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05.Aug.2003
CAM (Website)


Club Amiga Magazine #7 to be released on August 8th, 2003
Issue 7 of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been delayed by the editorial team for one week. The new issue will be released on August 8th, 2003. (nba)

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05.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


WHDLoad: New packages up to 4th August 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk that had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have been added or updated since our last announcment:
  • 04.08.03 improved: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) supports CD³² version too
  • 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 5 (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 04.08.03 improved: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) supports another version
  • 04.08.03 new: Fightin' Spirit (Neo) done by Psygore
  • 04.08.03 new: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) done by JOTD
  • 03.08.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (Martech) supports another version
  • 02.08.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) another version supported, slave optimised
  • 01.08.03 new: Pyramax (Arc) done by Psygore
(nba) (Translation: nba)

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05.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)


Event: "The Assembly 2003" - August 7th-10th, 2003
On the forthcoming long weekend of August 7th (Thursday) to August 10th (Sunday) the big demoscene event "The Assembly" will be held in the well known ice stadium "Hartwall Arena" in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

This event will take place for the twelvth time in a row and be the meeting point of personalities from the demo and game scene. About 4500 visitors from all over Europe are expected. During the days several competitions will be held, including demo competitions for the Amiga, as well as many seminars and speeches will be made. (nba) (Translation: nba)

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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)


Audio-CD: "Primal" by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold
Some of you may remember Nightshade/Crusaders from various Crusaders Amiga demos in the past. He also wrote the music for a few Amiga games, the best known amongst them being "SWIV". He has now started a composing/production company together with his friend Paul Arnold. Their first real release is the soundtrack to the game "PRIMAL". This is a fully orchestral soundtrack recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic orchestra and choir. It sounds great!

Track-Liste:
  1. Opening credits
  2. The Timekeeper
  3. Arella's Theme
  4. A Love Lost
  5. Jen Meets Arella
  6. Raum & Empusa
  7. The Demon Awakes
  8. Coliseum
  9. A Prince in Chains
  10. World of Water
  11. The Turbulent Depths
  12. A Kingdom Restored
  13. The Mad King
  14. Mountain of Suffering
  15. Devil's Waltz
  16. Dark Science
  17. The Helot
  18. Temple of Flame
  19. Hall of Gods
  20. Journey's End
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)


Audio-CD: "Sidologie" by Marcel Donne
Sidologie is an album of Commodore-64 remixes Marcel Donne, all done in the style/sound of classic Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis albums. To put it simple, Marcel Donne has taken the *melodies* from famous C64 music, and mixed it with the *sound* of old-school Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis.

It is a great album for nostalgics of all ages, and especially those who enjoyed Jarre's and Vangelis' classic early albums, or those classic C64 melodies. The song name in [brackets] indicates which Jarre or Vangelis album that production was particularly influenced by.

Track-Listing:
  1. Sidologie Intro - Marcel Donne [Revolutions]
  2. Rambo Loading Theme - Martin Galway [Equinoxe]
  3. Lightforce - Rob Hubbard [Revolutions]
  4. Bombo - Ben Daglish [Oxygene]
  5. Cobra - Sylvester Levay/Ben Daglish [Bladerunner]
  6. Yie-Ar Kung Fu II - Martin Galway [Chariots of Fire]
  7. Knucklebusters - Rob Hubbard [Zoolook]
  8. Wizball High Score - Martin Galway [Band in the Rain]
  9. Miami Vice - Martin Galway [Equinoxe/Oxygene]
  10. Nemesis the Warlock - Rob Hubbard
  11. Rambo High Score - Martin Galway [Oxygene]
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04.Aug.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)


Hardware Assistent: DD2html Version 0.2 released
In line with the project 'Hardware Assistent' version 0.2 of the tool DD2html has been released.

DD2html creates a html file containing all driver discriptors in a directory. If the attribute 'DRIVERURL' is set a hyperlink will be added.

Further details are available at the titlelink.

Download: DD2html (nba) (Translation: sk)

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04.Aug.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)


Filemanager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.25
Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5.25 of the filemanager DiskMaster. Details about made changes and a download link are available at the titlelink. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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04.Aug.2003
ScummVM (Website)


ScummVM 0.5.0 released (Update)
Version 0.5.0 of ScummVM is now available for Windows, MorphOS and other operating systems.

Because of some serious bugs in the current version (0.5.0) there will soon version 0.5.1 be available. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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04.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)


YahooGroupsRipper v1.0 released
Because of the upcoming changes of the Yahoo! Group Services Diego Casorran released a tool called YahooGroupsRipper.

YahooGroupsRipper (YGRip) is an easy to use tool to download all messages of a Yahoo! Group mailinglist.

Download: YGRip (18 Kb) (nba) (Translation: sk)

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04.Aug.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)


AmiGate: Search entries can be modified
AmiGate is a collection of web links concerning the Amiga. From now on every user or company can add entries in a special category and can administer them afterwards. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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04.Aug.2003



Aminet Uploads until 03.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
XADOpus_Ger.lha      biz/dopus    1K+German catalog for XADOpus 1.2
AmiDiction.lha       comm/tcp    26K+Online Dictionary
MakeHTMLMap.lha      comm/www   167K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
RenderDevBas.lha     dev/basic   39K+Using Render library from HBasic
PluginDemo.lha       dev/c        8K+V1.0 plugin demo using LoadSeg
sfdc.lha             dev/gcc     73K+Compile SFD files into someting useful
Python201.lha        dev/lang   365K+Amiga Python patched to fix the os.chdir
Detour.lha           dev/misc    10K+Change pathes of C-include-files for Max
fd2sfd.lha           dev/misc    86K+Convert FD files to SFD files
diskimage.lha        disk/misc   80K+Mount any disk image file as a DOS devic
RealAmigaWorld.txt   docs/anno    5K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2003 (Itali
nocover113.lha       docs/mags  1.5M+Great german diskmagazine
obligement39.lha     docs/mags  1.8M+Obligement #39 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi
saku43.lha           docs/mags  6.7M+Saku #43 (2/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Saga.lha             game/board 323K+Saga 1.3: Conversion of TSR boardgame
CD_Illust.lha        game/data  701K+AGA Fantsasy cardset for REKO Klondike
UFOquicksav.lha      game/patch  15K+UFO CD32 quick HD Install
Trihex.lha           game/wb     24K+Logical board game with easy rules (0-2 
DIYrekoIII.lha       gfx/ifx     35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
layerifx.lha         gfx/ifx      2K+Scripts for layer cropping & offsetting
LCD-Test.lha         hard/misc   20K+LCD Test: helps to find broken Pixels
Artworks030726.lha   pix/wfm     31M+Artworks Issue, July 26, 2003, PDF & EPS
BareED_Alone.lha     text/edit   85K+Simple text editor which supports propor
LaTeX-hlp.lha        text/tex   145K+These files documents LaTeX (2.09 & 2e)
UnRAR.lha            util/arc   261K+For 680x0 and PowerPC
Kill68k.lha          util/boot    1K+Simple but powerful multiboot tool
sdiREKO-DT.lha       util/dtype  42K+40.12 datatype for .REKO/.RKP cardsets
Menu.lha             util/misc  182K+Another great program starter :P
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  320K+Report+ 5.7: Multipurpose utility
htmlaccents.lha      util/rexx    1K+CygnusEd 4.2x ARexx script to convert ac
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04.Aug.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 16
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 16 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):

1) CanGuy: I'm getting into wireless technology at the moment and see a lot of applications for it. Is it likely that AmigaOS will contain something like Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous in Apple-speak) in the next year or so?

Fleecy: Part of the remit of AmigaOS4 is to ensure that devices that use it can work together with each other and as part of a hetergeneous network. We are already working on this with the tethered connection and this will be followed up relatively quickly with the untethered technologies, initially 802.11 and then Bluetooth.

2) ikir: OS4 supports multiprocessors so.... any idea when a double G4 AmigaOne will be realesed?

Fleecy: AmigaOS4 will support SMP first and then AMP second but it is more important for us to have a shipping product running on one processor first. I believe that a double G4 AmigaOne will be out in the next year - indeed a prototype dual processor module is already in our hands.

We have a lot to do already in developing AG2 - graphics, audio and a new user environment to name but a few. These are much more important than supporting SMP in the short term and as I have said before, I see AMP as being far more important in the long run.

3) Turbo: SoundBlaster Live! & SB512 support 128 instuments & 10 drums. Hercules/Guillemot have several high quality sound cards available, most of which have a Yamaha Synth with 676 instuments & 21 drums combined with a CS4624 or CMI-8738 DSP. Are there any future plans for Amiga OS4.x to support alternative sound cards when a higher Amiga user base is established?

Fleecy: Very much so. However, as always, until the AmigaOS4 market grows to the point where audio card companies will write the drivers themselves, we have to expend our own resources and thus will be limited in what can be supported. Our initial plans are to support one card each from the three natural groups. As an example (and only an example), AC-97 on-board audio for desktop, SB Live!, Audigy or Terratec for gaming and Echo for pro-audio.

4) Hondo_DK: Has Amiga Inc. at any point, contacted third party commercial/brand making companys, to develop a path for the future amiga platform? And can we expect amiga commercials in magazines, tv, internet, etc?

Fleecy: We have a very definite path already mapped out for the Amiga platform as both an overt and an embedded solution. In talking with OEMs, IHVs and the like, these plans have been developed further but many of them would involve Amiga technologies within their own branding/marketing strategies.

We do intend to make use of the full spectrum of marketing and advertising media, as well as visiting a few unorthodox efforts.

5) Darth_X: If we wanted to start a project, like AmiZilla, to port OS4 to the Pegasos, how much money would we need to raise? :D In other words, what is the minimum amount of $$$ needed to port OS4 to the Pegasos?

Fleecy: There are three possible routes in considering AmigaOS4.0
  1. We see an existing market in which AmigaOS4.0 makes commercial sense.
  2. We see a developing market that we believe will deliver commercial success.
  3. A third party approaches us with enough money to make the creation of a port a commercial success regardless of its sales.

Since the Pegasos is a deprecated product, its sales would be minimal and so the amount of money needed would be excessive to a community driven project. Of course if an eccentric user turns up with a few million Euros then we'd certainly chat with him or her.

6) Eric_Z: There has been a rather interesting discussion over at Aorg latly on the possibility of using an Elbox SharkPPC card in a PC/MAC as an inexpensive way to run OS4. Do you know if this is possible and do you think that such an product ("OS4 on PC") would be desirabe to have in the "Amiga hardware matrix"?

Fleecy: On a general level there is no reason why it shouldn't work, although you'd have to look at the effect of having the processor board on the PCI bus. In terms of is it desirable then you have to look at the usage equation. If you have a PC that can easily jump between the huge mass of PC applications and the smaller amount of Amiga pplications then would there be enough of an incentive for native Amiga development to take place if users could just as easily use Photoshop or Cubase or play UT2003?

7) Asemoon: I have read that parts of AmigaOS4 could be stored in ROM. Could future Amigas using such a ROM start multimedia software from CD/DVD/Disk without going through a fully running OS (like classic systems and consoles do)?

Fleecy: Yes.

Seeing AmigaOS4 as a solution for such products was part of the plan from the start.

8) Asemoon: I heard debugger software will come integrated into AmigaOS4. How would this work?

Fleecy: When a program crashes, you'll get the option of starting a debugger and attaching it to the crashed task. From there on, you can fully debug the program, probably including the possibility to re-start the crashed task.

9) Herewegoagain: I am familiar with the OS4 feature list, but I would like to know if there will be any driver support for Serial ATA controllers and drives for OS4? Possibly in a boing bag update?

Fleecy: Yes, although I can't give you a timescale at this point.

10) CanGuy: This new "Bowser services" mentioned at the AmigaWest Q/A sounds very interesting, probably more useful to programmers than "just another browser". Will these services include a JavaScript engine? and will it support web standards like DOM1, CSS, etc.

Fleecy: Precisely. The aim is to provide core services rather than a monolithic application. We already intend to use a few of these services for the new documentation, help and user guide system and of course they will be completely open to developers to use for their own projects, in both traditional and non traditional projects.

HTML/XML rendering and processing, Javascript and CSS will all be part of the initial service set and others will follow.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=17
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact)
(nba) (Translation: sk)

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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Special price offer with PhotoAlbum/Cybershow
One of the few Shareware programs which has been further developed since the first special price offer by Amiga Arena in 1998 up to today is the PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package by Helmut Hoffmann. For this reason Amiga Arena operator Olaf Köbnik is all the more glad that the package can be offered at the special price of EUR 15.00 for the "Amiga Arena" jubilee. This offer is valid only up to 31st August 2003.

Features of PhotoAlbum (excerpt):
  • lightning fast load function for more than 20 picture formats.
  • combinable picture subtitles (Name, Comment, Size, Type).
  • high functionality.
  • delete function for mucking out pictures.
  • copy function for copying picture groups into other directories.
  • ARexx load commands for ADPro, ArtEffect, PPaint, XiPaint 4, ImageFX and Photogenics.
  • direct call of external viewers "CyberShow" and "CyberTVPlayer" possible.
  • slideshow presentation function in collaboration with CyberShow Pro.
  • configarable ARexx commandline, also usable for external viewers.
  • Changable picture comment.
  • save function for converting pictures into various 24bit formats.
  • direct transfer function to various programs.
  • preview file generation.
  • generation of catalog files for large thumbnail collections.
  • extensive special functions.
  • HTML Web page generation from picture collections.
  • picture rotation by 90 degrees (left/right) and 180 degrees (in the picture windows).

Future of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow
Several months have passed since the last update for "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" and you might think thet development has been discontinued. This is not so, internally the program package has been further maintained. So why have there been no more updates to date? Since the last update the number of registrations have fallen towards zero and even feedback or suggestions for improvements and wishes have failed to appear. It seems as if there was no interest anymore in this brilliant program, or has the Amiga market been saturated? Due to this situation Helmut Hoffman is not very motivated to publish any further updates. Alas, even the last "Amiga Arena special price offer" with "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" was no success! Thus Amiga Arena hopes to rekindle the users' attention and the interest in "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" by way of the "Amiga Arena Jubilee Ofer" and hopes for a success of this offer, so "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" will still enrich the Amiga software market in the future. It would be more than a pity if this longtime high quality program would vanish, too.

Anyone who wants to take advantage of this offer please exclusively use the Amiga Arena's designated registration form under the the title link. Further information about "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" canbe found on Helmut Hoffmann's Web site. Special thanks go to Helmut Hoffman who has mae this offer possible. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena celebrates 5th birthday
"Amiga Arena" celebrates its 5th birthday. For this reason there will be many specials with new and old "acquaintances" who have accompanied "Amiga Arena" until today. In addition there will be for the first time the "Amiga Arena" history with screenshots from days gone by, a retrospect to five years of active Amiga support with all its highs and lows.

Read about what became of then developers or programs. Personal comments as well as a nearly complete compendium from the works of "Amiga Arena" are rounding off the history. The start is of course the year 1998, here you will learn a.o.t. how "Amiga Arena" was created and which were the first Shareware special price offers.

Of course Amiga Arena operator Olaf Köbnik will be just as glad about feedback, suggestions and congratulations. For this there is a guest book available to the visitors. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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03.Aug.2003
Wolf Zimmer (E-Mail)


Online magazine: NoCover #113 published
Punctual as usual issue 113 of the online magazine NoCover has been published and already delivered via eMail to all subscribers.

The current issue can be read online on NoCover and the homepage of the APC & TCP. Furthermore the magazine is availbale on the Aminet and on the well known cover CD-ROMs or may be ordered directly via the eMauil address nc113@nc-mag.de.

At last there are again many articles to be read in this issue. Regrettably the Amiga themes are growing less and less, and the operators would wish for more Amiga users writing about their computer system. Thus diligent writers supplying the team with articles on a regular basis are wanted. Single articles are always welcome, too. Regular authors are rewarded with a Web online package by ConnectWeb.de which includes free eMail address, POP3 mailbox with up to 256MB, SMTP-Auth server usage and sub domain. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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03.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)


ImageMagick v5.5.7 released for AmigaOS.
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 87 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and

As ImageMagick is one of the programs with the most downloads from Diego Casorran's Web site, a special area has been set up for this software under the title link.

With the new release 5.5.7 the complete distribution was split up into six archives: Precompiled utilities for 68020 as well as 68040, a basic archive with the docs and MGKs, a developers archive for GG users, the source code tree and a contributions archive with some helpful components such as ARexx scripts, MUI etc. (nba) (Translation: cb)

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03.Aug.2003



New survey: Which region do you live in?
We have just started a new survey because we're interested in where most of our readers come from. You can choose among the following possible answers:
  • D - Postal area 0
  • D - Postal area 1
  • D - Postal area 2
  • D - Postal area 3
  • D - Postal area 4
  • D - Postal area 5
  • D - Postal area 6
  • D - Postal area 7
  • D - Postal area 8
  • D - Postal area 9
  • BeNeLux
  • Other country
Have fun voting, and we are already very anxious for the result. The results so far can be looked into here. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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