15.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence News
News about DeepSilence - SOMS
On the homepage you can now subscribe to a
newsletter that sends the latest news regarding the game project.
For the moment is the forum inactive. As soon as it works again we'll inform you
via the newsletter. Besides that, the email address of the leader Sylvio Kurze
changed to Sylvio.K@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: minor updates
Today several updates had been uploaded. For one, some new entries have been
added to the software page - some will follow later this evening. Besides that,
there are now surveys for news, hardware and software where links corresponding
with the subjects will be entered in the coming time, and of course you can pass
on links regarding all subjects to us.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - special discount campaign
In co-operation with Sven Dröge the Amiga Arena makes a special price
available for "Bonds". Bonds is a finance software for the managing of
securities of all kind. The main focus are shares, though. The software
is specially adapted for the finance market Germany and handles best securities
that are dealt in Germany as it uses the security identification number system
of the Deutsche Börse.
Some features in overview:
- Management of objects of different cathegories
- Cathegories are: shares, fonds, subscription warrants, indices or currencies
- Graphical display of the price data as lines chart
- Opening, closing, maximum and minimum prices as well as traded volume
- Several chart levels (complete, 30 days, 1 year, etc.)
- Several gliding averages like 7, 38, 200 days lines
- Free scalable charts
- Graphically displayed function for comparing two charts in percentage
- Draw function for own technical chart analysis
Olaf Köbnik: "I'm once again pleased to be able to offer a software for the Amiga for
a special price that shows that the Amiga still covers versatile areas!"
Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena made a detailed interview with Sven Dröge, developer of Bonds. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Inutilis News / Timo Kloss (email)
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Developer kit: Inga on the shelves
The Inga developer kit for graphic adventures is from now on available in the
shops. This system is already used for the adventure "Ermentrud" that is in
development right now and can shine with the following features:
- Graphics: 640x480 pixel in 256 colors (CyberGraphX required)
- Voice and sound output via AHI possible
- Music from audio CD possible
- Easy usage without classical verbs list
- Easy to use developer tools
- Script language for flexible story design
The package contains three installation disks and a comprehensive printed manual.
System requirements:
- CPU: 020 (060 recommended)
- Graphics card with CyberGraphX or compatible (P96)
- AmigaOS 3.0 (3.5 recommended)
- Hard disk
- Also successfully tested on UAE with P96!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Flame article about AmigaPDA translated by Amiga Future
Following the title link you'll find the German translation by Markus Castro
(Amiga Future) of the article Amiga's Role in the PDA Market
by Amiga Flame.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga.org / Dirk Baeyens
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The question for the future of MUI
Remco Komduur, editor of the Dutch Amiga magazine
AmigaScene, has written an interesting
English article about the future of MUI (Magic User Interface, by Stefan Stuntz).
You can find the article using the title link.
Amiga.org has furthermore started a poll dealing with MUI as subject. You can
find the poll on the main page of Amiga.org
in the right menu.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Card reader/writer news
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today, slightly delayed, I have now tested my card reader/writer with Sony
memory sticks. These run as expected very good and I can access them like a hard
disk.
Some users say that the device would be too expensive. These users have to
consider that they'll own a universal key for all mobile digital devices.
These are among others digital video cams (especially those of Sony), digital
photo cameras (all cameras with card slot) and MP3 players (with card slot).
Additionally, I can imagine that in conjunction with IBM microdrives these
drives may be used for data exchange between laptops and Amiga. (Because of a
lack of money I wasn't able to test this yet).
A user asked whether compact flash cards would work, too. This can be answered
clearly with "YES".
Boot ability of memory cards:
Not tested yet but theoretically possible as I use mount lists to access the
memory cards.
A RDB block cannot be written on the cards as they have always to be formatted
in photo cameras or MP3 players.
This is absolutely necessary because of compatibility reasons though you
may probably be able to format these memory cards with an Amiga file system,
too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
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H&P: AmigaOS XL for x86
Under the title link you can find the promised details regarding AmigaOS XL,
two new Amiga emulators for x86 computers that are offered in a double pack.
Here's an exerpt:
AMIthlon - The fastest Amiga ever
Insert the CD-ROM, switch on your PC and boot into the fastest Amiga ever. There
is no complicated and boring installation. The development team of Harald Frank
(VMC) and Bernd Meyer even implemented native support for nVidia and Matrox
graphics cards providing maximum graphics performance. Opening windows on the
Workbench is so fast that you can barely watch it anymore.
With AMIthlon you can even use your old Amiga hard-disk in your PC. Simply
connect it to your PC, start AMIthlon and that's it.
AmigaXL for QNX - The most functional Amiga ever
The host operating system for AmigaXL is QNX 6.1. It is included in the package.
QNX has many similarities with the AmigaOS. It has a micro kernel and the
drivers are separate processes. Like devices and handlers in AmigaOS these can
be dynamically started and stopped. This makes the system extremely light weight
and resource efficient.
Features that QNX provides can directly be used within the emulated Amiga. This
includes network functionality and multimedia features. QNX applications like
the web browser Opera® can be started directly from the AmigaOS screen. One can
say both operating systems work together seamlessly.
System requirements:
Athlon-, Duron, Pentium-, Celeron-CPU with 500 MHz or more. AmigaOS XL supports
usual graphic, sound and network cards. A complete list is available on our
homepage amigaxl.haage-partner.de
or www.amithlon.com.
Availability: The delivery will start about 41st week. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Stock exchange software: Bonds V1.83 available (update)
The version 1.83 of the stock exchange software Bonds is available. Some smaller
bugs have been removed. Major improvement of the package is that there exists finally
an installer script. The NewInstaller by AirsoftSoftware is used to get an
appropriate scale. The tool "KursUpdater" is from now on not needed anymore as
Bonds now contains the shell option "JUSTUPDATE", and therefore makes the
updater needless.
Update 15.09.2001:
Sven Dröge wrote:
Unfortunately had the archive Bonds.lha on my webpage a CRC error. I apologize
for any inconvenience. In the meantime there's a corrected archive available.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Sep.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Spot (member of Up Rough)
Richard Kapp writes:
Again we have a new interview for you. This time we have talked to Spot,
member of the scene demo group Up Rough who have made the 9th place at the
Mekka Symposium 2k+1 with their demo 'April in Paris'. We have asked him
some questions about his group, but have also talked about the situation of
the Amiga scene and of course we haven't forgotten about the topic scene
demos and graphics cards (we also wanted to know which coder he currently
considers to be the best).
Other than that, our vote is still running and some new entries (such as
a couple of scene demos not available on Aminet) have been added as well.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (e-mail)
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Elbox: SB Power in Mediator
ELBOX COMPUTER - Krakow, 13 September 2001
SB POWER IN MEDIATOR
Elbox Computer hereby announces availability of the
software update for the Sound Blaster PCI128 sound card
for all the users of MEDIATOR PCI busboards, who have
registered as users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package.
This update expands the list of supported operation modes
of the AHI drivers with the '++' modes and introduces
support for the Sub_Update AHI function used by tools
software for edition of music.
The Sound Blaster PCI128 card working in the DMA mode
loads the Amiga processor when playing back uncompressed
music files much less than any other sound card connected
through Zorro II or the clock port. This feature, combined
with high playback quality and flexibility of configuration
resulting from the number of mixed inputs/outputs makes
Sound Blaster PCI128 the best sound card offered at any
time for Amiga computers.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence-SOMS is back
Sylvio K. writes:
The game developer team DeepSilence is back with their game
´The Secret of my Soul´.
For a long time, the developer team DeepSilence did their name great credit.
Due to the lack of personnel we had to put our activities for some time on ice.
Now we have found a new programmer as well as a new storywriter for our game.
Also, our page is back online with a new exclusive demo of SOMS. The demo comes
with PPC and graphics card support, as well as new effects and brand new graphics.
You can reach our page at http://soms.fanhp.de (no
advertising) or at http://soms.debox.de.
Sadly we have to say that our newsletter does not exist anymore. We thus ask
the subscribers for some patience. There'll soon be a new newsletter.
Also the IRC channel #Amigafun at ie.altnet.org is now the official SOMS chat
channel. Here you can chat with some of us (Sylvio K. = MangaClub and Markus B. = Trojan)
and ask questions.
Details are at http://amigafun.stefan1200.de.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Cyborg (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: CIM improved to current version 1.03_10
Cyborg's Instant Messenger in version 1.03_10 now supports PGP encryption so
that a communication cannot be read by others without huge efforts. A recognition
of the transmission by the system administrator is still ensured. No hidden
message is sent, it thus can hardly be considered a hacker method. The preferences
window can now be enlarged and the problems with some installations are fixed.
The next improvement should be the file transfer, but due to my job I won't have
the time to work on it in the next weeks except for some bugfixes.
Cyborg
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
PCWelt download area (ANF)
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Clock as Amiga ball for Windows
This tool is basically a "desktop improvement" - an analog clock which is shown without
window and frame. The background can be chosen from a list of provided graphics. Of
course there is a possibility to create own graphics for the background.
An individual color can be set for hour, minute and second clock-hands to achieve
an optimal user-defined design.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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SCSI card reader for Amiga, too (update)
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Two days ago I recieved hardware from Michrotech, which is able to read and write
SmartMedia 8-128MByt, Flashpath cards 8-256MByte, and PCMCIA type I-III cards.
By now I've done tests with SmartMedia and Flashpath cards, which worked terrific
with the Amiga. On Friday I will test Sony memory sticks, too.
As far as I can see now also Amiga users can use mobile MP3 players with the Amiga
(the Amiga can write to the cards!). This magic device is called "ICS-47-BH" and
is to be a CFA, SM, PC card reader with a SCSI-II interface.
The cards are accessed using a mountlist, as like with harddisks, at the speed of
4MByt/sec (read and write). I will create a website with more detailed information
including pictures.
Update 14.09.2001:
Changed title. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Andy Mueller-Maguhn (E-Mail)
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CCC argues against attacks against communication systems
Chaos Computer Club, 13.09.2001
CCC argues against attacks against communication systems
- International understanding more important than ever before
As a reaction on the unbelievable murder attacks in the USA there is an appeal
circulating in the hacker scene to destroy websites and other communication systems
in Islamic countries or organisations available in the Internet.
The Chaos Computer Club arguments against this appeal and asks to ignore this or similar
appeals. As a galactic association it is unimaginable for us to split the world in
good and bad now and to take religion as the measure of all measures for such separation.
These incidences are hard to operate in the global village for every human on this planet.
But as hackers we should try the world processing at issue now to handle in the sense of
human race. "We helplessly face the power of destruction. But we believe in the power
of communication, which eventually always turned out to be positive and more powerful than
hate", said Jens Ohlig, speaker of the CCC.
"Electronic communication structures like the Internet right now can make an important
contribution to international communication. In this understandingly tense situation
it may not happen that communication lines get broken giving more foundation for the lack
of understanding.", summarized Any Müller-Maguhn, speaker of the CCC.
The Chaos Computer Club, this time celebrating it's 20th anniversary, according to it's
statue pleads for freedom of information and a human right of at least world wide untrammelled
communication.
Already in 1999 the CCC together with a coalition of popular hacker groups
(Cult of the Dead Cow, 2600, L0pht, Phrack, Pulhas, Toxyn,
!Hispahack, and members of the Dutch hacker community) argued against the utilization
of networks as an electronic battlefield:
"Don't participate in warlike action in the so called 'cyber war'. Keep the networks alive, which are
for communication. These are the nervous system of human progress."
The original Infopeace statement can be read under
http://www.ccc.de/CRD/CRD19990107.html.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources
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Different software updates
On the Da SixK Port Page you will find
version 3.23.42 from 11.09.2001 of the MySQL database ported for Amigas with 68040 CPU.
Download: MySqld_32342_040_base.lzx
Since 10.09.2001 on the Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page, a homepage with many small and
useful tools, you will find updates of
IxEnv (Ixemul environment required for Fr3dy's programs) and the text based
browser Lynx now available
in version 2.8.5dev.2. There is also a MorphOS version of Lynx.
Download:
ixemul.lha -
lynx.lha -
lynx-mos.lha
Since 10.09.2001 a Spanish guide version for the MPEG1/2 decoder
Frogger is available for download.
Download: spanish.lha (40 KB)
REBOL announce REBOL/IOS
(Internet Operating System)
for twelve different platforms including the AMIGA.
"IOS lets people work together in real-time from anywhere in the world.
It transforms physically separated groups into productive, unified teams
by providing a direct, secure, and responsive environment for
collaboration and sharing."
Since 11.09.2001 on the website of the
Alternativer Computerclub
a new version of IFFAnzeiger, a shareware IFF-ILBM viewer by
Ralf Berg, which can display even extremely big
pictures directly from harddisk. With this for example picture at the size of 200 MB
can be displayed with only 0.5 MB of Chip RAM. Parts of the latest version of IFFAnzeiger are
assembler optimized.
With Stephan Rupprecht you find a fast alternative move
command version 37.10, since 11.09.2001
Download: move37.lha
At Peter's Amiga Home Page there is an updated printer driver for
HP Deskjet 870C.
Download: HP_Deskjet870C.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources
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More websites offline by solidarity (update)
Due to the terror attacks against the USA more websites decided to go offline by
solidarity or to change their main page:
Ian Chapman - The Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Bernd "Bernie" Meyer - JIT/Amithlon
FreedomForLinks
Amiga User Liste
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Matay
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Matay: survey results
Under the title link you will find the results of Matay's survey regarding
their products line. The results are displayed as clear graphics.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Sep.2001
Frank Fenn
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Frank Fenn: Development of Amiga programs stopped
"Because my Amiga 3000 died and I haven't found a replacement yet
all further development is suspended. Registrations are also not
possible. Donations to revive the A3k are always welcome. In the
meantime I've started some development for MacOS X."
(ps)
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13.Sep.2001
Trinity (ANF)
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Amigan FX for Winamp (AVS plugins)
I have recently found a neat Winamp plugin on winamp.com. Its called
AMIGAN FX. I assume this demo-style AVS plugin is created by a former
Amigan, Daniel Joe Tandiman. Unfortunately, it works only for Windoze
and requires Winamp 2.76. You can grab it
here.
(ps)
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12.Sep.2001
Ricco Clemens (E-Mail)
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Amig@lien: Our site will be offline until 18.09.2001
Ricco Clemens wrote:
Until 18.09.2001 our site will be offline to protest the attacks against
the USA and to commemorate the victims. Only our forum will be accessible.
We hope that many other sites will follow our suit.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Sep.2001
Marco Miljak (Horst Hug, via E-Mail) (ANF)
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SmartBoy with AmigaOS isn
Earlier this year announced the company Thendic GmbH the
SmartBoy, a new handheld
terminal that should be equipped with AmigaDE. Since then nothing had happened
and the company was silent. Today I got (finally) the answer from Horst Hug, who's
working for Thendic, via email in which he wrote about the SmartBoy as follows:
- The SmartBoy is indeed in development.
- Pictures of the device can be accessed from the company's website (title link)
under "Entwickler".
- In the B2B version (Business-to-Business) the SmartBoy will be equipped with
Windows CE 3.0.
- In the B2C version (Business-to-Consumer) the SmartBoy may be equipped with
the AmigaDE, at the moment we are testing the available software, at the end
of the year a decision will be made.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Andre Sommer (ANF)
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Amiga User Baden-Württemberg with new URL
The Amiga User Baden-Württemberg have a new homepage address and can be reached
from now on via http://www.amigauser-bw.de/. Please edit
your bookmarks.
The old address: http://amigafreak.webjump.com isn't valid anymore as webjump
has ceased their service. The page is still incomplete but will be finished in
the next days.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Bianka Burmester (ANF)
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Event: Only a few days more until the AmigaMeeting
The countdown's running...
On the 12.10. it's starting! Everybody still not being enroled has the
opportunity to do so using the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Michael Burkhardt (ANF)
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Lightwave update for Intel platform
The company Newtek offers a limited update for registered Amiga users to the
latest and just released full version of Lightwave 7.0.
This "Lightwave 7.0 (Win) upgrade special AmigaW is valid until the 30.09.01.
After that date this cheap update price will increase remarkable.
Everybody owning an old Lightwave version with dongle should take the chance.
The version number of the dongle is needed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Hudson (ANF)
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Updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since today there are again several updates for the Big Book of Amiga
Hardware available. Among other things Ian Chapman is building up a
driver site!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
H&P
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H&P: AmigaOS XL announcement postponed because of the events in the USA
H&P wrote:
Since the beginning of the incredible events in the USA we are speechless
watching the pictures that are transferred by German TV stations. Our sympathy
goes to the victims and their relatives.
Due to these events we also cancelled the planned announcement of AmigaOS XL.
We will do this the next days. Thanks for your understanding.
Markus Nerding
Manager
(ps)
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12.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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clickBOOM: digital remake of "Defender of the Crown"
clickBOOM (title link) and Cinemaware
announce a digital remake of the Cinemaware game "Defender of
the Crown" for PC and Mac.
As already reported on
10.08.2001 Cinemaware has made the Amiga version available for free download.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)
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Emulator: AmiGenerator version 0.33
The Sega/Genesis emulator AmiGenerator is available in the version 0.33. More
information on Amidog's homepage.
Download: AmiGenerator033.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga makes statement about events in New York, U.S.A.
Today is indeed a difficult day for America and for the world.
We at Amiga lift up in prayer the families of those who were killed and injured in the attacks today.
It is truly a sad day for all of us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our nation's leaders, as they must now deal with this situation.
God Bless us, and may we be ever mindful of our blessings.
Bill McEwen
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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12.Sep.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AUG99 show their solidarity with the USA
We are shocked by the new terror wave in the USA, where thousands of innocent
people had to die. We like to show our solidarity and at the same time strongly
condemn this kind of force. Because of this our homepage won't be accessible for
one day. We ask for your understanding.
The AUG99 team
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Sep.2001
Michael/Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Event: Saku 2001 - pictures and report from Cloanto
You will find pictures of and a report about the Amiga show Saku 2001 under
the title link, which took place on 01. September 2001 in Helsinki, Finland.
Both pictures and report were put online by Cloanto.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Screenshots of Akiko (CD32-Emulator)
Informations and screenshots of the new CD32 emulator Akiko
for Windows were just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
(http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/)
Akiko runs with the help of an adapted version of WinUAE. Owners
of the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM" can
download a first version now. This version already supports over
80% of the CD32 games including CD audio and joypad emulation.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Bjorn Lynne
Today, an interview with Bjorn Lynne was published on the Amiga Future
Homepage. Lynne might be known by most of the users by the name of
"Dr. Awesome" of the "Crusaders". He composed all of the music for the
Crusaders demos, Megademos, and EuroChart.
As usual the English version can be found at the English section of the
site.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Status Update
Empire builder Knights and Merchants is in dublication and will be shipping
on september 19th. You can find more information on this real time strategy
game in the projects section.
RPG/strategy mix GORKY 17 is finally coming along nicely. Here is a longer
report on what is done and what still needs to be finished:
Conversion of the game data was among the toughest things with this project.
One reason for this was that a Little Endian engine was required; the other
was that the engine requires filemapping which is not available in Mac OS.
These problems are now fixed (only some minor endian problems in the Load
function need attention).
Gorkys 3D engine is running fine except for some colour problems as you can
see from the screenshots below. The Zoom function also has a couple of minor
problems. Porting of the engine was extremely difficult, because the
original developers used a lot of Intel ASM routines. The remaining problems
with the 3D engine are currently worked on and should be fixed within the
next couple of days. The speed of the game is great even at this stage. On a
350 Mhz G3 it ran at the same speed as the PC version on a 700 Mhz machine.
The game logic seems to be working fine, but intense beta testing on this
part is set to start this week. Sound and video playback is not yet
implemented. The other remaining problem is memory usuage. The game
currently requires a lot of memory, especially under MacOS 9 where you will
need about 200 MB to start the game . These problems do not exist with the
MacOS X version.
Below you will find the first public screenshots from the Macversion. Note
that they have been taken from the german version of the game. The first
public presentation of GORKY 17 will be at the Paris show later this month.
Another project that is in the final stages of development is an arcade fun
shooter. This is our first original release and it will come as a budget
title to MacOS, Windows and MorphOS. Expect more information on this title
in our projects section soon.
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11.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail Alpha 0.10
Version 0.10 of SimpleMail was released. Changes since last version:
- configurable headers in the reading window,
- Message/rfc822 content type support,
- encrypted mails can be read now (pgp 2.6.x),
- enhanced filter,
- automatic linefeed in the writing window,
- other smaller enhancements.
(ps)
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11.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Event: Saku 2001 Displayed New Amiga Products
Saku 2001, the biggest Amiga event in Finland and organized by the Finnish Amiga Users Group, gathered about 300 visitors around Finland on September 1st. The venue was organized completely by volunteers and it proved that there is still a dedicated following of the Amiga in Finland.
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One of the highlights of Saku 2001 was the demonstration by Cloanto's Michael C. Battilana. He showed the latest JIT compiler version of Amiga Forever emulation software, which will be available as a free upgrade to all Amiga Forever users. Michael also hinted that Cloanto will soon release a completely new software to the Amiga emulation community.
AmigaDE Party Pack was demonstrated with three computers, two if which also ran the AmigaDE Player demo version, which was supplied for Saku 2001 by Amiga Inc. Other programme included an Amiga demo marathon in the auditorium, a Payback game competition, Mediator PCI demonstration and a popular Vaporware registration service. ImageFX, Aladdin 4D, Shogo and AmigaOS 3.9 were also available for testing. The event also generated interest among the media.
Finnish Amiga Users Group wishes to thank all the event contributors and visitors for joining Saku 2001 and making it a memorable event. A photo report and an IRC log will be published later this week. A webcam picture
collection will also be available soon.
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11.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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New design and status update "Amiga FFE - Project"
At last a reworked version of the homepage is online, from today.
This now (hopefully ,-) ) is more clear and more tidy than the last version.
Moreover the soundtrack can be downloaded in midi format (to have a try with Amidi) and
all of the sound effects in wave and 8SVX format.
A little late, but nevertheless the project definition now was determined, so the basic frame
of the project was set up.
As a next step now the IS analysis will come. For this anybody can send information about
FFE to me. To prevent a "Yes, but what information shall I send?", just have a look at
the (finally added) job list.
But many sections still are "under construction". Should there be any mistakes already now
(dead links, typing errors, etc.), just send an e-mail.
Short summary: The AmigaFFE-Project is an "everyone's invited" project which shall lead to
an Amiga port of the game Frontier First Encounters.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF)
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Offtopic: World Trade Center and Pentagon target of terror attacks
Even though this is off topic:
I just heard from radio and TV that both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, USA,
tumbled down. At least two airplanes directly crashed into those. Also the Pentagon is on fire -
probably by a car bomb or even another airplane (crash). New York looks direful. Any transatlantic flights
to the USA have been stopped.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Tao Receives $18 Million Investment
»Tao Receives $18 Million Investment From Bowman Capital Partners, NEC,
Sharp & Sony
Bowman's Cameron to Join Tao Board of Directors
Reading, England, 10th September, 2001 -- Tao Group, Ltd. announced today
that it has received an equity investment of approximately $18 million
from a team of investors led by Bowman Capital Partners. Tao has developed
intent®, a binary portable, language independent, high performance,
multimedia platform that is now used by many of the world's leading OEMs
in their client products for home and mobile networks.
Hazel Cameron, general partner at Bowman and who heads up the firm's
European operations, will serve on Tao's board of directors.«
The complete press release is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packages
WHDLoad lets you install floppy-based games to your harddisc.
The following packages were changed or added:
- 10.09.01 new: Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Lucasfilm/Atari Games/Mindscape) done by JOTD
- 10.09.01 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
- 10.09.01 new: Aaargh! (Arcadia Systems) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Drakkhen (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 improved: Volfied (Empire) supports NTSC version too
- 09.09.01 new: Ooops Up (Demoware) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 new: Black Sect (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
- 09.09.01 fixed: RanX (UBI-Soft) wrong slave in archive fixed
- 09.09.01 fixed: IK+ (Archer MacLean) highscores and demo fixed
- 09.09.01 new: Vector Exterminator (Shining) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
- 09.09.01 new: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Stephan Rupprecht: Software Updates
Stephan Rupprecht released the following updates on his homepage:
envhandler.lha - 14K - 09-08-01 - a happyenv replacement (1.12a)
prtman39.lha - 195K - 09-08-01 - Printmanager for AmigaOS3 (39.33a)
Image2Icon.lha - 67K - 09-08-01 - creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.19a)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars Version 6.8
Version 6.8 of Worm Wars released. OS2.4+, PAL/DblPAL and MC68020+ are assumed. There are a new creature (a bird), support for a CD32-gamepad, animations, turbo mode, and some bugfixes.
Download: wormwars.lha (734 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
ANN
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ANN: new scripts
Christian Kemp, maintainer of Amiga Network News, is working on some new scripts for the page. He plans to use PHP and MySQL and to integrate old archives. Due to this reason the full service of ANN will not be available for some days. Christian Kemp will inform on the homepage about the actual progress of the transformation.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
AmigArt
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Event: ITExpo/COMDEX Show Report
Tony Mulvihill summarized his impressions of the ITExpo/Comdex,
in Melbourn, and published this show report at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Felix Schwarz (Innovative)
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
One the few active developers in the commercial software market is
Felix Schwarz of Innovative, known by fxPaint, fxScan, and VHI Studio.
Amiga Arena asked Felix Schwarz about the current development status of
is products and their future.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)
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World of Amiga south east
Only two spaces remain and the entire exhibitor's area will be sold out for this year's show!
If you are an Amiga dealer and would like to take the opportunity to retail at one of the worlds largest Amiga shows, please send an email to exhibitors@worldofamiga.com
Due to a cancellation, both spaces can be purchased for £50.00 ukp.
Note to Attending dealers, your information packs will be sent out this week. Please act upon receipt and return as soon as possible.
Tickets for this year's event are £3.50 (ukp) and are limited. To avoid disappointment please contact our exclusive telephone/mail order dealer, Fore-Matt Home Computing, on +44 (0)8700 11 22 34. Don't forget if you order more than 5 tickets you only pay £3.00 (ukp) for each ticket.
All this plus the WOASE discussion forums from www.worldofamiga.com
World of Amiga southeast is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Amiga Fleamarket Extravaganza '01
The 15th computershow, organized by the Amiga Metroplex Commodore
Computer Club (AmigaMCCC), will be held on the 20.10.2001 at the
Brookside Convention Center , Hurst, Texas (Dallas/Forth Worth Area).
Further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
H. Ogino, Amiga Nut, Inc. (ANF)
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JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP organized
On September 8th, 2001 JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP (JAUG) was organized by
H. Ogino, owner of the only Amiga dealer in Japan named "Amiga Nut, Inc.
(formerly namded: Systcom Limited and then after Tokio Trading Co., Ltd.)
since 1990, JAUG hope overseas' Amiga users and developers to know that
many powerful Amiga users are still existing in Japan and waiting for
Amiga's new computer to be out soon.
JAUG also hope to contribute Amiga community in a way. All activities of
JAUG now or later would be uploaded as JAUG news on amgia-news.de,
JAUG's homepage with online magazine and a lot of other tips would be
available soon in English and Japanese (The title link's URL is
temporarily adopted). It is our hope that all the Amiga users and
developers would support us accordingly.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Sep.2001
Ralf Himmel (E-Mail)
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Event: Pictures of the Sharp exhibiton at the IFA-Berlin
Ralf Himmel visited the IFA and made a small movie. Due to the fact that this movie has a size of 15mb he extracted some pictures and wrote some lines about what is depicted.
The special thing about the AmigaDE seems to be that the whole control panel fly into the visible screen area from the left
picture 1 (48 KB).
The controls of a game are looking realy cool. Picture 2 (64 KB) shows a megaball version. The blue background and the board came from the left side of the screen.
A program can be started by touching on a graphic of the controlpanel. Picture 3 (73 KB) shows a tetris clone. Apart from the costs it could become one of the most beautiful gameboys ever.
Picture 4 (82 KB) depicts the device running a 'normal' application that needs more power of the cpu then the AmigaDE (at least in my oppinion). This picture also shows that the display is still readable even if your point of view is not vertical above the device. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: memory_profiler_0colon2
On 5. September 2001 Fleecy Moss released an update for the memory profiler
for the AmigaDE SDK.
In this version the macros were moved to '/ami/sys/inc/', since the '/ami' directory
was supposed to contain anything regarding Amiga, including programs and files coming
from Amiga, third-party developers, and users. '/ami/sys/' will be the basic directory
for any Amiga in-house development.
Tao extended the ami_get_tmem macro with the possibility to determine the array.
Download: dev/vp/memory_profiler_0colon2.zip (5K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: shapes - Sprites with C++
On 7. September 2001 David White released the sprite example 'shapes' for
the AmigaDE SDK, which was written in C++.
This example opens a window with 50 sprites using the three pix-maps - one
for the sprite, one for the background, and one for a copy of the background in order
to restore the overwritten area.
Download: demo/ave/shapes.lha (31K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
tamar.net
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Tales of Tamar: LARP meeting, Amiga and Atari update
From 21. to 23. September 2001 the first medieval 'Tales of Tamar' meeting
will take place near Kassel,
Germany.
On that weekend a LARP-Con (a mixture of adventure, entertainment, fun, and suspense)
will take place in a comfortable and romantic ambient. LARP means LiveAdventureRolePlaying
and gives the Tales of Tamar players the chance to put their game character from the game
into reality. Everything will be of medieval style. The players will have to wear proper clothing,
they will talk medieval, there will be fights between the Draks and some players and in the
evening they will discuss the current political situation on Tamar and drink Met
(medieval honey wine).
Among others a medieval band will be there and even the radio station EinsLive ! This radio
station has several millions listeners each day and they want to do an one-hour broadcast about
the Con and Tales of Tamar.
Since the Amiga show planned for that date was canceled especially Amiga users are
heartily invited to attend that meeting. Detailed information about the LARP-Con are to
find here.
A new race was put to the world of Tamar in the AMIGA version V0.37 - the Orks.
So the ancient war between Orks and humans is blazing again. The Orks are a non-human race
and controlled by the ToT-server, only. Usually they come from the mountains and try to
create their own realms. They strictly start to fight against human players and will leave
nothing undone to displace the humans from Tamar, again.
Now it's the players' turn. They might have to put aside their quarrels in order to be able
to have the armies available required to fight the Orks.
Time will show if they will succeed.
The following was entirely ported from the Amiga version to the ATARI version V0.24:
the town, the tavern, the online chat, the mail editor, rune stone, the rain, the green triangles (vacation mode).
This makes the Atari version becoming more and more interesting. Also for that section still testers are wanted.
The Tales of Tamar team welcomes Atari users.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazin: MicroMart regulary with news about the Amiga
The British magazine 'MicroMart' now has a section regulary containing news about the Amiga.
The magazine is published every Thursday.
Issue #660 from 23. August 2001 already contained an
article about the
AmigaOne, which now can be read
online, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V16.7, Encyclopedia extended
Safe v16.7
A new update of Safe v16.7 has been released today. Safe is a small
CLI command to detect linkviruses in Your system. readme
- added possibility to change name of safe on installation.
It was necessary - new viruses like HH50 and SMEG2b
refuse to infect Safe file. This trend will surely remain,
so now Safe gives the user the easy way avoid that.
Big thanks for Antonio Noguera, who did this improvement!
This is piece of good work - even better I expected!
- removed some outdated info from html documentation
Note that the most useful information is here and in NewShit.guide.
Thanks to Michael Hendren for paying attention.
- removed SMEG2/PENETRATOR removals as xvs.library recognizes them now
- added analyze of HitchHiker5.00 the most advanced polymorphic bastard
in the Amiga universe
Download: Safe.lha,
Readme
Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
New virus translations added to the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
(sd)
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