Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow
This is the first in this series of tutorials concerned with writing programs for Tao's intent media environment. This series assumes that you have read the first series on VP coding at this site (even the tutorials I have not written yet!) or at least have a basic knowledge of VP coding.
(ps)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 11:41] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
amiga.org


 Installer: WHDLoad - New URL and packets (until 20.11.2001)
From now on the website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 20.11.01 new: Atome (Skarla) done by Psygore
  • 20.11.01 new: Makaveli (Essence) done by Psygore
  • 20.11.01 new: Bio Challenge (Delphine) done by CFOU!
  • 19.11.01 new: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
  • 17.11.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version, minor other changes
  • 17.11.01 new: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) done by CFOU!
  • 17.11.01 new: Loom (LucasFilm Games) done by JOTD
  • 17.11.01 new: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) done by John Girvin
  • 17.11.01 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) uses less memory
  • 17.11.01 new: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) done by John Girvin
  • 17.11.01 new: Espana The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) done by Bored Seal
  • 17.11.01 new: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) done by CFOU!
  • 06.11.01 improved: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) supports another version
  • 06.11.01 new: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
  • 06.11.01 improved: Barbarian 2/Axe of Rage (Palace SoftWare) supports more versions
  • 05.11.01 new: Skweek (Loriciels) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 11:28] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


 Programming language: Beta of Amiblitz2 (formerly Blitz2) version 2.21b1 publis
The site for the programming language 'Blitz' www.blitz-2000.co.uk (title link) now is also the homepage for AB2 (have a look also under Archives/Blitz2). There you can also find the source codes and beta versions and much more information about Blitz2. Currently there is beta version AB2.21b1 ready for download. This version will be not uploaded to Aminet.

Please do not send your bug reports to the uploader but to the Blitz mailinglist in order to avoid double bug reports.

In order to subscribe to the mailinglist please send a mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. In order to unsubscribe please send a mail to blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 11:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
21.Nov.2001
VGR Newsseite (ANF)


 SharkPPC is not a development of ELBOX?!
On Sunday 18th of November in 2001 on the VGR-sites (title link) a very interesting news message has been published: The SharkPPC which was introduced by ELBOX at the fair is supposed to be nothing more than a relabeled Sonnet PPC-card. If you will have a look at the Sonnet-product site it will confirm it.

Accordingly ELBOX has not developed "its" SharkPPC for itself. Therefore the introduction of the SharkPPC+ (which is supposed to have IDE-controller, AGP-slot and USB) can be doubted. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 10:44] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: VarIO Updates
The support-area of our website contains two updates for our interface board VarIO: The new driver archive contains a corrected version of the SetupVarIO command (Enforcer hits removed), and a french catalog. The new file Inside_VarIO.txt describes the final hardware for programmers of other operating systems (Linux and NetBSD for example). (ps)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 23:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)


 Potos from the Amiga 2001 at Virtual Dimension
On weekend Virtual Dimensions was on the show for you and took pictures from the Amiga 2001 for their new show video. To create the video will take some time. To shorten your waiting time some pictures were put online, already.

Same pictures with English subtitles (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 23:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)


 Hyperion: Warp3D support for Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon
Hyperion Entertainment has entered into an agreement with third parties to ensure Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon support for Warp3D, effectively doubling the number of supported chipsets.

"We are thrilled to be able to open up ever more possibilities to users of Amiga PCI busboards", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "The Permedia 3 is around 6 times faster than the Permedia 2 and offers a lot more functionality including full OpenGL compliance. The chipset is still frequently used in high-end 3D workstations. The ATI Radeon family is undeniably state of the art with well-rounded 2D performance and top-notch 3D performance that is on par with anything out there in the Wintel world. Support for the Radeon family will allow Amiga users to enjoy unrivalled performance and functionality."

More details will be disclosed in the upcoming weeks. (ps)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 17:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)


 Hyperion Entertainment brings 3D graphics to PDA's
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that it has finalised an initial version of its "Warp3D" technology, a mature, small foot-print, feature-rich yet very fast 3D solution for ElateTM/ Amiga DETM based devices.

Warp3D allows content-creators to effortlessly deploy 3D graphics on low-end devices such as PDA's, web-tablets and 3G phones and is the product of years of development in response to concrete performance challenges and 3D technology.

Hyperion intends to showcase the Warp3D technology by producing several PDA oriented games.

"A lot of the PDA content we are seeing now is a throw-back to the earlier days of entertainment software and whilst this is not necessarily a bad thing, we do believe that users would like to enjoy sophisticated 3D content on these devices as well. Our contract-work for LithTech Inc. also means we were able to incorporate extensive research and expertise in the field of software rendering which resulted in one of the fastest software renderers in the industry - the only viable solution on a non 3D-accelerated PDA. Add to that a highly optimised subset of OpenGL which is nonetheless capable of running industry-standard 3D engines like Quake IITM and LithTechTM and you have a piece of very compelling technology indeed."

Warp3D was already successfully field-tested on the SH3 powered version of Sharp's Zaurus PDA and is due for imminent release.

The technology will remain in continuous development and will be licensed to interested parties.
For the complete press release see title link. (ps)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


 e.p.i.c interactive entertainment announces THE FEEBLE FILES for Amiga
Our Mac cartoon adventure The Feeble Files will be ported to the Pegasos/MorphOS as well as the Amiga. The Amiga version comes in fully localised versions for english and german. Required is an Amiga with a 4 MByte gfx board (f.e. B/CVision), a 68060 or PPC and at least 32 MByte RAM. Work on both the Amiga- and the MorphOS is under way and we hope to ship the game before Xmas 2001. (ps)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 16:59] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Frank Duessel (ANF)


 Event: Exchange for classic video and computer games of the 70th and 80th
The first exchange for classic video and computer games for the following systems is being organized in Germany:
  • Konsolen: Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex, Interton, Saba, Philips, Pong und vieles mehr.
  • Computer: C64, Atari, Amiga, SVC etc.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 16:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Matthias Bethke (E-Mail)


 HSC (HTML-Pre-Prozessor) V0.921
HSC V0.921 was finished and can be downloaded along with the prefs update for HTML 4.01 at the title link. For the present there are the source codes and documentation only, again. But Amiga binaries for release are welcome. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 16:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Petra Struck


 Update for our show report
Since I did not talked to Titan Computer on the show, I called Michael Garlich, today, to be able to add the news from Titan Computer. The details described below have been added to the show report (title link):

Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.

More applications under development:

The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002.

Games under development:

Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.

Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 15:32] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)


 MCP Version 1.35 released
Version 1.35 of MCP (MasterControlProgram) is released. Some bugs removed, the package updated. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 15:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 Installation manual for SUSE Linux 7.3 PPC for Amiga systems
Michael Heider published a German installation manual under the title link. This manual does not deal with the new "Journaling Filesystems", so far. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 14:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)


 Mirror of the 3Sat report about the Amiga World 2001 (MPG-Video)
Stefan Robl captured the report about the Amiga World 2001 in Cologne and created a MPEG video. Since he asked for a mirror I added the video to my short show report. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 14:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)


 Amiga 2001: Report and pictures by 'No Risc No Fun'
'No Risc No Fun' published a German show report and pictures of the show. Additonally new Workbench screenshots and small ads have been published. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 13:17] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
3sat (ANF)


 3sat.online: AMIGA 2001 - broadcast of 19. November .2001
A written German version of the show report broadcast by "Neues... die Computershow" at 3SAT (German television station) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 13:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
William Bidgood (AmigaOpen-ML)


 AmigaDE: Coding GUI programs in VP - OpenWindow
William Bidgood has published the 'Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow', the first Tutorial of his 'Coding GUI programs in VP' series.

The text describes the opening of a window in VP-Assembler under Tao's Intent-Media-Environment.

At the Overview of his GUI-Tutorials the sourcetexts of the forthcoming parts are available. (sd)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 00:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
20.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)


 AmigaPage: MP3 capture of the show report
There is a MP3 capture of the show report about the Amiga 2001 by "Neues... die Computershow" ready for download.

Download: neues5.zip (3,4 MB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 00:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

19.Nov.2001
Petra Struck


 AMIGA 2001: Gleanings by amiga-news.de (Update III)
The show AMIGA 2001, which took place on 17th and 18th November 2001, was organized by Falke Media and was held at the Mediapark 6 in Cologne, Germany, on about 718 sq.yd. exhibition space. By our count there were about 1,000 visitors on the show, consuetudinary most of them came on Saturday.

bplan GmbH - Pegasos-System
Very much interesting was the first official presentation of the run capable Pegasos machine by the bplan GmbH, utilizing the operating system MorphOS. Gerald Carda presented a test program to us which displayed plasma effects. Unaccelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS.

Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda told us about a number of between 100 and 200 developer systems to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a registration page at bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations than boards available, it will be selected by progam priority. The developers should send bug reports, if there will occur problems.

Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later. Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro and are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
  • 8 MB AGP graphic board
  • 128 MB RAM
  • DVD Drive
  • 20 GB HD
  • Mouse and Keyboard

The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively adapt their programs to this system.

Haage&Partner - Amiga OS XL
Amiga OS XL, the new super-fast Amiga emulators for x86 machines were presented on three different computers at Haage&Partner. The speed is impressing and faszinating at the same time.

Amiga OS XL consists of two emulator systems: AMIthlon and Amiga XL for QNX in a bundle. The emulators are similar to each other in many parts, but there are basic differences, too. With this prevalent Amiga 68k applications run 10 - 20 times faster on current PC hardware than on a convetional 68060 systems. This tremendous speed is achieved by a modified and accelerated emulator. With it one gets versions of PageStream, ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema4D, Real3D, and any other program fast like turbo.

Haage&Partner's highlight is a x86 machine built into a luxury computer case of noble design and with Amiga OS XL installed. The body of the computer was made of aluminium, the front side is of azure plastic.

While talking to H&P they appeared to be surprised by the allmost all-time positive visitors' response and amazed at the still great demand for information, though there have been many press releases before. Sales could have been better, but satisfied.

Hyperion - AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC
Without doubt the most interesting thing on the second day of the show was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It was determined and safe by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired term of completion of an initial distributing version is February 2002. This distributing version still will have parts of 68k code, which will be handed in later by BoingBag updates when finished.

Hyperion will work together with bplan to make the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC running on the Pegasos machine. Hyperion additionally talked to many other hardware and software developers to make their products compatible, too. This gave a very positive sign, because after a long period of time a joint line and goal is being followed, again.

Titan Computer - Update 20. November.2001

Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.

More applications under development:

The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002.

Games under development:

Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.

Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible.

DCE - G-REX
Thomas Dellert and Michael Göken of DCE presented the PCI busboard G-Rex working in an A4000 with Cyberstrom 604/68060 and AmigaOS 3.9 as well as WarpUP.

An USB card for mouse and keyboard, a Voodoo graphic board (3/3000), a WIN-TV card with radio tuner, and a sound card (Terratec 512i) were working on the PCI board. There are many good reasons for this solution: Graphic speed, wheel mouse and multimedia keyboard, support of the USB card, 100 MBit network card can be connected; all in all it became possible to use cheap generic PC hardware by the PCI busboard G-Rex. The board is being offerd for A4000D/T and A1200.

Elbox - Mediator
Elbox presented their Mediator system. The following models were shown:
  • Mediator PCI ZIV
  • Mediator PCI 1200
  • Mediator PCI 4000
  • Shark PPC G3/G4

Again the reasons mentioned regarding DCE match here. With help of a PCI busboard it is possible to use cheap PCI hardware for various purposes.

Other Hardware-Products

Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers showed us a pre-run model of the interface card VarioIO, which will be available before Christmas, already.

Basing on a Logitech 2 button mouse Schönfeld developed a real Amiga / Atari mouse. Also this production will start next days.

Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development showed us the prototype of the Melody successor. This card will have the functions of the Melody card plus the following specialities:
  • MP3 audio not only can be decoded in real-time, but also encoded.
  • Analog mixer function.
  • Digital in/out (optical / coaxial)

Michael Böhmer showed his USB controller Subway with which you can connect prevalent USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four devices can be use without an additional USB hub. VMC started to develop drivers, already. Currently drivers for mouse and keyboard are available. Drivers for printers, digital cameras, and scanners are scheduled.

Other Software-Products

Amiga Forever 5.0
Michael Battilana of Cloanto presented the new Amiga Forever 5.0. Amiga Forever is about an official licensed Amiga emulator package for Windows and other platforms. Just put the CD into the drive, click on the icon and it runs. Eight different emulation programs, all of the required Kickstart ROMs, Workbenchs, licenses, as well as an all-around package with useful Amiga sofware are included.
Due to the implemented JIT compiler (just-in-time) version 5.0 is about 30 time faster than Amiga Forever 4. The emulator comes on a CD containing the famous video "The Deathbed Vigil" (1 h, 59 min.) and the video "Jay Miner Speech" (49 min.).
But Amiga Forever 5.0 is available for download as online version, too.

epic interactive - THE FEEBLE FILES
epic announce THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga. This game is about a cartoon adventure. Beside of the MorphOS port there also will be an AmigaOS verison. The Amiga version will be available as entirely localized versions in Engish and German (voice output). An Amiga with 4 MB graphic board, 68060 or PPC, and at least 32 MB RAM is required.
Development of the Amiga version already started and epic hopes to be able to deliver the finished product already before Christmas 2001.

Descent:Freespace
Hyperion showed the new game Descent-Freespace. This game is about a space shooter. The Amiga port of Freespace was finished at 99% and will be available as 68k (with 3D hardware only) and PPC version from H&P, soon. Those who ordered the game on the show got a free demo CD for testing at home, already.

Project Crashsite
Markus Pohlmann (program) and Denis Comtesse (music) are busy developing the science fiction role game Project Crashsite. The place of action in this game is a colonialized second system consiting of two moons. The player takes the part of the "Future Security Corps" which is the system's police.

The game's goal is to stabilize the unstable situation of this system. This is not easy to achieve, due to a big conspiracy defering the relation of potency. The player is sent into the game almost without any background information about the conspiracy to make him choose "pal and enemy" himself, because depending on his choice the game becomes easier or more difficult.

Currently four people are working on this game, thus it is not possible to announce some date of comlpetion at the time being.

PuzzleBOBS
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development the Amiga Arena and Fun Time World present the game in partnership. PuzzleBOBS is about a "Bust´n Move" clone. From now on a demo version is available on http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html or from the support page at the Amiga Arena.

Technical backgrounds:
  • PuzzleBOBS is completely configurable.
  • Screenmode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX compatible graphic boards).
  • Bitplanes: up to 16- and 24Bit screens.
  • Playable in three languages (German, Italian, English)
  • Playable from HD, full or partly installation (min. 14 MB)
  • Written in 100% assembler
  • Import of own levels and sounds.

Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.

The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.

When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released.

Miscellaneous

GGS Data - Amiga Show
Gunne Steen of the Swedish vendor GGS Data informed us about an Amiga show in Göteborg, Sweden, planned to take place on 2. March 2002 (maybe also on 3. March 2002). The respective website will be online in about seven days. Comanies and user groups are heartily invited to attend the show as exhibitors.

Psyria - Music
Dennis Lohr gave us a CD on the show on which he eternalized his trance song for amiga-news.de. This song also is available for download: Amiga News Theme (ca. 7 MB). Again thank you very much to Dennis for taking the trouble to create this song. This realy is a privilege to us!

Annex - Music
Daniel Schulz of Annex assured us that the music group, known by several Amiga songs, still is alive. Meantime many new pices of music were recored, extracts can be downloaded as MP3.

Still the vocals are missing, because the band still is searching for a female singer. She should have been singing in a band before, come from the dance/trance field, and live in the Rhein-Main area (Germany). Interessted singers might contact Daniel Schulz (include a demo if possible). Two maxi-singles with three songs on each and maybe a long-player with all songs are planned.

Virtual Dimension
The crew of Virtual Dimension did many interviews and took many pictures for their show video. The video is estimated to be published before Christmas.
Furthermore Virtual Dimension introduced the round and text basing space game StarEmpire II by Christian Becker . Up to 32 players are possible.

Airbrush Paradise Tingler
Rolf Tingler prettified diverse things with different motives. Of course mainly motives with BoingBalls were desired. Starting from cell phones thru Swiss pocket knives everything got "boinged" with airbrush technic.

Upshot:

Interesting hard- and software solutions were presented. There was good mood on the show and intensive discussing everywhere. However, it is to be said that in spite of all those innovations and in spite of the positive signs some certain questions were left without an answer, cause neither Amiga Inc. nor Eytech or Escena attended the show. Thats where descriptions regarding the plans of Amiga Inc. for the AmigaOne are required.

Finally one discerning word regarding the organization. The corridors along the "focal points" on the upper floor were way to narrow. Occasionally there were such big crowd that it was hard to get to the booths.

Christoph Dietz, Petra Struck as well as Meike Hilke (photos) were on the show for amiga-news.de.

Update II: 20. November .2001
Link list for pictures and reports regarding the AMIGA 2001 show:

25.11.2001: Sebastien Jeudy Pictures
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (German subtitles)
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (English subtitles)
20.11.2001: Stefan Robl 3SatAmiga2001.mpg (German TV broadcast, 50 MB)
20.11.2001: Amiga Page neues5.zip (Voice record of the above broadcast, mp3 - 3,4 MB)
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Pictures
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Report (German)
20.11.2001: 3SAT Text report (German) about the German TV broadcast "Neues... die Computershow" (3Sat)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Show review
19.11.2001: Fun Time World: Pictures
19.11.2001: Costel Mincea Pictures and report (German and English)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 2. day
18.11.2001: amiga-topcool.de Report (German)
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 1
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 2
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pre-report - 2. Tag
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Markus Nerding
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Michael Garlich
18.11.2001: Elastic Image - Falcon Pictures
18.11.2001: Stefan Popp Report
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 1. Tages
18.11.2001: Marcus Neervoorts Amiga Page Pictures and report (German)
17.11.2001: amiga-info.net Pictures
17.11.2001: amiga-news.de First pre-report

Update III: 25. November .2001
Pictures from Sebastien Jeudy.(sd) (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 19. Nov. 2001, 20:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
19.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)


 Pictures of the Amiga 2001 by Costel Mincea
There are some photos of the exhibition made by Costel Mincea with some words about the depictured things. (ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 19. Nov. 2001, 08:59] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
19.Nov.2001



 AMIGA 2001: pictures of the second day
The second part contains mainly pictures of hardware-devices. A selection of the photos made by Christoph Dietz and Michael Böhmer:


Amithlon on an expensive PC
02_Amithlon.jpg
(640 x 480)
Elbox
03_Elbox1.jpg
(640 x 480)
Elbox
04_Elbox2.jpg
(640 x 480)

Elbox
05_Elbox3.jpg
(640 x 480)
Elbox
06_Elbox4.jpg
(640 x 480)
Elbox - Mediator
06a_Elbox5.jpg
(640 x 480)

G-Rex
07_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480)
G-Rex
08_GRex2.jpg
(640 x 480)
G-Rex
08a_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480)

H&P
09_H&P.jpg
(640 x 480)
amiga-news.de interview with Hyperion
10_Hyperion_Int1.jpg
(640 x 480)
....
11_Hyperion_Int2.jpg
(480 x 640)

...
12_Hyperion_Int3.jpg
(480 x 640)
...
13_Hyperion_Int4.jpg
(480 x 640)
... still the same interview
14_Hyperion_Int5.jpg
(640 x 480)

...
15_Hyperion_Int6.jpg
(640 x 480)
Pegasos
17_Pegasos1.jpg
(640 x 480)
Pegasos tower (Vesalia)
18_Pegasos2.jpg
(480 x 640)

Pegasos
20_Pegasos4.jpg
(640 x 480)
Pegasos
21_Pegasos5.jpg
(640 x 480)
USB-Subway (Prototype,
pre series, series build)
22_USB-SUBWAY~1.JPG
(640 x 407)

... final product
23_USB-SUBWAY~2.JPG
(640 x 497)
VarIO
24_VarIO.jpg
(640 x 480)
Petra congratulating Rüdiger,
who got elected president
of the AC-DE
25_AC-DE_Vorstand.jpg
(480 x 640)
(ps) (Translation: sk)

[News message: 19. Nov. 2001, 00:28] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
ANN


 Event: Report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show'
A short report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' can be found under the title link.

Randall Hughes, Amiga Inc., introduced the Sharp Zaurus PDA running with the AmigaDE and some games on the show. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 23:37] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)


 Route planner: Update for AmiATLAS 6
The first update for the route planner 'AmiATLAS 6' was released and is available for registered users from now.

For example the assign and path bugs were fixed and 'AmigaAUTO' was re-integrated and is run capable again.

The first extensive update with e.g. multi-lingual version of AmiATLAS will be released around the middle of December.

The updates are available for free thru 30. June 2002. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 23:37] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


 AMIGA 2001: Pictures by AUG99
Matthias Münch wrote:
We've visited the Amiga Show 2001 in Cologne and put some pictures from it online.

Absolute highlights to us were the game Freespace and the presentation of the Pegasos system at the bplan booth.

Unfortunately we found the show to be a little desaster regarding organization and space utilisation. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 18:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


 Datatypes: akPNG V44.130
Andreas Kleinert released version 44.130 of his PNG datatype 'akPNG' for 68k- and PPC CPUs.

'akPNG' now utilzes version 1.2.0 of the 'libpng'.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 18:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Screenshots of 'Akiko'
New screenshots of the Akiko emulator were just released on the Airsoft Softwair web site.

Akiko emulates CD32 and CDTV systems under the Windows operating system. Akiko is a Shareware emulator and can be ordered now. A public demo version will be made available in near future. If you order Akiko now, you'll get the latest beta version which already runs most of the CD32/CDTV games. The released screenshots show the now much more flexible GUI and the CD audio player of the CD32 and CDTV. (sd)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 18:02] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Petra Struck (ANF)


 AMIGA 2001: Pre-report 2. day by amiga-news.de
The most interesting of the second day of the show without doubt was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It is fixed by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired date for completion is February 2002.

Hyperion will cooperate with bplan, to let the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC run on the Pegasos machine, too. Additionally Hyperion talked to many other hardware and software developers to keep their product compatible, too. This set a very positive sign, cause after a long time a corporate line and goal is being followed, again. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 17:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
ANN


 Programming language PowerD V0.19
Today, Martin Kuchinka released alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'.

This early alpha version now supports creation of shared libraries.

Download: alpha.lzx (159K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 17:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
ANN


 AMIGA 2001: IRC conferences with Nerding and Garlich (Update)
English logfiles of the IRC conferences with Markus Nerding from Haage&Partner and Michael Garlich from Titan are available now. The log from Nerdings chat has been published on ANN, he answers questions about AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS V4.0, and H&P's work within those projects.

The log of Michael Garlich's chat has been provided to us by Jürgen 'Antibike' Lucas, Garlich answers questions about MorphOS, Pegasos, and the projects of Titan:

Amiga2001: Hello Michael

Titan: Hello Guys

Nico4k: Micheal, Could please describe your plans about MorphOS/Bplan ?

Nico4k: Plan = project if you prefer

Titan: Yes of course we have presented 4 new products for Morphos / Bplan e.g. Papyrus Office and

Nico4k: For example will Papyrus be ported on MorphOs ?

Nico4k: ok

Titan: and the new videosoft Motionstudio which support DV Video

Titan: and we have also presented Rage Hard a new multiplayer tactic shooter

Nico4k: Well, you said on MorphOS ML what there will something to connect an Amiga floppy drive on Bplan made by third part, Could you give more detail ?

Nico4k: Titan sound like great news

Titan: Yes, this connecter will be able to read write "old" Amiga DD and HD Floppydisc

Nico4k: to connect an "Amgia" drive or to use old disk with the Bplan one

Nico4k: Where it will connected on the motherboard ?

Titan: to connect an "old" Amiga drive may be later also PC-Floppy with modifications too

zacman: hi michael. do you plan to release your software together with the pegasos start or already before? and are there plans for bundeling your software with pegasos?

Titan: Nico4k there is a floppy connector for PC Floppys on the Bplan mainboard

Titan: zacman: Together with the sales start on Feb/March 2002

Burman: Titan Do you know anything about support for Newtek VideoToaster/Flyer HW. (PCI-card)...?

Titan: Burman: we have asked Newtek but nothing is clear atm it will take some further negotations ga

djnick: Hi Titan will there be newer / improved versions of Fantastic Dreams?

Titan: djnick: Yes this will be released later in 2002 ga

ID4: Titan Are you planign a game like QIII Arena?

Titan: ID4: We will release a pre-video of Rage Hard take a look and you will enjoy it :) ga

Bifford: hi there ;-) what sort of speeds can we expect from pegasos? in normal operation and in real-time with cpu hungry things like 3d graphics

Titan: Bifford: This really depends on the used CPU we think for DV Videoediting a 500 G4 is the minimum. ga

Nico4k: As you devellop for MorphOS/bPlan, I suppose you already use it on Bplan, So how does it work ? (sorry for all this MOS related question but I want to konw)

Titan: Nico4k It runs really good we are sadisfied with the support of the MOrphos Team. ga

AlphaFoX: hi Titan, two questions: 1. do you know if there will be an 'AGA-on-a-Card' for the Pegasos? 2. Will

Titan: port its software also to AmigaOS 4.x if available? GA

Titan: AlphaFoX: AGA card is atm not longer in development but if there is more demand we can think about such a solution

Titan: Regarding AmigaOS 4 we have nothing heard from Amiga no specs no hardware nothing simply. We cant say we will support it if we have no information at all. Ga

Bifford: do u have any other projects on the go atm (hard or software) or is it strictly MOS/pegasos ?

Titan: Bifford: we concentrate on what is available now this is Morphos and Pegasos ga

zacman: what graphics card do you recommend for games like Rage Hard? Do you know if it is correct that bplan has contacts to nvidia?

Titan: zacman: I cant commend this atm :) ga

Zarf: is RS on the show? ga :)

Titan: Zarf: No but Frank Mariak was here ga

TheFab: Titan hi, do you plan to develop new softare or buy license (like old software like lightwave...)

Titan: TheFab: new and licencing too. E.g. AlienNations and Majesty

ID4: Titan Will you software run on Elbox SharkPPC?

Titan: ID4: We are open to support everyone who wants Morphos. If Elbox support theMorphos team with hardware then there will be also a SharkPPC version ga

Zefram_: what is the maximum cpu speed we can expect on Pegasos, 1Ghz ?

Titan: Zefram_: its upto 2GHz atm but higher clockrate are also possible ga

zacman: isn't AlienNations and Majesty licensed by hyperion?

Titan: zacman: No Hyperion has not licenced AlienN or Majesty.

Titan: owns this licence ga

Zefram_: What will are the graphics cards drivers available for Pegasos, Matrox ?

Titan: Zefram_: In a few weeks there will be update on Morphos.de with all supported Gfx-boards. ga

Nico4k: Do you think Bplan will be able to release Pegasos in February/March 2001? Not a vapor this time ? (I have been so disppointed by previous project: AmigaNG, A1). Ps: A MOS/Bplan related question again ... But who do not believe that this time is the good one ...

Titan: Nico4k Bplan will make a pre-release before christmas 2001 and the main release is trageted for March 2002. ga

Titan: Zefram_: The morphos 3d api is NOT rave ga

Nico4k: Pre-release means Developper release ?

Titan: Nico4k Also for normal customers but there is only a limited stock of boards available. ga

AmiGR: Could you enlight us about which 3d api will be used?

Titan: AmiGR: Sorry atm not, please wait for the next official Morphos press release ga

JoeAFUA: Titan So will we be able to pre-order for the pre-release boards? If yes, when?

Titan: JoeAFUA: Take a look on the bplan website there will be an "order" form. ga

ID4: Titan nowdays.. What are your contacs with Amiga Inc?

Titan: ID4: we are in touch with Amiga but they follow different ways atm. We will see if we can cooparate in future or not. ga

Zefram_: Will it be possible to place a pre-order from local dealers ?

Titan: Zefram_: No, only direct from Bplan ga

darklite: will you only support morphos, or also os4? ga

Titan: darklite: We have no information about AmigaOS4 therefore i cant say yes or no . ga

ID4: Titan THANKS !!!! From me no more questions, I hope the best for your bussines ;)

Titan: ID4: Thanks. ga

Nico4k: Will Pegasos be shit with screen, keyboard, Hard drive, Or will it be possible to buy only the Motherboard ?

Amiga2001: ship instead of shit ;-)

Titan: Nico4k shit ??? ;)) Yes it will be shipped as complete system too this will be a g3 350, 128MB ram, gfx-board,hD and DVD-drive ga

Zefram_: Will there be a Pegasos motherboard with more than 3 PCI slots ?

Titan: Nico4k and motherboard only is also available .ga

Titan: Zefram_: Yes there is a adaptor for 4 slots available.

Nico4k: Are all drivers ready (I mean for internal ethernet, audio, USB ???)

Titan: Nico4k a lot of drivers are already finished but some are still in development. ga

Amiga2001: more questions?

Nico4k: Will we show amazing think on Bplan at the show like Divx movie ?

Titan: Nico4k We have shown DV editing on the show. DIVX is also possible but was not presented. ga

Amiga2001: Ok Guys, Michael has to go

Amiga2001: thx Michael


Update: (17.06.2016, cg)

Integrated the logfile provided by Jürgen Lucas into the news item. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 17:07] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Wolf Faust (ANF)


 Update: V2.03 of the scanner colour correction software ICS
The free scanner colour correction software 'ICS' is available in version 2.03 on http://www.ics.coloraid.de.

This latest version will run until August 2002 and comes with some enhancements for the supported file formats. Some TIFF pictures are substantially faster loaded, now, and Mac binary files are recognized automatically. Some small bugs have been fixed. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Falcon (ANF)


 AMIGA 2001: Pictures from the Cologne show
Falcon published photos from his today's show visitation on his homepage. But, the comments (German) are sometimes meant in good fun. (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Marcel Rohles (ANF)


 Game: New adventure game under development, nostalgica all around Space Rat
Marcel Rohles wrote:
Who did not fell for the adventures of old tradition in the style of Lucas Arts or Sierra?

Probably nobody can exculpate himself from this. Everyone of us once was bound to this fever to free Guybrush from an embarrassing situation, just to see him stumbling right into the next one.

But, what has happened to this? What about the adventure genre? Does it have to be 3D all the time?

If you are able to unhesitant and in peace of conscience say no to the latter question, I recommend the page about 'Space-Rat Tukult' warmly to you.

Yes, it's true - Space Rat will come back. A mind-blowing combination of classic adventure game and Ziggy, the Space Rat, which enriched the ASM until lastly.

By some kind words certainly the team would be willing to develop for the Amiga, too. The news of November 17 already question that, for example.

Last but not least I would like to cite the Tukult team, for I even wasn't able to say it better: 'So, if you also belong to those people grown up with rubber chicken with snap-hooks underside and jerrycans on Mars, it is to say that you've discoverd the Holy Grail by comming to this page.'

There's only one thing left for me to say in this sense: 'Ziggy to the (A)miggy!' (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)


 BTTR: Golf - Leaderboard und World Class Leaderboard
The Back to the Roots team wrote:
In a surprising move Microsoft allowed us to include the golf simulations from Access Software, a company which they acquired two years ago. Enjoy 'Leaderboard' and 'World Class Leaderboard'. 'Links' will come online soon, too.

Please visit BTTR for a full list of all games which have been added or you'll miss masterpieces like Realms, Thexder, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Super Skidmarks CD32 and many others.

As usual many scene-demos, music files and pictures have been added to our archive. (sd)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Stefan Popp (E-Mail)


 AMIGA 2001: Report by Stefan Popp
Stefan Popp wrote:
Here my small report about the 2001 Amiga show (absolute subjective and incomplete).

There were more booths than the last time (about 12). Unfortunately they took that good advantage of the exhibition space, that the walks between the booths were quite narrow, which lead to bothering tailbacks.

Bplan
Like known Bplan is creating a PPC machine. This was presented run capable. I've seen MorphOS. Reportedly Linux was no problem, too.

A complete machine (20GB HD, 128MB RAM, ...) was said to cost about 1,000 Euro. But the boards would be available solitary, too (from distributors, but not from BPlan directly).

The problem about this whole thing: The system still is at beta test stage, and if someone would order a certain amount of boards today, delivery would not be expected before end of 1Q02. Major reason for this: It is hard to get low quantities of the components.

To the question, how much of the specifications have been revealed, I was told, that the computer meets the Motorola Open-Bios conception and to adapt it to other operating systems would be no problem.

BPlan's documents consciously don't mention the Amiga, to not tie the machine down to some special field of application.

Elbox
Showed their busboards. Again, the TV card and the TV picture was presented as Workbench background.

Unfortunately the SharkPPC was shown inside a show-case.

Of course I asked, why this card wasn't performed. The employee illustrated, that though development would have been finished, but it would be to wait for AmigaOS4.0. Ermh, if I consider this, my questions actually wasn't answered by this statement. Allegedly the card would run with WarpOS drivers, too (so please, why to wait for 4.0). Well, doesn't make any difference, isn't that important, anyway. :).

Haage & Partner
Actually just showed Amithlon and AmigaXL on three computers.

Meal booth
Meat balls, noodle salad, coffee, and Snikers at cheap prices.

The lectures (at least those I attended)

1) Amithlon - Jürgen Haage
In advance: The room was to narrow and of bad equipment. Reportedly this also was due to the fact, that some parts did not survive the transport to Cologne. But, after some bricolage everything worked.

Mr. Haage explained the step to develop the Amiga emulator with the good availability of and the cheap prices for PC hardware.

The price for the complete package is at 299DM (incl. Kick 3.1, OS 3.9, QNX, Arteffects, AmiWriter, and StormC3.0 ).

According to Mr. Haage the development of the emulation bases on UAE. Amithlon utilizes a Linux kernel in addition, which was said to simplify the implementation of additional hardware. AmigaXL uses QNX as 'hosting' operating system.

2) Hyperion about the subject Amiga 4.0
Amiga Ltd. did not attend the show. And to say it honestly, nobody missed them. Some kind of announcement sure would have coused people to shake their heads, again.

The lecture was done by the CEO of Hyperion (I just forgot the name). The facts in short:

Hyperion and H&P obtaind a license for a PPC port. With the help of many developers (with H&P and Hyperion as the core team) the OS will be ported step by step. At first the TCP/IP stack, Exec and possibly DOS. Furthermore there is a new library concept.
  • In the beginning memory protection will be limited to prevent access to not allocated memory.
  • New Warp3D will be implemented (with Matrox-, Permedia3-, and Radon1/2 support).
  • WarpInput for input device management.
  • Generic PCI drivers to better integrate the different PCI boards (hardware drivers will have to be developed only once, at last).
  • USB support.
  • New TCP/IP stack ('Roadshow').
  • Picasso96 as standard in a PPC native version.
  • It's said to run on any PPC Amiga, while Blizzard cards might suffer from low performance.
  • 68k emulation (JIT version) will be integrated.
  • AmigaDE will be on it.
  • Java was sait to come, too (but not already in the initial version).
  • Price: In the range of AmigaOS V3.5 or V3.9.
  • Amiga ZorroII and ZorroIII would be supported (at least the most prevalent cards).
  • PPC datatypes.
  • AHI for Sound.
A version would be available from January, already.

I could not keep more in mind. Maby someone would publish the Scala presentation.

The CEO of Hyperion wasn't very optimistic in regard of AmigaOne, Shark, BPlan. One reason to decide to port 4.0 to existing hardware and to not let down the owners of PPC cards. The OS theoretically runs on any PPC hardware.

But nothing was performed. Explanation: Due to the still bad look one would get a bad impression, which just would cause people to review things from a wrong point of view.

At the booth of Haage&Partner I was told, that a PPC native version of the AmigaOS would have been possible already two years ago, but Gateway would have disliked that. I think this is nothing new, but to celebrate the day I once more was happy about it . (sd) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)


 Virus Help Denmark: Chat-Room
«The Virus Help Teams around the World has opened a chat room, where you can chat with members of any Virus Help Team (if we are in the room), and other members that might have some virus problems. To coincide with being a browser-friendly environment, we have not left any chatters hanging, without a way to join up with us to chit-chat, the easy way.

No JavaScript or IRC program is required. All you need to do is register your handle, with a password, and come on in. :-) The Handle registration link, is found on the login page.

Please bear in mind, this is a family type chat room, and all normal courtesies and language is expected. Thank you

The chat time is set at Eastern Standard Time (EST), so if you would like to check the EST zone against your own, you can check the time zone at the log-in page.

You can join our chat-room at this address: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/vht-chat.htm.

(Thanks to Charlene VHT-Canada, for setting this chat-room up)» (sd)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Live Amiga 2001 webcam at amigaforever.info
Pictures from Cloanto's live webcam at the Amiga 2001 show are online at amigaforever.info. (ps)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 14:28] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001



 AMIGA 2001: The first day's pictures
Here you will find a selection of pictures from the first day of the AMIGA 2001 in Cologne, taken for amiga-news.de by Meike Hilke:


Maciek Binek (Elbox)
Elbox Computer
Projekt Crashsite - Denis Comtesse / Markus Pohlmann

Vesalia Computer
DCE
Guido Does (Vesalia)

Titan Computer / DCE
bPlan / Titan Computer
Gerald Carda (Development bPlan)

Fabio Trotta (No Risc No Fun)
Titan Computer
Dennis Lohr (Psyria Music)

DCE (Michael Göken present G-REX )
Virtual Dimension (Messe-Video)
Amiga Club Deutschland

COOLbits / APC&TCP
Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) / Thomas Dellert (DCE)
Thomas Dellert (DCE) / ? / Toni Ianiri (Power Computing) / Petra Struck

Benno Markert / Martin Strobl (COOLbits)
APC&TCP Team



Richard Small (GTI)

"Orgasmatron" (GTI)
Markus Nerding (H&P)


Bill Buck / Raquel Velasco / Petro Tyschtschenko
Jürgen Haage (H&P)

Sebastian Brylka (Fun Time World) / Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena)
PEGASOS
Michael Battilana (Cloanto) presents Amiga Forever 5.0
(ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 02:03] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
18.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 OOP4A: Update of the ODK released
Beside of little useful tools, e.g. to display formatted source code, there are new classes and features for the pre-processor, again.

OOP4A is a system to bring the world of objects to not object oriented programming languages. OOP4A is able to unite different programming languaes and offers certain run-time protection machineries.
A continuously extended online documentation is all time available on the homepage. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 01:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

18.Nov.2001
Markus Neervoort (E-Mail)


 AMIGA 2001: Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (AmigaPage)
You will find pictures from the Amiga 2001 taken by Markus Neervoort, AmigaPage, under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 01:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Nov.2001



 AMIGA 2001: first report
To give you first impressions of the fair here's a beforehand report in which we concentrate on current hardware products.

Highly interesting is the first official presentation of the Pegasos computer on which the operating system MorphOS is running. Gerald Carda demonstrated us a test program that displays plasma effects. Not accelerated (68060 speed) the program displays 4 frames per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorphOS shows 192 FPS.

In conversation with Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda we have got still more interesting information which we'll present comprehensive in our final report. This beforehand: Developer systems will be available in the beginning of January 2002, computers for end users will follow appr. 8 -12 weeks later.

The highlight of Haage&Partner is a x86 computer built into a luxury tower with stylish design and installed Amithlon. The corpus of the computer is of aluminium, the front side is made of azure blue plastic.

Of course, the developers of the PCI busboards didn't miss the show, either. Elbox presented their Mediator system and DCE the G-REX board.

Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development presented us the prototype of the Melody successor. In addition to the functions of the Melody has this card the following particularities:
  • MP3 audios can not only be decoded in real time but alos encoded.
  • Analogue mixer function
  • Digital input/output (optical/coaxial)


Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers presented us a preseries model of the interface card VarioIO that will be available before Christmas. The Delfina could unfortunately not be shown.

Based on a Logitech 2 buttons mouse Schönfeld has developed a real Amiga resp. Atari mouse. Here will the production begin in the next days, too.

Michael Böhmer presented his USB controller Subway with which you can connect common USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four external devices can be used without any additional hub. VMC has already started with the driver development. For now there are drivers for mouse and keyboard available. Planned are drivers for printers, digital cameras and scanners. (ps) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 21:29] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Nov.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)


 MagicMenu 2.33 released
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Version 2.33 of MagicMenu fixes (hopefully) the problems with the PPC support that was introduced in v2.32. (mj) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 17:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Nov.2001
Nowee (E-Mail)


 Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes Website Updated
The makers of the 'OverShaker' website dedicate their efforts to prettify the Amiga-Workbench. There are themes for GUI tools like VisualPrefs and icon samples available for download. At the 'Work' area there are tips on how to deal with colours (palette) on the Workbench.

Somewhat few content on this site? Send your self-made themes and icons to Nowee, the webmaster, to get the site filled with content! (mj) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 17:19] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)


 Amiga-Info.net: pictures directly from the fair
On Saturday between 10.00 and 12.00 o'clock there'll be the first pictures from the Amiga 2001 at Amiga-Info.net. As we are at the fair the next update of our site will be at around 18.00 o'clock.
P.S.: Hopefully the equipment won't fail. (ps) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 14:04] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 V3.61 of ISAcatweasel.device
Just before the finishing of the fair preparations we have managed to release a new version of the ISAcatweasel.device. The driver is downloadable from the support area (title link).

Note by Jens Schönfeld:
The driver is "blindly" programmed, I therefore ask the users with a working Amithlon system to try the device. For the time being it is only possible to read from disks, the writing is locked yet (floppy disks appear as being write protected). (ps) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 13:58] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Nov.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: interview with ACBB
Amiga-topcool has interviewed the PR director of the Amiga-Club-Berlin-Brandburg (see title link). He's talking about the club life and his expectation of the Amiga fair. Read also his sum up regarding the AmigaOS XL (he'd been one of the first being able to test it). Additionally he's talking about the club's future plans and what Thomas Nosutta is doing when he's not busy on his Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 13:56] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
17.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC available
After a long waiting it is time again. SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC is now available at SuSE GmbH and at the retailers. 8 CDs contain more than 2000 software packages. To mention only a small selection of new software here are some examples:

KOffice, OpenOffice, Ogg/Vorbis (DivX), KDE 2.2.1, Gnome 1.4.1
But the distribution's highlight should be the availability of the filesystems Ext3, JFS and ReiserFS (all journaling filesystems).

As in the past I'll create an installation guide for Amiga systems. In any case I'll let you know when these are available on the net. (ps) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 13:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland


 Webcam and Shoutcast stream from the Amiga 2001
The Amiga-Club Germany offers some fair atmosphere to all interested people staying at home:
Under 195.185.110.189:8000 is a Shoutcast audio stream available, under http://www.a500.de/webcam/ a webcam recording at least the happenings on the lower floor.
And there's an "official" Amiga2001 IRC channel (linux.us.amiganet.org #amiga 2001) where you can always reach us during the fair. (ps) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 17. Nov. 2001, 13:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Nov.2001
Apex Designs


 Payback: One New And Three Update Maps Available
One new map has been added to the Extra Maps Page, along with three updated ones. Don't forget that you can buy your own copy of the game anywhere in the world using our secure on-line shop. Also, Amigalien has announced that he has added French and German discussion lists (as well as a textures page) to his Payback site. (ps)

[News message: 16. Nov. 2001, 20:13] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Nov.2001
Cloanto


 Cloanto: Amiga Forever 5.0 / Cloanto at AMIGA 2001
Amiga Forever 5.0 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition. Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems. Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to be of interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included.

Features include:
  • Just-in-time (JIT) version of emulation software, carefully configured and publicly benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous versions of Amiga Forever
  • Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
  • New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version)
  • All software tested on Windows XP
  • All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be available for the "Classic Amiga"!)
  • CDTV and CD³²  boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM)*
  • MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49 minutes)*
  • GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
  • Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
  • Amiga Explorer 4.0 (includes revolutionary self-install over serial cable, plus new Cut, Copy, Paste functions)
  • Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware)
  • TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix)
  • Personal Paint 7.1b
  • Built-in support for ADZ and DMS disk image files
  • Print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows, bypassing parallel port emulation)
  • New MenuBox launcher
  • New emulation and Workbench configuration results in even faster emulation of the Amiga CPU
  • Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested by Cloanto
  • Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons (drag-and-drop LhA, ToolManager, etc.)


Cloanto at Amiga 2001 (Köln)
Seminars will be held at 12:45 on both Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18. You are most welcome to join the presentation of Amiga Forever 5.0, the demos, and the debates. (ps)

[News message: 16. Nov. 2001, 19:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Nov.2001
Dino Papararo (E-Mail)


 Fractal Graphic: FlashMandelWOS 1.5
Version 1.5 of FlashMandelWOS has been uploaded on Aminet in gfx/fract directory. With FlashMandel you can create fractal graphics.

This has changed in the new version:
  • FlashMandel has a new Reaction-GUI. You need OS3.5 (or higher) for this feature. Now it's possible to use all features only by mouse.
  • Added support for Localization for Italian and German languages, others are welcome ;-).
  • A new installer-script makes it easy to install, update or delete FlashMandel.
  • The ppc-routines are reworked, so the speed increases about 12%.
  • Better print-routines for better output, now should be printed the whole A4 paper.
  • Some minor internal changes and optimizations increasing compatibility with all future Amiga clones ;-).
  • and much more...
(ps)

[News message: 16. Nov. 2001, 10:14] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
16.Nov.2001
David McMinn (ANF)


 Blitz2000 site updated
The Blitz-2000 site has finally had its design updated. It is an unofficial support site for all you Blitz Basic 2 coders :)

Feedback on the site would be welcome, especially how easy it is to read and understand the Programming section. Note: the mailing list archives and search engine are currently broken. (ps)

[News message: 16. Nov. 2001, 09:54] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

16.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


 DigiBoosterPro update
An English version of the unofficial homepage for DigiBoosterPro, the popular tracker, is now online. It was created with the help of translation software. (ps) (Translation: rh)

[News message: 16. Nov. 2001, 00:20] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Batman (ANF)


 Game: "Dynamite" needs more active beta testers
Help: Development of DYNAMITE currently is about to stop due to a lack of participants. Who wants to drop in for at least one houre twice a week at #amigazeux (example server: irc.amigazeux.de), run Enforcer, Muforce or Muforce&Muguardian, and would like to discuss possible changes, as well, can announce his interest on the same IRC channel.
Or can contact the programmers via e-mail: dynamite@amisource.de.

Thank you very much in advance. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 22:01] [Comments: 1 - 16. Nov. 2001, 06:19]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus


 Event: Seminar-events at AMIGA 2001
At AMIGA 2001 the visitors may take part in several seminars and conferences to be held on both days between 11 and 17 o'clock, for example:
  • Amiga Forever (Cloanto)
  • Amiga OS 4.0 (Hyperion Entertainment)
  • Amiga OS XL (Haage & Partner)
  • DigiBoosterPro (DBP Community)
  • Freespace (Hyperion Entertainment)
  • Mediator PCI (ELBOX Computer)
  • FunMedia (Atari, Patrick Eickhoff)
  • MINT/N.AES (Atari, woller systeme)

Furthermore of course there will be additional presentations, e.g. of Pegasos and G-REX. (ps)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus


 Event: More exhibitors at AMIGA 2001
Three new exhibitors will attend the AMIGA 2001: "16/32-Bit Systems" from Great Britain will offer new and well-known Amiga-products. "Newsell" will concentrate on the sale and presentation of the Mac- Clones by Umax. Visitors may buy equipment for their printers, especially refill-sets, from "Refill 24". (ps)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Eternity Computer


 Eternity: The 51,111th visitor wins a bonus
Eternity: "Unfortunately we have forgotten to organize a prize project for customer # 50,000 and would like to make this up now :-). The user with a screenshot for the 51,111th hit will gain a bonus of 50DM for the next product purchased from Eternity. Please, send your screenshot to our webmaster." (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 17:18] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Dreamolers


 Dreamolers: MP3TagEditor Version 2.0
After a very long time a new version of MP3TagEditor by Rybcia/D-CAPS was released! MP3Tag is an ID3 tag editor for Mp3 files. It offers many features like creating tags from filename or filename from tags. Program uses MUI and id3tag.library.

For all those have been waiting for a GlowIcon style button set for VisualPrefs we've got a nice surprise.

SHORT: Coll mp3 tag editor
AUTHOR: Rybcia/Dreamolers-CAPS
REQUIREMENTS: MUI, OS3.0, id3tag.library

Invented and developed by Rybcia/D-CAPS.

MP3TagEditor features: reads/saves ID3Tags version 1.0 to 2.4, has a nice MUI based GUI, supports drag&drop and more...

Future: multiple selection, cooler GUI

Download: MP3TagEditor.lha (ps)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 16:47] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page


 Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.5 / xlHtml v0.3.9.5
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.5 and an update of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.5, which converts Excel/Powerpoint files to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs are also available as MorphOS versions. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 16:34] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Amiga Future


 Event: Dreamworlds Development on the show, too
Some people of the Dreamworlds team will put their machines at the booth of ATC&TCP and presentate the current status of Crossfire II to the interested. Who would like to even may take his favourit joystick with him and test the game. And if someone has problems to find us:

Just follow those never ending explosion sounds and you will stumble either upon us or Descent: Freespace :-) (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 16:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 (Update)
ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 available in the download section.
  • fixed Play Object and Play Region (were routed to the wrong busses resulting in noise)
  • correctly loads older format projects, useful for tutorials
  • variable bitrate DSP plugins now fully supported
  • added "mouse-over" help text for new console buttons


As both the "project format" and "variable bitrate" modifications remove the chances of possible system crashes, it's strongly recommended to replace the older demo with the new 5.01 version.

Update 16.11.2001:
Download: psadm501.lha (ps)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 14:50] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)


 Event: Elbox on AMIGA 2001 in Cologne
ELBOX COMPUTER invites all the interested in the latest hardware for Amiga to visit our stand in the AMIGA 2001 fair in Cologne.

Our products are available for purchase in the stands of our distributors: Vesalia Computer and KDH Datentechnik. (ps)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 14:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)


 Elbox: MediatorUP 2.6 & Mediator MM CD UP 1.08
The MediatorUP 2.6 update for Mediator PCI users has been made available today. The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
  • pci.library ver.4.4
  • MediatorNET.device ver.2.3
  • Voodoo.card ver.2.8
The MM CD 1.08 update for Mediator PCI users, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been made available by ELBOX Computer.

The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
  • sb128.audio ver.4.3
  • Voodoo.card ver. 4.9


Changes:
MediatorNET.device - double buffering (pingpong) added
SB128.audio - preselection of audio frequency added (ps)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 14:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


 Event: e.p.i.c interactive on the Amiga 2001 in Cologne
e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will attend this year's Amiga show at the Mediapark in Cologne. Our booth will be marked by our realtime strategy hit EARTH 2140. The EARTH 2140 mission pack will be introduced and for the first time available to the customers on the show in Cologne (if UPS will not let us down). The mission pack extends the Mac and Amiga version with 80 new single player missions and the multi-player mode (LAN) long awaited for the Amiga.

Another innovation is the latest version of the movie player MooVID PRO which was optimized in many parts. Of course there will be all of our product line, like Simon The Sorcerer II and Foundation Gold, at amazing show prices. Furthermore we will presentate some of our products on an Apple Mac, which also will be available for Pegasos/MorphOS, soon. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 14:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Jools Smyth (E-Mail)


 ExoticA - Logo competition
The ExoticA website about the musical skills and history of the Amiga started a logo competition. They are wanting a logo to decorate the start page of the homepage.
Furthermore the website and many rubrics have been updated. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 03:10] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
15.Nov.2001
Hendrik Höner (E-Mail)


 Event: UGN IRC conferences on the AMIGA 2001
On occasion of this show UGN will organize an IRC conference, again, on Sunday from 12:00 MET.

Those agreed to participate so far:

12:00 Michael Garlich (Titan Computer)
13:00 Darek Dulian (Elbox)
14:00 Markus Nerding (Haage & Partner)

On the show we will try to get more participants. The conference will be held at the booth of the Amiga Club Deutschland. In IRC on the AmigaNet (example servers: thule.no.amiganet.org, linux.us.amiganet.org, whiterose.us.amiganet.org, port 6667).

Other participants and the channel will be announced near term. (ps) (Translation: mj)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 02:09] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]

15.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Amiga Forever now available from individual Computers
The Amiga emulation package Amiga Forever is now available as a bundle with the Catweasel ISA controller. Amiga Forever turns your PC into an Amiga. The package which is available since 1997, includes a license of all Amiga-patents, trademarks and copyrights that are necessary for an emulation. Therefore, an official Amiga Notebook "Powered by Amiga" is available since 1997.

Amiga Forever makes all the hardware of the base system also available on the Amiga side: Virtual memory, Fast- and GBit Ethernet, sound- and graphics boards as well as DVD and USB.

Further information about Amiga Forever can be found on the publisher's website http://www.cloanto.com/.

Individual Computers will continue to support both Amiga Forever and its developers. There will be no support for the QNX version of Amiga OS XL for the Catweasel ISA in the near future, whereas for Amithlon we will provide a software that uses the ISA Catweasel just like a real Amiga Catweasel.
Amiga Forever developers are even going a step further, they use the Catweasel to emulate the internal Amiga diskdrive. (ps)

[News message: 15. Nov. 2001, 02:00] [Comments: 1 - 15. Nov. 2001, 05:00]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Sigbjørn Skjæret
Amiga Arena - Interview
After the mpega.library was not developed any more there is now clone of the library of Sigbjørn Skjæret. Amiga Arena spoke with Sigbjørn S. about how it came to it and about the future of his projects. Support the developer with your feedback!

After two years the guestbook of Amiga Arena was reactivated. Please sign in! (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 14. Nov. 2001, 21:15] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)


 Amiga-Info.net: Opinion poll / Car sharing
There is a small opinion poll to discover if Amiga-Info.net is useful for you. Amiga-Info.net would be delighted if you took part.

Car sharing to the Amiga 2001:
Here it is the last chance to find or offer a place on the car sharing action. We will see us on Amiga 2001! (ps)

[News message: 14. Nov. 2001, 20:40] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


 Event: H&P on AMIGA 2001
On the AMIGA 2001 which will take place this weekend we will present and offer our newest developments and products. Amithlon/AmigaXL, Freespace, ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 4.1, StormC 4, ArtEffect Plugins Collection and much more.

The new combination of Athlon-Hardware and AmigaOS XL are highly newsworthy. The top-system consists of a noble aluminium-tower and has the new Athlon XP 1800+ as its heart. We also offer a suitable 15 inch LCD-monitor. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 14. Nov. 2001, 20:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


 Great Freespace-presentation on the fair
There will be a great presentation of the final version of Descent:Freespace on the fair. You can watch the game on two computers around the clock. Additionally there will be a presentation of half an hour on Saturday and Sunday. At the same time the analog-joystick-interface will be together introduced with the game which supports it. The Amiga-port of Freespace has finished for 99.9% so the game will be available after the fair.

On the fair the demo-version of Freespace will be published. All those who order the game on the fair in advance will get a CD with the most current demos of Freespace, Heretic II and Shogo for free. Freespace as well as the new version of Heretic II which is on the CD will get graphic improvements for Warp3D v4.2. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 14. Nov. 2001, 20:06] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Nov.2001
Amiga Future


 Online-magazine: Currently Starmag with new url
Because Arcor has deleted the webspace without any premonition the online-magazine Starmag has not been accessable for some days. You can now access the magazine under http://www.Starmag.de.cx. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 14. Nov. 2001, 17:21] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Nov.2001
AmiDog


 Emulation: Playstation emulator FPSE 0.09, Amiga Revision 2
Mathias Roslund has released a new version of the Playstation emulator FPSE. It is the second Amiga-version which is based on version 0.09. You need a Playstation Bios-rom to emulate. There are some screenshots to the Amiga-version.

It follows the original message:
A new release with some bugfixes and added features. Memory card support is fixed, and compiler (dynarec) and PSX Port support has been added. There is also a switch to use READ_CD for CD support. This was used by some of the FPSE/Amiga 0.08 revisions and might work better than CMD_READ with some CD-ROMs.

Download: FPSE009R2.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 14. Nov. 2001, 13:49] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
14.Nov.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)


 Mailbox: Stardate-bbs accessable again via Internet
After a month of hard problems with DSL in Muenster you can access again the Stardate-mailbox via Internet under (http://stardate.2y.net). The very popular Dynamite-server is also accessable under the same url. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 14. Nov. 2001, 13:16] [Comments: 0]
[Send via e-mail]  [Print version]  [ASCII version]
1 165 325 ... <- 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 -> ... 345 355 371 [Archive]
 
 Recent Discussions
.
• Amiga 4000(T)ower for sale
• Calvin Harris - Amiga A1200
• Amiga basic rewritten for Apple
• Volker Wertich interview
• Commodore Amiga MYSTYLE
.
 Latest Top-News
.
•New PPC hardware announced: "Mirari" featuring USB3, NVME, FPGA (Update 3) (30. Apr.)
•7-bit: Bluetooth adapter for control pads (25. Apr.)
•First stable version of a native 64-bit AROS (24. Apr.)
•Print magazine: Amiga Future 174 - Preview and reading samples (24. Apr.)
•Emulation: QEMU 10.0 / bboot 0.8 (23. Apr.)
•Announcement and pre-order campaign: AmiGUS sound card (19. Apr.)
•ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam440ep flex and mini-itx (15. Apr.)
•Paint program: PolarPaint for all Amiga systems (11. Apr.)
•ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards (09. Apr.)
•Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer" (07. Apr.)
.
 amiga-news.de
.
•Configure main page

 
  
.
Masthead | Privacy policy | Netiquette | Advertising | Contact
Copyright © 1998-2025 by amiga-news.de - all rights reserved.
.