25.Nov.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)
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Instant-Messenger: AmiComSys V2.0
Version 2.0 of the instant messenger "AmiComSys" has been released.
This version contains a line of changes including a security bugfix closing
the APIPE / AWNPIPE security gap in combination with MUI.
This program runs on AmigaOS V3.0+ and CPU 68020+.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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25.Nov.2001
ANN
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Graphics: Translators for PerfectPaint wanted
Halvadjian Georges, author of the 24-bit paint program Perfect Paint, is looking for people who can help with catalog translations. French and English are not needed, other languages are.
Contact: gothic.fr@chello.fr
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25.Nov.2001
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Florac Roland (AmiCAD)
Olaf Köbnik wrote:
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
The Amiga still offers specialized application software solutions, today, but which unfortunately
aren't widely spread due to small usership. "AmiCAD" is one of those programs, which
is being developed by Florac Roland. This software is about an editor for creation of
electronic wiring diagrams.
The Amiga Arena talked to Florac Roland about developing "AmiCAD" and regrettably
it turns out again that there is less than few feedback from the users.
Florac Roland still is urgently wanting users to help him in translating and
creating a guide.
"AmiCAD" really is an interesting software and ought to be supported to
ensure further development.
Who would like to help with the German localization or manual might
write to: Florac Roland
(roland.florac@fnac.net. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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25.Nov.2001
Vapor
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PDA: AmigaNCP V2.2 Beta 2
AmigaNCP is an implementation of the Psion link protocol which is e.g.
built into the Psion S3/S3a/S3C and Psion S5 palmtop's ROM. It's main
purpose is to provide vice-versa nfs-like file access.
This small update (untested, due to lack of Psion),
tries to fix the following two reported issues:
- NCP_LinkRemoteRun() now allows up to 128
chars file names in EPOC32 (S5) mode
- AmigaNCP-FileSystem now (hopefully correctly)
implementes ACTION_SET_DATE; this should fix
the "datestamps not set for backup" problems
reported by some people
- fixed file format for Amiga2Psion clipboard
functionality (hopefully)
- now sends a "Clipboard changed" message to
the remote clipboard server when a clipboard
exchange has been executed (hopefully)
AmigaNCP requires:
- AmigaOS 2.04 or better (localization supported).
- the IBM-PC version of the 3-Link cable.
Download: amigancp_22beta2.lha (27K),
README
(sd)
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25.Nov.2001
CyberGFX
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Mediator: List of 3rd Party Software
The worlds oldest Mediator support page has been updated with the 3rd Party
Mediator Software Page. Has a complete list of TV, Scanning software and much much more. If you see a program missing e-mail the information here.
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25.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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HTML: Pre-processor HSC V0.922 Beta
Matthias Bethke released beta version
0.922 of the HTML pre-processors "HSC".
This version now has an experimental XHTML support.
This version was released as source code only. The stable version
V0.921 (title link) additionally contains the documentation.
Download: hsc-0.922b-source.tar.bz2 (192K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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25.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Akiko released
The CD32/CDTV emulator Akiko for Windows is now available for
download on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
Akiko emulates a CD32 and a CDTV on PCs with Windows with the help
of an enhanced version of WinUAE. Akiko does not need the so called
extended roms of those consoles, it just requires Kickstart rom 3.1 for
CD32 emulation and Kickstart rom 1.3 for CDTV emulation. The enhanced
version of the WinUAE is included with the Akiko distribution archive.
The source code of this WinUAE version is available for download on
the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Akiko
is Shareware and the demo version has some limitations.
(sd)
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25.Nov.2001
Kicko (ANF)
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MIDI: Tracks & Fields now For Free, Programmer wanted
«It was ages when v1.02 was released and it was shareware (demo).
Both authors (Anders & Dick) left amiga so Jonas Hulten has
been updating it for me.
As he has not much time for it he gave me the last source code so
i can search for another coder.
As i can't get in touch with the first original coder Anders Larsson
(also made far updated pc version) i can't upload the source for free
on aminet but i can give it to a serious coder who want's to continue on
it.
So if you are a serious coder and want to continue on tracks&fields
please
contact me and tell me what programs you made so far. You have to
know assembler.
In the package there is a full registered version 1.02 and 1.04.
There is a bug that comes more on latest version that crashes when editing
patterns so there fore i put up the older v1.02.
- Warning. Backup your old preference as v1.04 saves also screenmode u use
and it doesn't work if you change to another gfx card and use the saved prefs
from the first card. This should be fixed if i find any coder out there.
History:
1.04
- Used the 1.02 source instead
- Ctrl F3-F5: cut-copy-paste only the column the cursor is on
1.03
- Works on graphics cards - sadly the cursor looks wierd as a result.
- Doesn't scroll several rows at a time when playing. This is good.
- Removed writes to address 0 when config was loaded.
- Minor spelling corrections.
- Screen mode selection in config.
- Scaling now autoselects the current position
- About screen doesn't show up at program start
»
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25.Nov.2001
H. Ogino, Japan Amiga User Group (ANF)
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Club: JAUG with New Areas
H. Ogino wrote:
Japan Amiga User Group's homepage has now
three new areas: "Buy/Sell/Free", "TechAdvice"
and "AmiPics".
You can buy and sell or offer for free
your Amiga stuff at the "Buy/Sell/Free" area.
At the "TechAdvice" area you
can read technical solutions on problems that
Amiga computers and hardware have. It is, for
instance, about heat problems, etc.
At the area of
"AmiPics" there are many vivid and significant
pictures of Amiga computers, cards, chips, mice,
etc., taken by one of Japan's Amiga power-users.
Really beautiful pictures!
Many non-Japanese
Amiga users subscribed already to Japan Amiga
User Group (JAUG) such as from Germany, U.K.
France, Rumania and Mexico. So it is the time for
you too to subscribe to JAUG (title link)! The subscribing fee
is FREE, of course! (sd)
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25.Nov.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)
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Game: Freespace Demo-Version available
On
www.hyperion-entertainment.com
the demo version of the current Hyperion Entertainment port of "Freespace: The Great War"
is available for download, now (download section, about 30 MB).
Freespace runs on any PPC machine (with or whithout 3D graphic board) and on
68060 systems with Permedia2 or Voodoo 3 graphic board. According to the manufacturer
the 68k version also runs on Amiga OS XL and Amithlon.
Freespace requires 64 MB RAM on PPC Amigas, and 32 MB RAM with VMM (virtual memory management)
on 68k Amigas.
Also new at the downlaod section are two updates of the Hyperion/Freespace demo CD from the Amiga 2001.
Some errors with CD32 pads were corrected.
More information and pre-order options are to find at
freespace.haage-partner.de
or www.hyperion-entertainment.com.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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24.Nov.2001
Der Standard (ANF)
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Der Standard: Alternatives for Windows & Co. - Part II
An article (German) of the Austrian daily newspater 'Der Standard' on ElateOS,
AmigaDE, AmigaOS, and MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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24.Nov.2001
Marc "Zito" Oberst (ANF)
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Scenediskmag "Jurassic Pack" Celebrates ist Revival!
The legendary diskmag from the Amiga scene named "Jurassic Pack"
celebrates it's revival in the night between 23. and 24. November 2001.
After three years of delay issue #8 in English was released, today.
With more than 80 articles, 5 pieces of music, 2 title pictures, and more than
30 cliparts this magazine is intersting not only for so called "sceners",
cause for example also discerning articles on the current Amiga situation
were added. Interested people will be able to download it from Aminet, soon,
or right now at Scenet
(dkg-jpo8.lha - 2,9 MB)
and from the demo secene BBS "Uphold The Law".
Have much fun while reading!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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24.Nov.2001
EvenMore
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Textviewer: EvenMore Version 0.59
The freeware-textviewer 'EvenMore' has been published in version 0.59.
With the plugins it is now possible to convert HTML to text.
Download: EvenMore.lha (585 KB)
Recent history:
- Removed messy filetyping code. Created a plugin which allows filetyping, which can be easily changed using a textfile.
- Created basic HTML2Text plugin.
- Created a Linux manual to tex conversion plugin.
- Updated all plugins with an extra PROC, em_begin(). This is used as a pre-parse PROC, and is needed to tell EvenMore if it is necessary to create a new memory space for the file if the resulting contents from the plugin will be bigger than the original. Older plugins will no longer work properly!
- Thanks to Raul Silva for the português catalog!
(ps)
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24.Nov.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 22.11.2001)
The website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de
(title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant
only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been
added or updated:
- 22.11.01 new: Wings Of Fury (Broderbund) done by CFOU!
- 22.11.01 fixed: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) access faults removed
- 22.11.01 new: Future Wars (Delphine Software) done by JOTD
- 22.11.01 fixed: Fire and Forget (Titus) icon corrected
- 22.11.01 new: Feud (Bulldog) done by CFOU!
- 22.11.01 fixed: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) interrupt handling fixed
- 22.11.01 improved: Amazing SpiderMan () protection removed
- 21.11.01 new: Fire and Forget (Titus) done by CFOU!
- 21.11.01 new: Total Football (Domark/Akklaim) done by JOTD
- 21.11.01 new: Syndicate (Bullfrog) done by JOTD
- 21.11.01 new: Striker (Rage Software) done by Galahad
- 21.11.01 new: Sensible Soccer CD³² (Sensible Software) done by Galahad
- 21.11.01 new: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 21.11.01 new: Prehistorik () done by JOTD
- 21.11.01 new: Monkey Island 2 (LucasFilms Games) done by JOTD
- 21.11.01 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) minor change
(ps)
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24.Nov.2001
Oliver Roberts
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Datatype: WarpTIFF Version 44.6
Oliver Roberts has released Version 44.6 from his 24-bit TIFF picture
datatypes WarpTIFF for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.
Download: WarpTIFFdt.lha (280 KB)
Changes since 44.5:
- Fixed TIFF descriptor file - no longer mistakes MED modules as TIFFs :)
- Images in 12-bit (or less) RGB format are now decoded correctly.
(ps)
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24.Nov.2001
Amgia Future
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Amiga Future: AWeb Workshop
Under the title link you will find a workshop for AWeb 3.3+ in German
language from Ricco Clemens. (ps)
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24.Nov.2001
Slashdot (ANF)
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Quake and Wolf3D for Linux PDA
Not one, but two classic id games were ported to not one, but two different
Linux PDAs! Quake
(see screenshots)
is available for the Sharp Zaurus
and the original Wolf3D
is out for the Agenda VR3.
Unfortunately in both of the cases the AmigaDE doesn't play any role.
(ps)
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24.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)
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Cloanto Webcam at Spoletium 4
Live camera from the Spoletium 4 demo event, held in Spoleto, Italy.
amigaforever.info (ps)
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23.Nov.2001
DVD
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DVD Press Release on "Black List" Start
The German Vereinigung für Datanschutz e.V (consortium for data protection), short
DVD, together with many experts from the fields of IT security and data protection
found out that users of websites often got forced to use cookies, JavaScript or ActiveX,
because there's no alternative version available.
That's why from now on the DVD publishes a
black list
as an official directory of such addresses.
"Offerors who cannot tolerate that users want to decide about their security settings
on their machines indepentently, should ask themself if they realy are set up for the Internet
future. Who thinks to have to punish users for their conscience of security by withholding
his pages from those, did not understand what e-commerce and online services actually are
about", said Karin Schuler, member of the DVD steering committee. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Nov.2001
GeoWorld®
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Geography Program: GeoWorld® - Update 13 finished soon
The geography program GeoWorld® allows to insight the upcoming update 13.
This update, which is expected to be released in December 2001, will consist of
two substantial parts:
- Update of the main program with some new functions and data update as well.
- Release of a "GeoWorld-DeveloperTool" allowing to change and extend existing
information texts about countries, towns, an organisations.
Two screenshots showing two of the new features were published on this
website.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Nov.2001
Fun Time World
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Image cataloging: PhotoFolio update to version 2.2
PhotoFolio by Steeple Software (Paul Huxham) is a program for managing,
viewing and cataloging images which can also create thumbnails.
The program can be registered either directly with the author or be
ordered from Schatztruhe.
On 16.11.2001 an update to version 2.2 has been released. The patch
updates version 2.0 from the CD. The update contains new
libraries and modules. You'll find more information about the update
here.
Download: PhotoFolio22.lha (476 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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23.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.6 / xlHtml v0.3.9.6
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.6 and
an update of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.6, which converts
Excel/Powerpoint files to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs
are also available as MorphOS versions.
(ps)
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23.Nov.2001
ExoticA
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ExoticA: New additions with music
ExoticA and UnExoticA are occupied with the musical capabilities and the history
of the Amiga. Yesterday UnExoticA was again updated. New additions include
the music from Pac-Land, P.P.Hammer, Toki, Cannon Fodder, Mr. Nutz,
Pegasus and many others. For full information about the changes you can
read the UnExoticA -
Updates Page.
(ps)
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23.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Astronomy pogram: The Digital Universe v1.03
If you haven't yet purchased "The Digital Universe" for the Amiga, now is the perfect
opportunity. As long as you are able to download a 11.6 Mb archive from our web site
onto your computer, you can now obtain the full V1.03 for a shareware payment.
The online distribution is in every way identical to the earlier CD-ROM distribution,
other than the change of format and a reduction of price.
The entire user manual is integrated into the software as a context-sensitive help
system.
For a full description of the Amiga version of "The Digital Universe",
we invite you to our web site at
http://www.syz.com/DU/amiga/. There, you
will find a description of the features of the software, sample screen snapshots,
and an online order form.
If you have moved on to a Macintosh or Windows
environment, we are currently shipping a version of the
software for the Mac and
are at work developing a Windows port.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to write to
support@syz.com, or phone us at 780-961-2213.
Thanks for your continued support!
(ps)
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23.Nov.2001
Starmag
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Online-Magazin: Starmag #29
The German online magazine Starmag has released issue #29.
Read it online
or download the complete zip-archive (1,9 MB).
(ps)
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23.Nov.2001
MorphOS
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Editor: CED PPC 4.21b for MorphOS
This is the official MorphOS PPC port of CygnusEd Professional 4.21.
You need a properly installed MorphOS release as well as the original
CygnusED 4 CDROM to install the PowerPC port, the 68k version of the
program won't be modified. After installation you can still use the 68k
version of CygnusEd if you plan to install it on the same partition.
The updated ed frontend automatically detects if it's run under MorphOS
or AmigaOS and uses the proper CygnusEd main binary. Please note that
you need the original CygnusEd4 CDROM to apply this patch/ppc update.
It is available from various sources including Schatztruhe.
Fixes: Current directory is now correct if launched from WB, the -keepio
and -sticky arguments now work properly & printing shouldn't crash
anymore.
Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd421b.lha (202 KB) (ps)
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23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter
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3D Chat: Multimediabot MacGuyver Citizen Available for Free
The show- and multimediabot MacGuyver which was developed for the ActiveWorlds®
3DChat-system is now available for free in the version "Citizenbot". It can be
downloaded at
http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/3DChat/ordere.html.
Additional information about the bot and the AW-3DChat itself can be found
under the title link.
The ActiveWorlds® 3D chat is the next
step to the future of the internet, it brings a virtual 3D-world to your home.
Virtual Worlds Productions produces tools and special
bot software
which enhances these chat software.
(ps)
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23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter
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Audiosoftware: AudioCutter Cinema: English Documentation Available
An English translation of the
AudioCutter Cinema's
(available for Windows and Linux) documentation is now available
as a first draft. It can be found under the title link and will
be part of the coming soon version 1.1.
(ps)
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23.Nov.2001
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)
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Online magazine: AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German games editor
The online magazine AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German editor for the
games section.
Carsten Schröder wrote:
"After Malte Mende unfortunately was forced to quit his work on the AMIGA-aktuell games part due to lack of time, last month, and regettably his designated successor abandoned his promis because of the same reason, a few days ago, we are now urgently wanting a game knowing Amiga user willing to take over the unsalaried leadership of the game section, along with Jürgen Theiner, and mainly would care for the PD tests rubric and preface and closing words of the game part."
If you are interested or would like to ask questions, please contact
Carsten Schröder. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Nov.2001
AmigaPage
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AmigaPage: Workbench-Competition "Amiga Passion"
"Amiga Passion" competiton was born to take you part of the AmigaPage
(italian online magazine) life.
The target of the competition are all the Amiga users and you'll attend
with one or more of your WB Grab (max 3) that will be send to
kanuka@ciaoweb.it with "Concorso"
as subject.
The competiton goes on till the 31st December 2001. The first four positions
will win a copy of the game 'Extreme' donated by
DKGStore. In addition
AmigaPage offer a mousepad, a brooch and a poster rispectively to 1st,
2nd and 3rd classifier.
The judges are Marco Lovera, Sandra Lovera and
Claudio Marro Filosa. After 31/12/01 we'll have the time to take counsel
for a unanimous vote. All grabs that you send will be show below and
after "Amiga Passion" we'll move all in the "Computer Passion". In
conclusion I remind you that all grabs sent since now can't attend to
the competiton. After this I'll invite you to take part of the
"Amiga Passion" competition.
(ps)
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23.Nov.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
With the extension which is available at the title link the
Amiga emulator UAE can now use the SDL library for graphics
output under Linux.
SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. The SDL library is
a cross platform library and offers functions for graphics and
sound output as well as querying input devices.
The version modified for UAE currently only works under Linux,
but there are some benefits from using SDL:
- It's now possible to use UAE in fullscreen mode as a normal
user.
- The emulator can now be used directly on the console (with
activated framebuffer), e.g. without X-Windows.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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22.Nov.2001
AmigaGames.com
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AmigaGames.com: Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia
The Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia, or in short GAGE, contains information
from over 500 games, with compatibility information, cheats, docs,
walkthrougs, screenshots, and more. Maintained by Dr. Zarkov since
1998, it is one of the most comprehensive information resources for Amiga
Games.
(ps)
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22.Nov.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename Version 3.0.1
SRename is a program which has some more functions as the common
'rename'.
Changes in this release:
- Fixed bug that caused the "no objects would be renamed" message not to be displayed in some cases with the SIMULATE option.
- Enabled the simultaneous display of messages related to SELECTED and SIMULATE options in a case that one canceled the other.
- Internal restructuring and various changes.
Download: SRename3.lzx
(ps)
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22.Nov.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P News: AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list / Show: AMIGA 2001
AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list
The FAQ list now offers 6 new solutions to frequently asked questions and problems.
Thanks to the help of some customers we could add some more items to our list:
Aladdin 4D, Audio Evolution, CandyFactory, Diavolo Pro, Digibooster Pro, Magic
Menu, MAME, MaxonTOOLS, MaxonTwist, Monzoom 3D, PageStream, Samplitude,
Shapeshifter, Superbase 4, TurboCalc, TV Paint, Wordworth and may others.
AmigaOS XL site.
Show: AMIGA 2001
This years Amiga show was again very crowded because everyone wanted to see
AmigaOS XL working. On three workstations we presented Amithlon and AmigaXL
for QNX and answered all questions of the astonished Amiga fans. The
resonance was very positive and the people really liked our new design
tower very much. There will be more offers around AmigaOS XL the next days.
Pictures of the show (ps)
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22.Nov.2001
DeepSILENCE
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Game: New Demo-Engine for SOMS available
The new demo engine is better and faster, furthermore graphics have been
enhanced and according to
Silvio Kurze contains sound now, too.
SOMS is about an action adventure like never before released for the Amiga. Action
devotees well be have fun with the about 100 different enemies, numerous screen filling
final enemies and extended levels as well, especially if they get supported by 20
configurable weapons and the same amount of spells!
If the adventure devotee gets horrored by the above, it is to say that combats can be avoided
by cleverness, if you deal with the numerous puzzles.
Also the role game devotees, disliking the minimal possiblities to equip the characters in
action games, can knock down satisfyed! The variety starts with free naming of the 4 main
characters, goes thru the continuous enhancement of features and capabilities of your own
character, the detailed multiple-choice dialogs with about 100 persons, the sophisticated weapon system,
thru the 10 characters with own tactics, views and goals of life joining the force one by one.
Download: deepsilence.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Nov.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: New Repulse driver for ProStationAudio
Alien Design has made available a new Repulse driver (analog and S/P-DIF board)
for ProStationAudio. You will find the driver at the
download area.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Nov.2001
Scalos
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Workbench Replacement: Scalos-Plugins, Moduls, Betaversion 40.15
Scalos added some moduls and plugins for the Workbench replacement Scalos
to their download page. Furthermore a little problem was fixed in the WB3.9 plugin.
The updated archive can be found at the download area, as well. The current beta version
is v40.15.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Nov.2001
VaporWare
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Statement from Oliver Wagner about the "Security Issues in MUI Apps"
Under the title link you will find a detailed statement by Oliver Wagner
Vaporware) on the "security
issues in MUI applications" recently revieled. He describes and
clarifies that not only MUI applications are affected.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)
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SuperView: ImageFX Saver Version 1.4
A potential memory leak in the ImageFX saver for SView
was fixed in V1.4 (now on download page on my WWW site). (ps)
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22.Nov.2001
Telepolis
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Telepolis: Under the token of the Boing-Ball
Torsten Kleinz published a German article about the AMIGA 2001 at Telepolis
containig a good sumarize of the past years.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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21.Nov.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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Sequencer: BarsnPipes version 1.07 published
Version 1.07 of the improved sequencer BarsnPipes has been just published. Many bugs have been fixed and a lot of new functions have been added which were wishes of users from all over the world. You can read on the History which new things have been added.
This super multimedia sequencer for the classic Amiga is a must-have for all midi-musicans.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
amiga-topcool / Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: Interview with Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding the manager of Haage&Partner has been interviewed of amiga-topcool. He speaks about Amithlon, AmigaOS XL, Amiga.Inc, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.9, iFusion, PageStream and the current situation of Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Graphic competition: Schlachtfeld
For one month there is the graphic competition to "Schlachtfeld". Today Horst Diebel gave some more details for the graphics to be made.
In contrary to the "old" Schlachtfeld units and background will stand in a relation 1 to 1 that means 64 pixels are ca. 20 m. The size of the pattern will be 64x64 pixels and you can use 256 colours or more. The developer would be very delighted if you took part.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)
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Pegasos-Boards will be produced on DCE SMD-line
Under the title link you can find some pictures of DCE which show how PEGASOS-boards are being placed on the SMD-line of DCE.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
CCC-ML
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Chaos Computer Club: Censorship is being done
A provider from Nordrhein-Westfalen (German county) starts to block Internet sites.
In some sort of hurrying obedience at least one Internet provider in Düsseldorf (Germany),
the ISIS company, has constricted access to several Internet sites
by changing the DNS entry on the ISIS name server. Yesterday, the Chaos Computer Club got aware
of this censorship effort.
On a hearing of the county government of Düsseldorf with diverse
Internet providers it was discussed by what means providers would be able to
block access to diverse outlandish websites,
[1].
This was in main about sites spreading radical right-wing content, but also
rotten.com, specialized to collect more
or less tastily picture material from the Internet, was condsidered to be dignified to
be censored. Rotten.com quote thier extreme photo collection, among other of
of casualties, as serious dealing with the manor of freedom of speech.
Philipp Schulte of CCC Düsseldorf in view of this faint-hearted censorship effort said:
"It is to assume that the still very short list of objectionable websites will increase very much in
the future and other providers will follow the example of censorship outrider ISIS".
To use a different name server appears to be a work-around for customers. eg.
194.246.96.49 (dns2.denic.de), 194.246.96.25 (dns3.denic.de), 194.25.2.131 (dns02.btx.dtag.de).
The Chaos Computer Club's considered opinion is that censorship by technical means
is not a suitable way to handle content supposed to be problematic. "The massive restriction
of the citizens in exercising their freedom of opinion is beyond the pale", added Jens Ohlig, CCC speaker.
Though the hearing of the county government in Düsseldorf on November 13 ended 'result open', according
to numerous particitpants, customers of those providers, who are in hurrying obedience complyed with the governments
suggestions, on access to several sites instead of the original notes receive an 'informer form'
[2]
to announce Internet sites thought to be problematic
to the county government NRW.
The county government's approach to filter the Internet offers and by this to attempt to
establish censorship is a critical step into the wrong direction in the opinion of the Chaos Computer Club .
"Instead of establishing technical filters, which reconcilableness with the constitutional law at least is
questionable and which technical implementation is easy to avoid anyway, the government authorities
rather should focus their efforts to sponsor the loom of media competences. More important than
technical methods would it be to emerge a social immunity for content thought to be problematic", added
Andy Müller-Maguhn, club speaker, to the club's statement. [3]
To what extent other companies in NRW followed the suggestions of the county government, without
being legally bound to, is being reviewed. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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21.Nov.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #011030 from Brad Webb
Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you
about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter
under the title link.
(ps)
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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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EARTH 2140 Missionpack: The Final Conflict shipping now
Missionpack THE FINAL CONFLICT for real-time strategy hit EARTH 2140 is now
shipping. The new missionpack brings 80 new single- and 30 new multiplayer
missions to the game. In addition there are 6 new units, 2 new buildings and
a new terrain.
(ps)
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21.Nov.2001
AmigART
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Burner software: MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8
There is a new beta version (MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8) of the burner software 'MakeCD'. In order to use it you have to install version 3.2c first.
Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_8.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Kees Witteveen on amiga.org
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Coding GUI programs in VP - Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow
This
is the first in this series of tutorials concerned with writing programs
for Tao's intent media environment. This series assumes that you have
read the
first series on VP coding
at this site
(even the tutorials I have not written yet!) or at least have a
basic knowledge of VP coding.
(ps)
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21.Nov.2001
amiga.org
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Installer: WHDLoad - New URL and packets (until 20.11.2001)
From now on the website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 20.11.01 new: Atome (Skarla) done by Psygore
- 20.11.01 new: Makaveli (Essence) done by Psygore
- 20.11.01 new: Bio Challenge (Delphine) done by CFOU!
- 19.11.01 new: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 17.11.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version, minor other changes
- 17.11.01 new: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) done by CFOU!
- 17.11.01 new: Loom (LucasFilm Games) done by JOTD
- 17.11.01 new: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) done by John Girvin
- 17.11.01 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) uses less memory
- 17.11.01 new: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) done by John Girvin
- 17.11.01 new: Espana The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) done by Bored Seal
- 17.11.01 new: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) done by CFOU!
- 06.11.01 improved: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) supports another version
- 06.11.01 new: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
- 06.11.01 improved: Barbarian 2/Axe of Rage (Palace SoftWare) supports more versions
- 05.11.01 new: Skweek (Loriciels) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Programming language: Beta of Amiblitz2 (formerly Blitz2) version 2.21b1 publis
The site for the programming language 'Blitz' www.blitz-2000.co.uk (title link) now is also the homepage for AB2 (have a look also under Archives/Blitz2). There you can also find the source codes and beta versions and much more information about Blitz2. Currently there is beta version AB2.21b1 ready for download. This version will be not uploaded to Aminet.
Please do not send your bug reports to the uploader but to the Blitz mailinglist in order to avoid double bug reports.
In order to subscribe to the mailinglist please send a mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. In order to unsubscribe please send a mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
VGR Newsseite (ANF)
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SharkPPC is not a development of ELBOX?!
On Sunday 18th of November in 2001 on the VGR-sites (title link) a very interesting news message has been published: The SharkPPC which was introduced by ELBOX at the fair is supposed to be nothing more than a relabeled Sonnet PPC-card.
If you will have a look at the Sonnet-product site it will confirm it.
Accordingly ELBOX has not developed "its" SharkPPC for itself. Therefore the introduction of the SharkPPC+ (which is supposed to have IDE-controller, AGP-slot and USB) can be doubted.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: VarIO Updates
The support-area of our website contains two updates for our interface
board VarIO: The new driver archive contains a corrected version of the
SetupVarIO command (Enforcer hits removed), and a french catalog. The
new file Inside_VarIO.txt describes the final hardware for programmers
of other operating systems (Linux and NetBSD for example).
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Potos from the Amiga 2001 at Virtual Dimension
On weekend Virtual Dimensions was on the show for you and took pictures from the
Amiga 2001 for their new show video. To create the video will take some time. To shorten
your waiting time some pictures were put online, already.
Same pictures with English subtitles
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)
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Hyperion: Warp3D support for Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon
Hyperion Entertainment has entered into an agreement with third parties
to ensure Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon support for Warp3D, effectively
doubling the number of supported chipsets.
"We are thrilled to be able to open up ever more possibilities to users
of Amiga PCI busboards", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion
Entertainment. "The Permedia 3 is around 6 times faster than the
Permedia 2 and offers a lot more functionality including full OpenGL
compliance. The chipset is still frequently used in high-end 3D
workstations. The ATI Radeon family is undeniably state of the art with
well-rounded 2D performance and top-notch 3D performance that is on par
with anything out there in the Wintel world. Support for the Radeon
family will allow Amiga users to enjoy unrivalled performance and
functionality."
More details will be disclosed in the upcoming weeks.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment brings 3D graphics to PDA's
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that it has finalised
an initial version of its "Warp3D" technology, a mature, small foot-print,
feature-rich yet very fast 3D solution for ElateTM/ Amiga DETM based
devices.
Warp3D allows content-creators to effortlessly deploy 3D graphics on
low-end devices such as PDA's, web-tablets and 3G phones and is the
product of years of development in response to concrete performance
challenges and 3D technology.
Hyperion intends to showcase the Warp3D technology by producing several
PDA oriented games.
"A lot of the PDA content we are seeing now is a throw-back to the
earlier days of entertainment software and whilst this is not necessarily
a bad thing, we do believe that users would like to enjoy sophisticated
3D content on these devices as well. Our contract-work for LithTech Inc.
also means we were able to incorporate extensive research and expertise
in the field of software rendering which resulted in one of the fastest
software renderers in the industry - the only viable solution on a non
3D-accelerated PDA. Add to that a highly optimised subset of OpenGL which
is nonetheless capable of running industry-standard 3D engines like Quake
IITM and LithTechTM and you have a piece of very compelling technology
indeed."
Warp3D was already successfully field-tested on the SH3 powered version
of Sharp's Zaurus PDA and is due for imminent release.
The technology will remain in continuous development and will be
licensed to interested parties.
For the complete press release see title link.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c interactive entertainment announces THE FEEBLE FILES for Amiga
Our Mac cartoon adventure The Feeble Files will be ported to the
Pegasos/MorphOS as well as the Amiga. The Amiga version comes in fully
localised versions for english and german. Required is an Amiga with a 4
MByte gfx board (f.e. B/CVision), a 68060 or PPC and at least 32 MByte RAM.
Work on both the Amiga- and the MorphOS is under way and we hope to ship the
game before Xmas 2001.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Frank Duessel (ANF)
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Event: Exchange for classic video and computer games of the 70th and 80th
The first exchange for classic video and computer games for the following systems is being organized in Germany:
- Konsolen: Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex,
Interton, Saba, Philips, Pong und vieles mehr.
- Computer: C64, Atari, Amiga, SVC etc.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Matthias Bethke (E-Mail)
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HSC (HTML-Pre-Prozessor) V0.921
HSC V0.921 was finished and can be downloaded along with the prefs update for
HTML 4.01 at the title link. For the present there are the source codes and documentation
only, again. But Amiga binaries for release are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Petra Struck
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Update for our show report
Since I did not talked to Titan Computer on the show, I called Michael Garlich, today, to
be able to add the news from Titan Computer. The details described below have been added to
the show report (title link):
Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer
was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format.
The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by
bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do.
Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.
More applications under development:
The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to
the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS.
The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented.
Said to be finished until April 2002.
Games under development:
Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new
games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game
is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game
for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.
Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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MCP Version 1.35 released
Version 1.35 of MCP (MasterControlProgram) is released. Some bugs removed, the package updated.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Installation manual for SUSE Linux 7.3 PPC for Amiga systems
Michael Heider published a German installation manual under the title link.
This manual does not deal with the new "Journaling Filesystems", so far.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)
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Mirror of the 3Sat report about the Amiga World 2001 (MPG-Video)
Stefan Robl captured the report about the Amiga World 2001 in Cologne and created
a MPEG video. Since he asked for a mirror I added the video to my short show report.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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Amiga 2001: Report and pictures by 'No Risc No Fun'
'No Risc No Fun' published a German show report and pictures of the show.
Additonally new Workbench screenshots and small ads have been published.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
3sat (ANF)
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3sat.online: AMIGA 2001 - broadcast of 19. November .2001
A written German version of the show report broadcast by "Neues... die Computershow" at 3SAT (German television station)
can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
William Bidgood (AmigaOpen-ML)
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AmigaDE: Coding GUI programs in VP - OpenWindow
William Bidgood has published the 'Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow', the first Tutorial of his 'Coding GUI programs in VP' series.
The text describes the opening of a window in VP-Assembler under Tao's Intent-Media-Environment.
At the Overview
of his GUI-Tutorials the sourcetexts of the forthcoming parts are available.
(sd)
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20.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AmigaPage: MP3 capture of the show report
There is a MP3 capture of the show report about the Amiga 2001 by "Neues... die Computershow"
ready for download.
Download: neues5.zip (3,4 MB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Nov.2001
Petra Struck
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AMIGA 2001: Gleanings by amiga-news.de (Update III)
The show AMIGA 2001,
which took place on 17th and 18th November 2001, was organized by
Falke Media
and was held at the Mediapark 6 in Cologne, Germany, on about 718 sq.yd.
exhibition space. By our count there were about 1,000 visitors on the show,
consuetudinary most of them came on Saturday.
bplan GmbH - Pegasos-System
Very much interesting was the first official presentation of the run capable Pegasos
machine by the bplan GmbH, utilizing
the operating system MorphOS.
Gerald Carda presented a test program to us which displayed plasma effects.
Unaccelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS).
The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS.
Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda told us about a number of between 100 and 200 developer
systems to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a
registration page at
bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations
than boards available, it will be selected by progam priority. The developers should send bug reports,
if there will occur problems.
Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later. Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro and
are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
- 8 MB AGP graphic board
- 128 MB RAM
- DVD Drive
- 20 GB HD
- Mouse and Keyboard
The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started
directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively
adapt their programs to this system.
Haage&Partner - Amiga OS XL
Amiga OS XL,
the new super-fast Amiga emulators for x86 machines were presented on three
different computers at Haage&Partner.
The speed is impressing and faszinating at the same time.
Amiga OS XL consists of two emulator systems: AMIthlon and Amiga XL for QNX in a
bundle. The emulators are similar to each other in many parts, but there are basic
differences, too. With this prevalent Amiga 68k applications run 10 - 20 times faster on
current PC hardware than on a convetional 68060 systems. This tremendous speed is
achieved by a modified and accelerated emulator. With it one gets versions of PageStream,
ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema4D, Real3D, and any other program fast like turbo.
Haage&Partner's highlight is a x86 machine built into a luxury computer case of noble
design and with Amiga OS XL installed. The body of the computer was made of aluminium,
the front side is of azure plastic.
While talking to H&P they appeared to be surprised by the allmost all-time positive
visitors' response and amazed at the still great demand for information, though there have
been many press releases before. Sales could have been better, but satisfied.
Hyperion - AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC
Without doubt the most interesting thing on the second day of the show was our talk to
Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden of
Hyperion Entertainment about
AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It was determined and safe by contract that Hyperion will develop
AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired term of completion of an initial distributing version is
February 2002. This distributing version still will have parts of 68k code, which will be
handed in later by BoingBag updates when finished.
Hyperion will work together with bplan to make the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC running
on the Pegasos machine. Hyperion additionally talked to many other hardware
and software developers to make their products compatible, too. This gave a very positive sign,
because after a long period of time a joint line and goal is being followed, again.
Titan Computer - Update 20. November.2001
Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer
was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format.
The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by
bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do.
Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.
More applications under development:
The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to
the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS.
The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented.
Said to be finished until April 2002.
Games under development:
Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new
games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game
is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game
for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.
Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible.
DCE - G-REX
Thomas Dellert and Michael Göken of DCE
presented the PCI busboard G-Rex working in an A4000 with Cyberstrom 604/68060 and AmigaOS 3.9
as well as WarpUP.
An USB card for mouse and keyboard, a Voodoo graphic board (3/3000), a WIN-TV card with
radio tuner, and a sound card (Terratec 512i) were working on the PCI board. There are many good
reasons for this solution: Graphic speed, wheel mouse and multimedia keyboard, support of the USB
card, 100 MBit network card can be connected; all in all it became possible to use cheap generic PC hardware
by the PCI busboard G-Rex. The board is being offerd for A4000D/T and A1200.
Elbox - Mediator
Elbox presented their Mediator system.
The following models were shown:
- Mediator PCI ZIV
- Mediator PCI 1200
- Mediator PCI 4000
- Shark PPC G3/G4
Again the reasons mentioned regarding DCE match here. With help of a PCI busboard it is possible
to use cheap PCI hardware for various purposes.
Other Hardware-Products
Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers
showed us a pre-run model of the interface card VarioIO, which will be available before
Christmas, already.
Basing on a Logitech 2 button mouse Schönfeld developed a real Amiga / Atari mouse.
Also this production will start next days.
Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development
showed us the prototype of the Melody successor. This card will have the functions of
the Melody card plus the following specialities:
- MP3 audio not only can be decoded in real-time, but also encoded.
- Analog mixer function.
- Digital in/out (optical / coaxial)
Michael Böhmer showed his
USB controller Subway with which you can connect prevalent USB devices to the clock port of the
A1200. Up to four devices can be use without an additional USB hub. VMC started to develop drivers, already.
Currently drivers for mouse and keyboard are available. Drivers for printers, digital cameras, and scanners
are scheduled.
Other Software-Products
Amiga Forever 5.0
Michael Battilana of Cloanto
presented the new
Amiga Forever 5.0.
Amiga Forever is about an official licensed Amiga emulator package for Windows and
other platforms. Just put the CD into the drive, click on the icon and it runs. Eight different
emulation programs, all of the required Kickstart ROMs, Workbenchs, licenses, as well
as an all-around package with useful Amiga sofware are included.
Due to the implemented JIT compiler (just-in-time) version 5.0 is about
30 time faster than
Amiga Forever 4. The emulator comes on a CD containing the famous video
"The Deathbed Vigil" (1 h, 59 min.) and the video
"Jay Miner Speech" (49 min.).
But Amiga Forever 5.0 is available for download as online version, too.
epic interactive - THE FEEBLE FILES
epic announce THE FEEBLE FILES
for the Amiga. This game is about a cartoon adventure. Beside of the MorphOS port
there also will be an AmigaOS verison. The Amiga version will be available as
entirely localized versions in Engish and German (voice output). An Amiga with 4 MB graphic
board, 68060 or PPC, and at least 32 MB RAM is required.
Development of the Amiga version already started and epic hopes to be able
to deliver the finished product already before Christmas 2001.
Descent:Freespace
Hyperion
showed the new game Descent-Freespace. This game is about a
space shooter. The Amiga port of Freespace was finished at 99% and
will be available as 68k (with 3D hardware only) and PPC version from
H&P, soon. Those who ordered the game on the show got a free
demo CD for testing at home, already.
Project Crashsite
Markus Pohlmann (program) and Denis Comtesse (music)
are busy developing the science fiction role game
Project Crashsite.
The place of action in this game is a colonialized second system consiting
of two moons. The player takes the part of the "Future Security Corps" which
is the system's police.
The game's goal is to stabilize the unstable situation of this system. This is not easy to achieve,
due to a big conspiracy defering the relation of potency. The player is sent into the game almost
without any background information about the conspiracy to make him choose "pal and enemy"
himself, because depending on his choice the game becomes easier or more difficult.
Currently four people are working on this game, thus it is not possible to
announce some date of comlpetion at the time being.
PuzzleBOBS
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development
the Amiga Arena
and Fun Time World present the game in
partnership. PuzzleBOBS is about a "Bust´n Move"
clone. From now on a demo version is available on
http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html
or from the support page at the Amiga Arena.
Technical backgrounds:
- PuzzleBOBS is completely configurable.
- Screenmode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX compatible graphic boards).
- Bitplanes: up to 16- and 24Bit screens.
- Playable in three languages (German, Italian, English)
- Playable from HD, full or partly installation (min. 14 MB)
- Written in 100% assembler
- Import of own levels and sounds.
Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style,
and masses of other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.
The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics.
There are bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The
game runs in full multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.
When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode,
which is a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode
even every audio channel and colour palette get's released.
Miscellaneous
GGS Data - Amiga Show
Gunne Steen of the Swedish vendor GGS Data
informed us about an Amiga show in Göteborg, Sweden, planned to take place on
2. March 2002 (maybe also on 3. March 2002). The respective
website will be online in about seven days. Comanies and
user groups are heartily invited to attend the show as exhibitors.
Psyria - Music
Dennis Lohr gave us a CD on the show on which he eternalized his trance song for amiga-news.de. This song
also is available for download:
Amiga News Theme
(ca. 7 MB). Again thank you very much to Dennis for taking the trouble to create this song. This realy is a privilege to us!
Annex - Music
Daniel Schulz of Annex
assured us that the music group, known by several Amiga songs, still is alive.
Meantime many new pices of music were recored, extracts can be downloaded
as MP3.
Still the vocals are missing, because the band still is searching for a female singer.
She should have been singing in a band before, come from the dance/trance field, and
live in the Rhein-Main area (Germany). Interessted singers might contact
Daniel Schulz (include a demo if possible).
Two maxi-singles with three songs on each and maybe a long-player with all songs are
planned.
Virtual Dimension
The crew of Virtual Dimension
did many interviews and took many pictures for their show video. The video
is estimated to be published before Christmas.
Furthermore Virtual Dimension introduced the round and text basing space game
StarEmpire II
by Christian Becker . Up to 32 players are possible.
Airbrush Paradise Tingler
Rolf Tingler prettified diverse things with
different motives. Of course mainly motives with BoingBalls were desired. Starting from cell phones
thru Swiss pocket knives everything got "boinged" with airbrush technic.
Upshot:
Interesting hard- and software solutions were presented. There was good mood on the show
and intensive discussing everywhere. However, it is to be said that in spite of all those
innovations and in spite of the positive signs some certain questions were left without an
answer, cause neither Amiga Inc. nor Eytech or Escena attended the show. Thats where descriptions
regarding the plans of Amiga Inc. for the AmigaOne are required.
Finally one discerning word regarding the organization. The corridors along the
"focal points" on the upper floor were way to narrow. Occasionally there were such
big crowd that it was hard to get to the booths.
Christoph Dietz, Petra Struck as well as Meike Hilke (photos) were on the show for
amiga-news.de.
Update II: 20. November .2001
Link list for pictures and reports regarding the AMIGA 2001 show:
25.11.2001: Sebastien Jeudy Pictures
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (German subtitles)
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (English subtitles)
20.11.2001: Stefan Robl 3SatAmiga2001.mpg (German TV broadcast, 50 MB)
20.11.2001: Amiga Page neues5.zip (Voice record of the above broadcast, mp3 - 3,4 MB)
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Pictures
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Report (German)
20.11.2001: 3SAT Text report (German) about the German TV broadcast "Neues... die Computershow" (3Sat)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Show review
19.11.2001: Fun Time World: Pictures
19.11.2001: Costel Mincea Pictures and report (German and English)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 2. day
18.11.2001: amiga-topcool.de Report (German)
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 1
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 2
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pre-report - 2. Tag
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Markus Nerding
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Michael Garlich
18.11.2001: Elastic Image - Falcon Pictures
18.11.2001: Stefan Popp Report
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 1. Tages
18.11.2001: Marcus Neervoorts Amiga Page Pictures and report (German)
17.11.2001: amiga-info.net Pictures
17.11.2001: amiga-news.de First pre-report
Update III: 25. November .2001
Pictures from Sebastien Jeudy.(sd) (ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)
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Pictures of the Amiga 2001 by Costel Mincea
There are some photos of the exhibition made by Costel Mincea with some words about the depictured things.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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19.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: pictures of the second day
The second part contains mainly pictures of hardware-devices. A selection of the photos made by Christoph Dietz and Michael Böhmer:
Amithlon on an expensive PC
02_Amithlon.jpg
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Elbox
03_Elbox1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
04_Elbox2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
05_Elbox3.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox
06_Elbox4.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Elbox - Mediator
06a_Elbox5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
G-Rex
07_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480) |
G-Rex
08_GRex2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
G-Rex
08a_GRex.jpg
(640 x 480) |
H&P
09_H&P.jpg
(640 x 480) |
amiga-news.de interview with Hyperion
10_Hyperion_Int1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
....
11_Hyperion_Int2.jpg
(480 x 640) |
...
12_Hyperion_Int3.jpg
(480 x 640) |
...
13_Hyperion_Int4.jpg
(480 x 640) |
... still the same interview
14_Hyperion_Int5.jpg
(640 x 480) |
...
15_Hyperion_Int6.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos
17_Pegasos1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Pegasos tower (Vesalia)
18_Pegasos2.jpg
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Pegasos
20_Pegasos4.jpg
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Pegasos
21_Pegasos5.jpg
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USB-Subway (Prototype,
pre series, series build)
22_USB-SUBWAY~1.JPG
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... final product
23_USB-SUBWAY~2.JPG
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VarIO
24_VarIO.jpg
(640 x 480) |
Petra congratulating Rüdiger,
who got elected president
of the AC-DE
25_AC-DE_Vorstand.jpg
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ANN
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Event: Report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show'
A short report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' can be found under
the title link.
Randall Hughes, Amiga Inc., introduced the Sharp Zaurus PDA running with
the AmigaDE and some games on the show.
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18.Nov.2001
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)
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Route planner: Update for AmiATLAS 6
The first update for the route planner 'AmiATLAS 6' was released and is
available for registered users from now.
For example the assign and path bugs were fixed and 'AmigaAUTO'
was re-integrated and is run capable again.
The first extensive update with e.g. multi-lingual version of AmiATLAS will be
released around the middle of December.
The updates are available for free thru 30. June 2002.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures by AUG99
Matthias Münch wrote:
We've visited the Amiga Show 2001 in Cologne and put some
pictures
from it online.
Absolute highlights to us were the game Freespace and the presentation
of the Pegasos system at the bplan booth.
Unfortunately we found the show to be a little desaster regarding organization
and space utilisation.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Datatypes: akPNG V44.130
Andreas Kleinert released version 44.130 of his PNG datatype
'akPNG' for 68k- and PPC CPUs.
'akPNG' now utilzes version 1.2.0 of the 'libpng'.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Screenshots of 'Akiko'
New screenshots of the Akiko emulator were just released
on the Airsoft Softwair web site.
Akiko emulates CD32 and CDTV systems under the Windows operating
system. Akiko is a Shareware emulator and can be ordered
now. A public demo version will be made available in near
future. If you order Akiko now, you'll get the latest
beta version which already runs most of the CD32/CDTV games.
The released screenshots show the now much more flexible
GUI and the CD audio player of the CD32 and CDTV.
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18.Nov.2001
Petra Struck (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pre-report 2. day by amiga-news.de
The most interesting of the second day of the show without doubt was our talk to
Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about
AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It is fixed by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0
for PPC. Aspired date for completion is February 2002.
Hyperion will cooperate with bplan, to let the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC run on the Pegasos
machine, too. Additionally Hyperion talked to many other hardware and software
developers to keep their product compatible, too. This set a very positive
sign, cause after a long time a corporate line and goal is being followed, again.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
ANN
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Programming language PowerD V0.19
Today, Martin Kuchinka released alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'.
This early alpha version now supports creation of shared libraries.
Download: alpha.lzx (159K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
ANN
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AMIGA 2001: IRC conferences with Nerding and Garlich (Update)
English logfiles of the IRC conferences with Markus Nerding from Haage&Partner and Michael Garlich from Titan are available now. The log from Nerdings chat has been published on ANN, he answers questions about AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS V4.0, and H&P's work within those projects.
The log of Michael Garlich's chat has been provided to us by Jürgen 'Antibike' Lucas, Garlich answers questions about MorphOS, Pegasos, and the projects of Titan:
Amiga2001: Hello Michael
Titan: Hello Guys
Nico4k: Micheal, Could please describe your plans about MorphOS/Bplan ?
Nico4k: Plan = project if you prefer
Titan: Yes of course we have presented 4 new products for Morphos / Bplan e.g. Papyrus Office and
Nico4k: For example will Papyrus be ported on MorphOs ?
Nico4k: ok
Titan: and the new videosoft Motionstudio which support DV Video
Titan: and we have also presented Rage Hard a new multiplayer tactic shooter
Nico4k: Well, you said on MorphOS ML what there will something to connect an Amiga floppy drive on Bplan made by third part, Could you give more detail ?
Nico4k: Titan sound like great news
Titan: Yes, this connecter will be able to read write "old" Amiga DD and HD Floppydisc
Nico4k: to connect an "Amgia" drive or to use old disk with the Bplan one
Nico4k: Where it will connected on the motherboard ?
Titan: to connect an "old" Amiga drive may be later also PC-Floppy with modifications too
zacman: hi michael. do you plan to release your software together with the pegasos start or already before? and are there plans for bundeling your software with pegasos?
Titan: Nico4k there is a floppy connector for PC Floppys on the Bplan mainboard
Titan: zacman: Together with the sales start on Feb/March 2002
Burman: Titan Do you know anything about support for Newtek VideoToaster/Flyer HW. (PCI-card)...?
Titan: Burman: we have asked Newtek but nothing is clear atm it will take some further negotations ga
djnick: Hi Titan will there be newer / improved versions of Fantastic Dreams?
Titan: djnick: Yes this will be released later in 2002 ga
ID4: Titan Are you planign a game like QIII Arena?
Titan: ID4: We will release a pre-video of Rage Hard take a look and you will enjoy it :) ga
Bifford: hi there ;-) what sort of speeds can we expect from pegasos? in normal operation and in real-time with cpu hungry things like 3d graphics
Titan: Bifford: This really depends on the used CPU we think for DV Videoediting a 500 G4 is the minimum. ga
Nico4k: As you devellop for MorphOS/bPlan, I suppose you already use it on Bplan, So how does it work ? (sorry for all this MOS related question but I want to konw)
Titan: Nico4k It runs really good we are sadisfied with the support of the MOrphos Team. ga
AlphaFoX: hi Titan, two questions: 1. do you know if there will be an 'AGA-on-a-Card' for the Pegasos? 2. Will
Titan: port its software also to AmigaOS 4.x if available? GA
Titan: AlphaFoX: AGA card is atm not longer in development but if there is more demand we can think about such a solution
Titan: Regarding AmigaOS 4 we have nothing heard from Amiga no specs no hardware nothing simply. We cant say we will support it if we have no information at all. Ga
Bifford: do u have any other projects on the go atm (hard or software) or is it strictly MOS/pegasos ?
Titan: Bifford: we concentrate on what is available now this is Morphos and Pegasos ga
zacman: what graphics card do you recommend for games like Rage Hard? Do you know if it is correct that bplan has contacts to nvidia?
Titan: zacman: I cant commend this atm :) ga
Zarf: is RS on the show? ga :)
Titan: Zarf: No but Frank Mariak was here ga
TheFab: Titan hi, do you plan to develop new softare or buy license (like old software like lightwave...)
Titan: TheFab: new and licencing too. E.g. AlienNations and Majesty
ID4: Titan Will you software run on Elbox SharkPPC?
Titan: ID4: We are open to support everyone who wants Morphos. If Elbox support theMorphos team with hardware then there will be also a SharkPPC version ga
Zefram_: what is the maximum cpu speed we can expect on Pegasos, 1Ghz ?
Titan: Zefram_: its upto 2GHz atm but higher clockrate are also possible ga
zacman: isn't AlienNations and Majesty licensed by hyperion?
Titan: zacman: No Hyperion has not licenced AlienN or Majesty.
Titan: owns this licence ga
Zefram_: What will are the graphics cards drivers available for Pegasos, Matrox ?
Titan: Zefram_: In a few weeks there will be update on Morphos.de with all supported Gfx-boards. ga
Nico4k: Do you think Bplan will be able to release Pegasos in February/March 2001? Not a vapor this time ? (I have been so disppointed by previous project: AmigaNG, A1). Ps: A MOS/Bplan related question again ... But who do not believe that this time is the good one ...
Titan: Nico4k Bplan will make a pre-release before christmas 2001 and the main release is trageted for March 2002. ga
Titan: Zefram_: The morphos 3d api is NOT rave ga
Nico4k: Pre-release means Developper release ?
Titan: Nico4k Also for normal customers but there is only a limited stock of boards available. ga
AmiGR: Could you enlight us about which 3d api will be used?
Titan: AmiGR: Sorry atm not, please wait for the next official Morphos press release ga
JoeAFUA: Titan So will we be able to pre-order for the pre-release boards? If yes, when?
Titan: JoeAFUA: Take a look on the bplan website there will be an "order" form. ga
ID4: Titan nowdays.. What are your contacs with Amiga Inc?
Titan: ID4: we are in touch with Amiga but they follow different ways atm. We will see if we can cooparate in future or not. ga
Zefram_: Will it be possible to place a pre-order from local dealers ?
Titan: Zefram_: No, only direct from Bplan ga
darklite: will you only support morphos, or also os4? ga
Titan: darklite: We have no information about AmigaOS4 therefore i cant say yes or no . ga
ID4: Titan THANKS !!!! From me no more questions, I hope the best for your bussines ;)
Titan: ID4: Thanks. ga
Nico4k: Will Pegasos be shit with screen, keyboard, Hard drive, Or will it be possible to buy only the Motherboard ?
Amiga2001: ship instead of shit ;-)
Titan: Nico4k shit ??? ;)) Yes it will be shipped as complete system too this will be a g3 350, 128MB ram, gfx-board,hD and DVD-drive ga
Zefram_: Will there be a Pegasos motherboard with more than 3 PCI slots ?
Titan: Nico4k and motherboard only is also available .ga
Titan: Zefram_: Yes there is a adaptor for 4 slots available.
Nico4k: Are all drivers ready (I mean for internal ethernet, audio, USB ???)
Titan: Nico4k a lot of drivers are already finished but some are still in development. ga
Amiga2001: more questions?
Nico4k: Will we show amazing think on Bplan at the show like Divx movie ?
Titan: Nico4k We have shown DV editing on the show. DIVX is also possible but was not presented. ga
Amiga2001: Ok Guys, Michael has to go
Amiga2001: thx Michael
Update: (17.06.2016, cg)
Integrated the logfile provided by Jürgen Lucas into the news item. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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Wolf Faust (ANF)
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Update: V2.03 of the scanner colour correction software ICS
The free scanner colour correction software 'ICS' is available
in version 2.03 on
http://www.ics.coloraid.de.
This latest version will run until August 2002 and comes with some
enhancements for the supported file formats. Some TIFF pictures are
substantially faster loaded, now, and Mac binary files are recognized
automatically. Some small bugs have been fixed.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Falcon (ANF)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures from the Cologne show
Falcon published photos
from his today's show visitation on his homepage.
But, the comments (German) are sometimes meant in good fun.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Marcel Rohles (ANF)
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Game: New adventure game under development, nostalgica all around Space Rat
Marcel Rohles wrote:
Who did not fell for the adventures of old tradition in the style of
Lucas Arts or Sierra?
Probably nobody can exculpate himself from this. Everyone of us once was
bound to this fever to free Guybrush from an embarrassing situation, just to
see him stumbling right into the next one.
But, what has happened to this? What about the adventure genre? Does it
have to be 3D all the time?
If you are able to unhesitant and in peace of conscience say no to the latter question,
I recommend the page about 'Space-Rat Tukult'
warmly to you.
Yes, it's true - Space Rat will come back. A mind-blowing combination of
classic adventure game and Ziggy, the Space Rat, which enriched the ASM until lastly.
By some kind words certainly the team would be willing to develop for the Amiga, too.
The news of November 17 already question that, for example.
Last but not least I would like to cite the Tukult team, for I even wasn't able to say
it better: 'So, if you also belong to those people grown up with rubber chicken with snap-hooks
underside and jerrycans on Mars, it is to say that you've discoverd the Holy Grail by comming to
this page.'
There's only one thing left for me to say in this sense: 'Ziggy to the (A)miggy!'
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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BTTR: Golf - Leaderboard und World Class Leaderboard
The Back to the Roots team wrote:
In a surprising move Microsoft allowed us to include the
golf simulations from Access Software, a company which
they acquired two years ago. Enjoy 'Leaderboard' and 'World
Class Leaderboard'. 'Links' will come online soon, too.
Please visit BTTR for a full list of all games which have
been added or you'll miss masterpieces like Realms,
Thexder, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Super Skidmarks CD32 and
many others.
As usual many scene-demos, music files and pictures have
been added to our archive.
(sd)
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18.Nov.2001
Stefan Popp (E-Mail)
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AMIGA 2001: Report by Stefan Popp
Stefan Popp wrote:
Here my small report about the 2001 Amiga show (absolute subjective and incomplete).
There were more booths than the last time (about 12). Unfortunately they took that good
advantage of the exhibition space, that the walks between the booths were quite narrow, which
lead to bothering tailbacks.
Bplan
Like known Bplan is creating a PPC machine. This was presented run capable.
I've seen MorphOS. Reportedly Linux was no problem, too.
A complete machine (20GB HD, 128MB RAM, ...) was said to cost about 1,000 Euro.
But the boards would be available solitary, too (from distributors, but not from BPlan
directly).
The problem about this whole thing: The system still is at beta test stage, and if
someone would order a certain amount of boards today, delivery would not be
expected before end of 1Q02. Major reason for this: It is hard to get low quantities of
the components.
To the question, how much of the specifications have been revealed, I was told, that the
computer meets the Motorola Open-Bios conception and to adapt it to
other operating systems would be no problem.
BPlan's documents consciously don't mention the Amiga, to not tie the machine
down to some special field of application.
Elbox
Showed their busboards. Again, the TV card and the TV picture was
presented as Workbench background.
Unfortunately the SharkPPC was shown inside a show-case.
Of course I asked, why this card wasn't performed. The employee illustrated,
that though development would have been finished, but it would be to wait
for AmigaOS4.0. Ermh, if I consider this, my questions actually wasn't answered by this
statement. Allegedly the card would run with WarpOS drivers, too (so please, why to
wait for 4.0). Well, doesn't make any difference, isn't that important, anyway. :).
Haage & Partner
Actually just showed Amithlon and AmigaXL on three computers.
Meal booth
Meat balls, noodle salad, coffee, and Snikers at cheap prices.
The lectures (at least those I attended)
1) Amithlon - Jürgen Haage
In advance: The room was to narrow and of bad equipment. Reportedly this also was due
to the fact, that some parts did not survive the transport to Cologne. But, after some
bricolage everything worked.
Mr. Haage explained the step to develop the Amiga emulator with the good availability of
and the cheap prices for PC hardware.
The price for the complete package is at 299DM (incl. Kick 3.1, OS 3.9, QNX,
Arteffects, AmiWriter, and StormC3.0 ).
According to Mr. Haage the development of the emulation bases on UAE. Amithlon
utilizes a Linux kernel in addition, which was said to simplify the implementation of
additional hardware. AmigaXL uses QNX as 'hosting' operating system.
2) Hyperion about the subject Amiga 4.0
Amiga Ltd. did not attend the show. And to say it honestly, nobody missed
them. Some kind of announcement sure would have coused people to shake their heads, again.
The lecture was done by the CEO of Hyperion (I just forgot the name). The facts in short:
Hyperion and H&P obtaind a license for a PPC port.
With the help of many developers (with H&P and Hyperion as the core team)
the OS will be ported step by step. At first the TCP/IP stack, Exec and possibly DOS.
Furthermore there is a new library concept.
- In the beginning memory protection will be limited to prevent access to not allocated memory.
- New Warp3D will be implemented (with Matrox-, Permedia3-, and Radon1/2 support).
- WarpInput for input device management.
- Generic PCI drivers to better integrate the different PCI boards
(hardware drivers will have to be developed only once, at last).
- USB support.
- New TCP/IP stack ('Roadshow').
- Picasso96 as standard in a PPC native version.
- It's said to run on any PPC Amiga, while Blizzard cards might suffer from low performance.
- 68k emulation (JIT version) will be integrated.
- AmigaDE will be on it.
- Java was sait to come, too (but not already in the initial version).
- Price: In the range of AmigaOS V3.5 or V3.9.
- Amiga ZorroII and ZorroIII would be supported (at least the most prevalent cards).
- PPC datatypes.
- AHI for Sound.
A version would be available from January, already.
I could not keep more in mind. Maby someone would publish the Scala presentation.
The CEO of Hyperion wasn't very optimistic in regard of AmigaOne, Shark, BPlan.
One reason to decide to port 4.0 to existing hardware and to not let down the owners of PPC cards.
The OS theoretically runs on any PPC hardware.
But nothing was performed. Explanation: Due to the still bad look one would get a bad
impression, which just would cause people to review things from a wrong point of view.
At the booth of Haage&Partner I was told, that a PPC native version of the AmigaOS
would have been possible already two years ago, but Gateway would have disliked that.
I think this is nothing new, but to celebrate the day I once more was happy about it . (sd) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: Chat-Room
«The Virus Help Teams around the World has opened a chat room,
where you can chat with members of any Virus Help Team (if we
are in the room), and other members that might have some virus
problems. To coincide with being a browser-friendly environment,
we have not left any chatters hanging, without a way to join up with
us to chit-chat, the easy way.
No JavaScript or IRC program is required. All you need to do is
register your handle, with a password, and come on in. :-)
The Handle registration link, is found on the login page.
Please bear in mind, this is a family type chat room, and all normal
courtesies and language is expected. Thank you
The chat time is set at Eastern Standard Time (EST), so if you would
like to check the EST zone against your own, you can check the time
zone at the log-in page.
You can join our chat-room at this address:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/vht-chat.htm.
(Thanks to Charlene VHT-Canada, for setting this chat-room up)»
(sd)
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18.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)
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Live Amiga 2001 webcam at amigaforever.info
Pictures from Cloanto's live webcam at the Amiga 2001 show are online at amigaforever.info.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: The first day's pictures
Here you will find a selection of pictures from the first day of the AMIGA 2001 in Cologne, taken for amiga-news.de by Meike Hilke:
Maciek Binek (Elbox) |
Elbox Computer |
Projekt Crashsite - Denis Comtesse / Markus Pohlmann |
Vesalia Computer |
DCE |
Guido Does (Vesalia) |
Titan Computer / DCE |
bPlan / Titan Computer |
Gerald Carda (Development bPlan) |
Fabio Trotta (No Risc No Fun) |
Titan Computer |
Dennis Lohr (Psyria Music) |
DCE (Michael Göken present G-REX ) |
Virtual Dimension (Messe-Video) |
Amiga Club Deutschland |
COOLbits / APC&TCP |
Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) / Thomas Dellert (DCE) |
Thomas Dellert (DCE) / ? / Toni Ianiri (Power Computing) / Petra Struck |
Benno Markert / Martin Strobl (COOLbits) |
APC&TCP Team |
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Richard Small (GTI) |
"Orgasmatron" (GTI) |
Markus Nerding (H&P) |
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Bill Buck / Raquel Velasco / Petro Tyschtschenko |
Jürgen Haage (H&P) |
Sebastian Brylka (Fun Time World) / Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena) |
PEGASOS |
Michael Battilana (Cloanto) presents Amiga Forever 5.0 |
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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OOP4A: Update of the ODK released
Beside of little useful tools, e.g. to display formatted source code, there are
new classes and features for the pre-processor, again.
OOP4A is a system to bring the world of objects to not object oriented programming
languages. OOP4A is able to unite different programming languaes and offers
certain run-time protection machineries.
A continuously extended online documentation is all time available on the homepage.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Nov.2001
Markus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AMIGA 2001: Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (AmigaPage)
You will find pictures from the Amiga 2001 taken by Markus Neervoort, AmigaPage,
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Nov.2001
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AMIGA 2001: first report
To give you first impressions of the fair here's a beforehand report in which
we concentrate on current hardware products.
Highly interesting is the first official presentation of the Pegasos computer on
which the operating system MorphOS is running. Gerald Carda demonstrated us a
test program that displays plasma effects. Not accelerated (68060 speed) the
program displays 4 frames per second (FPS). The same program compiled for
MorphOS shows 192 FPS.
In conversation with Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda we have got still more
interesting information which we'll present comprehensive in our final
report. This beforehand:
Developer systems will be available in the beginning of January 2002, computers
for end users will follow appr. 8 -12 weeks later.
The highlight of Haage&Partner is a x86 computer built into a luxury tower
with stylish design and installed Amithlon. The corpus of the computer is of
aluminium, the front side is made of azure blue plastic.
Of course, the developers of the PCI busboards didn't miss the show, either.
Elbox presented their Mediator system and DCE the G-REX board.
Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development presented us the prototype of the Melody
successor. In addition to the functions of the Melody has this card the
following particularities:
- MP3 audios can not only be decoded in real time but alos encoded.
- Analogue mixer function
- Digital input/output (optical/coaxial)
Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers presented us a preseries model of the
interface card VarioIO that will be available before Christmas. The Delfina
could unfortunately not be shown.
Based on a Logitech 2 buttons mouse Schönfeld has developed a real Amiga resp.
Atari mouse. Here will the production begin in the next days, too.
Michael Böhmer presented his USB controller Subway with which you can connect
common USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four external devices
can be used without any additional hub. VMC has already started with the driver development. For now there are drivers for mouse and keyboard available. Planned
are drivers for printers, digital cameras and scanners. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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MagicMenu 2.33 released
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Version 2.33 of MagicMenu fixes (hopefully) the problems with the PPC support
that was introduced in v2.32.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Nowee (E-Mail)
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Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes Website Updated
The makers of the 'OverShaker' website dedicate their efforts to prettify the Amiga-Workbench.
There are themes for GUI tools like VisualPrefs and icon samples available for download. At the
'Work' area there are tips on how to deal with colours (palette) on the Workbench.
Somewhat few content on this site? Send your self-made themes and icons to
Nowee, the webmaster, to get the site filled with
content!
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)
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Amiga-Info.net: pictures directly from the fair
On Saturday between 10.00 and 12.00 o'clock there'll be the first pictures from the
Amiga 2001 at Amiga-Info.net. As we are at the fair the next update of our site
will be at around 18.00 o'clock.
P.S.: Hopefully the equipment won't fail.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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V3.61 of ISAcatweasel.device
Just before the finishing of the fair preparations we have managed to
release a new version of the ISAcatweasel.device.
The driver is downloadable from the support area (title link).
Note by Jens Schönfeld:
The driver is "blindly" programmed, I therefore ask the users with a working
Amithlon system to try the device. For the time being it is only possible to
read from disks, the writing is locked yet (floppy disks appear as being write
protected).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: interview with ACBB
Amiga-topcool has interviewed the PR director of the Amiga-Club-Berlin-Brandburg
(see title link). He's talking about the club life and his expectation of the
Amiga fair. Read also his sum up regarding the AmigaOS XL (he'd been one of the
first being able to test it). Additionally he's talking about the club's future
plans and what Thomas Nosutta is doing when he's not busy on his Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)
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SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC available
After a long waiting it is time again. SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC
is now available at SuSE GmbH and at the retailers.
8 CDs contain more than 2000 software packages. To mention only a small
selection of new software here are some examples:
KOffice, OpenOffice, Ogg/Vorbis (DivX), KDE 2.2.1, Gnome 1.4.1
But the distribution's highlight should be the availability of the filesystems
Ext3, JFS and ReiserFS (all journaling filesystems).
As in the past I'll create an installation guide for Amiga systems. In any case
I'll let you know when these are available on the net.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland
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Webcam and Shoutcast stream from the Amiga 2001
The Amiga-Club Germany offers some fair atmosphere to all interested people
staying at home:
Under 195.185.110.189:8000 is a Shoutcast audio stream available, under
http://www.a500.de/webcam/ a webcam recording at least the happenings on the
lower floor.
And there's an "official" Amiga2001 IRC channel (linux.us.amiganet.org #amiga
2001) where you can always reach us during the fair.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback: One New And Three Update Maps Available
One new map has been added to the
Extra Maps Page,
along with three updated ones. Don't forget that you can buy your own
copy of the game anywhere in the world using our
secure on-line shop.
Also, Amigalien has announced that he has added French and German
discussion lists (as well as a textures page) to
his Payback site.
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Cloanto
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Cloanto: Amiga Forever 5.0 / Cloanto at AMIGA 2001
Amiga Forever 5.0 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM
Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition.
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major
needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data
on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems.
Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to
be of interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included.
Features include:
- Just-in-time (JIT) version of emulation software, carefully
configured and publicly
benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous
versions of Amiga Forever
- Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by
Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all
emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
- New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version)
- All software tested on Windows XP
- All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be
available for the "Classic Amiga"!)
- CDTV and CD³² boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to
play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM)*
- MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49
minutes)*
- GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
- Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
- Amiga Explorer 4.0 (includes revolutionary self-install over serial
cable, plus new Cut, Copy, Paste functions)
- Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware)
- TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix)
- Personal Paint 7.1b
- Built-in support for ADZ and DMS disk image files
- Print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows,
bypassing parallel port emulation)
- New MenuBox launcher
- New emulation and Workbench configuration results in even faster
emulation of the Amiga CPU
- Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested by Cloanto
- Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons (drag-and-drop LhA,
ToolManager, etc.)
Cloanto at Amiga 2001 (Köln)
Seminars will be held at 12:45 on both Saturday, November 17 and Sunday,
November 18. You are most welcome to join the presentation of Amiga Forever
5.0, the demos, and the debates. (ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Dino Papararo (E-Mail)
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Fractal Graphic: FlashMandelWOS 1.5
Version 1.5 of FlashMandelWOS
has been uploaded on Aminet in gfx/fract
directory. With FlashMandel you can create fractal graphics.
This has changed in the new version:
- FlashMandel has a new Reaction-GUI. You need OS3.5 (or higher) for this feature. Now it's possible to use all features only by mouse.
- Added support for Localization for Italian and German languages, others are welcome ;-).
- A new installer-script makes it easy to install, update or delete FlashMandel.
- The ppc-routines are reworked, so the speed increases about 12%.
- Better print-routines for better output, now should be printed the whole A4 paper.
- Some minor internal changes and optimizations increasing compatibility with all future Amiga clones ;-).
- and much more...
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
David McMinn (ANF)
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Blitz2000 site updated
The Blitz-2000 site has finally had its design updated. It is an unofficial support site for all you Blitz Basic 2 coders :)
Feedback on the site would be welcome, especially how easy it is to read and understand the Programming section. Note: the mailing list archives and search engine are currently broken.
(ps)
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16.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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DigiBoosterPro update
An English version of the unofficial homepage for DigiBoosterPro, the
popular tracker, is now online. It was created with the help of
translation software.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Nov.2001
Batman (ANF)
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Game: "Dynamite" needs more active beta testers
Help: Development of DYNAMITE currently is about to stop due to a lack of participants.
Who wants to drop in for at least one houre twice a week at #amigazeux (example server: irc.amigazeux.de), run Enforcer, Muforce or Muforce&Muguardian, and would like to
discuss possible changes, as well, can announce his interest on the same IRC channel.
Or can contact the programmers via e-mail:
dynamite@amisource.de.
Thank you very much in advance.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus
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Event: Seminar-events at AMIGA 2001
At AMIGA 2001 the visitors may take part in several seminars and
conferences to be held on both days between 11 and 17 o'clock, for
example:
- Amiga Forever (Cloanto)
- Amiga OS 4.0 (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Amiga OS XL (Haage & Partner)
- DigiBoosterPro (DBP Community)
- Freespace (Hyperion Entertainment)
- Mediator PCI (ELBOX Computer)
- FunMedia (Atari, Patrick Eickhoff)
- MINT/N.AES (Atari, woller systeme)
Furthermore of course there will be additional presentations, e.g. of
Pegasos and G-REX. (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
AMIGAplus
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Event: More exhibitors at AMIGA 2001
Three new exhibitors will attend the AMIGA 2001: "16/32-Bit Systems"
from Great Britain will offer new and well-known Amiga-products.
"Newsell" will concentrate on the sale and presentation of the Mac-
Clones by Umax. Visitors may buy equipment for their printers,
especially refill-sets, from "Refill 24".
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Eternity Computer
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Eternity: The 51,111th visitor wins a bonus
Eternity: "Unfortunately we have forgotten to organize a prize project for
customer # 50,000 and would like to make this up now :-). The user with a screenshot
for the 51,111th hit will gain a bonus of 50DM for the next product purchased from
Eternity. Please, send your screenshot to our
webmaster."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Dreamolers
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Dreamolers: MP3TagEditor Version 2.0
After a very long time a new version of MP3TagEditor by Rybcia/D-CAPS was
released! MP3Tag is an ID3 tag editor for Mp3 files. It offers many
features like creating tags from filename or filename from tags. Program
uses MUI and id3tag.library.
For all those have been waiting for a GlowIcon style button set for
VisualPrefs we've got a nice surprise.
SHORT: Coll mp3 tag editor
AUTHOR: Rybcia/Dreamolers-CAPS
REQUIREMENTS: MUI, OS3.0, id3tag.library
Invented and developed by Rybcia/D-CAPS.
MP3TagEditor features: reads/saves ID3Tags version 1.0 to 2.4, has a nice
MUI based GUI, supports drag&drop and more...
Future: multiple selection, cooler GUI
Download: MP3TagEditor.lha (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.5 / xlHtml v0.3.9.5
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.5 and an update
of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.5, which converts Excel/Powerpoint files
to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs are also available as MorphOS
versions.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Event: Dreamworlds Development on the show, too
Some people of the Dreamworlds team will put their machines at the booth of ATC&TCP
and presentate the current status of Crossfire II to the interested. Who would like to even may
take his favourit joystick with him and test the game. And if someone has problems to
find us:
Just follow those never ending explosion sounds and you will stumble either upon us
or Descent: Freespace :-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 (Update)
ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 available in
the download section.
- fixed Play Object and Play Region (were routed to the wrong busses resulting in noise)
- correctly loads older format projects, useful for tutorials
- variable bitrate DSP plugins now fully supported
- added "mouse-over" help text for new console buttons
As both the "project format" and "variable bitrate" modifications remove the
chances of possible system crashes, it's strongly recommended to replace the
older demo with the new 5.01 version.
Update 16.11.2001:
Download: psadm501.lha
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Event: Elbox on AMIGA 2001 in Cologne
ELBOX COMPUTER invites all the interested in the latest hardware for
Amiga to visit our stand in the AMIGA 2001 fair in Cologne.
Our products are available for purchase in the stands of our distributors:
Vesalia Computer and KDH Datentechnik.
(ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MediatorUP 2.6 & Mediator MM CD UP 1.08
The MediatorUP 2.6 update for Mediator PCI users has been made available today.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- pci.library ver.4.4
- MediatorNET.device ver.2.3
- Voodoo.card ver.2.8
The MM CD 1.08 update for Mediator PCI users, who are registered owners
of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been made available by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- sb128.audio ver.4.3
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.9
Changes:
MediatorNET.device - double buffering (pingpong) added
SB128.audio - preselection of audio frequency added (ps)
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15.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Event: e.p.i.c interactive on the Amiga 2001 in Cologne
e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will attend this year's Amiga show at the Mediapark in Cologne.
Our booth will be marked by our realtime strategy hit EARTH 2140. The EARTH 2140 mission pack
will be introduced and for the first time available to the customers on the show in Cologne (if UPS
will not let us down). The mission pack extends the Mac and Amiga version with 80 new
single player missions and the multi-player mode (LAN) long awaited for the Amiga.
Another innovation is the latest version of the movie player MooVID PRO which was optimized in
many parts. Of course there will be all of our product line, like Simon The Sorcerer II and Foundation Gold, at amazing show prices. Furthermore we will presentate some of our products on an Apple Mac,
which also will be available for Pegasos/MorphOS, soon.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Jools Smyth (E-Mail)
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ExoticA - Logo competition
The ExoticA website about the musical skills and history of the Amiga
started a logo competition. They are wanting a logo to decorate
the start page of the homepage.
Furthermore the website and many rubrics have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Hendrik Höner (E-Mail)
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Event: UGN IRC conferences on the AMIGA 2001
On occasion of this show UGN will organize an IRC conference, again, on
Sunday from 12:00 MET.
Those agreed to participate so far:
12:00 Michael Garlich (Titan Computer)
13:00 Darek Dulian (Elbox)
14:00 Markus Nerding (Haage & Partner)
On the show we will try to get more participants. The conference will be held at
the booth of the Amiga Club Deutschland. In IRC on the AmigaNet (example servers:
thule.no.amiganet.org, linux.us.amiganet.org, whiterose.us.amiganet.org,
port 6667).
Other participants and the channel will be announced near term.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Amiga Forever now available from individual Computers
The Amiga emulation package Amiga Forever is now available as a bundle
with the Catweasel ISA controller. Amiga Forever turns your PC into an
Amiga. The package which is available since 1997, includes a license of
all Amiga-patents, trademarks and copyrights that are necessary for an
emulation. Therefore, an official Amiga Notebook "Powered by Amiga" is
available since 1997.
Amiga Forever makes all the hardware of the base system also available
on the Amiga side: Virtual memory, Fast- and GBit Ethernet, sound- and
graphics boards as well as DVD and USB.
Further information about Amiga Forever can be found on the publisher's
website http://www.cloanto.com/.
Individual Computers will continue to support both Amiga Forever and its
developers. There will be no support for the QNX version of Amiga OS XL
for the Catweasel ISA in the near future, whereas for Amithlon we will
provide a software that uses the ISA Catweasel just like a real Amiga
Catweasel.
Amiga Forever developers are even going a step further, they use the
Catweasel to emulate the internal Amiga diskdrive.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Sigbjørn Skjæret
Amiga Arena - Interview
After the mpega.library was not developed any more there is now clone of the library of Sigbjørn Skjæret. Amiga Arena spoke with Sigbjørn S. about how it came to it and about the future of his projects. Support the developer with your feedback!
After two years the guestbook of Amiga Arena was reactivated. Please sign in!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)
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Amiga-Info.net: Opinion poll / Car sharing
There is a small opinion poll to discover if Amiga-Info.net is useful for you. Amiga-Info.net would be delighted if you took part.
Car sharing to the Amiga 2001:
Here it is the last chance to find or offer a place on the car sharing action. We will see us on Amiga 2001!
(ps)
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14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Event: H&P on AMIGA 2001
On the AMIGA 2001 which will take place this weekend we will present and offer our newest developments and products. Amithlon/AmigaXL, Freespace, ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 4.1,
StormC 4, ArtEffect Plugins Collection and much more.
The new combination of Athlon-Hardware and AmigaOS XL are highly newsworthy. The top-system consists of a noble aluminium-tower and has the new Athlon XP 1800+ as its heart. We also offer a suitable 15 inch LCD-monitor. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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Great Freespace-presentation on the fair
There will be a great presentation of the final version of Descent:Freespace on the fair. You can watch the game on two computers around the clock. Additionally there will be a presentation of half an hour on Saturday and Sunday. At the same time the analog-joystick-interface will be together introduced with the game which supports it. The Amiga-port of Freespace has finished for 99.9% so the game will be available after the fair.
On the fair the demo-version of Freespace will be published. All those who order the game on the fair in advance will get a CD with the most current demos of Freespace, Heretic II and Shogo for free. Freespace as well as the new version of Heretic II which is on the CD will get graphic improvements for Warp3D v4.2.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Online-magazine: Currently Starmag with new url
Because Arcor has deleted the webspace without any premonition the online-magazine Starmag has not been accessable for some days. You can now access the magazine under http://www.Starmag.de.cx.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
AmiDog
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Emulation: Playstation emulator FPSE 0.09, Amiga Revision 2
Mathias Roslund has released a new version of the Playstation emulator FPSE. It is the second Amiga-version which is based on version 0.09. You need a Playstation Bios-rom to emulate. There are some screenshots to the Amiga-version.
It follows the original message:
A new release with some bugfixes and added features. Memory card support
is fixed, and compiler (dynarec) and PSX Port support has been added.
There is also a switch to use READ_CD for CD support. This was used by
some of the FPSE/Amiga 0.08 revisions and might work better than CMD_READ
with some CD-ROMs.
Download: FPSE009R2.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Mailbox: Stardate-bbs accessable again via Internet
After a month of hard problems with DSL in Muenster you can access again the Stardate-mailbox via Internet under (http://stardate.2y.net). The very popular Dynamite-server is also accessable under the same url.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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First routines of Project Crashsite on the Amiga 2001
Here are two news on the Project Crashsite status:
On the Amiga 2001 there will be the first routines of Project Crashsite to
look at. There will be the rudimentary playable combat and the space flight
will invite to fly along the planets of Future II. I hope for many visitors and would
be happy about numerous suggestions and comments.
The poll on www.projektcrash.de (title link) turned out that five of six
votees prefer a PPC version.
As a first answer to this I would like to announce the following:
- The interlude animations in the game will be MPEG animations.
- Mathias Roslund gave permission to use AMP for playing the animations
in Project Crashsite, which makes an effective animation player for PPC and
CGFX available for the game!
Greetings,
Markus Pohlmann
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBs
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni, Nexus Development, the Amiga Arena and
Fun Tim World present the game PuzzleBOBS, which is about a "Bust'n Move" clone
to be available on the "AMIGA 2001" show.
From now on the demo version is available on
http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html,
and on the support page of the Amiga Arena.
About PuzzleBOBS
The game was developed by the Italian software company Nexus Development which
was founded by Emanuele Cesaroni. Worldwide distribution will be done by
Fun Time World in cooperation with the Amiga Arena.
Previews of "PuzzleBOBS" can be found in the current issue of the "Amiga Future" #33 (German Amiga Game print magazine), and in "No Cover" issue #88 (German Amiga disk magazine).
Technical background and more:
PuzzleBOBS is completely configuralbe:
- Screen mode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX comaptible graphic boards).
- Bitplanes (up to 16 and 24bit screens).
- Playable in three languages (German, Itatlian, English).
- Playable from HD, full or partial installation (min. 14 MB).
- Written in 100% assembler.
- Level and sound import.
Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of
other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.
The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are
bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full
multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.
When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is
a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released - pure culture multitasking. Further and detailed informaiton can be found in the demo version's guide.
Ditribution / contact / developer
Distribution:
Fun Time World www.funtime-world.de
c/o Sebastian Brylka
Tel.: +49 209 / 1485620 (after 17:00 h)
Fax: +49 209 / 1485720
E-mail: funtime@t-online.de
Support:
Amiga Arena http://www.online-club.de/~ARENA/
Olaf Köbnik olaf.koebnik@online-club.de
Developer:
Nexus Development http://space.tin.it/computer/emacesar
Emanuele Cesaroni emacesa@tin.it
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Nov.2001
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amiga-news.de: Server Move finished
After the first try did not work, last week, we finally completed our server move, now. :-)
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
NewsCoaster
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Newsreader: New documentation for NewsCoaster
Mark Harman put online a new documentation for his shareware newsreader
NewsCoaster. This is automatically converted to HTML from the AmigaGuide
documentation, so don't expect anything too pretty ;)
Version 1.44 put online in the download area; this version fixes the
security hole.
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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StormC: New documentation
We just released a completely revised manual for StormC 4.
It's 3,8 MB of Guide files and the archive is about 1,1 MB of size. There
is an English and a German version available.
Download: ftp://ftp.haage-partner.com/Storm
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Pages Updated
Mediator PCI 1200,
Mediator PCI ZIV,
Mediator PCI 4000
and Mediator PCI ZIII
pages were updated today.
Wojtek Kozlowski
ELBOX COMPUTER Webmaster
e-mail: webmaster@elbox.com
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
Computer City (E-Mail)
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Video titling: MediaPoint News
MediaPoint, the video titling & presentation package for Amiga computers, will
be for sale for the first time on an international Amiga event, following its
re-release in its current MP2000 form. German-based distributor Schatztruhe /
GTI will sell MediaPoint at their booth on the Amiga Show in Cologne on
november 17th and 18th.
More information on MediaPoint can be found at: http://www.compcity.nl/mediapoint/ (ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Markus Bonet (ANF)
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MUI under Windows XP?
Markus Bonet wrote:
To find out about why Windows XP should be so great I looked around a little
on the Microsoft website. I really was not aware, that MUI was released for
Windows, too ;-))
"Multi-Lingual User Interface - MUI -
allows to change the interface's language to display menus, help files, dictionaries, spell checking tools, ect. in the desired language."
But this sure would mean something different, somehow. ;-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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VarIO archive extended
The new VarIO software archive now also contains Parallelport drivers
for the Goldsurfer (Hypercom 3 module). Please mind that the ZIP driver
can only be used with Goldsurfer models not older than 15 months.
For use with older models, a hardware patch is necessary that is
also described in the support-area of our website.
(ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Wouter Derdeyn (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive - Database of the best Amiga demos ever released
I'm working on a site about amiga demos. Basically, I'm trying to create
an archive for the best demos/intros ever released on the most stunning
scene machine ever (the amiga ofcourse). It's still early days yet but
I've got 123 demos and 900 screenshots online. Feedback is welcome!
(ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Jörg Strohmayer (ANF)
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MUI Security Bug-Fix (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer wrote:
PINT (mailtext and nlist) is affected by this Bug too. A bug-fix is available at the titlelink.
Instead of just fixing this problem for PINT I patched the muilowlevel.library.
Download: muilowlevel.library
Addition:
This patch protects all MUI-programs but not all other programs that use APIPE or AwnPIPE.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
HCS Lange
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Absolute rarity to auction (CMB 8296)
HCS Lange on their website (title link, see hardware rubric) auctions
an CBM 8296 machine from 1984. Here are the data of this collectible:
- CBM 8296
- Release date: 1984
- Processor: MOS 6502, 1 MHz
- RAM: 128 KByte
- ROM: 18 KByte with Basic V4.0
- Operating system: own, LOS-96
- Graphic chip: ---
- Text mode: 80 x 25 (monochrom)
- Graphic mode: ---
- Sound chip: ---
- Sound: piper
- Keyboard: typewriter, QWERTZ, 73 keys, seperate num-block, removable keyboard.
- Drive: none internal, (for 8296-D: CBM 8250), external any Commodore drive with IEEE488 bus can be connected directly.
- I/O: 1 x IEEE488, 2 x datasette
- Special: built-in monitor (12", green)
This machine optical is as good as new and it's an absolute rarity.
The lowest bid is at DM 100,-. Bids are accepted till 17. November 2001.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers has licensed appp.device from Haage & Partner
In the course of development of the ADSL-driver for the X-Surf ethernet
card, we have licensed the appp.device from Haage & Partner GmbH. Our
goal is to speed up the interface between our xsurfadsl.device and the
appp.device, so the CPU load will be reduced dramatically. New versions
of the device for AmigaOS 68K will be available for free. (ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Bernd Rösch (ANF)
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New Blitzbasic2 (now AmiBlitz 2)
I got the permision from Acid Soft to publish the sources and binaries of Blitzbasic 2 (due to the PC-version it is now called AmiBlitz 2) into the Aminet (dev/basic).
The sources will be available one week from now.
I just uploaded a binary-update of AmiBlitz 2 V2.2 that introduces many new features.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
Scalos
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Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.14 / Homepage with new layout
Betaversion 40.14 of 'scalos', an alternative workbench, was released on the 11th November 2001. This new release fixes some bugs.
Additional information is available here.
The modules Persistent Windows, WB3.9, Volume Gauge and the WBRexx Plugins were updated too.
Furthermore the layout of the homepage has changed and the webmaster requests your Feedback.
Download
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
Thomas Zahren (ANF)
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Nostalgica: Amiga Graphics artist + programmer Jim Sachs
While looking around the news pages of CHIP.DE
I found a link to the aquarium screensaver in the news on the new Windows XP and
it's "self-made plus package". This screensaver was programmed by Jim Sachs.
Until then I had no idea of this name, but as I then looked at "About the Author" (title link)
on the serenescreen.com website, some
known pictures of the author from Amiga days turned up. A link on this page shows
many pictures of his
work history, too.
With another link on the same site the Amiga is mentioned again in an
interview.
To smile:
To the surprised interviewer's questions, how it comes that the download of this
emotive Windows screensaver is just about 600k in size:
RADEONIC: Probably one of the things that surprised me most was the size of
the download. Did you spend a lot of time optimising the code, and did you
have any special tricks for compressing textures?
JS: No, I haven't really started to optimize the code yet. Coming from
the Amiga, where everything had to fit on a 770k floppy, I am utterly
amazed at how huge PC apps have become. What could these programmers
possibly be filling up all those megabytes with? The whole ascii source
code for the program? The phone book for their area code?
It was a pleasure to me to accidently stumble upon this programmer and those Internet sites and
thereby to learn, that he still likes the Amiga, allthough he changed the system.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM 2.3p1 Bugfixing Release
The YAM Open Source Team released today a bugfix for the reported security hole and other well known bugs of the 2.3 release.
The fix can be downloaded from the following URL
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yamos/YAM23p1.lha.
There will be a major release in the weeks to come that will introduce missed features and will fix bugs.
(ps)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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FreeCD: Toons, Genetic Species, and Racing
For the FreeCD series Patrick Henz has released three new
CD-ROMs about the subjects 'Toons', 'Genetic Species', and
'Racing'.
They toon it again
Part two of this Amiga Toons series contains more than 100 issues of
Sabrina Online, the adventures of Space Rat, caricatures by Thorsten Dudai,
MPG cartoons, photos and games by Black Legend and Mutation Software, as
well.
Genetic Species
Thanks to Marble Eyes now the 3D shooter 'Genetic Species' is available
as a already installed FreeCD.
Racing
This CD contains the full versions of 'Wheelspin AGA' and
'Aerial Racers', many photos from Monaco, the Nürburgring and
Zolder, many paper models, a Formula 1 database, as well as a Rocking-Tune.
To order the CDs follow the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Payback: textures by Philipp Bödeker
On the
German website Philipp Bödeker
released textures for free use with the Payback map-editor. You can find them at the
texture section. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail)
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Tool: Martin R. Elsner on 'StopMenu'
Martin R. Elsner wrote:
«Hello,
just now on St.Martin's day I have some bad and good news for you.
The bad: I will stop development of StopMenu.
In the last weeks I worked with full power on StopMenu - only to rename the
variables and functions (some still polish or whatever), to add some
commentaries (there were quiet none) and to try to change some parts. As
final surprise one of many tests made my Amiga crash and thereby destroyed
the source code, the work of many days. This and the belief that
changing StopMenu is harder and needs more time than writing an own program
caused my decision. StopMenu was not only bad written and commented (well,
it has grown piecewise and has got the errors from both programmers ;) -
no, it also has some very restricting, old fashioned program parts that
should be replaced by a modern method.
Before you get the possibility to jump out of the window, here's the good
news:
One learns from each error. I've seen so many errors ;) that I now want to
make Choowin replace StopMenu !! It is written in best C++, uses Reaction,
and last but not least I know what I have programmed. And that's not all -
the prefs part of StopMenu is not forgotten, but replaced by a connection
to MainPrefs !! So both programs will form the beginning of the new
environment, where also ClassAction can join. The new project will consist
of the taskbar with start menu that allows to open the prefs and later the
file manager. Other programs will have the possibility to get an icon in
the taskbar.
That's a lot - but the three programs exist, Choowin will grow to StopMenu's
functionality (well, not exactly the same) and all of them will be joined to
the new MRE ("mainmenu with Reaction enhancements").
You can find a first screenshot of the startmenu on my homepage, the
first version will be available soon.
Regards,
Martin»
(sd)
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11.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Programming: ODK updated
Marius Schwarz released a new version of the OOP4A developer kit, which
allows to use any not object oriented programming language,
which is able to use Amiga shared libraries, for object programming.
The update contains new classes, a strongly enhanced OOP pre-processor,
and some useful attachments.
The online documentation got some additional diagrams, which give a
better and plainer view of the principle of function, especially in
connection with the class sources.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AMIGAPage.de: CyberGraphX-BootPicLibraries, Amiga Advertising
Marcus Neervroot updated the AMIGAPage.de website, today.
As highlight this time there is a collection of CyberGraphX-BootPicLibraries
available at the download section.
Again some Amiga and show advertisings have been added to the Amiga
history section (Amiga-Geschichte).
Furthermore there are many small innovations...., links and pictures updated.
AMIGAPage.de offers information about the Amiga's history, the AMIGA show
2001, several downloads (e.g. games), and more.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Bernd Meyer (Amithlon-ML)
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Amithlon: Looking for demo locations to add to list
In order to answer one of the frequently asked questions on Amithlon,
I would like to collect the addresses of shops or places where people
can watch Amithlon being demo-ed, and preferably can play around with
it themselves.
If you are providing such demos, I would appreciate if you could drop
me a note off-ML, to
bernie@amithlon.net.
(sd)
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11.Nov.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.4, Encyclopedia extended
Virus Help Denmark released version 17.4 of the virus detector 'Safe'
by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski, today.
'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible.
The following has changes since version 17.3:
- added new version of HTML document
(thanks to Herve Dupont for decompression!)
- fixed default tool to be more OS conform
(thanks to Harry Sintonen for hint)
- fixed ROM recalc in VECS/S
(thanks to Harry Sintonen for the report)
- fixed little bit the stealth detector
(if you get "suspicious actions" message each time
you execute Safe please report)
- WatchDog v1.3: watch doc
Integrity:
In one sentence:
there is no integrity check this time, as it is now under heavy
construction/bugfixing as COMP and CHECK will become one GUI based
program and which of course someday has to become part of MILL - new
antivirus initiative which seems to be almost dead now :(
'Safe' runs on AmigaOS V2.04+ and requires the xvs.library.
The "Amiga Virus Encyclopedia"
has been extended with new virus translations.
They are still looking for translation help. Who would like to translate some
German virus texts to English might contact
Jan Andersen (vht-dk@post4.tele.dk).
Download: Safe.lha (30 304 Bytes),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: Tutorial on Cut, Copy & Paste
Today, a new tutorial on 'cut, copy & paste' in AmigaOS has been released
on GFX-BASE introducing
patches and tools to simplify and enhance the use of this features.
It is being described how to copy files, pictures or URLs and how to re-define
keyboard short-cuts. Additionally there are tips & tricks and download links
to the programes mentioned, as well.
The tutorial is available in
German,
English,
and French. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Game: dynAMIte Homepage - Link to Italian Review
On the dynAMIte homepage now there is a link to an Italian
dynAMIte review
at amiworld.it.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ: Links to PlayCD skins added
On 10. November 2001 a link to the
blackbird-net website containing
PlayCD skins was added to the
miscellaneous section
of the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
ANN
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Programming language: PowerD V0.18
Alreay on 5. November 2001 Martin Kuchinka has released version
0.18 of the programming language 'PowerD'.
This is a modern programming language (currently only) for Amiga
computers. It supports both 68k and ppc processors. This release presents
several bugfixes and some new features, if You wish to know details,
please take a look at the history. To download the latest release (or
something else) please take a look at my homepage.
Such a project is very hard nut for single programmer. If You want to help
developing such project (there are several smaller tools that are also very
important), or have any ideas, or if You find any bugs, please feel free, and
contact me at:
kuchinka@volny.cz.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Hynek Schlawack (E-Mail)
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SimpleMail V0.12
SimpleMail V0.12 released.
Due to an exploit in MUI in combination with some PIPE-handlers
we have released a new version now, everybody actually should
update, as the old version has a really nasty security problem.
The changes are:
- Fix for the MUI exploit.
- Messages can be also encrypted with PGP 2.6.x.
- Switching away of columns in the message list is possible now.
(save it via "Save Prefs")
- Completation of email-addresses improved.
- A small menu added to the readwindow that makes it possible to
see the raw mail.
- Mousewheel support of the readwindow is more tolerant now.
- The attachments are better identified if you have OS3.9
and DefIcons. You can double-click on an icon to start an
action (needs also OS3.9 and DefIcons, e.g. double-click on an
archive will start UnArc in the default config of DefIcons).
- Printing of messages and text-attachments is possible now.
Download: simplemail.lha (240 KB)
(ps)
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10.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society Updates
After a longer period of time there are some smaller updates on our site.
For example the Amiga games list in the software section was extended,
Psyira's initial Schlachtfeld intro music is available for download, and
much more.
The software page is being reorganized to use database, thus there will not
be of much new stuff so far, but in any case we will be happy about any scan or
screenshot, descriptions of any kind, etc., etc....
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Dieter Groppe (MCP)
After more than two years delay of development the first update of the
multi-function tool 'M.C.P.' was released in October. This tool originally
programmed by Aliendesign now is being further developed by Dieter Groppe.
The Amiga Arena talked to Dieter Groppe about how this further developement
came to happen and how about the future of M.C.P.. Meanwhile M.C.P. became
freeware, but one should register for free, however, to show interest.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Nov.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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New MagicMenu V2.32 Beta - from new tongue....
Thanks to Jens Langener and Stephan Rupprecht development of MagicMenu
is being continued. From yesterday there is a new MagicMenu version 2.32.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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10.Nov.2001
David McMinn (ANF)
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YAWOASER (Yet Another World Of Amiga SE Report :)
Another show report for World Of Amiga SE, which was held last weekend,
including pictures (they're all large and inline, but I have told our
webmaster to use thumbnails). The report can be found in the "What's new"
section.
Oh, and feel free to poke around the other areas of the site (for our
local user group :).
(ps)
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10.Nov.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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Magazine: test amiga-topcool now for free
Daniel Orth wrote:
amiga-topcool expands its services: next to the CD-ROM you can now receive the
magazine via email. All those who decide now for an email subscription get the
first issue for free and can decide afterwards whether they continue the
subscription or not. An issue will then cost 1,- DM. The magazine continues to
appear four times a year.
The next issue can only be released under two conditions:
- if enough people register who want to receive this free issue (at least
250) resp. enough people order the CD (at least 100).
- if enough people work editorially on the magazine.
All further details can be found on our new styled Internet site:
www.amiga-topcool.de (title link).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Nov.2001
Thorsten Gehler (ANF)
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How to come to the Amiga 2001 in Cologne
Thorsten Gehler wrote:
One week before the Amiga fair we finally managed to set up our office for
putting those wanting lifts in touch with those who can offer them.
People looking for a possibilty to get to the fair or those who can offer such a
possibility can place a message under
(mag/Mitfahrzentrale)
resp. search for such a possibility.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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New beta version of the X-Surf ADSL driver
A new version of the X-Surf ADSL driver is available for download
on our website. A so-called race-condition (multitasking bug) has
been removed that be believe was the cause for the performance drops.
Further, changes to improve the compatibility to different vendors
of DSL modems have been implemented.
(ps)
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10.Nov.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Serious security leak in MUI Internet programs? (update)
Following the title link you find an English written document that reveals a severe
security leak in MUI programs.
Programs displaying text by using a MUI text object can be forced to execute
Shell commands via active PIPE: devices with particular escape sequences. To say
it clearly: It's theoretically possible to force for example YAM via a mail with
specifically manipulated subject line to delete files on the computer of the
receiving person.
It's not an error in MUI or AwnPIPE:/APIPE:, it should be the task of the
programmers to filter such sequences before displaying text received via the
Internet.
As first security measure it is recommended not to use affected programs
anymore or not to mount AwnPIPE:/APIPE: devices during the boot process (remove all PIPE:
icons from SYS:Devs/DosDrivers/).
Affected applicationen are for example YAM and StrICQ.
Not affected are the products of Vaporware, obviously the ESC sequences get
already filtered here (it's not said from which program versions on).
Update:
Jens Langner, one of the
lead programmers of YAM, points out that a hotfix is already in the works and
that there'll soon be a 2.3 fix release removing this security leak in YAM.
Update II:
Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian
Bauer will as soon as possible release a fix for SimpleMail.
Update III:
As the original text shows seems this exploit danger to be not given using PIPE: as this
doesn't offer any start possibilities: "The standard AmigaOS PIPE: is not
affected since it is incapable of executing commands". Therefore was the above text changed
accordingly. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Nov.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium V5.00 Demo
The new ProStationAudio Titanium demo is available in the download
section. The complete version will be available starting early next week.
Download: psadm500.lha
(ps)
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10.Nov.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9437
New version of AmigAIM has been uploaded to the normal locations, as well as
the bookmarks on the Mailing list have been changed. Extract of history of AmigAIM...
- I think I removed the main possibility for the APIPE: exploit to happen by
filtering the escape characters from incoming messages/profiles before
display. (I didn't even have APIPE: Installed until checking)
- Don't even attempt to send messages that will cause the exploit, I know of
several locations that if the exploit is input, it can strike back at your
computer instead.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps)
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10.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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DigiBoosterPro homepage update
Matthias Münch wrote:
There have been some changes on the DigiBoosterPro Community homepage. We have
now installed a message board in addition to the forum as well as a form for
wishes regarding the next DigiBoosterPro versions. Furthermore we will hold a
seminar because of the Amiga fair 2001 on Saturday that will take place two times. In this
seminar we'll deal with the program itself and also our goals. More details will
be given during the next week.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Nov.2001
PlanetLAN
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PlanetLAN: background information about the Danish Connect12
»The Danish LAN party Connect #12
with 300 participiants in Esbjerg was closed by the Police on 20. October
because of illegal data transfers.
"AntiPiratGruppen" (APG),
a private AntiPiracy organisation, has used undercover investigators who had
created logs of the data transfers at the LAN party. Afterwards they ordered the
police and the event got closed.
Many of the participiants are now accused to have exchanged illegal data.
Furthermore is the organisator of the LAN party, the CompuClub, accused to have
made the infra structure (the network) for the illegal data exchange available.
The Danish Orgas have already agreement with the APG to pay 100.000 dkr (=25.000 DM)
compensation.«
Full article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Nov.2001
MAME
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Emulator: MAMEgui 1.1.4 for Amiga patch #0001
Latest version of MAMEgui for Amiga is unable to find new games.
It searches the 'roms' directory and WarpMAME 0.37b16 uses
'roms/mame' directory. This patch fixes the path and lets you
play all the games.
Download: MAMEgui_patch_0001.lha
(ps)
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10.Nov.2001
Chris Hodges (ANF)
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Aminet full text search engine with new URL
Chris Hodges writes: The Aminet full text search engine is now reachable directly under
http://home.in.tum.de/hodges/cgi-bin/amifind
or indirectly (a little slower but easier to remember) under
http://amifind.home.pages.de/
The availability of links to the official Aminet mirrors depends on Urban
Müller and Matthias Scheler. All known bugs were fixed and several new
features have been added (thanks once again to the testers!). Added have been the search for complete words, the search only in specific directories, the selection of different target mirrors and much more.
There won't be an output of the found text passages as the computer operations group of the computer science faculty of the TU Munich partout doesn't want to increase my quota and the search engine with 181 MB uses already one third of it :-\
Suggestions are of course still very warm welcome. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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10.Nov.2001
M. Lueck (ANF)
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Amiga.org is back
Amiga.org, the american Amiga news service is back.
(ps) (Translation: ps)
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09.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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VarIO driver now also for Goldsurfer
The drivers for VarIO and Silversurfer which have been released two days
ago can now be used with the Hypercom3 module as well (also known as
Goldsurfer). Drives for the parallel port and for ZIP drivers connected
to this port will be available before the show in Cologne. Some expert
knowledge is required for installation, however, since an entirely
automatic recognition would require too much work.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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09.Nov.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Skins for the OS3.9 audio CD player
A collection of new skins for the audio CD player of OS 3.9 can be found
at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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09.Nov.2001
Wolf Faust (ANF)
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PageStream Universal Filter update V2.2
The free PageStream Universal Filter for loading many picture formats
is now available as version 2.2. In addition to some smaller fixes the
loading speed of TIFF images has been sped up and support for MacBinary
files has been added. More information can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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09.Nov.2001
AmigArt
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Linux: Debian 2.2r4 released
Debian released the latest version of their linux distribution.
PowerPC specific port information and also a port for Motorola
680x0 based machines is available.
(ps)
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09.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)
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DTP: PageStream 4.1
After about two years it is done - there is a new version of
PageStream. The
most significant new feature is the integrated table editor. This
was originally planned as an add-on but because of the many requests
it was decided to make it an integral part of the package. Further
functions are mail merge, control over compression in PDF files,
text inset function, object transformation and a higher speed.
The most important new functions:
- Table editor
- Built in Mail Merge
- PDF export control over compression and encoding
- Text inset from column edges
- Custom column widths and gutters inside text frames
- Shift-cursor text selection
- Move pages between chapters
- Duplicate/Transform objects across pages
- Speed improvements
- and of course much more
Windows, Amiga and Macintosh versions
At the moment only the Windows version of PageStream 4.1 is available.
The Amiga and Macintosh versions will follow shortly.
More information on this on the PageStream homepage at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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09.Nov.2001
Gerd Frank (e-mail)
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Route planner: AmiATLAS 6 available
Although the availability of AmiATLAS 6, the multimedia route planner, was planned
for the 15th November 2001 (we reported),
it is already finished. Users of version 5 receive a cheaper update.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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09.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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WHDLoad Website down
Bert Jahn: "The website is currently down due problems with the internet
service provider. I hope that will be solved in some days/weeks/months.
If you know a provider with at least 100 MB space, 3GB traffic, ssh
access, own cgi and below 40 eur/month let me know."
WHDL is friendly Harddisk-Install package.
(ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Scenet
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FREAX - The demoscene history book
Ever wondered who wrote the first demos? Who was the first to crack a game,
or who invented nowadays' beautiful effects seen in demos? When and how was
the scene born, and who were the first pioneers to pave the road to nowadays'
superproductions?
Ever wanted to see a book about the history of the demoscene?
I mean a printed book, not another website. Not another book about hackers,
and surely not another try to explain the essence of the scene for the lame
general public. A book about the scene for sceners, covering the story of
all platforms: the C-64, the Amiga, the PC and also smaller scenes, like
consoles, Sinclairs, the Apple and so on. From the beginning to present
days, covering every single bit of the great adventure, a narrative history
with interviews, memories, stories, colorful pictures...
A book titled FREAX.
After five years of intense researching, the product is starting to shape.
Read more about it on this website; read a sample chapter and perhaps you
can even find a way to help me. This is something special, something
different: something no one ever tried in this depth.
(ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Virus Help Denmark (ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusWarning.guide V3.4a
A bugfixed update of the "VirusWarning.guide" has been released today,
I made some in the v3.4 release yesterday.
Info about the new update here:
- Name: VirusWarning.Guide v3.4a
- Achive name: vht-vg34a.lha
- Archive size: 108.364 byte
- Release date: 8 November 2001
- Programmer: Virus Help Denmark
Download: vht-vg34a.lha
Remember to vote in the poll, for the programmer that has done the must for the
Amiga antivirus scene in 2001. You can vote right here:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/poll.htm
(ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Geoff Milnes (E-Mail)
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Event: Alt-WoA 2002 Website online
The website for Alt-WoA 2002 UK is now up and
running. Last year's site with photos is linked in here too so you see what a
good time we had then - whet your appetite!
http://www.alt-woa.org
Make a note in your diary for the 23rd February 2002.
Anyone wishing to book space, please do so as soon as possible - it's going
fast with currently 13 trade exhibitors plus 5 User and Support Groups confirmed.
(ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Golem - IT News für Profis
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Golem: In competition to LEO? Online English Dictionary by Linguatec
»New and free online dictionary at Linguadict.de
Who deals with Enlish texts every day the free online dictionaries
like the LEO English/German Dictionary by the technical university
Munich or other translation services of great help. The offeror of
translation software Linguatec now offers an own online dictionary for
free use.«
Complete article see title link (German).
The dictionarey contains 512,527 entries, more than 2 mio. words.
linguadict.de (ps) (Translation: mj)
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08.Nov.2001
Jumpgate
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Jumpgate: Interview with Eric W. Schwartz
Jumpgate has published an interview with Sabrina Online's creator
Eric W. Schwartz.
(ps) (Translation: ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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ilbm Datatype 44.26 and ilbm Datatype for WarpUP 45.7
Stephan Rupprecht has
published on his website new versions of his ilbm Datatypes.
Download: ilbm44.lha -
ilbmdtPPC.lha
(ps) (Translation: ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Golem - IT News für Profis
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Golem: Met@box will send data using the read-off-gap
»Finacially stricken company signes contract with German Telekom
In the progress of the planned restructure of the Met@box company from Hildesheim, Germany,
they signed a contract with the Deutsche Telekom AG, as Met@box stated. This contract enables the company to further market sales bringing sub-technoligies.«
Complete article see title link (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)
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08.Nov.2001
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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AMidi: New localisations
The preferences of AMidi, the device to paly MIDI music, has got more languages by the help of ATO.
All in all there are available English (built in), German, Czech, French, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Turkish.
The installation script was updated respectively, but strongly requires the InstallerNG in the original installer due to a heavy bug. There is a licensed version inside of the archive, now. For those already have AMidi installed there is a small (7 kByte) archive available only containing the translations. Thank you very much for your work, ATO.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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08.Nov.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9436
New version of AmigAIM has been uploaded to the normal locations, as well as
the bookmarks on the Mailing list have been changed. Extract of history of
AmigAIM 0.9436 Beta (07 November 2001):
- AIM has apparently stopped sending the Message of Day for the time being,
the determination of online was being done via that signal...
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Interview with Oliver Wagner
Today Amiga Future published a interview with Oliver Wagner.
(ps)
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08.Nov.2001
Solar (ANF)
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ArsTechnika: Article on G4/AMD and G4e/P4
A posting on ann.lu called my attention to the following articles comparing processor architectures
in a very understandingly and informing way:
G4 and AMD K7 (Athlon)
G4e and Intel Pentium IV
The Pentium 4 and the G4e: an Architectural Comparison
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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07.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Update-MACH for Buddha Flash IDE Controller
The update for the Buddha Flash Controller which has been announced already for the last year is now available: The controller works fine in a RBM Zorro-Daughterboard for the A1200 (OnBoard Ex). Besides this there are some changes concerning the timing that saves the functions of the Silversurfer on the extension ports.
Unfortunately the update is not free because it is a failure which has been not caused by us. From now on new controllers will be sold without surcharge, old ones can be equipped with a new MACH for 19,- EUR.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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First software for VarIO interface card
On the support section of the website of individual Computers you can
find a first archive with software for the new IO-board VarIO. The driver also recognizes the serial interface Silversurfer and thus replaces the old silversurfer.device. The installer script is easy to understand and in two languages. Before you install it you should delete the silversurfer.device but the hardware should keep to be installed.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
Interviewer: Christoph Gutjahr
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Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion
Interview with Ben Hermans - Managing Director, Hyperion Entertainment
Done by Christoph Gutjahr - 07.11.2001
Amiga-News: First of all, thanks a lot for your efforts to bring us OS 4.0.
Let's start with some technical questions. Are the OS 4.0/4.2 features
outlined in the tech updates on www.amiga.com and various press releases
from Alan Redhouse still valid? Will you have to put some stuff "on
hold" to match the deadline (e.g. USB support)? Or may we even get some
new (minor) goodies to play with?
Ben Hermans: The feature list which can be found on Amiga.com is still essentially correct
but can be considered a bare minimum. We intend to deliver more if we can. More
details will follow.
Amiga-News: Which of the following models is the better description of AmigaOS 4.0's
concept:
- a WarpUp kernel running an "AmigaOS-Box", meaning that PPC tasks are
running in a WarpOS environment while 68k tasks are executed by
exec.library
- an exec.library that is able to execute both 68k and ppc tasks, plus
an "emulation layer" for existing WarpOS applications
Ben Hermans: [2]. OS 4 will not be WarpOS based. WarpOS was a solution for a dual CPU architecture
and isn't suitable for what we have in mind. We will ofcourse provide full backwards
compatibility with WarpOS programs.
Amiga-News: There are rumours that Harry "Piru" Sintonen is working on the OS4.0 exec.library?
Ben Hermans: This is incorrect.
Amiga-News: Could you describe the current state of the AmigaOS sources? Years ago,
Jeff Schindler claimed that "it's a complete and ugly mess". I read a
German Interview with Juergen Haage, where he stated that they cleaned up
most of the Kickstart sources and they were able to recompile them in
one go. What's your personal experience (or that of your programmers)?
How much of the core parts are available in C and can actually be
recompiled for PPC? Are there parts that must be rewritten from scratch
(e.g. because they're only available as 68k ASM)? Are there any plans
to use AROS code for OS4.0 (if neccessary)?
Ben Hermans: Olaf Barthel and H&P did an outstanding job by cutting down the number of compilers
required to compile the OS, cleaning up the OS 3.1 source-code and moving code from ASM to C.
Whilst there still are some parts which are in ASM, this is a minority. Olaf also put the
entire source-code in to a CVS repository which is a tremendous asset.
We have talked to Aaron Digulla who was very helpful and is generally a nice guy and we have
come to an agreement about using parts of AROS if need be.
Amiga-News: Alan Redhouse announced that OS4.0 will also run on existing
CyberstormPPC accelerator boards. What about the BlizzardPPC boards? I
assume they won't be supported, is this due to performace issues or are
there problems with the FlashROMs of those cards (as some people
supposed)?
Ben Hermans: We haven't ruled out the Blizzard PPC's completely but we must first be satisfied with the
performance of OS 4 on these machines. There are indeed some technical issues that need to
be solved before support of the Blizzard line of cards can be contemplated.
Amiga-News: OS4 available for Classic PPC Amigas - that brings up another question:
Which PCI solutions will be supported? I assume that Elbox and Matay
will be supported, as they are "Amiga partners". What about DCE's GRex
Boards? Are you (or Amiga Inc.) in contact with DCE?
Ben Hermans: We intend to support the widest possible range of MODERN hardware including the available
PCI busboards. It can't be ruled out that drivers for older hardware will break under
emulation but generally we expect no problems.
Amiga-News: What's your intended "information policy"? I suppose there's not much
to demonstrate for now (i.e. only an A4000PPC running an OS that looks
and feels exactly like AmigaOS 3.x), will you go quiet until the
AmigaOne/OS4 combination can be demonstrated? Or will there be some
kind of "progress meter" on your/Amiga's website or regular press
releases?
Ben Hermans: We intend to release regular progress reports.
Amiga-News: Will developer documentation be available for free?
Ben Hermans: We intend to encourage people to develop for OS 4. Developer documentation will therefore be
available at production cost.
Amiga-News: Does the agreement that was signed on the WOA-SE only deal with OS4.0 or
did some/all of the parties involved commit to contribute to the further
development of the OS?
Ben Hermans: I cannot comment on the terms of the agreement but suffice it to say that OS 4.0 is just a
step in a continuous process whereby the OS gradually gets moved from 68K to PPC with full
backwards compatibility, whereby the OS is untied from the custom chipsets and whereby modern
functionality is introduced along the way.
Amiga-News: Hyperion are known for their strict "no AmigaOS for x86" Attitude. You
are now a key developer of OS4, and you develop the 3D API. We don't
know much of the proposed specs of OS5, but we know that it will be
available for several platforms, including x86. Will your intellectual
property (e.g. the Warp3D and OpenGL implementations) be a available for OS5?
Ben Hermans: It's true that we are no fans of the x86 architecture for reasons we have outlined before and
which have to do with Windows smothering all competition. Recent developments such as the demise
of BeOS, the sale by Corel of its Linux activities and the bankruptcy of Loki, the largest
games-developer for Linux, have only reinforced our view.
Talk about OS 5 is a bit premature at this point so we will reserve judgement until things are
a bit more concrete.
Amiga-News: I assume most of your staff is working on OS4 now. How does that affect
your other products? E.g., what's the scheduled release date for
"Descent Freespace"? Will other projects (Realsoft 3D, Worms
Armageddon) be put on hold until OS 4.0 is finished?
Ben Hermans: Our resources are obviously not unlimited and OS4 development will have an impact. It should
however be realised that it isn't the case that work on OS 4 is only now starting or that
Hyperion will be doing all the work. Most OS 3.5 and 3.9 developers are already onboard and
we have a good working relationship with the AROS team which will help cut down on development
time.
Amiga-News: Looking at Hyperion's projects and reading statements from your employees
about the sales of Linux and Amiga products, one could wonder that
Hyperion still exists ;-) If I understood that correctly, you won't be
paid in advance for OS4 (Alan Redhouse: "no upfront costs for Amiga
Inc."). There must be a point were you can't stretch any further, even
for Hyperion? Is a "success" of OS4 crucial to the future of the
company Hyperion?
Ben Hermans: No. The vast majority of Hyperion's revenue comes from paid contract-work for Mac OS 9/X.
The Amiga market alone cannot sustain a company with several full-time developers.
Obviously, the more successful the project is, the more time we can allocate for Amiga
development, time which is now spent doing contract-work.
Amiga-News: Thanks a lot for this interview and good luck for the future.
Contact information Hyperion Entertainment:
WWW: www.hyperion-entertainment.com
E-Mail: Ben Hermans, Managing Director
E-Mail: Ben Yoris, PR Manager (ps)
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07.Nov.2001
H&P
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H&P: AmigaOS XL: More FAQs
H&P just added an extensive collection of answers to frequently asked
questions (FAQs). Amongst others it is explaind how to partition a
hard disk, how to install a boot manager and how to install Amithlon
on a hard disk. (ps)
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07.Nov.2001
Virus Help Denmark (ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: New VirusWarning.guide
Virus Help Denmark has published a new VirusWarning.guide. The facts follow:
- Name: VirusWarning.Guide v3.4
- Achive name: vht-vg34.lha
- Archive size: 107.799 Bytes
- Date: 7. November 2001
- Programmer: Virus Help Denmark
Download: vht-vg34.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
Robert Williams (ANF)
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Goodbye Clubbed... Hello Total Amiga Magazine
South Essex Amiga Link is happy to confirm the announcements about our
future plans for Clubbed magazine made at the World of Amiga South
East Show on the 3rd of November. In the next few months we plan to
make two major improvements to the magazine:
A New Name
From issue 10 "Total Amiga" will be the new name for Clubbed magazine,
we hope that this name better reflects the fact that we are a general
Amiga magazine and will encourage new readers to give us a try. Along
with the new name the magazine will have an extensive redesign but
will retain the essential feature of Clubbed, honest down-to-earth
writing by real Amiga users.
Bimonthly Publication
With the changes at Amiga Active, Total Amiga is the only regular UK
print classic Amiga magazine (as far as we are aware). To help fill
this role we want to publish the magazine more regularly, therefore we
will be looking to move to bimonthly publication as soon as possible.
The main barrier to this is the number of writers on the magazine so
in the coming months we will be actively seeking more contributors and
we hope to work with the French magazine Amiga Power to share content
(translated both ways). Whatever happens issue 10 will still be three
months after issue 9 (just published) because we have to transform
Clubbed into Total Amiga as well as create the new issue.
About Total Amiga
So far we have published 9 issues of Clubbed and the magazine has been
praised for its quality and production values. Each issue has 44 or
more A4 pages, a colour cover and is professionally printed. At World
of Amiga South East both Fleecy Moss of Amiga and Alan Redhouse of
Eyetech endorsed Total Amiga and you can expect to see articles from
them in future issues.
The magazine is entirely produced on the Amiga, written by enthusiasts
and operates on a not-for-profit basis. We are committed to covering
all aspects of the Amiga market and all products aimed at Amiga users
in a totally impartial manner.
A 4 issue subscription to Total Amiga costs £14 including UK postage
and single trial issues are available for £3.50 inclusive. Overseas
subscriptions are available, please see our web site for rates. You
can order direct from SEAL by cheque or postal order or via credit
card through Forematt Home Computing
(http://www.forematt.free-online.co.uk) or on-line at Kicksoft
(http://www.kicksoft.co.uk).
For more information including details of all back issues please
visit: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk and click on the Clubbed section.
An all-new Total Amiga web site with its own domain name will be
on-line before the first issue is published.
(ps)
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07.Nov.2001
Golem - IT News / SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Golem: Developer units of Linux-PDAs of Sharp can be ordered
»More details to the software-packet published
From now on Sharp offers to the developers the opportunity to order
the Linux-PDA SL-5000D as a developer device which is planned at the
end of the year. Sharp presents a former prototype at the IFA in Berlin.«
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
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amiga-news.de: Move did not work
Unfortunataly the move of our server did not work. Murphy catched us. The contractor who should transport the servers from A to B this night defered the move to next week because of reasons which are still not known.
Because of the changed and again changed back domain-name-server-entries there can be some impairments.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Linda Godwin astronaut speaker at Amiga99 going into space & info on show
Bob Scharp wrote:
All of you who attended the Amiga99© Computer show,
hosted by Amigan-St. Louis's Bob and Diana Scharp in
St. Louis, MO a few years back, will certainly remember
the banquet. Dr. Linda Godwin, a current astronaut and
her husband, Col. Steve Nagel (retired USAF), a former
astronaut and current NASA employee, were two unforgettable
speakers. Linda not only spoke of her exploits in the
space program, she brought a video that blew our
(Amiga) socks off.
Well, it's Linda's turn to go into space again. I have
heard that she is scheduled to launch November 29. The
mission calls for her and several other astronauts to
go to the new space station, and return several days later.
I know I speak for all of you when I say that Diana and
I wish her the very best flight and a soft touchdown
back on earth.
Read more under the title link. (ps) (Translation: ps)
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07.Nov.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: Interview and new voting
GFX-BASE has interviewed John Mason who is the programmer of some nice tools like Taskbar, Wibby, DReminder or NewStuff.
Besides this there is a new opinion poll. It is asked if you use a WB-replacement like Opus Magallan 2 or Scalos or if you are satisfied with the WB as it is. Those ones who improved the Workbench with the help of tools and patches may list them on the vote-commentars thus other ones will get to know it. Have fun!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Future 33 published
Today Amiga Future 33 has been published. This means all magazines have
been sent to the subscribers, single orderers and dealers. The editing
stuff have to be completed. We are looking for an editor who has got a
well equipped Amiga with Internet access, longer Amiga-experiences, at
least can speak and write a little bit English, a good spelling and who
wants to work at Amiga Future actively. You can get further information
at the editing staff of the Amiga Future.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
Opera
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Sharp wants to use Opera-browser for PDA (Zaurus)
On the press release of Opera which you can find under the title link Opera informs that Sharp will convert the browser called Opera 5 for their PDAs.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2001
Anton Preinsack (ANF)
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First test runs of PowerPC G5 gain 2.4 GHz
According to an unconfirmed report on "The Register" two prototypes of
the PowerPC 8500 (G5) of Motorola have gained the level of 2,4 GHz of
clock rate. All other processors of this line work with a clock rate of
1, 1.2 and 1.4 GHz. According to this anonymous source up to one thousend
G5-systems of Apple are supposed to be sold to important developers.
Because PowerPC-processors of Motorola are supposed to work in "Pegasos"
as well as in "AmigaOne" this statement is interesting for future
"Pegasos"/AmigaOne"-succession models which might come. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Nov.2001
Martina Jacobs
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Looking for a game-patch?
If you are looking for a patch for your favorite game have a look at the
title page. There you can find patches for different os like Windows,
Macintosh, Amiga, Linux.
(mj) (Translation: sk)
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05.Nov.2001
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amiga-news.de server move
To increase our speed we are moving to a new server. We are well prepared
and we are expecting no interference of our service. There may be some
short interrupts so we beg your pardon.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Nov.2001
infoSync
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infoSync: Sharp readies SL-5000D
There is a comprehensive article about the new Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D PDA available.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Nov.2001
Different sources
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Software Updates (Report+ / pasm)
Tool: Report+ version 5.1a
Report+, by Amigan-Software, lets you easily create bugreports, aminet readmes, autodocs and similar reports. The program is freeware and supports the GUI-systems ReAction
and GadTools.
Download: report.lha (430 KB)
PowerPC Assembler: pasm
Frank Wille released version 1.6 of his portable PowerPC assembler. This version introduces an experimental Altivec-suppport.
Download: pasm.gz (42 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Nov.2001
Amiga Mediator
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Amiga Mediator Support side updated
The unofficial Amiga Mediator support side was updated. Beside of many
changes and extensions there are new driver versions available.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Nov.2001
Amiga Expo 2002
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Event: Amiga Expo 2002
Nova Design is organizing an
Amiga-exhibition that will be held from 29.3.2002-31.3.2002 in Baltimore,
MD (USA) at the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn.
The following firms will definitly be there: QNX, Nova Design, Software
Hut, Mr. Hardware, Haage & Partner and Cloanto. Furthermore there will be
a paper by John Harris of Pulsar about AmigaDE-programming. Dave Haynie
by Merlancia will speak about the future of the computer and especially
about the history of the Amiga.
There will also be a banket that will offer a nice atmosphere for talking
about the Amiga.
Detailed informations are available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Filemanager: ClassAction V4.31
Martin R. Elsner released version 4.31 of his filemanager 'ClassAction'. The following changes were made:
- Bugfixes: Icon-commands now using the correct filename, GETSIZE displays the correct size and SNAPSHOT also works now.
- The zoom-button takes ClassAction into the fullsize-mode.
ClassAction recognizes about 40 fileformats (gif, jpeg, iff, mods, ...). This lets you perform actions like viewing, execute and edit by clicking on the file. Additional
filetypes can easily be added.
The program needs AmigaOS 3.5 or higher and a 68020 CPU.
Download: classaction.lha (459K)
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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04.Nov.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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AmigaDE: New games - MazeMonster, Gobbler, Tikino
There were new games released at the AmigaDE shop including
the PacMan like game 'MazeMonster' developed by
Motion Studios,
the Snake game 'Gobbler' by
Pulsar Interactive
with several worlds, and the think-game 'Tikino' by
Technomages
with 25 levels.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Datatype: akNAIL V44.13
Andreas Klienert released version 44.13 of the 'akNAIL datatype' which
allows to load and display IFF-NAIL images used by ImageFX for thumbnails.
Download: akNAIL-dt.lha (105K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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History: Amiga Interactive Guide updated
There have been major changes at the world's premier Amiga history site. Over 16MB of new
material has been uploaded, including:
- Descriptions of several previously unknown Amiga prototypes and arcade machines.
- The forgotten origins of the Amiga transputer.
- The latest products from Amiga Inc. and third party developers.
- New section on Merlancia
- The latest batch of Amiga emulators.
This is just scratching the surface. Take a look at the site for a full list of the new additions.
Gareth Knight, Amiga Interactive Guide
ExiE
(sd)
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04.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Mail/News: Microdot-II V1.4.16beta (Update)
Microdot-II 1.4.16beta - integrated e-mail and news program.
A new beta version of Microdot-II is available, and, for the first time, there's a native MorphOS
version, too.
Download: md2_1.4.16_beta.lha (414K)
(sd)
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04.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Impressions of the World of Amiga South East 2001 (update)
On 3. November 2001 the 'World of Amiga South East 2001' took place
in Brentwood, England. So far there is a short
text
about this show, which was published on ANN by
Mikey C. and pictures
published on Kevin Twyman's homepage, as well.
Mick Sutton and Chris Emmins of SEAL published
photos. A complete report to follow.
Fleecy Moss (Amiga), Alan Redhouse (Eyetech), James Daniels (Payback), and
Andrew Kom (Amiga Active) were on the show.
Update 04. November 2001:
Photos by SEAL.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)
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Emulator: WinUAE V08.17 Release 3
Since yesterday, at the
download section
of the WinUAE homepage version 08.17 release 3 of the Amiga emulator is available.
The following errors are known in this version:
- Snapshot (save-state) support is not 100% yet.
- Picasso96 colour-fades are especially slow.
- Only Lemmings 3 AGA's playing screen is centered correctly,
"Lemming-mode" selection buttons on bottom of screen are still
corrupted. (AGA bitplanes do not steal copper's DMA cycles correctly
yet)
- Also Banshee AGA's scoreboard is still invisible because sprites
outside playfields (AGA only feature, not yet implemented) are
always hidden.
Gegenüber der vorigen Version hat sich Folgendes geändert:
- FIXED: Mouse trails are gone gone gone.
- FIXED: No longer crashes in windowed-mode on XP Themed-view.
- FIXED: 68020+ bitfield instruction fix (stuck doors in Dungeon Master AGA)
- FIXED: Fix garbage display on Venus the Flytrap and Nightbreed Interactive
Movie. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Trying to delete a non-empty directory will now properly return
ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Renaming a directory which was opened then closed will no longer
crash. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Increased the range of addresses checked for memory-mapping, in
order to make JIT "direct" mode work on more systems. (Bernd
Roesch)
- FIXED: Selecting a Picasso96 8-bit mode in windowed-mode would complain
about not matching your desktop's depth, and switch to full-screen.
- FIXED: CD-ROM Mounting should work again.
- FIXED: Installer won't install when WinUAE is already running.
- FIXED: Right-click and "Editting" a .UAE config-file will now result in
the correct config-name and config-description in the GUI.
- FIXED: MIDI-Out won't crash external MIDI drivers like "hubies loopback".
(Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: Jose's modifications to the sound routines and GUI. (Jose Gil)
NOTE: Read doc called "SoundSyncro Readme.rtf"
- ADDED: AHI driver support. (Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: Option to disable use of overlays completely.
- CHANGED: Floppy-disk emulation, including .FDI support. (Toni Wilen)
- CHANGED: Picasso96 licensing/support notice (above).
- CHANGED: Removed references to "Amiga" in the GUI.
Download: WinUAE0817R3.exe (1,3M)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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Game: DeepSILENCE-SOMS - New version
After having some server problems the website of the action adventure
'SOMS' is up-to-date, again.
There is a new SOMS version, new pictures, and the forum is working now.
Also the newsletter gets delivered accoring to the rules. The following has
changed since the prior SOMS version:
- A new level.
- New effects like bouldering (press 'b').
- Watter reflects clouds and the main character.
- Children and hares are running around.
- A house was added to the map, but you cannot go inside, yet.
- Smaller speed-ups and bugfixes.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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