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Archive 03/2002


22.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Halvadjian Georges
Amiga Arena made an interview with Halvadjian Georges, the programer of the paint program PerfectPaint. Here you will find the English version of the interview. (ps)

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22.Mar.2002
Vesalia


Vesalia: Pegasos board extra page
Vesalia has already put online an extra page about the Pegasos board by bplan GmbH, on which preorders are taken. The features are listed as follows:

microATX mainboard, 133 MHz processor slot, 600 MHz G3 PowerPC up to Dual G4 PowerPC, PC133 memory with two banks, AGP slot, PCI subsystem with three slots, IEEE1394 (Firewire) with 100/200/400 MBit transmission rate, 10/100 MBit network, USB, AC97 sound subsystem, IRDA, ATA100 and more.

More information at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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22.Mar.2002
Thomas Knäbel (e-mail)


bplan GmbH: website update - Pegasos ART gallery
At the title link you'll find an art gallery with 12 views of our project Pegasos. More news during the course of the next week. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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22.Mar.2002
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)


AmigaOSXL: Experiences with the H&P Big-Tower 1800+ (Update)
Dietmar Knoll:
In my report I describe the experiences I made with the Big-Tower. These now reach from the delivery until the first experiences in everyday usage. The sixth update of my experiences report includes a test of the network card and a hint to the BoingBag3.9-2. As the most important news I can communicate the installation of more software, about which I compiled a software list. The next things I plan to do is install BoingBag2 and then have a closer look at AmigaXL. (ps)

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22.Mar.2002
Elvis (untot) (ANF)


Game: NetHack 3.4.0
The new version 3.4.0 of Nethack is available for download. Versions for several platforms such as Linux, MS-DOS, Windows3.1, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP, Macintosh and Amiga exist.

What is NetHack?
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender. For information on running the program see the README that comes with each copy. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)


Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.14
The MM CD 1.14 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has also been released by ELBOX Computer.

The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.14

The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs. (ps)

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22.Mar.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)


Elbox: Mediator UP 3.0
The MediatorUP 3.0 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users has been made available today.

The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.14

The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs.

The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver. 1.6

The blitter function, which is responsible for displaying text, has been slowed down to prevent lockups in some S3 ViRGE chipsets. (ps)

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22.Mar.2002
MobiliX


Trademark Trouble: Asterix versus MobiliX
As already reported on 26.01.2002, Werner Heuser, administrator of the open source project MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Computers has received a request from the German legal representative of "Lés Editions Albert René", owners of the trademark of the name Obelix, in November 2001. Werner Heuser sent the plaintiffs a 22 page response (PDF). His arguments were rejected, though, by the legal representative of the trademark owner.

Werner Heuser: "Remarkable in the document are the insults at the end, which don't seem usual for writings from lawyers. The legal trouble is documented since its beginning at the MobiliX webpages and is discussed in many mailing lists and news groups. This seems to have impressed the plaintiffs. They now accuse MobiliX of inventing "a new kind of electronical terror", and are ready to sentence MobiliX. It will be interesting to know, which sentence the plaintiff will invent against critical discussion in newsgroups."

Despite the announcements of the plaintiffs, the case goes on: The court in Munich (Germany) has set the date for the first hearing to June 12th 2002.

At the title link you'll find more interesting details about this trademark trouble. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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22.Mar.2002
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Microsoft put pressure on trading partners with contracts
The above German article deals with the anti trust process against Microsoft. Peter Ashkin, ex Gateway manager, testified as witness of the charge that Gateway was taken from Microsoft's "approved vendor" list after the development of a Linux-based surf terminal. German Heise article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Mar.2002



Polish Department of amiga-news.de Celebrates 2nd Birthday
For two years now, Piotr Pawlowski has been making amiga-news.de available on his website for Polish readers in their native language.

Tireless, beyond-the-call-of-duty efforts are needed to translate the many daily articles, but this goes without saying. One must be involved often with various issues, and this certainly cuts into one's free time. So at this time we want to give a great "hurrah" and a big, heartfelt "thank you!"

And, not to forget, a "happy second birthday!" :) (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: "BallMasterAGA" Re-Release and Interview with Michal Rybinski

Amiga Arena - "BallMasterAGA" Re-Release
The puzzle/mindgame BallMasterAGA (registered on "Amiga Arena") from Damir Arh was first offered in the year 2000 and is now available again for download.

Amiga Arena - Interview with Michal Rybinski
With the software "MP3TagEditor" by Michal Rybinski it's possible to easily process the IDs of MP3 music files. Amiga Arena spoke with Michal (in English) about MP3TagEditor and its future. "The young developer managed to answer each question with no more than a single sentence ;-)" commented Olaf Köbnik. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
Elbox Computer


Elbox: Mirage 4000 Pro Available
As reported on 11th March 2002, Elbox is offering a new A4000 tower-including Mediator 4000 PCI and 300W power supply. The tower is currently available and drivers may be preordered.
  • U.K. - Power Computing
  • Germany - Vesalia or KDH Datentechnik
  • Sweden - GGS-Data
  • Other countries: see Elbox-dealers

You can find detailed information about this system under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
Patric Klöter (ANF)


Commodore-Amiga.de: Petro Tyschtschenko Interview
Patric Klöter wrote in to say:
Petro Tsychtschenko was kind enough to respond to a few questions about his past with Commodore and Amiga. The time-frame of this interview covers his beginning at C= in 1982 all the way through his final days at Amiga Inc. in 2001. Petro also explains his view of Amiga Inc. and talks about his planned book.

The interview is on my homepage under the heading "User-Ecke." Here is a direct link: Interview.

I'd like to use this opportunity to thank Petro for devoting his valuable time to answering my questions! Many thanks Petro, and best wishes! (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future: Translation of Crypt Interviews with Vulcan Software
Amiga Future translated the Interview of The Crypt Magazine with Vulcan Software into German, and you can find it under the title link.

The original English interview is here. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
Darkage.it


Italian Software-Concoction 'Darkage' Has a New Website
The Italian software-concoction 'Darkage," known for Amiga Classix 2 & 3, Supreme, Extreme and so on, now has a completely reworked website. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
ExoticA


ExoticA: Demo Scene Reference Manual, Logo Contest, SID Collection
ExoticA, the website that concerns itself with music capabilities and the history of Amiga, has issued a new edition of the "Demo Scene Reference Manual," now at version 4.16.

The logo contest is closed. ExoticA evaluated all entries and posted the results in a special gallery. First place went to ´Chief.´

ExoticAs Mirror, the 'High Voltage SID Collection' has been updated to version 4.5. The collection now includes 18,133 C64 pieces. These pieces are available individually through an HTML-Interface and you can also download them in a large tar.gzip-Archive: HVSC.tar.gz. The changes to this archive can be viewed in this Update-Text. Detailed information on the changes are in the update-logs:here. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
thomas raukamp communications (ANF)


Atari ColdFire-Project Website is Online
The "Atari ColdFire Project" aka xTOS has the mission of creating an Atari ST compatible system based on Motorola's ColdFire processor. The ColdFire series is known for a high compatibility with the older 68K series of processors.

The official website of the project is online. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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21.Mar.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)


GFX-BASE: Interview with Nikolaj Thygesen
You can read an English-language Interview with Nikolaj Thygesen. Nikolaj is the creator of a professional freeware image-authoring program, similar to Photogenics or ArtEffect. Right now he is busy with a new beta that not only has an improved layer/levels-system, countless paint-effects and the usual design-tools but it also has splines, an anti-aliasing font-engine, an improved GUI and much more.

GFX-base wanted to know more about this beta, and so they talked with Nikolaj about his beta, his future plans, his new website, and current Amiga happenings. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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20.Mar.2002
amiga.org


Amiga, Inc.: Clarification from Fleecy
Crispy Beef has posted an email conversation which he has carried on with Fleecy Moss because of the Microsoft announcements. Fleecy explained the reasons of the partnership with Microsoft and asks the users not to finish reading immidatialy and to see red if somebody says the word Microsoft but to understand that this partnership is necessary and good and will provide Amiga, Inc. with money to push forward the AmigaOS. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Mar.2002
Gernot Stühn (E-Mail)


Update II to opinion poll of laser labelling
As we have already reported in February and at the beginning of March the company Lasertechnologie Winter offers the possibility to Amiga-groups of labelling things made of steel with logos and writing by laser. There have been some questions concerning this. Because of that Gernot Stühn has created a paket for download which contains a price list as well as examples. Gernot wants to point out that this prices are net prices to which you have to add 16% value added tax.

This is short summary of the German article. If you want to get further information then please have a look at the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Mar.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)


OS 3.9 Boing Bag 2 available
Markus Nerding:
H&P is proud to announce the availability of Boing Bag 2 for AmigaOS 3.9. Boing Bag 3.9-2 contains many bug fixes, small enhancement and new features in the areas multimedia (AMPlifier, PlayCD, sound datatype), shell, Workbench (Find, AsyncWB, UnArc, XAD v10), ReAction and harddisk support. The Boing Bag is delivered in three parts: The main archive with all the files needed to update AmigaOS 3.9, the translations into different languages and the contributions (CDDB library, OpenURL, ClassAction). We want to thank all people that made it possible. (ps)

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20.Mar.2002



amiga-news.de: Short-dated mail problem
Because of a short-dated mail problem we presently cannot get any mail which has addressed to amiga-news.de addresses. Therefore please send your emails for amiga-news.de to petra.struck@online-club.de.

If you have sent emails after 11:00 p.m yesterday we would be grateful if you would send your email to the above mentioned address again. Probably the problem will be solved this evening. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Mar.2002
Dennis Gronewold (ANF)


ReAction-GUI for Frogger published
Dennis Gronewald:
Under the title link there is a first version of my ReAction-GUI for Frogger ready for download. OS 3.9 is required. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Mar.2002
Bill Borsari (E-Mail)


Event: UGN on Amiga Expo 2002
The Amiga User Group Network (UGN) is extremely please to annouce the webcasting of the Amiga Expo 2002 in Baltimore Maryland on March 29th to March 31st.

This years show is shaping up to be one of the most exciting Amiga events the community has seen in years! Amiga Expo will host everything from battling Robots to new systems for running the Amiga operating system. And YOU will be able to see and hear it all from your home through the UGN's webcasting technologies.

The development team at the UGN has been working overtime to improve the webcam system, increase the capacity of the Audio streaming and improve the website. More inforamtion coming soon! (ps)

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20.Mar.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.38
Georg Hoermann & Jan Erik Olausen has just released a new update of the antivirus library "xvs.library", the update is now available for download at our homepage.

The xvs.library contains all the virus recognition and removal code that was formerly included in VirusZ. This step has been taken for one major reason: VirusZ, Virus_Checker, Virus_Executor and all the other antivirus software can be updated quickly without releasing the whole packages every time a new virus appears.

So simply install the xvs.library from this archive to your LIBS: drawer to get 100% protection against the latest viruses.

To be able to check if the library in this archive really came straight from one of the authors, you can use the public key with the .sig files in the archive. If you are not sure or do not trust the included key, then you can always request the original straight from one of us (by email) or get it from the VHT-Denmark homepage.

Here is some info about the update:

Name: Xvs.library v33.38
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 81.516 bytes
Date: 19 March 2002
Programmer: Georg Hoermann & Jan Erik Olausen

News in xvs.library v33.38 (size: 59.040 bytes):
Just had to fix two problems with the security code:

  • a. Timing has been improved to avoid interference with some music software. Thanks to Paracels/PCB for the report and testing.
  • b. Expunge of library caused access to deallocated memory in some rare cases. Thanks to Mikolaj Calusinski for the report and the excessive beta-testing ;)
  • Fixed (hopefully all) MuGuardianAngel hits in the SurveyMemory() routine. If anyone detects some more, please send me the logs. Thanks to Thomas Richter for his suggestions about mmu.library, but I finally found an other solution. And thanks to Sensei for reporting all his hits.
  • Improved speed of SurveyMemory() drastically by skipping similar recognition routines in just one step if their common requirements are not available.
Download shortcut (ps)

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20.Mar.2002
T.o.T.


Spiel: Tales of Tamar Amiga-Version 0.42 R1
The new Amiga-version 0.42 R1 for the Internet-based round game Tales of Tamar from Eternity has been published. Beta tester can download the update of the known place.

With version v0.42 the remaining city levels have been added. A city can now consist of up to 240 different buildings within four several levels: Village, town, city and metropolis.

At the same time Eternity dares to give a statement: "Now some things like settlers, cavalry, artillery and the statistics screen are missing and then the basis set for ToT has finally finished! But not to raise false hopes: Nevertheless ToT is tested for two years then we will add another two months of intensive tests in order to fix also the last bugs. Massive multiplayer games like ToT are very complexe programs and therefore have to be tested in this way.

What will happen afterwards? Already now we have carefully planned the future. ToT will be continued developing after the basis set, permanently improved and extended. ToT players can integrate with corresponding wishes in the project. All that which is meaningful and feasible we will add. Already now there are plans:

  • Building castles
  • Online-knights competition like archery, lances pang a.s.o.
  • Pedigree-management for the players
  • Specialists (clerics, wizards)
  • Royal secret service
  • Spying, saboteurs
  • Library with extensive documentations of ToT
  • 3D-card in ToT-fashion
  • Battlescreens
Certainly some people have noticed that some points have stood for some years on our list. The concept has progressed during the last years and it changes. Partly some things have been added which we have not planned even four years ago. The basis set has become so complex that we now have to draw a line." (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Mar.2002
AMIGAplus


Partnership between Tao and ANT
The British Tao Group which is a partner of AMIGA, Inc. and the company ANT Limited which is the developer of communication software and of services for digital broad casting and consumer-electronics have announced a strategical partnership with which the native browser Fresco from ANT is integrated in Tao´s flagship intent®.

Fresco is a functional, platform independable browser which has been specially developed for digital-tv and consumer devices.

intent® is a platform for many multimedia products, e.g. Set Top Boxes (STB), interactive Digital TV (iDTV) and small computers like handhelds or personal digital assistant (PDA).

You can find the full press release under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Mar.2002
Amigabest / Patrick Jung (ANF)


Amithlon TV card-software v0.9 beta-version
Under the title link (section: news) you can find the new beta version 0.9 of the tv-card driver for Amithlon of Michael Ulbrich which is meant for all tv- and radio-cards with BT8xx.

As always the software is in an early beta phase and the GUI is still provisional. At the moment it is interesting if the tv-card is recognized. Definitively the following ones should work:

  • WinTV PCI/FM - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, radio, ext. Video/S-Video-In with sound.
  • WinTV Go - picture, tuning, tv-sound.
  • Medion (ALDI) last version - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, Radio, ext. Video/S-Video with sound.
  • miro PCITV picture, tuning, ext. Video, sound.
Further cards could partly work. They will be added if the information are available. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Mar.2002
Andreas Gietzelt (ANF)


Musik: Amiga Speaking
"Amiga Speaking" is called the new title of the gruppe TbO&Vega from 09.01.2002. The title is available in three other remixes. Andreas Gietzeit: While browsing through the net I found it and was fond of it. If you like trance/house you can download the songs under the title link." (ps) (Translation: dr)

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