15.May.2003
Thomas Würgler (E-Mail)
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Pagan Games Puts New AmigaAnywhere Game in Planning
Thomas Würgler of Pagan Games writes:
As some of you have probably noticed, the Amiga Game Pack #2 has now been
released into retail stores - name CompUSA. Obviously this is a big step
towards true financial viability of Amiga Anywhere projects, which again
helps fund AmigaOS projects.
We are getting closer to finalizing another project for Amiga Anywhere,
and look forward to getting it to a state where we can show it to you.
Besides that we are still working hard on our Dreamcast shoot 'em up
project, and we can't wait to show you what we've got in the works.
Hopefully we'll be able to show some of it off before summer.
This was just a quick update, which will be followed a more thorough one,
when we have more to share - hopefully in the near future. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
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RIAA Withdraws Warning to amiga-scene.org
The RIAA had to withdraw their warnings to Internet sites.
In numerous instances the US-American music industry corporate group RIAA (Recording Industry Association of
America) had sent warnings against administrators of Web and FTP servers who offered MP3 data on their systems. Along with
that these administrators were notified through targetless RIAA scans of their servers who of their users made free music available.
The Demo Scene server amigascene.org was hit by this step, and was excused in a form letter that said they had offered "about 0
Music data for download." After this action became known, the RIAA now has withdrawn the warnings to falsely hit Internet sites. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Rage Hard (Website)
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Rage Hard Website with New Information
The official website of the 3D Ego Shooter Rage Hard, which is also offered for MorphOS, has been moved and expanded. In the download area
a few wallpapers are now to be found, in various resolutions. Likewise, new backgrounds as well as related new models have been placed in
the Home, Characters, and Concepts areas. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
CD32-Allianz (Website)
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CD32 Outside Shelved
After five issues the publication of the digital magazine CD32 Outside has been suspended. This decision was made in order to free up the resources of the team for more important stuff. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough time to create, publish, and do advertising and marketing for further issues.
[In the following long German text, chief editor Thorsten Schölzel offers thanks from the CD32 team to a lot of people. He talks about webdesign, some games, and Commodore politics which no-one understands. He invites readers to www.cd32-allianz.de, and says emails are welcome. -DM]
Das Team von CD32 Outside möchte sich bei allen Personen bedanken,
die ihm bei der Erstellung der CD³²Outside geholfen und mit
Material und Informationen versorgt haben. Besonders hervorheben
muss man sicherlich Werner Bittl und Henning Schlautmann.
Nun können Sie sich das geplante Editorial der 6. Ausgabe durchlesen:
"Endlich haben wir es geschafft, denn mit dieser Ausgabe der CD32Outside erscheinen wir in einem neuen Format und neuem Design. Bei uns ist Fortschritt angesagt, wir machen uns frei von Altlasten, leider auf Kosten der User von den Browsern; Aweb, IBrowse und Voyager, die allesamt nicht das im Internet weit verbreitete und für professionelles Design unabdingbaren "CSS" Cascading Style Sheets unterstützt.
Für diese User wird es in Zukunft heissen, bei den Herstellern der Browser um eine Unterstützung von CSS zu beten oder Browser wie; Internet Explorer, Netscape oder Opera über eine Emulation bzw. andere Betriebssysteme zu nutzen.
In dieser Ausgabe widmen wir uns einem Gedankenanstoss von Christian Effenberger zur Weiterentwicklung des damals von Commodore eingeführten CDXL-Format. Dabei erklärt er ausführlich was und wie geändert bzw. neu entwickelt werden muss. Seit 1996 ruft Herr Effenberger dazu auf, ihm bei der Entwicklung zu helfen, seither aber null Resonanz. Explizit wird nach einem Programmierer gesucht, der Erfahrung in C/C++ und ASM vorweisen kann und sich zusätzlich mit IO-Streams auskennt.
Bei Interesse kontaktiert uns, wir leiten dann alles an Herrn Effenberger weiter.
Neben Microcosm das DAS Spiel auf dem CD32 ist, gibt es noch weitere Spitzengames auf unserer Daddelkiste, eines davon ist Rise of the Robots. Wer hätte damals geglaubt das es wirklich für unser CD32 erscheinen würde, bei der voll animierten Spitzengrafik. Heuzutage würde man diekt sagen, das sich sowas nicht umsetzen liesse. Rise of the Robots kann man mit dem vor einigen Jahren für AMIGA Computer erschienene Spiel Olofight vergleichen, allerdings würde Rise of the Robots im direkten Vergleich immer noch um längen die Nase vorn haben. Wir stellen Ihnen dieses geniale Spiel in einem MEGA-Review vor.
Für Tuningfreaks gibt es zwei ganz besondere Leckerbissen, wir stellen Ihnen das Commodore FMV-Modul und den Prototyp des Commodore Gamesystem030 vor. Leider liess die finanzielle Situation von Commodore keine grössere Produktion des FMV(FullMotionVideo)-Moduls zu uns so wurden nach den uns vorligenden Informationen nur 1000 Stück produziert, wer also eins besitzt, kann wahrlich stolz darauf sein. DCE Computer wollte vor Jahren das FMV-Modul neu auflegen, allerdings gab es Probleme mit dem FlashROM. Der Ton wurde nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr synchron mit dem Video abgespielt, somit blieb es bei Prototypen. Ich konnte mich damals selber von der Existenz dieser Prototypen überzeugen, ein selbiges sogar als Andenken mit nach Hause nehmen. Ein Bild von der Platine findet Ihr in dem Bericht zu dem FMV-Modul. Desweiteren wurden mir jede Menge unbestückte Spellbound(CD32)- und FMV-Modul Motherboards gezeigt. Zum Gamesystem030 bleibt zu sagen, warum Commodore nicht diekt auf diesen Prozessor oder gar auf den Motorola 68040 gesetzt hat, bleibt bis heute ungeklärt. Was uns bleibt sind mutmassungen, z.B. das Commodore durch den Bau des AMIGA1200 noch eine reichhaltige Anzahl von Motorola 68020 Prozessoren auf Lager hatte. Der 68040 Prozessor deshalb nicht genutzt worden ist, weil er zum einen zu teuer gewsesen wäre und man unbedingt bei dem CD32 auf einen günstigen Preis achten wollte, das könnte auch das fehlen wichtiger Teile wie dem RGB-Ausgang deuten und zum anderen weil Commodore nur wenige Prozessoren dieser Sorte besass, die man ausschliesslich für den AMIGA4000-T nutzen wollte. Unser eins wird die Commodore Politik wohl nie verstehen!
Als letztes möchten wir auf unsere neue Internetpräsenz unter www.cd32-allianz.de aufmerksam machen und danken Matthias Münch der dies erst ermöglicht hat. Ich möchte Ihnen nun viel Spass mit der neuen Ausgabe wünschen und würde mich freuen, hin und wieder mal ein paar Leserbriefe von Ihnen zu bekommen.
In diesem Sinne,
Thorsten Schölzel" (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Arstechnica (ANF)
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Arstechnica: PPC 970 Part II
Under the title link you'll read a report about the PowerPC 970, which is being assembled by an especially Intel-centric CPU specialist. Despite
or because of its length of 11,000 words, this work is a mandatory lecture for PowerPC afficionados. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.May.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: SCO Now Wishes to Proceed Against Linux Users
"Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, or at least SCO charges that; in their view Linux infringes on their Unix copyrights. Accordingly
commercial Linux users are going to have to reckon with this, because their use of Linux may be made liable. As a consequence of this
legally unclear situation SCO has ceased their own selling of Linux."
Read the complete article at Golem IT-News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.May.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: 'Layouter' full version
In cooperation and with the okay by Marius Schwarz the Amiga Arena offers a free release of the software "Layouter" for the first time.
With the program "Layouter" it is possible to layout and print your own books and fanzines.
"Layouter" covers the part to process texts, creating paragraphs for pictures and titles to print a fanzine correctly for example.
Layouter does all the work a commo text processoer can't handle sufficient.
To say it in a simple manner: You bring in the text to print and the graphics and "Layouter" creates an impressing book or magazine from that.
Another big advantage of "Layouter" is its speed for printing a book.
A detailed manual and some example projects are included within the archive. For further assistance or suggestions the developer
Marius Schwarz might be contacted.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.May.2003
Fabio Trotta (ANF)
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Apple compatible PPC computers by Core
Name CoreCrib and CoreBox the company Core offers
Apple compatible PPC computers. These offer the same technical specs like the current high end Macs but are less expensive. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Amiga Show - Maarssen, The Netherlands on June the 28th 2003
As reported earlier the Dutch Commodore Club HCC hosts an Amiga Show in Maarssen on June the 28th 2003.
Computer City will demonstrate the AmigaOne and sell soft- and hardware. Genesi
will demonstrate the PPC computer Pegasos with the operating system MorphOS and shows the VideoMicroWave as well as a prototype of a set top box. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 14.05.2003
Here the latest Aminet uploads which were added since our last message:
SpanienSS.lha docs/hyper 98K+SpanienSS guide history of some spanish
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 31K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Islife.jpg pix/art 19K+Amiga is live
(ps)
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14.May.2003
VWP Newsletter
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VWP: New Webboard online
After the old webboard was available in German only, now a new one
is online. It supports different languages and can be reached like
the old one: simply by using the "Webboard"-link on the left side
of the page at VirtualWorlds.de.
The only disadvantage of it: formerly registered user have to
register again because their data could not be transferred. But
writing as guest is possible in the new webboard too.
(ps)
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14.May.2003
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Online Photos of the Mirage 1200-based Amiga
The Elbox Support Website has now photos presenting how the new
Mirage 1200 tower may be used to house a really well-expanded
Amiga 1200-based system (title link).
The Amiga in view is fitted with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX busboard and
Blizzard PPC 240/060/50, a Voodoo 3 graphic card, a PixelView TV Pro card,
a Terratec 512i digital sound card, a Spider II USB 2.0 5-port controller,
a FastEthernet 100Mb/s network card, a FastATA 1200 EIDE controller,
a Samsung 80GB HDD, a 52x CD-ROM, a 40x12x40x CD-RW, an LS-120 drive,
an All-in-One USB 2.0 Flash card reader, a Logitech USB mouse and
a A3000 keyboard.
(ps)
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14.May.2003
GetBoinged (ANF)
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GetBoinged Review: Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2
Please find the review about the Amiga Games Pocket Pak #2 under the
title link. (ps)
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13.May.2003
Newsletter von Cinemaware (ANF)
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Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown 2 on 3rd quarter 2003
According to the newsletter of Cinemaware DotC2 has nearly finished.
Because of this some new screenshots has put up online (a trailer and further information
are also available). It should first be published for PC and PS2.
Disk images of all older versions (C64, Amiga, Amstrad, PC...) are now
available again.
Here is the original newsletter:
Hey Cinemaware fans!
I know things have been quiet for a while from your ol' pal Amber over
at Cinemaware, but we've just been preparing to take the lid off some
really exciting news!
How exciting, you ask? Well, after months of patient waiting, I can
finally reveal to our fans who will be publishing Robin Hood: Defender
of the Crown. Cinemaware is proud to be partnering with Capcom
Entertainment to bring Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown to living
rooms across everywhere!
I can't tell you all how happy we all are to be working with one of
the premier publishers in the world to bring Defender of the Crown
back to the fans. And I want to give special thanks to you fans out
there who have been waiting for this day -- we couldn't have done
it without your support!
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown will be launching in North America
in the third quarter of 2003! Head on over to the this news story to
get the full scoop! The exciting news is already starting to hit the
web, though. Check out this story over at GameSpot!
If any of you happen to make it to E3 (the Electronic Entertainment
Expo) this week in Los Angeles, drop by the Capcom booth and say hello!
We'll be showing the game at two kiosks, so come on by and give it a
whirl. If you can't make it to the show, keep an eye on online news,
as there's sure to be a lot of hands-on impressions from the show
floor.
But until then, we've put up a big batch of brand new screens from the
game. Go take a gander at the Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown Product
Page.
Lastly, to celebrate this exciting news, we've once again made disk
images of all version of the original Defender of the Crown available
for download! This includes all versions of the original classic from
Amiga to Amstrad! Head over to the Defender of the Crown vault to get
your hands on 'em!
That's it for this newsletter, but I'll be back soon to update you all
on the exact date for Robin Hood's release!
All the best,
Amber :D
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2003
Virus Hewlp Denmark (ANF)
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Virus Help: New update of xvs.library
A new update of the "xvs.library' (xvs.library - The eXternal Virus
Scanner Library) has been updated today, and can be found at the
"Virus Help Team's websites". Remember, if you use the antivirus
programs like ec. VirusZ, VirusExecuter, VirusChecker, Mill this
update of XVS is a MUST for you.
Info about the new update:
Name: xvs.library v33.40
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 93,637 bytes
Release date: 13 May 2003
Programmer: Georg Hoermann
News is v33.40: (Size: 61,912 bytes)
- Added file recognition for some very old installer programs of the
following bootblock viruses: Blizzard, CLI-Manager, SystemZ 5.0
and SystemZ 6.4. Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for sending the files.
- Added special recognition for "Zeeball AV-Testfile" from Zeeball's
antivirus test archive.
- Changed several often-used CacheClearU() calls to CacheClearE()
for better performance on JIT 68k emulated systems (file analysis
and repair code for polymorphic linkviruses have not been changed,
as these only get called if some patterns match first). Thanks to
Harry Sintonen for the hint.
- Fixed bug in xvsCheckFile() that accessed two bytes following the
actual file buffer under certain circumstances. Thanks must go to
Mikolaj Calusinski for the report and for beta-testing.
- Did some compatibility fixes for Pegasos/MorphOS systems. Thanks
again to Harry Sintonen for the report and for beta-testing.
- Replaced old installer script with an updated version written once
again by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks!
BTW: Georg Hoerman will change his email in the near future, his new email
is ghoermann@gmx.de.
Kind regards...
Virus Help Team DK, NL & CAN
Jan, Denmark
Alex, Holland
Charlene, Canada
(ps)
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13.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #035
The Amiga music scene group called 'Liquid Skies' has published a new music file again.
This time it consists of a mp3 tune by Psycho. It has a length of 6:07 and was created
with an Amiga.
The cover to the title "When The Beast Found His Angle" was created by Angeldust.
As usually you can download the tune from the Liquid Skies homepage.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2003
Carles "Doraemon" Bernardez (ANF)
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CatCon 2k3 Photos
Carles Bernardez writes:
Under the title link you can see a small photo album of
the CatCon 2k3. The results and the releases of the
competitons will be released soon on Aminet.
You can see some Pegasos, AmigaOne, and AmigaOne XE on
the photos, and of course a lot of Amigans. Thx to all
that makes the dream possible another year, specially to
bbrv, Eyetech, Amiga Superbit, Amiga Rulez Magazine, and
all the Amigans that all the years come to our event.
For more information contact
catconparty@yahoo.es. (ps)
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13.May.2003
Various websites
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Several Software Updates until 13.05.2003
Diverse ports
(incl. Descent2 test version) by Nagy Lajos
New software:
- libpng-1.2.5 (png developer lib)
- SDL_mixer and SDL_gfx (SDL extensions)
- sed-4.0.7 (gg tool)
- unace-1.2 (ace file decruncher)
- htdump (web page downloader)
- flite (text to speech engine)
- toppler (Nebulus alike game)
- 1st Descent2 port to test!
- Digger (port of old DOS game)
Amigan Software
Worm Wars version 7.42 and Saga version 1.25 have been published.
WHDLoad - New packets until 13.05.2003
- 13.05.03 improved: Silkworm (Sales Curve) some fixes
- 12.05.03 new: Microprose Golf (Microprose) done by JOTDx
- 12.05.03 fixed: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) install script corrected
- 10.05.03 new: Mission Elevator (Micropartner) done by Asman
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.May.2003
Dany Thinnes (ANF)
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Cost control software for not DSL users: TH-Verbindung V1.1
TH-Verbindung version 1.1 is aimed for surfers who don't have a flatrate or do only a little surfing. It is possible to set up different charges for a main and rest time as well as for a log-in charge. Weekends and bank holidays will not be forgotten too.
From the program itself Miami can be launched, the connection be established and aborted. The costs ammounted so far will be shown in Euro. The sum of the surfed minutes so far is listed as well as the current state of the connection and the connection speed.
The program has been written and tested with a DraCo 060 running AmigaOS 3.9.
Autor: Dany Thinnes - Dany@TH-Home.de
Download: home-thverbindung.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.May.2003
GFX-BASE (Website)
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GFX-BASE: Quake 2 - Amiga version review
Alexandre Balaban describes his impressions of the Amiga version of
Quake 2 in the English-language Review. Starting with the installation
and the hardware requirements he walks through the history of Quake and
his first play, and his personal results finishes the article.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Pixload Version 4 beta 1 Preview
In the current beta version 1 of the start menu Pixload 4 were
the following new features added.
- Drag & Drop of picture dirs opens a thumbnail tool
- New formats: TIFF and TARGA via datatypes
- Control border for MiamiDX integrated
- New program startup splashscreen
- Clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- Some bugfixes
- Pixload is now scalable
- Pixload is able to open drawers instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organisation per Drag & Drop
- Number of rows of icons can be changed
If you have suggestions, ideas or desires, please feel free to send them to Pixel Art by E-Mail (pixelart@wanadoo.fr) in English
or French. (nba) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
BBOAH Website
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The Big Book Of Amiga Hardware - Update of 12.05.2003
The 'Big Book Of Amiga hardware' is probably the largest on-line
manual for Amiga hardware. Ian Chapman extended and updated the
documentation in many subranges.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 12.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
HollywoodPromo.lha biz/demo 8.7M 0 High quality Hollywood screenshots
newscoaster.lha comm/news 425K 0 NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.56) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 188K 0 NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.56 - 10 May 2003)
YAM-Logo.lha comm/yam 49K 0 YAM 2.4 Logo by Chris, The Highlander
JulietCaseCCCP.lha demo/aga 539K 0 CCCP, by Juliet and Case - file version
IRS-EC46.lha demo/mag 2.0M 0 The Official Eurochart #46 by IRIS
ABasiC_patch.lha dev/basic 17K 0 Patch Metacomco's ABasiC to work on OS 2.0+
ABasiC_progs.lha dev/basic 382K 0 Collection of ABasiC games and programs
pmDevBas.lha dev/basic 132K 0 Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic
Window.lha dev/src 7K 0 Attach CON: to existing window on Kickstart 1.x
diskimage.lha disk/misc 79K 0 Mount any disk image file as a DOS device
dynAMIte.lha game/2play 2.0M 0 Internet (only) Bomberman/Dynablaster-Clone
DroidWars4.lha game/actio 163K 0 Droids fighting in an arena.
AS-Hemp.lha game/data 567K 0 Cardset for AS-..... compatible games
digger-68k.lha game/misc 258K 0 Digger - the SDL version of old DOS game!
2Decide.lha game/think 453K 0 2D strategy game supporting themes.
stv_1-0.lha gfx/board 50K 0 TV card software for Mediator systems
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 31K 0 Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
imdbDiff030502.lha misc/imdb 2.9M 0 Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
1st16.lha mods/blkha 2.7M 0 First 16bit DBM by blakkhar
bengbum.lha mods/blkha 41K 0 Techno PT mod by blakkhar
bengbum2.lha mods/blkha 160K 0 Techno PT mod by blakkhar
fs.lha mods/blkha 137K 0 Hardcore DBP mod by blakkhar
GM_Rip_Edition.lha mods/blkha 221K 0 Techno DBM by blakkhar
RutgerH.lha mods/blkha 389K 0 Rutger H.dedicated DBM by blakkhar
schranzibelrmx.lha mods/blkha 1.1M 0 Remix DBM by blakkhar
transplantanr.lha mus/play 42K 0 Transplant skin for AmiNetRadio
Haymigga_I.jpg pix/wb 257K 0 Haymigga`s Red & Blue Mania WB Screenshot
japanese-wb2.jpg pix/wb 119K 0 Japanese support on amiga
_Dani_-WB-10.jpg pix/wb 202K 0 Amiga Workbench Screenshot 1024x768x24
Asciiconverter.lha util/conv 44K 0 Change ASCII code in files.
NewHomer.lha util/misc 113K 0 Talkin' Homer V1.87b (guide fixed, better iconific
NoLed.lha util/misc 2K 0 Low-Pass Filter Killer
WRip_26.lha util/misc 45K 0 Rips various pack-formats from Disk/File
SnoopDos.lha util/moni 136K 0 SnoopDos 3.8, the well known system monitor
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 256K 0 SnoopDos 3.8 sources
mouseshell10.lha util/rexx 1K 0 Opens Shell window under mouse pointer
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
morphos-news.de
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CeBIT Australia 2003 Photos
At the title link and at Pegasos.com.au you
find pictures of the CeBIT Australia 2003, which took
place in the second May week in Sydney.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.May.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Quantum Leap: Report of the 'Webb.it' with OS4-Screenshots
At the title link an Italian language report of the Italian IT
fair "Webb.it" is to be found, which took place past weekend in
Padova. The Italian AmigaOne Distributor VirtualWorks presented there
an AmigaOne XE as well as OS4-Module (still as 68k Binaries).
On the OS4-Screenshots both already well-known OS4 parts
(MediaToolbox, new system menus) in newer versions is to be seen as well as modules that have not been shown yet. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.May.2003
Ettensberger Martin (ANF)
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Pictures of new Amiga G4 at AmigaClub Augsburg
Recently the first new AmigaOne G4 computers have arrived at the AmigaClub Augsburg. Photos of yesterday's meeting can be seen under this link
on the homepage.
The homepage will be overhauled in the next couple of days and several pictures from unpacking through assembling and running of the computer will be uploaded. You can find new background pictures under this
link.
AmigaClub Augsburg wishes you a nice Sunday :)
AmigaClubAugsburg.de
augusta.de/~ramses
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11.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Morph-box Version 1.0
Today the final version 1.0 of Carsten Siegner's program "Morph-box" for MorphOS has been released. This is fully functioning with clickable buttons and also includes a prefs editor. Morph-box is a toolbar for MorphOS which is able to launch MorphOS native and 68k programs.
This program is MorphOS native and thus only runs on the Pegasos computer. Furthermore it requires the PNG datatype.
Installation: Copy guigfx.library.elf (N.B.: this is the MOS version, so
don't take the version from the powerlibs.lzx directory!) to the directory "Sys:MorphOS/Libs". Furthermore the powerlibs.lzx archive from Carsten Siegner's homepage is required. This is located in the "Videokonverter" subdirectory (unpack the archive and copy to Sys:Libs directory).
The archive contains a small readme file explaining the few functions. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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11.May.2003
x (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 9
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 9 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ssolie: How does Amiga Inc. plan to limit and control the myriad hardware options. More specifically, if I purchase a "supported" graphics card for AmigaOS 4.0, what will that mean exactly? And what of "unsupported" hardware?
Fleecy: As has already started with the AmigaOne, we will select and certify hardware. This will allow us to drive the AmigaOS in certain directions whilst also ensuring that there are official solutions that dealers, integrators and customers can purchase safe in the knowledge that there will be official drivers for them. The problem with supporting hardware subsystems and peripherals is that the manufacturers only create control software
for the larger markets (Windows, Apple etc) and most are loath to even release their internal datasheets for fear of revealing and losing IP. We thus have to negotiate with these companies and prove to them a market exists (and then usually pay to create the control software).
A good workaround solution can be seen in the SciTech solution that has been licenced. A very broad set of graphics-cards will be usuable with OS 4.0 in 2D thanks to their SNAP technology (over 182 chipsets are now supported and the list keeps growing). 3D support however is quite a different matter. Currently we will support the Voodoo 3/4/5 and the Radeon 8500/9000. We believe this will change when we are able to demonstrate the AG2 3D system however as the OEMs will see that we are deadly serious in being a graphics platform of excellence.
The existing AmigaOne users have created various web resources where they are sharing their experiences of both setting up their machines and the results they are having with various components. I would urge anyone considering the purchase of a board to peruse these sites for the valuable information they contain.
In summary, I would advise customers either to buy from integrators to ensure certified components are used or else wait for the new Amiga Power Platform website to go live and consider the certified hardware list when it is made available. Be made the mistake of trying to support too many different solutions and ended up wasting valuable resources expanding the platform horizontally instead of vertically; we will not make the same mistake.
2) rayt: Will the coupons be delivered before OS4/csppc is finished so that we can get $50 rebate immediately after it is released?
Fleecy: We have had a lot of issues with creating a valid solution for the 'vouchers', mainly in terms of validation and acceptance by dealers. Given that an AmigaOne is a certified piece of hardware that comes with an AmigaOS4.0 OEM CD bundle and that the CSPPC AmigaOS4.0 product is a shrinkwrap, AmigaOS4.0 is the common factor and so we are considering either placing the voucher within the AmigaOS product package itself (perhaps as part of the registration card) or using the unique serial number of each AmigaOS4.0 instance via a web interface. This would also work with those who have purchased multiple rebate products because they have to have an AmiPASS and so we can apply their multiple rebates against a single purchase. The entire scheme will be published before AmigaOS4.0 is released and we will validate the rebate database by emailing everyone to make sure all the details are correct. I urge anyone who believes they have a rebate to check out their AmiPASS account and ensure the details are correct.
3) jono: Do you know if there is any intention to provide/supply any SQL based server or SQL clients that can access existing SQL Servers such as MySQL, Oracle, (dare I say it) M$ SQL Server?
Fleecy: There is at least one third party company already working hard on a full network capable relational database for the AmigaOS4.0. A standard SQL client is a good idea and I will consider that either for AmigaOS4.0 or for a future release.
4) IonMane: From my research, many developers do not seem to understand the potential power of Amiga Anywhere\DE.How do you plan to raise awareness and educate this segment of the industry to DE's REAL potential?
Fleecy: Early on we heavily evangelised the potential of the AmigaDE, got a lot of interest going and had developers signing up in droves. However, the potential failed to turn into reality, largely because the market was not ready for the product. Our mistake was to fail to realise that the OEMs themselves were not ready to take advantage of what we had, either because they had not entered the appropriate markets yet or because the products were too expensive (as in the case of Smartphones) or too underpowered (as in the case of the Palm PDA). The market was still in the first stage of technology, where innovators co-exist with early adopters. It is only in the last six months that the market has become a second stage market, where maturation brings in the big OEMs whose economies of scale can bring the price down and performance up.
Microsoft, as one of the key drivers of these markets realised the potential of the AmigaDE over a year ago but even working with them and their huge marketing muscle, it has taken this long to get AmigaDE derivatives such as Amiga Anywhere to market. Thankfully, the momentum that has built up is now accelerating customer enquiries and we hope to finally be able to deliver to developers on the potental we evangelised. This in itself will raise awareness of both the product and the opportunity but we are also working with these customers to do cross and joint marketing in several arenas, in both trade and consumer channels.
5) ssolie: Since you are not keen on Samba, what kinds of Samba-like solutions (e.g. file & printer sharing) are you proposing?
Fleecy: It's not that I'm not keen on Samba as a concept, just as an implementation, especially as it is difficult to implement well within the Amiga system architecture. There is a SAMBA solution supported by such Amiga notables as Olaf Barthel and Chris Hertel (amongst others) and it will most likely be included in the AmigaOS4.0 contributions drawer.
What AmigaOS4 users obviously want is the ability to network their Amiga to a heterogenous network, most likely one heavily featuring Windows or Linux PCs and then be able to share resources, mostly files, peripherals such as printers and network connections. The more they can use their Amiga, the more it will be used - for example accessing an MP3 collection on their Windows PC; they obviously don't want to copy it to their Amiga and have two copies of it.
Be assured that this is a high priority and that despite our misgivings, we may integrate SAMBA. All I was stating was that it does not currently seem to be a solution that we are happy with.
6) ssolie: AmigaDE and AmigaOS seem completely different yet you say they will slowly be merged together into a hardware agnostic system. What does that mean for the user? Hypothetically, how will I be able to take my copy of PageStream and run it on my cell phone via Bluetooth?
Fleecy: The AmigaDE is a set of technologies for creating content centric derivative products. In particular it is focused on the individual piece of content, specifically in making that piece of content both high performance/low resource and portable across device classes. The AmigaOS is a complete computing platform. In merging them, the AmigaOS will immediately gain from access to that content which can scale to the desktop. However that is at a product level. There will also be a more profound development of the AmigaOS through the AG2 project that will see a conceptual merging of the ideas behind both. I can't say much more at this time.
7) GregS: I have heard mentioned the A2 project but have not seen any details would you be so kind to make a summary of the main differences between A1 and A2.
Fleecy: AG1 refers to all hardware and software upto the AmigaOS3 family (the last revision being AmigaOS3.9). Some of this will continue into AmigaOS4. AG1 is technology that has its roots in the excellent system architecture and implementation that can be traced all the way back to 1984. However that was written in the context of a specific set of requirements and within a wider domain of current technologies.
Twenty years on the world has changed dramatically in many areas whilst remaining the same in others. The AG2 project is about reviewing the AmigaOS in all its domains, both internally and in its external relationships. There are new customers, new roles, new technologies, new requirements, new scopes, new products, new opportunities and new restrictions. AG2 will see the development of a technology set that can be used in derivative products, whether AmigaOS for the desktop, AmigaOS for the server, AmigaOS for the STB or whatever. Don't expect to see AG2 technology in AmigaOS4.0 but from AmigaOS4.1 onwards, you will start to see the AmigaOS transformed into something that we hope will once again set the marker for all others.
8) IonMane: As I understand it OS5 will be 64 bit, Is Amiga Inc considering the IBM 970, with its 32bit and 64 bit support,for this role in current or future AmigaOne systems?
Fleecy: 64 bit is the natural development path and given its necessity for a decent implementation of orthogonal persistence, one of our targets, I would expect to see 64 bit implementations sooner rather than later.
9) DaveP: I have a question ( everyone groans ). How long after the release of AOS4 will we have to wait for a version of Intent that works with it?
Fleecy: We have always targeted it for AmigaOS4.2. Given that we want to have a release gap of between 6-12 months once AmigaOS4.0 has shipped, that should be around about Christmas 2004. However, we may move it forwards to AmigaOS4.1. It depends on quite a few issues that I can't go into right now.
10) IonMane: There has been a lot of questions around from those that have coupons and other Amiga Inc promoted discounts.Could you please tell these people how to claim these discounts and Coupons...and even if they need a coupon to claim the discount.
Fleecy: I have answered this in question 2
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=10
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba)
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11.May.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: New WinUAE Version 0.8.22 R 7 (WIP) announced
Probably end of May 2003 a new version of Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows will be released. Currently WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 is in the works.
This version will contain the following changes and improvements:
Bugs fixed:
- printer didn't work if serial port emulation was enabled
- palette wasn't updated properly when entering and exiting
the GUI in fullscreen 8-bit Picasso96 mode
- button or key mapped to mouse horizontal or vertical axis
- right/middle button data register emulation update (Sound of Silents)
- random crash when horizontal centering was enabled
- bsdsocket emulation, AmTelnet connection freeze
- config save crash/non working keyboard when MS SideWinder
Virtual Keyboard is installed
New features:
- emulation compatibility improvements
Elfmania, Rainbow Island (broke accidentally in R6),
Mission Elevator (properly fixed this time...),
Old Timer, Sargon History, TBL demos etc.
- analog joystick (paddle) ports emulated
- improved hard/ZIP disk RDB detection
- Action Replay 2/3 state file support
- sound "power led" filter emulation
- freely selectable sound sample rate (8000 - 48000)
- "direct" serial port support, fixes PC to PC Lotus 2
serial link problems. (two player only, 3 or 4 players
require lower serial latency that is not possible under
Windows)
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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11.May.2003
VMC (Website)
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LowLevel Gameport Driver v41.19 for Amithlon
Guido Mersmann has created a new version of his lowlevel.library
for Amithlon, in which some more bugs have been fixed. A small tool enables the activation of the Sound Blaster Game Port. The new software can be downloaded from the "Amithlon Software Updates" page. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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10.May.2003
YAM (ANF)
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Virus spam mails sent from faked Amiga.com account
According to several messages are for the time mass spam emails being sent from a faked Amiga.com account containing a Windows virus. Should you receive an unexpected email from the sender gary@amiga.com or michael@amiga.com and use Windows as operating system please handle this email carefully.
Supplement (11.05.2003, 1:35, nba): Word "rumors" replaced by "messages".
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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10.May.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga
users that is sorted geographically according to continents and
countries. Today the following areas have been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
(nba)
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10.May.2003
Patrick Henz (email)
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Digital album "Argentina" version 1.5
The digital album "Argentina" is a huge collection which shows the
most interesting and beautiful places of Brasil. It can be used on
all computer platforms and beside that on many DVD players which
feature the Kodak PictureCD (JPG) format.
- Buenos Aires / Buenos Aires ... 122
- Buenos Aires / San Isidro ... 002
- Buenos Aires / Tigre ... 006
- Cordoba / Cordoba ... 033
- Cordoba / Cosquin ... 006
- Cordoba / La Falda ... 011
- Cordoba / Sierra ... 025
- Cordoba / Villa Carlos Paz ... 013
Beside the photo archive the CD-ROM includes the digital postcard system
to send postcards over the Internet and a webpage with interesting links
to the different places. Price: 8 Euro.
(nba)
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10.May.2003
Grasshopper LLC (email)
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PageStream price action until May, 16th 2003
Grasshopper LLC, developer of the DTP application PageStream, wrote:
We have been inundated with requests to continue to offer our discounted
price for PageStream full copies and upgrades. Of course who can blame
them! Paying less than 1/3 retail for a powerful desktop publishing
program like PageStream, not to mention discounts across the board on
upgrades sure does help the pocket book. For those new customers who have
joined the PageStream crowd, welcome aboard! However, all good things must
come to an end! After May 16th, PageStream's pricing returns to our normal
great price!
New Web Site In Development
We have decided to take it upon ourselves to make a radical redesign of
the GrasshopperLLC web site. Our basic design goals are to make it easy
for new customers to learn about PageStream's features, samples, how it
compares to others, and of course how to buy it. We hope to provide near
instant download access to new purchases. For existing PageStream users,
it should be easy to find answers to common questions, new scripts and
templates, and more. We have set up a survey on our web site asking for
input on what you would like to see on our website, and to tell us about
your favorite sites. The survey can be found at www.grasshopperllc.com.
Suggestions and any other help you can offer can also be directed at
sales@grasshopperllc.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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10.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 10.05.2003
Here are the new added Aminet uploads since our last message:
ABasiC_progs.lha dev/basic 382K+Collection of ABasiC games and programs
AS-Hemp.lha game/data 567K+Cardset for AS-..... compatible games
transplantanr.lha mus/play 42K+Transplant skin for AmiNetRadio
Haymigga_I.jpg pix/wb 257K+Haymigga`s Red & Blue Mania WB Screensho
japanese-wb2.jpg pix/wb 119K+Japanese support on amiga
_Dani_-WB-10.jpg pix/wb 202K+Amiga Workbench Screenshot 1024x768x24
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 256K+SnoopDos 3.8 sources
mouseshell10.lha util/rexx 1K+Opens Shell window under mouse pointer
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.May.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Magazine: Total Amiga Magazine - The Professionals are back!
No we don't mean Bodie and Doyle, we mean Amiga Legends Richard
Drummond, John Chandler & Andrew Korn! Total Amiga Magazine is
proud to announce that as of issue 15 some of the finest Amiga
Journalists to have ever graced the Amiga scene will be donating
some of their spare time to write for us!
Richard Drummond: "Began writing for Amiga Format, before moving
on to Amiga Active Magazine, eventually moving on to Linux Format."
John Chandler: "Has written for several Amiga magazines,
including Amiga Active and has a regular column on Suite101."
Andrew Korn: "Was CU Amiga Magazine's Deputy Editor and went on
to become the launch Editor of Amiga Active Magazine."
All this and the regulars:
- News
- OS4 Update
- MorphOS News
- Features
- Reviews
- Tutorials
- Plus regular columnists, Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse
Congratulations to Louis Vidal of NYC, USA on winning our earlier
QUAKEII competition. Don't forget there is yet another chance to
win a copy of Quake II, courtesy of Hyperion and Forematt Home
Computing in issue 15.
For subscriptions, list of worldwide stockists and free Downloads
of previous issues visit Total Amiga Magazine.
Total Amiga Magazine, does what it says in the name. (ps)
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09.May.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail)
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Fair: Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 on 5th July 2003
On July 5th 2003 the Amiga fair "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" (AAA 2003) will be take place in
Italian Udine. Today Michael Battilana from Cloanto which is a software developer and
fair organizer has announced this.
The topic of the event will be the current hardware and software developments of the
Amiga market where Amiga OS 4.0 and AmigaOne which is supposed to be presented by
Jürgen Schober will stand in the spotlight. The admission to the fair and to the
exhibition location will be free. But you are asked to book for the fair via mail.
The visitors of the fair can use this weekend for a holiday weekend in the area around
Udine with the help of Cloanto. Visits of the beach, the hills, of Venedig, Trieste,
Cividale and San Daniele are planned for the days after the Saturday.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
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amiga-news.de Community-Polo-shirts
The amiga-news.de community-shirts are now also available in the following design:
Zip Polo Pique made from 100% cotton (230g/qm), collar, strip with hidden metal
zip fastener, double seam, site slashs and neck band. The polo shirts are available
from 27 Euro on in different colours.
If you are going to order then please have a look at the picture: small colour field =
colour on the band, big colour field = polo basic colour. If the basic colour light then
the colour of the letters of the amiga-news.de logos is black.
If you want your user name can be also printed on the shirt. Please write it down when
you order.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Kelvin Shirley (ANF)
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Webserver Gw3s v2 released
The gW3S Open Source Team is proud to announce the first release
in the 2.x branch! gW3S is a small AREXX based webserver that can
run simple and complex websites from your Amiga (and also works on
Amithlon too).
New in this version:
- GZIP Encoding (static and on-the-fly)
- Better HTTP compliance.
- Cleaner code.
- Browser cache handling.
- Minor bug fixes.
Website: http://carls.1av10.nu/w3s/
(ps)
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09.May.2003
racesimcentral.com (ANF)
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Racer Source Code will be published as GPL
As you might know, there seem to be a bunch of people in the Linux
community who have a problem with Racer not being GPL'ed.
This might be a good time to take a crossroads. I plan to release
the Racer v0.5.0 source code under GPL. I don't think I'll host that
version after that, since we don't have that much bandwidth and
would take time that I'd rather put in other things.
After the GPL release, I'll close the source for future versions.
This does not have any impact on the strategy of Racer, which means
a free executable version for the platforms (although I still have
the problem of DRI executables for Linux, since I don't have such
a set in my possession).
There are plans for commercial implementations using Racer, and you
may have noticed things like 'ecol' or 'ecue'. Those are proprietary
extensions. Probably RakNet (a quite cool networking library) will
enter the game as well. It becomes harder to get clean source code
out the door, free of rights. Also, since the multiplayer component
might take a bit of a boost with RakNet (at least take out the
2-player limit at once), it would be too easy for hackers to create
modified versions of Racer and find their way through the network
protocol.
Although I'm sorry for all those interested in the source code, it
seems like the right path. There's always the GPL spinoff that could
be maintained. I'm not sure how that's going to turn out; I'm getting
major support these days in putting realism and knowledge into Racer's
physics and that is interesting for anyone.
The 2 Racer version will drift apart, that's for sure, if only because
of the networking protocols, I'm afraid. I'm not convinced however that
a GPL spinoff (with which I will have little to do) will go to bigger
heights than a closed source one. Even though it potentially means
more developers, it still takes a lot of devotion to make stable
improved versions without hacking little bits in just for the day.
So with the GPL version you'd have OpenSource, but no license to commer
cially sell it. It just still seems a bit counterproductive almost to
split the project into two.
Comments will be read with interest, although with these things I can
imagine you'll have 2 groups; those that are for and those that are
against, and nothing much will bring the 2 together.
www.racer.nl.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Toshiba saves 36 GByte on DVD-successor-medium
»Media are supposed to be produced with current production units
Now Toshiba has introduced a working prototyp of its rewritable optical medium which is
based blue laser. Toshiba can save up to 36 GByte of data in two layers on one side of
the medium - regularly 30 GByte are planned. In contrary to the product of Sony which
is called Blue-Ray the media of Toshiba are supposed to be produced with existing
production units.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
heise Newsticker
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heise: Gateway announces loss
The Wallstreet Journal announces that the PC producer Gateway expects loss again for
2003. In this article a third reorganization of the company is announced. PCs should not
be the only thing to sell but Gateway chief Ted Waitt will create a product line of
15 different home electronic devices such as devices for digital television.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Start menu: Pixload version 3.5 Beta 3
In the current beta version 3 of the start menu called Pixload 3.5 some new features
have been added. If you have proposals, ideas or wishes please write it Pixel Art via
email (pixelart@wanadoo.fr) in English or French.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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09.May.2003
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Event: Amiga Show - June 28th 2003 - Holland
We organize an Amiga Show at Saturday June 28th from 10:00 till 16:00 at the
Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, Holland. We wanna organize a few nice
activities and demonstrations and we will keep you informed at our website:
http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/.
Come on Amigans and join us all at this Party!
(ps)
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08.May.2003
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)
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User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #12
The edition 12 of the "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to
the subscribers. This is a list of French speaking Amiga users all
over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...), which is
sent out monthly.
Via the title link you can find further information and you can add
your name to the list.
(ps)
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08.May.2003
Wolf Zimmer und Cord Hagen (E-Mail)
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Online Magazine "NoCover" Accessible on its Own Homepage
Many Amiga fans already know about it, the time-honored online magazine "NoCover" has finally found its earned place on the Internet.
The complete homepage contains clearly over 200 megabytes and was completely newly and currently uploaded on 7th May, 2003. As always,
near the current edition of the loved online magazine are the old editions as well, quickly and easily found under the menu option
"NoCover Guide," and individual articles may also be quickly found through a comprehensive oversight structure. A visit in the current
issue or the back issues is always rewarding.
This mighty big, but long overdue, Internet debut of "NoCover" was made possible through the sponsor
www.ConnectWeb.de, who made available server resources and hosting on their servers, and also together with Wolf Zimmer, who is
responsible for the complete editorial portion of "NoCover," handled around the updating.
We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you all that we absolutely need active helpers for "NoCover." So we always seek
volunteer editors, who have the desire to look after and care for a single area in "NoCover" and to contribute regular articles. We also
rejoice over individual articles on any familiar theme. Regular editors have the advantage of getting their own email address with a giant
Pop3 email post box (200 megabytes in size), and self-evidently also a secure SMTP server with authentication of the webserver
"AS2-Chicago" in order to dispatch their own emails. Besides there is also an individual subdomain that will be established, so that in
addition to emails regular editors may also get their own free hom page. We are able to offer this package as a little reward to all
volunteer editors who would like to regularly and actively help the magazine.
Of course the online magazine may also be gotten as usual, through an email subscription from Wolf Zimmer, as well as the website
APC&TCP and on Aminet.
We ask for your understanding that the new homepage, despite an astounding start, is still not fully complete, and we sincerely invite
you to the "NoCover" homepage. Further we would naturally be delighted to be linked from many Internet sites, in order for "NoCover" to
become again the biggest Amiga meeting point, as it was in earlier times.
We wish everyone much fun at the homepage of NoCover and rejoice at your visit.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.May.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Toolbar for Pegasos (Test version)
Carsten Siegner writes:
"Today I've prepared my MOS-native toolbar for Pegasos in a test version. This puts PNG icons of whatever programs are used on the toolbar,
where they may then be clicked.
Right now the gadgets are not yet activated, and the program thread is read from a Box.pref data. This toolbar supports only the new
MorphOS icons in PNG format. The whole thing has the advantage that I can easily build FX effects into the gadgets, which look
fantastic. To get this toolbar demo to run, you must download the usual libs from my homepage. This toolbar was written with "Hollywood
for MorphOS." (nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.May.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets through 7th May, 2003
With WHDLoad you are able to play games off your hard-drive, games which were previously thought to be floppy-only. The following packets
have been introduced or updated since our last announcement:
- 07.05.03 fixed: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) protection cleanup
- 07.05.03 new: Silent Service (Mircroprose) done by Galahad
- 04.05.03 improved: Licence to Kill (Domark) supports another version, new icons
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.May.2003
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amiga-news.de Survey Script Expanded
Philippe Bourdin has kindly expanded our survey script relating to two functions. For one the entered votes are now also displayed with a
percentage near the quantity, and for the other there is now a grand total of the entered votes. Thanks a lot! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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08.May.2003
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amiga-news.de Community T-Shirts (Update)
Since February 2003
we've been discussing in our forum the question of if and in what form we could
offer t-shirts with the amiga-news.de logo. Rolf Tingler, our home-and-garden graphic artist, has the opportunity to
stain some t-shirts. To those whom "staining" doesn't mean anything: the numbers of soccer t-shirts are usually
used up per staining (whoever has had this done knows how expensive it can be).
In his shop Rolf Tingler now offers different T-Shirt-Designs in different colors with the amiga-news.de logo from 17 euros and up. The
shirts consist of top quality ring-spun cotton (minimum 180g/qm) with double-seams at the arm and collar. The staining is washable up to
60 degree [Celsius, I think -dm] and the colors of the staining don't fade.
The amiga-news.de logo can be printed according to the wishes of the purchaser: large across the back,
small at front right breast, or both. Take a look at the pictures in the online shop, and click, to blow them up.
If you like, a nickname may be placed under the amiga-news.de logo, at no charge. This should be no more than 12 letters if possible.
Update: (14.07.2011, 00:00, cg)
While moving old static content to the database, the following gallery with pictures of the community t-shirts has been added to this news item:
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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07.May.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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New Genesi/Phoenix-Mailing list for demo coders
At MorphOS-News.de
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco announce the opening of a mailing list for demo scene coders:
The DemoScene@phinixi.com mailing list is open for business / Genesi
sponsoring Demo Scene Online Party in Fall 2003.
The Peagsos I is out to about 600 avid users now and things are
starting to get whipped up for the introduction of the Pegasos II in
September 2003. We have always had respect for true Demo Teams because of
the way technical and creative skills are intertwined to produce unique
results with a computer. We decided that to truly be a success the Pegasos
and MorphOS needed to do their best to support the Scene. The Scene can
bring things to the Pegasos that no one else can.
To that end we have decided to lend ten fully configured and loaded Pegasos
machines to Demo Teams that have demonstrated past success and a desire to
produce a demo with the Pegasos for a Demo Scene online Party to be
sponsored by Genesi in the Fall of 2003. The Online DemoScene Gathering
will be open for voting by all Pegasos owners only -- one Pegasos, one
vote. First prize for the best Demo is 1000 Euros (and keep the Pegasos),
second prize 750 Euros (and keep the Pegasos) and third prize 500 Euros
(and keep the Pegasos!!!). For all teams that successfully present their
demo they can keep their Pegasos ( :-D ). If they agree to produce another
demo they will be lent a new G4 card with the same terms (and keep the card
if they deliver the demo).
To be selected for the DemoScene special offer each Team must be screened
and selected by the Phoenix DemoScene Executive Committee that is being
lead by Mikko Virtanen aka Hooligan of Dual Crew-Shining. We will ask
"Kiero" of the MadWizards, the winner of the Equinoxe DemoScene Competiton
and LoRD, of 4Mankind, the first Pegasos contest winner to also be on the
committee.
We will develop a special section on the MorphZone to keep track of these
special Demo Teams. All necessary documentation and support will be
provided to the DemoSceneTeams.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
Haage & Partner
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Haage & Partner: New Amiga start page and discussion forum
Haage & Partner have fitted their start page of the Amiga area to the new web design of the company and opend a discussion board also.
Haage & Partner write:
"Because we use HTML 4.1 (transitional) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) now the layout doesn't look good with the Amiga browsers. We tried to add some HTML tags so that the pages will work on the Amiga browsers. The deeper pages are not changed so everything stays the same here. The file size of this page is reduced with this action to 1/3...
After the server move we decided to abandon the mailing lists. But we installed with phpBB one of the best and common discussion boards. For Amiga users there are three exclusive areas and additionally the Pagestream board that is intended for all versions. The main language is German now but English is welcome also, just like it was with the mailing lists. The boards are not moderated, we ask therefore to please accept the usual rules. Abusing entries will be deleted by us without any record. We hope to get interesting discussions. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #034
After a real short while there is a new music track from the Amiga music scene group Liquid Skies with the following features:
Artist: Lcr
Title: "Syberian's Destination Point"
Style: Drum'n'Base
Length: 2.49
Format: MP3 (128kbps)
The track is available for free and is to download by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
st-computer (Website)
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Infogrames renamed to Atari
Infogrames is dead - long live Atari! The French company Infogrames that bought all rights of the trademark Atari two years ago changed its name today officially and worldwide to that of the former game and computer giant. Until now Infogrames used the label Atari for publishing or licensing of some games only.
65 percent of the business activities of Atari, respective Infogrames,
are located to the U.S. in the meanwhile. Due to that 60 percent of the staff in Europe has been reduced during the last year. At the stock exchange the company gained some interest during the last weeks because of a gain of their stock price of 130 percent at the Nasdaq since April the 18th 2003, after Atari announced the completion of the game "Enter The Matrix". That game covers the movie "The Matrix Reloaded". It's expected that it might become one of the most successful computer games ever, which would Atari bring back to be one of the "major players" instantly. At the stock exchange Atari is recorded at the abreviation "ATAR".
Enter The Matrix will be available from May the 15th 2003 for PC, Xbox, Gamecube and Playstation2. By the title link Atari's new website is to reach.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: Driver sources by 3dfx found at the net
There has been a complete driver source code for the Voodoo gfx cards by 3dfx found at the Internet.
More details regarding that driver are to find at www.NuAngel.net
(curently offline) and at the x-3dfx forum. The 3dfx driver source code is included in an about 40 MByte sized RAR archive (to unpack it use e.g. WinRAR) called "3dfx_source_code.rar". Some direct download links are to found within the x-3dfx forum but should also to find by filesharing already. Read the complete article at Golem IT-News by following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
Eule (ANF)
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Commodore ITX-64 with 933.000 MHz
Since some time there are some really small motherboards available within the PC world which almost have everything integrated which a usable PC needs.
The company Mini-ITX offers some of these tiny
all-in-one-boards. That ought to be nothing special but at their website they present some really weird "do it yourself PCs" which use this motherboard. Among these a PC compatible Commodore 64 with 933.000 MHz clock speed or a Commodore ITX-64.
The PC modeller set themselves to nearly no limits so you can see hifi devices with a integrated PC as DVD/DIVX player even a 5 liter keg or a biker helmet serves as a case. That page could be very inspiring for all AmigaOne and
Pegasos customers who are still looking for a fitting case.
The Macintosh community also has some talented modellers, so at Applefritter
there are similar case improvements for the Mac to find. Who will be looking intensivly enough will find an "Amiga 1200 laptop" as well.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
chip.de (ANF)
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Chip: Apple: Entry-level Macs faster and cheaper
»Apples educational computers eMac
becomes faster and cheaper. The new product palette includes models with up to 1 GHz clocked G4-CPUs.«
Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Jens Langner
By the title link there is an interview with Jens Langner which was done by Anton Preinsack for the Amiga Future.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
Golem - IT News (ANF)
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Golem: First details of the new PalmOS game handheld
Golem reports that the company Tapwave works on a game handheld which will be powered by PalmOS. The device works with an ARM 9 processor from Motorola
and an ATI gfx chip. It will be intended more for the older gamers and could become a rival to the GameBoy and the Nokia nGage.
»Tapwaves Helix should reach the quality of game consoles
Yesterday the 5th of May 2003 Tapwave announced in the U.S the foundation of the company officially which is existing since May 2001. Tapwave want to bring a game handheld, codenamed Helix, based on PalmOS which shall reach a game consoles quality to the market by the end of this year. The rough technical specs are known already.«
Read the full article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
SpawnPPC (ANF)
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WarpOS programmer needed for PD project
Dear Amiga users,
I'm Emanuele, from Italy.
I need help from a WarpOS programmer. I have the latest UAE source code
version (V. 0.8.22) with all Amiga modifies. I need just to compile it
but I'm not a WarpOS programmer. Please, any programmer who
would partecipate with me, contact me via
e-mail.
Thanx for all and excuse me for my bad english.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
ppcnux.de (ANF)
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ppcnux.de: A1 sales are good
At ppcnux.de the Pegasos and A1 is covered sometimes.
»The A1 sales are well. Especially compared to the PegasosPPC.
The A1 might be seen as a success in sales.«
Read the full article by the title link.
Also interesting might be the article
"PowerPC: Wird es auch andersrum gehen?".
»many AmigaOS users from the old days have left for Apple.
Some of them are gone to Linux running on a Mac (PPC). But there is a given interest of these people: Will the AmigaOS4 or MorphOS have a chance at the Apples or IBM PPC?« (ps) (Translation: ub)
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07.May.2003
Tom Duin (ANF)
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CDDA_SwapMostLeast released and CLI2WB 1.1 update
CDDA_SwapMostLeast converts CDDA_MostSignificant (MOTOROLA)
to CDDA_LeastSignificant (INTEL) CD audio format and reverse. It can
convert more files, has an 'advanched' configurable save routine and can be started from Workbench. It's written in 68K machine code. Another program, CLI2WB, is updated to version 1.1 It launches easily Shell (CLI) commandline from Workbench. Configurable in its icons tooltypes. Give ASL requester own title, button, and filematching pattern and more.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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06.May.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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StartMenu: Preview of Pixload Version 3.5
You will find a preview of the start menu Pixload version 3.5 on the Pixel-Art website.
If you have any suggestions and/or improvements you can send a mail to pixelart@wanadoo.fr.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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06.May.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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'Super Tennis Champs' free for download
The former commercial game "Super Tennis Champs" is now with consent of the author
Elton Bird free for download. A HD-Installer for
"Super Tennis Champs" is available at the Aminet.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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06.May.2003
GFX-BASE
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GFX-BASE: Review of the Pegasos by Stefan Blixth
On GFX-BASE you will find a review of the Pegasos by Stephan Blixth published here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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06.May.2003
ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Free Shipping with Purchase of Mediator
Elbox Computer, manufacturer of hardware and software
for Amiga computers, announces free shipping for all Mediator
purchases from the Elbox Online Store between 05 - 20 May 2003.
For details, see the Special Offer page under the titlelink. (nba)
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06.May.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Breakpoint- and Gathering-Updates
Four new demos and intros from the Breakpoint Party 2003 and The Gathering 2003 were added to the demo-online-collection "Amiga
Demoscene Archive":
- Timur Lenk/Spaceballs and Ephidrena. Another corcker from the famous duo Slummy/Spaceballs and Loaderror/Ephidrena. 1st place at Breakpoint 4k intro competition. As always, stunning music, cool effects, good looking. Nothing more to add, just check it out! Highly recommended!
- Magia/The Black Lotus. Another TBL demo, another winner at Germany's Easter demo party. Check out the credits behind this demo and you know that it will be good. Notably a return from Desktop/CNCD with fab logos, and Blaizer/The Silents on the music. Recommended.
- Light 2/Iris. What a surprise this was. Iris seem to have decided to leave the oldskool style finally behind them and they surprise with this amazing demo. Utmost respect must go to Dr.Doom who not only coded the whole thing, but pixelled all the graphics work and did a very fine job on that. Music by Tricktrax is cool too. Again, higly recommended.
- Fake Electronik Lightshow/Ephidrena. 2nd place at The Gathering 2003 in a joined PC demo compo. Nothing much to say here. Download this and see what demomaking is all about. Phat tune, wicked visuals, synchro, energy, ... Extremely highly recommended ;).
(nba)
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05.May.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #033
The music label "Liquid Skies record" of the Amiga scene published
a new music file. This time the release #033 contains a MP3-Tune in
the Trance style with the title "Free" by their newest member Ritzu.
Made with the Amiga!
!NEWS!
- Ritzu (in the demo scene member of PicSaintLoup & appendix) joins as a musician -
!NEWS! (ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.May.2003
ScummVM Amiga Ports Seite (ANF)
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ScummVM 0.4.0 work in progress & new demo
ScummVM 0.4.0 will be published with in the next weeks. With ScummVM
LucasArts Classic Adventures can be played on new systems.
So it is now possible to play games like 'Day of the Tentacle' and 'Sam and Max on the road' on the Amiga and other systems, since there ports for many other systems.
The main programmers are currently working on the new version 0.4.0.
The following new features are planned:
- BENEATH A STEEL SKY - Integration (although it does not belong to the LucasArts games, similarly as Simon The Sorcerer 1 & 2)
- Integration of the old EGA versions of Monkey Iceland, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Loom and Indy3
As soon as the 0.4.0-Port for the Amiga is available, by Adam Waldenberg (WarpScumm), the following will be possible:
- FULL THROTTLE - VOLLGAS (for the first time completely playable on the Amiga!!)
- THE DIG (also for the first time completely playable on the Amiga!!)
- THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND (..for the first time on the Amiga!!)
The original Windows versions of the games are needed for ScummVM. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.May.2003
OpenBSD (Website)
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Unix: OpenBSD 3.3
On 1 May 2003 the version 3.3 of the Open Source Unix operating system
"OpenBSD" was released. This release contains among other things the following components:
- XFree86 4.2.1
- Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches)
- Perl 5.8.0 (+ patches)
- Apache 1.3.27, mod_ssl 2.8.12, DSO support (+ patches)
- OpenSSL 0.9.7beta3 (+ patches)
- Groff 1.15
- Sendmail 8.12.9
- Bind 9.2.2 (+ patches)
- Lynx 2.8.2rel.1 with HTTPS support added (+ patches)
- Sudo 1.6.7
- Ncurses 5.2
- Latest KAME IPv6
- KTH Kerberos 1.1.1
- Heimdal 0.4e (+ patches)
- OpenSSH 3.6
OpenBSD supports different systems, among them i386, Mac68k, the Pegasos and 68k-Amigas (in version 3.2).
Further information is available at the title link. Information about the Amiga version (of wich the current release will be the last one) can be found at www.openbsd.org/amiga.html.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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05.May.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 05.05.2003
Here the Aminet Uploads which were added since our last message:
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 34K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
ReCatItPro_SP.lha dev/misc 7K+ReCatIt Pro 1.0 spanish catalog v1.0.0
cfd.lha disk/misc 73K+Use CompactFlash cards in your PCMCIA sl
fat95.lha disk/misc 132K+Win95/98 compatible file system
SFS.lha disk/misc 210K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen
nocover110.lha docs/mags 2.1M+Great german diskmagazine
PegasosReview.txt docs/rview 10K+A review of the Pegasos PPC computer sys
ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 2.9M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
imdbDiff030425.lha misc/imdb 2.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
FullMetalPlan.lha mods/misc 189K+Custom module from "Full Metal Planete"
Lotus2.lha mods/misc 5K+Custom module from "Full Metal Planete"
PurpleSatDay.lha mods/misc 122K+Custom module from "Purple Saturn Day"
EP_Protracker.lha mus/play 16K+EaglePlayer "Protracker" external replay
EP_PSA.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "Professional Sound Artists"
fraphix_001.lha pix/anim 249K+Demo of FraphiX's power (27.01.1997)
fraphix_002.lha pix/anim 307K+Demo of FraphiX's power (11.10.1995)
fraphix_003.lha pix/anim 209K+Demo of FraphiX's power (23.01.1997)
HTMLstrip.lha text/hyper 26K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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04.May.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Descent: Freespace Server
This Sunday Amig@lien are putting a Freespace server on the Web. The IP address as well as possibly necessary information can be obtained in the Amiga Freespace Forum (see title link). Up to four players may connect to the server at any one time. The reason is that unfortunately only one ISDN line is available for this (should the offer prove successful, it might be possible to offer channel bundling on some Sundays).
You can play with the patched PC version and of course also with the Amiga version (all versions except demo). (ps) (Translation: cb)
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04.May.2003
AmigaWorld.net (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 8
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 8 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) IonMane: Some software is now available for DE, yet I had difficulty finding out info on it, or even where to buy it. How do you plan on marketing it, do you plan to get in on shelves in supermarkets/department stores?
Fleecy: In discussions with potential partners, we have discovered that they are keen to rebadge and sell it themselves, for example the MS PocketPaks using Amiga Anywhere. They want to do this for several reasons, whether it be to use their existing marketing resources and branding or else to build up their own marketing brand, for example we are working with a company that has a rather unique expansion capability and they want to use Amiga Anyware products to show it off. Due to this, we are having to create a multi thread marketing strategy that promotes Amiga Anyware as a whole without damaging any of the particular marketing threads and opportunities.
The power of the underlying AmigaDE technology is that we can create multiple deployment models - cards, players, standalones etc and each one represents a separate marketing domain.
To answer your question, we already have one chain in the US (CompUSA) shipping the cards, Microsoft are pushing these cards to other chains and are investigating expansion opportunities. Other potential partners are at various stages but most seem to want to control the marketing. To bring it all together, we will be revising the Amiga Anyware website so that the different deployment types and different pieces of content will have their own separate resources so you will be able to search through the available content, find out in which products it ships and locate their availability.
2) Doobrey: Are there any plans( or even pipedreams) to have an AmigaOne or derivative as an "all on board" system (ie video, sound etc. all on the motherboard) for STB or embedded use?
Fleecy: We have several hardware vendors ranging from small to huge who are interested in the AmigaOS on a variety of devices that span the digital device market, all the way upto servers and workstations. Most of these devices already exist as either prototypes or reference designs and the companies involved are looking for an advanced multimedia capable operating system. We are keeping them closely informed as to the progress of AmigaOS4.0 and are already including requirements from them into the specification for AmigaOS4.1 and beyond.
3) ShadesOfGrey: For those of us who've already made that decision, and those of us considering this decision. How does Amiga Inc. plan to entice us back to AmigaOS 4 AND 'AmigaOS 5'? To be a bit more precise, once the die-hard community has been satisfied (or perhaps placated) by the release (or is the proper term is launch) of AmigaOnes and/with AmigaOS 4. Does Amiga Inc. have any formative plans for recapturing the dormant Amiga user and developer community?
Fleecy: Obviously we want to sell the AmigaOS into as many markets as possible and I have hinted at how we intend to do this in previous Q&A sessions. I do not want to go into too much detail since competitors are constantly on the lookout for any details of our plans so that they can adopt or stymie them as suits their agenda.
4) Treke: Don't you think that the success of 'mainstream' platforms (I think windoze) is also based on the ease of development (mass development) for them ? Has Amiga plans to make available some RAD tools for Amiga OS 4.x or AmigaOS 5.x ?
Fleecy: It is a fact that the success of a platform is down to the amount of content available for it. Whilst the AmigaOS does have a huge backlog of quality content, we need to create new content that takes advantage of the new features of AmigaOS4.0 (and beyond that of AG2). Having a friendly and easy to use development environment set which appeals to all levels of developer, from hobby to commercial is crucial to the growth of the content portfolio and we have plans to attend to this whilst also pushing the development envelope in terms of technologies.
5) IonMane: Could you tell us about SHEEP?What is it, and where does it fit into Amiga Incs. plan?
Fleecy: This follows on from Q4. We want a single, simple universal language that can be used to 'talk' to the environment, whether that be an extended shell, scripts, querying or shells. Such a language would sit at the heart of our future environment, making it a more social, more interactive experience that graphical manipulation and projection.
6) IonMane: Just how powerful is the DE player?Is it possible, for example, to write a Office suite with the capabilities of MS office/Open Office?
Fleecy: Firstly, the AmigaDE is a technology set for the creation of products. The DE Player was a prototype product that allowed for content portability. Amiga Anyware was our first proper commercial product, allowing for multiple deployment options against a content portfolio. As to how powerful is it? It is as powerful as its host in terms of performance and in terms of capabilities, we are expanding them all the time - enhanced 2D, 3D support, data storage and organisation options. It is more than capable of providing a productivity environment which in reality is a lot less demanding that many of the games being written or already available. We need to add a few more GUI gadgets to make it more productivity friendly but they are in the pipeline.
7) IonMane: If this is possible, is it possible to take this exact program and use it directly on say a Linux, Mac or AmigaOne? (providing the DE player is available for these platforms?
Fleecy: That is the point of the AmigaDE and we have already demonstrated this, with the same content runnning on both Linux, Embedded Linux, Symbian, Windows, PocketPC and across Arm, MIPS, SHn, and x86 processors. We just have to make sure that the DE environment is available for the particular deployment HW/SW.
8) horizone: The Commodore 64 got you right into a BASIC interpreter 2 seconds after powerup and the original Amiga included AmigaBasic. I think DOS included a basic too... WindowsXP at least have Paintbrush and a bunch of small games to start having fun with out of the box. How will the newbie AmigaOne owner get started with creative and fun stuff without spending more money on full games and apps right away?
Fleecy: What we are intending to do is offer a contributions drawer, where third parties can provide freeware, shareware and either full or limited versions of their commercial products. In this way the user has a good selection of powerful applications with which to experiment right out of the box and the third party developers gain maximum access to the potential customer base for their products. We had talked to developers and users about the very problem you describe and this is the solution that they suggested.
9) ssolie: How does Amiga Inc. influence and control the development path of AmigaOS when you do not have direct control over the source code? For example, Hyperion may add/remove/change features that would be counterproductive to your goals.
Fleecy: Far too much has been made of the fact that ownership of the AmigaOS rests with Hyperion at the moment, mostly by those with an interest in encouraging mischief. It was done as a protective measure to ensure that if anything happened to Amiga Inc then the community wouldn't have to put up with another x years of uncertainty. The actual development process itself is already well documented and agreed at the highest levels. I have also mentioned before that AmigaOS4.0 is unique in that it is mostly about moving from old hardware to a new abstract hardware definition whilst the Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) project is about advancing the capabilities of the product as a whole; as such Hyperion, with its expertise in classic hardware, porting and PPC architectures is far more qualified to make that transition than the staff at Amiga Inc.
10) JubalHarshaw: I was wondering what direction the AmigaDE side of things will move in... as far as what markets besides the current one. (forgive me if that's not clear, English isn't my strong point yet :) What I mean is, where is it moving into, and where do you see AmigaDE making the biggest impact?
Fleecy: AmigaDE will continue to flesh out its capabilities in response to the demands made on it by its derivative products and the customers of those products. For example, the enthusiastic response to the Gamecard technology, one of the Amiga Anyware deployments is causing us to extend the Quickstart, Autostart and PIPO (Pop In/Pop Out) feature sets. At its heart though, AmigaDE will always be a portable content solution whilst for dedicated products such as desktops and workstations which require a full environment, the AmigaOS will be enhanced and pushed.
As far as impact, AmigaDE derivatives will have most impact where a product domain has a heterogeneous profile. So, in a market where content solutions are more important than implementations, such as the embedded market, the ability of the DE to offer the same content across those many different product implementations will be valuable whereas in a product domain where one manufacturer and implementation dominates then it will have less of an impact (although even in this case, the high efficiency of the AmigaDE coupled with the quality of the content makes a compelling case all of its own.
Over time, the idea of a multi product matrix will become a very powerful driver for the AmigaDE. A digital home with a mix of devices that ranges from PDAs, Tablets, TVs, Consoles, Laptops, Smartphones, DVD players and even washing machines, air conditioning and automobiles will benefit immensely from something like the AmigaDE, which attempts to create a single, contiguous solution above the various devices.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=9
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: cb)
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03.May.2003
Klaus Arnold (ANF)
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Tournament: Kick Off 2 WC 2003 in Igersheim on June, 7th 2003
After the great success of the Kick Off 2 World Championship 2002 in Osnabrück, in which 32 contestants participated, it continues on June, 7th 2003. The incumbent world champion organizes the tournament this time in Igersheim, a small town near Würzburg (Germany).
There's only a small number of places free and therefore everybody who wants to participate should hurry and register via an entry into the guestbook.
P.S. Of course it will be played only with the Amiga version!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
Rüdiger Engel (ANF)
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Photos of 4. VFCe in Munich
The Vintage Computer Festival Europe,
taking place this year for the 4th time and also opening tomorrow, is a
real pleasure for fans of old computers from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
I'd had a look at the show today and made some photos that can be found
following the title link.
There were many computers to be seen and to be used by yourself in all
since the early sixties of the last century, from pure calculating
machines via the home computers of the eighties to workstations and
mainframes by Control Data and Cray Research. The last mentioned ones
can only be seen within an excursion about the
Projekt Cray-Cyber which is
very recommendable. To see a CDC 960 with NOS on it in action is an
absoloute highlight!
People living near Munich with at least a little interest for working
old computers shouldn't miss the VCFe - tomorrow the festival is opened
till 17.00 o'clock.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Update of E3B website
The E3B website has been updated. Among other things has the USB list of supported devices been updated and the photos of ROMulus and ALGOR were replaced by those of the produced cards.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: new Amiblitz2.32 distribution
Today was a new full distribution of Amiblitz2.32 uploaded.
In the last distribution had unfortunately been some errors included. Besides, there had been no up-to-date German versions of Amiblitz2 (compiler) and PED (editor) in the archive. Because of these in conveniences was this archive completely removed.
The new distribution now contains completely updated German versions, the guide has been enhanced und has been translated completely into German. Furtheron were some errors in the install script fixed.
Amiblitz2.32 brings together with bugfixes the following improvements/enhancements:
- Fixed Gadtools.lib that i.e. removes the limitation to four colors in shape gadgets.
- MUI is now completely supported thanks to MUI2.res.
- AHI is now really supported.
- OpenGL is now via StormMesa possible.
Regarding the last point it is important to consider the stack size in the Amiblitz2 icon of at least 300 KB. This must not be lowered in no case if OpenGL shall be used. A GL demo is included in the distribution.
Archives Digger95 and Diamantus corrected:
The game Digger95 seemed to be transferred incompletely during the upload.
This has now been fixed. In the Diamantus archive had been two different versions. This has possibly irritated some users. The older version was removed and only the most up-to-date version remains in the archive.
The archives were compressed with LHA level6 unfortunately causing some problems while decompressing with the XAD.library and older versions of LHA.
In the future this shall not happen again.
In the next days we'll place finally something in the music section again. Had been calm in this area a long time. ;-)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
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Aminet uploads till 03.05.2003
Here the new Aminet uploads since our last message:
FlushHeaders.lha comm/news 35K+FlushHeaders for Yam2NN_087 V39.20
Labyzarre.lha game/wb 47K+Find your way to the exit! (Update)
CycloScope1.1.lha gfx/misc 30K+Useless artistic math-graphic based prog
Alecos-WB-12.jpg pix/wb 142K+Workbench Screenshot 800x600 16 Bit by A
Alecos-WB-13.jpg pix/wb 180K+Workbench Screenshot 1024x768 16 Bit by
Homer_DataFix3.lha util/misc 2.6M+Latest NewHomer (v1.87) Sample Set
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03.May.2003
WHDLoad (website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packages till 02.05.2003
With WHDLoad you can now install games thought to be disk only on your hard drive. The following packages have been added/updated since our last message:
- 02.05.03 new: Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge (Zeppelin) done by Bored Seal
- 02.05.03 improved: Another World (Delphine Software)
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
APC&TCP (website)
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Disk-Magazine: NoCover 110 released
The NoCover #110 was released a few days ago. You can read the magazine online on the APC&TCP website and download it. (nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
morphos-news.de
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Sequencer: port of Barsnpipes for MorphOS
According to a message on morphos-news.de is the MIDI sequencer
Barsnpipes, once commercial software and nowadays developed as freeware by Alfred Faust, being ported to MorphOS. Read here his notes on the port:
"I've just started an attempt to port BarsnPipes to the
MorphOS - Pegasos - system. It is near unbelievable how
fast this system is. Compiling is done 20 - 30 times faster
than on my 68040/40-AMIGA. The loading process of the 500
pics for BarsnPipes at startup is done in 1.5 seconds (!).
Because porting to MorphOS is real a hard work, I must
terminate the further development on the AMIGA-line for the
moment. I don't know if I can port BarsnPipes completely to
MorphOS ... but I try it."
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
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Magazine: The Crypt #29
Issue #29 of the English online magazine "The Crypt" with the title "Ghosts and Ghouls" was released.
Read online following the title link or in the offline version (see below) among other things Amiga news, jokes and further reports.
Download: online29.zip
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.May.2003
#amigascene
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TV cards driver: SuperTV beta version 1.0 for Mediator
Today has Peter Gordon, former employee of Darkage Software, released the version 1.0 of SuperTV (an alternative to the TV software for the PCI busboard Mediator by Elbox). This version fixes some bugs and offers new features.
Features of SuperTV:
- MUI GUI
- Channel select gadgets in the TV window border
- Keyboard control
- ARexx port
- Fullscreen borderless mode
- Pop up menus
- Easily selectable channel presets
Changes since version 0.8:
- Localisation. Italian and Suomi catalogs included.
- Double clicking in the TV window toggles fullscreen
- Optional custom picture settings for each channel
- Cancel button now actually reverts to the last saved or used settings
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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02.May.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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AmigaInput-article by Steffen Häuser at Amiga Inc.
On the page of Amiga Inc. there is an article which was formerly only meant for the
club Amiga-section and which can be now read by everybody. This article was written by
Steffen Häuser and is about the new AmigaInput which belongs to the new Amiga OS4.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2003
Henk Jonas (ANF)
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MetaView goes Freeware
MetaView which is a (not only in the Amiga world) unique convert program
for converting cliparts/vector graphics/cad-drawings is now Freeware.
On the website of Henk Jonas
you can download the program.
Additional to the keyfile the archive also contains the source code (in E) of MetaView
and the AMFF-libraries. Therefore you may develop the program further.
Henk Jonas explicitly allows you to use the source codes for Freeware programs as long
as the program will be mentioned. If you want to use the source code commercially
it can be given a licence.
MetaView supports graphics of the following formats:
WMF, HPGL, EPS, AI, DR2D, DSDR, WPG, GEM and CGM.
Henk Jonas, Berlin
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2003
Amigalien (ANF)
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Amigalien News Update
Today on Amig@lien News a new opinion poll has been started. Additionally two programs
and a CD-collection were voted as the best programs. A list with current interviews
has been also updated.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.7.0 final version
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.7.0 of the tool 'SRename'.
With this tool which works from OS3.0 on you can comfortably rename files. In the
new version the following features have been added and bugs fixed:
New features in this version:
- Automatic renaming when new filename already exists. "Noautoren" (nar)
option has been added to deactivate it.
- "Noautopsep" (nap), "Noautossep" (nas), "Autopsep" (aup), "Autossep"
(aus) options added to control the handling of prefix and suffix
separators when prefix and suffix is created or deleted.
- "Addonly" (ao) secondary argument added to "Prefix", "Main" and
"Suffix" selectors. When used it prevents existing components from being
modified, and components are added if they don't already exist.
Bugfixes:
- Redirection of filename and comment with "Tofilename" and "Tocomment"
can now work in Immediate and Reuse (cached) mode as required by the
user, instead of the previous fixed partially cached mode.
- Several core bugs fixed that prevented proper renaming with certain
action and immediate/reuse mode combinations.
- Parser bug fixed occasionally broke the parsing process if commands
with secondary arguments were used.
- Some memory misallocations fixed.
Other changes:
- Now the usage text is printed if no arguments are given.
Download: SRename370.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2003
Merregnon (Website)
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Music: New website for Merregnon
Finally, Merregnon Studio proudly presents the new website to all
of our visitors. Many thanks for the great work go to Roma Nesin,
our senior web designer, as well as to Joanna Pilarczyk and
Alberto Severeso for the drawings and textures.
Merregnon - learn about the background of the development of such
an immense product, or take a look at the universe section to read
about the characters of our story. There is much to discover, and we
hope you will enjoy your stay!
Last but not least: always feel free to tell us what you think about our work by clicking on "keeping in touch". (nba)
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02.May.2003
Dirk Stoecker (E-Mail)
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Game: New Klondike-card sets on RekoNet
On RekoNet which is a collection of card sets, programs and links for the Klondike game
by Reko-Productions new card sets have been added.
Thus currently 1127 card sets which are 700 MB in zip-format are available.
The news in detail:
- 4 Carrot-card sets by Allan Rasmussen
- Cardsets by Foxystoat
- Dizney- and Buffy-card set by Jennifer Warner
- 3 card sets by Vegard Krog Petersen
- further new card sets
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2003
Daniela Lenz (ANF)
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Retro magazine with Amiga-section
For one year the "Retro Magazin" has been published for all fans of consoles of the 80s.
Above all the magazine is about 8-bit and 16-bit consoles and about computer games.
From issue 06/03 on there is also an Amiga and Atari-ST section.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2003
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Opinion poll concerning the screen mode
Today we have started a new opinion poll asking you which screen mode you use on
your monitor.
There are the following possibilities to answer:
- 640 x 480
- 800 x 600
- 1024 x 768
- 1152 x 864
- 1280 x 768
- 1280 x 1024
- 1600 x 900
- 1600 x 1024
- 1600 x 1200
- Other
Because it is not possible to choose several answers please choose this screen mode which
you use most times. Have fun!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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02.May.2003
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Aminet Updates until 02.05.2003
There are new Aminet uploads:
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 34K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.5M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 04/2003 (Itali
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02.May.2003
Sebastian Eichholz (ANF)
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Online opinion poll for Amiga Demo-DVD (MindCandy 2)
After the first issue of the DVD "MindCandy" which contained two DVDs with historical
PS-demos (the demo scene is meant here, not game demos) as pure videos currently the
second issue is planned. This second issue is supposed to contain the best Amiga demos.
In order to guarantee the best choice an online opinion poll was started. Additional to
details of the DVD production it also asked for the best Amiga demos.
So if you want to have the demos on your big TV hopefully many people will take part in.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.May.2003
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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New Amithlon Libraries: powerpci.library and lowlevel.library
Harald Frank and Guido Mersemann have released new software for Amithlon computers. A new "powerpci.library" version 2.11 (urgently
needed for the use of the Spider2 USB) and a new "lowlevel.library" version 41.17 (for the use of PC joypads/joysticks on the sound card
gameport). (ps) (Translation: dm)
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01.May.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #030430
Under the title link you'll find the complete newslette of Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for April 2003. In his English language Newsletter, Brad
Webb summarizes each month all the new developments on the theme Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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01.May.2003
Rafal Kaczmarczyk (E-Mail)
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Database: XBaze Website Moved
The website of the databank 'XBase' by Rafal Kaczmarczyk has moved and is now reachable at the URL
http://www.xbaze.prv.pl.
The current version of 'XBaze' is the 7.3 Beta 8. The program offers an easy-to-use editor for the data-fields and layout (Drag&Drop). It
runs on AmigaOS V3.0 and now also on MorphOS.
Bugreports and suggestions may be sent to the following address:
xbaze@amiga.pl.
Download: XB-7.3B8.lzx (ps) (Translation: dm)
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01.May.2003
Jochen Abitz (ANF)
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Mac-TV Offers Retro Weekend
GRAND RETRO WEEKEND
- This Saturday and Sunday on Mac-TV.de.
- Great program on Sunday at 9 PM!
- The boldly cool nerds with their flying cases:
Apple, Commodore, NeXT, Atari, Amiga, PCs!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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01.May.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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Issue 4 of Club Amiga Magazine from Amiga Inc. Appears
The monthly Club Amiga magazine has appeared in its issue #4 (May). There's an article from Olaf Barthel in there about the
Amiga Fast File System, and a new status report of AmigaOS 4, and a few other interesting articles. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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01.May.2003
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Aminet Updates through 1st May, 2003
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last report:
smoother.lha game/gag 9K+Small joke program to "smoothen" your mo
ahiusr.lha mus/misc 352K+Retargetable audio v5.5, User's Archive
SteBaseConv.lha util/conv 36K+Numeric base converter ITA-ENG + source
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Apr.2003
Amiga Future (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Samuel Rydh (Mac-on-Linux)
At the Amiga Future homepage there has been a German interview with
Samuel Rydh published at the article area.
"Mac-on-Linux" (short "MOL") is discussed hotly within the Amiga
community since some months, does it enable the use of MacOS incl.
MacOS X at the AmigaOne and the Pegasos. Anton Preinsack has talked to
Samuel Rydh, the main developer of MOL.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Apr.2003
Jabberwocky (Website)
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Instant messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch have released the version 1.4 of the
instant
messenger 'JabberWocky' for Amiga computers. Jabber
is an open XML protocol for a direct message exchange.
A connect with other instant messengers like
AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible by using gateways.
Download: Jabberwocky030429.lha
Changes within this version:
- http.c - Added Content-Type and Filesize to Transfer Header and eliminated null character in the Header. File transfers using WEB Browser now work. Apr 5, 2003
- transfer.c - Eliminated superflous gadgets from File Transfer window to reduce user confusion. Apr 6, 2003
- userinfo.c - Added seperate update procedure for Transports to avoid double roster entries. Apr 15, 2003 (Bug ID 584725)
- roster.c - Replaced double contact removal with seperate removals for Users and Transports. Eliminated subscribing to Transports to avoid double roster entries. Transports are supposed to be registered and not subscribed anyway. Apr 16, 2003
- agents.c - Added line to clear agents list when connecting. Eliminates multiple agents lists when disconnecting and reconnecting. Apr 20, 2003 (Bug ID 550881)
- presence.c - Eliminated duplicate subscription requests when disconnecting and reconnecting. Eliminated enforcer hit that occurred if the Subscription Window "Accept" or "Reject" buttons were clicked after the last subscription request was removed. Apr 21, 2003 (Bug ID 554328)
- roster.c - Added functions to close any open user windows before removing a contact. Also added error_pix to the roster dispose function. Apr 24, 2003 (Bug ID 549722)
- roster.c - Added functions to close all open user windows before disconnecting. Fixes enforcer hits that occur if you disconnect, reconnect and attempt to use windows that remained open. Apr 25, 2003
Note - The changes I made in roster.c and userinfo.c clear up the enforcer hits that are present in the current prerelease of v 1.4. It doesn't fix the source of the problem though. I think the hits are actually originating in the iksemel library when some unexpected or unusual XML is received. Something may have to be changed there eventually. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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30.Apr.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio track "Call to Ancestors" by Bjorn Lynne online
Bjorn Lynne writes:
"First of all, many many thanks to those of of you who already bought the
new CD "Power Liquids", which I released about two weeks ago. This is an
album of trance / electronica that I made toghether with my friends in
Aural Planet, and it has been extremely well received so far. Thanks again
to those of you who have given your support so far, by ordering the CD.
Due to popular demand (!) I have now made one full-length track from the
album available to hear online at http://www.mp3.com/bjornlynne. It's the
first mp3 track there. This is in addition to the short mp3 clips from ALL
the songs on the CD, which you can still hear at: http://www.lynnemusic.com/powerliquids.html
While you are at my mp3 page, please give all my other tracks a play as
well, as it may help them to get higher in the mp3.com charts and make
more people "discover" my music through the mp3.com site. Thank you!
And for those of you who have still not discovered the new album: "Power
Liquids", you can read all about it (or even order it) here:
http://www.lynnemusic.com/powerliquids.html. Your order (should you place
one!) will be shipped out within 24 hours by me, personally." (nba) (Translation: ub)
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30.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (E-Mail)
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Pegasos: Summary of all the things regarding the Articia
Within a comment at OSNews.com
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck sum up all the mess regarding the
Articia chip and confirm the use of the Marvell-Northbridge for the
Pegasos II. The support by Marvell and their
interest for the Pegasos II is said to be very high.
The Articia-S versions were specified. The northbridges used
for the Pegasos I are said to be Articia S #A660BNGP,
these were not produced any longer. For testing purpose some of the
new Articia S #A660BNGE were purchased.
The specs for the
G4 cards (July) and the Pegasos II (September) were confirmed
within the comment.
Furthermore links to BeOS pages are
listed which cover Genesi's attendance at the BeGeistert show:
BeGroovy, BeForever and LeBuzz.
Again the Pegasos II will be offered for a reduced price to the
Phoenix members after the demand for the Pegasos I has not been
feeded completely.
Finally they tell that Eugenia
Loli-Queru, chief editor of OSNews, received a Pegasos so that there
will be a report by her soon.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 04-29-2003
With WHDLoad you can install games to the hard disk which were aimed
for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added or
improved since the last release:
- 29.04.03 improved:
Defender of the Crown (Cinemaware) memory config changed
- 29.04.03
improved: Shadow of the Beast (Psygnosis) misc changes
- 29.04.03
improved: Body Blows Galactic (Team 17) complete rework
- 29.04.03
improved: Strip Poker 2+ (Anco) supports another version and data disk
- 29.04.03 new: Simon The Sorcerer (Adventure Soft) done by Psygore
- 25.04.03 new: Combo Racer (Gremlin) done by Psygore
- 22.04.03
new: Shock Wave (Lightsource Productions/Digital Magic) done by
Galahad
- 21.04.03 New WHDLoad V15.2, minor fixes and changes
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Apr.2003
AND Software (Website)
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Context menu: ContextSAS V1.72 and ContextPrefs V1.34
The programm ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler provides the
possibility to create and use context sensitive menus for
AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system is supported.
With some additional tools it is possible to iconify Workbench
windows and to create system links.
Since yesterday the version 1.72 of
ContextSAS and version 1.34 of ContextPrefs is provided for
download. This time mostly bugs were wiped out and the look
was polished. Some new features wee added:
- AutoSelect: Selects icons at the WBDesktop
automatically.
- Title: Shows the object name as title.
- Prefeences: The internal menus can be configured now.
Downloadbereich
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Apr.2003
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Bill McEwen, President/CEO of Amiga, Inc., to attend AmiWest 2003
Amiga, Inc. announces that Bill McEwen the CEO of Amiga, Inc. will once again attend AmiWest.
McEwen: "There is a great deal of activity going on at Amiga, and I am looking forward to sharing it all with you. We have kept ourselves focused and stayed the course toward success. I look forward to seeing all of you again in Sacramento." (nba)
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29.Apr.2003
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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Digital Album "Brasil" Version 2.6
The Digital Album "Brasil" is a huge collection which shows the
most interesting and beautiful places of Brasil. It includes more
than 530 photos. It can be used on all computer platforms and
beside that on many DVD-Players, which feature the Kodak
PictureCD-(JPG)-format.
Content:
Bahia / Bahia ... 009
Bahia / Salvaor ... 051
District Federal / Brasilia ... 057
Minas Gerais / Minas Gerais ... 006
Minas Gerais / Pirenopolis ... 002
Minas Gerais / Sao Joao del Rei ... 021
Minas Gerais / Tiradentes .... 015
Rio de Janeiro / Arraial do Cabo ... 019
Rio de Janeiro / Buzios ... 010
Rio de Janeiro / Cabo Frio ... 005
Rio de Janeiro / Niteroi ... 005
Rio de Janeiro / Petropolis ... 025
Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro ... 220
Rio de Janeiro / Saquarema ... 024
Rio Grande do Sul / Porto Alegre ... 066
Beside the photo archive the CD-ROM includes Brazilian background
themes for Amiga and Windows (with sound), two audio tracks (Samba
de Smurfet, Verao), the digital postcard system to send postcards
over the Internet and a webpage with interesting links to the
different places. Price: 8 Euro. (nba)
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29.Apr.2003
Chris Seward (ANF)
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online to close...
In what will be exactly six years in the making of the long running
and popular magazine Amiga Information Online will see it finally
cease publication. We would like to thank the Amiga community for
their continued support.
Please feel free to email your goodbye commets to
goodbye@aioworld.com or use
the form on our website www.aioworld.com.
The May 2003 due for release at the end of May will be our last.
(ps)
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29.Apr.2003
HSC (Website)
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HTML-Tool: HSC Version 0.930
The HTML preprocessor "HTML Sucks Completly" (HSC) (origin from Thomas Aglassinger)
was released in version 0.930 from Matthias Bethke. The source code can be compiled
onto all supported platforms; tested are Linux, HP/UX 10.20, and AmigaOS. A
documentation in HTML is online available. The download file contains also the latest
prefs- and macrofiles. The version 0.930 contains some minor bugfixes.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 29.04.2003
Here are the latest uploads for the Aminet:
TGest2DEMO.lha biz/demo 475K+V2.2.0 TurboGest (PACHETTO GESTIONALE IT
Babelfish.lha comm/irc 3K+Use babelfish from AmIRC/Shell
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 554K+UnrealIRCd 3.1.5.1 ported to AmigaOS
amifish.lha comm/tcp 27K+Quick And Easy interface for babelfish
OpenURLDevBas.lha dev/basic 43K+Using OpenURL library from HBasic
EasyACDDA.lha disk/cdrom 335K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA
CyberGFX4-ITA.lha gfx/board 10K+Italian Catalog for CyberGraphX 4 (4.3)
imdbDiff030418.lha misc/imdb 2.6M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Carta-Go.mpg mods/mpg 6.0M+Trance-MP3 (6:28 min) by BiT-X
NewHomer.lha util/misc 112K+Talkin' Homer V1.87 (latest bugs fixed,
EBGuide.lha util/rexx 3K+(REACTION GUI) Australian TV Guide progr
Ghosty.lha util/wb 27K+NEW! Transparent default icons on hi/tru
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Apr.2003
OSNews.com
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Port of NewOS for Pegasos
As stated by Nicholas Blachford, member of Genesi and former BeOS developer, in the
online magazine OSNews.com the BeOS based Open Source operating system NewOS will be
available for Pegasos.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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28.Apr.2003
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: New amiga-news.de theme by Psyria
On the occasion of the MesseCD by Andreas Laaser of Elastic Images and because of an interview of Petra Struck Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr published a new amiga-news.de theme 2003.
The excellent result can be downloaded now:
AmigaNewsTheme2003.mp3
Dennis, thanks a lot for this incredible Song!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Apr.2003
CUCUG (Website)
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CUCUG: Status Register 04/2003
The CUCUG status register of April 2003 published. In the status
register the club reports regularly about their own meetings and about Amiga, Linux, Macintosh and PC.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Apr.2003
Ron van Schaik
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Report of the 19th April C= show
Hello C= fans!
You can find some pics of the last show at our website. On this
page
you see Thomas Margolf with his SIDsyn and Arndt Oevermann who's working
at the demo show. On this page
you can see the stereo C64 from Dirk Kledtke. This was a great success and
the sound of this machine was unbelievable!
Also there's an English report of the show.
The next show we will organize is at June 28! This is a change of date
because of some accomodation problems. As extra we organize than an Amiga
Party! We want every Amiga freak to join us at this party! Look
here for more
information. Look here
for latest news and new at our homepage is a
boulderdash page
and a Dutch software page where we wanna archive all
Dutch C64 software.
Both pages are under construction and will be soon 100% active.
Greetings Ron van Schaik
(ps)
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28.Apr.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Server moves on 29th of April
Our server hardware moves on the 28th of April to another part of the same computer center. Also, we'll get new IP-addresses and thus our website and email may be temporarily unavailable, although we'll of course try to keep the downtime to a minimum. Thanks for your understanding! (nba)
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28.Apr.2003
Amiga XFR (Website)
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Music: eXternal Format Rippers 2.3 available
Who does not know XFD and XAD by Dirk Stoecker and the Exoticripper
or Eagleplayer. XFR is a similar system, which combines the best from
all for the purpose of finding music pieces and pictures in demos. XFR
offers a LIBRARY and many Clients for the individual sound formats. A
genius for the Delitracker and the Eagleplayer and a few Shell/WB
Tools, with which one knows whole listings and disks scanning in the
hand turning, also participate.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Apr.2003
Amifish (Website)
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Translation Tool for Babelfish: Amifish of 25.04.2003
Amifish is a small tool, which helps you to translate texts with Babelfish. Since the some routines of Babelfish were
changed, there is a new version of Amifish available. Besides the program the following is needed: amarquee.library V54, MUI 3.8, betterstring.mcc, nlist.mcc and busy.mcc.
Download: amifish.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Apr.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Jurassic Pack#12
Shortly after the end of the BREAKPOINT 2003 party issue no. 12 of
the Amiga demoscene diskmags Jurassic Pack was released.
You can find the mag as well as some pictures of the party under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 28.04.2003
Following the Aminet uploads which were added since our last message:
dvbcontrol.lha comm/misc 187K+V1.33 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor
facts.lha comm/tcp 201K+NTP clock time synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
YAM24.lha comm/yam 944K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (Main archive)
YAM24con.lha comm/yam 648K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (Contributions)
YAM24cpu.lha comm/yam 80K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (68040/68060)
YAM24loc.lha comm/yam 957K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (Translations)
YAM24mos.lha comm/yam 366K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4 (MorphOS)
frsh_strptease.lha demo/aga 294K+Striptease by Fresh in 1997
tbl-magia.lha demo/aga 4.9M+"Magia" The winner demo from Break Point
gen4asm.lha dev/asm 182K+Generation4 Sources Disk
blitzgtfix.lha dev/basic 89K+Blitz2 fix for many Gadtools problems
IdentifyDevBas.lha dev/basic 58K+Using Identify library from Basic
insomnia.lha dev/e 89K+E Source Editor
WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 870K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 295K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
check4gb.lha disk/misc 16K+Check if your HD setup is 4GB-ready
Scalos_PL.lha docs/help 22K+Polish locale for Scalos 40.27
AIOV70.lha docs/mags 410K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 70 (Apri
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 472K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 920K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive
bouldergames.lha game/jump 2.9M+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
bouldergraph.lha game/jump 196K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive
bouldersound.lha game/jump 184K+V5.17, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive
WHDIDemos.lzh game/patch 3.4M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGames0-9.lzh game/patch 278K+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesA-B.lzh game/patch 5.4M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesC-D.lzh game/patch 5.1M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesE-F.lzh game/patch 2.8M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesG-I.lzh game/patch 3.7M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesJ-M.lzh game/patch 4.7M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesN-R.lzh game/patch 5.3M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesS-T.lzh game/patch 6.0M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesU-Z.lzh game/patch 2.9M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIMags.lzh game/patch 203K+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
wipes.lha gfx/ifx 9K+Wipe/Transition Arexx Script v0.8 for IF
Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 557K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 1/8
Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 155K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 2/8
Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 3a/8
Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 326K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 3b/8
Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 4/8
Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 143K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 5/8
Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 6/8 (opt
Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.21 (21.4.2003) - Part 7/8 (opt
newkernel2.lha hard/drivr 1.0M+GNU/GPL updated kernel for AMIthlon
Carta-Go.mpg mods/mpg 6.0M+Trance-MP3 (6:28 min) by BiT-X
dream_of_art.lha pix/trace 976K+3rd in Raytrace compo at Equinoxe Party
le_chien.lha pix/trace 515K+1st in Raytrace compo at Equinoxe Party
the_blue_buggy.lha pix/trace 936K+2nd in Raytrace compo at Equinoxe Party
petcom.lha text/misc 6K+ASCII <-> PETSCII converter
RemTVModes.lha util/boot 6K+Remove 15KHz modes from display database
zlib-library.lha util/libs 145K+Shared library for zlib-(de)compression
afind.lha util/misc 175K+V1.63 Fast AminetCD search utility
Frogger-GUI.lha util/misc 25K+Reaction GUI for FroggerNG
FroggerNG_GUI.lha util/misc 34K+Control Panel for FroggerNG
NewHomer.lha util/misc 106K+Talkin' Homer V1.86 (one bug fixed, + a
WRip_26.lha util/misc 34K+Rips various pack-formats from Disk/File
backclock.lha util/time 130K+Transparent clock. You must try this !!!
backclock_src.lha util/time 15K+Source code from backclock
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Apr.2003
AWeb (Website)
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AWeb 3.4 GPL released in new archive and for MorphOS
AWeb, a cost free Open Source based Web browser, is available in
version 3.4 GPL in a new archive:
Apart from the executable main program, the package also contains the
plug-ins, transfer animations, icon sets and installer. Versions available
for 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060 and as from now also for MorphOS.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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27.Apr.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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File manager: DiskMaster Version 2.5RC10
Rudolph Riedel has released version 2.5RC10 of his file manager and provides it on his
home page for downloading. The following details have changed:
- Made fit for paths longer than 256 characters as will be supported in AmigaOS 4.0 and
(allegedly) are already supported in MorphOS
- Fixed various bugs
- New command line interpreter from RC3 release integrated again,
only this time a little better-adjusted...
- Configuration format changed slightly and expanded internal configuration to improve accessability for new users
- Details as usual in the DM2beta.readme...
Download
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Apr.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF)
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Wanted urgently: Web designer for CD32-Allianz
The CD32-Allianz team is urgently looking for a Web designer,
who wants to help designing a new layout consisting of 4 frames.
Further information can be obtained from
Thorsten Schölzel.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Bill McEwen still Amiga CEO?
According to statements by Ray A. Akey
of Amiga Inc. and Fleecy Moss,
Bill McEwen is still CEO of Amiga Inc.
Yesterday Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have circulated in a news item at
MorphOS-News.de
that Gary Hare was CEO of Amiga Inc., with whom talks had already been held
(we reported).
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco stand by their statement, see the following comments at
morphos-news.de,
ANN and
again ANN.
Carsten Schröder paraphrases this nebulous situation to the point:
"The state of the news is becoming more and more nebulous: In the meantime Fleecy Moss
and Ray A. Akey, members of AMIGA, Inc.'s management, have denied a change at the top
management level. Bill McEwen, however, hasn't piped up yet, while Genesi again confirmed
the change and are currently trying to get in touch with Gary Hare.
Conclusion: There have been various bankruptcies and corporate acquisitions of the
AMIGA mother company in the past - but I personally can't remember a situation where there was
uncertainty about the current principal of the company.
At the moment I'm regarding two scenarios explaining this situation as the most probable ones:
Scenario 1: The shareholders of AMIGA, Inc. have decided to exchange the management but not informed
them (or some of them), while the designated CEO has already had talks with Genesi.
Scenario 2: Genesi have been had. I'm regarding a deliberate false report improbable as this would
do much damage to the company's reputation."
Here the statement of Amiga Inc's Ray A. Akey:
"Bill McEwen is currently the CEO of Amiga and the fact that there is no PR
to the contrary about this on our website means that there is no news.
Anyone describing the appointment of a new CEO as "old news" is obviously
posting information for their own motives and reasons since "old news"
requires it to be "new news" before it can be "old news" and since Amiga
Inc hasn't posted such "new news" then the motives of the person describing
it as "old news" while simultaneously putting this new news into the world
have to be questioned."
Here the statement of Fleecy Moss:
"Has Amiga Inc changed CEO?"
Fleecy Moss: As of this moment Bill McEwen is the CEO of Amiga and if a new CEO
was to be brought in, it would be because of Amiga expanding as a company
and Bill needing to concentrate on being Chairman and President - currently
he is CEO as well and three top jobs in a company that is attracting the
attention we are is at least one job too many.
Any CEO to be brought in would be as part of the team and would be totally
in sync with the current strategic direction of the company. If someone is
posting information to the contrary then it can only be for ulterior motives.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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26.Apr.2003
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Official release from YAM v2.4
DESCRIPTION
YAM (Yet Another Mailer) lets you send and receive electronic mail
over the Internet and maintain archives of messages in your computer.
The idea came to Marcel Beck in 1995 when he first tried using email:
the programmes available at the time were either powerful but
complicated to configure, or else used a too limiting graphical
interface. The goal, therefore, was to program a cross between
AdMail and AirMail, with a few ideas from Pegasus Mail.
YAM made its first public appearance in early 1996 under the
"mailware" concept. The unexpectedly enthusiastic response
from the public led to a steady development of YAM that reached
its finest hour in version 1.3.5, the last incarnation in the
"classic" series. By then, YAM had turned into one of the most
popular Amiga programmes ever, and won Marcel the appreciation
and several awards from the Amiga community thanks to its
simplicity and ease of use.
Unwilling to stop at that point, Marcel spent almost two years
developing YAM2. In the summer of 1999, a greatly improved YAM
set some of the standards that would be lately imitated by other
popular Internet applications. In November 2000, Marcel finally
gave up out of lack of time and motivation, but was yet kind enough
to release the "final" YAM 2.2 together with its sources under the
GNU General Public License. On this day and age, Marcel Beck is
still fondly remembered by many as one of a selected few who made
a difference on the Amiga.
Today, after YAM 2.3 and 2.3p1 fixed some of the most outstanding
problems in the original sources and almost 18 months of hard work
have been spent, the YAM Open Source team is proud to make the legend
continue with YAM 2.4, the most powerful Amiga mailer to date.
NEW FEATURES
- Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into
groups, and nested at the user's discretion
- SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using
AmiSSL.library
- Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last
N used recipients if they don't appear in the address book
- More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases,
real names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found
in the address book or the email cache
- Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists
- Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant
for cyrillic users.
- Reworked status bar
- Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings
- Extended support for mailto: links
- Search function in the Write window
- Customizable size format and localized unit display
- Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label
- New hidden option "JumpToIncoming"
- Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker
- Built-in mouse wheel support
- New "marked" status
- "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types
- Extended documentation
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- AmigaOS V39+, MC68020+, MUI3.8+ and the latest BetterString,
NList, NListtree, TextEditor & Toolbar classes (included)
AVAILABILITY
DIRECTORY
- /pub/aminet/comm/mail (hopefully soon comm/yam :-)
FILE NAMES
- YAM24.lha - Main archive - basic 020 binary and English guide
- YAM24cpu.lha - Diffs for 040/060 processors and the GPatch utility
- YAM24loc.lha - Foreign language support files: catalogs & guides
- YAM24con.lha - Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc.
- YAM24mos.lha - MorphOS binary, includes starter
OTHER
DISTRIBUTABILITY
- Free software, distributed under the General Public License
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Kudos to Brian for bringing c.s.a.a. back to life!
(nba)
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26.Apr.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi wants to attend at AmiWest show
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco today announced that Genesi wants to attend at
the AmiWest show, held in Sacramento, CA on July 26th and 27th 2003. Genesi
wants to present the new G4 CPU card for the Pegasos1, the new software
bundle and maybe also a prototype of the Pegasos2 motherboard and of course
MorphOS.
Bill and Raquel also confirmed that they have spoken with Amiga Inc's
new CEO Garry Hare a couple of weeks ago.
(nba)
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26.Apr.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload v3.5 in preparation
I'am preparing Pixload 3.5
- more options about drag and drop (TIFF, TARGA and DIR recognized)
- links with miamidx (RTC and/or Network) : miamidx control panel included
- optimized code
- another icons (mac os x)
- more interactivity
- etc...
I need beta tester: if you want to try: send an email to
pixelart@wanadoo.Fr
(English language) with object: Pixload 3.5 tester. If German amiga users want
translation, send me few words (English -> German) so that I include in this
version. If you have got any ideas, sent them too, I will try to include too... x
(nba)
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25.Apr.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 7
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 7 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) ikir: Are Elbox working with Amiga Inc/Hyperion for OS4? Or for their SharkPPC compatibility?
Fleecy: We have a 'gentlemens agreement' with Elbox that we will not make any announcements or discuss plans, projects and products until they are ready to make those plans, projects and products public. If you want them to share that information, I would suggest you contact them.
2) sgm: Is the corporate market a possible target (in the light of the surging WebServices fever)? If so, is a high-performance XML parser being considered for OS4.x?
Fleecy: All markets are obviously targets but there is no point in entering them until you have a product, a pitch and a story. The creation of such obviously requires an expenditure of resources and since we are, as with most companies 'watching the pennies', we have to decide which subset from the whole range of opportunities is to be targeted first. If by corporate you mean 'enterprise' then that is not a first stage target but if you mean OEM or embedded then the answer is very much yes.
As for the XML parser, XML has been introduced with AmigaOS4.0 and will continue to spread until it is a system wide service.
3) Jose: It's been said and known that if AmigaOS is to be a server OS it will lose it's hardly earned advantages, and stop being AmigaOS as we know it. Could in the future be various versions of the OS with one being the continuation of the Classic in PPC, like most amiga users that have supported the platform for the past years seem to want?
Fleecy: AG1 was created with a very specific set of configurations in mind - workstation and desktop. Consoles, STBs and servers didn't really exist during its key definition and the idea of Smartphones, PDAs and digital consumer devices were science fiction. Having said that, the CDTV and then the CD32 were moves in the right direction but as anyone familiar with those devices knows, there were really a computer repackaged with extra bits hacked on.
AG2 is designed to accept that hardware is a commodity and that it can be configured and deployed in many different markets. This is part of the reason for the move to a service based architecture, because multiple configurations can then be created from a core set of services with configuration specific services being added or replaced by ones more tuned to the target device profile.
This will allow Amiga to offer a 'toolkit' to OEMs and to create 'distributions' for shrink wrapped markets - a console product, an eFamily product, a SoHo product, a hacker's product etc. Such flexibility gives us a distinctive advantage over having to custom chop a single product for each potential customer.
Rob: 4) Books on programming the Amiga are out of date and very difficult to obtain these days. Have you any plans to get some books published covering modern Amiga programming for the beginner. It is important to get some fresh talent into scene and not just rely on existing developers. Topics covered should include Warp3D, AHI and other more recent developements to AmigaOS.
Fleecy: I couldn't agree more. We intend to expend considerable resources on a full development toolchain, with good documentation and tutorials covering all levels. These will be developed in parallel with the development of the AG2 domains.
5) ssolie: Does Amiga Inc. still plan to take back control of the AmigaOS 4.0 source code (i.e. purchase it back from Hyperion) and produce your own releases beyond AmigaOS 4.0?
Fleecy: Absolutely. The transfer of AmigaOS4 to Hyperion was done for a number of strategic reasons, one being to protect the AmigaOS for the community and prevent it being left in limbo if anything should happen to the parent company as was witnessed after Commodore and Escom went bankrupt. We will reassert ownership when both Hyperion and Amiga judge the time to be right, and there are certain less than obvious benefits to maintaing the current situation.
The location of ownership has nothing to do with the future plans. Amiga Inc is fully committed to the development and expansion of AmigaOS way beyond AmigaOS4.0. Detailed planning and design for AmigaOS4.1 is already underway alongside the parallel path of AG2. AG2 technology will be rolled into the AmigaOS4 release family as and when it is ready but the two will not be dependent on each other - in other words potential delays in one will not affect the other. Contrary to the occasional speculation that Amiga doesn't care or has no plans for the AmigaOS, that product line is and always has been vital to our future success. Back in 1999, it would have been impossible to gain interest and investment in a company offering a desktop competitor to Microsoft and so our public strategy had to be tailored to fit that reality.
It isn't 1999 anymore.
6) DaveP: With the advent of AOS4 and AmigaONE series board are you also investigating the more lucrative possibilities in the heavyweight commercial sector or is it still far too soon to start? ( example: solutions, services and bringing even lightweight transaction processing products onto the fast reliable messaging codebase of ExecSG ?)
Fleecy: The Amiga Development Pipeline (ADP) starts with the Opportunity Analysis stage. Each AG2 domain thus considers every possible opportunity and attempts to identify every potential customer for that domain, both internal and external. This is then feed into the next stage, the Solution Description stage. This ensures that we will design a solution that covers as wide a customer base as possible, even though the actual implementation versioning may chose to spread out that complete design over a set of releases.
So to answer your question, yes we are looking at a huge range of potential markets, open, embedded, horizontal, vertical and total but our ability to exploit them is determined by the short, medium and long term strategic implementation plan.
7) alx: Will there come a point when you stop supporting accelerated "classic" Amigas? If so, when?
Fleecy: Yes there will. As to when, that will be decided by the simple equation of when the cost and effort of developing a version for those accelerated Amigas is more than the revenue that that version brings in. We want people to upgrade to the new hardware and we do recognise that we have to support the existing investment made by Amigans in the short term but ultimately the platform can only advance if people advance with it.
It should be obvious to most people that AmigaOS4 is going to run far more impressively on a new, cleanly designed, higher specified AmigaOne than an accelerated classic Amiga. It should also be obvious that the cost of maintaining and extending an AmigaOne is going to be substantially less than that of maintaining and extending a classic Amiga.
8) donV: Do you know of any plan or project to produce a laptop that will run AmigaOS4?
Fleecy: There are lots of plans for many different product, both from ourselves and from third parties but I do not want to comment on specific products until we have prototypes in front of us since many plans and good intentions often come to nothing. We'd obviously love to have an AmigaOS4.0 powered laptop as well as an AmigaOS4.0 powered STB, games console, PDA and Smartphone.
9) Bodie: In a previous Q&A, you mentioned the development of a highly advanced calculator for AmigaDE. Could you provide any extra details in terms of its functionality?
Fleecy: The calculator was created by a prominent AmigaDE developer in response to a demand from a large customer and I'll see if he is willing to write an article about it, possibly for CAM. It is particularly impressive because of its modular design, essentially a framework for functional units so it can be as simple or as complex as the set of modules that are installed. This means it can be used for a variety of functions - standard maths, computing, physics, chemistry, stock taking and with the ability for third parties to write their own modules.
It also features a variety of graphic and interface modes - static and dynamic graphing (and I know we have a customer interested in volumetric modelling), standard single line, multi-line and plans for a shell like page set.
10) Jose: Can a service based architecture(future AmigaOS) be as much effective as the Classic AmigaOS, comparing the services both provide? I mean to how much extent does a service based architecture would compromise the efficiency and the character of AmigaOS, if it does at all ?
Fleecy: A service based model is very efficient and not that much different at its heart from what the existing Amiga does now, a testament to its advanced original design. Its main extension is that it adds abstraction and management capabilities that open up distributed computing, all the way from simple home networks to parallel matrices. For developers there will be some new things to learn but quite a bit of that has been added to the new library model. The existing user interaction model can stay the same on top of it but it also opens up the option of far more advanced user interaction models, in particular moving from an application centric system to a content centric system - for example bring a set of content together and then being presented with the set of services that can be applied to that content.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=8
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 v0.950 Pre-Final
Rupert Hausberger has published version 0.950 Pre-Final of his benchmark-tool for
AmigaOS and MorphOS. Please read the changes from version 0.930 to version 0.950:
- ADDED Database - now allows direct upload/download from the module-server.
Added new page in "module base". Changed all things to make new system working.
- ADDED TCPIP-support
- ADDED HTTP-support [for downloading]
- ADDED SMPT-support [for uploading]
- ADDED BYTEmark [tm] v2.0 benchmark [experimental - 68k version seemes to slow]
- ADDED NSD-64bit access-mode for device stuff [uncalibrated]
- ADDED "new-logo" system - via 24bit workbench datatype
- ADDED own requester window
- ADDED own popup window
- ADDED "loopsize" and "passes" output to mem-/drv-benchmark windows
- ADDED check whether 'amigamark.def' is valid with current build
- ADDED check whether 'amigamark.cfg' is valid with current build
- ADDED included all neccessary string.h functions - [no libc]
- ADDED new tooltype QUICKSTART [=TRUE/FALSE] [WB only]
- ADDED do "chip ram tests" in "make module"
- ADDED some missing MUIA_Help popups
- CHANGED AvailMem() function to own one
- CHANGED some small things in the GUI
- CHANGED regonization of valid installation [more fast & less memory need]
- CHANDED retuned maximal values
- FIXED some stuff in the GUI
- REMOVED "time-warnings" feature [useless]
- CLEANUP _many_ general optimizions
- UPDATED english-guide to v.950
- COMPILED with gcc 3.2.2 now
- BUMPED revision to .950 [pre-final]
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS-game: BoulderDäsh RTX V5.17
Most important change of the new version (please download it from the title link)
is the screen mode on the Workbench which was desired of many users. Besides this still
several minor improvements have been made which above all concern the automatic
hardware recognition.
Boulderdäsh was tested on an A500, A1200, under Amithlon and on several MorphOS and OS4
computers. If you have questions, suggestions or problems please contact Guideo Mersmann
via email.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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Event: BeGeistert - BeOS-meeting with Pegasos-performance
Fans and developers of the operating system BeOS will meet on the "BeGeistert" which will
take place in Düsseldorf tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France from Paris will demonstrate a Pegasos for which
an OpenBeOS port is in work.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AlphaBase full version and source codes
In co-operation and with permission of Maik Schmidt Amiga Arena makes the release of the
database "AlphaBase" possible.
AlphaBase is a clear and easy to learn database program. It is possible to enter variously
arranged (e.g. German and American) addresses in one common database.
Adresses can be printed on envelopes and labels. Data which have nothing to do with addresses
can be linked with comments, pictures and sound files.
System requirements: AmigaOS 3.0 Workbench & Librarys as well as 1 MB ChipMem +
2 MB FastMem
Progression?
If there is anyone who is interested to dvelop AlphaBase (BlitzBasic) further please
contact Olaf Köbnik! (nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Blade online again
"Blade" is an action role play by Mark Sheeky in iso-3d-view.
Mark Sheeky is well-known as the developer of the games "Burnout" and "Hilt II".
In 2000 Amiga Arena published the German version for the first time and could offer
Blade as a HD version (AGA/ECS) with permission of Mark Sheeky.
Now "Blade" is online again and you can get further information on the Blade homepage.
You can choose four characters from seven possible ones (warrior, thief, cleric, magician, dwarf,
elf, empath) and you have to defeat the evil! "CU Amiga" rated Blade with 86 percent.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
AROS (Website)
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AROS status-report 04/2003
The alternative operating system AROS is being activly developed further. On the website you
can find a detailed English status report to the project.
- Porting AROS to the Pegasos has been started.
- ide.device and cdrom.handler are now more stable than before, removable medium are supported.
- USB/UHCI-driver are available but still not useable.
- The soundcard driver system AHI was ported to AROS.
- The render.library and guigfx.library are supposed but are integrated in Zune.
- The jpeg.datatype is new and the png.datatype was updated.
- For futher changes please have a look at the AROS status report.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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point.design delivers AmigaOne XE
From now on the first AmigaOne XE boards are available at the Austrian Amiga dealer
point.design. The PowerPC/G4 as well as the G3 version have arrived and will be officially
delivered from April 28th.
Additional to the mainboard a bootable "Debian Linux Install CD" as well as "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 PPC Binary 1"
(basis installation incl. XFree4.0 and KDE) belong to the packet.
The system can be easily installed and extended via the Internet just as the customer wants.
Besides this the packet also contains UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator) incl. AmigaOS 3.1 Kickstart
ROM images and a completely installed AmigaOS 3.1 incl. "Magic Software Packet".
The price of the earlybird system also contains an update to the next generation of the AmigaOS 4
which will run nativly on the hardware and which will be sent to the customers for free.
Additional to the motherboard packet complete systems are also offered.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
heise online (Website)
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Opinion poll of developers concerning Open Source
In the research study "Economic Organization and Viability of Open Source Software"
scientists of the Stanford University ask for the motivation and expectations of Open Source
developers and which tools they use for programming.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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25.Apr.2003
XBaze (Website)
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Database: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 8
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.3 Beta 8 of his database 'XBaze'.
The program offers an easy to use editor. It runs from AmigaOS 3.0 and from now on also
on MorphOS.
Bug reports and proposals can be sent to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl.
Download: XB-7.3B8.lzx
Addenda: The server is currently (25.4.2003, 12:30) not available.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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