amiga-news.de - Archive

Archive 06/2004

`26.Jun.2004` amiga-news.de editorial staff	amiga-news.de: comments script enhanced After enhancing the comments function in March 2004 with the possibility of an optional registration Sven Drieling has now further improved the script. Update Changes: Login now via HTML form including logged in-stay option instead of the login via HTTP authentification. After login/logout as well as after sending a comment you stay on the original page. New features: Preview - Before sending a comment you get a preview so you are able to do corrections. Direct link - Within the comments there's now a direct link (without sessionID) so the coments can now easily be bookmarked and the link to a coment can easily be forwarded to others. Admin comments - Three following stars '*' can now be entered only by admins. They are used for highlighting (green text, BLOCKQUOTE) of hints to the comments' presentation. Admin - Various enhancements for an easier administration of the comments. Bugfixes: The '&'-separator in the URLs appears in the HTML source code now as '&'. If the text of the comment now passes the allowed 10.000 characters the text won't be deleted anymore. During the script change have some comment s gone into the Nirvana. We ask for your understanding. Update 27-Jun-2004:** If problems or errors happen because of the new script we ask for a most detailed and comprehensive description of these in the comments. Please name also the used browser. We will fix appearing bugs one by one as soon as possible. It has shown to be helpful to delete all previous cookies from amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 26. Jun. 2004, 23:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Jun.2004` Guido Mersmann (ANF)	Designers and musicians for new AmigaOS For the games project "TripleA" (working title) designers and musicians are looked for. To say it straight away there will be no pay for it. The official designer(s) and musician(s) will get free access to all games versions. Of course, they'll be mentioned in the game credits. In return the graphic and music files will be part of the official release. Graphics: The games graphics are fully 32bit, so everything from render graphics to cartoon graphics can be used. The single games objects aren't restricted by the resolution. The minimum number of needed objects can be enhanced by the designer (!) and will be automatically integrated into the levels by the games engine. The number of animations is also not limited. Music: It is thought of a music player similar to the one already existing in BoulderDäsh. Various tests with Protracker AHI players are still running. The musician should therefore have knowledge in composing with Protracker and should be capable to create subdued (lift/golf-course) music, too. The possibility of creating sound effects is advantageous. Interested people can mail directly. Please use "Grafiker" or "Musiker" as subject so the mails don't end in the SPAM filter. For easy selection, designers can attach a picture showing at least three animation phases of a walking person e.g. a cartoon person. Musicians can attach a small piece of music. Questions about the kind of game or similar won't be answered. Guido Mersmann (snx) (Translation: wk) [News message: 26. Jun. 2004, 17:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2004` Heise Newsticker	Microsoft warns of specially critical lack of security Today Microsoft which is the worldwide biggest producer of software has pointed out to a critical lack of security in its WWW-browser Internet Explorer which has been known for some weeks. According to the statement users can be infected by Trojans on pages which seems to be reliable. This applies to servers which use the Microsofts Internet Information Services (IIS) and which have been manipulated by another lack of certainty. This can be fixed by a patch. The lack in the Internet Explorer can be only fixed by installing of a preversion of the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP but which should not be used on computers which are used in the production. You also can set the preferences of security of the Internet Explorer to "high" but thus you cannot use JavaScript any longer. Those ones who do not want to risk something should not use the Internet Explorer as long as it is not fixed. (cs) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Jun. 2004, 23:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2004` Michael C. Battilana (e-mail)	Events: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 Update Amiga Alpe Adria, the annual alternative and classic computing get-together organized by our Italian Amiga Forever team, will take place in little more than a week in Udine, a beautiful town located between Venice and the Alps. The event home page is at http://0xAA.org. The web site has just been updated with the latest flight and travel resources, links to cultural events, and exhibits information. It is now a very good time to take advantage of last-minute airline offers. Additionally, tickets are still available for concerts and performances which range from hip-hop superstars Cypress Hill (at the nearby Rototom Sunsplash festival), to Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance, to Italian singer and songwriter Nek. This week's confirmed Amiga Alpe Adria guests include Ben Hermans of Hyperion (developers of Amiga OS 4.0), Christian Kemp (founder and maintainer of Amiga news site ANN.lu) and other Amiga personalities. Amiga Alpe Adria is free to all attendees, including exhibitors. Pre-registration is appreciated. The Amiga Alpe Adria web site includes additional details and contact information to assist visitors in their preparations and journeys. We hope to see you on July 3rd! Regards, Michael C. Battilana President, Cloanto (snx) [News message: 25. Jun. 2004, 21:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2004` S. Eichholz (ANF)	Demo-Scene: Results of opinion poll to Breakpoint-Party The results of the poll (amiga-news.de reported) of the this year Demo-Party "Breakpoint" in Bingen are available online. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Jun. 2004, 18:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2004` Tristan 'TriMa' Mangold (ANF)	MorphOS: "Blue Space Ninja"-Skin published I have finished my second MorphOS-Intuition-Skin. This has been made in Amiga style and additionally contains MUI images and a MUI configuration. (screenshot). (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Jun. 2004, 18:00] [Comments: 2 - 27. Jun. 2004, 20:28] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2004` Jürgen Schober (ANF)	Dealer: point.design closed Not long ago we could proudly deliver the first AmigaOS 4.0 version to our AmigaOne customers. We are very delighted about this. Nevertheless point.design in Austria has been closed because of personal reasons. I will move to Phoenix, AZ, in the USA because of a job offer. The desicion has been not easy for me but I had to use this chance. This unfortunately means the end for point.design and for OASE, too. It has been a very exciting time. We succeeded in building up something in a market which to many users was alreday dead. We helped to organize the "AmigaOS 4 on Tour", have organized a show event in Austria called OASE and have tried to offer products and support for Amiga users. So I am really delighted that we finally succeeded in publishing the AmigaOS-pre-CD. I am still looking forward to new Amiga products. I want to thank you all customers and all who helped us. It made lot of fun to work with you. YOUR Jürgen & Silke Schober PS: Maybe I will make it to see Sacramento in July. ;) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Jun. 2004, 17:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Jun.2004` www.xbaze.tk (ANF)	Data base: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 18 available The data base programm XBaze is available in version 7.3 Beta 18 (619 KB). You need at least AmigaOS 3.0 but the programm also works under MorphOS. XBaze is Cardware and uses a dynamic memory management so the size of the data base is only limited by the available memory. Some features of XBaze: Easy to use GUI Six freely configurable kinds of fields URL-use via openurl.library Use of the system-Clipboards Layout-Editor with Drag&Drop Flexible sort- and search-options Configurable print-option Saving and loading in ASCII-format (CSV and TSV) ARexx-Port (over 80 commands) Statistic-option (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 25. Jun. 2004, 10:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004` Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)	Golem: Why Don't We Rebel Against Copyright Law - Interview with L. Lessig "Why don't we rebel against copyright?" is the question, in relation to which Golem.de has conducted an interview with professor of jurisprudence Lawrence Lessig, who's a decisive critic of the present copyright regulations and a member of the board of the Free Software Foundation. In the discussion with Golem.de he talks about his vision of the culture of the 21st century, criticizes copyrights - which belong to companies, who hold onto them while the actual author dies sooner or later, and speaks in favor of necessity to have P2P exchange methods. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 17:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004` Genesi (E-Mail)	Presentation: "Pegasos - The Open Platform" Under the title Pegasos - The Open Platform you'll find a presentation in which Genesi attempts to lay out advantages of the Pegasos and their strategy as an open PPC platform for business customers. Along with this Genesi's leadership makes clear on MorphZone that no-one has to worry about MorphOS because now as before it's a part of the whole picture. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 16:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004` Jacek Piszczek	MorphOS: TranspoClock 1.04 Jacek Piszczek has released a new version of his transparent desktop clock for MorphOS. Changes since the last version: Memory amount display with configurable colors Window positions in the selections are updated automatically Small bug fixes (cr) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 15:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004` Amigaplus	AMIGAplus 06/2004 - Everything for the Amiga One In the new AMIGAplus 06/2004 (#148) you can read about the following reports among others: [report summaries not translated -DM] Amiga One: Compatible Hardware Big Special: the 50 best Tools for the Classic Amiga Review: Open Transport Tycoon And more: Test: Turboboard Viper 1230/40 Review: Cocolino mouse adapter Amiga Status Report: Before the Pre-Release... Shareware: New from the 'Net Emu-Corner: New Version of WinUAE Table Calculations Workshop (Part 3) The latest from the Amiga Market Report: Demoscene, What Now? and much more AMIGAplus is available by subscription, single issue order and in Amiga speciality shops at the price of five euros. (sn) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 12:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004` Matthias Bertram (ANF)	Update of the New Edition of the Turbo-Card Apollo 630 Matthias Bertram wrote to provide an update of the new edition of the Amiga 600 turbo-card Apollo 630 (68030@40 MHz, SIMM socket for up to 32 MB RAM, connection for 68882 FPU) through Individual Computers (amiga-news.de reported): "There's news again on the Apollo front: I've already found 70 purchasers for the new Apollo! About 25 other interested people have not yet decided. Should 100 units be ordered, the price will be 100 euros instead of the 130 euro price listed until now. Jens Schönfeld has a couple ideas concerning the CPU and the attachment of the turbo-card. But he says he doesn't want to reveal more right now." (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 09:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004` ANN (Website)	Chess Game: HellChess Released (Update) HellChess marks the appearance of a new chess game that is free in the Amiga version, and also of all things payment-required for the Linux, Windows, GameBoy Advanced, Palm and PocketPC versions in development (screenshots). An excerpt of the features of the program (9 MB): Capable AI for the single player mode many exercise instructions many configuration options online play possibility through Direct Connect or the HellHound master server A PPC/RTG Amiga version is still in development. Update: (26th June 2004, 17:52, snx) As the author commented, the next-released version of the game has problems with AGA/ECS, therefore the archive from yesterday has been replaced with an update. To that end there's an 8-bit version of the contained animations being worked on for systems without graphics cards. (snx) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 09:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004` pegasosforum.de	Pegasos 2: Debian Linux 2.6.7 Kernel with GigaBit-LAN Sven Luther (Genesi) released a Debian Linux kernel for the Pegasos 2, that supports the gigabit ethernet port of the motherboard. The use of the gigabit ethernet is possible after the execution of a firmware update that should appear in the next few days. (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 00:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Jun.2004`	AmigaOS 4: Current Ports SMBFS Mark Bond compiled Olaf Barthel's SMBFS (SMB Filesystem) for AmigaOS 4. xMameGui xMameGUI is a graphic user interface for the AmigaOS port of xMame. KmailtoMbox "KmailtoMbox" is an ARexx Script that can convert "KMail" (Linux) e-mail-archives to the "MBox" format that YAM requires. (cg) (Translation: dm) [News message: 24. Jun. 2004, 00:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

<- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ->