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Archive 11/2002


15.Nov.2002
Glames (Boing Attitude) per E-Mail


Boing Attitude: Interview with John Harris
You can find an English interview of John Harris, author of Gobbler and Solitaire on AmigaDE at the title link. (ps)

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15.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


Multimedia authoring system: New screen shots from Hollywood
Here are again some new screenshots from Hollywood applications. This time I present screenshots from a popular application field of Hollywood: A presentation with random transition effects. (ps)

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15.Nov.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)


MorphOS in detail
Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France has published an English text about the basic concepts of MorphOS under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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15.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Copy of WoASE-speech of Alan Redhouse
The copy of the speech is available under the title link who which hold Alan Redhouse (CEO) of Eyetech) on the World of Amiga Southeast 2002. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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15.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


IOSPIRIT at the AMIGA- and Retrocomputing 2002
IOSPIRIT will be present with an own booth at the AMIGA- and Retrocomputing 2002 in Aachen on 7th and 8th December 2002.

On 12 m² visitors to the fair will have the possibility to see all IOSPIRIT-products in action and to buy them. Besides the current versions of fxSCAN and VHI Studio this will also include the brandnew fxPAINT 2.0. Updates from older versions are - with the exception of VHI Studio - available without having to present the original medium.

Depending on the progresses made during the weeks until the fair, up to two new products will be presented.

We are looking forward to your visit!
(ps)

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15.Nov.2002
AmigaMARK LPA Website


Benchmark-Tool: AmigaMARK LPA almost finished
The Austrian Rupert Hausberger has worked for some months on a new Freeware benchmark-tool called AmigaMARK LPA. The author has now announced that the program is ready to 98%. Currently the program is in beta test. The first release will be only published in some time because the documentation still has to be written.

AmigaMARK LPA (Lowlevel Preformance Analyse) is an application which determines the perfomance of the computer on which it runs. The performance is measured in three sections: Processor, memory and harddrive. Then a detailed report will be put out in HTML or TXT. There is the possibility to compare the results with the help of a graphic display with other computers.

There will be defenitely versions for 68K and MorphOS. If there will be also a version for AmigaOS4 is uncertain and depends on it if the author will get developer information. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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15.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: New screenshots of Crossfire 2
New pictures of Crossfire2 have been published on the the Amiga Future homepage. The game is supposed to be published still this year at APC&TCP. The game is a mixture of Stardust, X-Out and Wing Commander. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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14.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


Antivirus program: Mill version 0.79
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski has just released a new update of his new antivirus program "Mill". Here is some info about the new update:
  • Name: Mill
  • Version: v0.79
  • Archive name: Mill.lha
  • Archive size: 222.067 bytes (lha packed)
  • Release date: 14 November 2002
  • Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - zeeball@interia.pl


News: Mill v0.79
  • 0. Better late than never :)
  • 1. Please begin from one of 'Readme'. You can choose English, Italian, Polish, German, Spanish, Greek, Czech and Bosnian version of this file.
  • 2. You can choose sample to play when virus is found from another archive called 'mill-media.lha'...
  • 3. Get TestVirus.lha to see how MILL deals with viruses...
  • 4. "How about Safe?"
    - Integrity and/or Notifier (used well) beat Safe.
    - Safe is frozen due to lack of bugreports/ideas...
  • 5. Please get from Aminet newest xvs, xad and xfd!
  • 6. VHT-DK is online again! Temporarily in quite limited form, but it's back!
  • 7. I am looking forward to see your bug reports. Especially bugreports concerning:
    - filerequester of MILL (is there any problem?)
    - strange quarantine behaviours
    - crashing on file-check even with XFD slaves OFF...

    Fixes from previous public version:
    - added Czech doc - thanks to Boleslav Kristen and Vaclav Kalas
    - added Magyar catalogs - thanks to Marton Dosa
    - added French catalogs - thanks to Pascal Rullier of ATO
    - MILL: removed About gadget from GUI
    - MILL: tried to fix known bugs
    (reported by Voytec and Michael 'DMX' Bagmaijer)
    - added OS35 style icons (thanks to Martin Mertz!)
    - MILL: removed internal Neurotic installer detection
    (included in xvs - thanks to Georg Hoermann)
(ps)

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14.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus


AMIGAplus: Up-to-date Online
Every day new software for Amiga and Amiga-compatible systems appears, whether commercial, sharware, or freeware. AMIGAplus summarizes the new things of the last few weeks, so read "Up-To-Date" either online or each month in the current AMIGAplus. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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14.Nov.2002
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)


Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R2 released
Today the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 0.8.22 R2 by Toni Wilen.

New features:
  • Kickstart 1.3 RDB and regular hardfile autoboot/automount support. KS 1.3 regular (non-RDB) HDF autoboot requires FastFileSystem from WB1.3:L in KS roms-directory.
  • Keyboard/mouse/joystick handling rewritten for DirectInput. Windows keys are now 100% usable as an Amiga keys and SHIFT-keys don't get stuck anymore.
  • Mouse speed configuration.
  • All keyboard keys (even special "multimedia keys") are available in input-tab configuration window.
  • Configurable floppy drive type (3.5"DD/3.5"HD/A1010 5.25"SD).
Following features require Windows 2000 or Windows XP:
  • "Unlimited" hardfile size (2G limit removed), uaehf.device now supports TD64 and NSD -style 64-bit addressing. NTFS filesystem required for >4G hardfiles (FAT32 max file size is about 4G). WARNING: Make sure installed AmigaOS is new enough (OS 3.9 recommended).
  • Ability to mount real harddisks with full RDB automount/autoboot support.
  • Amithlon partition support.
Bugs fixed:
  • Slow harddisk, CDROM, etc.. performance in non-CPU idle mode.
  • CPU idle tweaks, defaults to off, config file support.
  • Disk emulation improvements.
  • Added missing configuration file entries.
  • Better compatibility with old config files.
  • 68000 "more compatible"-checkbox works again.
  • Fixed uaehf.device crash with older HDToolBox versions.
  • Custom chipset fixes (Chaos Engine AGA/CD32, Obliterator, Terrorpods etc..).
  • GUI's screenshot-button was always disabled.
  • State file restore fixes (CPU type is automatically restored correctly and more).
  • Switch from fullscreen/no-vsync to vsync-mode crash fixed.
  • Filesystem "ghost"-file bug fixed (but filesystem emulation still have some bugs left..).
  • Bsdsocket emulation compatibility fixes.
  • Fixed serial and printer port defaults.
(ps)

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14.Nov.2002
T.o.T. (email)


Game: Tales of Tamar - New Amiga version 0.46
Version 0.46 is the first official (and of course free) update for Tales of Tamar. As promised, we'll keep improving and expanding the game.

Since the release of the CD version, quite a few things have happened:

New features:

  • Title screen reconverted. Antialiasing improved
  • Diplomacy: Personal messages can be sent and received
  • Cheat protection for ARMY, SHIP and MOVE chunk
  • Fonts have been reworked by Damaso Dominguez
  • Spanish characters are now shown correctly
  • ToT is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos
  • new BardsTale stories
  • Ruines added
  • new map images for town level 2 to 4
  • CGX V5 is now recognized


Bugfixes:

  • first level town had incorrect number of inhabitants
  • plundered trade ships left their loaded figure in the water. Fixed
  • loss of capital caused problems
  • fallback mode for screen mode rewritten
  • output in FTP routine and diplomacy removed
  • Bugfix in chunkmachine
  • Bugfixes in stringinput
  • Bugfixes in TaverneOfflineChat
  • resources display under AGA fixed
  • some bugfixes relating to ships
  • repair routines for ship
  • building screen updated
  • gotcha changed from hardware to software
  • fadein and fadeout is in software on the Pegasos now
  • CGX V5 check
  • MorphOS is now detected correctly
  • BardsTale now completely in German available


We'd like to discuss three things in particular:

First is the new option to send "intime" messages directly to another player. The feature allows you to act completely undetected, you don't have to use a secondary email account to exchange messages without a third party noticing. A quite useful addition.

Next is the addition of ruins and different town levels on the map. Before, all towns had the same image, the one of a small village. From now on, abandoned towns will show as ruins and the image of a town will adapt to its size. Major towns will be visible as such to everyone.

The whole system can be extended as far as adapting the land around a town. The bigger your town becomes, the more settlement and small buildings will appear in the surrounding lands. You may see small farms, picturesque houses by small lakes, or hunters hideouts. Your land can change every turn. The possibilities are only limited by the capacity of the server and the number of players. The more players, the more possibilities :-)

Last but not least, we would like to thank some people for helping us bringing Tales of Tamar to MorphOS. First would be Ralph Schmidt, who really helped and just talked like other people. And Frank Mariak, whose fixes to CyberGFX V5 made it possible for Tales to be adapted. Thank you to both of them!

Tales of Tamar is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos. It benefits from the WarpUP emulation in MorphOS, which seems to be even faster than the original. Since Tales of Tamar is a mixed binary, the PPC routines work under MorphOS as well. Animations are even faster there. We will keep adapting more features to MorphOS in the future. (ps)

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14.Nov.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)


Offensive Elbox driver and consequences for Poseidon
Chris Hodges writes:

Dear Poseidon Users,

in the last few days, there were rumours posted to ann.lu, claiming that the usb.device, that is provided by Elbox Computer Inc. for the Spider USB PCI card would contain malicious code. This code was posted disassembled on various websites. This source code, if assemblied into an executable, would indeed have the ability to kill the RDB (if it was found in block 0). Code destroying data on purpose like this is illegal in most countries (including Germany) and moreover, is one of the ethically worst things I've ever seen.

As the source of this security warning was an anonymous poster and therefore was not reliable, I wanted to check for myself. So I loaded the usb.device (some friendly Mediator user sent me, as Elbox never offered me a SpiderCD to check the contents of the CD), let it decrypt itself and just searched for the 'RDSK' string in the driver (as seen on the disassembled source code on the websites). No disassembly was used. The string was found. I could therefore verify that the offensive code is at least in version 1.2 of the device, I had here to test (there is absolutely NO reason why 'RDSK' would appear in an usb hardware device driver).

I gave Elbox the chance to clear things up in public by posting an apology and removing the code. They didn't. Instead, they said that all my "doubts" would be answered in the press statement released yesterday and ignored the consequences that I already had proposed to them.

Well, my "doubts", which actually are facts, that I could see with my own eyes, remain. Any Mediator user can check this by using a memory monitor and searching for the usb.device in memory (after loading up Poseidon) and see, if there's the 'RDSK' ID string within the next 10000 bytes.

As a consequence, I have to warn Mediator users that their machine is in danger, when running the usb.device. In the non-memory protected Amiga environment it might get damaged at any time and then cause the routine that kills the RDB to become active. The next update of Poseidon will refuse to load up the usb.device, if it detects malicious code. This is to protect yourself from damage and myself from being held liable for any loss of data or damage done.

Moreover, I hereby withdraw the permission to include Poseidon in ELBOX's software distributions, until they
  1. admit, that the code was in their driver,
  2. admit, that they have constantly lied to the users,
  3. have placed a public apology for the first time in their life,
  4. and have removed any malicious code.
I don't want Poseidon to be included with third party software, that's highly illegal and whose originators don't deserve any trust.

I do understand that people try to protect their work from being hacked. I do this too, but not by risking the data of legal users and I cannot tolerate this offensive behaviour any longer (I admit, I'm again rather upset and therefore this statement is not as objective as it could have been).

The Spider users out there are adviced to confront Elbox with the demands mentioned above, so to allow Poseidon again accept the usb.device driver.

I hope that you believe the facts and my worries and understand the steps taken. (ps)

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14.Nov.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)


UP ROUGH Releases "The Yard BBS Intro"
Yesterday the Swedish Amiga demo-scene group UP ROUGH released an intro for their BBS "The Yard." The intro in C64 may be utilized directly from the group's new homepage. Further, older Amiga demos, intros and diskmags may be utilized in the download area of diskmag.de. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)


Elbox: New driver for Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed card
The SpiderUP 1.10 update for the Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card has been made available today.

As anonymous hackers attempted to spread the patch supposed to allow hacking the code of our driver, we are releasing the new driver version protected against such attacks.

The usb.device 1.10 requires the Poseidon stack ver.1.31 as a minimum.

Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section.

Mariusz Wloczysiak Press Department Elbox Computer
(ps)

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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)


Elbox dispels rumours about usb.device
Press release: For long years, our company has been making efforts to make users of our hardware proud that they receive the best software support. This support is also the most dynamically expanded in the Amiga market.

Some persons/companies do not like this situation, as they would like to compete with Elbox. They know they cannot, though: they have no knowledge or employees to work with or determination to provide on-going support for their products. However, we continue receiving signals from various sources on attempts at disassembling and hacking our drivers for the purpose of stealing the results of our efforts and work.

In recent days the Amiga community witnessed rumours related to our latest product: the Spider USB 2.0 card. In order to clarify this we feel obliged to respond officially to them.

Rumour: Using the Elbox usb.device with an USB PCI card other than Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed may lead to trashing the disk RDB.

Answer: Not true.
If anyone is trying to run the Elbox usb.device with any USB PCI card other than Spider USB 2.0 (for which this driver is dedicated), the only result is that the driver does not work with this card and a requester window appears on the screen: 'No Spider USB 2.0 card found.'


Rumour: Whoever has a Mediator may modify Spider drivers so that they support USB PCI cards from other parties.

Answer: No.
The Elbox usb.device is software protected by international copyright law. Only owners of the Spider card are licensed to use these drivers (the drivers are bundled with the cards). The only legal way to acquire the usb.device drivers is to buy the original Spider package. The software is always licensed for a specific person and only that person. The licence for using the driver does not give any right to modify the code (which is property of Elbox).


Rumour: The usb.device driver has some procedures, which may damage hdd RDB if any external program accidentally damages the driver code.

Answer: No.
Elbox pays much attention to protect its drivers against any improper operation in case of accidental damage to their code by any external events. To ensure this, Elbox drivers are encrypted. When run, they automatically decrypt themselves and verify internal checksums to guarantee the maximum security of operation. This is the best way to prevent program crash if, due to any reason, the code is damaged when read from the media.

Obviously, even such protection measures cannot protect the program against a hacking attack, that is against a program, which purposefully modifies the code to make some part of it operate in a way different from the original intention. No software available for Amiga computers, including Amiga operating systems, can be 100% protected against such hacking attacks.


We hope that what we have stated here explains away all the doubts for good. As always, we stand with full guarantee for our software and our registered users have no reasons to worry. We develop and distribute software, which is reliable, efficient and innovative.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps)

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14.Nov.2002
AmigaZone (ANF)


AmigaZone present StAHG - The Standard Amiga Help Guide
Press Realease from AmigaZone
Presenting StAHG, The Standard Amiga Help Guide

AmigaZone's FREE GIFT to the world-wide Amiga Community..

© 2002 The AmigaZone division of Merlancia Industries

The AmigaZone division of Merlancia industries is proud to present StAHG, a simple ReAction based tool created for the purpose of making an Amiga's collection of help files easier to access. Naturally, the first question to come up is, "What help files?" The answer is, "Exactly!" Or, if you prefer, all those help files buried deep within the confines of the "HELP:" assign.

Now, the AmigaZone division of Merlancia Industries is offering a free program that helps to clean that mess up, and in the process takes advantage of an overlooked feature of AmigaOS 3.5 (and above).

StAHG builds a list of all of the documents found in the "Help:" assign and its subdirectories (.doc, .dok, .txt, .guide), then creates "Workbench.guide" in the propor location to satisfy the requirements for the HELP button to open the file in Multiview. Once run, "Workbench.guide" is available to the OS, and StAHG does not need to be run again (unless you want to update your "Workbench.guide") Directory Opus users may want to note that "Workbench.guide" does not clash with, or override, the Magellen help system.

StAHG is a free download. This is AmigaZone's gift back to the community for years of their support. Of course we would like you to sign up for the free trial period to try AmigaZone.. We'd like it even more if you'd join AmigaZone as a fully paid member.. We do not, however, require that, in order for you to have StAHG. There are no pop-up advertising windows, as this was just a fun way to remind everyone of the wonderful service we offer.. and have been offering since the Amiga was born in 1985.

StAHG's Requirements:
AmigaOS 3.5 or higher
AWNPipe
RexxTricks.library
ReqTools
RexxReqtools

Author's note: It's not the end-all of applications, but hey, it's free, right? ;-)

Download: stahg.lha (ps)

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14.Nov.2002
Scott Pistorino (ANF)


AmigaSource: Interview with Fleecy Moss
AmigaSource is proud to announce its second interview with the big names in the Amiga Community. Drop on in and read the exclusive interview with Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. (ps)

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13.Nov.2002
Celso (ANF)


Kyocera PDA with Intent in Japan
Who likes to see a PDA with Intent, might do this here. Japanese might be useful but with the flash animations not required. The exact specifications of the "Cosmo" are to find here. But its way to Europe seems to be still a long one. In Australia it looks like it will be to buy. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Remote control GUI for FroggerNG
Carsten Siegner writes:
Motivated by boredom I tinkered a "remote control" for FroggerNG. This offers a data requester, play, pause, stop, multi data select and prevfile/nextfile (if several files are selected).

Furthermore it can easy used to control the volume of FroggerNG. There is a video CD option for replaying VCDs, but this function isn't integrated into FroggerNG yet. Only an error message appears. The numberblock isn't read in yet. Since this is only a test program don't expect something special.

Download: Froogerfernbedienung.lzx (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
Apex Designs


Mac: Demo version of Payback available for Mac
Since today there is a demo version for the game Payback for Macintosh available. Playing Payback you slip into the role of a young driver, who is on the escape and aims to become a big gangster boss. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
GFX-Base


GFX-Base: Some changes
The English news page GFX-Base has optimized their web site and will in the future deliver with news not only belonging to the Amiga as well. There are the following categories planned: Funny web sites, cool flash animations, interesting IT news, retro news, demo scene news and other interesting things. Actually Michael VanAllen works on an improvement of the GFX-Base forum. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
Grasshopper LLC


DTP: PageStream 4.1 - New help data files
For the DTP program PageStream there were new help data files published. Future versions will contain these help files automatically.

Download: pgs41help.zip (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
ANN


Events: Ottawa Amiga Show reports
As reported, on the 9th of November the Ottawa Amiga Show 2002 was held in Ottawa, Ontario. By following the title link there is a picture report by Zoltan Hunt (Zee4) available.

Another report by Darren Eveland is to get at ANN here. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
DeNIC


DeNIC: New DENIC name servers are showing effect
After inauguration of the new servers - among other places one in Tokio and two in the USA - the response times for DE domains were decreased dramatically. User in Asia, North America and from the Pacific area are gaining most. This was shown by measurements of the Japanese domain register authority JPRS and the DENIC. Recently Internet users from Japan, Corea, China or Australia had to wait 300 milli seconds avaragely, this values were more than halved now. Most drastically this decrease shows effect in Japan where the times were cut from 270 to less than 5 milli seconds. Requests from the USA for DE domains are also answered faster now by the both new servers at the American east and west coast. The response times were reduced from about 170 to 70 milli seconds.

In Europe the coverage was very hight recently. But it has been further improved by some more name servers. With the additional name server in London as an example the response time for Great Britain was halved to about 25 milli seconds.

Background: Name server

Name servers ensure that an Internet site is reachable, because these have the assigns between domain and numeric IP address saved. The central name server for all DE domains is run by the DENIC eG located in Frankfurt. Copies of the information of this primary name server are stored at several secondary name servers in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Dortmund, Stuttgart, London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Tokio, Elmsford, NY und San Jose, CA. The worldwide distribution ensures that the information is everywhere in a short time available and even a server failure don't lead to reasonable delays.

In peak times there are 20.000 and more requests to be answered by each server. At all there are more then a hundred million requests daily.

Picture material:
A map with all name servers for the DE-Zone is at the website http://www.denic.de/images/nameservermap.gif available.

A graphic with the comparisation before and after the inauguration is to get at http://www.denic.de/images/nameserver.pdf. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


TTEngine 5.0 released
TTEngine is the TrueType font based text rendering engine for AmigaOS. Version 5.0 can be downloaded from the home page of TTEngine. New version has some interesting features.
  • Two new functions: TT_GetPixmap() and TT_FreePixmap() for text pixelmap extraction. Pixelmap is 8 bit per pixel, 256 gray levels. Then the pixmap may be further processed. Useful for e.g. painting and image processing software.
  • Antialiasing is now based on pixel luminance and hue (RGB correction is applied as well). Gives even better text quality especially on contrasting background (e.g. red text on green).
  • New text styles: underline, double underline, overstrike, double overstrike.
  • Fixed bugs in JAM2, INVERSVID and COMPLEMENT draw modes.
  • Colours of text can be now specified directly as RGB via TT_Foreground and TT_Background tags.


As always some bugs have been fixed. Check "release_notes" file in the distribution archive for the full list of changes. (ps)

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13.Nov.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)


Game: New settings for Bots Quake2-Mods
It's happend to be that the new "Battle of the Sexes" mod, which is at the Amiga Quake2 site downloadable is incompatible if run with the default settings. At the Amiga Quake2 site I made a new QuakeII.info (Bots.info) downloadable which contains slightly modificated settings and works with Bots also. The not yet released "Blastchamber" mod and several other modules not yet released, might have this problem. So better use the new icon file.

With the basic game Quake2 and most other mods the default settings will work as well. Only some mods like Bots were hit by that problem and for these the new file solves the problem.

Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment (ps) (Translation: ub)

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13.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


Matay: Prometheus RTL8029 driver update
V1.3 of prm-rtl8029.device (a driver for Ethernet cards) is available for download here. It will also be available soon at Matay website. (ps)

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13.Nov.2002
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


Sharp announces new Zaurus models
Like Infosync (see title link) reports, Sharp announces two new Zaurus models. The SL 5600 (B500 in Japan) for the USA and Japan and the C700 for Japan only. There is nothing said about an availability in Germany. The model SL 5600 is a further developed SL5500. A comparisation of the technical dates is to obtain from linux devices. The SL5600 contains with the XScale 400 MHz a faster processor, a stronger accu and an updated software suite (e. g. newer Linux kernel, Opera6). Furthermore the SL 5600 has a lot more (64 MB instead of 16 MB) Flash memory than the SL 5500. This will be used now with the SL 5600 for installing additional programs and to save data. So programs and data won't be lost even the accu runs empty.

The original press announcement by Sharp about the SL 5600 is to get here. This even shows that the Jeode Java System by Insignia will be used and not the Java implementation of he Amiga partner TAO.

At Golem there is the article reworked Linux-PDA Sharp Zaurus introduced in the USA to read. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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