13.Apr.2003
GFXZONE (Website)
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News from GFXZONE
Late last year the first edition of a new demoparty was held in France. This party was announced as being somewhere between the Wired and the LTP, which suggested what visitors could expect from the party. I am talking about State of the art 2002, and I have seen some seriously nice prods! Later this month another first edition party will take place, this time in Bingen, Germany. Lets see what that party will bring!
Until then you'll have to make do with our latest update, which is an online party gallery for last years' State of the Art. This new gallery shows the best entries from the graphics compos at that party, and there are many great graphics for you to look at! Spread over three competitions 35 images are available online - oldschool, raytrace and a regular gfx compo.
I found it an extremely pleasant surprise to see some new graphics by Tenshu again. But there are plenty images in this gallery, for example productions by Ak, Danube, Mikl, Splif and a very atmospherical scene by Nytrik just to name a few. Enter the State of the Art 2002 online gallery
A large archive with all SotA compo graphics is also available for download. (nba)
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13.Apr.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace: MultiplayerPack 07 released
The MultiplayerPack 07 for the game Decent: Freespace has been released, containing 6 multi player missions. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
DJBase (Website)
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Help guide: Data transfer with AmIRC over Router
Some users may know the problem that data transfer with AmIRC is no longer possible when using a router. In a short workshop under the title link M. Münch and M. Lück describe a solution using a pre-programmed ARexx script.
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13.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 5
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 5 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ssolie: The webmaster at amiga.org recently proclaimed that your Q&A sessions are not news worthy and will no longer post them as news. Many others agree and also believe this to be so. What do you think about such criticism and how it reflects on the current state of the Amiga community.
Fleecy: There is an old saying that 'Editors make the news'. What this means is that those who control the channels which diseminate the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio stations and websites are the ones who 'decide' what is news by the content they chose to make available. They make this decision based upon their own philosophies, prejudices and agendas. One person's news is another person's propoganda is another person's free advertising.
I answer the questions because a news site, Amigaworld, choses to send them. I certainly don't insist that they are news.
The power of a community is that politics and philosophies reverberate through it to make it a living, breathing, arguing whole. That is what I see. Some are angry, some are annoyed, some are happy, some have hidden agendas. Events shape it. Editors try to shape it themselves by deciding what they report. If people decide that it is news and the editor doesn't then those people will move between sites. The power of the Internet is that there no longer has to be just one version of 'the truth'.
2) Jose: Dont' you think that the possibility of having Microsoft apps on AmigaOS would be a contradiction, technologywise, and from the users that still have fond memory of AmigaOS point of view, not to mention what we know of the commmunity.
Fleecy: Users want functionality and they indicate that by either buying or not buying the product. Ideological hatred of an entity is a juvenile approach to life and has probably caused, and continues to cause more suffering in this world than probably any other single issue.
3) pig : I bought both a Party Pack, and a club membership... Do I need to buy 2 Amigaone's to get my refunds, or can I get them both on the purchase of 1? ie: Can I combine these two offers into the same machine? What if I got 2 membership coupons, will I get full refund if I get one machine?
Fleecy: I am not the right person to answer that questions. I will see if I can get an answer and post it back as an addendum to a future Q&A.
Updated: If you bought x party packs and y club memberships then you can apply x+y rebates against one or more AmigaOnes. Basically you can mix and match the rebates as you like upto the value of the products that you purchase.
4) LaBodilsen: Is Amiga currently investigating into any wireless technology, be it Wifi (802.11b), bluetooth, IrDa etc. with regards to PDA integration for AmigaOS. And is there any plans of making a Syncronization suite with some well known PDA operating system, to syncronize information between the PDA and Amiga Aps. Or just simple file transfer.
Fleecy: As I said in an earlier question set, we intend to excel in the 90% of what users want to do with a computer and connectivity of any kind is pretty high on that list so yes, we are investigating and designing to take connectivity into account and hope to support at least WiFi in the near future. As for PDA connectivity, we will not look at it too close until the DE is brought into the OS but that is a third party opportunity in the meantime.
5) Derfs: are the party pack owners going to be given free upgrades to the latest SDK when 1.3/4 is released to the general developer public?
Fleecy: Another one I'll have to get back to you on. I don't decide sales and marketing policy.
Update: Anyone has has an officially registered copy of the SDK 1, which means an AD developer number and an appropriately mmarked AmiPASS will receive a few copy of SDK 2.0 to download or an at cost copy for a physical SKU (cost of product plus postage and packing).
6) Loki1: Will important AmigaOS4 information become exclusively available to Amiga Club members?
Fleecy: Why on earth would that be done? Surely it's in our interest to provide as much information as possible to as wide an audience as possible about our upcoming flagship product. Club Amiga is for those who want to be more involved and get more detailed information about the Amiga community and acts as a focus for bringing that community together, with features on user groups, dealers, Amigans, general technology topics that affect Amiga and with some more detailed articles on AmigaOS4.0 development. This is information of interest although I wouldn't say that it is important, not important as in terms of progress and release. We have started posting this articles of interest as we always said we would.
7) Treke: Does Amiga Inc have any plans for moving a desktop OS to machines based on IBM PPC 970 ?
Fleecy: We are always looking at new options for the AmigaOS and this is indeed an interesting one.
8) ikir: Will there be a bundled game with OS4, like SIN? Any bundled applications?
Fleecy: We do not bundle full applications because it can skew a market, favour one developer over another in a competitive market space, and fails to provide the developer with the full potential of that product. It is more often a cheap gimmick to fill out the lack of functionality in the core product. We have talked extensively with developers and they are happier to provide lite versions of their applications in a contributions drawer on the AmigaOS4.0 CD, allowing users to look at a variety of applications, get a good feel for them and then proceed to make a purchase based upon their experience.
9) Dan: Who has the IP and copyright of the orginal Amigas and their chipsets Amiga Inc or Gateway? And if some thirdparty company was intrested in building a AGA-compatibility card for the AmigaOne the sameway the Catweaselcard provides diskdrive-compatibility for AmigaOne would it be possible for them to license the AGAchipset design?
Fleecy: I would have to check the exact details but if someone is interested in such a product they can contact me as a first step.
10) Jose: Will the people that developed for Classic AmigaOS still be at ease with Amiga Generation2 technology?, Will there be things that will remain the same ?
Fleecy: It will be recognisable as an Amiga system to them. You should see the uproar on the OS4 team list when someone suggests adding something that is from Unixland. The screams are that 'this is an Amiga, not another Unix clone'.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=6
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Logo gallery updated
A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' have updated their Logo archive with 15 new logos. Among those are logos by Sec4, Eswat, Ra, Made, Tee Jay, Lazur, Leunam, Louie, Blizzart, R.W.O, Diesel, Drake and Cyclone.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
(ANF)
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Pictures of Mocca Party 8
Under the title link you will find the first pictures of the
Mocca Party 8 which took place
from 4th to 6th April 2003 in Hirsau near Pforzheim (Germany). (ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
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New Aminet uploads as per 13th April 2003
These are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last update:
AB2MLMae-Mai02.lha biz/cloan 52K+ABlitzML archiv only in german
cddbfreedb.lha comm/tcp 6K+Cddb.library dropin replacement using fr
ChestnutHill.lha docs/misc 110K+The Chestnut Hill Caper, by John Barnard
MaritimeAdv.lha docs/misc 109K+Maritime Adventure, by John Barnard
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 856K+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.12, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
imdbDiff030404.lha misc/imdb 3.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
EDG-NapalmiRMX.mpg mods/mpg 4.6M+Remixed EDG-Napalmi Kuolema
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 108K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
XG_EditIMG.lha mus/midi 24K+New Images for mus/midi/XG_Edit
Artworks030218.lha pix/wfm 14M+Artworks Issue from February 18, 2003
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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13.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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NOMAD TEAM developing two new products
As reported by AmigaFlame, the programming team 'NOMAD' is developing two new programs for AmigaOS, intent and Windows. The first project will probably be an action game for AmigaOS and intent with the working title 'NomadGMS'. The only thing known of the second program is that it will be released for AmigaOS and Windows.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Apr.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga
users that is sorted geographically according to continents
and countries. Today the following areas have been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
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12.Apr.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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AmigaDE PocketPC Paks at CompUSA
At CompUSA there are from now on both AmigaDE PocketPC packages available and can be found using the search function of the website with the term "Amiga". Among other things do they contain the games by ZeoNeo.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.12 - Rockford is back!
BoulderDäsh is an Amiga conversion of the good old BoulderDash on the C64. With now more than 10000
(ten thousand) levels in more than 400 game files should BoulderDäsh offer a long term gaming fun. If this is not enough for people they can create own levels and games with the level editor.
Compared to the version v5.11 supports v5.12 now also both C64 #?.GAM formats. Next to some small improvements contains this version approximately 5000 additional levels. The new version of BoulderDäsh RTX has already been uploaded and should appear on Aminet in the next days.
Here once again the updated feature list:
BoulderDäsh V5.12
- 1:1 BoulderDäsh clone
- Full speed under MC68000 Amigas with AGA, ECS or OCS
- Full graphic board support! Up to 256 Colors (depends on graphic set)
- Full sound card support (AHI)!
- System friendly! Can be paused and resumed at any time.
- requires OS 2.04 or higher
- Commodore styleguide conform
- Locale
- Great GUI
- Online Help
- many preferences windows
- Up to six players
- New game elements
- Unique record and play feature to show others how you solved the caves.
- Internal music player with playlist
- Optional full screen mode when running in RTG mode.
- >10000 Levels
- 35 graphic sets
- 6 character sets
- 5 sample sets
- Several hiscorelists for each game (game, level and level time records)
- Level and game editor
- Supports C64 and Atari Construction Kit Level and game files.
- Levels up to 100 * 100 blocks
- Special gravitation modes
- Create your personal game graphics
- Create your personal sample sets
- Create your personal game music
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Liquid Skies releases audio CD
The demo scene label Liquid Skies has released a double audio CD that contains all songs of the Liquid Skies packs from #001 to #021 as audio tracks and as original packed data files.
The price is 2,50 EURO for both CDs in a double CD box. The packaging costs have to be paid additionally and depend on the country where the receiver of the CDs is living in (within Germany 1,44 EURO). For further information please visit the homepage of the group under the title link in the section "CD order".
Liquid Skies is very proud to be able to offer this product and is eagerly awaiting any feedback.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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12.Apr.2003
Stefan Pietzonke (ANF)
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Hardware: C64 Ethernet adapter
With the Ethernet adapter you can connect a C64 to a network. The hardware bases on an embedded
Ethernet card that is universally usable. It should be possible to design a circuit to connect the card with the serial or parallel port of the Amiga. Then you could for example integrate the A500 into a network.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Catweasel: New multidisk.device (Update)
The new multidisk.device for Amiga OS (version 2.0 and up) and
MorphOS now recognizes the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper in a PCI-slot
of an Amiga, Amithlon or Pegasos. With this, individual Computers
is the first to deliver a working floppy-driver for the Pegasos,
which brings the aspiring system one step closer to the big
role model "Amiga".
Burning CDs to transfer small amounts of data is no longer
necessary, now you can use floppy disks of all common disk
formats like Amiga 880K, Amiga 1760K, PC720K, PC1440K and
many more.
The device is a public beta version, and it uses OpenPCI to
recognize and activate the board. Unfortunately, neither the
authors of OpenPCI, nor we could get hold of developer
information about the Mediator PCI board, so this will not
be supported until further notice.
Download: mdisk363.lha (16KBytes)
The homepage of the author of OpenPCI is located at
http://www.chez.com/titan/.
Update 12.04.2003 from Jens Schönfeld:
Our initial news item claimed that we're the first to deliver a working floppy driver for the Pegasos. There is one more solution by a third party, but that will only allow you to access 720K and 1440K disks. (nba)
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11.Apr.2003
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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Amiga Inc.: AmiDock and application.library in AmigaOS 4
»This description is meant as addition to our AmigaOS4 feature
list. For first impressions about the new functionalities, please
have a read in the mentioned document.
OS4's AmiDock allows to be configured by the user in a very high
degree. Picture 1 shows 4 different examples of docks in icon mode.
The top-most has a drag bar, and fully transparent backgrounds. If
someone wants to see a border around a dock: no problem - this is
shown in the second example. Of course you also can create a fully
invisible dock which has neither a drag bar nor a border (third
example). Finally we see a dock which draws a background, has a border
but no drag bar. Of course it is possible to choose those styles for
each different dock.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
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Several software news (11.04.2003)
Amigan Software
Tool: Report+ version 5.66b - Download:
ReportPlus.lha
- 312 KB
RC5-72 Clients
AmigaOS
[PPC/WarpOS] v2.9005.483
[PPC/PowerUp] v2.9005.483
[m68k] v2.9005.483
InstallerNG
'InstallerNG' is an alternative to the installer tool by Commodore. Only 'InstallerNG'
supports e.g. MUI (via plugin) and offers a CPU recognition for the MC68060 as well as
PPC processor. 'InstallerNG' will be part of AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. On 8th April 2003
version 50 was sent to the developer teams of Amiga and MorphOS for beta tests.
Burning software: MakeCD
Under the title link you can download the new makecdfs.module v45.8 and MakeCD beta
v3.2d10.
MaxUAE - The Amiga emulator for MacOS X
There are the following new programs ready for dwonload for the emulator:
DMS2ADF - Tool for unarchiving of .dms-archives
ADFCreator - Tool for creating of Amiga Disk Files
LBreakout 2 for MorphOS
"The polished successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more
than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive
balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus
magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks,
regenerative bricks, indestructible bricks, chaotic bricks). And if
you're through with all the levels you can create complete new
levelsets with the integrated easy-to-use level editor!"
Download: LBreakout2.lha - 2,5 MB
DTP: Pagestream for Linux
Second PageStream Linux beta released. Users who purchase a copy of the
Linux version now will receive access to the interim and final Linux
releases. Users who participate in the testing will also receive TextFX
for Linux at no charge as thanks!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads (11.04.2003)
Here are the new Aminet uploads:
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1c
tsl-mentro.lha demo/ecs 210K+The Silents FR presents Intro? Dentro? M
FlashROM.lha disk/cdrom 18K+Amiga tool to change the flash ROM of Pl
DMS2HD_PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish locale for DMS2HD 1.6
amigazette_10.lha docs/mags 883K+AMIGAzette 10th issue (10.02.2002) (ital
amigazette_11.lha docs/mags 185K+AMIGAzette 11th issue (25.03.2002) (ital
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 852K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderdaeshfu.lha game/jump 2.4M+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
Arkanos.lha game/misc 405K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.0 **
wipes.lha gfx/ifx 21K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.4 for IF
ambot.lha hard/drivr 35K+Cybot (Real Robots) programmer v1.3
DiabloMon.lha hard/hack 34K+Diavolo Backup monitor on i2c LED displa
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.16b
ANR-kickass.lha mus/play 16K+Kickass Uproar skin for AmiNetRadio
ANR-Kickass_pr.jpg mus/play 34K+Preview of Kickass Uproar ; skin for Ami
NewHomer.lha util/misc 98K+Talkin' Homer V1.83 (yet some fixes, mor
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 91K+Italian version of StartBar
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Kuno Hutter (E-Mail)
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Pro-Linux.de: PowerPC with preinstalled Linux
»Probably from Friday 11th April the AmigaOne will be available and if wanted with
preinstalled Linux.«
Have a look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.6
Hopefully the commands are now complete. Instead like last version
using values lower than 127 i now made them to send only values
that are described in the manual. So now it wont confuse virus
and are more safe and compatible. But something says me....
there will be another more complete package later.
I hope there is someone that has Virus and use this commands.
However if there is other midiprogram makers that wants me to do
versions for their midipackage. Sure i could do it. Just ask.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Apr.2003
Mandrake Soft Website (ANF)
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Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC published
Mandrake has published version 9.1 of the Linux-distribution for PPC.
The features are e. g.:
- Linux kernel 2.4.21
- XFree86 4.3.0
- KDE 3.1
- GNOME 2.2
- OpenOffice.org 1.0.2
- Mozilla 1.3
- Apache 2
- Samba 2.2.7
Mac-on-Linux is also integrated. The hardware support is there only for Macs. Furthermore
there is an alternative kernel which is called the "BenH". We do not know if Ben
Hermans is meant with this name!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Apr.2003
Joachim Thomas - Bitplane (ANF)
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Webb.it: Amiga-companies at the biggest IT-show in Italy
Virtual Works, Soft 3 and Bitplane Magazine will be present
together at the next edition of "Webb.it", one of the most
important IT-shows in Italy, attended by thousands of
visitors every year.
Virtual Works and Soft 3 will show the more recent development
on the Amiga-platform offering the possibility to see in action
the two new systems, the AmigaOne and the Pegasos, together with
some AmigaDE products. Bitplane, the only Italian printed magazine
with CD, will be present with its more recent issue.
This year the show will be held in Padova from 9th to 11th of may
at "PadovaFiere" (Padova Exibition Center). The team is pleased to
meet all the Amiga users at their stand to let the world know that
Amiga is finally coming back! (nba)
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10.Apr.2003
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InterVideo: Microsofts Multimedia Format for Linux-based devices
InterVideo, Inc. announced today that Microsoft has chosen the
company as a provider of its Windows Media Technology for
Linux-based consumer electronics. Under the agreement InterVideo
is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format,
port them over to Linux and provide them to manufacturers who are
interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer
devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other
hybrid multimedia devices. (nba)
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10.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets through August 4th, 2003
With WHDLoad, it's possible to install to your hard-drive games which were previously considered floppy-only. The following packets
have been added or updated since our last announcement:
- 08.04.03 improved: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) supports another version, new icon
- 08.04.03 new: Galdregons Domain (Pandora) done by Galahad
- 06.04.03 new: Red Baron (Dynamix) done by JOTD
- 06.04.03 new: Kelly X (Virgin/Mastertronic) done by JOTD
- 06.04.03 improved: Hostages / Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) access fault fixed
- 06.04.03 improved: Eye of the Beholder (Westwood/SSI) supports kixx xl version
- 06.04.03 improved: Turbo Outrun (U.S.Gold) fixed keyboard and blitter routines
- 06.04.03 improved: Plotting (Ocean) fixed audio and colour bit routines
- 06.04.03 new: Elf (Ocean) done by Psygore
- 03.04.03 improved: International Ninja Rabbits / Ninja Rabbits (Microvalue/Flair) supports another version
- 03.04.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) supports AGA version, icon fixed
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
GoldED Website
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GoldED: C/C++ IDE and PayPal Payment
The cprefs program, which is utilized in the C/C++ mode of the GoldED text editor in order to carry out compiler option for gcc and
vbcc, has been updated and now contains online help for all options.
From here on out the secure online payment of the registration fee for GoldED Studio is immediately possible through the payment
service PayPal. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: New Copyright as Good as Succeeded
The new copyright regulation is almost completed:
After lengthy parliamentary consultation the Rights Division accepted the
government's legal draft for the regulation of copyrights in the information domain, in spite of the
objections of the FDP [a German political party -dm] element and in spite of proposed changes
offered by CDU/CSU [other German political parties -dm] and the FDP.
The new copyright is being criticized harshly from several quarters, among other things it's feared
that the new regulation will take away an individual's right to make private copies. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Benjamin "Titan" Vernoux
The online magazine GFX-BASE spoke with Benjamin Vernoux about his OpenPCI Project. In this interesting interview Benjamin also speaks
to other interesting topics, and gives a preview of some planned projects. Read this interview led by SOL-Invictus (English language)
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Amiga Joker Test Reports and More
There are a few new developments on Kultpower.de, a Web project to which the game magazines ASM, PowerPlay, Videogames and Amiga
Joker are dedicated.
- New Amiga Joker test reports from the September and October 1990 editions:
Back to the Future 2, Flood, Last Ninja 2, Loom, Neuromancer, Oops Up, Operation Stealth, Starblade, Wings.
- New Videogames test reports from the September and October 1993 editions:
Afterburner 3 (Mega CD), Batman Returns (Mega CD), Cobra Command (Mega CD), Ecco the Dolphin (Mega CD), Final Fight (Mega CD), Gunstar Heroes (Mega Drive), Jaguar XJ 220 (Mega CD), Night Trap (Mega CD), Sherlock Holmes (Mega CD), Shinobi 2 (Mega Drive), Silpheed (Mega CD), Thunderhawk (Mega CD), Time Gal (Mega CD).
- A new Powerplay article from the March, 1995 edition:
"From Pong to Pentium".
- New cover under "More Mags": 14 additional covers of the newspaper Next Level.
- New cover under "More Mags": the first 6 covers of the newspaper Telematch (very rare!).
The organizers thank all their helpers: Gerald, matze, Chronos and Ralph! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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10.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: C-One production started
After more than two years development time, the C-One production
has started. It'll start selling on May 5th in Germany and
the Netherlands. Our other European partners should have the
boards by May 9th, when the board will also be launched in North
America.
Many projects have dealt with re-configurable computers so far,
but none of them is as consistent and flexible as the C-One.
Other projects only kept parts of the hardware re-configurable,
but the C-One can change the behaviour of it's chipset even
during runtime. Therefore, the C-One is the world's first
re-configurable computer. Read more on the official homepage
of the C-One. (nba)
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10.Apr.2003
Terra Soft
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Terra Soft discontinues development of ATX PowerPC-systems
Terra Soft Solutions has determined that it is not, at this point
in time, prudent to carry the Teron mainboards nor offer
Teron-based Boxer systems. This is as great a disappointment for
the company as it is for many of you. Terra Soft Solutions were
truly excited to bring this particular ATX PowerPC Linux product
to market.
If you have read the rumor mills, there are a variety of
supposed reasons why the company has been delayed in shipping,
including unqualified statements and speculation at
best. It is their corporate policy to not address specific
issues regarding any strategic relationship within a
public forum, where fact and fiction are not easily
discernable, and their fiduciary responsibility to their
customers, shareholders, and industry associates may
be compromised.
Terra Soft Solutions regrets having launched a product
initiative and built
expectations prior to receiving first shipment. They have
clearly learned a powerful lesson and do extend their
apology to their customers, their existing and potential customers.
As the Teron mainboard and associated systems will be
made available through other resellers, Terra Soft Solutions will
encourage them to sign-on as official Yellow Dog Linux
resellers in order that they may continue to support
movement of what they hope to be a very popular product. (nba)
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09.Apr.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Collectors pieces: Amiga clones "Access" available
The Italian dealer Soft3
seems to have some units of the Amiga clone "Access" on stock (title link).
The exact number of pieces is unknown. Probably Massimiliano "m3x" Tretene the owner of Soft3 will tell more details within a thread at Amiga.org which covered this item firstly. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio CD "Power Liquids" by Bjorn Lynne and Aural Planet released
Bjorn Lynne by the CD label LynneMusic is proud to announce the release of the new audio CD "Power Liquids".
This is a CD which was made by a cooperation of the both electronic/trance acts DIVINORUM and AURAL PLANET during the last months.
"Power Liquids" includes elements from trance, elektronic, ambient and ethnic music to create a warm, living and positve elektronic album.
All CDs which will be sent during the first 14 days after release will be enumerated individually and signed by Bjorn Lynne.
The CD costs US$ 14.99 and might purchased alternativly within one of three bundles (Savings from $10 for all three
Divinorum CDs, of $18.99 for all for AuralPlanets CDs or of
$21.95 for all six Aural Planet and Divinorum CDs possible). Ordering and further details are to find at the website of LynneMusic by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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"Journey to Northland" for MorphOS and Mac OS announced
Funatics Software GmbH and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh announced today that Cultures 2 sequel "Northland" will be ported to the Apple Mac and MorphOS.
"We are very happy to be able to bring one of the most popular Godgame series to gamers on the Apple Mac and MorphOS" said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. about the deal.
Thomas Friedman, CEO of Funatics added: "e.p.i.c. is the ideal partner for us to bring "Northland" to an even larger audience. Unfortunately users of systems like Macintosh or the new MorphOS are poorly supported when it comes to innovative new games. We intend to fill this gap with the release of "Northland" for these platforms.
The story of "Northland" begins where the plot of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard" ended. After perilous adventures our four heroes defeated the Midgard serpent and thus saved the world. But one day they were disturbed by a call for help from their friend Hatschi. Hatschi's homeland was plagued by mysterious monstrous serpent creatures, which spread chaos and destruction through the country. Without hesitation Byjami and Crya hurried to help him and stumbled right into a new adventure, in which the sly god Loki will play an important role...
Features Northland:
Stand-alone Adventure Strategy game.
- Single player campaign with 8 missions including several sub missions.
- The exciting plots tells the story of Viking God Loki who tried to take revenge on Godfather Odin for his banishment from Asgard to Earth. For that he abuses our four human heroes with his intrigues and traps.
- 8 additional free single player missions (non campaign).
- 3 difficulty levels to make the game fun for everybody from beginners to experts.
- Special effects like weather effects, fog, ghost units etc.
- Based on the enhanced technology of "Cultures 2 - The Gates of Asgard"; enhanced AI.
More information on "Northland" can be found at Northland or e.p.i.c interactive.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
xfr autor himself (ANF)
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Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.1 available
Who does not kow XFD and XAD by Dirk Stöcker and the Exoticripper
or Eagleplayer. XFR is a similar system which combines the best of all them to extract music tracks and pictures out of demo files. XFR offers a library and several clients for each sound format. A genie for the delitracker and the Eagleplayer and some Shell/WB tools for scanning whole directories or floppy disks in the twinkling of an eye is included also.
The XFR system is like the other X systems easily expandable with additional clients and comes along with a bunch of example code and a developer guide. I still need some support for the C header files but the assembler includes are finished already. Useful development information is obtainable at the home page (looking at these strongly recommended).
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos: List of supported RAM modules
At MorphZone there is a list available of tested RAM modules which work with the Pegasos.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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08.Apr.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Genesi: Offer 20 Pegasos I for Phoenix members
Genesi Sarl will offer up to 20 more Pegasos I machines with the April2
patch to Phoenix members for $299 through the Pegasos-USA website. This
offer includes:
- the Pegasos mainboard and G3 600MHZ CPU module
- an ATX backplate
- MorphOS 1.3 CD
- MorphOS Games: Birdie Shoot, Feeble Files, Tales of Tamar, Software Tycoon
- ProStationAudio Titanium
- DebianPPC for Pegasos with Mac-on-Linux
- a MorphOS "We have a Present for You" t-shirt
- two stickers for your case
- A4 connector guide
Other extras and updates will be distributed through the new Pegasos User
FTP. You will also to be subscribed to the very useful, supportive, and
positive Pegasos User Mailing List.
These are ALL new boards. Recycled Betatester boards are being used
internally in Genesi ONLY. If you are unable to use the Pegasos-USA website,
please contact Thierry to coordinate
a direct wire transfer to Genesi.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #032
After a short break of five days here are now the latest music pack #032 of Liquid
Skies Records.
It contains a track from Maxus in Trance style, but it is not a typical Trance track
because it is only 2:48 min. It as always available for free download from the
website.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: New delfina.library online
The new version of the delfina.library now supports the sound card
on all clockports that are available on Zorro-cards by
individual Computers.
This includes X-Surf, X-Surf 2, VarIO,
Buddha Flash and ISDN-Surfer. The library can be used
on the new Delfina by individual Computers or on the old
clockport version by Petsoff.
Download: delflib416b43.lha (22 KB) (nba)
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08.Apr.2003
Charlene/VHT-Can (E-Mail)
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VHT-Canada online again
After three days offline due to problems at the provider Shadow Creations is now the
website of `Virus Help Team Canada' available.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Spider II for Mediator- and Amithlon-user
Elbox Computer is proud to announce release of Spider II--the new
version of the ground-breaking Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed controller.
Spider II is based on the newest USB 2.0 PCI chipset, improving
data transmission by up to 20 percent of bandwidth as compared
with the previous USB 2.0 chipset.
The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card is a simple and affordable way to
add five Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports to Mediator-equipped Amigas or
to computers running AmigaOS under the Amihlon emulation.
USB 2.0 is the fastest USB standard ever, supporting data speeds
up to 480Mbps. That is 40 times faster than USB 1.1, making USB
2.0 ideal for external storage devices, scanners, CD-RWs,
printers, cameras, and more.
The Spider II USB 2.0 PCI card gives your computer the highest USB
speeds available today.
The Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible,
which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals.
Features
- Five USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports: four external and one internal
32-bit 33MHz DMA host interface compiliant with the PCI 2.2
specification
- Compliant with the EHCI (USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1)
specifications
- Consists of three independent host controllers: two OHCI
(Open Host Controller Interface) and one EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller
Interface)
- All ports can handle high-speed (480Mbps), full-speed
(12Mbps) and low-speed (1.5Mbps) transactions
- Supports up to 127
downstream USB devices
- Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port
- Supports
the PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
- Includes drivers for AmigaOS for
all Mediator busboards and for Amithlon
- Amiga support works under the
Poseidon stack
Requirements
- One free PCI slot
- Mediator Multimedia CD (for Mediator based systems)
Package contents
- Spider II USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card
- CD with Mediator and Amithlon EHCI (USB 2.0) drivers for Poseidon
Pricing and availability
The Spider II USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card will be on sale as of
15 April 2003, at the suggested retail price of EUR 49.95 (VAT excl.) To
locate an authorized distributor visit the
Elbox Computer website.
For purchase directly from Elbox go to the
Spider II page
in the Elbox Online Store.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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08.Apr.2003
Martin Wolf (E-Mail)
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Workbench: Easys-Patch 4.8.5 available
The latest update of the system enhancer 'Easys' is available on the service pack
site. Please take a look at the Readme.
Support and registration: sonja_n@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Apr.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 03/2003 - DraCoZilla
DraCo lives - and so does AMIGAplus. Read all those and more reports in the current issue 03/2003 (#134) to be ordered at http://www.amigaplus.de:
- DraCo lives: Workshop Videoediting
- Review: Knights and Merchants - Grande Strategicale
- Review: VHI Studio 6 - Take your pics to the studio
- Review: IBrowse 2.3 - Surfing with comfort
- Review: BoXiKoN - Tetris Deluxe
- MorphOS-Compatibility: How AmigaOS-strong is MOS?
- Amiga Status Report: SNAP! SNAP!
- Baseknowledge: CD-Burners
- News: What's up in the markets?
- Workshop: Games Development with SDL, part 3
- Up in the north: Kindergarden #%00001010
- Cover-CD #20: Crossfire II Big Demo, ARC 2002 Video etc.
- and much more
(nba)
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07.Apr.2003
AMIGAplus
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Address of the editorial office of AMIGAplus changed
The editorial staff of AMIGAplus moved office. Please note the new postal address:
AMIGAplus
Drachenfelsstr. 57
D-50939 Köln (Cologne)
Germany
Phone number (0221 / 430 82 933), fax number (0221 / 430 82 939),
eMail-address (info@amigaplus.de) and website-address http://www.amigaplus.de) stay the same. (nba)
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07.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 07.04.2004
Here the new Aminet Uploads since our last message:
MiamiDxCT.lha comm/net 37K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 272K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
bouldergames.lha game/jump 1.1M+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive
bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K+V5.11, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive
jd800commands.lha mus/midi 12K+Roland JD-800 commands for tracks&fields
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 104K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
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07.Apr.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Commodore show and SID music workshop
Ron van Schaik writes:
Hello C= fans,
At Saturday 19th April there will be a C= show at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21,
Maarssen, Holland from 10:00 to 16:00 o'clock. On this show we will organize a
SID music workshop in Hall 2. There will be a beamer with wide screen and
demonstrations from Marinus Kuivenhoven how to make a nice SID music MP3.
From Germany firestARTer will be present with his SIDsyn. It's not sure, if
he can show a 'running' SIDsyn but otherwise he will talk about some
theoreticals and about the SID. Further he will show a lot about the
music-scene and about the game/SID sounds for new releases (POP/electro).
Also there will be a stereo C64 (with a double build-in SID) from the
German guy Dirk Kledtke.
In the other hall will we organize our regular
show and the hall will be totally filled with all kinds of Commodore
computers. For example there will be a Commodore 3000H (from our Irish
visitor Jesper). This is a kind of Pong game for on television and was
built in 1975. Further we will have a Hyper VIC20 who was built by Ruud
Baltissen. The Hyper VIC20 is a Commodore VIC-20 with some extra features.
The two main ones are the 16-bits 6502 compatible 65816 processor and it
can be equipped with 8-bits PC ISA-cards. These cards only work well with a
processor that can address up to 1 MB and unfortunately the 6502 only
supports 64 KB. Look for more information at our homepage under the
title link.
Lots of greetings,
Ron
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: Benchmarks zur ALGOR online
Due to many inquiries for the speed of the new ALGOR Zorro II
USB controller by E3B they completely revised the
benchmark page. Now you can find benchmarks for all USB controllers offered and tested on different system configurations.
The list of compatible USB devices has been revised too.
E3B thanks all users, which supported E3B with entries.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-Game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back
Guido Mersmann wrote:
As already announced some days ago, I can intimate the publication of
BoulderDaesh RTX. BoulderDaesh RTX is a 1:1
conversion of the good old C64 and was here and there drilled out,
without reducing the game play. BoulderDaesh RTX runs on
Amiga-OS-COMPATIBLE systems starting with the A500 up to fast Amithlon
systems.
The Picasso96, Cybergraphics and AHI support permits 100% hardware independence. Beside the well-known additional
archives there is now also an archive called "boulderdaeshfull.lha" available, which
contains all currently in the Aminet available data. Included are many small archives available in the Aminet wich have been made available by their respective authors.
The most important game play innovations in comparisson to the original C64 version are an integrated game and level editor. A music player with playlist support as well as the possibility to easily integrate own music, samples, graphics and fonts into the game. When using your own levels they can even change from level to level. New play elements and the enormous level offer round off the
extension.
The new BoulderDaesh RTX V5.11 archives are already on their way to the Aminet
and will be available in the next few days. BoulderDaesh RTX - He will rock you! Finally a list of all features:
- 1:1 BoulderDäsh clone
- Full speed under MC680x0 Amigas with AGA, ECS or OCS
- Full graphic board support! Up to 256 Colors (depends on graphic set)
- Full sound card support (AHI)!
- System friendly! Can be paused and resumed at any time.
- requires OS 2.04 or higher
- Commodore styleguide conform
- Locale
- Great GUI
- Online Help
- many preferences windows
- Up to six players
- New game elements
- Unique record and play feature to show others how you solve the caves.
- Internal music player with playlist
- Full screen mode when running in RTG mode.
- >5700 Levels
- 35 graphic sets
- 6 character sets
- 5 sample sets
- Several hiscorelists for each game (game, level and level time records)
- Level and game editor
- Supports C64 and Atari Construction Kit Levels.
- Levels up to 100 * 100 blocks
- Special gravitation modes
- Create your personal game graphics
- Create your personal sample sets
- Create your personal game music
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Worldcharts#15 published
The Amiga version of the Chartmags Worldcharts#15 by Scoopex & The
Silents & Hoodlum was published last week. At the title
link you can download the improved version, in which even
the second song is now playable. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Apr.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Announcement dentro for Jurassic Pack#12 released
The announcement dentro for the demoscene diskmag 'Jurassic Pack' no. 12 has recently been released on the Swedish Deadline 2003 party. Any further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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