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`16.Mar.2003` Amig@lien (ANF)	MultiPlayer Pack 05 for Descent: Freespace released Today the MultiPlayer Pack 05 with 5 multi player missions for the game Descent: Freespace has been released. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 16. Mar. 2003, 20:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Mar.2003` Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel (ANF)	Programmer wanted for project 'Fli4l on Amiga' Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel writes: Maybe some of you know the software router package fli4l (see title link). With this software and a 486 it is possible, to create a fairly comfortable Linux based hardware router. The whole thing works quite good, and also the collaboration with the Amiga works out excellently. The only downer so far: In order to create the required boot diskette, up to now a Windows/Linux PC is still needed. Now I have looked a bit closer into the DOS batch file and realised that only two little programs are needed which as yet haven't been available on the Amiga. One is mkfli4l, a progam which checks the config files of fli4l and generates the file structure for the required Tar file, and Syslinux, a boot loader, which can also be used from DOS and writes a boot block onto a diskette. The program mkfli4l wasn't overly complicated, in any case I have succeeded in porting the program after some time of trial and error (actually it was a simple recompile with gcc). I have also adapted the script so it is in theory able to create a boot diskette. In practice, however, the program Syslinux is missing! Thus now my question: Is it at all possible to use this program on the Amiga (of course one still would have to install an MS-DOS compatible file system on the Amiga) and if so, is there somebody out there who would port it? The whole thing doesn't seem to be especially extensive, only somebody would have to do it ;-) Btw, Syslinux can be found here: http://syslinux.zytor.com/. If this whetted somebody's appetite, please contact me via e-Mail. (ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 16. Mar. 2003, 12:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Mar.2003` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Compass Hardware for Amiga (Principle Circuit) Carsten Siegner has built a principle circuit for a compass. This circuit is unusually sensitive and already detect the north pole of the Earth's magnetic field. For the operation here comes a very sensitive KMZ-51 magnetic field sensor. This includes a sensitivity of - 0.2 kA/m to + 0.2kA/m. Built into the chip are magnetic recessive resistances in the form of a Wheatstone bridge. The sensitivity (uncompensated), relative to measurement setting, carries (16mV/V) / (kA/m). Attention: the sensor is circuit broken in an SMD housing and on that account may only be soldered with great difficulty. The sensor can pick up the electrical field of the computer. So one must compensate for this. One may not divert a magnetic field greater than 1 kA/m with the sensor, or else the Wheatstone bridge will always keep the exit value. In order for this not to happen one must use the chip's internal reset coils. The chip ZN424 is unfortunately very difficult to flush. Unfortunately it is so far the only operation enhancer that can energize the tension variables of the Earth-field detector. Siegner tested other OPs, but none came close to the strengthening of the ZN424. Unfortunately the software programming is not as simple a thing as the hardware. The measurement value fluctuates constantly due to the diverting magnetic fields of the TV or the computer. On account of that one can't directly recognize the Earth's magnetic field. Of course when one adjusts the circuit slowly then one recognizes that the measurement value declines further, the more the sensor is turned from the north-south position. Because the sensor is now polarized, this means that one can differentiate a magnetic field between north and south, and may now recognize the Earth's magnetic field from the correction measurement value. Only the calculations of the whole thing are going to be beautifully difficult. Every metallic resistance will cause disturbance to the setting of the measurement values. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 13. Mar. 2003, 23:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Mar.2003` Glames (E-Mail)	AmigaDE-Game: First Screenshots of 'Word Me Up' Under the title link you can find first screenshots of the Amiga-DE-game 'Word Me Up'. The game belonges to the category Arcade/Memory/Reflection. The side is also available in French. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 10. Mar. 2003, 16:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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