03.Apr.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Sound card: Delfina introduced successfully
The new soundcard Delfina by Individual Computers was introduced
successfully last weekend at
the AmiGBG show in Gothenburg, Sweden. Meanwhile, all important
European dealers have been supplied, so the anticipated delivery
date of April 7th can be kept without problems.
The module that is available now is ready to be used on nearly any Amiga.
The included 22-pin cable for the A1200 clockport can also be used
to connect to an X-Surf Ethernet card in a "bigbox" Amiga.
Probably the most important reason to buy this card is the DSP, the
digital signal processor. For example it allows playing back MP3
nearly without CPU load. MP3 is a popular audio format that is also
used by artists to put demos on the Internet. Free music samples and
full titles are available on sites like
Entertainment-Mafia.
With the Delfina, an Amiga can
playback MP3 even without an accelerator in the best possible quality.
(ps)
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03.Apr.2003
Ulrich Scholz (E-Mail)
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Convention: BeGeistert 010 - 26th and 27th April, 2003
What is BeGeistert? BeGeistert is an international gathering of Be users, developers, user groups, all about the operating system Be.
The next BeGeistert 010 takes places from Saturday the 26th to Sunday the 27th of April 2003 in the Düsseldorf youth hostel on 1
Düsseldorfer Street, under the slogan "beautiful new world."
Participation cost 20 euros (including lunch). To stay overnight in the youth hostel is 25 euros, including breakfast. The cost of dinner
and drinks are not included. Whoever wants to make a reservation should call: +49-211-557310.
Many different workshops and seminars will be offered at BeGeistert. As it has in previous conventions, the program will develop over
time. If someone would like to present, he or she should write to the team.
On the website, under the title link, you'll find more details about registering for, traveling to, and participating in the convention.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: New Mozilla Roadmap: Dismissal of the Web Suite
The development team has changed the planning. From here on the package will no longer be developed in its old form. As a browser
the Mozilla derivative Phoenix will be employed, in order to get slim, fast software on its feet. Something similar will likely happen to
the email client.
Read the complete article under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads through 4th April, 2003
Here are the new Aminet uploads, which have arrived since our previous announcement:
HomeBank.lha biz/misc 539K+V2.1 The personal account manager (MUI)
ifusion_update.lha biz/patch 384K+IFusion Patch 1.3.0
KuangEleven29.lha comm/irc 303K+3.0 Gamma(29) UPDATE Requires Gamma(17)
amithlon1_com.lha comm/misc 10K+Much better serial device driver for AMI
hipsstv10.lha comm/misc 295K+SharkTerm. A really fun Terminal program
JabberW_IMG.lha comm/tcp 23K+Extra images for JabberWocky
autoconf-254.lha dev/gg 1.8M+GNU automatic configuration generator. V
nocover109.lha docs/mags 2.1M+Great german diskmagazine
birds3.lha game/data 585K+Cardset in Iff-Format for AS-....... com
horses2.lha game/data 638K+Cardset in Iff-Format for AS-....... com
AS-Accordion.lha game/think 192K+Accordion Solitaire Card Game
AS-HighLow.lha game/think 185K+HighLow Card Game
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.15b
8svxtoxxx.lha mus/misc 21K+IFF-8SVX to 8SVX, RAW, AIFF, WAV, VOC co
EasyHex.lha util/cli 4K+View the header on large files
FTPMount-PL.lha util/misc 2K+Polish locale for FTPMount 1.0
NewHomer.lha util/misc 90K+V1.8 (some updates, a couple of fixes).
DeStart.lha util/wb 17K+Provide control over WBStartup-drawer
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets up to 4th April, 2003
With WHDLoad, you are able to install to your hard-drive games which were formerly considered floppy-only. The following packets have been
created or updated since our last announcement:
- 02.04.03 new: Space Ace 2 (Ready Soft) done by CFOU! & Codetapper
- 02.04.03 improved: Cruncher Factory (Kingsoft) adjustable speed
- 01.04.03 improved: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) supports German version, uses fast memory
- 30.03.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) smash screen appearance
- 30.03.03 fixed: Vegas Gambler (California Dreams) protection removed
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
Diverse Websites
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Diverse Software News in Summary (Update)
DCR 8520 Ports:
30 Mar 2003 - WCGI v1.0
It is a simple, but powerful, database search engine, designed as
CGI to run from a HTTPd (tested on Apache). The features are:
Very configurable.., Search took result, Flood protection, Max.
# of results, etc. - Download: wcgi-1.0.lha
30 Mar 2003 - Help wanted!
Hi folks, I have compiled a nice unix program using the MiamiDX
librarys functions, but something doesn't work properly. Please,
if you have used these libs (mainly pcap) help me to finish it!.
This will be a great program for the community! :-)
Amigan Software:
Game: Worm Wars 7.4 - Download: WormWars.lha
Tool: Report+ 5.66a - Download: ReportPlus.lha
Game: Saga 1.24a - Downlaod: Saga.lha
Stephan Rupprecht
Tool: reaction.lib replacement - reactionlib.lha
TTEngine:
TTE Manager has been upgraded to version 1.1a with some locale translations:
Polish locale by me (Grzegorz Kraszewski)
French locale by Jerome Chesnot
Hungarian locale by Márton Dósa
German locale by Dieter Beck
Download: tte_manager-1.1a.lha
AmiDog's Movie Player:
030331: A new beta has been released. Read the included BETA.txt before using it!
Download: AMP2-BETA-030331.lha
dynAMIte:
Game: dynAMIte Version 2.3 with many bugfixes published
Download:
dynAMIte_update.lha (nur das Update)
dynAMIte.lha (das komplette Archiv)
DOpus4:
File: DOpus417pre20.lzx
Uploaded by: jrzeuski
Description: 4.17pre20 beta release
Download: DOpus417pre20.lzx
OnyxSoft - Daniel Westerberg:
Added a new version of 8SVXtoXXX (Version 1.31) - 8svxtoxxx.lha
Added a new version of DeStart (Version 2.0) - destart.lha
Added a new version of EasyHex (Version 1.01) - easyhex.lha
PowerD:
Uploaded the 0.20 full release - Download: powerd.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Apr.2003
Amiga Segodnya (E-Mail)
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Color backgrounds for mobile Amigans
djv/magway wrote:
I have updated my "Amiga Segodnya" wap-site. Now you can download color Amiga/MorphOS backgrounds to your mobile phone.
Visit English section at wml.amitoday.spb.ru
Note: you must use GPRS mode for download some pictures more than 4 Kb size. (ps)
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03.Apr.2003
Fabio Alemagna (E-Mail)
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New AROS Website at Sourceforge
Under the title link you'll find a newly established website at Sourceforge for AROS (Amiga Research Operating System). The AROS developer
team will inform you about news concerning the project.
AROS is an open source project for the implementation of a portable version of AmigaOS V3.1. On the newly established website you'll find
new and updated documentation, an expanded and improved download area, new screenshots and the new little mascot Kitty, which was
created by Eric W. Schwartz. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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02.Apr.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Disk-Magazine: NoCover 109 published
The NoCover #109 has been published some days ago. Since today you
might read or download that magazine at the APC&TCP website online. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Dirk 'Docki' Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Amiga Club-Magazine No.3 released
Dirk 'Docki' Dockbreyder writes:
I just got an email that the CAM#3 (like it's called now) is released now. But you have to be registered at Amiga to read it. It has been with intention to publish it on April the 2nd and not on the 1st. "...We chose to release CAM #3 on April 2nd instead of April 1st, for obvious reasons". :)
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Suite101
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John Chandler at Suite101: AmigaOne Latest
John Chandler writes at Suite101.com in regulary an English article about Amiga. With the latest article, reachable by the title link, he sums up all facts about the AmigaOne.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Golem.de: Source code of Duke Nukem 3D made freely available
»Download of 3.8 MBytes
The game developers Realms made the source code of the classic shooter Duke Nukem 3 D officially free available. Interested programmers might download the 3.8 MBytes sized code free of charge.«
Full Golem article see title link.
According to vgr.com there is a version for Amiga systems availabe/under development already: "...you can play
Duke Nukem 3D (that has just been released), Shogo and the latest Quake for
Amiga...". (ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Florian Stadler (E-Mail)
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Music: Scooter CD with Turrican
The cult game for the Amiga 'Turrican' LIVES! Not in that kind of a new Amiga game but at the new Scooter CD "The Stadium Techno
Experience". Track no. 8 called "Level One" includes the "Freedom"
melody of Turrican 2. Who does not believe this might read within the CD:
Track 8 written by H.P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan, Jay Frog, J. Thele and
Chris Hülsbeck.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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02.Apr.2003
Jörg Karisch (amiga1303) (ANF)
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Event: AMIGA user meeting in Nuremberg on April the 5th 2003
The AMIGA user group IMAGE invites to a hardware meeting in Nuremberg again. This will take place on Saturday the 5th of April 2003 from 9.00 am till about 10:00 pm at the Mannertstraße 10 in 90429 Nuremberg.
We want to offer support for problems which might be solved with brought in hard and software. Additionally at least three of us will introduce devices like keyboards, mouse, card readers driven by a Highway/Subway.
Further information you can read under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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01.Apr.2003
Gary7 (ANF)
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Emulator: New WinUAE Version 0.8.22 R6 announced for first half of April 2003
WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 6 WIP (29.03.2003)
Expected release date: first half of April
Bugs fixed:
- increased compatibility/display corruption fixes, Future CAPS releases, TerrorPods, Eliminator, Double Dragon 2, Wild Streets, Liverpool, Banshee AGA, Alien Breed 3D, Skeleton Krew...
- audio emulation fixes (noise and random popping)
- input configuration saves autofire settings properly
- crash when creating new CD32 NVRAM-file
- compressed disk images can be write-enabled
- more compatible with newer CDTV extended ROMs
(still no CDROM controller emulation)
- disk emulation fixes (writing freeze, drive type, disk eject/insert, more compatible disk change detection, writing to multiple drives simultaneously)
- stuck middle button when "Middle Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" was enabled
- don't crash if zlib.dll is missing
- lost mouse input events when using high refresh rate mouse
New features:
- compressed state files
- rewritten and more compatible serial port emulation
- more compatible blitter speed in non cycle-exact mode (Spindizzy Worlds, PP Hammer..)
- turbo-floppy speed enables fast writing
- disable screensaver when WinUAE is active
- improved configurable CPU idle-function
- screenshots saved to ScreenShots-directory
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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01.Apr.2003
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Aminet Uploads till 01.04.2003
Here are the latest Aminet-Uploads since last time:
MiamiDxCT.lha comm/net 10K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
MiamiDxSPA.lha comm/net 10K+Spanish catalog for Miami Deluxe
MKD_OstylASM.lha dev/asm 91K+Sources code from OSTYL/MANKIND
adocart.lha dev/misc 289K+NEW AutoDoc viewer MUI
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 50K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.5M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 03/2003 (Itali
animals2.lha game/data 613K+Cardset in Iff-Format for AS-....... com
flowers3.lha game/data 609K+Cardset in Iff-Format for AS-....... com
bouldercaves.lha game/jump 271K+V5.10, BoulderDaesh RTX Caves Archive
bouldergames.lha game/jump 1.0M+V5.10, BoulderDaesh RTX Games Archive
bouldergraph.lha game/jump 185K+V5.10, BoulderDaesh RTX Graphics Archive
bouldersound.lha game/jump 178K+V5.10, BoulderDaesh RTX Sound Archive
SWOSEdKey.lha game/patch 0K+Free Registration Code for SWOS Ed
cd32-adjust.lha hard/misc 312K+CD32 CDROM alignment
imdbDiff030321.lha misc/imdb 2.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
NKN_cs_cd_1.lha mods/nkn 12M+01 Sugar Rain Morning - Cooleour SYNTHES
NKN_cs_cd_8.lha mods/nkn 7.3M+08 Sweat & Noise - Cooleour SYNTHESIS CD
SpringMelodies.lha mods/sets 1.4M+"Spring Melodies" Eureka Packer mods
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 98K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
8svxtoxxx.lha mus/misc 21K+IFF-8SVX to 8SVX, RAW, AIFF, WAV, VOC co
a52dec-074.lha mus/misc 587K+A52dec, liba52 decode ATSC standard A/52
anl-strip_10.lha pix/misc 51K+[ancor] a normal life
sgf-strip_7.lha pix/misc 43K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
sgf-strip_8.lha pix/misc 44K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
Spring_is_wait.jpg pix/park 70K+Beautiful landscape-JPEG in 640x480 Pixe
Spring_is_wai3.jpg pix/views 48K+Beautiful landscape-JPEG in 640x480 Pixe
NewHomerDatFix.lha util/misc 3.8M+Fixes Sample Load Errors! (Wav Datatype
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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01.Apr.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox announced Spider USB drivers for Amithlon
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce completion of the development
of the new Spider drivers. New drivers for the Spider USB 2.0 PCI
cards extend the range of supported hardware with computers running
AmigaOS under Amithlon.
'Amithlon users have overwhelmingly and repeatedly told us they
absolutely wanted the features of the USB 2.0 standard as soon
as the Spider USB 2.0 card entered the market,' said Darek Smietana,
support manager at Elbox. 'We are proud to deliver our sophisticated
and innovative USB hardware to Amithlon users. Now they can enjoy
all the benefits of the USB 2.0 Hi-Speed functionality in their
systems. Needless to say, we are again following our basic business
rule with this step: to give to users more than they could expect.'
The new USB driver is enclosed in the Spider CD bundled with the new
version of the Spider USB 2.0 card, whose availability will be
announced in the coming days.
For more info about Spider, see the
Spider USB 2.0 card website. (ps)
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01.Apr.2003
Martin Merz (ANF)
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AmiPR ImageLayer - Thumbnail-Image-Preview in a Workbench Window
AmiPR ImageLayer adds the feature of previewing images in the standard
Workbench directory lister to the Amiga (just as WinXP). The program
creates thumbnails of the picture for every image. Your old Workbench
icons will not be deleted. For files which are not images, the normal
icon will be displayed.
AmiPR ImageLayer needs OS 3.5/3.9 as the Preferences tool is based on
Reaction.
Please visit http://www.masonicons.de/AmiPRIndex.html
for download, detailed information and some preview images.
Dear Martin, you did it too good ;-)
Update 03.04.2003:
This was an April-fool. Have a look at the capitals in the program name
and you will read APRIL :)
(ps)
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01.Apr.2003
AmiWorld / SpawnPPC (ANF)
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AmigaONE SE Review in Italian by AmiWorld
Under the title link you will find the first AmigaONE SE G3 600 MHz
review in Italian. (ps)
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01.Apr.2003
vht-dk.dk (ANF)
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Virus program: New update of Mill (01.04.2003)
Zbigniew 'Zeeball' Trzcionkowski has made an new update of MILL, and
is now available for download at the VHT sites. Here is some info
about the update:
- name: mill
- short: New polish antivirus
- author: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski (zeeball@interia.pl
- uploader: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski (zeeball@interia.pl
- version: (01.04.2003)
- requires: OS37+, asl38+, locale, xvs, xfd, xad etc.
- type: util/virus
Fixes from previous public version:
- added catala locale by Carles 'Doraemon' Bernardez (thanx!)
- none, just refresh
Download from VHT Netherlands: http://welcome.to/vht-nl
Download from VHT Denmark: http://www.vht-dk.dk
Download from VHT Canada: http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org
Take care
The people behind Virus Help Team
Jan, Alex & Charlene
(ps)
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31.Mar.2003
(ANF)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 3. Preview
Tom Parker and
Matthias Münch released
Preview 3 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for
the Amiga. Jabber is an open source XML-protocol for a direct message interchange.
A connection to other instant messaging services like AIM, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo can be established via gateways.
Beta-Version-Download: Jabberwocky030331.lha
Changes:
- Fixed enforcer hit when opening write window (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Roster icons may be loaded from disk (thanks to Jeff Gilpin).
- Roster icon set by Martin 'Mason' Merz and Matthias Muench
- Iconified icons by Jeff Gilpin.
- Fix for initial iconified icon (thanks to Jeff Gilpin).
- German Translation by Matthias Muench
- Nederlands Translation by Djordje Slocuk
- Polski Translation by Kamil Niescioruk and Mariusz Danilewicz
- Srpski Translation by Djordje Slocuk
- Spanish Translation by Roger Barranco
- Online help activated (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- Example Arexx Script (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- MOS native binary compiled by Nagy Lajos
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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31.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 3
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 3 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) Derfs : is there an ETA on the t-shirts ? and if there isnt can you tell us anything about the delay?
Fleecy: We don't as yet have a delivery date for the Club Amiga T-shirts but we are working hard on sorting the situation out. I can't go into the reasons why we have had such issues but the delay is as irritating for Amiga as it is for those who are waiting for them. Resolution of this situation is pretty close to the top of our agenda.
2) BrianHoskins : Is there a time scale on planned multi-processor support for AOS4?
Fleecy: When moving Exec forwards into ExecSG, great care was taken to provide a foundation for a lot of features. These will be implemented as the need for them arises both from the development of the operating system itself and the requirements from third party developers.
That said, SMP support is planned for release in either 4.1 or 4.2; with the rider that plans can change. I would also caution against the desire for or claims made on behalf of Symmetric Multi-Processing or SMP. It has its uses but ultimately is limited, rather like sticking more and more engines onto a four wheel car. Proper parallel computing through a matrix of separate processor elements, all with their own schedulers and organisation models - authoritarian, pluralist, service,
anarchic etc offers a much better long term solution and is far more in the mould of 'Amiga, doing it first'.
3) Jose: Will there be various versions of AmigaOS, one for the continuation of the Classic OS on PPC hardware like the users/supporters wish, and the other the so called server, etc. OS that OS5 is to be?
Fleecy: AmigaOS will develop a service based architecture which will allow users to construct the environment that they wish. If a person doesn't want 'server' targeted services then they don't need to use them. For example if you just want a simple filing system with no security, then that could be selected. If you want a secure filing system, you can select that service.
In this way it will be possible to produce targeted builds, a family product, a developer product, a business product etc built using Amiga technology. The core and more importantly, the framework will be the same.
4) jumpship: Is there likely to be a public demostration of an OS4 beta in the near future? I understand that not everyone (ie the whole community) would be able to attend, but maybe at a mayjor user group meeting, similar to WoA, and get someone to video tape it. That way it would be hard for people to say "I could make that in XYZ program.
Fleecy: Having a publicly demonstratable build of AmigaOS4.0 that runs on CSPPC and the AmigaOne occupies our every waking breath. We are well aware that once that is shown, the rumours and untruths will then have nowhere from which to grow.
However, the nature of the project is that all the pieces are now being integrated and being an integrated whole, the public demonstration will actually come pretty close to the end of the project, when most things are actually working together. To demonstrate just a piece of it would actually take time away from the project because we would have to unwrap many of the dependencies that would be inherent in a less than whole demonstration, as well as again opening us up to the charges of 'see, told you they had only done a bit of it'.
Believe me, when we can finally demonstrate the product, the world will hear our screams of joy. I am not even going to give a time though because it is an imprecise art to predict when it will be ready for demonstration. I'd rather just tell you when it is and that moment is not now.
I can tell you that one of the current test suites being run is the process of booting a standard 68k OS3.9 on ExecSG through the 68K emulation service. That is OS3.9 being run via emulation on a PPC processor. This is just part of the validation of the AmigaOS4.0 product. Supporting the CSPPC product has cost us time and effort though because, to say the least, it is an imperfect piece of hardware. The AmigaOne is a much cleaner product and if we had had only to support it then the situation might be different.
5) z5: What are you [Amiga Inc] contributing to OS4?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4.0 is the product that begins the transition from Amiga Generation 1 to Amiga Generation 2. It has several tasks, the most important of which are to move the entire platform to a new processor and to create an abstract hardware interface which allows us to far more easily adapt to other potential hardware markets.
This skillset requires a very detailed knowledge of both the existing 68k AmigaOS as well as the PPC processor family. This is one of the reasons why we contracted this work out to Hyperion, who themselves have pulled many of the brightest and best from the Amiga developer community into the project.
Amiga Inc itself has been concentrating on the future of the AmigaOS, in particular the Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) project. The next release of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) carries an article about this but as AmigaOS4.0 ships, more and more of this plan will be revealed.
The future of the Amiga platform isn't just a question of technology, it is a question of application as well. It is a business, and a business requires income which requires sales. Whilst we are comfortable with slowly developing the desktop market for the Amiga, to be able to fund it properly needs other markets.
Technology and busines have to work together to bring success and Amiga is concentrating on that at the moment, allowing Hyperion and the AmigaOS4.0 team to make that first step because they are the ones best equiped to make that first step.
6) AmigaGuy: I'd like to know if there are plans (maybe it already does) to have AmigaAnywhere available through web browsers. Something sort of in the way Java or Flash work. It might be cool to write an entire web site in C++
Fleecy: Amiga Anywhere currently runs as a player, on ROM and RAM cards, as standalone host transparent applications and as a run time engine. We have blue skyed the concept of providing a browser integration solution but given those already in that space, and the fact that the player will develop into an self sufficient Internet environment of its own, we are not pursuing that path.
7) Spacemonkey: Will Amiga Inc be porting Samba 2.7 or 3.0 for AOS 4.0 or will it be relying on 3rd party/End User to provide this functionality.
Fleecy: Olaf Barthel, one of the chief AmigaOS4.0 developers is also a key member of the Amiga Samba project. His opinion mirrors my own, that Samba is a monster and that it really doesn't fit into the Amiga model.
We are looking at including the Samba project as a contribution to AmigaOS4.0 but given the large list of requirements already clogging our desks, I do not see it as a priority.
Most people will be happy to be able to network with other computers running other platforms so that they can share file and resource access. Of course,if the requirement changes then we will look again at this area.
8) Blomberg: What are the plans for the OS4 audio system beyond the current state of AHI?
Fleecy: The Audio services provided by the Amiga will be one of the first that are developed in AG2. Indeed the core audio architecture for this has been fermenting and prototyping over the past year, arising from AmigaDE audio work.
Our commitment is simple. The AmigaOS will strive to have the best audio services of any operating system. We fully intend to push ourselves forwards as a viable and attractive alternative to any offering out there, both at the hobby level and in the professional world.
9) z5: why didn't the microsoft deal come through?
Fleecy: We have a strategic relationship with Microsoft, which means that they believe our technology enhances their PocketPC and Smartphone product line. Actual deals arise out of this relationship, both directly with Microsoft and via them pushing us towards their partners who also use PocketPC and Smartphone. For example, at the CTIA show held in New Orleans last week, they provided a number of Gamecards as freebies to their partner Samsung who were launching a new PocketPC Phone Edition product. This has led to direct contact with Samsung following a successful reception, and also a number of other contacts with Samsung competitors who also expressed an interest in the Gamecard content and product.
As far as an actual deal goes, Microsoft have been selling rebadged Gamecards (2 of them at the moment) in select CompUSA stores for the past two weeks. We have not announced this both because they are not currently selling them on their website (CompUSA that is) and also because of the difficulty of synchronising a web press release with Microsoft.
We have been criticised in the past for such practices and we are trying to ensure that any press release is independently verifiable.
Microsoft are very pleased with this initial batch of Gamecards and want to move to bigger volumes, and increase the number of Gamecards (2 are in the initial launch, we have 2 more ready to go and can make another 3 quite quickly) by the summer. These were supposed to have debuted in November but technical difficulties with both the card sourcing and then with issues in PocketPC, discovered and reported by Amiga led to a 3-4 month delay.
Indeed, the first appearance of Amiga product in a mainstream computing channel has also witnessed our old friend, piracy, returning to the platform. Dean Brown, our hardware guru found three of the Gamecard packs in the Bellevue CompUSA and someone had cut one open with a scalpel and stolen the Gamecard!
10) Hooligan: How does AInc plan to ensure steady development of software?
Fleecy: Developers create software either because there is money in it for them or because they simply enjoy creating for a platform and community. Whilst we are looking at seeding some core application development, the proper solution is to create a market that is commercially viable.
This means enough users to buy enough of the product to make the cost of development of that product worthwhile. Our efforts are thus focused on increasing the size of that market, through successful launch and post launch activities in the sales and marketing domains, and in reducing the cost of development for the platform, primarily through ensuring that development can proceed as rapidly and trouble free as possible; in other words a developer toolchain, documentation and lots of support.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=3
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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31.Mar.2003
(ANF)
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Amiga ColdFire Update
Again there are some news about "Amiga the
ColdFire Project" by Oliver Hannaford-Day. Beside a picture of the
new prototype, you will find a short german summary at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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31.Mar.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Payback for GBA: status update
The work at the GBA version (GameBoy Advance) of Payback will soon be finished. Recently a multiplayer mode, new multiplayer maps ( Desert Deathmatch, Little
Chicago, Tank Warfare, The Killing Zone, Woods) were added and the replay memory system was reworked.
In Payback you slip into the role of a gangster. The aim of the game is to collect as many points as possible by accomplishing missions or trickery.
Versions for Amiga and Mac are allready available at the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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30.Mar.2003
Egon Münch (comment)
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Mexikon: Cactus lexicon in HTML format
Under the title link you can find a.o.t. 'Mexikon', a lexicon on cactuses with
many tips and suggestions. It also contains maps of Mexico and photos of more
than 650 cactuses.
Since end of November 2002 version 3.1 of Mexikon has been available, and as we haven't covered it yet, we are herewith gladly catching up on this. Egon Münch
has completely revised the cactus lexicon, fixed various errors and added new
descriptions and photos.
Furthermore MEXIKON doesn't use AmigaGuide anymore, but has become more platform
independent by now supporting the HTML format, so every user can utilise the
lexicon with an Internet browser.
The only thing that hasn't changed is the fact that MEXIKON is and will stay
freeware.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Mar.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood Promo Pack released
There is now a Hollywood promo package available for download on the
Airsoft Softwair Web page. The promo pack contains over 60 high
quality screenshots which will give you an extensive impression
of the powerful features of Hollywood.
Download: Hollywood_PromoPack.lha - 9 MB
(ps)
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30.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Event: SlimJim's Not-so-short AmiGBG Fair Report
There is a circumstantial account by Slim Jim on the Amiga show
AmiGBG which took place yesterday in Gothenburg, Sweden.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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30.Mar.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back!
Just in time for BoulderDäsh's 16th birthday, BoulderDäsh RTX will be released
soon! The most important improvement is direct support of Picasso96 and
CyberGraphics. With this all RTG problems should once and for all be a thing of
the past.
Thanks to the likewise new AHI support BoulderDäsh should run on all AmigaOS
compatible systems (A500, Ax000, Amithlon, MorphOS). It requires only OS 2.0 or
better. Rockford is back - He will rock you! BoulderDäsh RTX V5.10 - feature list:
- 1:1 Clone of the original
- Runs in Multitasking
- Online help
- Locale support
- Programmed according to Commodore Style Guide
- 2D Softscrolling and full speed even on an MC68000
(no judder in the animations or when scrolling)
- Full gfx card compatibility through Picasso96/CyberGraphics support, allowing for up to 256 colours in full screen scrolling
- Full sound card compatibility through AHI support
- More than 5700 levels included!
- 35 different game graphics
- 6 different fonts
- 5 different sample sets
- 6 different music tracks
- All settings adjustable via Gadtools GUI
- Enhanced by way of additional game elements (fake bricks, fake metal...)
Thus interesting new level possibilities come about.
- No level size limit (under NonRTG only dependent on ChipMem)
- Savable Highscore lists for each game
- Comfortable level editor
- Gravitation adjustable in four directions in each level
- Game editor to compile complete games
- Custom game gfx can be created with a paint program
- Custom sound effects can be integrated with a sampler
- Custom game music can be created with a Protracker compatible music editor
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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29.Mar.2003
Andre Sommer (ANF)
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Event: Mocca LAN 8 from April, 4th till April, 6th 2003 in Hirsau
It's time again, the next Mocca is near. In almost a week the doors will be opened for the Mocca 8, taking place from April, 4th till April, 6th in Hirsau (Germany).
The Mocca is an OpenOS party, all systems are welcome. The Mocca is not a pure gamers LAN but is furthermore thought to show users other systems and to give help on individual problems for the special computers.
Further information about the Mocca 8 can be found following the title link. There you can register for the party or contact the organizers.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: BabeAnoid 2.0 final version
In the past reported the Amiga Arena several times about "BabeAnoid", the Breakout clone by Richard Fhager.
The released demo version 1.10 seemed to be the one and only version for a long time as Richard Fhager
lost his interest in continued development because of a lack of feedback respectively he wants to cease all his Amiga activities.
In cooperation with Wolfgang Hosemann (issue #9/02), at that time responsible for the games part of the AmigaAktuell, a call was started to continue the game's development and to activate the users to give the developer feedback for his work. This all didn't seem to bring the wanted success. The more I am pleased to announce today's release of the version 2.0 final.
Further informationen you can find here.
Support developers, then developers will support you!
Download: babeanoid.lha - 3 MB
Features are among others more than 30 different boni, six different balls, different bricks (moving, multi hit, invisible...), foes plus weapons for fighting against them, two teleporters, background pictures, smoking balls, music and sound effects, speech output, buying and selling items and much more.
The game uses 32 colors (ECS) and needs at least an Amiga with 68020 and 2MB Fast RAM. If the settings in the preferences are reduced should the game also run with 1MB Chip RAM.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: US law drafts may mean the end of firewalls
In the view of Edward W. Felten, professor at the Princeton University,
could the new suggestions for a stronger 'Digital Millennium Copyright Act' made by some US states lead to the fact that the ownership, the selling und use of encryption software, firewalls and router software may be under penalty in the USA soon.
The (German) heise article can be found following the title link.
Another (German) article about this topic:
Golem - IT News: Firewalls soon illegal in the USA?
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: New youth protection law: no more Linux games in the future?
»USK logo becomes a problem
From the 1st of April on could the offer of games software for Linux users
in Germany be reduced in a drastic way from one day to the other. Because from this day on may only games be sold if they are marked with an age recommendation of the
USK and this is only the case for a small minority of Linux games.«
Read the full (German) article under the title link.
In the Amiga sector will the situation not be very different. Games that are new released won't get around the mark but because of financial reasons it is to be expected that only a little number of already released games will get this recommendation symbol. So we are very interested in the consequences of the new youth protection law for the Amiga market and of course for the games developers. Tell us your measures.
Will old games be removed from the shelves?
Will old games get an age recommendation?
What costs does this signing cause?
Is shareware in the same way concerned as commercial software is? (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 28.03.2003
With WHDLoad you can now install games, that were thought to be floppy disk only, on your hard disk. The following packages have been added respectively updated since our last mention:
- 28.03.03 new: Mega Demo 2 - Scoopex (Scoopex) done by Psygore
- 28.03.03 new: Mini Golf Plus (Starbyte) done by JOTD
- 28.03.03 improved: Midwinter (Rainbird) supports German version and many other changes
- 28.03.03 improved: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) Italian version supported, fixed install script, access faults fixed
- 28.03.03 new: Franko (World Software) done by JOTD
- 28.03.03 new: Cruncher Factory (Kingsoft) done by Asman
- 28.03.03 new: More Than Music (Alcatraz) done by Psygore
- 28.03.03 new: Vegas Gambler (California Dreams) done by Agressor
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29.Mar.2003
morphos-news.de
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morphos-news.de: Pegasos boards available again
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have announced that the first 170 Pegasos mainboards have already been sent to the retailers. Some retailers already received the boards while others will get them today, tomorrow or in the beginning of next week. The rest of the approximately 400 produced Pegasos mainboards will be sent next week to the retailers.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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29.Mar.2003
Glenn Fuller (ANF)
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Ben Fuller is dead - biography in the work
Benjamin G. Fuller, active Amiga developer since the early days, died on September, 11th 2002. The family, relatives and friends are putting a biography about Ben together and would welcome any contributions from the Amiga community.
1986 was the AAUG (Arizona Amiga Users Group) founded by Ben and some other users. Aged 17, Ben was probably one of the first and youngest developer of commercial Amiga software and visited among other things the 2nd Annual Amiga Developer's Conference in November 1986.
1988 he had worked in California at Silent Software and contributed to the creation of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" that had been distributed by Buena Vista Software and Disney. In 1992 he returned to Arizona to develop at Softwood, Inc. for example Final Copy II.
The next station was SunRize Industries, the makers of the hardware-software solution AD516/Studio16 Digital Audio Workstation. there he developed among other things the Automated Mixer of AD516/Studio16 v3.0 and its enhanced SMPTE Handling and the Amiga side including ARexx API of the software SoundSwitch that was also made compatible to the Video Toaster.
In June 2001 Fuller retired from SONICblue (ReplayTV) where he had worked since 1998 and concentrated on the photography with his Olympus E-10. His photos can be viewed on his website under the title link. Until the end Ben had used the Amiga emulator Amiga Forever running on a Dell-PC.
Please send contributions like publications, photos, reviews or comments that could help to complete the biography to ggfuller@yahoo.com or to benfuller@exreplaytv.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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28.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBS Glow Icons online
A Glow-Icon-Set for the game "PuzzleBOBS" is online.
The icons have been designed by Simone Battaglioni and are available for the AmigaOS
as well as for the MorphOS version.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload Version 3.0 also published for MorphOS
Now there is also a MorphOS version of version 3.0 of Pixload which is an Amidock like
start menu. From now on icons in the start bar are modifyable by simply dragging and
droppping and there is no limitation concerning the number. Quite similar to the Dock
of Mac OS X active programs are marked in the Pixload start bar with a triangle.
The MorphOS version has already transparency for icons.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
AmiDog (ANF)
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AmiDog: AMP Movieplayer Beta Version 030326
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has published a new version of its movie player for PPC
called ´AMP´. With ´AMP´ currently you can play the following
multimedia files:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audio streams
- AC3 streams
- (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD
Download: AMP2-BETA-030326.lha (Beta)
Please note: Please have a look at BETA.txt before using the program!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
Lynne Music (E-Mail)
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Power Liquids by Divinorum and Aural Planet soon available
The demo scene audio-CD "Power Liquids" which is created in cooperation with the
labels Divinorum and Aural Planet will be soon published. Currently the production
of the CD is started so probably the CD will be delivered in three weeks.
A seperate sub-website with audio clips has been created for the project under the
title link. Additionally to the CD-tracks buyer of Power Liquids are offered three
bonus tracks of a password protected website. Thus there will be a total time of
over 80 minutes.
The CD will cost 14.99 US-Dollar and can be ordered in cheap bundles together
with other products of Divinorum or Aural Planets.
Distributors are still searched.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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28.Mar.2003
APC&TCP
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APC&TCP celebrates 11th anniversary
For eleven years APC&TCP is a publisher of Amiga software. Because of this event the
distributor of games like SeaSide, GunBee F-99 or Jaktar and applications like
Digi Booster Pro has reduced the prices of most of its products in its
online shop from 27th March 2003 until 30th April 2003. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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27.Mar.2003
Matthew Kille (E-Mail)
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Crossword Evolution (12 level starter book) now available
Zeoneo are pleased to finally be able to announce that the first release of the game is now available to purchase from stores across the US. (For example CompUSA.)
This initial release is a special 12 puzzle early release version of the game (which will not be able to install additional puzzles) and will be sold on a SecureDigital SD card which includes other 'Amiga-Anywhere' games.
As soon as possible Zeoneo will be releasing the final standalone full version of the game, which will allow optional extra 'puzzle books' to be installed, for endless crossword supplies. (nba)
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27.Mar.2003
st-computer
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Magazine: Retrogaming Times #67
The online magazine Retrogaming Times has reached its 67th issue. The magazine concerns itself with games fo classic consoles and computer systems. The current issue contains several reviews of games for the Atari XL, relationally XE, and the Amiga too is mentioned in passing. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)
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Game: Tales of Tamar Version 0.49R1
The new Amiga version (V0.49R1) of the Internet-based round-by-round game 'Tales of Tamar' has been released. This update offers the following changes since version 0.48R5:
New Features:
- Grain silos now also calculate the quantity of offices in the cities
- Report for failed piracy is built-in
- Report for succesful piracy is built-in
- News for the victims of piracy is built-in
- Dragons and Undead are built-in
- The coronation screen has been activated
- The third diplomacy screen has been activated
- The tenth requestor in the control screen has been activated
- Vassal contracts in diplomacy have been activated
- New samples for the coronation and dragons are built-in
- AnimFX V2 is built-in (completely reworked animation routines!)
Bugfixes:
- Settlers and spies could conquer cities in a state of rebellion - Bug fixed
- Shops may no longer be loaded on a ship's position
- Small fix in diplomacy (Thanks to the PC version)
- Bug fix in the requestor of the liege lords
- Loaded spies and settlers may no longer be terminated if they are standing in the city
on a ship
- Grain silos accept only a deposit of 500
- New card elements are built-in
- Figures on the water are now terminated, if they haven't been shipped
- ToT is independent of the animations again
ToT is the first game in the world to administer wideranging structures of liege lords,
vassals, and henchmen. Through these game options it is possible for the player to close
vassal treaties with other players and thereby to ascend through the hierarchy of titles.
There are 8 different titles in Tamar: Baron, Viscount, Count, Marquis, Duke, Archduke,
King, & Emperor. For each presently occurring coronation, one will see a little animation
of course.
Titles in Tamar are not just purely a status symbol, because here good players are
rewarded with free rounds each month! If one is able to progress into the highest ranks,
ToT makes it possible to play an almost costless game.
As to reports of piracy, the only thing we have to say is that we have added this because
the inquiries of players and testers. Pirates should now offer better game options.
Dragons have been observed! (Quote from the ToT forum).
The dragons are a very old breed of winged beings of immense size. They make their homes
in remote places. On Tamar there are different types of dragons, which are generally
differentiated by skin color and behavior. One thing they all have in common: they are
hatched, devour meat, use breath as a weapon, love gold and jewels and are very strong.
Many dragons live for hundreds or even thousands of years. Because of this long history
they are inclined to look down their noses at the younger types of beings - such as humans.
On Tamar there are different types of dragons. Some of them may even be called by the
races of Elves and Dwarf, when they find themselves in danger.
But the most powerful dragon is the gold one. His breath is of a fire and gas mixture
capable of incinerating entire cities. Thankfully he is not particularly aggressive and
is even honorable of disposition.
On the opposite angle is the red dragon. This absolutely chaotically evil dragon has
nothing else in mind but to annihilate all creatures in a fiery death. He is not quite
as strong as the gold, but his aggressiveness knows no limits. He sinks ships, leaves
cities in soot and ashes, and attacks great armies if it must be. We want to warn all
the players in the world about this dragon! Dragons typically run in small packs of one
to four.
Lastly, we wish to call your attention to the 'Offer of Tamar.' Amiga Future
publishes a page every two months with news, tips, tricks, and statistics about
the best players of Tamar at that time. We're especially happy about this cooperation. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets through 24th March, 2003
With WHDLoad you can install to your hard-drive games that were thought only to run from floppy disks. The following packets have
been released or updated since our last announcement:
- 24.03.03 improved: Explora / Chrono Quest (Infomedia/Psygnosis) supports German version too
- 24.03.03 new: Stop Fascism (Alcatraz & Interactive) done by Psygore
- 24.03.03 new: I've Got The Power (Alcatraz) done by Psygore
- 19.03.03 improved: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) Snoop accesses removed
- 19.03.03 improved: Space Crusade (Gremlin) breakpoint removed
- 18.03.03 improved: Guy Spy (Ready Soft) supports disk version too
- 18.03.03 improved: Secret of Monkey Island (Lucasfilm Games) protection better removed, restart support
- 18.03.03 improved: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) imager fixed
- 17.03.03 fixed: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine Homepage Has Moved
The project homepage for TTEngine has moved and is reachable under the following URL from now on:
http://teleinfo.pb.bialystok.pl/tte/.
Please update your bookmarks and links accordingly.
TTEngine is a TrueType-based font text-rendering environment for AmigaOS by Grzegorz Kraszewski.
The current version is 6.4.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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Heise: Retro Joystick Console in Germany, only at Karstadt and Amazon
The video game system in the shape of a classic Atari joystick, manufactured by Jakks Pacific and imported to Germany by the game
publisher THQ, will not be generally available in individual shops. Through exclusive deals the retro game console will instead be
exclusively offered at
Karstadt purchase centers
as well as Amazon for about 30 euros per unit. The initial sale began just previously, at Amazon the gizmo is offered for preorder under
another name, the Atari TV Game Stick.
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #030
The 30th music pack from LQS includes an MP3 tune named "Roboty" in the Trance style. Created by Maxus, our new member, it brings a new
diversity to the Liquid Skies collection. Listen to it and decide for yourself! :) (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Mar.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: Big Videogames Special
The BIG videogames special for our 12th "birthday" is online! You can:
- Win and evaluate historical, unread videogames issues (for a few days only!).
- Investigate all videogames test data (!) ever published.
- Have a look at many cool insider factoids about the videogames...
- ...and more.
For Amiga freaks the earliest interesting report from videogames is this: CD32 report
from the October 1993 issue.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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26.Mar.2003
Telemar Rosenberger (E-Mail)
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Game: New compiles of AMHuhn and AMHuhnXE for the 68040 and the 68060
The author of the game AMHuhn Telemar Rosenberger has recompiled the current versions of AMHuhn and AMHuhnXE for the processors 68040 and 68060.
Telemar's debugger does not show any errors now it should run bugfree and clean now and he hopes that the game runs better now on some systems.
The new versions of AMHuhn and AmHuhnXE are included in the download archives in a German and English version. Please read the notes.
Download: AMHuhn.lha - 315 KB
Important notes:
1. The new compiled executables were tested under the precondition that the current beta version 4.5 of AHI is installed (we reported).
2. Who has not installed the games AmHuhn and AmHuhnXE before has to install the complete archive from the
AmHuhn website. Within the upper download archive there are only the new executables.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Matthew Kille (ZeoNeo)
Some days ago the company "ZeoNeo" said within a press release that "Candy Factory 2" will be published for AmigaOS 4.0. The company is known for several producs for the AmigaDE.
"Candy Factory" was originally distributed as shareware, later commercially developed further by the company "Motion Studio" and now developed again by the original developer Milan Pollé to version 2.0 for the coming AmigaOS.
With "Candy Factory 2" buttons, logos, banner etc. are to create in real time with a quality known else only from raytracing/rendering software.
Amiga Arena talked with Matthew Kille, the CEO of "ZeoNeo" how it came to the cooperation with Milan Pollé and why they will support AmigaOS 4.0 in future. The interview is available in German and
English.
Additionally there are screen shots of Candy Factory 2 for download available.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.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 were updated:
- Europe
- New links list
- Lost links list
- History 2003
(ps)
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26.Mar.2003
Carles Bernardez: CatCon Organiser (ANF)
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Event: CatCon 2K3 party, the 3rd edition
The 3rd edition of our Amiga party is here.
You can espect the typical Demoscene competitions, and the presence of some Amiga related companies.
The Party will be held on 3rd and 4th of May in Calella, a touristic town near Barcelona, in Spain.
If you are an Amiga scener, a multimedia artist, an Amiga user or a merly courious you will be welcome.
If you are an Amiga company you will be welcome to our party, and of course you will have a free stand
to demostrate/sold your products. If you can't assist to the party but you want colaborate, you can send
to us some prizes for the winners of the competitions, etc.
For questions, suggestions, etc. please contact catconparty@yahoo.es
or have a look at http://www.iespana.es/catcon/.
Carles Bernardez: CatCon organiser
(ps)
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26.Mar.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Speech control for Amiga in planning
Carsten Siegner writes:
From today on I will work on a speech control for the Amiga.
A speech control modul of "Conrad-Electronic" will be used for that. This one can control 65 different
channels which are addressable by freely programmable speech commands.
There are different speech recognition modes:
There is a single word recognition and a multiple word recognition. That modul might distinguish between
"Arteffect start" and "Arteffect end" if ran in multilpe word recognition mode. The aim is a speech controlled toolbar or a speech controlled Internet browser which might open a special page on a shout. Probably an ARexx or even a speech controlled computer start or shutdown script might be possible.
I could imagine that the Amiga itself might give some feedback, probably with an audio feedback. That might be of the kind that after a spoken command the computer comes to word and gives a confirmation of the received command. The computer voice could be any sample.
Ideas and suggestions are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
CCC (E-Mail)
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Blinkenlights Arcade: Documentation video for download
From September the 25th to October the 6th last year there has been the installation Arcade, the 2nd prank of the project Blinkenlights in Paris.
Like with the first project there is, by the title link, a documentation video available again. Within 14 minutes the project is introduced from sevaral viewpoints and interviews with the crew.
The files are available as MPEG-1 and MPEG-4.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Nowee (E-Mail)
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Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes website updated
After a longer break the website will be updated reguarly again.
Nowee, the maintainer of the 'OverShaker' website has dedicated himself to the brightening of the
Amiga Workbench. There are themes for GUI tools like
VisualPrefs and icon samples available. At the area 'Work' there are tips for the handling with the colours (palette) of the Workbench. Selfly created themes and
icons are welcome by Nowee for providing them at the website.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail)
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AMIGA-Magazin: Issue 3 and 4/2003 online
The AMIGA-Magazin has published parts of the issues 3 and 4/2003 (German) online yesterday. Beside the editorial and index there are the following interesting articles provided.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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26.Mar.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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Interest on the print magazine 'Total Amiga'?
Fun Time World and Amiga Arena are discussing together with Robert
Williams the possibility to sell the English print magazine "Total
Amiga" in Germany. Before they like to know if there is a demand for that magazine. The retail price would be about 4.50 EUR + porto and package (about 1,50 EUR) per issue.
People interested on a subscription might please send an email to us.
For a positive decision there is a demand of 50 interested requested.
Further details are to obtain by email from us. With a subscription people are ment who will buy the magazine regulary i.e. they have to pay not in advance but issue per issue. Only on request there might be subscriptions for a fixed number of issues available.
The current issue is about 52 pages, 44 of these are without adds. An index of that issue is to obtain from here.
To get an impression of the quality you might have a view to a pdf version of the magazine. Following this link you will come to
issue 12.
The magazine is mostly done on Amiga and published every quarter year, a monthly rhythm is planed as soon as the Amiga market improves again.
The magazine is printed in black and white. Further information is to get from our
homepages: Fun Time World
or Amiga Arena during the next days.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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25.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.4
Kicko writes:
First i appologise for sending this info in the german part of
amiga-news.de. The problem is when using long dir/filenames t&f
wouldnt show the commands in commandslist. To solve this i have
renamed the VirusPageA-C dirs to VirusA-C. Then in t&f in config
window use an assign like V: to tf:commands and it will work.
But remember that you have to reload every commandn in list to use
the V: assign instead. There is other solutions too like renaming
the command names too. Many of them are numbered like
000.bankchange.cmd. You can rename it like bankchange.cmd. And
also you can copy the commands you like from the virus drawers to
the actually tf:commands and use them from there. Its upto you.
Im not good in assembler so i cant fix it. Maybe someone can do
it for me? (ps)
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25.Mar.2003
Dietmar Eilert (Website)
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Editor: SP11 for GoldED AIX
For the editor 'GoldED AIX' from Dietmar Eilert the service pack #11 is available
for dowload for registered user.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
Amiga.SF (Website)
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New dcr85020-Ports on amiga.sf.net: Lame v3.93.1 und SoX v12.17.4
Under the title link you will find some programs ported to the Amiga by Diego
Casorran. Not all programs are tested properly so if you encounter any problems get
in contact with dcr8520_at_amiga.org.
Lame v3.93.1
LAME ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME is an educational tool to be used for
learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the
open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and
speed of MP3. Download: lame-3.93.1.lha
SoX v12.17.4
SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of
computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various
effects to these sound files during the conversion.
Download: sox-12.17.4.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
RekoNet (Website)
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Game: New Klondike cardsets at RekoNet (23.03.2003)
At the RekoNet, the collection of cardsets, programs and links around the Reko
production are new cardsets added. Now there are 1100 cardsets available.
- added 3 new cardsets by Allan Rasmussen
- added 2 new cardsets by Joe Pineapples
- added 5 MogwaiMen cardsets
- added Imbruglia2 cardset
- added Boop and Charmed cardset Jennifer Warner
- added 5 converted cardsets from Andreas Sauer
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 332
Guido Mersmann has released the beta-version 332 of AmithlonTV with updates and
enhancements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
- CHANGED: Did some cleanup on the PCI structures and sources.
- CHANGED: Added the missing DPI documentation for the PCI stuff.
- BUGFIX: Somehow I forgot to implement the auto config stuff into the "audio_tda9873h.lib".
- CHANGED: The bt8x8 driver is now setting PCI latency! It also shuts down the card on shut down.
- BUGFIX: Fixed crash bug within the "volume_AmiMixer.lib" which sometimes caused
crashes.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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25.Mar.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB driver: Poseidon version 2.0 available
Chris Hodges writes:
I've just uploaded the current work in progress version of Poseidon.
Although the version number has been bumped to V2.0, it contains mostly bug
fixes. Please don't be disappointed, if you would have expected more from
this release. I've had a lot of things to do (e.g. writing the driver for
the cool Algor board and the FlashRom tool for the Romulus/Algor) and then
again, I'm only coding on my spare time.
Nevertheless, this is a free update for all registered and licenced users
except for one. This "Rat" has to stick to the old version. Support is
something bilateral.
People who had problems with their digital cameras using the CB or CBI
transport protocol (remember, Class 8, Subclass x, Protocol 0 or 1) could
try again with the new mass storage class. It might work. I've spent some
days with the USB Floppy drive I've borrowed from a friend of mine and
works with it.
Also, AutoMounting has been improved, so the manual mounting process
required by a few devices/media should be worries of the past.
As usually, there are new binaries for MorphOS as well (and if somebody
missed the news, the Pegasos USB driver by VFD has been released into the
public a week ago). Anyway, stay tuned, there is more to come. Enjoy the
update.
(ps)
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25.Mar.2003
ELBOX COMPUTER (E-Mail)
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New list of PCI cards supported in Mediator
The list of PCI cards supported in the MEDIATOR busboards has been
updated.
The current list covers the following PCI cards:
- Graphic cards:
- Voodoo5 5500
- Voodoo4 4500
- Voodoo3 3000
- Voodoo3 2000
- Voodoo Banshee
- S3 ViRGE DX
- S3 ViRGE
- USB cards:
- Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed
- Sound cards:
- Terratec 512i Digital and many other sound cards based on the ForteMedia FM801-AU sound chipset
- Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital cards based on the CT5880-DEQ sound chipset
- Sound Blaster 128 cards based on the CT5880-DDQ, CT5880-DCQ, ES1373-DAQ, ES1373-B, ES1373-A, ES1371, ES1370 and EV1938 sound chipsets
- Fast Ethernet 100Mbps cards:
- Cards based on the Realtek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet chipset
- Ethernet 10Mbps cards:
- Cards based on the Realtek RTL8029 Ethernet chipset
- TV cards:
- TV tuner cards (over 100 models) based on the FUSION 879A, FUSION 878A, Bt878A, Bt849A and Bt848A chipsets
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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24.Mar.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 24.03.2003
New Uploads to Aminet:
Spanish-AmIRC.lha comm/irc 17K+Spanish catalog for AmIRC
SpanishAmIRC.lha comm/irc 17K+Spanish catalog for AmIRC
amiycoders.lha comm/mail 18K+V0.4 yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the Amig
tv-mod-wp.lha comm/misc 22K+(PL) Import module for TV programe [v9.3
MiamiDxCT.lha comm/net 9K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
MiamiDxSPA.lha comm/net 10K+Spanish catalog for Miami Deluxe
FTPMount.lha comm/tcp 247K+Handler to use FTP as real directory - w
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1b
OpenURL44.lha comm/www 148K+OpenURL - Get that URL!
OpenURLcat.lha comm/www 2K+Catalonian catalog for OpenURL 4.4 or hi
OpenURL_dt.lha comm/www 3K+German catalog for OpenURL v4.4
EquinoxeInvtro.lha demo/aga 689K+Invitation for the Equinoxe demoparty in
fit_miracle.lha demo/aga 293K+One day miracle by Fit ASM'02 64k intro
znn_theway.lha demo/aga 861K+Zenon The Way 3th at Lobotomia 2002 demo
GetCRC.lha dev/c 30K+V1.19 calculates different checksums
SegTracker_pch.lha dev/debug 15K+Patches SegTracker to V37.76
autoconf-253.lha dev/gg 1.5M+GNU automatic configuration generator. V
automake-163.lha dev/gg 1.3M+GNU automatic makefile generator. V1.6.3
libtool-142.lha dev/gg 1.9M+GNU Libtool V1.4.2
fd2pragma.lha dev/misc 212K+V2.164 create pragma, inline, ... files
reactionexampl.lha dev/src 33K+ReAction examples
EasyACDDA.lha disk/cdrom 335K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA
MyFormat1.28.lha disk/misc 30K+Format replacement. OS2.04+ required
vdisk36.lha disk/misc 46K+Dynamic recoverable RAM disk (V3.6)
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 48K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
AIOV67.lha docs/mags 603K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 67 (Janu
saku42.lha docs/mags 2.2M+Saku #42 (1/2003). Finnish e-zine.
InterviewDBase.lha docs/misc 494K+Amiga Arena Interview database (English/
freeciv_mos.lha game/2play 761K+Freeciv for MorphOS. V1.2 (based on Amig
Saga.lha game/board 291K+Saga 1.24: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-Expert.lha game/data 371K+81 levels for Diamond Caves II
DC2Lvl-Ghost.lha game/data 385K+81 levels for Diamond Caves II
Dragonworks.lha game/data 606K+Cardset for AS-Freecell and AS-Memory
heretic2_ger.lha game/data 23K+Heretic II German Translation (German) (
Mattonite.lha game/demo 672K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
AlexInTown.lha game/jump 78K+Guide Alex through the Town.
WormWars.lha game/misc 624K+Worm Wars 7.31: Advanced snake game
angband.lha game/role 922K+Angband 3.0.3 - Roguelike solo RPG
HDA.lha game/role 450K+German Multiple Choice Text Adventure
AS-Clock.lha game/think 200K+Find cards with the same rank
AS-FindIt.lha game/think 222K+Find cards among the others
AS-Montana.lha game/think 210K+Fill In The Gaps
AS-Remember.lha game/think 198K+Remember and find cards
Miliarderzy.lha game/think 1.2M+Mind game (Polish version) for AOS and M
Colorit.lha game/wb 42K+Try to match the displayed pattern
TriLights.lha game/wb 44K+Light-up this triangular-shaped board!
X_Lights.lha game/wb 43K+Light-up this X-shaped board!
kray.lha gfx/3d 641K+Freeware raytracer v1.3
BetaScan3_PL.lha hard/drivr 17K+Polish catalog for BetaScan_v3
imdbDiff030307.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff030314.lha misc/imdb 2.3M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha misc/misc 69K+MUI Biorythm tool. Now localised. v1.3
001_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
002_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.6M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
004_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.2M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
005_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
006_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
007_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
008_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
009_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.6M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
010_mpfree.lha mods/moods 3.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
011_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.3M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
012_mpfree.lha mods/moods 3.6M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
013_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.3M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
014_mpfree.lha mods/moods 2.8M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
015_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
016_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.6M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
017_mpfree.lha mods/moods 1.9M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
018_mpfree.lha mods/moods 3.5M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
019_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
020_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.1M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
021_mpfree.lha mods/moods 247K+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
022_mpfree.lha mods/moods 3.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
023_mpfree.lha mods/moods 2.8M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
024_mpfree.lha mods/moods 3.3M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
025_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
026_mpfree.lha mods/moods 16M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
027_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.7M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
028_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.2M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
029_mpfree.lha mods/moods 23M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
030_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.9M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
031_mpfree.lha mods/moods 3.2M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
032_mpfree.lha mods/moods 11M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
033_mpfree.lha mods/moods 5.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
034_mpfree.lha mods/moods 3.9M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
035_mpfree.lha mods/moods 6.9M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
036_mpfree.lha mods/moods 7.0M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
JD-Candy.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Candy by JaDe
JD-Mindscapes.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+Mindscapes by JaDe
NKN_cscoverHI.lha mods/nkn 3.4M+CD covers - 600 DPI - most powerful tech
NKN_cscoverLO.lha mods/nkn 1.3M+CD covers - 150 DPI - most POWERFUL tekn
NKN_cs_cd_2.lha mods/nkn 7.2M+02 cal 6667 - Cooleour SYNTHESIS CD comp
NKN_cs_cd_3.lha mods/nkn 10M+03 Gotcha Cybe Houze - Cooleour SYNTHESI
NKN_cs_cd_5.lha mods/nkn 12M+05 Cyber Tribe [ABORIGINE] - Cooleour SY
NKN_cs_cd_6.lha mods/nkn 7.1M+06 Slaughter House - Cooleour SYNTHESIS
NKN_cs_cd_7.lha mods/nkn 6.9M+07 Psyche Killer - Cooleour SYNTHESIS CD
viruscommands.lha mus/midi 100K+Access Virus commands for tracks&fields
JabberwockyESP.lha mus/misc 8K+Guide for Jabberwocky in spanish languag
SAPphire.lha mus/play 259K+Very nice GUI for SAP Player (player for
nICkONs-3.lha pix/gicon 114K+Game Glowicons
SaloraFellow.lha pix/illu 664K+Salora Fellow (Video Tech Laser 210)
Satire11-Nov02.jpg pix/misc 44K+"La satire du Jet d'Ail" in pictures on
Satire12-Jan03.jpg pix/misc 42K+"La satire du Jet d'Ail" in pictures on
SoundBolt.lha pix/wb 379K+SoundBolt Workbench theme by Nowee for V
guideml2.lha text/hyper 54K+Cool AmigaGuide -> HTML converter (V2.4)
CheckX.lha util/arc 40K+V1.94 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
Decigel.lha util/boot 3K+68010+ priv. instr. use fix, VBR update
skick345.lha util/boot 91K+Soft-kicker under OS 2.0 - new release
ahisyssound.lha util/cdity 48K+Play sounds for asl/reqtool Requesters o
Cheetah.lha util/conv 34K+Allows you to cheat at your favorite gam
MakeWav.lha util/conv 23K+Converts ROM images for the Atari 2600 V
sapmaker.lha util/conv 102K+Making SAP files from Atari XL/XE's musi
AmIPS.lha util/misc 11K+IPS creating/patching (MUI)
Frogger-GUI.lha util/misc 22K+Reaction GUI for FroggerNG
FroggerNG_GUI.lha util/misc 32K+Control Panel for FroggerNG
NewHomer.lha util/misc 81K+V1.7 (upd./bugf. - Finally eyes behave c
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 312K+Report+ 5.66: Multipurpose utility
AmiGOD2.lha util/moni 82K+AmigaOS benchmark BETA 20.03.2003
Amithlon.lha util/moni 414K+SysSpeedMod
EBGuide.lha util/rexx 3K+(REACTION GUI) Australian TV Guide progr
MagicFlush.lha util/wb 16K+Flush memory every 2 seconds
ScaOPMCatUpFr.lha util/wb 9K+Update Cat.french(Scalos-OPM)
SGrabCAT.lha util/wb 1K+Catalonian catalog for SGrab
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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24.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.4
This is really no update to the actually commands but a description
how to solve the problem with using these commands in tracks&fields.
The problem is when using long dir/filenames t&f wouldnt show the
commands in commandslist. To solve this i have renamed the VirusPageA-C
dirs to VirusA-C. Then in t&f in config window use an assign like V:
to tf:commands and it will work. But remember that you have to reload
every commandn in list to use the V: assign instead. There is other
solutions too like renaming the command names too. Many of them are
numbered like 000.bankchange.cmd. You can rename it like bankchange.cmd.
And also you can copy the commands you like from the virus drawers to
the actually tf:commands and use them from there. Its upto you.
Im not good in assembler so i cant fix it. Maybe someone can do it for me? (ps) (Translation: sk)
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23.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Amig@lien news report back
After some time of irregular news items the Amig@lien news page has been
updated and somewhat extended. A.o.t. a list with the ten most recent Amiga
interviews has been added. There is a survey where you can specify how many
Amigas you own. "Fahrschule 99" has been chosen as PD program and "Bahnstrecke"
as PD game of the month. Your news items will be gladly accepted, either via
a form on the Web site or via
e-Mail.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 06 for "Descent: Freespace" released
Again this weekend a MultiplayerPack for the Amiga game "Descent: Freespace"
has been released. As usual it contains five new Multiplayer missions.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 2
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 2 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) BrianHoskins: I know it's a little soon to start drudging up time scales for a more commercialised OS, given that AOS4 isn't quite out yet, but when do you think the Amiga Platform is going to be in a position to release a new OS aimed at the wider audience? Im not talking about exact dates here, just approximately. A Year? 2? 3? More?
Fleecy: As I said in an answer to last week's questions, it is very important that we have a good market profile before we release a product into that market. By that I mean having a comprehensive list of the activities, requirements and roles within that market and, as important, a list of what our competitors offer and plan to offer.
This covers not just the operating system itself but also the hardware, the application base and the pre and post sales and support infrastructure.
You only tend to get one chance to launch into a market and so you have to make sure that you have all the bases covered otherwise it may fail, negative association may follow and this could affect not just any potential relaunch into that market but activities in other markets as well, both existing and planned.
By a wider audience, I assume you mean into the general desktop/home computer market. Based upon that, we need to attend to the following areas.
- reliable supply of good quality and competitive hardware
- a stable, localised, well documented and supported operating system
- a supply of good third party applications, both available and in progress
- an effective marketing campaign - reviews, advertisements, presence.
That said, to appeal to a wider audience, we need to provide a solution to their needs. The majority of people use a computer to
- surf the net
- email
- Instant Message
- compose letters
- manage their music collection
- play a few simple games
- manage their digital photograph and video collections
We thus need to make sure that we have a solution that provides for these seven basic activities, to at least an industry standard level. This means applications, either in house or third party and an operating system which supports those applications.
This itself will be influenced by the move from Amiga Generation 1 (AG1) to Amiga Generation 2 (AG2) technology. For example there is little point in expending lots of effort on a brand new HTML rendering engine or a new printer system until the AG2 graphics service is completed, since both of these will make heavy use of it.
As you say, prediction is not an exact science but assuming full access to the necessary resources I would say that 18 months after AmigaOS4.0 ships, we should have all the elements necessary to offer a compelling alternative in the wider market.
2) seldom: Is there some kind of estimation, when there will be a Java VM for AOS ? Obviously this would open up a whole bunch of apps and developers for AOS. Maybe there is some way to do something special (tight integration into OS, boosting GUI implementation) about this implementation, so it gets especially attractive to develop/use java-apps. for/on AOS ?
Fleecy: Personal Java and MIDP will be available once the AmigaDE runs on the AmigaOS. Once that is the case, we will then look at expanding it into a full java implementation. Such a project would be a lot of work though and would most likely not be resourced until deep into the AG2 project, both because AG2 is more important and because Java itself would be a customer of AG2.
3) DaveyD: Have you considered porting an open source browser such as mozilla to AOS and if so, will it be included with AOS?
Fleecy: We have been looking on with interest at the path followed by Apple with Safari, their new browser and will most likely follow a similar path. We need to consider this though against the wider picture of what goes in an OS and what is/should be provided by third parties
4) SlimJim: Will there be an official list of supported hardware for the AOne + AOS4 combo released before the launch of the actual OS? I know this has been asked before, but it would be nice for people with Earlybird systems to be able to start putting together the hardware (with Linux) now, safely knowing that the addons they buy will also be supported by the upcoming AOS4.
Fleecy: This already exists, built and maintained by those who already have AmigaOnes, and supported by Amiga, Eyetech, Hyperion and Mai. You can find it at
http://web.amigarulez.com/ahs/
The new Amiga Power Platform website is currently under development and will be launched in the near future and will provide lists of hardware, software and links to reviews.
5) Rebel: Why has Amiga Inc not involved its community more? There are many talented graphics artists, webmasters, programmers that could be called upon to help. Also surveys on features etc that users want the most. AI's refusal to engage the users has helped to fragment that community further.
Fleecy: The issue with using the community comes down to the essential delineation between a business and its market. If a company takes work from external sources then there are legal questions of ownership and moral questions of remuneration. As an example, many games companies used to welcome idea submissions from the game playing community as a way of generating new product concepts but a few years ago, a few of them were sued by people who had made submissions and who claimed that their ideas had been used without reward. It is thus necessary to ensure that any flow into a company is legally secure.
Having said that, we do work with the community in several ways.
- We often use Amiga artists for graphics work. The new OS4 advert is a good example.
- We are working with several webmasters and artists for the new Amiga Power Platform website.
- The development team of AmigaOS4.0 consists of many of the best community based developers.
- We consult with a group of trusted community figures on issues, ideas and concepts.
- The Club Amiga Monthly eMag and the soon to be released DEv DE developer eMag receive extensive contributions from the community.
Of course there is always room for more and as AmigaOS4.0 moves towards release, we will be extending our efforts in that regard. There is a lot of contact and communication with the community but a lot of it goes on behind the scenes.
6) alx: What tools will be available to develop for OS4?
Fleecy: The OS4 team and in particular Olaf Barthel have put in a lot of work to create a GCC compatible compiler which is free of iexmul and older compiler dependencies. We are looking at developing a proper IDE around this to give Amiga developers a world class development environment, and integrating this with a new documentation toolchain. A developer CD will be forthcoming. This is of course subject to change as we move forwards.
Now that we have an eMag pipeline, proven with CAM, we are soon to introduce the DEv eMag for AmigaDE developers and we want to produce a similar product for AmigaOS developers.
7) alx: Do you know when the new SciTech graphics drivers will be integrated into the OS (ie as a Boing Bag, or in OS4.2 or whatever)?
Fleecy: The plan is to release it as part of AmigaOS4.0. It most likely won't be part of the CSPPC version but then that hardware doesn't have the luxury of many graphics cards.
8) Unclecurio: There was much talk of the Zico spec in the early days. Is Amiga Inc continuing the development of these blueprints and, if so, when can we expect to hear more?
Fleecy: The Zico spec was an indication of the type of functionality that we intended to provide with AmigaOS4.0. Our future plans for the AmigaOS will introduce new types of hardware across a range of device classes but we won't be releasing details until individual projects are much more advanced.
9) Kay: Have you given any thought to communication between Amiga desktops and AmigaDE capable PDAs? If so, what devices can we expect to be using together with our AmigaOne systems in the near future?
Fleecy: This is something that we intend to provide once the AmigaDE is on the AmigaOS. However, there are also opportunities for other device synchronisation as well - PocketPC and Palm PDAs, MS and Symbian powered smartphones and of course the digital music devices.
10) The_Editor: "The Matrox are supposed to be an A.Inc Partner... Have / are negotiations taken place to port/create NLE Editing solutions for A1?"
Fleecy: Our partnership with Matrox is currently limited to providing drivers for their product path. There have been initial contacts about their video application offerings and we have agreed to talk in more detail once we can provide them with AmigaOS4.0 on an AmigaOne for them to assess.
We have been contacted in the last week by a company which has expressed an interest in bringing video capture, editing and presentation software to AmigaOS4.0 but I cannot give any more details at this early stage.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=2
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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23.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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APC&TCP: Wanted: Beta testers for "Desert Racing"
APC&TCP are still looking for beta testers for the game "Desert Racing". An
Amiga with 060 processor, AGA, gfx card and CD-ROM drive is required. Moreover
you should have a good Amiga knowledge. Interested users please apply by mail
to info@apc-tcp.de. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #029
Our musician Tripper has written a new MP3 tune under the title "Mindscope",
which is to be classified something like Trance, Ambient or House style. But
have a listen yourself! ;)
As always freely available on our home page.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Felix Schwarz (ANF)
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Felix Schwarz: Sale of old AMIGA hardware
In order to create room for new hardware, Felix Schwarz privately sells AMIGA
hardware items which are no longer required. Among those there are AMIGA computers
as well as digitizers, interface cards and non-AMIGA hardware. Especially
interesting for some might be the Amiga 4000 on which the main part of the
development of fxPAINT, fxSCAN and VHI Studio had taken place (in the meantime
moved to an A4000T).
As this is private hardware there is no guarantee - the sale is NOT through
IOSPIRIT but is purely of a private nature.
This has no influence on the further development of the software titles by
IOSPIRIT - even after the sale there are still three AMIGAs and compatible
computers remaining. Have fun bidding!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: HIGHWAY-successor "ALGOR" from E3B goes into production
E3B is glad to be able to present the well known HIGHWAY Zorro USB controller's
successor ALGOR as the consequential result of its further development
over a period of several months. Now, after the successful conclusion of a long test
phase, ALGOR goes into production.
As with the successful predecessor, highest performance and optimal adaption to
the Amiga Classic's circumstances was the development target for ALGOR.
You can find the press announcement in full as well as technical specifications
on the E3B Web site.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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23.Mar.2003
Ventzislav Tzvetkov (ANF)
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Virus warning: Virus in a demo file on JPV (FAG-MD03.LHA)
Subsequently you will find an announcement published in the ANF. Unfortunately I wasn't
able to find an e-mail address on JPV's Web site, so I can't inform the
maintainer.
The archive http://jpv.wmhost.com/releases/FAG-MD03.LHA has a
"Happy new year98" virus in it. There is a
link to this
site from amiga-news.de. Also don't run this even after the
virus is removed (VirusExecutor does the job) - it's an ugly
pictures of gay porn. UGLY. Must be erased from every Amiga
Hard Disk immediately.
Kind Regards
drHirudo
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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22.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.3
This version includes also polypressure commands so the package
is complete know. If i find bugs or faulty commands i will update
it. Feel free to contact me if something doesnt work.
Future commands in new OS'es i will ofcourse update if they come. (ps)
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22.Mar.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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New Mac-on-Linux version 0.9.68 released for PPC incl. AmigaOne
The new Mac-on-Linux version 0.9.68 has been released on March, 10th 2003.
An adapted version for the AmigaOne of Mac on Linux can be found under the URL http://members.optusnet.com.au/amigaone/.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Rudolph Riedel (email)
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FTPMount version 1.4 by Rudolph Riedel
Rudolph Riedel wrote:
As the Aminet unfortunately seems to be down, at least uploads aren't sorted anymore, I have uploaded right now a new version of FTPMount to my homepage.
Download: FTPMount.lha
A download link isn't available on the site but it should be direct accessable. Well, what has changed?
This can of course be read in the "FTPMount.readme".
The archive is very similar to the v1.31 by Martin R. Elsner on the Aminet, I had unpacked it and done my changes. The main thing is that I've done a new compile, made some changes, set the version to 1.4, added a 68040 version and the complete source code is now also included.
In case that anybody has a bug report - just send it to me!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Steffen Schiller (Fahrschule 99)
A few days ago was the once low cost program "Fahrschule 99"
released for free download by its developer Steffen Schiller.
Other than the name is suggesting it's not an old program but "Fahrschule 99" offers to all those who are doing their theoretical driving licence or who just want to update their knowledge the up-to-date data for the classes B and A.
Here it shows once again that the Amiga sector offers actual applications that are not only for free but also cover topics that are suitable for the daily use. the only drop of bitterness for todays Amiga users will be the fact that "Fahrschule 99" is made for an Amiga 500 and PAL screen mode.
As especially this kind of normal use software is so important for the future of the new Amiga generation to cover a wide area of themes spoke Olaf Köbnik to Steffen Schiller about the future of "Fahrschule 99".
The result is the 100th interview Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena) has done who already told us that the 101st interview with another interesting and actual company is in the works.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: many areas updated (19.03.2003)
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users HomePage 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.
Three days ago were the following areas updated:
- America
- Europe
- List of new links
- List of lost links
- History 2003
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (email)
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Cinemaware statement
As reported in the end of February here told clickBOOM in their S-File 22 that there are differences with Cinemaware. Today Cinemaware published the following statement:
Statement from Cinemaware
Hopefully you know who we are as Cinemaware, as we are well known for
our past Amiga games. We are of course doing new titles as well as you
can see on our web-site www.cinemaware.com.
We have also started a series of "Digitally Remastered" titles with
clickBoom for a while - but unfortunately that has gone badly. I was
wondering if you could report the information below on your website.
We understand that some of classic Amiga/Cinemaware fans have been
concerned about certain news spread around by clickBoom, the Canadian
developer which Cinemaware has employed to develop the "Digitally
Remastered" series of games. At this point Cinemaware would just like to
make a simple statement that clickBoom's allegations are false and
misleading, and that we will issue an official statement in the future
regarding this matter.
In reference to this, Cinemaware would appreciate if anyone involved in
the below cases come into contact with us as soon as possible, writing
to cinemaware@cinemaware.com:
As you can see history tends to repeat itself.
In the meantime, we appreciate your support and understand your
frustration at not being able to see more "Digital Remasters" coming out
soon. We are working hard to resolve this situation.
Please look out for exciting news regarding Robin Hood: Defender of the
Crown soon!
Sincerely,
Lars Fuhrken-Batista
Team Cinemaware
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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22.Mar.2003
CD32-Allianz (ANF)
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CD32-Allianz website update and editorial
The CD32-Allianz continues. Again with new cover scans, new enhancements for the CD32 and matching the begin of the spring time a new editorial.
In the past time it became quite quiet around the other CD32 websites. To avoid a stand still here for us there's again a call for assistance. If anybody wants to write a games review or owns missing games: help!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 326
Today Guido Mersmann has published beta version 326 of the TV-card driver software
called AmithlonTV which contains several minor updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Change: Changed some routines within the library to ensure full Pegasos compatibility.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
AmiGOD (Website)
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 beta 20.03.2003
On 20th March 2003 Lukas Stehlik has published a new beta version of 'AmiGOD 2'.
This is a modularly built up AmigaOS benchmark. The following things have changed compared
with the last version:
- ADDED: Multitasking ON/OFF feature
- ADDED: Settings window (tests switching)
- CHANGED: Minor cosmetic changes
- REMOVED: Hdd/mem
- SOON:
support of external *.amg modules (95% completed)
- full screen intuition test, hdd/mem tests
Download: AmiGOD2.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Relaunch: Amiga History Guide
"Amiga Interactive Guide" which is a extensive collection of reports, interviews and
documents concerning the history of the Amiga has been updated.
The layout has been completely reworked and besides this the site now works as the
"Amiga History Guide".
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF)
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Audio Evolution Website Update
The website of the audio harddisk-recording program Audio Evolution has been updated with new information and screenshots on the upcoming Audio Evolution 4 for AmigaOS4. See audio-evolution.com
for more information. (ps)
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21.Mar.2003
Scenia
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Music scene: AMP updated
The demo scene project Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) is the most extensive collection
of original modules of the Amiga demo scene. The maintainer of this site Crown and
Curt Cool have now published a major update.
The database now has 21 CD-ROMs, 55266 downloadable modules, 9476 musicans and 535 interviews.
Additionally to the new interviews with Fowl, Karlos, Rick, Sire, Skuter, Sleipner,
Swampfox, Ted Burning, Trazer, Wes Craven and Zarch above all the server has been maintained.
Besides this they point out that Prowizard
is available in a new version.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: New version of Office-packet Papyrus awaited
»Papyrus X as Word-version and as Office-packet announced
At the beginning of April 2003 the Berlin software company R.O.M. logicware is going to publish a new version of the
word processing software and of the Office packet Papyrus. The word processing software
which originally comes from the Atari world (TOS) will be now offered for MacOS for the
first time additionally to versions for OS/2 and Windows.
The Amiga version which has been announced of Titan Computer 2000
is still not available. Michael Garlich said that because of the current market situation
the Mac version has the highest priority. The MorphOS version (and PPC) is already in
alpha stadium while the Amiga version can be only started after AmigaOS 4.0 will be published
(68k is too slow for Papyrus X). (ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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ProStationAudio for MorphOS
A short while ago Bill Buck, CEO of Genesi S.a.r.l., made known in
comments
in several news forums and media viewpoints that the finished version of MorphOS would be bundled with a full
version of the professional Audio-Sequencer ProStationAudio. PSA's publisher AudioLabs has put a FAQ on their
website about this matter, which will confirm this and clarify further details. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Death of a German ScummVM Programmer
Sebastian Beloch quotes the website of the software project ScummVM:
Last Friday, March 14th, our fellow ScummVM developer and friend,
Felix Jakschitsch (known to many under his nickname yot),
committed suicide at the young age of 19.
We are completely shocked by this, and do not know or understand
what drove him into this. It is a sorrowful world in which a
cheerful, intelligent and helpful man is put in a situation in
which he sees no other way to escape than taking his own life.
We are sad to lose our valued friend. He contributed important
work to ScummVM, including much of the Zak256 support. His loss
is felt deeply by all of us, and we extend our condolence to his
family and close friends, whose grief we share. If you want to
leave a message to his friends and family, there is a guestbook available.
Also here is a news paper article telling more details
(use babelfish if you don't speak German).
Felix, we miss you and will never forget you. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.2
295 midi commands specially made for access virus synthesizers
using tracks&fields miditracker.
This version has all the rest midi commands that Kicko didn't
publish in release 0.1. This is up to OS5. If new OS'es has
new commands the developer will fix it. Page A commands uses
only control messages instead of sysex. Page B & C is only
sysex. There is a backup of page A sysex if anyone needs it
in a subdir. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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20.Mar.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Golem: Linux for PowerPC - Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 is Ready
With Yellow Dog 3.0, Terra Soft has released a new version of their Linux distribution for PowerPC. The software, developed under the
codename "Sirius," marks a new generation of Linux for the PowerPC architecture, and is based on the GCC 3.2.1 compiler. Read the
complete column at Golem IT News under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Net Newspaper: Al Gore in Apple's Advisory Board
The former US Vice-President Al Gore has been elected to the advisory board of the computer manufacturer Apple. Gore was
extremely narrowly overcome by George W. Bush in the presidential election of 2000. Read the complete Netzeitung.de report
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Mar.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: AmiGBG in Gothenburg, Delfina in production
On March 29th, the Amiga-show AmiGBG
will take place. The event takes place for the third time this year,
and we'll attend for the first time as an exhibitor. We will present
new and known products from our palette together with our long-term
partner GGS-Data. The Scandinavian
Amiga-community is very active and most notably creative, therefore
we're especially looking forward to this event!
With a little luck, we'll have our latest product in our luggage: After
an extremely long wait, the sound card Delfina went into production.
Nearly one year ago, we announced the last technical changes, that
are already outdated today. The most important change is probably the
split of the product into two boards. The updated product description
on our website confirms what many people already assumed since the
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is out: The new Delfina is a combined
Zorro/PCI card. The first stage of this high-end sound card will be
available in Germany starting April 7th, 2003. Pre-orders are taken
by our retail partners.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi: CeBIT report 2003
Genesi: CeBIT-Report 2003
From Ron van Herk und Martin Heine
The CeBIT is over, eight days of hard work are behind us. Genesi´s
first CeBIT attendance has been very successful. We were able to have many interesting talks,
we had a lot of interested visitors and started some very promising business deals.
We cannot got into detail of every single topic and of course there are some (indeed not too few) things which we cannot talk about in public.
But some things we can say right now:
_Kato Development_
Kato has developed sound card drivers for more then ten different audio chip sets. These include the AC97 codec, several Creative sound cards, but also some different Terratec models. We are to assist Kato in any possible kind to port their drivers to the Pegasos/MorphOS system, so Pegasos users will have a broad choice af additional sound cards.
_Mediapoint_
We hired the main programmer of Mediapoint. He started, done as a fulltime job, already to finish the next version of this package. It´s aimes to do a first release still this summer.
Our main focus is the professional market but also current users of the stand alone version will be an upgrade offered to benefit from the new features as well. Futhermore the same programmer will create a
MorphOS version of Inga the graphic adventure creator. With this it becomes possible for developers to create such graphic adventures or edutainment software for our settop box.
_Russia_
Genesi´s Russian distributor visited us at the fair. Currently the Russian localization of
MorphOS is under development.
_Merchandise_
Genesi thinks about the production of several MorphOS mechandise goodies and to offer it via local dealers.
We have some ideas for that ourself by now but welcome every suggestion for that as well.
_3sat_
As most will have heard and some have seen already there has been a short report about the Pegasos/MorphOS within the TV show "neues" of 3sat. Even it has not been to extensive it has been quite nice and we got some several positive feedback about it.
Okay, that´s all for the moment - more news will follow when we can put them to public. Our best greetings and regards from the CeBIT we are leaving from here now!
Ron, Martin, André und Ulrich
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Fax and mobile phone disabled
The Amiga Future disables from April the 1st 2003 their current mobile phone and fax account. New numbers will not be published. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
YAM (Website)
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Mailer: New YAM Developer version from 03-19-2003
Since today there is a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA available
from the mailer YAM which became open source recently.
This version is a pure developer version which might still include some bugs and for which the developer team gives no warranty and support of any kind. Requests via e-mail about developer versions will not be answered.
Usage on your own risk!
The recent changes can be obtained from this list.
Further information is to get from the
Yamos SourceForge page.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Article: The new generation of CDR/CDRW writers
With the start of the CeBIT the new generation of the 5x-times IDE
CDR/CDRW writer has been introduced to the market. Along with the higher writing speeds for CDRs and CDRWs all writers include technologies to avoid buffer underruns by standard now and are capable of the mount rainier standard, which should replace floppy disks as data carrier medium.
_Mitsumi_
The current top edge is the Mitsumi CR 485F TE (54x 32x 54x speed) drive. The best features of this ultraspeed rewriter include the integrated MITSUMI Aegis write
technology for best writing results. Aegis write controls and optimizes the laser strength, checks the writing speed and performs during the writing process a quality check for a safe burn. Availability: from April. Price: about 99 Euro.
_Plextor_
The new Plexwriter Premium (52x 32x 52x speed) works with an improved optical unit which offers a better signal sharpness between the pits and lands, so capacity of mediums can be increased up to 40%. So a 700 MB disk is capable of up to 1 GB. For a better compatibility Plextor says to extend the disk capacity only about 20%. To reduce the drive sounds the speed of the drive can be downgraded by the user individually.
Availability: from April. Price: about 199 Euro.
_LG Electronics_
For all who think about to get a new CDRW as well as a DVD-ROM LG presents the new combo drive GCC-4520B
(16x + 52x 24x 52x). Beside all common CD/CDRW formats the drive can read DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW media. The maximum read speed for these media is 16x which is about 21 MB/s. Availability: from April. Price: not published yet.
_Cyberdrive_
With the CW099D (52x 24x 52x) Cyberdrive offers a high sped writer now. The device works in the CAV mode and thus needs
less than 2.5 minutes for a complete CD-R and
for a CD-RW only about 3.5 minutes. The device can handle the raw DAO mode with 96 subchannel bytes and thus offers backup copies of protected CDs. Extra long CDRs with 90 or 99 minutes are supported also. Availability: from now on. Price: about
99 Euros.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Divine Divinity coming to the Mac and MorphOS
Larian Studios and e.p.i.c. interactive announced today that they have
signed a contract to bring Larian Studios' highly awarded role playing
sensation Divine Divinity to the Apple Macintosh and MorphOS.
Warrior, Wizard or Survivor? Which fate is yours?
It's your decision, one that will influence the gameplay of Divine Divinity
- playable as an action based RPG or a classical RPG!
According to prophecy, you are the chosen one. Only you have the strength,
the courage and the magic to save the legendary lands of Rivellon from
submission under the Lord of Chaos. Before you can take on the fight against
Evil, you must journey far through a fantastic world torn apart by
corruption, sinister plots and dark magic.
Caution is vital! Whatever happens, the evil magicians of the black ring
must not get hold of you!
With an involving storyline and plenty of sub quests for maximum
replayability, Divine Divinity is role-playing gaming at its best! As a
warrior, wizard or survivor, you will create your own destiny!
More information on Divine Divinity and all the accolades it has achieved,
can be found on e.p.i.c's or
Larian Studios website.
The Apple release will lead the way in QIII/03 followed shortly thereafter
by the MorphOS release.
The Mac version will be OSX only and will require a G3-333, 128 MByte RAM and
a 8 MByte 3D Gfxcard. The MorphOS version will need a Pegasos I or II.
(ps)
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19.Mar.2003
filosof (ANF)
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Event: Commodore Retro Party - Mail Madness Party #5
This year there will be a a computer party for retro freaks again in Saxonia/Germany. From April the 30th until May the 4th 2003 there will be a Mail
Madness! party in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, where from the C64 or Plus 4 to the ZX-Spectrum everything will be there. Several new and well known DiskMags will be shown to be up to date again. A possibility for sleeping and eating (breakfast, hamburger for in between or pizza (starting from 2 Euros) at night ...etc.) as well as beverages are available. A supermarket for the buying individual stuff is just near by.
For details just ring the +49 177 3376544 or of later than 6pm call the +49 3723 48729 ......come on !! don't hesitate !!!
See ya...!
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga User Group interviews Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco by Genesi
MorphOS-News.de reports about an
interview,
which was done by the Finnish Amiga User Group with Genesi. Within this interview Bill Buck and his wife Raquel Velasco do not only talk about the
-
Crossbee team hired by Genesi not only introduces their
experience of the management organisation but also their software to MorphOS.
- Additionalyt hey told that Ceolia now works for Genesi also,
- that prototypes of the PegasosII boards (6 Layers) are expected within the next three months.
- Representives of Plexuscom will come to Paris after the CeBIT to outline the further team work;
- that Genesi will sponsor the demo scene event "Assembly 2003"
- and that there will be a new MorphOS version for the existing PowerUp cards during the next month available free of charge for the Amiga community.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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18.Mar.2003
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Font: TTEngine 6.4
TTEngine 6.4 is a bugfix release for three bugs unfortunately introduced in the previous one. The main bug was requesting mathieeesingtrans.library V38 while Workbench 3.0 and 3.1 has V37 of this library. This caused library initialization failure and revealed two bugs related to cleanup routine. Cleanup generated several Enforcer hits if called after failed initialization. All three bugs are fixed in TTEngine 6.4 release. Thanks to Halvadjian Georges, who reported the bug and hepled with debugging.
Download: ttengine-6.4.lha (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
MorphOS-News.de
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CeBIT 2003: More pictures
MorphOS-News.de has posted some more CeBIT pictures (provided by Ron van Herk). (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Markus Holler (Website)
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Music: Markus Holler - Dance Mix aus Cold Zero
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga-Users for his music for the games Tales of
Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity, works on the music
Actiongame Cold Zero. For the soon vailable game you can find a dance mix of
the main themes on the download page.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
EvenMore
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Text viewer: Latest MSWord-Plugin for EvenMore
Chris Perver has released the MSWord-Plugin Version 1.38 for his text viewer
'EvenMore'. With this plugin you can convert in 'EvenMore' MSWord files into text.
Download: msword2text.plugin
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (Website)
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TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 321
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 321 of AmithlonTV with some updates and
enhancements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh
a
New in this version:
- CHANGED: Recompiled with the latest resource tracking and management code.
- BUGFIX: Thanks to the new resource management I found a very (very very) worst
memory boundary leak (4000 bytes!!!) in the main library core! If you had a few
crashes in the past, then there is a very (very very) good chance that they are gone!
- BUGFIX: Another 2 byte boundary leak within the virtual card driver fixed.
- CHANGED: Installer-Script now requests an actual installer version to ensure
proper operation.
- FEATURE: Added PowerPCI NG support.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Mar.2003
www.scene.org/news.php (ANF)
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OS Poll at scene.org
There is an OS poll running at scene.org right now. Lets help our favorite OS a little hand ;-) (ps)
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18.Mar.2003
Kicko (ANF)
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Music: Access Virus Midicommands for tracks&fields
More then 250 commands to remote access virus synthesizers from
tracks & fields. There will be updates when Access makes new
OSupdates with new sysex midi commands.
Further updates will be made when for HDRec when there comes new
versions of it. As i dont find anyone that have time to continue
on tracks&field i will later use HDRec instead as its more pro.
Directpage (ps)
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17.Mar.2003
Amiga.SF (Website)
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Diego Casorran Ports: HyperMail V2.1.7 and Flac V1.1.0
- HyperMail to version 2.1.7, it is a program that takes a file of
mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of
cross-referenced HTML documents. Each file that is created represents
a separate message in the mail archive and contains links to other
articles, so that the entire archive can be browsed in a number of
ways by following links. (I remember you that YAM export his emails
in UNIX format ;)
- Flac to version 1.1.0, it stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The
FLAC project consists of: the stream format, reference encoders and
decoders in library form, flac: a command-line program to encode and
decode FLAC files, metaflac: a command-line metadata editor for FLAC
files. "Free" means that the specification of the stream format is
fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project
reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify
compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the
implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent.
It also means that all the source code is available under open-source
licenses.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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Two new digital album: Galicia and Lisbon
After technical problems over the weekend the Faces OF Mars Website is
again fully functional. Immediately there are two new products: Photo
CDs about Lisbon and Galicia.
Beside many photos the CDs contains also a digital postcard
system, with which one can send motives simply over the Internet.
Price: 4 Euro per CD.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records with new module
Martin ' DaFreak ' Rebentisch writes:
Our musician Angeldust composed, influenced by the political
argument USA/Iraq, a MP3-Tune in the Schranz style
named "God Bless You". Sounds very interesting, just listen to it.
[LQS Homepage]!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
Jabberwocky (Website)
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 2. Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch published Preview 2 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ,
MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways.
Beta-version-vownload: Jabberwocky030316.lha
Changes:
- Fixed transperancy of icons in roster window (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
- Fixed long standing enforcer hit when removing contacts (also thanks to Jeff
Gilpin as a side effect of the transperancy fix)
- Fixed reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Fixed unicode conversion of reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1)
- Some support for displaying errors in the roster (but I haven't actually had
any errors that trigger it, so it either doesn't work, or I haven't
had any errors.
- Fixed enforcer hit on startup when autoconnect is on and there is no account
information (introduced in 1.3)
- Roster icon remains on the event icon until all unread messages have been read
- Fixed handling of messages from contacts that are not in the roster
(introduced in 1.4pre1)
As you can see 1.4pre1 had quite a lot of problems, remember you shouldn't be
using any prerelease unless you want problems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.03.2003
With WHDLoad you install games, which were meant for the floppy discs usage
only, on your hard disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message:
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 2 - Time Warp (Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 15.03.03 new: Dragon Lord (Alfaforce) done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 new: 3001 O'Conners Fight 2 () done by Agressor
- 15.03.03 improved: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) supports another version
- 15.03.03 improved: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) supports another version
- 13.03.03 new: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Mar.2003
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Seven new demos online
A.D.A., the 'Amiga Demo Archive' has undergone an extensive update and offers
the following new demos:
- Dream or Reality/Faculty and Nah Kolor. Famous slideshow from Faculty
and Nah Kolor, featuring pictures by Unreal. Mostly fantasy inspired
(dragons), this slideshow features some nice pictures.
- Noname/Polka Brothers. Released at the South Sealand party in 1994
(ranking unknown). This is pure Polka Brothers style, meaning fast effects
and lots of energy. Some nice fullscreen pictures and a stunning tune by
Slide (as usual). A bit too short. Recommended!
- Nonstop/DCS. "Dcs brings you the first 40kb sing-along karaoke intro
ever featuring le ball du metaux, head objects, possibility to sing along,
effects, secret breakdance mode, oldschool atmosphere and no greetings part".
Need i say more? Released at The Party 1999 (1st place).
- Sketch/Venture. Technically not really impressive, this demo features
some amazing design, making it a very stylish little production. Released
in August 1998 at Intel Outside 5 (3rd place).
- Sumolysbryter/Ephidrena. Yes, the famous crew from Norway is back with a
new demo! Featuring Loaderror, Cheetah and Zixaq, this demo was released at
Kindergarden 2003 where it achieved first place. Very stylish design backed
up by a nice elektro tune. High quality, as can be expected from the masters
of design. More please!
- Alien 2/Scoopex. Released at The Party 1998 where it ranked 1st at the
demo competition. A 3D story demo with 2D effects in between. Cool music from
Muffler and Virgill. Recommended if you are interested in 3D story demos.
- Brain Overdrive/Software Failure. It's always easy to search for
credits from Software Failure intros: Code: Ham, Gfx: Ham, Music: Ham, 3D:
Ham (talk about multitalented). Originally released at Euskal 10 in July
2002, Ham released the final version some weeks ago. And a very fine intro
it is!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
ANN
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TV-card driver: SuperTV beta version 0.8 for Mediator
Today Peter Gordon has released the beta version 0.8 of SuperTV (an alternative
to the Mediator TV software by Elbox).
This version fixes some bugs and offers new features.
Download: stv_beta_0-8.lha
Changes since the last version:
- "Hide pointer" now has 3 modes: Never, Fullscreen only, and Always. F2 now cycles between never and always.
- Added option to cycle through channels (ie hitting + at the last channel will cycle to channel 1).
- Two new arexx commands: TV_INCCHANNEL, TV_DECCHANNEL. These increment and decrement the channel, taking into account the cycle channels settings
- Added possibility to put in custom source number. This allows colour SVHS on some cards.
- I think i've zapped the enforcer hits now.
- You can now toggle fullscreen with F3
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Sebastian Brylka / Fun Time World (ANF)
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CeBIT 2003 - Photos and short report from Fun Time World
Sebastian Brylka of Fun Time World
set out and looked for innovations on the CeBIT 2003. Among others he also
visited the Plexuscom/Pegasos booth. The resulting photos and a short report can
be found under the title link. Interested people are welcome to stop by and have
a look. Maybe interesting for some: Amiga computers were also to be seen at the
CeBIT 2003!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 05 for Descent: Freespace released
Today the MultiPlayer Pack 05 with 5 multi player missions for the game
Descent: Freespace has been released.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Schlafi (ANF)
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Documentary 'Life after Microsoft' at 21.15 on 3Sat
Documentary about six programmers who once put their nose to the grindstone for
Bill Gates. Among others also with Walt Moore, who co-developed the operationg
system "Windows 1" for Microsoft until he wasn't fast enough anymore and was
sacked. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: March/April 2003 Vote
It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - March/April 2003.
We need the vote of your current prefered games. Send us
your classifying (20 games max) at our adress:
daff1@club-internet.fr
or vote at our website.
Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...).
If your list has not changed since last time, simply reply this mail with
the subject "no change for me".
Final classifying will be published in early April.
(ps)
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16.Mar.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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New Soms3D shots, English translation and requests
A new update has been released on the 'Anime Development for Amiga' page. Two
new screen shots of Soms3D have been added, furthermore an English translation
is now available.
This translation is "beta", thus the ADA team is looking for someone to go and
correct all the errors.
Furthermore the ADA team is looking for people who know Milkshape3D or a
mesh animator which supports the MD2 format (used e.g. Quake2). Also
raytracers are still most welcome in the ranks of the ADA team.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Home page for current Amiga demos & ASCIIs
Completely undetected, Dutch demo scener Jpv of the group Rave Network Overscan
has been offering all demos and ASCII collections released since August 2001
for download on his homepage.
Former visitors of boards (mailboxes) which ran on Amiexpress or Fame will feel
immediately at home there. The home page gets updated immediately after the
release of new demos, intros, disk mags, slide shows, packs or ASCII
collections. Thus, e.g. all publications of the recently held Kindergarten
Party are available.
All in all a good source for providing yourselves with material from the demo
scence.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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16.Mar.2003
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel (ANF)
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Programmer wanted for project 'Fli4l on Amiga'
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel writes:
Maybe some of you know the software router package fli4l (see title link). With
this software and a 486 it is possible, to create a fairly comfortable Linux
based hardware router.
The whole thing works quite good, and also the collaboration with the Amiga
works out excellently. The only downer so far: In order to create the required
boot diskette, up to now a Windows/Linux PC is still needed.
Now I have looked a bit closer into the DOS batch file and realised that only
two little programs are needed which as yet haven't been available on the Amiga.
One is mkfli4l, a progam which checks the config files of fli4l and generates
the file structure for the required Tar file, and Syslinux, a boot loader, which
can also be used from DOS and writes a boot block onto a diskette.
The program mkfli4l wasn't overly complicated, in any case I have succeeded in
porting the program after some time of trial and error (actually it was a simple
recompile with gcc). I have also adapted the script so it is in theory able to
create a boot diskette. In practice, however, the program Syslinux is missing!
Thus now my question: Is it at all possible to use this program on the Amiga (of
course one still would have to install an MS-DOS compatible file system on the
Amiga) and if so, is there somebody out there who would port it?
The whole thing doesn't seem to be especially extensive, only somebody would
have to do it ;-) Btw, Syslinux can be found here:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/.
If this whetted somebody's appetite, please contact me via
e-Mail.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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15.Mar.2003
Superplongeur (email)
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News of AMIGAzette 83
AMIGAzette 83, a French Amiga organization, has given its web presence a strong revision during the last weeks.
AMIGAzette 83 is since 1994 distributor of the fanzine AMIGAZETTE. The issue #52 was released as part of the fanzine BOING ATTACK by Triple Association A, the coming issue #53 will be available with the release of #22 of BOING ATTACK. The current AMIGAzette CD is the issue #6 and contains a demo special. Though they mainly support the Classic Amiga right now they'll dedicate a part to the Pegasos.
Further information is gathered on the website of AMIGAzette 83 under the title link. Questions may also be sent in French or English to superplongeur@aol.com or grigri83@aol.com.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Video: English Version of 'Live: ARC 2002' from VD available
The English version of the report about the Amiga + Retro-Computing 2002
in Aachen from Virtual Dimension's "Live"-series is finally finished.
All moderations and comments have been translated and the interview
with Jeri Ellsworth, the developer of the CommodoreOne, isn't dubbed
with a German voice-over anymore. Reporting about the newest Amiga- and
C64-stuff, this video is more than 20 minutes long. There are versions
with different file-sizes for your convenience.
(ps)
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15.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Interview data base online
Since 2000 is the Amiga Arena regularly holding interviews
with developers of the freeware and shareware Amiga basis.
With this data base it is now for the first time possible to reread all interviews. You need the freeware data base XBaze by Rafal Kaczmarczk.
Features:
- You can start via the openurl.library browser and mail program directly fromout the data base.
- 99 interviews in German and English.
- The interviews can be read directly from the data base.
- With a clear list all held interviews of all developers can be directly compared this way with each other.
The archive is available for download in the rubric "Interviews".
Special thanks go to:
- Rafal Kaczmarczk for creating the data base.
- Christian Busse for the translations of the interviews.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
IG Metall (website)
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IG Metall: Do you earn what you deserve?
»Many people who hold their salary cheques in their hands ask this question themselves. In spring 2000 has the IG Metall (a German union) for the first time publicly presented a survey over the salaries in the IT industry and updated it on a yearly basis. This payment analysis has proven to be a big hit. Now there's a new - of course updated -
survey.« (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Weekly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 1
As announced by the English Internet magazine AmigaWorld, the magazine will ask Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc., ten questions per week (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) Rebel: "Why SO silent? AInc has been quiet for months at a time, giving the naysayers, and rumour mongers a chance to do more damage, and divide the community even more.".
Fleecy: As my mother used to, and still does say to me 'Don't say anything unless you have something to say.' Keith Blakemore Noble pointed out on ANN that this is what we said we would do when we bought the company in 2000 and then we went back on this pledge. The problem we have, although it is a good problem is that the Amiga has a community and the community wants to know what is going on, more so given the nightmare of the last eight years.
Our initial policy was thus to say nothing until we had news to share. With all the requests we then got for news, it became very difficult for us to keep to our policy. We thus resurrected the Executive Updates but in these we made the mistake of sharing status and progress information and as anyone in business knows, business is a distillation process - 100 leads may lead to 20 contacts which lead to 5 contracts which may, if you are lucky lead to 1 deal.
Even more unfortunate, the deals we were able to announce, the Sharp Zaurus, the Nokia MediaTerminal, the Sendo Z100 were pulled out from under us - the Zaurus for Sharp internal reasons, the MediaTerminal because of the collapse of ITV digital and another Germany company and the Sendo situation is well understood (although there is still hope there of a new deal based upon the unique advantages of the AmigaDE).
So, in terms of news items we haven't done too well.
To add to this (and many will shout and scream about this but it is true), Amiga Inc has been under attack from several groups who have other axes to grind, whether they want an x86 solution, AmigaOS open sourced, protection code and licencing removed from AmigaOS4.0 or want to encourage people to move to another platform whilst claiming it is an Amiga. Of course in a community there is disagreement but in a community that disagreement is either tolerated or the community splits apart. Everything we were saying in public was being taken apart and turned to support whatever was the position of the poster.
In the end, we decided to revert back to our original policy since it became apparent that all anyone really cared about was the release of AmigaOS4.0. This then brought us full circle to the original situation, that when saying nothing, noisemakers will rush to fill the silence. If you don't counteract the rumours then its because they are true and if you do pop up to counteract them then that must be because they are true. The only way to win is to get AmigaOS4.0 out the door and so that is what we are concentrating on at the moment.
Part of the reason for this Q&A service is to rubbish the claim that we won't talk to the community. We just won't say anything if it isn't 110% guaranteed anymore and that is the way people seem to want it.
2) SlimJim: "It is well known that this first release of AOS4 is mainly aimed for the existing user-base and eventual old Amigans. What is Amiga Inc's (overall) marketing strategy with respect to AmigaOS4 + Aone (once they become available)?".
Fleecy:
1. Move the community to new hardware and operating system.
2. Develop audio and 2d/3d productivity architectures with Amiga and non Amiga developers
3. Create applications to take advantage of these architectures to carve out solution markets
4. Support development of applications that round the appeal of the platform - browser, email client, word processor
5. Integrate with the AmigaDE to open access to multiple platform markets, both open and solution based
6. As we build the application base to where it can successfully provide for different roles, we will then push it out into those markets.
In short, there is no point in pushing the Amiga into a market where it is not yet ready to provide an adequate solution or it will die before it takes its first step. To do that we need the hardware, the operating system, the application base and the support services in place.
3) Herewegoagain: "Will they [Amiga Inc.] be negotiating with Microsoft to bring Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Media Player to OS4?".
Fleecy: It is something we have considered but again, as with all the other application developers out there on other platforms, until we can plonk a machine and operating system in front of them, there is little point. The perennial problem, of course is that these companies are busy with their main activities and seeing their product ported to another platform, particularly one as small as the Amiga is not something that they wish to consider. In the end, they will only 'get out of bed' if there is a large market or we provide them with financial incentive.
4) alx: "Assuming everything goes to plan, at what point in the future will Amiga start to advertise the A1/OS (not just to Amigans)?".
Fleecy: I refer you back to question 2 - we will market and advertise when the full solution is ready for those markets. This doesn't mean that there won't be penetration. We have many journalists ready to review and write about the machines. Amiga is a big story to them because the Amiga was such a large part of people's lives in the past. We will have services in place to take advantage of and capture that interest, to make use of it when the conditions are right.
5) reflect: "Maybe I've missed this when I read the featurelist, but I couldn't see ARexx there. Will ARexx still be included, and if so, will it have gotten an overhaul internally or will it 'just' be ported or will it be emulated?"
Fleecy: The ownership issues surround the original ARexx implementation are well known and we have been unable to gain access to the source. The existing 68k ARexx binary will thus be emulated. We are reviewing the entire scripting and application control for both AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 as mentioned later on.
6) unclecurio: "What are AInc doing to attract past developers to produce updated versions of their software? For example, Photogenics has ceased development for AmigaOS but would be a great product to bring back in an updated version.".
Fleecy: We are working in the background but I don't want to go into too much detail as it has become apparent that competitors are approaching the same people and trying to tie them into exclusive deals that would keep their products from AmigaOS4.0. Providing them with a list of who we are approaching, both within the Amiga community and on other platforms would really be doing their work for them. Suffice it to say that we are being as open as we can with all the developers that we have been able to locate still developing for the AmigaOS and with one or two exceptions, they are very receptive to what we have been able to tell them.
7) Eric_Z: "Is A.inc. currently involved in porting over office apps to AACE or OS4?".
Fleecy: For Amiga Anywhere, we are encouraging development of the applications that our customers are telling us they want, and this is almost always games. However, we do have customers who have requested education and productivity software and we have one of the best calculators ever created on a software platform and a digital picture application that is impressing lots of people. In the end, we encourage and work on whatever is being asked for.
8) mood: "Will there be any Amiga-Anywhere/AmigaDE-player for AmigaOS 4.x?".
Fleecy: We have already stated that we are targeting an AACE player for AmigaOS4.2
9) DaveW: "Is SHEEP the scripting language that looked rather cool available or going to be available this year for Amiga based programmers to get their hands on?".
Fleecy: We are currently reviewing SHEEP in the context of the AmigaDE and AmigaOS4 and looking at how it can be used to bring the two together as both are moved forwards and towards each other.
10) Pig: "Where do you see the company in 5 years, and where do you see AmigaOS at that time?".
Fleecy: I hope that we are on many different types of device and providing a seamless digital enviroment for users irrespective of their hardware. We have a marketing slogan we use, the new WWW, which means Whatever, Wherever, Whenever.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=1
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Steffen Schiller (ANF)
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Download Fahrschule_99 full version now
Fahrschule_99 reworked version 2003
With the update of the Internet site of the Amiga-Treffpunkt-Oberlausitz
has the full version of the program Fahrschule_99 been added.
Almost 400 questions with appr. 70 images test the beginner as well as the knowledge of the experienced driver.
The program runs on an Amiga 500 and needs a PAL screen. You can find Fahrschule_99 in the download area where you can also find two pictures showing how to implement Birdie to give the Workbench's windows the real look.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
Martin Heine (email)
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CeBIT 2003: promised screenshots arrived
As Martin Heine promised in his last report
he has now real screenshots of Ambient, the settings (Prefs), Win95 and Word made available. You can find these screenshots following the title link.
Martin Heine, right now at the Genesi booth at the CeBIT 2003:
"Besides, I measured the time Win95 and Word needed here on our G3/600. I have to note that I don't know whether this setup here of the CeBIT computers can be optimized any further or not as I myself don't have any experiences with Bochs yet. Nevertheless I stopped the following times:
Initialisation until the first text output (what's displayed after switching on a PC: BIOS, units, "Windows is being loaded"): 45 seconds.
Launching Windows until it is loaded: 1 minute 20.
Launching Word until it is ready to use: 20 seconds."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Mar.2003
AmithlonTV (website)
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TV-card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 315
Guido Mersmann has yesterday released the beta version 315 of the TV-card driver software AmithlonTV with several smaller updates and improvements.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
Changes in this version:
- BUGFIX: Fixed TVCardSetup and TVCard.library code part that
may have caused the random freezing on MorphOS.
- CHANGED: Many small optimisations.
- ADDED: Added two debug options. If AmithlonTV is still freezing, try
"SETENV TVCard_NoInterrupt 1". If this isn't helping try
"SETENV TVCard_NoDMA 1". Delete the variable to regain normal
operation. Please report any result. MorphOS support depends on it.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Mar.2003
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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Update: Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page
The English "Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading Page" has got an extensive update last week.
All sections are now complete and many additional pictures document the Amiga 600 upgrade
project. Benchmark modules and other things for download complete the site.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
Ingo Schmitz (ANF)
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Mail programm: YAM developer version 2.4beta 060
Under the title link there is a 060-version of the YAM beta version 2.4 of 9.3.03.
This version is a pure developer version which possibly still contains bugs and the developer
team will not take any guarantee and support for this version. Each requests will be also
not answered. You will use it for your own risk!
You can read the changes which have been made in this list.
For any further information please have a look at the Yamos SourceForge-Seite.
Download: yam2.4dev060_20030310.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
Georgios (ANF)
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CeBIT 1993 - a milestone, legend 'Amiga'
Under the title link you can find a interesting article of N-TV on CeBIT 1993 which
also contains information about the Amiga (in German).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Mar.2003
BBRV (E-Mail)
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CeBIT 2003: Report and photos from Ron van Herk
A short summary of some of the things happening here at CeBIT from Ron van Herk
1. We have nearly finalized our agreement with our new Russian Distributor.
MorphOS will have a Russian localisation and will become successful in
Russia. Genesi's André Siegel will work as an 'interface' between the new
distributor and the developers that need to get this done. Russian
programmers interested in assisting this process can receive a fully
configured Pegasos in exchange for their work. In the bigger picture, once
the Russian localisation is done we will have a model to do the same in
other languages and localisations.
2. 3Sat visited Genesi today and shot footage of the Pegasos, the Psylent,
MorphOS, etc. We showed MorphOS working with several apps, games and the
Internet which they all filmed. The editor, Ralph Benz is a long-time Amiga
user and is very enthusiastic! We gave him a bunch of T-Shirts to give to
viewers (or to keep for themselves). Not a bad deal for free TV coverage I'd
say ;-)
Enclosed are two pics, 1 high-res foto of the desktop case and one of me and
Robert Han of Plexuscom with the Psylent.
That's all for now.
Sincerely,
Ron
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14.Mar.2003
Zeoneo Limited (ANF)
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Zeoneo acquires Candy Factory
Zeoneo Limited is moving into the AmigaOS-market with the acquisition of the exclusive rights to the noted and highly respected graphics application Candy Factory. Zeoneo Ltd. is well-known to the Amiga-community since the release of its killer game "Planet Zed" for AmigaAnywhere (AmigaDE). (nba)
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