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Archive 12/2002


15.Dec.2002
Martin Kuchinka's home page


PowerD: XVS module
On 15th December 2002, Michel Bagmeijer has released the developers kit for the xvs.library for the programming language 'PowerD'.

Furthermore, the 'dmod_ahi.readme' has been corrected. Michel Bagmeijer had been forgotten in the credits.

Download: dmod_xvs.lzx (3K), Readme (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Dec.2002
Heise (ANF)


CT: AmigaOne, Pegasos and C-One in C't processor whisperings
In the C't prozessor whisperings of the current C't issue 26/2002 there are a couple of lines each about the AmigaOne, Pegasos and C-One. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


ARC2002: Thank you to all visitors and exhibitors
Jens Schönfeld writes:
"The show is over, but the work continues, which proves the success of the event. The fair team of individual Computers says thank you to all visitors and exhibitors who made the last weekend so successful.

Many pictures have already been published on the Amiga news sites, a complete coverage of the fair will be published in the next issue of the German Amiga-Magazin.

Our congratulations go to bplan GmbH and Chris Hodges, who received the Amiga Award 2002 for their Pegasos mainboard, and the Poseidon USB stack, respectively. We're looking forward to seeing everyone again at the next event of this kind!" (sd)

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15.Dec.2002
MorphOS-News.de


WWW: Privoxy V3.0.0 for MorphOS
Jörg Strohmayer has released version 3.0.0 of his MorphOS port of the WWW proxy 'Privoxy'. This is a multiuser proxy with extended filter features to protect your own private sphere, filter Web contents, manage cookies, control access and filter out adverts, banners, pop-ups and other unwanted contents.

As this is Jörg Strohmayer's first program for MorphOS/PPC, and he has no developers documentation about MorphOS, and the public MorphOS GCC archives are incomplete (parts of libnix are missing), he is asking to send bug reports directly to him by eMail (joergs+mn@expires-2002-12-31.nexgo.de) and not use the bug tracker at Sourceforge, except if the bug is also present in the AmigaOS/m68k port.

Download: privoxy-3.0.0-mos.lha (497K) (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Dec.2002
GFX-BASE


Game: Payback for Windows/Linux - Status report #2
On 15th December 2002, James Daniels (Apex Design) has published the second status report about the Windows/Linux versions of his GTA like game 'Payback', which had first appeared for Amiga computers.

Work on the software and hardware renderers has been completed - including full scene antialiasing and support for higher resolutions in hardware mode. Screenshots have been published on above Web site.

Next up in development are refinements as well as new features like LAN support.

The full report is accessible through the title link. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Full version - Scorched Tanks V1.90
With permission from the artillery game Scorched Tanks' developer Michael Welch (Ex Dark Unicorn Productions member), Amiga Arena releases the full version of 'Scorched Tanks V1.90' for free download.

Olaf Köbnik writes: 'Special thanks go to Markus "Commonaut" Rink, who made this full version possible and provided it to Amiga Arena.'

The game can be found on the Amiga Arena-Website under 'Vollversionen/Amiga Arena Games'.

Download: STanks.lha (490K) (sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Dec.2002
(ANF)


Hardware: IBMs PowerPC 970 & Mai Logic Northbridges
In the December PowerPC newsletter, IBM has announced some news about the PowerPC 970.

According to it, the 'Power4' Server CPU's desktop descendant is to come with a vector unit which is compatible to Motorola's PowerPC 74xx's (PowerPC G4) AltiVec unit.

Among further features of the up to 1.8 GHz clockable Power PC 970 is the up to 900MHz fast processor interface which facilitates transfer rates of up to 6.4 GByte to the Northbridge.

Furthermore, the 64bit PowerPC 970 is said to also execute 32bit applications on the same performance level and in native mode. 32bit operating systems should be able to utilise the full performance of the PowerPC 970 CPU's 32bit mode with only small updates.

The first samples should be shipped to developers in the 2nd quarter of 2003.

Articia Northbridges:
The Articia-Northbridge's next generations are to be shipped to developers in the 1st quarter of 2003 (the 'Articia S' used in AmigaOne and Pegasos has been listed for comparison):

Articia S : 133 MHz Prozessorbus, 133 MHz SDRam, 2xAGP, 32-Bit PCI
Articia Sa: 166 MHz Prozessorbus, 333 MHz DDR-SDRam, 2xAGP, 64-Bit PCIX
Articia P: 166 MHz Prozessorbus, 333 MHz DDR-SDRam, 4xAGP, 64-Bit PCIX
(sd) (Translation: cb)

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15.Dec.2002
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)


Paint program: PerfectPaint V2.9
On 15th December 2002, Halvadjian Georges has released version 2.9 of the paint program 'PerfectPaint'. Changes compared to the previous version as follows:
  • New paint effect: TV-Lace including ARexx command.
  • Improved text functions:
    • PerfectPaint now supports TrueType character sets with the help of ttengine.library.
    • Two new buttons:
      • 'Select Character': Useful for Dingbats character sets (symbols).
      • 'Font-Path-History'
    • The Requester menu has two additional entries: 'Upper text' and 'Lower text'
  • Small update of 'Lensflare' script.
  • New, asynchroneous window: Undo/Redo. With this you can jump from one step of a picture to another.
  • Some bug fixes.
  • 'Size Presets' have been added to 'New' and 'Scale page' requesters.
  • AutoCrop (including 'crop' requester).
  • PerfectPaint automatically recognises:
    • PGM pictures and loads these.
    • Postscript (PS) and PDF files and tries to load them with the help of GhostScript (Postscript/PDF viewer).
  • Improved text effect 'Azzaro'.
  • Two new text effects: 'Water' and 'River'.
  • Imporved window history.
  • Bug fix in connection with the Picbrush tool and very large pictures.
  • 5 new tooltypes:
    • SCREEN_ID
    • SCREEN_WIDTH
    • SCREEN_HEIGHT
    • SCREEN_DEPTH
      On some computers the startup or screenmode requesters isn't opened for unknown reasons. With this you can still apply your settings.
    • CYBERGRAPHX: Forces PerfectPaint to recognise CybergraphX.
  • Border&Edge limited to 24bit pictures.
  • Improved 'Compose' requester.
  • New entry in Picture menu: 'Crop & Paste'.
  • Improved 'Adjust levels', now with adjustable tolerance.
PerfectPaint runs from 68030 + FPU, AmigaOS V3.0, Gfx card (Cybergraphx from V41 R71 or Picasso96) and requires the following libraries: Render.library, Jpeg.library, XPKmaster.library, AsyncIO.library as well as ttengine.library.

Download links for these libraries are available through the title link on the program's home page.

Download: PfPaint_V29.lha (sd) (Translation: cb)

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14.Dec.2002
VHT / Jan & Charlene


Antivirus program: Mill version 0.81
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: 0.81
  • Archive name: Mill.lha
  • Archive size: 203.004 bytes (lha packed)
  • Release date: 15. December 2002
  • Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - zeeball@interia.pl
  • Requires: OS37+, asl38+, locale, xvs, xfd, xad etc.


You can find the new update at Virus Help Team's websites:
Canada: http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/
Denmark: http://www.vht-dk.dk (ps)

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14.Dec.2002
Maxworld


Financial tool: HomeBank version 2.1 (beta)
The financial tool HomeBank has been released on December, 2nd 2002 in version 2.1.

The new public release of your Amiga favourite financial tool!! This is a minor update to fix some little (but annoying) problems and with adding of little features. As usual see the changes file for a complete description of changes.

Download: HomeBank21beta.lha (ps)

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14.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Amiga Future: new poll & poll results
On the homepage of the Amiga Future have today the results of the latest poll been released (Will you visit the fair?). Right now there's a poll running asking for your favourite browser. The poll will be closed soon. It would be great if as many users as possible would participate. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Dec.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)


Pegasos: Linux installation guide
Under the title link has Nicolas prepared an English installation guide for Linux on the Pegasos. However, users boards will come with a Debian distribution bootable from CD together with MacOnLinux next to MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Dec.2002
Amiforce (ANF)


Abakus-Design: AMHuhnXE finished (update II)
AmHuhnXE
AMHuhnXE has been finished and will be made available in the next few days for all registered users. The sending of the accounts will be started today. Because of the change to 16bit samples is the archive much bigger than the one of AMHuhn. It's around 8.8 MB in size.

AMHuhn1.2 (update)
There's a small update for AMHuhn fixing a bug in the highscores. The GFX update will be moved into this update and it will be made available for all.

Update:
The update is now available and contains the GFX update. The enhanced guides are in the archive, too. The first 150 accounts of AMHuhnXE have already been sent. All other people will get their copy at latest on Monday or Tuesday.

Update II:
All accounts have been sent. People who have unfortunately received more than one mail please delete the further mails. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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13.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Thomas Schulze/Dreamworlds (CrossfireII)
The Amiga market may be small but sometimes the Amiga users are surprised by publications of hardware or software products who had nobody expected.

"Crossfire II" is one of these products. After a developing time of more than two and half a year where the team had to fight against breaks and loss of data the full version of the game was published on the "Amiga + Retro Computing 2002" in Aachen.

People who like the classical 2d shooters will love it because today this genre of game has almost vanished.

"Crossfire II" is not only a simple shooting game but has various players modes and the single player "story mode" where you have to face up single tasks as a pilot. Please read the interview with the developer "Thomas Schulze" from Dreamworlds what you can expect of "Crossfire II". Olaf Köbnik: "I can recommend "Crossfire II" all those ones who like action shooters!" (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2002
ANN


Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 beta 13.12.2002
On December 7, 2002 Lukas Stehlik published a new beta version of 'AmiGOD 2'. This is an AmigaOS benchmark. The following things have changed:

  • Amiga Continued special version (Czech Amiga magazine)
  • MorphOS test: new internal module Pegasos G3/600MHz (!!!) + Voodoo4 AGP
  • Amithlon test: new internal module Athlon XP 1700 + TNT2
  • UAE test: new internal module P/166MHz + Tseng PCI
  • Amiga test: new internal module A1240/25MHz + Voodoo3 PCI
  • added info buttons to the database
  • small bug in database was removed (thanks to Don Cox)
  • please, do not run it on Amiga without FPU (not debugged yet)


The benchmark runs from AmigaOS 3.0 on (AmigaOS 2.0 was not tested), with CPU 68k, PPC (or PC and UAE or Amithlon), 0.2 MB RAM and identify.library (included).

Download: AmiGOD2.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2002
ANN


ARC 2002: Pictures of Pegasos UK Ltd.
Under the title link you can find other 100 pictures of the Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 which took place on the last weekend in Aachen. On the last site you additionally will find seven different videos. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2002
Heise Newsticker / (Eule) (ANF)


heise: Metabox shut down
The company of Metabox which was founded by former members of Amiga Technology has finally shut down as heise reported. Metabox was one of a various amount of firms which sold SetTop-boxes. Metabox get talked about because of some announcements of sensational delivery contracts which probably only had the use of temporal increase or its rate. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2002
z5 (ANF)


A.D.A.: Update with 5 new productions
Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) was updated today with 5 high quality productions: the stunning slideshows "The puppets/Iris" and "Photocell 1x1/Anadune and Madwizards", two demos "Megademo4/Artwork" and "Monoxide/Vanish" and one 64kb intro "Shema/Nah Kolor". Enjoy the wonderful world of Amiga demos! (ps)

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13.Dec.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.0 available
From today on fxPAINT 2.0 is available. All advance orders have been already sent. fxPAINT 2.0 is available on CD-ROM and as download version and runs on 68K, PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS and Amithlon. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2002
Martin Strojek (ANF)


GOLEM: PPC-mainboard Pegasos available - rival for AmigaOne
Under the title link you can find a detailed description of the new PowerPC mainboards Pegasos/AmigaOne. There is also a little comparision of the features of the two mainboards. It follows a short extract from the text:
"While Amiga Inc. and its AmigaOne partners concentrate on the forthcoming commercial operating system AmigaOS 4.0 which is supposed to inspire the Amiga platform with new life Thendic-France and bplan deliver its board together with MorphOS and DebianPPC-Linux."
You can find the complete article under the title link (in German). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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13.Dec.2002
(ANF)


Pictures of ARC2002 from Virtual Dimension
Bridging the time when the video of the fair from Virtual Dimension will be available there are some pictures on the homepage... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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