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Archive 06/2002


09.Jun.2002
Linux Gazette


Magazine: Linux Gazette #79
Issue 79 of online Linux Magazine "Linux Gazette" has been published. Apart from Linux specific articles, time and again the magazine also contains contributions and information that might also be interesting outside the Linux world. Issue #79 contains the following articles:

  • Dillo--a Web Browser as Fast as Lightning, by Matthias Arndt
  • Cracking open proprietary envelopes, by Adrian J. Chung
  • Help Dex, by Shane Collinge
  • Compiler Design with Python, by Dinil Divakaran
  • A Linux Fax Server for a Windows Network, by Pedro Fraile
  • Writing Your Own Toy OS (PART II), by Krishnakumar R.
  • The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers, by Mike Orr
  • Improving Hard Disk Performance with hdparam, by Piter Punk
  • Qubism, by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
  • Getting started with PIC 16F84 on GNU/Linux, by Jerry Sebastian
  • A Framework For Writing Application Servers In C++, by Rob Tougher
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09.Jun.2002
ANN


TrueType Font Rendering: ttrender.library V3.1
On 9th June 2002, Grzegorz Kraszewski has published version 3.1 of TrueType font render engine "ttrender.library" for AmigaOS. According to the author, this version entails a noticable increase in speed. This was obtained by improving memory allocation. The re-allocation of memory during the drawing of each single letter has been eliminated.

This version of the library is based on the FreeType V2.0.9 sources of the project of the same name.

Kraszewski is targeting two goals when porting: Expansion of FreeType's functionality and seamless integration into AmigaOS.

Download: ttrender-3.1.lha (78K) (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
amiga.org


Tool: MCP V1.39
Version 1.39 of multi function tool MCP ("MasterControlProgram") is available for download.

The mcp1_39u archive is the update for version 1.38 and only contains the files updated against V1.38. The mcp1_39 archive contains the complete version 1.39.

Download: (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
ANN


XFree86: Open Source 3D driver for ATI Radeon 8500 announced
Jens Owen of Tungsten Graphics announces an Open Source 3D driver for the ATI Radeon 8500 for Q4, 2002. This will be developed as a 3D-DRI-Driver for the XFree86 X server. Development is sponsored by the Weather Channel.

The source code of a TCL (Transform, Clipping and Lighting) driver's alpha version for Radeon is accessible through the Tungsten Graphics project page (Radeon right at the end of the page). (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
BarsnPipes (ANF)


Music: Bars'n'Pipes V1.14
Yesterday the new version 1.14 of MIDI sequencer Bars'n'Pipes, further developed by Alfred Faust, has been published. The following features have been added in this version:

  • Screenmode requester
  • GadTools user interface
  • Most requesters operable via keyboard
  • CAMD library
  • New 32 colour design
  • Localisation
  • German catalogue included
  • and much more
Please read the included BnP_Addenum.guide for changes.

Download: download/BnP1_14.zip (532K) (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
Digital Almanac (ANF)


Digital Almanac III and Amithlon
At the "Amiga Freunde Pfalz"'s Amiga Party, Achim Stegemann had the opportunity to test DA III under Amithlon on a Pentium 4 (1.6GHz) and GeForce 3 equipped PC. An animation of the star chart at a resolution of 1024x768 and a colour depth of 16bit resulted in a frame rate of ca. 10 fps. This is about ten times as fast as on the development machine (PPC604e/200 and 68060/50 with CVPPC). (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Society


Little Book of Amiga Software: Games list updated, 14 new entries
The games list in the "Little Book of Amiga Software" by Amiga Society has been updated. Furthermore, the following titles have been added to the software directory:
  • Goal!
  • Dizzy Dice
  • Beam
  • Police Quest 2
  • Starball
  • Night Dawn
  • Streetgang
  • Khalaan
  • The three Stooges
  • Silent Service II
  • Seek & Destroy
  • Their finest Hour
  • Christoph Kolumbus
  • Jurassic Park


Your help is needed to keep the Little Book of Amiga Software current and informative. Please send the following information to software@amiga-society.de:
  1. Scans of software, of which there are no pictures available yet.
  2. Supplemental informationen about software in the Little Book of Amiga Software.
  3. Information about software not yet mentioned on the pages.
  4. Software instruction manuals.
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09.Jun.2002
ANN


Browser: Further development of AWeb at Sunsite.dk?
Henrik Mikael Kristensen writes on ANN that Sunsite.dk is willing to host a development site for AWeb free of charge. Due to lack of time, he himself can not participate in the development but will be able to help with setting up the site and organizing development.

Sunsite.dk provides CVS, PHP4 or JSP/servlets and MySQL, mailing lists, news groups, FTP, backups etc. to Open Source projects.

The complete text by Henrik Mikael Kristensen is accessible through the title link. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Future


Datatype: wbmpdt V1.0 for WAP bitmap images
On 7th June 2002, Stephan Rupprecht has published version 1.0 of his wbmpdt Datatype for WAP bitmap images. This is this Datatype's first publication.

Download: wbmpdt.lha (5K), Readme (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Future


Amiga Future: Raffle to new FAQ
On Saturday, a FAQ section with tips and suggested solutions for problems of all sorts has gone online in the interactive area of Amiga Future. It was created by Thomas Rapp. The section is subdivided into more than 15 subcategories, amongst them: AmigaOS, programming, emulators and emulation, Internet, PowerPC, viruses and CD writers.

To this there is a raffle until 20th June 2002. A full version of iFusion will be raffled amongst all contributions to the FAQ. The creator of the best contribution will receive, quasi as a reward, the full version of The Feeble Files.

Multiple contributions are possible. Of course the tips may not be pinched or already contained in the FAQ. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
amiga.org


Amiga.org: Download area
Wayne Hunt of Amiga.org has taken the publication of the AWeb source code as an opportunity to open a download area on Amiga.org. People are still being searched for the expansion and administration of this area. The download area is accessible after registration with Amiga.org. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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09.Jun.2002
Amiga Future


Amiga Future: Review of the game 'Chips'
Today a review by Matthias Jakisch of the puzzle game Chips has been published on the Amiga Future homepage. The player has to adopt the role of a professor at a laboratory to assemble a computer from parts scattered around the laboratory.

The game by Ventzislav Tzvetkov requires an Amiga with 1 MB RAM and is available for download on Aminet.

Download: Chips.lha (ps) (Translation: cb)

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08.Jun.2002
Maja (ANF)


ELSA: new founded devolo AG produces new edition of industry modem Microlink 56k
The on 2002, 1st May in Aachen founded devolo AG brings a new edition of the successfull industry modem Microlink 56k i to the market. So the good ELSA quality doesn't go completely lost.

The team of the devolo AG consists of 25 former workers of the ELSA AG who bring each up to 18 years of experience in data communication into the company. The ELSA AG was founded in 1980 as spin off of the RWTH Aachen. As pioneer of the data communication ELSA brought in 1988 the first by the Deutsche Post accepted modem to the market. For more than 20 years could ELSA establish themselves as leading provider in the area of the data communication and the computer graphics. Dramatic market changes prevented lasting synergies between the different business fields, though. Heiko Harbers, former vice president consumer products at ELSA and now founder and chairman of devolo, draws the obvious conclusion out of this: a clear focussing on the business field data communication and a clear tightening of the portfolio by concentrating on profitable succeeding products is the devolo motto. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jun.2002
Amiforce (ANF)


Amiforce: big update - AmiBlitz V2.26
Amiforce has after a longer period of time an update to announce.

The start make some cosmetic changes that had taken most of the time. Many errors had been removed and especially the selected colours got a change after some criticism. Whether it looks better now may be judged by everybody on his/her own. ;-)

Amiblitz:
There's now a new, error reduced version of Amiblitz 2.26 in the Amiblitz section. It's again an update archive that contains next to the English version also the German one. A new Image.res that enhances Amiblitz with further graphical possibilities is also included. GlowIcons are now used and bring the boring old fashioned look to an end. As the old archive contains the new one bilingual docs.

Download: amiblitz2.26.lha (658 KB)

Furthermore there's a little 3D tutorial in the Amiblitz section included. This will be removed in the near future again, though, as it will be completely revised and expanded with example sources. Soon will a beginners course be started that will then lead to different areas. The 3D part will be done by Sterix (a programmer and my best guy) who is training at present on Amiblitz. The first sources look really great. In this direction there'll come quite some things. ;-) Some examples (demos) that could make people very interested in Amiblitz will follow, too.

Softguide:
The softguide section had been opened, too. The beginning is done with Amisat. For this there'll be soon a detailed manual in the helpguide rubric released. The other sections will be updated again, too.

Forum:
Amiforce has now a new forum, too. All interested are invited to enter. Almost all contributions of the old forum had been taken on. So it's not a start at zero. Thanks go to Matthias Münch for his support.

Further material is already being worked on. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jun.2002
Jens Pachl (ANF)


Browser: AWeb is Open Source!
As can be read following the title link are from this day on the sources for AWeb free available. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jun.2002
GFX-BASE (ANF)


GFX-BASE: German translation of the DynAMIte review
On the GFX-BASE had a German translation of the review of the 'DynAMIte - Special Collectors Edition' CD-ROM been released today. We'd like to thank here very much Stefan Donati for his translation. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jun.2002
Björn Dehmel (ANF)


AmigaOne in the PC Magazin (German print magazine)
In the current issue (07/2002) of the German "PC Magazin" there's a short article about the AmigaOne on page 26. It's given the title "AMIGAOS 4.0 - The ball bounces again". The article contains the already known stuff about the AmigaOne hardware and the AmigaInc. licensing model. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Jun.2002
jurassicpack.de.vu (ANF)


The Amiga demo scene lives!
Since six months do Ghandy & Zito out of the Amiga demo scene release a regular disc mag again. The name is "Jurassic Pack". The latest issue #10 is an anniversary issue - one reason more to party - and can easily be downloaded under www.jurassicpack.de.vu (title link)! Especially recommendable as this issue's motto is "Oldskool"! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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07.Jun.2002
Computer City (E-Mail)


Computer City: New Amiga keyboards - Cherry Amiga Cybo@rd
Computer City announces that they have keyboards with Amiga-logo. For further information in English, German or Dutch please have a look at the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2002
Vapor (ANF)


Vapor.com: David Gerber takes over management of Oliver Wagner
Due to time constraints on my part, David "Zapek" Gerber will now take over project and release management of the vapor products.

This doesn't mean that I'll stop working on them or so, but managing a project is more than just that. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2002
A.S.Munde (ANF)


DocDatatypes v40.40 released
Amarpreet Singh Munde has released an update of DocDatatypes. DocDatatypes are a set of datatype classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), TEAL docs, RichReader, First Word Plus, Mac Write, Mac TeachText and Mac Text.

New for this version (40.40) is the support of MacBinary MS-Word files.

There is also the latest version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type.

Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)


PageStream news to version 4.1
For owners of version 4.1 of Amiga and Windows there is a corrected German localisation. At the Amiga version the 4.1-functions have translated and at the Windows version the faults of the graphics of the editing palette have been debugged and the help and hints work again.

All customers who have entered their names in our new product registration will get the access to the current version and files. Customers who still did not register can make up for it: Registration.

Because PageStream 4.1 now finally is complete including the German documentation, German localisation (except the Mac-version) H&P presents a special for new customers. For a limited time the full version of PageStream will be available to a special price for all versions. PageStream is one of the few products which is available for three platforms (Amiga, Windows, Macintosh) with the same version number.

If you want to get more information please have a look at the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2002
Bill Buck und Raquel Velasco (E-Mail)


Thendic-France: Pegasos news
Next Production Run of the Pegasos SOLD OUT!
"We would like to announce that the next scheduled production of the Pegasos has been sold out. Boards have been set aside for friendly developers, but all others have been sold.

Another production of the Pegasos will follow in July." (ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2002
Peter Hutchison


Printers: New drivers for HP 6x06, 870C and 900C
Peter Hutchison has published updated versions of the following printer drivers:
  • HP Deskjet 6x0C (now with compression and installer script) version 40.12
  • HP 870C (now with installer script) version 40.21
  • HP 900C (now with Installer script) version 40.12
Printer systems like TurboPrint or Print Studio should not be used together with this driver. The archives contain binaries of 68000, 68020 and 68040.

Download page (ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2002
Amig@lien (ANF)


Amig@lien: Payback MapEditor workshop published
Today a detailed workshop to the Payback MapEditor has been published at Amig@alien which you can find under the title link. The following things are explained:

General things:
  • Adding objects
  • Determining start position
  • Controlling the editor


Controlling the vehicles:
  • Adjustments of traffic lights
  • Pedestrians
  • Route modus
  • Barring roads
  • Transmission ways


Area-/cubes controlling:
  • Own textures
  • Area defenitions
  • Allocation of textures
  • Change of rise
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2002
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)


Collecting data for the FastFileSystem V46
Mario Cattaneo writes:
Olaf Barthel developes the new FFS (FastFileSystem) of AmigaOS 4. Doing that in an as optimal as possible way he needs data. Data about the conditions of as many as possible Amiga partitions. Thus he is able to collect them he has written a little program which determines the file sizes.

So these data may become representative if the program will be distributed as much as possible. Because of that I decided to put this program on my homepage for download. Please directly send the data to Olaf (please read the documentation before!).

The last possible data for sending in it is the 16th June 2002. Please do not send any reports after this day. This day is the deadline and then all reports which I have got up to this date will be analysed. Please join numerously...
Thanks a lot in anticipation, Mario.

PS: For all those who doubt that this program is "clean" I added the source code to the program. So you can see what it makes.

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

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