30.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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PowerConverter Update
Carsten Siegner writes:
Today I uploaded an update to PowerConverter.
New:
- Production of stop-motion video
- Support of the variable bitrate (VBR) in ffmpeg
- Snipping (Crop) of videoframes with almost any amount of pixels
There is also an expanded Readme.pdf
on my homepage. All the fine points are there.
Download: Powerkon-2.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.0 demo version completed
We are pleased to present you today a demo version of fxPAINT 2.0 -
immediately available through our
download section.
Limitations/specialities of the demo version:
- saving is disabled
- DEMO-text on every image
- the demo version is noticably slower than the full version
- a small refresh bug due to the DEMO-text-effect when zooming is lower than 100 percent. This bug ONLY exists in the demo version
- some features of the full version are missing completly or are disabled
The demo version comes with all native modules for 68K, PPC (WarpUP, PowerUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon) and gives you - except for the limitations of the demo - an impression and some insight of fxPAINT 2.0.
(ps)
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30.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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AMIGAplus 01/2003 - Comeback 2003
2003 could be the year of the Amiga-comeback. In the new German print magazine
AMIGAplus 01/2003 you can read several reviews of upcoming and current software
and a forecast for 2003, just as Audio Evolution (Preview), fxPAINT 2, Hollywood,
Tales of Tamar, a.s.o. Read on.
Content of AMIGAplus 01/2003 in Detail:
- Preview: Audio Evolution 4
- Review: fxPAINT 2.0
- Review: Hollywood
- Review: Tales of Tamar
- Workshop: Simple DirectMedia Library, part 1
- Looking back on ARC 2002
- Amiga Award 2002: The winners
- Deathbed Vigil DVD - Endzeit-atmosphere on DVD
- New column: Flying visit... at Computer City
- Review: Amiga Arena CD Games Edition
- Amiga Status Report January 2003
- Demoscene anno 2003
- Review: Cherry-Keyboard with Boing-Keys
- News from the world of emulation
- Workshop: Pro Station Audio, part 4
- Workshop: Cooperative software-development, part 2
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available via subscription, single issue shipment and at your local
Amiga dealer for 5 Euro.
(ps)
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30.Jan.2003
Ponos Homepage
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GlowIcons for Beat-Em-Up Games
In the download area of the Ponos homepage you'll find an archive with GlowIcons for the following games:
- Samurai Shodown
- Shadow Fighter
- Real Bout
Simultaneously, different pictograms for the different characters in the games may be found in the archives.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
gW3S
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WWW-Server: gW3S Version 1.0 Final
Carl Svensson, the author of mp3Play, has released a small WWW-server written in ARexx. The current version 1.0 Final offers the
following functions:
- HTTP/1.0 200 OK
- HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
- Rudimentary request logging
- Built-in directory listing (for dirs without an index document)
- Embedded ARexx command execution
- Embedded Execution of external ARexx scripts (with QueryString as argument)
- Query String/URL unescaper
- Complete parsing of external ARexx CGI scripts (.xgi files)
- Fancy Files (Support for unsafe characters in file names)
- External config file
- Command line admin tool
Download: w3s_10sharp.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Workshop Collection Expanded
The workshop collection (title link) and the link list of the Amiga Future homepage
have been updated. If anyone knows of some German-language workshop not already in the list, please write an email to
the editor. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)
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New Screenshots from Robin Hood : Defender of the Crown
A few days ago, some new screenshots appeared of Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown. This game is a 3-D remake of Defender of
the Crown, which will appear in PC and PS2 versions. In contrast to the recently released remake for PC, few aspects of gameplay
have been altered here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)
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C-One Report in Computer Bild Spiele
In the current issue of Computer Bild Spiele 2/2003, a two page article may be found about Jeri Elsworth and her C-One. This report goes a
bit into Jeri's history and the development of the C-One. So there is some information about the C-One and the original C64. Two pictures of
C-64 classics and two funny pictures of a Lara Croft-style Jeri complete the report. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Abyss: Extralife Demo from 1998 released as Mpeg!
The classic demo Extralife, by the mostly German group Abyss, has now been released as an mpeg for all interested fans who don't
have an Amiga.
On the homepage of the group many other different demos can be accessed,
as can a multitude of graphics such as Cyclone, Acryl, Jcs, etc. Abyss played a decisive role in the international demoscene a few years
ago, with their fresh designs and good ideas. Nowadays a few of them are developing for Gameboy Advanced and Gameboy Color.
Download: AYS-Extralife.mpg
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV-Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 245
Guido Mersmann has released beta-version 245 of the TV-Card driver software
AmithlonTV.
New in this version:
- WARNING!
Due the latest changes I cleared the libs/tvcard_carddata/ drawer.
If you perform a fresh installation just drag and drop the required tv
card file(s) from the storage_carddata into the tvcard_carddata drawer.
This change was required, because several cards are using the same hardware
ids, but they also need a different setup.
- FEATURE:
Added the missing global setup which is required
for non card specific drivers like audio mixers.
- FEATURE:
Optional Volume_AmiMixer.lib allows to
modify the volume within applications (requires amimixer.library).
- BUGFIX:
TVFakeInterrupt() wasn't working correct in special cases.
- FEATURE:
The missing "Notify" interrupt feature implemented.
"Volume_AmiMixer.lib" enhanced to support this feature.
- BUGFIX:
Removed the ghost card which appeared with the bt8x8 audio
section and the Philips enhancement. Currently the section
will be suppressed by the library. Later this will be handled
by the configuration, but currently this is the best solution.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Cerpheus (ANF)
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Elite - Darkness Falls - Open Source
The Elite Fan Project "Elite - Darkness Falls" is open source. It looks very interesting, perhaps there is an Amiga programmer who would like to port it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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AmiChess: Information Pages Established
A promise is a promise.
On the Digital Almanac Homepage (see title link) may be found an information page for AmiChess. All chess fans will find a link there, for a download.
On the information page you'll see offerings about system requirements, features, and a few screenshots that show the new layout of AmiChess.
Have fun playing chess! (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.Jan.2003
WinUAE
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Emulator: WinUAE V0.8.22 release 5 (update)
On January the 26th 2003 the feature list for version 0.8.22 release 5
of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' for Windows has been released. The
emulator itself will be published in February 2003.
Compared to the last version the following has been changed:
Bugs fixed:
- CD32-mode media change detection
- SlowRAM detection fixes (commando and more)
- more compatible
CIA keyboard emulation (Back to the Future 2 and more)
- another
bsdsocket.library emulation update
- another state restore fix
- fixed mouse problems in Space Crusade, Billy the Kid etc.
- writing to custom floppy images was unstable
- primary sound
buffer-checkbox removed and disabled. It is useless and usually only
caused huge slowdown problems. NOTE: Users of R3 or R4: Make sure
primary sound buffer-checkbox is disabled.
New features:
- configurable boot priority and device name for regular (non-RDB) hardfiles
and virtual directory filesystems
- FPU state file support
- more compatible Action Replay 1 support
- "Middle-Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" works now in fullscreen mode
- configurable keyboard LEDs (DF0, DF1, DF2, DF3, POWER, HD, CD)
Supplement:
We were told within the comments that "WIP" doesn't mean it would be
published already but still a work in progress. Because of that the
news item has been modified accordingliy. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Jan.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis
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Tool: SRename version 3.6.0 beta
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released the beta version 3.6.0 of the tool 'SRename'.
With this tool, working with AmigaOS 3.0+, it is possible to rename files comfortably.
Download: SRename360beta.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Jan.2003
21 ST CAP
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Information about 21 ST CAP "The new site for AMIGA"
The new site for AMIGA is come back, 21 ST Century amiga production opening
your site for the Amiga's user, your site is French and your site propose the
information about AMIGA, there are lot of images of 3D realised on AMIGA and
lot of information about the utilisation of 3D in general in the first party
and the two party is for the new encyclopedie for AMIGA, "les chateaux de la
loire en sologne" (CASTLES OF THE LOIRE IN SOLOGNE), 100mo of complete
history of the monuments French, lot of musics and prochainement the
encyclopedie in the WEB the encyclopedy is on the CDROM for the moment, in
the future, lot of projects of new encyclopedy (THE VAR/cote d'azur in FRANCE
and the PYRENNES).
(ps)
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29.Jan.2003
XBaze
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Data base: XBaze version 7.2
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has released version 7.2 of his data base 'XBaze'.
This program offers an easy to use editor for the fields of the data sets and for the layout (drag&drop). It works with AmigaOS V3.0. Further information is to get from the XBaze-7.2.readme.
Bugreports and suggestions might be send to the following address:
rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl.
Download: XBaze-7.2.lha (518 KB) (ps) (Translation: ub)
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29.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 29th January 2003
Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet:
AYS-Extralife.mpg demo/file 53M+ "Extralife" by Abyss
RBGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 54K+ Real Bout glow icons
(ps)
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29.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: IBrowse 2.3 released
We are pleased to unveil that a distribution agreement with Stefan Burström and the IBrowse Team has been signed and we are now the worldwide distributor for IBrowse (support for IBrowse is still done by the IBrowse development team, though).
Furthermore, we are pleased to announce the immediate release of the eagerly awaited update to IBrowse 2.2.
IBrowse 2.3 brings web browsing on AmigaOS to a new level - below is a brief summary of the changes since version 2.2:
- Heavily enhanced JavaScript support, based on JavaScript 1.5 and revision 3 of the ECMAScript specification, allowing access to sites which was not possible before
- Secure connection support is now available via AmiSSL v2, which can be configured extensively in the IBrowse preferences. Importing and exporting of certificates is now also supported.
- Greatly improved general stability and memory leaks plugged
- Improved GUI, including enhanced browser tab functionality (such as drag'n'drop, keyboard support)
- Issues with the ARexx interface have been fixed and new commands added
- Hundreds of other minor and major bug fixes + improvements, and more workarounds added to improve compatibility with broken sites
All these improvements greatly improve the browsing experience, and allow IBrowse to offer compatibility with many more websites than before.
For further information, news and product support, please visit http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/ and our IBrowse-subpages.
(ps)
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28.Jan.2003
Maja (ANF)
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Linux: KDE 3.1 released
The GUI for Linux, KDE, is now available in version 3.1. In the long list of new features are mentioned e.
g. 'Tabbed Browsing', a new download manager, new themes and a theme manager, and
enhancements of the system management.
Its look is orientated on Windows XP and MacOS X as the screenshots show.
Binaries are available for ASP Linux (7.3 Intel i386), Conectiva Linux (8.0 Intel
i386), Debian (Intel i386, IBM PowerPC), Slackware (8.1 Intel i386), Suse Linux (8.1
Intel i386, 8.0 Intel i386, 7.3 Intel i386 und IBM PowerPC, 7.1 Intel i386),
Turbolinux (8.0 Intel i586, 7.0 Intel i586, Yoper (1.0 Intel i686 tgz), and
VECTORLINUX (3.0 Intel i386).
Download: http://www.kde.org/download.html
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Jan.2003
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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H&P: StormC 4 Special Offer
Glashuetten, 28. January 2003: H&P has a special offer for all Amiga developers
- for just 49,95 EUR you can get the complete version of our C/C++ development
system StormC 4. As there has not been much movement in the Amiga software field
during the past two years we want to get find out if there is still interest in
such a development system.
Besides many other features the highlights of StormC 4 are:
network capabilities, distributed Make, CVS, modified GCC compiler with
Amiga hunk format, global full text search, extended editor, debugging of tasks
and shared libraries, and the new StormDOC.
Here you will find more
informatin on StormC. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Jan.2003
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Statistics
Each year, when we look at our server statistics we ask ourself
where all these Amiga friends are hidden. The traffic increases
and increases. How comes people still say that the Amiga is dead? ;-)
To see a few facts from our server stats, use the
link.
(ps)
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27.Jan.2003
Dirk Baeyens
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Einde van de Nederlandse / Vlaamse vertaling van amiga-news.de
Our Flemish speaking readers will be surely sad to read the
following message from Dirk Bayens in which he announces that he
stops the translation of amiga-news.de.
Hallo de Amigafans in Nederland en België, ik ben tot mijn besluit gekomen
om te stoppen met de vertalingen van het Amiga Nieuws. Ik had er de laatste
tijd niet veel zin meer in om de vertalingen te doen en daarom heb ik
besloten om er mee te stoppen. Ik heb nu ongeveer 3 ½ jaar het nieuws
vertaald en ik ben zeer tevreden met dit resultaat. Als je maar bedenkt
dat ik eigenlijk bijna geen noot Duits kon en dat ik zeker geen
vertalingslessen gevolgd had. ;)
Mijn eerste en belangrijkste gedachte (nog steeds) was om de nog resterende
Amiga Gemeenschap wat bijeen te houden en te informeren over het Amiga
Gebeuren. In het begin was het wat stilletjes maar nadien waren er vooral
uit Nederland veel Hits te noteren maar laten we zeker die enkelingen uit
Vlaanderen in België niet vergeten! Ook kreeg ik af en toe eens een leuk
emailtje of had ik ergens een leuk gesprekje met iemand wat mij dan terug
oppepte voor enkele maanden. :)
En nu na meer dan 3 jaar zijn we hier nog altijd bezig met onze Classic
Amiga, er zijn er wel al een paar afgevallen maar langs de andere kant
zijn er enkele ex-Amiga Fans teruggekomen of hebben in ieder geval hun
'ouwe doos' terug bovengehaald. :))
Ik denk dat zolang onze oude Machienes het fisiek uithouden dat er nog wel
altijd ergens een Amiga Fan zal opduiken die het wel nog eens wil proberen.
En het doet toch nog altijd goed als we zo iemand kunnen helpen, wat ik
vooral op de AmigaScene en de amig@club mailinglijsten heb meegemaakt,
bedankt jongens en doe zo voort!
Op deze moment werk ik nog altijd op mijn Amiga 1260/603 maar stilletjes aan
ga ik deze vervangen door mijn nieuwe AmigaOne, vanzodra deze volledig in
orde staat natuurlijk, zodat ik dan al mijn huidige Amigasoftware er op kan
draaien. Het is op dit moment een traag maar amusant gebeuren, vooral met
dat linux gedoe enzo, maar geen nood mijn beste vriend Stany zal mij hier
wel bij helpen. :))
Ik heb nog nooit een andere Computer gehad dan een Amiga (en ik heb hier zo
wat vanalles staan) maar deze AmigaOne (of Pegasos, voor wie dat systeem
verkiest) is toch wel een heuse stap in de nieuwe wereld van vandaag. Ik ben
nu bezig met Suse er op te zetten met nadien UAE voor PPC, maar ik zal toch
wel echt blij zijn als ik er terug een snel werkende Workbench op te zien zal
krijgen met AmigaOS 4.0.
Zo, ..., ik heb in ieder geval veel bijgeleerd over de Amiga (en andere
systemen) in de laatste jaren alsook over de Amiga Gemeenschap op zichzelf,
en ik ben blij dat ik er een deel van mag uitmaken. Voor mij gaat in ieder
geval alles gewoon verder op zijn Amiga's en zal de Toekomst moeten uitwijzen
waar we naar toe moeten gaan. Ik denk wel dat we op het goede spoor zitten,
maar we moeten wel zoveel mogelijk elkaar helpen en verdragen (andere systemen).
Ik denk zo dat je het mag vergelijken met dat van de evolutie van de auto's.
Ikzelf heb hier een 17 jaar oude opel staan en hij werkt nog altijd prima,
maar als ik naar het nieuwste model kijk van exact hetzelfde merk en model,
dan is het toch wel heel verleidelijk om niet toe te grijpen. Een nieuwe auto
zit er voor mij helaas niet in, maar een nieuwe Amiga dat kon ik me juist wel
nog permiteren. ;) Ik denk ook dat het in de Toekomst met de computers een
beetje zal worden zoals bij de auto's, namelijk alle merken die sterk op
elkaar lijken, bepaalde stukken die door gespecialiseerde firma's worden
gemaakt, het samenvloeien van bedrijven, enz..
.
Ik denk dat we stilletjes aan de strijdbijl mogen begraven en onze vredespijp
eens mogen opblinken. :) Maar een Amiga Fan blijf ik voor altijd in Hart en
Nieren!
Zo, hier ga ik afsluiten met mijn voorlopig laatste vertaling. Mijn Site blijft
natuurlijk verder online zodat jullie het nog altijd eens kunnen nalezen. Als
er iets verandert ofzo zal ik het hier laten weten. Bedankt iedereen voor de
belangstelling en zeker ook nog een grote bedankt aan het amiga-news.de team
welk op vrijwillige basis nog altijd verder gaat met het brengen van het nieuws
en een heel grote bedankt aan Petra Struck de oprichtster en leidtser van
amiga-news.de.
Als er onder jullie zich moesten geroepen voelen om deze vertalingen van
amiga-news.de verder te zetten mogen jullie me altijd wel een emailtje sturen.
Ik weet dat velen onder jullie het gaan missen maar op de amig@club site vindt
je ook wel 'up to date' Amiga Nieuws in het Nederlands en vergeet vooral het
AmigaScene magazine niet wat toch nog het belangrijkste is wat we hier hebben
in de Benelux. Bedankt allemaal.
De groetjes, Dirk.
Links:
AmigaScene: http://www.amigascene.nl/
AmigaScene magazine: http://www.amigascene.nl/actueel/actueel.htm
amig@club : http://www.amigaclub.nl/
Mailing lists:
amig@club (Dutch)
AmigaScene (Dutch)
BBCC Amiga (Flemish)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Yamaha closes CD burner production
Yamaha will manufacture no more burners. In the Amiga range Yamaha
burners are far common, since they are well supported in terms of
software.
The complete (German) article can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jan.2003
Tim S. Müller / Binary Distillery
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Library: render.library Version 40.6
API-conformant re-implementation of render.library in ANSI C.
This version is a drop-in replacement for render.library,
which was written in 68k assembler (versions prior to v40).
If your software doesn't work with this release, submit problem
reports to tmueller@neoscientists.org.
Download: renderlib.lha - 137 KB
(ps)
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27.Jan.2003
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: CLASSIC time
Amiga Demoscene Archive was updated with two classics in Amiga demoscene
history and one very promising newcomer!
Productions added are:
Tint/The Black Lotus: no need to introduce this one, is there? Offa and
Equalizer, backed up by a whole bunch of talented graphicians (Rodney,
Louie, Danny and Facet) and Azazel responsible for the music. Tons of
effects, cool graphics and real party atmosphere. Do you smell the
flowers?
Gift/Potion: From the duo who are probably from another planet, Mavey and
Skip, comes this 64Kb intro. Lasting for more than 10 minutes, with very
cool music, effects and design, this is one mindblasting intro!
Trauma/Unique: A very promising newcomer to the Amiga demoscene, pc
demogroup Unique released their first Amiga intro a couple of weeks ago.
Well worth checking out!
(ps)
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27.Jan.2003
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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New freeCD: World Factbook 2002
The CDROM version of the World Factbook 2002 (publisher: CIA)
contains English language information to all countries in the world,
like short history, geography, inhabitants, system of government,
economy, communication, infrastructure, military and more.
Furthermore a map and the flag are included, the latter to each country also with
description. All information is also available in a special formatting for printing purposes.
The whole World Factbook is written in HTML, thus it can be run problem-free on
all computer platforms, including Amiga, Linux, Mac, MorphOS and
Windows and costs 3,- euro.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jan.2003
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Aminet uploads until 27th January 2003
Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet:
gelbesPanel.lha comm/tcp 35K+Another MiamiDx Control Panel
DAmikiss.lha game/misc 337K+Deluxe AmiKiss
AmiBlocks.lha game/wb 146K+A puzzle game for OS 3.x. C sources. V0.
WBTriz_v07c.lha game/wb 538K+The best Tetris for WB!
PfPaint_V291b.lha gfx/edit 2.1M+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
Sv5-IFX.lha gfx/misc 14K+SView5 - ImageFX loader/saver V1.1 (15.1
Sv5-UX.lha gfx/misc 24K+UXFormats 1.0 for SView5 (15.1.2003)
Sv5Add100.lha gfx/misc 90K+*Add-On* for SView5 V1.00 (15.1.2003)
imdbDiff030117.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
amoon.lha misc/sci 100K+Map of the Moon
WeatherStation.lha misc/sci 209K+Interface to Heath ID-5001 Weather Compu
EP_TomyTracker.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "Tomy Tracker" external repl
PlaySID.lha mus/play 20K+Playsid.library for Catweasel H/W SID
QuickSketch.lha text/edit 19K+A simple WB-prg to sketch and write in.
Textloader.lha text/edit 632K+TextEd (V 8.2c) german/english SuperED!!
PLConverter.lha text/misc 46K+Text Converter for Polish users only (I
BibVision.lha text/show 99K+Bible text viewer for 68k/WarpOS. V1.5
LzxRepacker.lha util/arc 17K+Repack LHA/ARJ/ZIP/RAR/... to LZX.
UnRAR3-10B1.lha util/arc 270K+UnRAR 3.10 Beta1
LockEye.lha util/boot 425K+Lock Eye
MemTrailer.lha util/boot 4K+Allocates 16 bytes for memory-protection
TxtToHTML.lha util/conv 91K+Converts txt files to HTML Docs (+GUI v1
PPDecrypt.lha util/crypt 16K+Decrypts PowerPacker executables
ChkIndex.lha util/misc 10K+Check aminet indexfile for equal entries
DagensTV.lha util/misc 23K+Viewer for the TV-guide e-mail from Dage
Frogger-GUI.lha util/misc 19K+Reaction GUI for FroggerNG
MultiRen.lha util/misc 194K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (MUI)
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 305K+Report+ 5.64a: Multipurpose utility
AmiStart_PL.lha util/wb 12K+Polish Locale for AmiStart 0.63.
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27.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Music: New modules by Moods
The Amiga based music group 'Moods' published some new songs. They are available as OctaMED as well as MP3 files. Furthermore the homepage has been rewritten. Now should be displayable with every common browser currently available for the Amiga. Like before, everyone is invited to comment the songs and by doing this help others to find the music he is looking for.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Music: New module by Liquid Skies Record
Also the music group 'Liquid Skies' was not inactive in the meantime.
Lcr published with 'Another drink' psychedelic hip hop song. A new expenditure of the
chippack liquidation is likewise in the preparatory phase.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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26.Jan.2003
Dirk Ohms (E-Mail)
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AmigaFun Homepage News
The AmigaFun homepage is accessible again under the following address:
http://amigafun.amigaworld.de/
The page has been revised in best time by DJBase (Matthias Münch) and has a new
Web space. A new Web chat is in the works and we will keep you informed about
that.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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26.Jan.2003
Mirjam Streit (ANF)
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Survey - Which surfing type are you?
If you want to find out which surfing type you are you should take part in this (German only!) survey. It also serves a study in the area Paid Content and Web Services for a
degree dissertation at the UAS Würzburg-Schweinfurt. We are happy about every
filled-out questionnaire. For the protection of your personal data, the survey
is carried out anonymously. The data are deleted immediately after evaluation.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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26.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Powerkonverter finished (incl. VideoCD authoring), picture lists, etc.
Carsten Siegner writes:
The full version of Powerkonverter is herewith finished.
I have split the installation archive into three separate archives:
I will do the documentation subsequently. I will start writing soon :)
Please note for picture lists that these are treated automatically, so please
do not enter %04d or similar.
Powerkonverter now allows to write data strictly in accordance with the Codec
directives, so that they are also compatible with Windows computers. I have
tested this initially with ASF and Mpeg on a Windows 2000 system.
ffmpeg, however, is not able to write WMA audio data into the ASF file (only
AC3, mp2 and mp3), so one can only create videos without sound. Then again, the
Mpeg playback doesn't get stuck anymore.
Please note: Of late, Powerkonverter creates a copyright string in the video
file. Thus no Internet videos may be converted which are to be put on one's
home page. Btw, the string can be displayed with the Windows Mediaplayer.
VideoCD authoring
- New: Now 7 instead of the former 5 video tracks are supported.
- Ceased: All ISO strings which used to be important for the old Philips
players (DVD players don't need them).
- Ceased: Only VCD2 mode is supported anymore as the other two are
unimportant (they can't be played back by DVD players).
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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26.Jan.2003
Amiga Lan Party Team (ANF)
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Amiga Lan party in Braunschweig cancelled
The Amiga Lan party in Braunschweig, which had been planned for 8th and 9th
February 2003, has been cancelled due to lack of participation.
At the current number of registrations the operating expenses for a LAN party
don't make sense. We, the organisators, regret having to realise that there
is hardly any interest within the region, and thus cancel the party. Sorry to
all of those who had registered.
If the assessment should change some time during the year, we would be glad to
start a new try.
Cyborg & Maniac (ps) (Translation: cb)
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26.Jan.2003
Andreas Bähren (E-Mail)
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Greenpeace energy: Internet to become nuclear energy free
Press release - Greenpeace energy: Internet to become nuclear energy free
Nationwide provider with clean energy opens portal
"atomstromfreies-internet.de" - Operation of Web sites now possible without
nuclear and coal power.
Please read the English fact sheet (PDF, 108k) for more information.
Hamburg, 26. Januar 2003 - Ohne Atom- und Kohlestrom startet Greenpeace
energy eG in Kooperation mit dem Hamburger Provider NMMN Internet
Services GmbH ab morgen sein Internetportal "Atomstromfreies Internet".
NMMN versorgt alle seine Server mit Strom von Greenpeace energy und
bietet sowohl für Privat- als auch Geschäftskunden Leistungspakete für alle
Bedürfnisse an. Damit setzt die Genossenschaft den dramatisch wachsenden
Stromverbrauch durch die Internetnutzung auf die energiepolitische
Tagesordnung.
Mehr als die Hälfte aller Menschen in Deutschland nutzt bereits das
Internet. Die rasant wachsende Infrastruktur des Netzes (PC, Leitungen,
Anschlüsse, Server, etc.) frisst immer mehr Strom - trotz zunehmendem
Einsatz energiesparender Geräte. Wie das Wuppertal-Institut Klima, Umwelt,
Energie errechnet hat, wuchs der Stromverbrauch für das Internet in
Deutschland in den Jahren 2000 auf 2001 bereits um rund 35% auf 6,8
Milliarden Kilowattstunden. Das entspricht in etwa dem
Jahresstromverbrauch von rund 220.000 Haushalten. Für 2010 erwarten die
Klimaexperten einen Zuwachs um bis zu 460% auf rund 30 Milliarden
Kilowattstunden. Entgegen dem relativ stagnierenden Gesamtstromverbrauch
entwickelt sich der Stromverbrauch durch den Internetbetrieb zu einem
erheblichen Umweltproblem.
Zur Zeit kommen in Deutschland über 80% des Stroms aus Atom- und
Kohlekraftwerken. Ausgehend von dem derzeitigen Strom-Mix trägt das
Internet zu erheblichem Umweltschaden bei. So gehen auf das Konto des Web
in Deutschland fast 5,8 Tonnen hochradioaktiver Atommüll sowie 4 Mio.
Tonnen des klimaschädlichen CO2.
"Sollten die Prognosen zum Stromverbrauch eintreten, so würde das Web
allein in Deutschland in 2010 eine Strommenge fressen, die der
Jahresproduktion von drei großen Atomkraftwerken entspräche", fasst Robert
Werner, Vorstand des Hamburger Stromversorgers, zusammen. "Dagegen möchten
wir mit unserem Portal aktiv werden".
Mit dem Portal "atomstromfreies-internet.de" wollen Greenpeace energy und
der Provider NMMN - New Media Markets & Networks, beide mit Sitz in Hamburg,
dazu beitragen, das Internet auf eine saubere Stromversorgung umzustellen.
Die Strom-Zusammensetzung für die Server kommt zu ca. 70% aus
regenerativen Energiequellen und zu rund 30% aus gasbetriebenen
Kraftwärme-Kopplungsanlagen. Ab Anfang Februar wird das Angebot um ein
kostenloses E-Mail-Postfach für jedermann erweitert.
Kunden von Providern, die mit Greenpeace energy-Strom hosten, können sich
das Label "Atomstromfreie Website" auf die Homepage setzen und damit ihre
umweltfreundlich gehostete Internetseite dokumentieren.
Die unabhängige Genossenschaft Greenpeace energy eG ist einer der
führenden Anbieter von sauberem Strom auf dem liberalisierten Energiemarkt
und versorgt zur Zeit bundesweit über 17.000 Privatkunden sowie rund 400
Geschäftskunden. Mit über 10.200 Mitgliedern ist sie binnen drei Jahren zu
einer der mitgliederstärksten Verbrauchergenossenschaften in Deutschland
gewachsen.
Die NMMN Internet Service GmbH ist Internetdienstleister und Spezialist
für Security-Lösungen. Sie hat sich vor allem im sog. "Open-Source"-Bereich und
der Linux-Szene einen Namen erworben und gehört zu den wenigen in der
IT-Branche, die entgegen dem Branchentrend wachsen.
Please address any queries to:
Andreas Bähren, GREENPEACE energy eG, Norderstraße 99, 20097 Hamburg
andreas.baehren@greenpeace-energy.de;
greenpeace-energy.de (ps) (Translation: cb)
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26.Jan.2003
Christopher (ANF)
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Instant messenger: mICQ Version 0.4.10.1 for Amiga and other systems
Version 0.4.10.1 of mICQ has been released for Amiga and other systems. mICQ is
a very portable ICQ program which runs in text mode - it runs on Linux, BSD,
AIX, HPUX, Windows, AmigaOS and, with restrictions, BeOS. Originally it had
been written by Matthew D. Smith, yet largely rewritten since by Rüdiger
Kuhlmann, in particular the necessary support of version 8 of the
ICQ protocol,
internationalisation, file transfer as well as some code restructuring.
Download: micq-0.4.10.1-AmigaOS.tgz
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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25.Jan.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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Soms3D: Online poll and new screenshots
On the 'Anime Development for Amiga Page' is now the poll regarding the question
what to do with the Soms3D-Engine online. The poll can be accessed via a link on the main page (title link).
Furthermore had some screenshots been put online.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Jan.2003
derStandard
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derStandard: Worm makes the Internet swaying
»"Slammer" starts DoS attack and uses security leak in Microsoft's
SQL server 2000
A worm brings big parts of the Internet to a standstill. It seems to use a security leak in Microsoft's SQL server 2000. The pest starts a kind of DoS attack over the UDP port 1434 reported the
security mailing list BuqTraq.
The Internet traffic is said to show already massive disturbances. Further Internet sites measuring the Internet traffic can be found here.«
For the full article follow the title link.
Another article regarding this subject:
heise online: Worm brings parts of the Internet to a standstill (ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Jan.2003
Jabberwocky
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.3 - 7. preview
Tom Parker and
Matthias Münch have
released preview 7 of the Instant Messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.3 for
Amiga computers. Jabber
is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections to other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN
and Yahoo is possible via gateways.
Download: Jabberwocky030125.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Jan.2003
Linux Games (ANF)
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WaterRace Source Released
Jonathan Gray wrote in to announce that the source code to WaterRace
(screenshots)
has been released under the terms of the GPL. WaterRace is an OpenGL
offshore racing game originally written for the classic Mac OS. The
source is available only as a Stuff-it Expander file. (ps)
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25.Jan.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: New cover scans and Powerplay reviews
On Kultpower.de are some new cover scans as well as six
new PowerPlay reviews taken from the Powerplay 1/1999 online:
- Baldur's Gate (PC CD-ROM)
- Die Siedler 3 (PC CD-ROM)
- Fifa 99 (PC CD-ROM)
- Grim Fandango (PC CD-ROM)
- Kings Quest 8 (PC CD-ROM)
- Tomb Raider 3 (PC CD-ROM)
Because of the smaller print of the later Powerplay issues are these reviews quite big (200 - 500 KBytes), so I wish you a "Happy Download" :)
New magazines under "Mehr Mags":
- Next Level with seven cover scans
- Sega Magazin with 25 cover scans
- PC Joker with ten new cover scans
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Jan.2003
Elbox Computer (E-Mail)
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Elbox MIRAGE for A1200
Elbox announces availability of a new tower system for Amiga 1200
computers. Mirage 1200 is a modern functional and spacious tower case.
It is designed targeted for these Amiga 1200 users who have upgraded
or want to upgrade their computers with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX
busboards. Mirage 1200 allows also using other busboards like
Mediator PCI 1200, Zorro IV, Zorrro IV with Mediator PCI ZIV and Zorro II.
Mirage 1200 tower system with 5 bays for 5.25" drives, 6 bays for 3.5"
drives and a powerful 300W ATX PSU is ready for massive expandability of
your A1200 hardware.
Mirage 1200 replaces the discontinued E/BOX 1200 (also known as A1200
Power Tower and A1200 Winner Tower), the award-winning Amiga tower system.
With the new design, we are offering you even more Amiga expandability,
right at your fingertips.
For more information see the complete press release under the title link
and the Mirage 1200 website.
(ps)
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25.Jan.2003
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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'Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading' website updated
The, for now only in English available, website
Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading has been updated in the area "Modifying the Apollo". The website documents an upgrading project for the Amiga 600 and delivers comprehensive information
around the small Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga.org: First AmigaOne review
On Amiga.org there is a first review of the AmigaOne. An "Earlybird" customer describes
his experiences made of the system and of the installation of Linux.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
Norman Thiel von Heise News (ANF)
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PCI Vendors list available again...
The PCI Vendors list is available again after a threat of a lawyer because of an inadmissable
use of protected trademarks.
Have a look at the title link for the full article.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Statement of Genesi concerning trouble of delivery
On MorphOS-News.de Genesi has given its opinion on the current trouble of delivery of
the Pegasos. It is said that Genesi is waiting for more Articia-chips of Mai. Until Genesi
will get and afterwards test it a delivery of the present chip version is expected which
works without any errors thanks to the April chips in the Pegasos.
Besides this Genesi tests an alternative but something more expensive chip so in future
it may be possible to work together with a different seller.
At the end of 2003 MorphOS may also be published for Macintosh computers but probably
only as an executing second unit for applications which should be also offered for the
Mac. In this connection it is asked if there is anybody who is interested in porting
"wxwindows" on MorphOS.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
M. Lück (ANF)
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End of GRex petition
M. Lück wrote:
Today is the end of the GRex-petition. Until today 296 users have subscribed.
TriMa and me want to thank you for your support. Unfortunately this petition has failed.
I want to explain in the following lines why it is so.
Two weeks after the start of the petition I have sent the first list with all signatures
(without email addresses) to DCE per email. I got an answer of DCE at once. DCE wrote
that they would be glad about a support of OS4 and that they are interested in the current
discussion.
We got the information of Steffen Häuser that the cybpci.library written by Ralph 'Laire' Schmidt
will not work in the 68k emulation because of the 68k MMU setup. So the petition still
became more important because presently GRex users have no chance of getting AmigaOS 4.0
started.
We got all information per email which Hyperion needs to support the GRex. Four addresses
are needed:
- The base of GRex I/O address
- The interrupt acknowledge address
- The base address of config space mappings or
- the PCI-config and PCI-data address
No circuit diagramm, hardware or software documents are needed. These information I
sent DCE per email. I have not got any response until today.
Then we got the information that bplan has the hardware rights. This means DCE has only
a licence for the GRex. If this is true or not we do not know. One week ago I contacted
Mr. Carda per email for getting clearness. But I also have not got any response until now.
That is a pity.
Now we hope that we can attract attention by posting this article.
Thank you very much again to all participants...
The attempt of moving something forward means so much to us - also if it may fail.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 24.01.2003
Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet:
TinyGL.lha dev/c 188K+Subset of the OpenGL API for AGA/CGFX/P9
AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
littlejedi.mpg pix/mpg 13M+Science fiction made on Amiga/Draco
Milk.lha pix/wb 139K+Creamy white 1024x768 desktop snapshot b
XenoMorph_Icon.jpg pix/wb 228K+XenoMorph's MMX Icons conversion PREVIEW
IBGold.lha util/wb 17K+Gold appearance for IBrowse 1+
IBSilver.lha util/wb 28K+Silver appearance for IBrowse 1+
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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First working beta of Powerkonverter
Today I have published a working version of my program called "Powerkonverter".
Currently it supports all important basic functions of ffmpeg and additionally the
"Motion Estimation" preference. Videos can be splitted or changed. Besides this all
formats are supported which has been newly added.
But in this version pictures series will not be recognized. This will be the next step.
Installation:
Unpack the archive, copy the corresponding libs to your Workbench/libs directory.
For starting the program you need to be installed the PNG datatype.
ffmpeg must be in the system path (c:, s: or something like that). I have copied ffmpeg
to c:.
I have programmed a PNG-GUI because then the program itself has only the half size compared
with an IFF version. Additionally PNG datatypes are also available in PPC versions which
accelerates the program.
Shortcuts:
ESC: Quitting the program
Return: Starting ffmpeg
Control + C: Aborting ffmpeg
Space: Stopping the console output of ffmpeg
Backspace: Continuing console output of ffmpeg
I have not implemented a seperate button for starting ffmpeg because it is simply unpractical.
You can confirm the shortcuts on each place in the GUI like e.g. the Return key.
If you want to test a newly preferenced figure only push the Return key for starting ffmpeg
with the new figure.
If you want to program yourself new figures in the cycle buttons it is quite simple.
The program directory contains several text files ".txt". These ones you can rewrite
up to a certain level. The only thing which can be not changed is the amount of the
entries. In the same way it works with the format lister. You can write your own formats
if they are not there yet.
Later I will also add the automatic picture identification and the VideoCD option.
Download: Powerkon_beta.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New Survey and More
Two new surveys have been started on the Amiga Future Homepage. Additionally the results appear from the last survey, which was "What browser do you use?"
Until 25th January there's a raffle in which you could win a Shogo and a Wendetta 2175. With this raffle we want to support Thomas in creating the FAQs. Also, the links and the cheats collection have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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23.Jan.2003
ExtremeTech
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ExtremeTech: Amiga: Live Another Day
Olin Wread, a reader of Extremetech, has written a multipage, English-language article about the history of the Amiga.
Click on the title link to go to it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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22.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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News-flash: IBM Introduces Their Own PDA Concept
Yesterday in New York at the LinuxWorld convention IBM introduced their own concept of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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22.Jan.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Freeciv Amiga native 1.18
The new Freeciv Amiga native version is available from now on for
download at Sebastian Bauer's homepage. It covers exactly the
version 1.14.10 which has been published at www.freeciv.org two days ago.
Freeciv is a free Civilisation clone which is playable via
Internet versus several players or offline versus the computer.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
EdWord
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Editor: EdWord Professional V6.0 - source code
After Martin Reddy published the full version of his editor EdWord Version 6.01 for Amiga computer as
freeware in September 2001 he has now released the source code under GPL (GNU Public License) also.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Nova Design
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Nova Design PR: Giant Nova Design Software Sale
By the title link there is a press release by Nova Design which covers offers for several software e.g. ImageFX or Alladin 4D.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Onyxsoft
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Onyxsoft: QuickSketch and several updates
With QuickSketch
a new freeware program by Daniel Westerburg is introduced to the product portfolio of Onyxsoft. The program is similar to 'QuickNote', it might to be used for text notes, but QuickSketch can additionally handle graphic (sketched) notes.
Furthermore the following updates were made available:
- DagensTV (version 1.2)
The program processes information of the TV pogram which are sent by
dagenstv.com via email.
- MultiRen (Version 1.53)
MultiRen is a tool for renaming files comfortably.
- TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.23)
TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical interface for MPEG audio encoder.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld - 32x32 patterns in raw format
The 32x32 patterns for the action strategy game 'Schlachtfeld' (graphics phase I) are in a raw format online now. The patterns do not fit exacty together. This is mostly because of the rendering which shifted the patterns a little bit.
This requires a massively post production work for some patterns.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Diskmag: Eurochart needs support!
One of the last diskmags of the Amiga demo scene, "The official Eurochart",
will be published by middle or end next month. The editors ask for a vote for volume 48 and to participate the poll (Scene Survey)
or to contribute something else e. g. English articles, graphics or musics.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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News from Eyetech: State of AmigaOneXE
After moving the website of Eyetech onto another server the site is now up to date.
Beside some changes in prices for the Eyetech complete systems a change for the
AmigaOne interested persons is interesting: The AmigaOneXE-G3 will be delivered with
a G3 CPU (750FX) with 800 MHz instead of the announced 700 MHz.
On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse is talking about the latest
stateof the
delivery of the AmigaOneXE:
It seems the first 25 boards are delivered to Eyetech and are taken under another
quality control by 25 chosen testers. The other motherboards will be delivered to
Eyetech in the next week. Because of the high inquiry and the fact of the quality
check by Eyetech the delivery will take a longer time than expected so the boards
will be delivered to dealers and customers in February.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Jan.2003
Amiga.sf
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Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 21st January 2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:
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Aminet uploads until 21.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:
AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
SSGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 72K+Samurai Shodown glow icons by Ponos
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21.Jan.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 21.01.2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:
- 21.01.03 new: 1000cc Turbo (Energize) done by Codetapper
- 21.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed save game bug
- 21.01.03 improved: Sky Chase (Imageworks) supports 2 new versions
- 21.01.03 new: Lunar-C (Mindscape) done by JOTD
- 21.01.03 new: Battle Chess (Interplay) done by Psygore
- 21.01.03 improved: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) supports another version
- 21.01.03 improved: Lost Patrol (Ocean) NTSC version supported, miscellaneous fixes
- 21.01.03 improved: Iron Lord (UBI-Soft) supports German version
- 21.01.03 new: Fascination (Coktel Vision) done by CFOU!
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21.Jan.2003
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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heise: Atari-ST-Emulator for PocketPC
As "heise" says for PocketPCs with StrongARM CPUs has been released an Atari ST
emulator. The emulator is "Donorware", this means it is for free but donations are
welcome. If there are enough "donations" maybe the coder will develop an Amiga
emulator.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Jan.2003
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Today grand opening of The Butterfly Vale
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages! The Butterfly Vale has opened its gates for visitors.
The Vale is your future source for MorphOS ports and high-quality own MorphOS developments.
As for your journey to us, please recall that the Vale is located in a remote place where the
air is still fresh and clean. We would like to keep it that way and ask you to if possible leave
your power-consuming Pentium switched off and use alternate means of transportation. We recommend
coming in by flying horse.
Here's a short overview of our main attractions. While you browse our various areas, you may
notice that we have some smaller archives up that are not mentioned here.
cdda.library 1.0
cdda.library is a MorphOS library that provides CD digital audio services to A-Box programs.
Developers benefit from the library's high-level functions such as drive search
by certain criteria, looped playing of CD sections, event callbacks and author/track title
information where available.
Users benefit from the library's drive autorecognition by not having to enter or even recall
any device/unit values in most cases - thanks to cdda.library's powerful functions, ScummVM
MorphOS is the only port that does not need the user to specify a CD drive.
ScummVM 0.3.0b + new CVS
The full ScummVM 0.3.0b MorphOS distribution is now online. It includes an updated PDF manual,
and the icons have been converted to Ambient format. Also, there are now new icons for the Simon
the Sorcerer games.
A new CVS snapshot has been uploaded as well, this one is the first public MorphOS snapshot
with experimental, preliminary support for "THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND", as well as support
for the Mac/Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 2 and early support for the CD32 version of
Simon the Sorcerer.
Exult 1.0
Exult is a rewrite of the Ultima 7 engine for modern operating systems. It allows you to
play one of the best and most detailed parts of Origin's famous Ultima series. Exult has
recently turned to version 1.0 which means that both parts of Ultima 7, "The Black Gate"
and "The Silver Seed" along with their add-ons "The Black Sword" and "Forge of Virtue"
are fully supported now. The original data files are required to play.
FreeSCI 0.3.4
The MorphOS port of FreeSCI had been announced three days ago on the FreeSCI homepage
(http://freesci.linuxgames.com). Today saw the official release of FreeSCI 0.3.4, and
the MorphOS version is available for download from the Vale on the same day! FreeSCI is
an attempt to create a portable interpreter for games written for Sierra On-Line's SCI system.
Playable games include King's Quest IV, Space Quest 3, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, The Colonel's
Bequest, and several others. 32 bit Ambient icons for nine games known to be completable
are included in the archive.
Frotz
Frotz is an interpreter for the adventure games produced by Infocom, and fan works created
with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler.
Frotz MorphOS Release 1 is based on David Kinder's Amiga port, Release 14 (the current Amiga
version is release 16). Major changes to the Amiga version (14) are:
- Updated port to Frotz 2.43 code base
- Made Frotz fully graphics cards compliant
- Rewrote GUI code from BGUI to MUI
- Rewrote audio.device code to AHI
- Aspect correction for V6 graphics
- Fixed lots of preferences issues
Inform
Graham Nelson's Inform allows you to write your own games to run on Infocom interpreters.
In addition to the binary, I've provided an archive with most material from Glenn Hutchings'
all-in-one Inform package. It is meant for new users who want to start quickly with Inform.
It includes the library, some useful 3rd party contributions, examples and a tutorial, all
ready to use.
Magnetic
Magnetic is an interpreter for the adventure games once produced by the British company Magnetic
Scrolls. It is based on David Kinder's Amiga port. Major changes from the Amiga version are:
- Rewrote Copper code to proper graphics cards compliant code
- Implemented title splash screen
- Implemented animations for Magnetic Windows games
- Implemented online hints for Magnetic Windows games
The Butterfly Vale is looking forward to your visit. Also keep in mind that this is
just the beginning ... (ps)
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21.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper: Another SID-driver for the Catweasel
The second Amiga-based SID-driver is a playsid.library that accesses the SID of the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper directly. At the moment this only works on Catweasel controllers that are plugged in a Zorro slot of an Amiga, support for Clockport-connected controllers will be added shortly. Playsid plays back a lot of tunes that are known from C64-games and demos. The probably most famous collection of SID music is the High Voltage Sid collection that contains more than 20000 songs.
Special thanks goes to the brothers Rakesh und Sharwin Raghoebardayal who have adapted the library to the Catweasel in their spare time, and released it as freeware.
Download: playsid.lha - 19 KB
Link: High Voltage SID collection
(ps)
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20.Jan.2003
Free Pascal
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Compiler: Free Pascal 1.0.7 Amiga snapshot available
A new snapshot of the compiler Free Pascal version 1.0.7 is now available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
AND Software
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Context menu: ContextSAS Version 1.65
The program ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler enables you to provide and to use
context sensitive menus for AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system
is supported. By using a few additional tools one can thereby iconify even
Workbench windows and create links.
With the new version 1.65 newdrawer_gui
was added in the tools, which can be used as replacement for newdrawer.
This time with GUI. This version offers the possibility of defining
a dividing line for each menu entry and the activation by the middle
or left mouse button is now functioning correctly. In the next update a
hierarchical menu definition will be added, so stay tuned...
Download: ContextInstall165.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV board software: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 240
Guido Mersmann published beta version 236 of the TV board driver software AmithlonTV.
Changes:
- BUGFIX:
Several small fixes and changes on the library core.
- CHANGED:
Added some information to the driver programming guide
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta240.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Select from the Top 5 the game of the year 2002
Amiga Flame would like to determine the best game of the year 2002 out of the
Top 5 of the Amiga games. Nominates, and thus being available, are the
following games:
- The Feeble Files (Adventure) - Epic Interactive
- Software Tycoon (Simulation) - Epic Interactive
- Tales Of Tamar (PBEM Strategy) - Eternity
- Quake II (3D Shooter) - ID Software
- Crossfire II (Mix of Shooter, X-Out and Wing Commander) - Dreamworld Development
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
Czech Amiga News
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Audio: AHI 5.4=6.0rc0-m68k / PPC
Martin Blom, developer of the sound map driver system AHI, published
new beta versions for m68k and PPC.
ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-m68k.lha
ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-ppc.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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Aminet Uploads until 20.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:
SN-BackupArc.lha biz/dbase 86K+V1.0 Provide Backup's automatically (Ger
newscoaster.lha comm/news 428K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.55) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha comm/news 186K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.55 - 18.1.20
mhm-BeApe.lha demo/intro 85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
BlitzLstDec02.lha dev/basic 525K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
BlitzLstOct02.lha dev/basic 140K+Blitz mailing list archives for October
BlitzLstSep02.lha dev/basic 241K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
FindModule.lha dev/e 13K+Find OS Function or CONST or whatever yo
nano.lha dev/lang 192K+Interpreter with syntax near to BASIC an
AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
Frenchies.lha docs/misc 275K+French translations from Didier Giron
UklSloneczny.lha docs/misc 89K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about Solar Syst
cf2_demo.lha game/demo 11M+CrossfireII demo, advanced single/multip
cf2_demo_upd03.lha game/patch 400K+Patches any CrossfireII demo version to
DVD2VCD.lha gfx/conv 93K+DVD2VCD(Cli Usage)
imdbDiff030110.lha misc/imdb 5.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha misc/misc 68K+MUI Biorythm tool v1.0b. Now localised (
newbaer.lha mus/misc 19K+GNU/GPL updated Paula-to-AHI redirector
PlasmaPlugin.lha mus/play 24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
XenoMorph_WB09.jpg pix/wb 68K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
XenoMorph_WB10.jpg pix/wb 114K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
MemTrailer.lha util/boot 4K+Allocates 16 bytes for MEMORY-PROTECTION
DirSSCompare.lha util/dir 13K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
EBGuide.lha util/rexx 2K+View Australian TV Guides in Shell/CLI
VClock_v1.7c.lha util/time 332K+Real Speech Clock - Final Release
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20.Jan.2003
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ Version 5.64a
For users of AmigaOS 3.9 version 5.63 of Report+ is set to be downloaded. With Report+ from Amigan Software it's easy to create bug reports, Aminet "readme" files, autodocs and similar reports. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: ReportPlus.lha - 304 KB
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20.Jan.2003
Alex de Vries (E-Mail)
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New Amiga-Product: Pure Basic
Xing Interactive are very proud to announce the release of the powerful and versatile programming language "Pure Basic". The product will be released in the second week of February 2003 and is available to consumers at the very competitive price of 29,95 Euro in DVD case packaging.
Pure Basic is more advanced and flexible then any of the other Basic programming languages currently on the market and it comes at a fraction of the price. The beauty of this product is the versatility though as you can develop your own games and applications on PC Windows, Linux or even AmigaOS! Speed is another unique selling point. Where other Basic programming languages crawl at a slow pace due to complex instruction translations Pure Basic shines by even outperforming C++ written code. If you ever wanted to program your own commercial quality games or applications in an easy to learn and even more easy to use language then this is your chance! (ps)
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20.Jan.2003
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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ADA team with inquiry over the Soms3D-Engine
Sylvio K., director/conductor of the Anime development for Amiga team,
decided to start an inquiry concerning the Soms3D-Engine due to the many e-mails with suggestions he got.
Originally it was intended to make Soms an on-line adventure but due to
the suggestions in various mails something else could become of it. Everyone who would like to participate in the inquiry, please
answer the following questions by sending an e-mail with the reference "Soms3D". These are the questions:
What do you think? What shall become of the Soms3D engine?
Currently the favorites are a 'Silent Hill' similar horror game and a 'GTA3'-Clone.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Jan.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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FreeBSD 5.0 available
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86
compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is
derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at
the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed
and maintained by
a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in
various stages of development.
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19.Jan.2003
Daniel Miller (ANF)
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Genesi on the CES: Some more pictures and words (Update)
In case you are interested, you can find an article on Genesi's show appearance at the
CES 2003 in Las Vegas, USA by Daniel Miller under the title link.
Update 20.01.2003:
Today was released another summary
of the CES 2003 show by Nicholas Blachford.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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19.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.01 with numerous improvements
An update from fxPAINT version 2.0 to 2.01 is now available for
free download.
Changes include:
- fxPAINT no more requires a fxPAINT: assign
- the behaviour of the slider has been changed due to numerous requests
- the "Choose"-button now switches forth and back between plain paint-mode and gradient-mode
- further adaptions to MorphOS
- the IFF24-saver now works correct
- other bugfixes
A fully detailed list of all changes can be found in the update archive.
(ps)
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19.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Crossfire II shipped & further news (Update)
On Monday Crossfire II will be shipped to all subscribers and Amiga dealers.
The shipped version of the game will be v1.03, which contains various
bug fixes and the following new featueres as compared the the show version:
- Full MorphOS and Pegasos compatibility
- Complete story in German
- Many mission details changed and difficulty level adjusted
- Tutorial now optional
- Currently selected weapon will be highlighted
Furthermore a new demo version of Crossfire II has been released on the
APC&TCP and
Dreamworlds Development home pages.
There you will find the updates of the game and the
demo version V1.03.
In addition the support pages for the game on the APC&TCP home page have been
updated and a.o. a FAQ added.
Update 20.01.2003:
On the Amiga Future home page you will find an interview with
Dreamworld Development. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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19.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Set-top boxes and more: New statement by Genesi
In a new statement (title link) Raquel Velasco und Bill Buck of Genesi have
a.o. announced a contract for Pegasos and MorphOS based set-top boxes, which
provides for the cash flow necessary for the other projects.
Shows are expensive. 100,000 Dollars have been invested in a short
period of time just for the CES in Las Vegas and the ARC in Aachen and
the respective attention grabbing (not to forget the cost for the other public presentations and events).
Furthermore it contains another hint at having applied legal measures to get
AmigaOS on the Pegasos.
According to the announcement, the Pegasos is shipped with MorphOS, DebianPPC,
Mac-on-Linux and a bundle of games and applications. Ports of OpenBSD and
Gentoo are said to be in the works and available before the CeBIT. Furthermore
there are talks about ports of BeOS, OpenBeOS, NetBSD, Zeta and NewOS. SuSE and
Mandrake are already running on the Pegasos.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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18.Jan.2003
Petr H. (email)
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New beta version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D (beta 10)
Under the title link is the new version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D
available for download. The author of the program is Massimilano Tretene.
The minimum setup to run GLQuakeWOS 1.09 beta 10 are:
- PowerPC processor
- 3D graphics card
- 32 MB Ram
- AmigaOS v3.x
- WarpUP
- Warp3D
What's new:
Fixed: paula allocation routine bug
Fixed: input.device allocation bug
Fixed: mouse allocation bug
Added: Sky Boxes support
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Preview of the new GUI for ffmpeg 0.4.6
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today I've made the first preview of my "Powerkonverter" GUI available on my homepage. This GUI isn't created with Gui4CLI anymore but with Powergadgets.
Download: Powerkonverter.lzx
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Jan.2003
Gojira (ANF)
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Mail program: new YAM developer version dated 18.01.2003
Since today there's a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA
of the mail program YAM available which is Open Source for some time now. This version is a pure developer version that may still contain bugs and for that the developers team doesn't give any warranty and support. Request regarding the developer versions via email aren't answered, either.
Usage at your own risk!
The made changes can be taken from this list.
Further information can be found on the
Yamos SourceForge page.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Jan.2003
C-One Website
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CommodoreOne: new pictures
On the website about the CommodoreOne you can see in the area "Picture" new pictures of this by Jeri Ellsworth new designed nostalgia computer. Interested ones can find technical details and many further information following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Jan.2003
Computer City (ANF)
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New pictures-search-game for Amiga
Computer City will release in 2003 a new game for Amiga computers, more details
can be found on the provisional website. For further information please contact info@compcity.nl or the Attention programmers team.
The freeware game developed by the programmers group Attention, these are Philippe van Calsteren, Elvis Poldervaart and Patrick Henz is a game similar to a FindIt error searching game called Foto/Foto that will be available for many platforms. This will work in the way that a website will be created on the Internet where the game will be played. Two almost identical pictures will be uploaded with one of them containing five errors.
The game itself will be run locally, there'll be only a contact to the server to download the pictures or to upload the result and to be entered into the highscore list. The first betas are said to be shown on the Benelux Amiga Show that is planned for April 2003.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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UADE version for MorphOS
Harry Sintonen has created with UADE 0.80pre1-mos1 a MorphOS version of UADE the Unix Amiga Delitracker emulator.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV-card software: AmithlonTV beta version 236
Guido Mersmann has published the beta version 236 of his TV-card driver AmithlonTV.
New in this version:
- FEATURE:
The new bt8x8 driver supports the new interlace mode, that is useful in several cases. (e.g. VHI Studio)
- FEATURE:
Some already implemented functions are now available within the menu.
- FEATURE:
Added some missing menu entries to the TVWatch setup window.
- CHANGED:
Many catalog changes.
- FEATURE:
Online help added (currently German only).
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta236.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jan.2003
Jarmo Laakkonen
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Jarmo Laakkonen: Lame V3.93.1 - FFMpeg V0.4.6 - mpgtx V1.3
Jarmo Laakkonen has updated some of his programs:
- LamePPC - Lame MP3 encoder version 3.93.1 for WarpOS - lame.lzx 241 KB
- Lame source code for C-Compiler lame_src.lzx - 952 KB
- FFMpeg 0.4.6 - Fast video- and audioconverter. Supports AVI/QT/ASF/MPEG/DIVX/WMV1/MP3/AC3 and other - for 040/WarpOS - ffmpeg.lzx - 890 KB
- FFMpeg source code for C-Compiler ffmpeg_src.lzx - 639 KB
- mpgtx 1.3 - MPEG video-/audio-splitter and "Joiner", unfortunately there is no 68k version, because the author has no time of fighting with gcc-bugs - for WarpOS - mpgtx.lzx - 81 KB
- mpgtx source code for C-Compiler - mpgtx_src.lzx - 77 KB
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jan.2003
GFX-BASE
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GFX-BASE: Review of fxPAINT 2.0
GFX-BASE has a new review. This time they put the latest version of the
image-authoring-software fxPAINT v.2.0 to the test. In this review they
tried to give you an impression of the new features, optimizations and
improvements in this new release (especially for those who already own a
previous version of fxPAINT) as well as an overview for those, who have
not tried or seen fxPAINT before. Read it under the title link.
(ps)
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17.Jan.2003
amiga.sf
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Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 17.01.2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads 17.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:
YAM22_no.lha comm/mail 23K+Unofficial Norwegian locale for YAM v2.2
BlitzLstNov02.lha dev/basic 48K+Blitz mailing list archives for November
SvIVFix930.lha gfx/misc 56K+*Fix* for SViewIV V9.30 (31.8.2002)
Luefter.lha hard/misc 2K+Fan replacement for CyberstormPPC
goaschlageins.lha mods/blkha 346K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
monster.lha mods/blkha 350K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
X-mas_time.lha mods/blkha 99K+X-mas PT mod by blakkhar
vd-ami2k1_eng.mpg pix/mpg 135M+<VD> show report "Amiga 2001", medium, E
c64Hero.lha pix/nicon 243K+35 cool new icons [by cYbo]
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jan.2003
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amiga-news.de: Amiga Link Directory Filled with over 1000 Links
Our Amiga Link Directory (ALD) set forth in January, 2000 to fill the big hole left by the closing of AWD [Amiga Web Directory -DM].
Since then the result has been positive: 29 categories with over 1000 hand-sorted links. Alfred Sturm is the man who labors
behind the scenes in this area, entering new links almost daily.
If your own homepage has something to do with Amiga we would be happy if you would enter it in this area. You can also help by notifying
Alfred Sturm of dead links or address changes.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.Jan.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade January/February 2003
It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - January/February 2003.
We need the classifying of your current prefered Amiga games.
Send us your classifying (20 games max) at our address:
daff1@club-internet.fr.
You can also vote at our website: http://hitparade.amigagames.com.
Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...).
If your list don't have changed since last time, simply reply the mail
with the subject "no change for me".
Final classifying will be published in early February. (ps)
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16.Jan.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Data Rights Group against the Collection of Flat-rate IP Numbers
Regulations designed to protect personal rights have been twisted to do the opposite.
After the government of Darmstadt, according to multiple press reports, directed Internet
provider T-Online to archive which customers used which IP numbers at which times (because
of many customer complaints), the Independent Center for Data Rights (ULD) commented on
the decision. The Darmstadt oversight officials pointed out that the ruling was limited, and that
the rights situation to the officials of other German states would be unchanged.
Click on the title link for the complete article.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.Jan.2003
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)
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PerfectPaint V2.91
PerfectPaint V2.91 is available.
What's new:
- A lot of new keyboard shortcuts
- Improve for Animation:
Crop - Scale - Scale page
Color correction - Gamma - Negative - ScrollRGB - Swap RGB
- Remove some requester when ARexx is on.
- Numeric keyboard to select brush (0-9)
- Preview effect for very small picture is fixed
- Minimum, maximum and median effect works well now for very small picture
- Improve creation of Animation when several pictures are dropped into the appicon.
- Improve drawing effect: Colorize
- Add Brush Handle (Alt x)
- New picture effect: Mirror
- 'Ctrl' can be used now to block cursor in X or Y position
- Improve addframe, delete frame and copy frame: Jiffies are now respected.
- New animation effect:
- Double each frame
All frames will be duplicated with a mix option.
- Cel Number: This script places the cel number on each selected frame.
Prefix and suffix can be assigned
- Insert picture works correctly now with indexed palette
- New ARexx command:
pp_RemapBrush
pp_SetRGBcolor
pp_PickColor, pp_GetPickRed,pp_GetPick_Green,pp_GetPickGreen
pp_AddFrames
pp_TextGui
pp_FixBrush
- Convert to RGB and Convert to CMAP works now with animation
- Improve Text_Gui and palette requester
- Add an 'Info Button' on some requester.
- Show Grid works now in "non classic" mode.
- New picture item: Erase All Buffers (K)
- And always several little bug fixed.
Download: PfPaint_V291.lha
Update 17.01.2003:
There is an update, that eliminates a bug in version 2.91.
Download: PfPaint_V291b.lha
(ps)
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16.Jan.2003
CHIP online (ANF)
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CHIP online: Hacker-Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software?
Roland 'Cyco Myco' Weigert writes:
I just read two very interesting columns at CHIP Online. The first is from January 14th and covers the topic:
"Hacker Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software." According to this there is apparently a hacker group
in the service of the RIAA which uses a covertly installed worm in Windows and Linux media players to see
what media files the user has, then sends the information back over the Internet to the music industry (RIAA).
In the second article, from yesterday, comes this:
(Music Industry: No Spying in File-sharing Software),
denies the RIAA, who have something to do with all this.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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16.Jan.2003
Petra Struck
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amiga-news.de: Small Changes in Design
In order to make our menus a bit more readable we have removed the headings for 'Sub pages' and 'Special Pages.' These links may now be found in the upper menu under the link ´Sub Pages´ (bottom row, all the way on the right.
The links to our Partner Pages, which were formerly in the upper menu on the third row, are now in the right menu under ´Amiga Network.´
This was reached by a clear division between internal (upper menu) and external (right menu), and the right menu has become considerably shorter and thereby more readable. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2003
M.Schwarz (ANF)
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Former Metabox Executive Stefan Domeyer accused
Stefan Domeyer former executive of the Met@box AG has been accused last week by the public prosecutors of Hannover because of stock excange course manipulation.
Full article (German) see title link.
The set top box producer gained some interested within the Amiga community due to its announcement of a processor card
for the A1200 in November 1999. Because of the unclear business methods Metabox reached the headlines several times in 2001.
Met@box AG has been founded on May the 15th 1996 with the name PIOS Computer AG by Amiga-Commodore developer engeneers (Dave Haynie, Andy Finkel) and former managers of Amiga Technologies (Stefan Domeyer). The initial capital, contributed by seven formers, had the amount of DM 1.05 millions.
Further details are to obtain from our
info page from June 1999.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
Bernward Hofmann (E-Mail)
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Amithlon: PuhDerBaer update
Bernd Meyer writes:
I just realized that the stereo-capable version of PuhDerBaer (the
Paula-to-AHI redirector) never made it out to the users. Well, it's never
too late --- download the archive and please make sure you read the
included README.
Please note that I packed this up under Linux, rather than under AmigaOS.
So it is possible that permission bits may not be set correctly --- so if
things don't work, look for that first.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus
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Event: Pictures from the CES 2003 by Genesi USA
By the title link there are three photos available from the team who were presenting not only the Eclipsis but also the possibilities of the Pegasos computer at their own stand at the CES 2003 in Las Vegas.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A.: Four news demos at the Amiga Demoscene Archive
On January the 12th 2003 the Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) has been expanded with four new demos. Added are:
- Splinters by Mystic (1997, Slideshow)
- Diskobox by Abyss (1997, 40k-Intro)
- Flower Power by Anarchy (1992, Demo)
- Goa by The Black Lotus (1996, Demo)
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus
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#AmigaFun-Website will be abandoned
After one of the founders of the IRC channel #AmigaFun has left the channel the official website for #amigafun will be closed at the end of January.
Due to that the HTMLchat hosted at our forum will be shut down at the end of the month.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
The Legacy
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The Legacy: 621 game infos updated
The Legacy is the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC, which offers screen shots, cover scans and information about the developers to its readers.
Today 621 game infos (mainly at the screen shot area) were updated.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
UAE-X
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Emulator: UAE-X Version 0.7 - Amiga emulator for the X-Box
With UAE-X you are able to emulate an Amiga 500 or Amiga 1200 with your X-Box. UAE-X is available to the terms of the GPL. For compilation the Microsoft XBOX XDK will be needed. By the title link there are beside the new version 0.7 detailed information and some screen shots available.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages (until 01-13-2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games to your hard disk which were intended for floppy disk use only. The following packages were added/updated since our last post:
- 13.01.03 new: Tornado Ground Attack (Energize) done by Codetapper
- 13.01.03 new: Pharaoh's Curse (Bignonia) done by Asman
- 13.01.03 new: Nigel Mansell's World Championship (Gremlin) done by JOTD
- 13.01.03 improved: Body Blows (Team 17) another version supported
- 11.01.03 fixed: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment) fixed access faults and VBR
- 11.01.03 new: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) done by Psygore
- 08.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed install script
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus
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New website by Lorence Lombardo
Lorence Lombardo has put a new website online from that his software for 68k and Amithlon Amiga might be downloaded, among these are Amidiction, PegaThlon, HTMLStrip or BabelDoc.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
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amiga-news.de: Amazon partner program buttons built in
Along the discussion (German) during the last week about new possibilities of funding there was several times the proposal among the comments to join the Amazon partner program. We signed it up now and there are now the two buttons for that built in at the right menu.
Many of you are buying books at Amazon. If you will do so in future by using one of the two buttons we will obtain a provision, which we can then use to fund amiga-news.de. So this is a kind of possibility to support us financially.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
amiga.sf
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Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 01-15-2003
The following software ports were updated or added:
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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15.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV card software: AmithlonTV beta version 230
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 230 of his TV card driver software
AmithlonTV.
New with this version:
- BUGFIX:
Found the crappy crash bug, that caused the bt8x8 driver sometimes to crash.
The same bug seems to caused the video freezing, the picture startup problem
and some fuzzy system trouble. I made fullspeed resizing tests without any
further picture trouble or crashes. Sometimes it's worth to rework a trouble
making driver from scratch!
- FEATURE:
The new reworked bt8x8 driver is able to process as many picture buffers
as required.
- FEATURE:
The new reworked bt8x8 driver is pre calculating the risc code size before
compiling, which causes less memory usage.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed a window sizing problem with smear (reported by Carsten Siegner).
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta230.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2003
Alfie's Amiga Homepage (ANF)
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OpenURL and RxMUI Update
The RxMUI package is now released in version 31.5, and OpenURL is available in
version 4.1.
Some other projetcs have also new versions:
- BWin.mcc 20.3
- GIFAnim.mcc 19.2
- SpeedBar.mcc 16.2
- Urltext.mcc 18.3
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: New year, new drivers, new prices
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is not only a PCI-card, it can also be used in an
Amiga. The first SID-driver has now been released for AmigaOS: Stefan Haubenthal
has written a 6581sid.library for common C64 emulators like Frodo or MagiC64.
Download: 6581sid.lha - 1442 Bytes
Unfortunately, the new year also brings bad news: Higher taxes, higher energy
cost and higher wages at our contractors force us to increase some prices for the
first time in the nearly nine-year old history of the company. This mainly affects
the new products. On the other hand, we will decrease prices for the existing
inventory.
The new pricelist is valid from February 1st, 2003.
Prices at your local reseller may be different from the prices listed here,
especially because of differen VAT rates in the European countries. Prices
listed here include the German VAT of 16%. Price lists published previously
become invalid with the publication of this list.
Buddha Flash IDE controller 49,90 EUR
Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper 89,90 EUR
Catweasel Z-II (incl. Buddha) 74,90 EUR
Catweasel ISA (PC-Version) 39,90 EUR
Gemini SCMS-killer (opto in) 149,00 EUR
Gemini SCMS-killer (coax in) 99,00 EUR
Graffiti Videocard 19,00 EUR
IDE-fix Express upgrade A1200 24,90 EUR
IDE-fix Adapter A4000 14,90 EUR
ISDN-Surfer w/o OVP 59,90 EUR
ISDN-Surfer w/ OVP 79,90 EUR
Silversurfer 29,90 EUR
Silversurfer limited Edition 34,90 EUR
A600 adapter for Silversurfer 9,90 EUR
X-Surf 2 ethernet 89,90 EUR
Lyra keyboard adapter 29,90 EUR
VarIO (Zorro/26-pin version) 49,00 EUR
VarIO (A1200 version) 59,00 EUR
PCI POST code display 39,90 EUR
Indivision Flickerfixer 99,00 EUR
Retro Replay 50,00 EUR
Retro Replay incl. Silversurfer 75,00 EUR
C-One reconfigurable computer mainboard aprox. 250,00 EUR
The products Kylwalda and IDE-fix express A1200 will only be produced on special
order. We're currently considering production outside Germany to keep the target
price of 189,- EUR for the Delfina soundcard.
Something funny at the end: Individual Computers is being massively attacked by
viruses in the past few weeks. Up to eight emails containing a virus arrive every
day. The amusing part about this is that it's viruses that only spread through
Windows and Outlook. Those who want to harm us should know that we're not using
sub-standard software, and attacks like this are simply ineffectual.
(ps)
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14.Jan.2003
Steffen Häuser / Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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New Quake2 Update available
On our website is a new Update for Quake2 available, for PPC and 68k, registered
users can download it there.
The new update fixes a bug in the GL renderer of the first update, a small bug in the
GUI and has some optimizations. Also you can now save screenshots (with the GL
renderer) as JPEGs as before only in TGA.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Jan.2003
amiga.org / Stefan 'Scholle' Czinczoll (ANF)
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Pre-Releases of the new RC5-72 Clients available
Under the title link the AmigaOS-Clients (68k, PowerUp, WarpUp) for
the RC5-72 contest can be dowloaded. As said on amiga.org
the PowerUp-version is 100% MorphOS compatible. The clients
are so called "release candidate" versions. The versions have the numbers v2.9001.479.
The aim of the project RC5-75 is with as many computers as possible to decode a
72-bit-key. There are trillions of possibilites to compute. To take part in this you
do not have to have knowledge in programming, only free computer capacity. Jut
install te client, get some blocks and after decoding send them back. Help, a FAQ and
more explanations you will find at Amiga RC5 Team Effort.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Jan.2003
Andreas Kürzinger (ANF)
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BlizKick Version 1.24rc5 und NewPatchMult64 Version 1.5
New versions of Harry "Piru" Sintonen's BlizKick (v1.24rc5, MapROM Tool for
Phase5/DCE Turboboards, Readme)
and NewPatchMult64 (v1.5, 060 Patches for UMult64/SMult64, Readme)
are released. For both tools are new detected bugs fixed.
Download:
BlizKick-1.24rc5.lha - 280
KB
NewPatchMult64-1.5.lha -
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2003
Jürgen Schmitz (E-Mail)
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Amiga Inc.: AmigaOS4 Feature Set: Release 1
January 13, 2003 - Snoqualmie, WA
Amiga is pleased to publish this first version of the feature set of the up
and coming AmigaOS4.0. The document will undergo revision in subsequent issues
but because of the massive demand for information made by the public, we have
decided to release it in its current state.
Due to the large amount of work and the obvious technical nature of OS development,
the document is both considerable in size, laden with jargon and, to save download
time, diagrams have not been included.
For those using older Amiga based PDF viewers, there may be a few minor issues
with displaying the front page graphics but this is due to issues with these
viewers. On official PDF viewers, and on the new AmigaOS4.0 viewer, the document
is rendered true.
Amiga would like to thank both those in the AmigaOS4.0 project team, who have
worked on this project with passion and commitment and those who have patiently
waited for their favourite platform to bloom once again. It has been a huge
undertaking and no one company, entity or person can take the credit. It has
been a fantastic demonstration of what makes the Amiga platform so special,
the coming together of like minds to build something extraordinary.
AmigaOS4.0. The legend continues.
Click here to download/view the
AmigaOS4 Feature Set PDF
Update:
There is also a HTML version of this PDF document:
http://www.ryusworld.webhop.net/OS4Features/features.html
(ps)
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13.Jan.2003
Sylvio (ANF)
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New Screenshots of Soms3D and innovation
There are new Soms3D shots on the Anime development web page to admire,
which shows the first progress of the engine. In addition one can now chat
with the developers of Soms3D. On the IRC server phatnet
(irc.phat-net.de #amigafun) and/or at this URL.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads 13.01.2003
Here the current uploads:
rno-urea.lha demo/aga 1.6M+RNO: "Urea" demo from M&S 2000 (7th)
eviled.lha dev/e 75K+Editor with source in E
php-4.3.0-bin.lha dev/gg 717K+PHP 4.3.9 - AmigaOS 68k binary
fdisk.lha disk/misc 206K+PC partition table editor for Amiga
CyberGazetka01.lha docs/mags 406K+Skubaniec - simple polish mag
WormWars.lha game/misc 624K+Worm Wars 7.3: Advanced snake game
Sv5Fix100.lha gfx/misc 284K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.00 (11.1.2003)
3c589.lha hard/drivr 54K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
Lame68k.lha mus/misc 324K+Lame 3.93.1, mp3 encoder
cvs-1.11.4.lha util/gnu 1.1M+CVS 1.11.4 - Concurrent Versions System
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 305K+Report+ 5.64: Multipurpose utility
idle1_4.lha util/moni 12K+A (working) cpu monitor
idlewos.lha util/moni 12K+A cpu monitor with WarpOS Support
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13.Jan.2003
John Klas (E-Mail)
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Sixgirls Computing Labs is under attack
John Klos from Sixgirls Computing Labs writes:
Sixgirls Computing Labs, which is known for being one of the only hosting
services which uses an Amiga as a full time server (reva.sixgirls.org), is
experiencing a massive denial of service attack of unprecedented
magnitude.
A previous attack saturated the 10-base-T connection of the Amiga server
with over 7 Mbps of syn packets, which caused loss of most connectivity
for part of a day, but the machine was put behind another Sixgirls server
with 100-base-T connections which filters this traffic.
Another attack began at midnight EST Sunday morning. Information from the
upstream router shows that this attack is using 150 Mbps of traffic to
make the connection unusable. Measures will be put into place to block
this traffic upstream, and normal service should resume sometime Monday.
The authorities are investigating.
Temporarily, you may have trouble accessing sites which are hosted on
reva.sixgirls.org, such as:
http://distributed.amiga.org/
http://www.totalamiga.org/
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/
http://ireland.amiga.org/
and others.
Please check back.
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13.Jan.2003
Grasshopper LLC
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DTP: PageStream V4.1.5.5 for Amiga OS and Windows
On 12 January 2003 Grasshopper LLC published version 4.1.5.5 of the
DTP program 'PageStream' for Amiga and Windows. This
update is available for registered users on the Grasshopper LLC Website at
the disposal. Currently this update contains only the new files until the
test of the package is finished.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV software: AmithlonTV beta version 229
Guido Mersmann published beta version 229 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV.
- CHANGED:
Complete rework of the current video_bt8x8.lib.
Many routines replaced, improved or completly removed.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed a memory allocation problem. The video_bt8x8.lib didn't
work on non powerpci.library systems, now this is fixed.
- BUGFIX:
TVCard.library is now able to detect the Philips video chip
which is using the pci subclass "other" instead of video.
- FEATURE:
New option "Push in screen"! When using PowerWindows you're
able to drag windows out of the screen, which is very useful.
My TV window is placed at the right bottom of the screen by
default. When using the menu/hotkey to enlarge the window it
stays there and grows into the screen border. By using the new
option the window position is automaticaly changing to fit
on screen.
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta229.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
SAKU
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Meeting: Pictures of the Alternative Party 2003 (update)
Under the title link you can find some pictures of the Alternative Party 2003, which took
place last weekend in Helsinki, Finland.
Supplement 14.01.2003:
Further pictures can be found
here and
here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Meeting: Amiga party in Braunschweig asks for registration
Marius Schwarz wrote:
"For planning reasons of the Amiga Lan party in Braunschweig, which will take place
on 8 and 9 February 2003, we would like to ask all of you, to announce your coming by using our web form. We need the
registration because of the food supply, are thus in your
interest. THX."
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2003
Velcro_SP (ANF)
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Meeting: Pictures of CES 2003 (Genesi)
I placed pictures of the CES 2003 on-line. Much fun when looking at!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Jan.2003
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amiga-news.de: 1000th news ticker mailed!
More than 600 subscribers make use of the possibility to have our news sent to
them via eMail. Jürgen Müller, who we are extending a big thankyou to, has been
creating a ticker almost daily for more than 3 years, and yesterday the 1000th
ticker was sent in the German section!
If you hadn't yet known about this possibility, you can learn how to subscribe
and unsubscribe under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Jan.2003
Jörg Thomas (ANF)
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New URL for ylf's home page
As Amiga browsers apparently are learning and thus are slowly getting problems
with my hitherto domain redirect service in the form of annoying banner ads and
popup windows, I have now set up a new URL. As from now my site with the well
known hardware tips and the \"Amiga ist ...\" page can also be reached under
http://www.ylf.de.vu.
At the same time I would like to thank everyone for their feedback, and ask
those who have linked to my page to update the link at the next opportunity.
Regards, Jörg Thomas (ps) (Translation: cb)
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12.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New review online
Today a review by Tristan Mangold of the online game 'Inselkampf' has been
published in the Amiga Future home page's articles area.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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11.Jan.2003
Stefan Ruppert (ANF)
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Red card for Internet investigators
Stefan Ruppert wrote:
Just stumbled across the above mentioned site. Don't know if this has already been posted here but it seems to me to be interesting for all Internet users.
Some words about the content:
"The Bundesrat has decided concerning a bill that intends the saving of all available data in the area of the classic telecommuncations (calling via cellphone and mobile cell phone, SMS, fax etc.) as well as all data available on the Internet on stock. The goal is to make it possible for the secret services and the offices for prosecution to find data they can access if is needed. Details shall not be handled in form of laws but through the Federal Government via a statuory instrument."
For those who are interested I came via fiff.de
to this site.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Conrad Elektronik: USB/Firewire to IDE interface
At Conrad Elektronik you can buy an interface for USB/FireWire to
IDE. With this interface it shall be possible to run an external IDE tower with hard disks for example via the USB interface card Highway. This interface handles on the IDE side ATA and ATAPI (PIO 0-4 and UDMA 0-4).
Interesting though is the question whether this interface can work also in the other direction. IDE to USB/FireWire.
Supplement:
Link to the interface removed as they use with single session IDs. So all interested have to wade through to the interface's page themselves.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Jabberwocky
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky v1.3 - 6. preview (Update)
Tom Parker has released preview 5 of the Instant Messenger 'JabberWocky' for
Amiga computers. Jabber
is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections to other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and
Yahoo are possible via gateways.
Download: Jabberwocky030109.lha
Update 12.01.2003:
Today was released preview 6.
Download: Jabberwocky030113.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Ralf Himmel (ANF)
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Replacing floppy discs with MiniCD-RW
The company Memorex will offer from Februar 2003
on rewritable CDs for the waistcoat with 8 cm in diameter as a replacement for the floppy discs. The small CD-RW that can be rewritten up to 1.000 times and can contain a maximum of 210 MB of data is suitable for mobile
users. The Pocket CD-RW fits in every pocket and therefore suits perfectly for the mobile use, e.g. in the laptop, MP3 player or in the digital camera. Using the standard audio compression mode MPEG you can record 210 minutes of music. They are said to be available from February on for a price of 6,99 Euros for five Pocket CD-RWs in a slim jewel case.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
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Aminet uploads of 11.01.2003
Here are the latest Aminet uploads:
opentriton-hun.lha dev/gui 3K+Hungarian catalog for OpenTriton GUI sys
fat95hun.lha disk/misc 20K+Hungarian translation for fat95
AmigaFuture40.lha docs/mags 1.0M+Great german paper mag preview
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Jan.2003
Stefan Schulze (ANF)
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Collected Dreamworlds news - Crossfire II update (update)
There are many news to report:
The new homepage of Dreamworlds Development is online. The base design is already complete as well as are the news and the downloads. Information about projects and the team will follow in the next few days. Until then there's a link to the old homepage.
Crossfire II has experienced a big update. There's finally a demo version
(download: cf2_demo.lha - 11,7 MB)
and an update (download: cf2_upd101.lha),
containing the following:
- Alternative graphics functions that don't need ChunkyPPC;
solves problems of ChunkyPPC on Pegasos systems.
- Mission mode completely translated into German.
- Optionally playable in the Workbench window.
- The tutorial can be skipped when starting a new game.
- Active weapon is marked with light effect.
- New music piece specially for mission #11.
- Many missions details changed.
- Wrong colors when playing in 8bit without screen fading fixed.
- Crash in mission #26 fixed.
- "File not executable" error fixed.
People ordering the full version now will get already the new version with all known problems fixed. The demo version is up to this level, too, and lets you play the tutorial, 2 missions from the middle of the game and test the multiplayer mode. To keep the archive small in size were all animations and musics removed. A more complete demo will be released e.g. on the next AmigaFuture CD.
Crossfire II is a kind of Wing Commander seen from above with complex and varied missions, a thrilling background story, lavish effects and explosive multiplayer fights.
Update:
On the APC&TCP homepage have recently further screenshots of the game been released. The game is available at APC&TCP and in a few days also on the shelves in the stores. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jan.2003
TTEngine
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FAQ for TTEngine written
Grzegorz Kraszewski has written an English FAQ to the topic TTEngine.
TTEngine is a text-rendering environment for AmigaOS based on TrueType font.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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GetBoinged.de will go online in two weeks
Thorsten Schölzel wrote:
The website www.getboinged.de which has gone offline some time ago will be online again
in two weeks. The goal has clearly determined: Supporting x86 users who use AmigaOS
via WinUAE.
The workshops describe the installation of AmigaOS3.9 for getting the best sound
as well as the creation of an Internet connection with Genesis. I try to show that
the use of AmigaOS is very easy with the help of an Amiga emulator. The proper
preferences are very important.
But before I will present you this issues I want to finish designing the homepage.
You will be able to watch the site with AWeb, IBrowse and Voyager in any case.
Now I want to speak a few words to the "negativ thinker": "Currently there is a
stagnation at users and developers. Why is it so? By working with UAE I could convince
users having the Amiga system. Today they use Windows and AmigaOS/WinUAE in a friendly
coexistence because there is good software on both sides. Try to expect the future
a little more positive!"
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Peter's Amiga Homepage: WinUAE FAQ updated
On the homepage of Peter the following sections have been updated:
- Winuae FAQ
- Windows XP guide will be available soon
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Amiblitz 2.27 distribution published
Amiblitz2.27_Ger-Distribution:
From now on the full distribution of Amiblitz version 2.27 is available on Amiforce.
The update for Amiblitz 2.27 still had a few bugs which have been now fixed.
During the next days this archive will be completed by adding additional translations.
Please get the changes from the history which the guide contains. The Amiblitz download
section will be reworked and the date will be added.
The mailing list filearchive was created and data will be permanently added.
This will be also written in the info site.
SN-archives:
The programs SN-KontoArchiv and SN-AnlagenArchiv can be now accessed under Amiblitz/Developer
support. Additionally to a short describtion and the download there is also an online
formular for registering directly at the author Steffen Nitz. This section is being
reworked and has been still not finished.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Ancor Productions
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Website of Ancor Productions has a new design
The website of Ancor Productions which is well-known by projects such as 'The Last Seal'
, 'PTOE' and 'AFP' has been completely new designed.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Instant-Messenger: AmigAIM V0.9443 beta
Richard H. Poser has published the beta version 0.9443 of the AIM-messenger "AmigAIM".
The following changes have been made compared with the previous version:
- Fixed, I believe, a long standing bug with the reconnection system.
This is only a small maintenance release, as I'm sure that was
annoying.
For further details please have a look at the
history-file.
Downlaod:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
AmigAIM.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jan.2003
d!RT!E & Zito of mOOdS (ANF)
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mOOdS now also without frames and Javascript!
Additional to some minor improvements you can now watch the homepage of "mOOdS - Music For Your Instincts"
which is a music group based on Amiga without frames and without Javascript.
Have much fun you IBrowse fans!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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