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22.Aug.2005
Sascha Weigelmann (ANF)


Kick Off 2: World Cup 2005 in Germany
The 5th official Kick Off 2 World Cup is coming to Germany. It takes place from November 12th to 13th, 2005, in Cologne. After England, Holland, Greece and Italy had the honor of hosting before, it is Jörg "Panni" Pansen and Sascha Weigelmann who organise this big event in 2005. They expect guests from all over Europe and as the hosting country they hope that a lot of fellow countrymen join them in the games, partying and finally battle for the World Cup title.

The official forum to the WorldCup is at . On this forum there are - sometimes rather vivid ;) - discussions concerning the rules and all kinds of Kick Off related topics.

Kick Off 2 is a computer based football game from the company Anco back from the year 1990, which was mainly successful on the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST. The game is still fascinating today because of its rapid gameplay and the unique way of steering, where it needs real skill to control the ball. The fun while playing is enormous and even so many years after the release there is a giant fanbase. (snx) (Translation: nba)

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22.Aug.2005



os4depot.net: Uploads until 22.08.2005
These are the latest uploads to the os4depot.net added since our last update:
3dto3d-os4.lha           gra/con 285kb Convert between different 3d formats 
tsohg.lha                gra/the 687kb Gui theme for Amiga OS 4 
dragon.lha               uti/wor  22kb DragOn - a screen dragging hack 
cmi8738.lha              dri/aud  10kb CMI8738 AHI driver 
rockbeat.lha             aud/tra   1Mb Simple software drum machine 
perl-src.tar.bz2         dev/lan  10Mb Perl 5.8.5 AmigaOS4 src 
perl.tar.bz2             dev/lan  15Mb Perl 5.8.5 AmigaOS4 
themes.lha               gra/the   1Mb New Themes for the New Intuition 
flite-bin.lha            aud/mis   3Mb Flite: a small run-time speech synthesis engine 
reaction_dn.lha          dev/exa 528kb Reaction examples 
contextmenusscripts.lha  uti/wor  20kb Scripts for ContextMenus and Config 
mplayer.lha              vid/pla   3Mb MPlayer 1.0pre7 Dirty Preview #5 
amipodder.lha            net/mis 344kb Subscribe to, play back and manage podcasts. 
avcodeclib_os4.lha       vid/mis 684kb Audio and Video codec library for OS4 
mixer.lha                aud/mis  79kb Mixer 
ahxplay.lha              aud/pla  58kb Ahxplay.library + command line player
(cg) (Translation: cg)

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22.Aug.2005



Aminet uploads until 21.08.2005
Last week's Aminet uploads:
amipodder.lha            comm/misc   344K  all  Subscribe to, play back and manage podca
MakeHTMLMap.lha          comm/www    884K  OS3  The Gallery/Onlineshop Creator for Amiga
reaction_dn.lha          dev/src     528K  OS4  Reaction examples
dr_hpgl.lha              gfx/conv    172K  OS3  Plotter support for PageStream and conve
gifsicle142-mos.lha      gfx/conv    654K  MOS  GIF/AnimGIF twaddler tool
mplayer.lha              gfx/show    3.3M  OS4  MPlayer 1.0pre7 Dirty Preview #5
zxlive.lha               misc/emu     98K  OS3  ZX-Spectrum 48/128k/Pentagon Emulator v0
RockBEAT.lha             mus/edit    1.5M  OS4  Simple software drum machine
searchguidecf.lha        text/hyper    5K  OS3  Search tool for amigaguide docs (to repl
sdiREKOPrefs.lha         util/dtype   15K  all  Preferences GUI for sdiREKO DataTypes
ExtraLib.lha             util/libs   352K  OS3  Dynamic buffer system + simple strings
flite-bin.lha            util/misc   3.1M  OS4  Flite: a small run-time speech synthesis
contextmenusscripts.lha  util/shell   20K  OS4  Scripts for ContextMenus and Config
limpidclock.lha          util/wb     156K  VAR  Transparent clock / calendar
whdautolaunch.lha        util/wb      98K  OS3  WB AutoLaunch for WHDLOAD Games&Demos li
(cg) (Translation: cg)

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22.Aug.2005
Amiga.org (forum)


Feelin: Patch for beta version 050819
Olivier Laviale has released a patch for the recently published beta version 050819 of his object-oriented system Feelin (amiga-news.de reported).

The patch does fix the following bugs:

1. dos.library/DupLockFromFH() does not work with WinUAE virtual volumes (and maybe large disks). Because the function was used by FC_Document, Feelin was unable to read XML files, which result in an empty preference editor. This is fixed now.

2. "Prefs" has not been linked properly, resulting in a crash when the program ended. This is fixed now.

Furthermore, one person reported a dimension problem: the preference editor window was too big, ~1500 pixels. The author would like anyone to contact him who has experienced the same issue.

Download: Feelin050819_beta_fix01.lha (7 KB) (snx)

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22.Aug.2005
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


Demoscenenparty Evoke 2005
For the 8th time in a row the demoscene-party Evoke will be held on August 26th to 28th, 2005. The location this year will be the Vulkanhalle in the center of Cologne, Germany. Read more details on the website of Evoke 2005. (snx) (Translation: nba)

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22.Aug.2005



amiga-news merges .de- and .com-domain
The online-news-magazine amiga-news is focussing on a stronger internationalization. Since August 22nd, 2005, the portal is wrapping up the domains www.amiga-news.de and www.amiga-news.com. The company strengthes its english news part as well as working on the future integration of further english areas.

The translation team now constists of the following editors:
  • Alex Jeßen (aj)
  • Caghan Demirci (cad)
  • Daniel Reimann (dr)
  • Ingo Schmitz (is)
  • Thomas Zitzelsberger (ts)
  • Ulrich Beckers (ub)
  • Wolfgang Krause (wk)

We would like to thank all previous translators for their engagement and are happy to welcome the new members to our team!

We would also like to thank the previous owner of the com-domain, Ricco Clemens, for his accommodation to include amiga-news.com into amiga-news.

Apart from the internationalization the comment function at amiga-news is activated again after the summer vacation of the moderators. (nba)

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22.Aug.2005



amiga-news: comment function activated
The comment function at amiga-news.de is now activated again. Since August 21st, 2005, it had been turned off due to a summer vacation of the moderators. The team is looking forward to follow a worthy interchange of ideas of the Amiga community members. (nba)

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22.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Website)


C=128 Anniversary Video by Bil Herd and Dave Haynie
Bil Herd and Dave Haynie published a new video about the anniversary of the legendary Commodore 128 (C=128) which can be downloaded for free. Rare prototypes of the Commodore machines including the Commodore LCD are shown inside the video. Comments by Bil Herd and Dave Haynie are included as well which tell about the destruction plans of Commodore regarding the Sinclair by introducing a 49$ computer. Haynie also shows a CD32 board and a Triple-A (Advanced Amiga Architecture) motherboard. Download: bilndave.mpg (167 MB). (nba)

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22.Aug.2005
Thomas Meigel (E-Mail)


iPod Shuffle and Amiga: amiShuffle v0.6.0
Thomas Meigel wrote a simple program to use the iPod shuffle in combination with AmigaOS. The program allows the connection of the mp3-player using the USB-port and shows the shuffle inside the system as an integrated USB flash stick with mp3-play-function.

After copying the mp3-files onto the iPod the user should start amiShuffle to fill the database (iTunesSD) with the necessary information.

Download: amiShuffle_0.6.0.lha (19,5 KB) (nba)

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22.Aug.2005
Neo (ANF)


QuakeFusion for AmigaOS 4.0 under development
QuakeFusion is an add-on for Quake 2 that loads the datafiles into the ego-shooter Quake 3. Please find a screenshot under the titlelink showing QFusion in action. QuakeFusion is currently under development for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0. (nba)

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21.Aug.2005
ANN (Webseite)


Commodity: Dragon imitates draggable screens (update)
Dragon from #AmigaZeux is a little program, wich imitates the function of Amiga's screendragging under CyberGraphX (Screenshot, Video).

With the left mousebutton the front screen can be pulled down and sideways to have a look at the screen behind. A click of the right mousebutton switches to this screen. Moreover a GUI offers certain options.

Download: Dragon.lha (62 KB)

Update: (12:01, 22.08.05, snx)
Meanwhile the version 1.1 is available under the same download link.

Besides a general code cleanup the old Mode-ID is reused and the BestModeID is skipped if the screen to be opened has the same depth as the minimum required depth.

Moreover the indication of the version in the OpenLibrary()-function call was corrected: Minimum required is V41 of the cybergraphics.library and not V42, as mistakenly mentioned. (snx) (Translation: ts)

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21.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (Website)


Video of a new AmigaOS4-function: draggable screens
Julien 'Crisot' Cervellera published a video which shows the new functions of the intuition.library for AmigaOS 4: draggable screens. Meanwhile an additional mpeg-version of the XVid-file as well as mirrors were created.

os4intuition.avi [Mirror] (13 MB)
os4intuition.mpg [Mirror] (21 MB) (snx)

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21.Aug.2005
Thomas Claus (ANF)


Event: GuruMeditation 2005 in Göda, Germany
The "GuruMeditation" will this year again be held in Göda near Bautzen. The event will take place from October 1st, 9 o'clock, to October 2nd, 16 o'clock, 2005. The GuruMeditation is no pure Amiga event - all operating and computer systems are welcome. Further information can be found under the titlelink. (nba)

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21.Aug.2005
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


Demo scene: Liquid Skies records #088
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 88th music pack yesterday. This time it contains the music piece "Temptation" composed by the new musician Alex West, who could be ranked into the techno section.
  • Title: Temptation
  • Musician: Alex West
  • Style: Techno
  • Spiellänge: 4:20
  • Playing time: MP3
  • Size: 5,1 MB
The packed file is available for free download under the title link.

Furthermore the Russian musician Alex East (a friend of Alex West with the same given name) joined Liquid Skies. (snx) (Translation: nba)

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21.Aug.2005
Jan Zahurancik (ANF)


Emulation: mailinglist for AmiKit
AmiKit is a complete preconfigured Amiga environment for use with WinUAE, similar to the wellknown products "Amiga In A Box" or "AmigaSYS". The environment is planned to be out in the near future. The mailinglist for AmiKit was introduced to keep interested people informed about the project news. (cg) (Translation: nba)

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21.Aug.2005



MorphOS: First Screenshots of Quake 3 (update)
Mark "bigfoot" Olsen published the first screenshots showing his Quake-3-ports for MorphOS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Update: (22:44, 21.08.05, snx)
Meanwhile a demonstration-movie was published by Christian Rosentreter:

morphosquake3.mov (15 MB)
morphosquake3_lq.mp4 (6 MB, low quality, but compatible with MPlayer 0.9) (cg) (Translation: nba)

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21.Aug.2005
(ANF)


Event: Photos from the "Commodore- and Amiga Show"
Several photos from the latest "Commodore- and Amiga-Show" organized by the Dutch Commodore gebruikersgroup were published under the titlelink. The next meeting will be held in October 2005. (cg) (Translation: nba)

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21.Aug.2005
Amigaworld.net (website)


AmigaOS4: Sound card summary
At the title link, Davy Wentzler has published a summary regarding several sound cards which can be used under AmigaOS4 and which restrictions there are. Furthermore he mentions that Terratec and ESI/Egosys have been supportive companies while M-Audio and Creative stayed silent. (snx)

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20.Aug.2005
Chris Hodges (ANF)


Aminet: external full text search engine Amifind moved
The Aminet full text search engine "Amifind" searches the more than 73000 readme files of the Aminet (more than 300 MB all together) in a few milli seconds kunden for the key words.

Thanks to a new server with higher meory capabilities can the search engine now be reached under amifind.platon42.de (the homepage of Chris Hodges moved, too).

As the switching of the domain platon42.de happened just yesterday it may happen that the access works for some users in the next days. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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20.Aug.2005



Jump'n Run: Preview of "Mr. Beanbag!" (AGA)
Mr. Beanbag! is a classical jump'n'run just like Sega's Sonic-series. Numerous screenshots and a video can be watched under the titlelink, a playable preview will be published in the future as well.

The author, who presents her project in a thread on amiga.org, wants to publish the game this year.

Preview-video: valley.avi (1,9 MB) (cg) (Translation: nba)

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20.Aug.2005



E compiler: update for ECX to version 1.4.5
ECX 1.4 is a compiler for the programming language E for AmigaOS and MorphOS. The update of the compiler to version 1.4.5 requires the package of the version before (exc48.lha) and comes with several bug fixes and improvements.

Required is an installation of the Amiga-E-Paketes (amigae33a.lha) respectively at least the assign EMODULES: with the V40 EModules.

The compiler needs at least a 68000 processor, AmigaOS V37+ and 2 MB memory. The compiles require at least a 68020 (+68881 when using floating point) and AmigaOS V37 or a PPC and MorphOS.

Features:
  • 680x0 and PowerPC support
  • Support for EC binary modules and new binary modules
  • Support for the ADOS and the ELF output format
  • Support for mixed and pure output binary files
  • MorphOS support
Download:
ecx48.lha (537 KB)
ecx_upd.lha (120 KB)
amigae33a.lha (1,6 MB) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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