15.Aug.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers at Classic Gaming Expo 2004
The big exhibition for classic computers and video games Classic Gaming Expo takes place for the seventh time this year. It is a tribute to the people, systems and games of yesteryear. The event has moved from Las Vegas to San Jose, California, it takes place in the Convention Center, located downtown San Jose, and is therefore much bigger than the previous years.
More than 60 celebrities that played important roles in development of computers and games in the past 25 years are on the guest list. CGE is open to the public and gamers of all ages are welcome.
Individual Computers will be a guest at the booth of Cloanto. We will show the new Catweasel MK4, which is an ideal complement to their Amiga Forever emulator. The Catweasel controller lets you use Amiga disks, Amiga joysticks and Amiga keyboards with today's computers.
The Catweasel MK4 will be available starting October 2004. (snx)
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14.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Error in AmiChameleon installer script
In the version of AmiChameleon released on August, 12th (we reported) is a bug in the installer script. According to a user's report the installer script aborted during the installation process. As an entry in the startup-sequence must be done the startup-sequence wasn't readable anymore after a reset.
The new script now doesn't add an entry to the startup-sequence anymore but gives the user the information that an entry has to be done and where it has do be done.
If this error occurs to other users, too, here is the solution of the problem: Before the writing to the startup-sequence a backup of this file was created called s:startup-sequence.orig. Just give it back its original name and everything should work as before.
Jörg Renkert (ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi attending SNDF Europe as exhibitor and Gold Sponsor
As already at the American event in Dallas in April (amiga-news.de reported), Genesi will also attend Freescale's Smart Networks Developers Forum Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, September 28-30. Again, the Luxemburgish computer manufacturer will not only be an exhibitor there but also provide the Internet café as a Gold Sponsor. (snx)
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14.Aug.2004
Robert Wahnsiedler (e-mail)
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New address of French Amiga repairer Amiga.fr
The French Amiga Center for spare parts and repairs (including PowerUp cards), formerly known under the URL Amiga.fr, is now accessable via http://www.bourgogne-informatique.com.
The e-mail address of the Amiga Center is jean-jacques.boulet@wanadoo.fr. The snail mail address, bank account, telephone number and the offered services stay unchanged.
Furthermore, they are still looking for someone with interest to translate the homepage from French to English.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: demo of quiz game Miliarderzy released
Miliarderzy, a quiz game based on TV shows like "Wer wird Millionär" and on ideas of the authors, was now released as a beta version for MorphOS as well as for PPC-Linux and Windows.
All three versions are part of the archive (5.5 MB) and are available right now in Polish, English and Swedish. The programmers are looking for support to finish the game and for support of more languages.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Amiga-News.com (ANF)
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Event: Amigaparty Friedrichsdorf
On August, 21st 2004 an Amiga party will take place in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Next to AmigaOS 4.0 several more software pieces will be shown there.
These are:
- ANotice (a notepad program for the Workbench)
- JAmiga (Javacompiler for AmigaOS)
- Hollywood (presentation software and more)
- and one or the other surprise :)
The entry is free. Further information can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Commodore and Amiga show in the Netherlands on August 21st
Our C= and Amiga show on August 21st 2004 will be from 10:00 till 16:00 at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen, Holland.
There will be again a lot of C= and Amiga fans together with their computers. You can buy and exchange stuff, discuss with a lot of other freaks and we do repairs. Come and join us and look for more info at the title link. (snx)
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13.Aug.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS-Skin: SpaceStation
On morphzone.org there is a new skin for MorphOS (screenshot).
Direct download: spacestation.lha (755 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Aug.2004
heise online
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heise: The City of Munich Advances with Linux Migration
Last Wednesday at a press conference at city hall, München's (Munich's) Mayor and SPD politician Christian Ude stated that the Munich government would go ahead and begin accepting bids for the outfitting of their desktops with unrestricted software, in spite of legal unclarity and persistent fears of a patent war over open source.
Read the complete heise article under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
e.p.i.c. interactive (E-Mail)
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E.p.i.c. Interactive to attend Games Convention in Leipzig
E.p.i.c. Interactive will participate again this year in the 19th through 22nd August Leipzig Games Convention, which is the European gaming industry event.
You'll find us at the stand of our partner company Magnussoft in Hall 3, Stand B10. There we'll present various new items for Macintosh, Linux and Pegasos computer systems. We'll be happy to see you.
Best wishes,
Thomas Steiding
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
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4Players: Interview w. Former Demo Scene Member Jesper Kyd (Hitman-Soundtrack)
Under the title link you'll find a short interview that the videogame portal 4Players conducted with Jesper Kyd, a former adherent of the Amiga demo scene who is credited among others with the musical accompaniment of the "Hitman" games (PC, X-Box, PS2). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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AmiChameleon V1.35 Released
The theme installation program AmiChameleon has reached version 1.35. The following changes have been implemented:
- After Thilo Köhler reorganized the skins of his ArTKanoid, AmiChameleon was adapted. It now supports the new skins as well as the new sounds.
- It's immediately possible to have the AmiChameleon server check for certain program updates. Every time AmiChameleon starts (if this feature is activated and you're online) it checks to see if a new version is available from the server and notifies the user accordingly.
- AmiChameleon is now available in 68k and WarpOS versions.
- The localization data and installation script have been updated.
AmiChameleon v1.35 is available on the developer's homepage as a free download. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Version 0.10 beta of information tool statline
Version 0.10 beta of the information tool 'statline' is available.
Changes:
- size gadget area is now a bit larger (catoh, canuma)
- added placeholders for opened screens and windows
- uses now BetterString for the formatstring (prefs)
- added placeholder for env vars
- added poplist for placeholders (prefs)
- added uptime and record uptime
- added placeholder for context switches per second
- added CPU temperature (not tested, maybe it works with MorphOS > 1.4.2 and G3)
- added CPU usage with dnetc filter
- certain smaller optimizations
- optimized calculation of load average (thx to piru for example)
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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10.Aug.2004
Gerhard Schmid (E-Mail)
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WinUAE: Major bug in version 0.9.90
The latest version 0.9.90 of WinUAE contains major bugs in the filesystem emulation,
that can lead to data loss.
Verson 0.9.91 (in progress) will contain these changes:
- Bugs in 0.9.90 fixed:
- Multiple directory filesystem emulation bugs (files getting truncated
to zero if opened in rw-mode, read-only files failing to open and some
operations returning incorrect AmigaDOS error codes)
- AGA horizontal scrolling bug in some games.
- Stereo separation setting was not always set properly.
- Another task-switching Direct3D/OpenGL-mode problem.
- Other bugs:
- Picasso96 black screen after CTRL-ALT-DEL.
- New features:
- "uae-configuration" Amiga side program that can list current configuration, change all
configuration parameters and send any inputevent on the fly.
- Both right alt and ctrl are mapped to firebutton in keyboard layout B
(some laptops don't have right ctrl).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 finished
After a longer period of time the operating system producer Microsoft now announced the finishing of the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. It is said to be available for download for 25 languages in the coming two months. Alternatively it can be ordered for free on CD. The Service Pack 2 contains for the most parts security relevant improvements that are Microsoft's reaction on the criticism of their security concept for their OS. Read more in the (German) article of the Heise newsticker following the title link.
(cs) (Translation: wk)
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07.Aug.2004
Ralf Himmel (ANF)
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Haage & Partner: icon competition
The company Haage & Partner organizes an icon competition for AmigaOS 4. Looked for are complete OS4 icon sets or an application set. The creators of the three best looking sets win an OS4 version of ArtEffect. Deadline for the competition is October, 6th 2004. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Aug.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: sixth prerelease of Jabberwocky V1.5
The sixth prerelease of v1.5 of the instant messenger Jabberwocky is now available. New are among other things the gadgets updating for changes done via the ARexx port, opening and closing the datatypes.library only once and reworked sound routines.
Download: Jabberwocky_aos_v1_5pre6.lha (82 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2004
heise.de (ANF)
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PPC-Linux: First preversion of Yellow Dog Linux 4
Terra Soft Solutions has published a first preversion of its PPC-Linux-distribution
"Yellow Dog Linux Release 4".
The preversion runs on Apple Macintosh computers with G3-, G4- or
G5- (PPC 970) processors.
So far only a 32-Bit-version has been planned and the 64-Bit-modus of the PowerPC G5
is being not supported currently.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Ati-News (ANF)
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Sources of Q3-Engine will be released at the end of the year
In a forum John Carmack from ID Software (Doom, Quake) announced on
slashdot.org that the Quake3-source codes will be released at the end of this year.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
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Hardware-FAQ: Which floppy drives work with an Amiga?
Under the title link you can find an English FAQ which lists information to the
compability of several floppy drives to the Amiga.
If you have to change a floppy drive on your Amiga you can find there important
information.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results July/August 2004
The results of the Amiga games hit parade of July/August 2004:
- 1. (1) Quake 2 - 96 pts
- 2. (7) Slam Tilt - 89 pts
- 3. (5) Heretic 2 - 76 pts
- 4. (2) Earth 2140 - 75 pts
- 5. (3) Payback - 74 pts
- 6. (4) Crossfire 2 - 62 pts
- 7. (12) Sensible World Of Soccer - 62 pts
- 8. (13) WipEout 2097 - 61 pts
- 9. (9) Napalm - 59 pts
- 10. (6) Knights And Merchants - 53 pts
- 11. (11) Quake - 50 pts
- 12. (14) The Settlers - 49 pts
- 13. (28) SuperFrog - 47 pts
- 14. (33) Shogo - 42 pts
- 15. (34) Stardust / Super Stardust - 35 pts
- 16. (52) Bubble Heroes - 39 pts
- 17. (22) Hired Guns - 31 pts
- 18. (17) Fields Of Battle - 31 pts
- 19. (19) Dune 2 - 29 pts
- 20. (10) Kick Off 2 - 28 pts
The next votes (for September/October 2004) will be started on September.
You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv I: V1.6 published / DKG II-Status
SN-EuroArchiv I V1.6 is available on my homepage. You can now limit all statistics
to one year or month to show only the whole statistic of e.g. August 2004.
This limitation can be also linked with the "free choice gadget" which has been added in the
last version.
DKG II-status: I only have to finish the buying of buildings of competitors.
Then a proper test of the new routines of the real game (and not the debug version)
must be done to see if it is all right. I think during the next seven days
a new release will be published. If you want to know what features have been added in the
new version then have a look at the
status-website.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Website of the GAUHPIL database updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of
Amiga users, ordered by continents and countries. Meanwhile, the
GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL based database solution.
Today, a cosmetic change was done, that should improve the look a lot:
the languages of the homepages are now symbolised by small flags. (snx)
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05.Aug.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Various Software Updates by Thilo Köhler
Thilo Köhler released the following updates to his programs:
- Sample Manager 1.3 - AHI sample editor in the AudioMaster style with DSP effects
- PosTED 1.3 - Memory aid for Workbench in the style of PostIT!
- TuiTED 1.3 Alpha - Text editor with data browser and syntax highlighting for HTML, C++, AmiBlitz
- TKPlayer 1.3 - Mini-AHI-player for mp3, aiff, wav, maud, 8svx, cdda.
ideal for Def-Icons or for a filer on account of the fact that it has no extensive GUI. New: TKPlayer Lite, which doesn't open a GUI at all and therby may be utilized as a soundplayer in programs such as YAM.
- AsteroidsTR 1.2 - Asteroids clone with global Internet highscore List. New: improvements to the Internet highscore list and better compatibility with MorphOS
- ArTKanoid 2.9 - Arkanoid clone for the WB screen w 24 bit skins. New: more sound skins, bugfixes
The named software is available under the title link or on Aminet, after the next Aminet refresh. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Psyria Music Productions (ANF)
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More Amiga Games for Mobile Telephone
Psyria writes: because the subject has come up in today's news I'd also like to mention something.
For those familiar with good old Amiga games, the following two links should be of interest:
Jubble Bobble -
freeware Bubble Bobble for all Siemens Handys with Java
Tower - Nebulus Buy&Play variant (levels may be purchased alongside) for various Handy models
Have fun with the gaming! :) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer for Mobile Telephone
Under the title link you'll find an english language interview with Tower Studios, a firm that was recently founded by Jon Hare (former leader of Sensible Software), Mike Montgomery (former leader of Bitmap Brothers) and John Phillips (former Technical Director of Bitmap Brothers). They want to bring the Amiga game classics Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer to mobile telephone. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf Barthel & Matthias Rustler
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Sourceforge Project for "clib2"
"clib2" is a C library that's used in OS4 wherever the alternative "newlib" is not. Olaf Barthel has worked on this library for two years, originally with the goal of using it for the port of Samba 2.2.5.
In the meantime a lot more has happened:
An almost complete ISO-C (1994) compatible runtime environment with fully available source code. It may be used with GCC (68k und PowerPC) or SAS/C. Whoever has problems with the StormC runtime library, for example, may have better luck with clib2 (assuming an adaptation to this compiler has been made).
Because such a big project is not without bugs after two years, Olaf would be pleased to have the support of more developers. To this end the clib2 project has been hosted on sourceforge.net for the past few weeks. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS Adaptations of MUIFind and Altabber, Devedie Update
The programs Altabber and MUIFind are now also available for MorphOS. Relating to that there have been some recent instances of bugs being eliminated that gave the current MorphOS version problems.
And so the graphic user interface of Devedie for DVD display by way of MPlayer has been updated. This may be downloaded for Pegasoshere , in the Pegasos Forum.
MUIFind is a search program taht has the option of opening the found data as well as opening the corresponding program.
Altabber works in principal like Alt+Tab key combinations under Windows. It also enables switching between programs. The way this is done involves separate handling of screens and windows, and the hotkeys are freely configurable.
Download:
Altabber-MOS.lha (43 KB)
MUIFindMOS_R2.lha (46 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Incriminations against Genesi in connection with the Guardian withdrawn
While reporting about the discontinuation of Pegasos support by the operating system OpenBSD, we also linked to a statement by Mitch B. Parker on the mailinglist OpenBSD-misc. Mr. Parker had worked on the Guardian project together with Dale Rahn and ShopIP.
In the mentioned mailinglist posting, he had accused Genesi of reverse engineering and sabotage with regard to ShopIP's CrunchBox. Under the title link, again on the OpenBSD-misc mailinglist, he has now withdrawn his incriminations as being utterly false. (snx)
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04.Aug.2004
ANN (Website)
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Report from the AmiWest 2004
Warren Katchmar has published a report about the "AmiWest 2004", which was done in Sacramento (California, USA) on July the 24th and 25th, at intuitionbase.com. (cg) (Translation: ub)
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04.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: Beta version of the Free Pascal-Compiler available
Karoly 'Chain-Q' Balogh has provided a first developer snapshot of the MorphOS version of Free Pascal for download at the title link.
The current version has been published mainly for those who like to play around with it - for bigger, serious programming projects this version is not matured enough yet, but this should change quickly.
The Free Pascal compiler for MorphOS is based on the same sources as the current FP-CVS version 1.9.5. Further information about this programming language is to obtain from http://www.freepascal.org. There is also some MorphOS specific information regarding the Free Pascal compiler.
Download: fpc_20040803.lha (2.4 MB) (snx) (Translation: ub)
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03.Aug.2004
Michael Garlich (ANF)
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Papyrus Office: Preordering phase for MorphOS started
Titan Computer has started the preordering phase of Papyrus Office for MorphOS. Those who preorder save 10 Euro.
Please note that you must have a working Turboprint system. If Turboprint does not work properly on your Pegasos, Papyrus will not print correctly either. (snx)
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31.Jul.2004
Amiga.org (website)
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Commodity: Window2Front
Michel 'DMX' Bagmeijer's commodity Window2Front is since today available on Aminet.
Unlike other programs of this kind it doesn't move the windows to the front via mouse click but via keyboard hotkey - which makes the need of rearranging the windows when the wanted one is just now completely covered and not directly accessable via the mouse obsolete. Required are at least Kickstart 2.04 and the commodities.library.
Download: Window2Front.lha (8 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2004
Simon Goodwin (ANF)
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Spam blocker: SpamFryer 3
'SpamFryer' checks the headers of all e-mails in your pop3 account without downloading the whole mail and deletes unsolicited mails directly on the server. For users with broadband Internet access there's an option to check your local mail folders after downloading all mails.
SpamFryer 3 knows more than 100 ways to identify unsolicited e-mails and can be configured by editing ASCII configuration files.
Direct download: SpamFryer.lha (77 KB)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
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AmigaOS 4: Various software updates
Ripple
This is a small graphics effect for your Workbench.
Direct download: ripple.lha (45 KB) (readme)
ELIST
ELIST is an expanded 'List' command that marks executables as 'PPC native ELF binary' or '68k hunk binary'.
Direct download: elistv1.2.lha (54 KB) (readme)
vmpeg
vmpeg is an MPEG movie player with audio support. The author describes this version as "a work in progress, not fully functional yet".
Direct download: vmpeg.lzx (239 KB) (readme)
HTML Tidy
'HTML Tidy' cleans up and fixes HTML code.
Direct download: tidy_os4.lha (494 KB) (readme)
(cg)
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31.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: MLdonkey 2.5.22
MLdonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Currently,
with eDonkey, it supports several large networks, such as Overnet,
Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc.), Gnutella2 (Shareaza),
Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek (beta), Direct-Connect (alpha),
and Opennap (alpha).
Changes for 2.5.22 since 2.5.20:
- Fixed a bug in number of sources computation.
- Major changes in search results management
- 'mem_stats' now takes an argument (0 normal, 1 more details).
- Fixed bug adding unwanted friends
- Added RSS loading via option web_infos (command "rss")
- DonkeyClient: re-implemented indirect connections
- Applied Savannah patches:
#3165 (ipset), #3166 (mozilla height), #3178 (BT compatct). #3184 (hightime)
#3162, #3005 (networks), #3007 (printf2), #3008, #3016 (solaris), #3017
(log),#3023 (telnet), #3024 (log), #3028 (donkey-ip), #3029 (firewalled),
#3030 (log), #3031 (ft users), #3033 (chmod), #3039 (Makefiles), #3046
(telnet), #3065 (misc), #3067 (bsd), #3096 (wincomp), #3100 (force dl),
#3070 (upload), #3120 (html), #3124 (ed2khash)
For a full list of changes read the ChangeLog inside the archive.
The archive can be downloaded from the title link.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
Dirk Best (ANF)
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PDF magazine: APoV (Amiga Point of View) issue 2
'Amiga Point of View' is a retro-gaming magazine distributed as a PDF file. Amongst other things, this issue contains the following things:
- Reviews': Micro Machines, Ishar, Aladdin, The Lion King, Robocop, Liberation CD32, Yogi's Great Escape, PD games
- Articles about Bullfrog, interpreters und Open Source conversions
- Walkthroughs, Hints And Maps for Legend Of Kyrandia, Zak McKracken Part 2, Switchblade Level 2
- Also: News, mini-articles, CAPS, WHDLoad, letters, adverts, back page
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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31.Jul.2004
AMIGAplus editorial staff
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AMIGAplus readers survey 2004 until August 30th, 2004
In the current issue #09/2004 of the AMIGAplus a big readers survey
was started to deliver not only feedback about the AMIGAplus but also give a representative overview of the current used Amiga systems in the market. You can participate in this survey until August, 30th (over than described in the magazine) and win a Kodak digital camera. The editorial staff is pleased about the already high number of participants - thanks to all, also the future participants!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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OpenTTD v0.3.3 for AmigaOS 68k and WOS
Open Transport Tycoon is a clone of the strategy game "Transport Tycoon
Deluxe" by Microprose that comes with numerous improvements and new qualities. Frank Menzel has released the new version 0.3.3 of OpenTDD for AmigaOS 68k and WarpOS (among other things with network support) that can be downloaded using the title link. In addition to this version the original data of the Windows version are required.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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30.Jul.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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USB controller: SPIDER software update
Elbox Computer is proud to announce the availability of a new version of the
spider.device driver for the Poseidon stack for SPIDER and SPIDER II
High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers.
This update is for SPIDER cards running
Amiga OS on Mediator-equipped Amigas or on computers running AmigaOS under
the Amihlon emulation. The new software is available free of charge for all
registered users of SPIDER and SPIDER II High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers.
SPIDER software has been reworked in order to achieve the maximum possible
performance, especially in Amithlon systems.
Spider Features:
- Five USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports: four external and one internal
- 32-bit 33MHz DMA host interface compliant with the PCI 2.2 specification
- Compliant with the EHCI (High-Speed USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1) specifications
- Three independent host controllers: two OHCI and one EHCI
- All ports can handle High-speed (480Mbps), Full-speed (12Mbps) and Low-speed (1.5Mbps) transactions
- Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices
- Supplies 500mA power to each USB port
- Supports the PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
(cg)
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30.Jul.2004
Lars Sobiraj (ANF)
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Update of Jurassic Pack-Homepage
The homepage of one of the last active diskmags of the Amiga-Demoscene
called Jurassic Pack has been updated. To all newer issues
the title pictures and the music tracks are available which can be downloaded seperatly.
Some definite articles can be read online. Support & feedback to Ghandy@diskmag.de. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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29.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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German Translation of Ben Hermans Interview at AmiWest
A German language translation of the Ben Hermans (Hyperion) AmiWest interview was released today, on the Amiga Future homepage. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jul.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Print Magazine: Amiga Future 27 & 28 Complete and Available Online
The editors of Amiga Future decided to offer the first two issues of their magazine online:
Issue 27 (October 2000)
Issue 28 (December 2000) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Keyboard Mapping Editor for MorphOS
KME, the keymap editor, now supports the PC105 standard with the key assignments on MorphOS on the Pegasos. With this all keys may be redefined and personalized keymaps may be created.
Download: KME.lha (621 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Freescale Documentation of the Pegasos System for Linux Developers
On the PowerPC homepage (title link) Freescale has made available resources for Linux development on the PowerPC platform. Here may be found a platform reference to Sandpoint in particular among documents for Pegasos II. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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26.Jul.2004
Computer City (ANF)
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ImageFX Lite for AmigaOS4
Following the release for Genesi's Superbundle, ImageFX Lite is now also available for AmigaOS4 users and will be uploaded to the OS4 Depot shortly. Further information about ImageFX can be found at Nova Design.
Nova Design's European distributor, Computer City, offers an upgrade promotion in this regard: ImageFX Lite users can order the full version of ImageFX 4.5 Studio including free shipping plus a free Pen Tablet drawing board at a special price. Further information about this promotion can be found at the title link. (snx)
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25.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Service CD available
For customers with slow Internet connectivity or the desire to also own a copy of the latest updates on CD, IOSPIRIT is now offering a Service CD.
The CD contains the latest updates patches for fxPAINT 2, fxSCAN 4, VHI Studio 6, IOUSB and additional material (also available for download) for fxPAINT and fxSCAN.
The Service CD is immediately available for 5 EUR (+ P&P). (snx)
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24.Jul.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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Official press release by the MorphOS team
In the last past weeks had the MorphOS team recognized the need to announce official MorphOS related affairs by an official MorphOS representative in a coherent way.
From now on all statements regarding MorphOS are only official and valid when announced and named as such by an official representative of the MorphOS team.
Official MorphOS representatves are:
Ralph Schmidt, Frank Mariak and David Gerber.
Thanks for your attention,
the MorphOS team
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: FlashROM card eFlash 4000 now with 2 MB memory
The Zorro III FlashROM card eFlash 4000 is now available in a new version with 2 MB FlashROM memory. And once again Elbox offers a special sale where many articles of the webshop are delivered worldwide without dispatch costs.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
ANF
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Golem: German court confirmed validity of GPL
As Golem.de reported, has the district court Munich acknowledged the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) as general terms of trade. They say that this would be the worldwide first court decision on the basis of the GPL. Further (German) information regarding this decision can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS4: Video shows native MooVId player in action
The AmigaOS4 beta tester Crisot has created another inofficial video that shows this time the PPC native graphics system in conjunction with the PPC native video player "MooVId" that will be part of the AmigaOS4 release as standard program.
Download: moovidamp.avi (5 MB, DivX codec required)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jul.2004
Martin Wolf (ANF)
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Tales of Tamar at the Games Convention in Leipzig
The company Eternity will be this year at the Games Convention (GC) in Leipzig from August, 19th to 22nd with a small booth and show there Tales of Tamar as PC, Amiga and Mac versions. As special highlight a first view on the almost complete 3D engine will be given.
Furthermore, Eternity will hold every day a speech of appr. 45 minutes length in the GC cinema. Subjects will be next to Tales of Tamar the games development in general.
Within the context of this piece of news it is pointed out that Amiga version now, too, can be played as shareware. To do so every Amiganer just needs to download the game and the latest update and enter the word 'Shareware' as serial when registering. As result you can play some time for free and therefore test the game for three to four weeks before you have to pay for continued playing.
Every gamer of Tales of Tamar who visits the fair and comes to our booth will get registered by us and receive 50 rounds for free.
The Games Convention is for the time being Germany's biggest games fair with around 90,000 visitors.
Tales of Tamar is a round based PBEM fantasy, strategy & role playing game similar to Kaiser or Civilization. The game runs already on an Amiga 1200 with 8 MB RAM and Internet connection. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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23.Jul.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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New website: PNG-Icon-Project
Under the title link a website has been created which is about a collection of
PNG-Icons with search engine. Should you be an author of such pictograms you can make them
available to other users with the help of this site.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jul.2004
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Amiga celebrates 19th anniversary
Exactly 19 years ago, on July 23th, 1985 the first Amiga which is the Amiga 1000
was introduced to publicity in Lincoln Center in New York.
Famous persons like Andy Warhol and Debbie were present and celebrated
the birth of the first multimedia computer of the world.
After one year the European premiere took place in Frankfurt (Main).
Happy Birthday to Amiga!
(sn) (Translation: dr)
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22.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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AutoDocReader Now Also Available in an AmigaOS Version
Up to now it's only been for MorphOS but now the display program AutoDocReader (current version 0.88) is available at version 0.7 also for AmigaOS 3.x (adapted by MiniQ) and AmigaOS4 (adapted by Zerohero). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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21.Jul.2004
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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CD tools: First release of "EpisodeAlbum"
With EpisodeAlbum it is possible to create "episode VCDs" with
only four production steps (each step supports easy and
advanced options).
- Selection of personal settings
- Movie selection and (optional) define texts
- Creation of the CD image
- Burning the CD-R/W
EpisodeAlbum requires an installation of ViCaDo and supports
eight movies maximum as well as up to 500 chapter per CD. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jul.2004
Christian Rosentreter (#amigazeux) (ANF)
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MorphOS: Euph0ria plugin 1.0 for AmiNetRadio, Kaya and AmigaAMP
Euph0ria is a PowerPC native visual plugin for AmiNetradio, Kaya or AmigaAMP which is exclusively available for MorphOS. Besides the usual visualization Euph0ria also features a lot interesting extras like an inbuild Snake game or Overlay fullscreen modes.
Overview about Euph0ria's keyfeatures:
- PowerPC native (MorphOS)
- compatible with with AmigaAMP plugin API
- more than 1800 possible effect combinations
- GUI uses Magic User Interface by Stefan Stuntz
- highly configurable (effect options, task priority, framerate, etc.)
- 3 different fullscreen modes (Overlay and WPA)
- amazing colour sets by cecilia
- addictive inbuild game "Snake" with highscores
- configurable levelmeters
- informative on-screen displays (OSD) for framerate and effects
- it is freeware
Changes since latest public release (0.24):
- 11 new and amazing colour sets by cecilia
- added overlay fullscreenmodes (YUV4.2.2 and RGB16)
- added WPA (WritePixelArray) fullscreenmode
- improved highscore input of the "Snake" game
- new zoom effect: 'Rotating Vortex'
- new waveform: 'Collapsing Planets'
- reworked draw functions (e.g. improved look of connected line mode)
- "Check for update..." points now to the correct/new URL
- effects are trying now to react on music peaks
- initial effects (start effects) are now randomized
- changing framerate while playing snake now also kills the snake (I do not like cheaters ;)
- improved colour set initialization
- toggle menuitems are now working correctly in MUI's embedded menu mode
- a lot smaller improvements and cleanups
A more detailed list of all changes can be found inside the archive. The archive of the new version can be downloaded under the title link or by using the "Check for update..." function inside Euph0ria. (snx)
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21.Jul.2004
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM: Nightly Builds / Webdesigner wanted
As a new service every night at 2:00 CET there will
compilations of the current development status of the email
program YAM be made which are then available at
http://yam.light-speed.de/nightly for
AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS4 and MorphOS.
It is particularly stressed that due to the automatization the
created files are untested completely and thus, do not need to run
stable or run at all. Those files do not include manuals either
and might require system compounds which are unavailable to the
public yet. There is no warranty given, use the files on your own risk!
Errors of those binaries may be reported to the
bug tracker.
When reporting, please point out if you are using an official release or a
nightly build.
Further information is to obtain by the title link.
Additional the YAMOS team is looking for someone who is
interested in supporting this project by contribute some help during
the new YAM homepage creation. The new site will base on a
Wiki engine, more precisely on the Mediawiki framework
which is used at
http://www.wikipedia.org.
Further on the page must work with all common Amiga browsers
and have a unique Amiga look&feel.
The Wiki integration will be done by the YAMOS team,
therefore it is only needed to provide a HTML page which can
be used as basis for the integration. Furthermore graphics are
required also. The new site should replace the current one at
http://www.yam.ch. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jul.2004
ANN (Website)
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Feelin: New object orientated system for AmigaOS
Feelin is a new object orientated system for AmigaOS, which
consists of two compounds: the feelin.library (completely
written in assembler) as kernel and the expandable
system to create graphic user interfaces.
(Screen shot).
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Jul.2004
Jens Schönfeld (e-mail)
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Individual Computers: Technical specifications of the new Catweasel MK4 (Update)
Under the title link you can find some technical specifications of the new Catweasel MK4, which is said to be released by Individual Computers in October 2004 and might be already demonstrated at the AmiWest on July 24/25. Since the complete list of new features is quite long, we are just quoting an extract here:
- The most obvious change is the size of the card: With only 2.5 inch (63.5mm) height, it complies with the low-profile PCI standard.
- Kylwalda built in: While the old Catweasel models always had their own floppy drives that were installed in addition to the existing controller and drives, the MK4 has the option of using the existing diskdrives.
- Suppot for auto-eject drives
- Hard-sectored disks supported
- More flexible read- and write operations
- Extensive timer-functions
- All events can trigger an interrupt
- Improvements on the keyboard interface: In addition to Amiga-keyboards, PS/2 devices can now also be connected. Not only keyboards, but also PS/2 mice are supported.
- Amiga mice supported in hardware
- Every signal can be programmed as output
- Compatible with CD32 pads
- Improvements on the SID audio part: a DC-DC converter eliminates noise and cycle-exact control is possible
- Digiboost for new SID versions: As opposed to the 'classic SID' 6581, the newer SID-chips 8580 and 6582 cannot playback samples any more. This option, which is also called 'the fourth voice', is replaced by two sigma-delta converters on the Catweasel MK4, so the fourth channel is also audible with the newer SID versions.
- Two SIDs for stereo sound
- Compatible with 3.3V and 5V PCI slots
- Two DMA interfaces
- Low power consumption
- Reconfigurable logic: The FPGA on the Catweasel MK4 is completely reconfigurable by the drivers. This means that a hardware update can be done through the Internet.
- Drivers for many operating systems: The Catweasel MK4 is delivered with drivers for Linux, Windows 98(SE)/ME/XP/2000, Amiga OS4, and for Mac OS X at a later date. MorphOS drivers are available for a surcharge.
Update: (15:13, 18.07.04, snx):
In case of a temporary inavailability of the Individual Computers server due to maintenance scheduled for this weekend, there exists an alternative link at http://www.siliconsonic.de. (snx)
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17.Jul.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C course for beginners enhanced
The known Amiga C course for beginners has been enhanced by a lesson about light, colors and pen sharing. Besides that have some notes been added to the lesson about shared libraries.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
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Commodore online museum
Information about various Commodore computers including the Amiga has Thorsten Kuphaldt gathered in his virtual Commodore museum. Not only the computers themselves but e.g. slot cards and single chips got a description.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
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HD installer: WHDLoad 16.3, new packages until July, 17th
WHDLoad is a collection of tools for hard disk installations of older games via so called "Installers". Since yesterday is version 16.3 available.
Direct download:
WHDLoad (users) (599 KB)
WHDLoad (developers) (1.35 MB)
Since we last reported about WHDload some installers have been reworked:
- Improved: "Untouchables" (Ocean) supports one more version, the installer got a complete rework
- Update: "Street Racer" (Epic) access fault removed
- Improved: "Conquests Of The Longbow" (Sierra) supports one more version
- Flink CD³² (Psygnosis) reworked, now uses the Kickstart emulation
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.06 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 4.0,
4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04 and 4.05 of fxSCAN to V4.06 is now available
for download to registered customers. Changes include a fix for some rare problems with PDF-export. A detailed list of changes can be found in the update archive. fxSCAN 4 is currently available at a special price. (snx)
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17.Jul.2004
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Interview: The developers are bad, not PHP
»Zend founder Zeev Suraski in talks with Golem.de
The Israeli company Zend is responsible for the core of the free script language PHP that has been released recently in version 5 and offers commercial products for PHP. PHP 5 comes with many new functions that are partly due to the reworked object support of the Zend Engine II. Golem.de talked to Zend founder Zeev Suraski about the new possibilities but also about limitations of PHP.«
The complete (German) interview can be found here. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
Aminet
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File system: version 1.227 of SFS on Aminet
On the Aminet has the beta version 1.227 (268 KB) of the Smart Filesystem been released (readme file). Required are at least AmigaOS 3.0 and a 68020 processor.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jul.2004
ANN (website)
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Titan Computer: English Papyrus website now online
The product page for the MorphOS and AmigaOS versions of the office package Papyrus is now available in English, too.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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