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| 21.Nov.2001 Alfred Faust (ANF) |
Sequencer: BarsnPipes version 1.07 published Version 1.07 of the improved sequencer BarsnPipes has been just published. Many bugs have been fixed and a lot of new functions have been added which were wishes of users from all over the world. You can read on the History which new things have been added.
This super multimedia sequencer for the classic Amiga is a must-have for all midi-musicans.
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| 21.Nov.2001 amiga-topcool / Daniel Orth (ANF) |
amiga-topcool: Interview with Markus Nerding Markus Nerding the manager of Haage&Partner has been interviewed of amiga-topcool. He speaks about Amithlon, AmigaOS XL, Amiga.Inc, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.9, iFusion, PageStream and the current situation of Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 22:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.Nov.2001 Horst Diebel (ANF) |
Graphic competition: Schlachtfeld For one month there is the graphic competition to "Schlachtfeld". Today Horst Diebel gave some more details for the graphics to be made.
In contrary to the "old" Schlachtfeld units and background will stand in a relation 1 to 1 that means 64 pixels are ca. 20 m. The size of the pattern will be 64x64 pixels and you can use 256 colours or more. The developer would be very delighted if you took part.
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| 21.Nov.2001 Thomas Dellert (ANF) |
Pegasos-Boards will be produced on DCE SMD-line Under the title link you can find some pictures of DCE which show how PEGASOS-boards are being placed on the SMD-line of DCE. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 19:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.Nov.2001 CCC-ML |
Chaos Computer Club: Censorship is being done A provider from Nordrhein-Westfalen (German county) starts to block Internet sites. In some sort of hurrying obedience at least one Internet provider in Düsseldorf (Germany), the ISIS company, has constricted access to several Internet sites by changing the DNS entry on the ISIS name server. Yesterday, the Chaos Computer Club got aware of this censorship effort. On a hearing of the county government of Düsseldorf with diverse Internet providers it was discussed by what means providers would be able to block access to diverse outlandish websites, [1]. This was in main about sites spreading radical right-wing content, but also rotten.com, specialized to collect more or less tastily picture material from the Internet, was condsidered to be dignified to be censored. Rotten.com quote thier extreme photo collection, among other of of casualties, as serious dealing with the manor of freedom of speech. Philipp Schulte of CCC Düsseldorf in view of this faint-hearted censorship effort said: "It is to assume that the still very short list of objectionable websites will increase very much in the future and other providers will follow the example of censorship outrider ISIS". To use a different name server appears to be a work-around for customers. eg. 194.246.96.49 (dns2.denic.de), 194.246.96.25 (dns3.denic.de), 194.25.2.131 (dns02.btx.dtag.de). The Chaos Computer Club's considered opinion is that censorship by technical means is not a suitable way to handle content supposed to be problematic. "The massive restriction of the citizens in exercising their freedom of opinion is beyond the pale", added Jens Ohlig, CCC speaker. Though the hearing of the county government in Düsseldorf on November 13 ended 'result open', according to numerous particitpants, customers of those providers, who are in hurrying obedience complyed with the governments suggestions, on access to several sites instead of the original notes receive an 'informer form' [2] to announce Internet sites thought to be problematic to the county government NRW. The county government's approach to filter the Internet offers and by this to attempt to establish censorship is a critical step into the wrong direction in the opinion of the Chaos Computer Club . "Instead of establishing technical filters, which reconcilableness with the constitutional law at least is questionable and which technical implementation is easy to avoid anyway, the government authorities rather should focus their efforts to sponsor the loom of media competences. More important than technical methods would it be to emerge a social immunity for content thought to be problematic", added Andy Müller-Maguhn, club speaker, to the club's statement. [3] To what extent other companies in NRW followed the suggestions of the county government, without being legally bound to, is being reviewed. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 15:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.Nov.2001 Brad Webb (E-Mail) |
Newsletter: Amiga Update #011030 from Brad Webb Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter under the title link. (ps) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 14:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.Nov.2001 Thomas Steiding (E-Mail) |
EARTH 2140 Missionpack: The Final Conflict shipping now Missionpack THE FINAL CONFLICT for real-time strategy hit EARTH 2140 is now shipping. The new missionpack brings 80 new single- and 30 new multiplayer missions to the game. In addition there are 6 new units, 2 new buildings and a new terrain. (ps) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 12:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.Nov.2001 AmigART |
Burner software: MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8 There is a new beta version (MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8) of the burner software 'MakeCD'. In order to use it you have to install version 3.2c first.
Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_8.lha
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| 21.Nov.2001 Kees Witteveen on amiga.org |
Coding GUI programs in VP - Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow This is the first in this series of tutorials concerned with writing programs for Tao's intent media environment. This series assumes that you have read the first series on VP coding at this site (even the tutorials I have not written yet!) or at least have a basic knowledge of VP coding. (ps) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 11:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.Nov.2001 amiga.org |
Installer: WHDLoad - New URL and packets (until 20.11.2001) From now on the website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:
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| 21.Nov.2001 Bernd Roesch (ANF) |
Programming language: Beta of Amiblitz2 (formerly Blitz2) version 2.21b1 publis The site for the programming language 'Blitz' www.blitz-2000.co.uk (title link) now is also the homepage for AB2 (have a look also under Archives/Blitz2). There you can also find the source codes and beta versions and much more information about Blitz2. Currently there is beta version AB2.21b1 ready for download. This version will be not uploaded to Aminet. Please do not send your bug reports to the uploader but to the Blitz mailinglist in order to avoid double bug reports. In order to subscribe to the mailinglist please send a mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. In order to unsubscribe please send a mail to blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 11:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.Nov.2001 VGR Newsseite (ANF) |
SharkPPC is not a development of ELBOX?! On Sunday 18th of November in 2001 on the VGR-sites (title link) a very interesting news message has been published: The SharkPPC which was introduced by ELBOX at the fair is supposed to be nothing more than a relabeled Sonnet PPC-card. If you will have a look at the Sonnet-product site it will confirm it. Accordingly ELBOX has not developed "its" SharkPPC for itself. Therefore the introduction of the SharkPPC+ (which is supposed to have IDE-controller, AGP-slot and USB) can be doubted. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 21. Nov. 2001, 10:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Jens Schönfeld (ANF) |
Individual Computers: VarIO Updates The support-area of our website contains two updates for our interface board VarIO: The new driver archive contains a corrected version of the SetupVarIO command (Enforcer hits removed), and a french catalog. The new file Inside_VarIO.txt describes the final hardware for programmers of other operating systems (Linux and NetBSD for example). (ps) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 23:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Virtual Dimension (ANF) |
Potos from the Amiga 2001 at Virtual Dimension On weekend Virtual Dimensions was on the show for you and took pictures from the Amiga 2001 for their new show video. To create the video will take some time. To shorten your waiting time some pictures were put online, already.
Same pictures with English subtitles
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| 20.Nov.2001 Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail) |
Hyperion: Warp3D support for Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon Hyperion Entertainment has entered into an agreement with third parties to ensure Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon support for Warp3D, effectively doubling the number of supported chipsets. "We are thrilled to be able to open up ever more possibilities to users of Amiga PCI busboards", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "The Permedia 3 is around 6 times faster than the Permedia 2 and offers a lot more functionality including full OpenGL compliance. The chipset is still frequently used in high-end 3D workstations. The ATI Radeon family is undeniably state of the art with well-rounded 2D performance and top-notch 3D performance that is on par with anything out there in the Wintel world. Support for the Radeon family will allow Amiga users to enjoy unrivalled performance and functionality." More details will be disclosed in the upcoming weeks. (ps) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 17:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail) |
Hyperion Entertainment brings 3D graphics to PDA's Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that it has finalised an initial version of its "Warp3D" technology, a mature, small foot-print, feature-rich yet very fast 3D solution for ElateTM/ Amiga DETM based devices. Warp3D allows content-creators to effortlessly deploy 3D graphics on low-end devices such as PDA's, web-tablets and 3G phones and is the product of years of development in response to concrete performance challenges and 3D technology. Hyperion intends to showcase the Warp3D technology by producing several PDA oriented games. "A lot of the PDA content we are seeing now is a throw-back to the earlier days of entertainment software and whilst this is not necessarily a bad thing, we do believe that users would like to enjoy sophisticated 3D content on these devices as well. Our contract-work for LithTech Inc. also means we were able to incorporate extensive research and expertise in the field of software rendering which resulted in one of the fastest software renderers in the industry - the only viable solution on a non 3D-accelerated PDA. Add to that a highly optimised subset of OpenGL which is nonetheless capable of running industry-standard 3D engines like Quake IITM and LithTechTM and you have a piece of very compelling technology indeed." Warp3D was already successfully field-tested on the SH3 powered version of Sharp's Zaurus PDA and is due for imminent release. The technology will remain in continuous development and will be licensed to interested parties. For the complete press release see title link. (ps) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 17:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Thomas Steiding (E-Mail) |
e.p.i.c interactive entertainment announces THE FEEBLE FILES for Amiga Our Mac cartoon adventure The Feeble Files will be ported to the Pegasos/MorphOS as well as the Amiga. The Amiga version comes in fully localised versions for english and german. Required is an Amiga with a 4 MByte gfx board (f.e. B/CVision), a 68060 or PPC and at least 32 MByte RAM. Work on both the Amiga- and the MorphOS is under way and we hope to ship the game before Xmas 2001. (ps) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 16:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Frank Duessel (ANF) |
Event: Exchange for classic video and computer games of the 70th and 80th The first exchange for classic video and computer games for the following systems is being organized in Germany:
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| 20.Nov.2001 Matthias Bethke (E-Mail) |
HSC (HTML-Pre-Prozessor) V0.921 HSC V0.921 was finished and can be downloaded along with the prefs update for HTML 4.01 at the title link. For the present there are the source codes and documentation only, again. But Amiga binaries for release are welcome. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 16:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Petra Struck |
Update for our show report Since I did not talked to Titan Computer on the show, I called Michael Garlich, today, to be able to add the news from Titan Computer. The details described below have been added to the show report (title link): Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required. More applications under development: The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on. Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface. A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002. Games under development: Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers. Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 15:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Dieter Groppé (ANF) |
MCP Version 1.35 released Version 1.35 of MCP (MasterControlProgram) is released. Some bugs removed, the package updated. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 15:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Michael Heider (ANF) |
Installation manual for SUSE Linux 7.3 PPC for Amiga systems Michael Heider published a German installation manual under the title link. This manual does not deal with the new "Journaling Filesystems", so far. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 14:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Costel Mincea (ANF) |
Mirror of the 3Sat report about the Amiga World 2001 (MPG-Video) Stefan Robl captured the report about the Amiga World 2001 in Cologne and created a MPEG video. Since he asked for a mirror I added the video to my short show report. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 14:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 No Risc No Fun (ANF) |
Amiga 2001: Report and pictures by 'No Risc No Fun' 'No Risc No Fun' published a German show report and pictures of the show. Additonally new Workbench screenshots and small ads have been published. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 13:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 3sat (ANF) |
3sat.online: AMIGA 2001 - broadcast of 19. November .2001 A written German version of the show report broadcast by "Neues... die Computershow" at 3SAT (German television station) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 13:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 William Bidgood (AmigaOpen-ML) |
AmigaDE: Coding GUI programs in VP - OpenWindow William Bidgood has published the 'Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow', the first Tutorial of his 'Coding GUI programs in VP' series. The text describes the opening of a window in VP-Assembler under Tao's Intent-Media-Environment. At the Overview of his GUI-Tutorials the sourcetexts of the forthcoming parts are available. (sd) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 00:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail) |
AmigaPage: MP3 capture of the show report There is a MP3 capture of the show report about the Amiga 2001 by "Neues... die Computershow" ready for download.
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| 19.Nov.2001 Petra Struck |
AMIGA 2001: Gleanings by amiga-news.de (Update III) The show AMIGA 2001, which took place on 17th and 18th November 2001, was organized by Falke Media and was held at the Mediapark 6 in Cologne, Germany, on about 718 sq.yd. exhibition space. By our count there were about 1,000 visitors on the show, consuetudinary most of them came on Saturday. 
bplan GmbH - Pegasos-SystemVery much interesting was the first official presentation of the run capable Pegasos machine by the bplan GmbH, utilizing the operating system MorphOS. Gerald Carda presented a test program to us which displayed plasma effects. Unaccelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS. Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda told us about a number of between 100 and 200 developer systems to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a registration page at bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations than boards available, it will be selected by progam priority. The developers should send bug reports, if there will occur problems. Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later. Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro and are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively adapt their programs to this system. 
Haage&Partner - Amiga OS XLAmiga OS XL, the new super-fast Amiga emulators for x86 machines were presented on three different computers at Haage&Partner. The speed is impressing and faszinating at the same time. Amiga OS XL consists of two emulator systems: AMIthlon and Amiga XL for QNX in a bundle. The emulators are similar to each other in many parts, but there are basic differences, too. With this prevalent Amiga 68k applications run 10 - 20 times faster on current PC hardware than on a convetional 68060 systems. This tremendous speed is achieved by a modified and accelerated emulator. With it one gets versions of PageStream, ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema4D, Real3D, and any other program fast like turbo. Haage&Partner's highlight is a x86 machine built into a luxury computer case of noble design and with Amiga OS XL installed. The body of the computer was made of aluminium, the front side is of azure plastic. While talking to H&P they appeared to be surprised by the allmost all-time positive visitors' response and amazed at the still great demand for information, though there have been many press releases before. Sales could have been better, but satisfied. 
Hyperion - AmigaOS 4.0 for PPCWithout doubt the most interesting thing on the second day of the show was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It was determined and safe by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired term of completion of an initial distributing version is February 2002. This distributing version still will have parts of 68k code, which will be handed in later by BoingBag updates when finished. Hyperion will work together with bplan to make the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC running on the Pegasos machine. Hyperion additionally talked to many other hardware and software developers to make their products compatible, too. This gave a very positive sign, because after a long period of time a joint line and goal is being followed, again. 
Titan Computer - Update 20. November.2001
Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required. More applications under development: The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on. Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface. A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002. Games under development: Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers. Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible. 
DCE - G-REXThomas Dellert and Michael Göken of DCE presented the PCI busboard G-Rex working in an A4000 with Cyberstrom 604/68060 and AmigaOS 3.9 as well as WarpUP. An USB card for mouse and keyboard, a Voodoo graphic board (3/3000), a WIN-TV card with radio tuner, and a sound card (Terratec 512i) were working on the PCI board. There are many good reasons for this solution: Graphic speed, wheel mouse and multimedia keyboard, support of the USB card, 100 MBit network card can be connected; all in all it became possible to use cheap generic PC hardware by the PCI busboard G-Rex. The board is being offerd for A4000D/T and A1200. 
Elbox - MediatorElbox presented their Mediator system. The following models were shown:
Again the reasons mentioned regarding DCE match here. With help of a PCI busboard it is possible to use cheap PCI hardware for various purposes. Other Hardware-Products Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers showed us a pre-run model of the interface card VarioIO, which will be available before Christmas, already. Basing on a Logitech 2 button mouse Schönfeld developed a real Amiga / Atari mouse. Also this production will start next days. 
Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development
showed us the prototype of the Melody successor. This card will have the functions of
the Melody card plus the following specialities:
Michael Böhmer showed his USB controller Subway with which you can connect prevalent USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four devices can be use without an additional USB hub. VMC started to develop drivers, already. Currently drivers for mouse and keyboard are available. Drivers for printers, digital cameras, and scanners are scheduled. 
Other Software-ProductsAmiga Forever 5.0 Michael Battilana of Cloanto presented the new Amiga Forever 5.0. Amiga Forever is about an official licensed Amiga emulator package for Windows and other platforms. Just put the CD into the drive, click on the icon and it runs. Eight different emulation programs, all of the required Kickstart ROMs, Workbenchs, licenses, as well as an all-around package with useful Amiga sofware are included. Due to the implemented JIT compiler (just-in-time) version 5.0 is about 30 time faster than Amiga Forever 4. The emulator comes on a CD containing the famous video "The Deathbed Vigil" (1 h, 59 min.) and the video "Jay Miner Speech" (49 min.). But Amiga Forever 5.0 is available for download as online version, too. epic interactive - THE FEEBLE FILES epic announce THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga. This game is about a cartoon adventure. Beside of the MorphOS port there also will be an AmigaOS verison. The Amiga version will be available as entirely localized versions in Engish and German (voice output). An Amiga with 4 MB graphic board, 68060 or PPC, and at least 32 MB RAM is required. Development of the Amiga version already started and epic hopes to be able to deliver the finished product already before Christmas 2001. Descent:Freespace Hyperion showed the new game Descent-Freespace. This game is about a space shooter. The Amiga port of Freespace was finished at 99% and will be available as 68k (with 3D hardware only) and PPC version from H&P, soon. Those who ordered the game on the show got a free demo CD for testing at home, already. 
Project CrashsiteMarkus Pohlmann (program) and Denis Comtesse (music) are busy developing the science fiction role game Project Crashsite. The place of action in this game is a colonialized second system consiting of two moons. The player takes the part of the "Future Security Corps" which is the system's police. The game's goal is to stabilize the unstable situation of this system. This is not easy to achieve, due to a big conspiracy defering the relation of potency. The player is sent into the game almost without any background information about the conspiracy to make him choose "pal and enemy" himself, because depending on his choice the game becomes easier or more difficult. Currently four people are working on this game, thus it is not possible to announce some date of comlpetion at the time being. 
PuzzleBOBSIn cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development the Amiga Arena and Fun Time World present the game in partnership. PuzzleBOBS is about a "Bust´n Move" clone. From now on a demo version is available on http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html or from the support page at the Amiga Arena. Technical backgrounds:
Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire. The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench. When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released. Miscellaneous GGS Data - Amiga Show Gunne Steen of the Swedish vendor GGS Data informed us about an Amiga show in Göteborg, Sweden, planned to take place on 2. March 2002 (maybe also on 3. March 2002). The respective website will be online in about seven days. Comanies and user groups are heartily invited to attend the show as exhibitors. 
Psyria - MusicDennis Lohr gave us a CD on the show on which he eternalized his trance song for amiga-news.de. This song also is available for download: Amiga News Theme (ca. 7 MB). Again thank you very much to Dennis for taking the trouble to create this song. This realy is a privilege to us! Annex - Music Daniel Schulz of Annex assured us that the music group, known by several Amiga songs, still is alive. Meantime many new pices of music were recored, extracts can be downloaded as MP3. Still the vocals are missing, because the band still is searching for a female singer. She should have been singing in a band before, come from the dance/trance field, and live in the Rhein-Main area (Germany). Interessted singers might contact Daniel Schulz (include a demo if possible). Two maxi-singles with three songs on each and maybe a long-player with all songs are planned. Virtual Dimension The crew of Virtual Dimension did many interviews and took many pictures for their show video. The video is estimated to be published before Christmas. Furthermore Virtual Dimension introduced the round and text basing space game StarEmpire II by Christian Becker . Up to 32 players are possible. Airbrush Paradise Tingler Rolf Tingler prettified diverse things with different motives. Of course mainly motives with BoingBalls were desired. Starting from cell phones thru Swiss pocket knives everything got "boinged" with airbrush technic. Upshot: Interesting hard- and software solutions were presented. There was good mood on the show and intensive discussing everywhere. However, it is to be said that in spite of all those innovations and in spite of the positive signs some certain questions were left without an answer, cause neither Amiga Inc. nor Eytech or Escena attended the show. Thats where descriptions regarding the plans of Amiga Inc. for the AmigaOne are required. Finally one discerning word regarding the organization. The corridors along the "focal points" on the upper floor were way to narrow. Occasionally there were such big crowd that it was hard to get to the booths. Christoph Dietz, Petra Struck as well as Meike Hilke (photos) were on the show for amiga-news.de. Update II: 20. November .2001 Link list for pictures and reports regarding the AMIGA 2001 show: 25.11.2001: Sebastien Jeudy Pictures 20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (German subtitles) 20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (English subtitles) 20.11.2001: Stefan Robl 3SatAmiga2001.mpg (German TV broadcast, 50 MB) 20.11.2001: Amiga Page neues5.zip (Voice record of the above broadcast, mp3 - 3,4 MB) 20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Pictures 20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Report (German) 20.11.2001: 3SAT Text report (German) about the German TV broadcast "Neues... die Computershow" (3Sat) 19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Show review 19.11.2001: Fun Time World: Pictures 19.11.2001: Costel Mincea Pictures and report (German and English) 19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 2. day 18.11.2001: amiga-topcool.de Report (German) 18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 1 18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 2 18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pre-report - 2. Tag 18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Markus Nerding 18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Michael Garlich 18.11.2001: Elastic Image - Falcon Pictures 18.11.2001: Stefan Popp Report 18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 1. Tages 18.11.2001: Marcus Neervoorts Amiga Page Pictures and report (German) 17.11.2001: amiga-info.net Pictures 17.11.2001: amiga-news.de First pre-report Update III: 25. November .2001 Pictures from Sebastien Jeudy.(sd) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Nov. 2001, 20:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19.Nov.2001 Costel Mincea (ANF) |
Pictures of the Amiga 2001 by Costel Mincea There are some photos of the exhibition made by Costel Mincea with some words about the depictured things. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 19. Nov. 2001, 08:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19.Nov.2001 |
AMIGA 2001: pictures of the second day The second part contains mainly pictures of hardware-devices. A selection of the photos made by Christoph Dietz and Michael Böhmer:
[News message: 19. Nov. 2001, 00:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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