18.Nov.2005
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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Arcade game: BatDefense 0.4.3
There is a new version of the arcade game BatDefense
(screenshot).
Changes to the previous versions:
- One of the sound routines was deactivated
- Bugfix for CGFX systems: BatDefense runs now on CGFX- just like on Picasso96 systems
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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SystemPatch 2.95 (Update)
SystemPatch written by Sante Nocciolino changes diverse operating system routins to
increase the performance of systems with newer 68k processors. The highest increase
of peformance is gained at 68060 systems but you can use it for all Amigas with at least
a 68020. Changes in version 2.94:
- SystemPatch now detects rtg systems and doesn't install layers and graphics patches
- added patches to utility.library
- added dos.library patches: Read(), Write(), DoPkt()
- added QUICKWAITBLIT option: Waitblit() returns immediately
- added DynamicDMA in auto interrupt vector 3
- added gfx patches: InitGels(), ClearRectRegion(), AreaDraw(), InitBitMap(), InitView(), InitVPort()
- added exec patches: CopyMem(), CopyMemQuick(), FindName(), FindPort(), FindTask(), FindResident(), FindSemaphore(), AllocSignal(), FreeSignal()
- CopyMem() and CopyMemQuick() patch code depends on your CPU
- added interrupts patches: IVPORTS, IVSOFTINT
- bug fix for ClearRegion(), DisposeRegion()
- little speedup to auto interrupt routines
- Extent patches are not installed by default because buggy: you can use +Extent to override
- MMU option not supported in this version
- other things I forgot
Download: SystemPatch2.lha (47 KB)
Update: (13:00, 20.11.05, snx)
Yestserday version 2.95a was published.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Nov.2005
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Cross-Compiler for AROS as destination platform
Jocke 'Zerohero' Birging has added a short documentation to his Cross-Compiler site
as well as the i686-Linux binaries for AROS as destination platform.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Nov.2005
Bernd Roesch (Kommentare)
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AROS: AfA OS (AROS für AmigaOS) initiated (Update)
AfA OS (AROS for AmigaOS) from Bernd Roesch enables AmigaOS users to use the extended functions of the operating system AROS (Amiga Research OS), as well as the compilation of the AROS source code without further adaptations.
AfA runs hosted under AmigaOS and is extending it currently with antialiasing for true type fonts, alpha channel support for datatypes as well as further AROS functions for developers.
Download: AFA_OS.zip (524 KB)
Update: (18:55, 17.11.2005, snx)
In the meantime an own Forum for AfA OS has been set up, too. (snx) (Translation: iw)
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16.Nov.2005
Amiga Future / MorphZone
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MorphOS: Software-News until 16.11.2005
E-UAE 0.8.28-2
Yesterday Fabien Coeurjoly provided the latest version 0.8.28 of the Amiga emulator E-UAE. However there is no information concerning the changes in the archives.
Download: e-uae-0.8.28-2.lha (2,3 MB)
Tuxracer 0.61
The French developer 'SixK' yesterday once again compiled his porting of the game Tuxracer, where you have to steer the Linux penguin down a snow covered hill (Screenshot),in the latest version 0.61 for MorphOS. We have no information concerning the changes.
Download: tuxracer-0.61-mos.lha (8,3 MB)
Scumm VM Bubbles V2
Oliver 'Bladerunner' Hummel has extended his pictographs for the game engine ScummVM among other things with icons for Heirs of the Earth and Gobliiins.
Download-Seite (snx) (Translation: iw)
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16.Nov.2005
amidevcpp (ANF)
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AmiDevCpp: Ability to upload own DevPaks and example projects
AmiDevCpp is a free development environment Dev-C++,
which has the original compiler replaced with an AmigaOS cross compiler.
Thus, it is possible to develop and compile programs for Amiga (m68k) while using Windows.
At the title link the ability to upload your own DevPaks is now available. With DevPaks new includes, linkerlibs and
source code examples may be installed or deinstalled comfortably. A detailed manual how to create
own DevPaks is avaialble here.
There is also the option to upload small example projects (max 1000kB)
which may help beginners to a better start into programming.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Manual: Installation of a USB2-Card into a Pegasos with MorphOS
Linked to the header had Gunne Steen a short collection of all steps
which are required to install a USB2-Card into a Pegasos with MorphOS.
The essential under MorphOS 1.4.5 is to copy the OpenUSB.device into
the Drawer MOSSYS:Devs/USBHardware and added to Prefs.
This Device is a part of Guido Mersmanns
Arakattack. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
Neo (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4: Status-Update for AVD GUI Builder
The commercial AVD GUI Builder is for building and maintenance
of Reaktion-based graphical user identerfaces. The author linked to the
header screenshoots to demonstrated how to use this tool with the most
available reaction-objecs.
The newest version, which are available for registered user soon,
supports now 25 Reaction and BOOPSI-Classes, to able
build and manipulate in realtime. A interactive clipboard-system is
available and also a definition of a user interfaces which is builed from
more then one window is now possible.
Loading of existing projects is now per Drag'n Drop on the AppIcon or
into the AppWindow possible.
AVD Template Project v1.2.0.0
The Freeware "AVD Template" is a template of a frame for a
AmigaOS 4-application, writen in C.
The newest version is added with programcode for handling more then one
window and it's now possible to combinated it with the C-output from
the newest GUI Builder-Version. The newest version will be released
at Aminet in next time.
guiX
This new freeware-project generates from XML-projectdata, e.g. builded
by GUI Builder, "on-the-fly" a graphical userinterface.
E.g. guiX is usefull to generate graphical userinterfaces for Shell- or
ARexx-Scripts. A first version will be released with a final version
of GUI Builder.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
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Printmagazin: Total Amiga, issue 22
Issue 22 of the english printmagazin "Total Amiga" ist available now.
A overview of all themes of this issue is linked to the news header. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Warp3D-Pictureviewer WarpView 0.6
The pictureviewer WarpView use Warp3D for rendering, which makes a fast
skaling possible. But the program needs more video-RAM as a regular
pictureviewer. Datatypes are required for decoding..
In version 0.6 a lot of minor errors are fixed, among others is a
Drag'n Drop support, mouse-blanking and a alphanumerical sort added.
Also the 90°-turn will be rejected by a change between files.
Download: warpview.lha (33 KB) (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
ANN (Webseite)
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Soundplayer: PlayOGG 3.4 released
PlayOGG is a soundplayer for following formates e.g. OGG Vorbis, MP3, MPEG,
FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA and SID
Version 3.4 includes a lot of fixed errors, a actual documentation and
the support of more ADPCM-variants and for this a special progress
indication. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
Richard H. Poser II. (E-Mail)
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Instant Messenger: AmigAIM-Betaversion 0.9454 released
Linked to the header is the betaversion 0.0454 of the Instand Messenger
AmigAIM. Now it's possible to deactivated the Program-end-Requester. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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Workbench-Clon: Scalos 41.2
A new beta.version of the Workbench replacment Scalos for AmigaOS 3
and MorphOS is now released. All changes are listed in the
History.
AmigaOS 3: ScalosBeta_41.2_68K.lha (1,8 MB)
MorphOS: ScalosBeta_41.2_MOS.lha (2,2 MB) (cg) (Translation: aj)
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14.Nov.2005
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Aminet-Uploads til 13.11.2005
Aminet-Uploads since our last news report:
StarAm_Plan.lha biz/misc 848K OS3 Spreadsheet, V2.3,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha biz/misc 842K OS3 Spreadsheet, V2.3,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
ctorrent.lha comm/tcp 60K OS3 BitTorrent Client For Amiga
grp_0divide.lha demo/aga 130K OS3 ZeroDivide - 64Kb AGA Intro by gRp
grp_0dividermx.lha demo/aga 55K OS3 ZeroDivideRmx - 52Kb AGA Intro by gRp
beegeez.lha dev/basic 6K GEN Short examples of using some devices and
clipit.lha dev/c 264K VAR ClipIt V2 GUI for clipboard.device src i
expat-ppc.lha dev/c 1.2M OS4 Expat C library for parsing XML
cppboost.lha dev/misc 5.8M OS4 Boost C++ libraries
subversion-1.1.4.lha dev/misc 6.6M VAR Revision control system, successor to RC
amon.lha dev/moni 23K GEN AMON hex monitor (Pascal source)
sysspeeda3000.zip dev/moni 1K OS3 SysSpeed Module: A3000/CyberstormMKII/Cy
alcatraz_iq.lha game/demo 391K OS3 Alcatraz' IQ Engine (3D Engine)
landofgenesis_demo.zip game/demo 2.8M OS3 Land of Genesis (Demo)
njam_mos.lha game/jump 1.4M MOS Full featured cross-platform pacman-like
PacMan05.lha game/jump 1.2M OS4 PacMan 05
scummvm_tools-aos4.lha game/misc 822K OS4 SCUMMVM Tools for use with SCUMM games.
magx-mos.lha game/text 377K MOS text adventures compiler
scrambly.lha game/think 208K OS4 puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
mencoder.lha gfx/edit 3.1M OS4 MEncoder for OS4
shim-src.lha gfx/show 13K GEN C Source of shim, a CLI image viewer
d_WinUAE.lha hard/drivr 5K OS3 German keymap for WinUAE
vbamuigui.lha misc/emu 14K OS4 VisualBoy Advance MUI GUI
BA_Tracks.lha mods/blkha 194K GEN 4 PT (2 channel) mods by blakkhar
Beat_for_my_sweet_remix.lha mods/blkha 2.0M GEN DBM remix by blakkhar
CantUCremix.lha mods/blkha 131K GEN DBM remix by blakkhar
KDA.lha mods/blkha 860K GEN DBM by blakkhar
MimiInHouse_Mix.lha mods/blkha 46K GEN PT mod by blakkhar
OK.lha mods/blkha 570K GEN DBM by blakkhar
Spectrum-One.lha mods/blkha 5K GEN PT mod by blakkhar
ruidos nuevos 4.mp3 mods/mpg 3.6M GEN Song by Diezi7
atmosfear_stuermera.zip mods/xm 450K GEN Realms of Atmosfear (XM Module)
breakthesilen_stuermera.zip mods/xm 185K GEN Break the Silence (XM Module)
cybericalwar_stuermera.zip mods/xm 460K GEN Cyberical Wargames (XM Module)
redalert_stuermera.zip mods/xm 477K GEN Red Alert (XM Module)
ADPCM_dec.lha mus/misc 25K OS3 Decoder for Christian Buchner's ADPCM pa
freedb_copytracks.lha mus/misc 11K GEN ARexx script for FreeDB to copy CD track
playOGG.lha mus/play 986K OS3 Plays OGG, MP3, FLAC, VOB, AC3, RA, mods
snowyhills-panorama.jpg pix/3dani 268K GEN Snowy Hills (Computergenerated Panorama)
EVIcons.lha pix/icon 197K GEN NewIcons for Eye Viewer v1.x-2.1
EVSkullflags.lha pix/icon 34K GEN Patch with Skullflags for Eye Viewer 2.1
WWorth_fincats.lha text/edit 27K OS3 Wordworth 3SE,4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
mkpasswd.lha util/cli 8K OS4 Small program for generating 'random' pa
wave_dt.lha util/dtype 113K OS4 An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 96K OS3 Italian version of StartBar
wbmakelink_os4.lha util/wb 49K OS4 A tool to make links all over your volum
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 13.11.2005
os4depot.net uploads since our last news report:
wave_dt.lha dat/sou 112kb An OS4 native RIFF-WAVE datatype, with s
pacman05.lha gam/mis 1Mb PacMan 05
njam.lha gam/act 2Mb Njam - SDL action game
mkpasswd.lha uti/she 7kb Small program for generating 'random' pa
wbmakelink.lha uti/wor 48kb A tool to make links all over your volum
freedb_copytracks.lha aud/mis 10kb ARexx script for FreeDB to create MP3 tr
vbamuigui.lha emu/uti 14kb VisualBoy Advance MUI GUI
scrambly.lha gam/puz 208kb puzzle game - port of a cellphone game
clipit.lha uti/wor 264kb ClipIt V2 GUI for clipboard.device src i
mencoder.lha vid/edi 3Mb MEncoder for OS4
boost.lha dev/lib 5Mb Boost C++ libraries
expat-ppc.lha dev/lib 1Mb Expat C library for parsing XML
scummvm_tools.lha gam/adv 821kb SCUMMVM Tools for use with SCUMM games.
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14.Nov.2005
Alinea Computer (ANF)
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ALINEA Computer introduces itself to the public
Wehrheim, Germany, the 14th of november 2005.
Alinea Computer is proud of presenting itself as a new company for Amiga-Software. We are an enterprise which concentrates it's work mainly on the development and the distribution of AmigaOS 4 applications and games. Besides, we offer support services like CD production, webdesign and dataprint. The following Amiga-Software is now available:
ANotice 2 - a memo programme
ANotice 2 is a memo programme for your workbench. It will help you to manage your notes, dates, to-do-lists or other important information. You can easily and fast change the notice and export it into different text-formats. ANotice 2 can manage up to 13 notes and each note can be designed individually with 13 different background and text- colors, 7 textures, different fonts and 4 text attributes.
Besides the large reaction-prefs which can controll all functions, ANotice 2 includes a network-function with client-server-programme, so that distributing a to-do-list in an enterprise can easily be done.
ANotice 2 was programmed as a commodity and runs totaly system friendly.
It operates on each Amiga with at least AmigaOS 4.0. You do not need any other libraries or additional programmes.
ANotice 2 is delivered by E-Mail and costs 5,95 Euro only.
AmiPhoto - a quick and comfortable photo-manager
AmiPhoto is a photo album for your digital photos and pictures. It's easy handling and attractive GUI will convince you. You can manage up to half a million pictures in 500 albums at the most. You can show the photos on the surface or by multiview. Because of a direct support of the Amiga OS4.0 datatype-system, it is possible to use all picture-formats which exist as datatype. AmiPhoto can further select and show the EXIF-dates of your digital photos.
For adapting perfectly on your workbench-skin, AmiPhotos uses it's own Bitmap-skin-system. The 17 skins you find on your CD will help you to style your AmiPhoto surface. You can certainly create your own skins. We would be proud to present your skin on our website.
AmiPhoto is programmed totaly system friendly. It supports the application library and does not need any additional libraries.
AmiPhoto is delivered an CD and costs just 19,95 Euro.
Freeware
The main ambition of Alinea Computer is to support the Amiga market. That's the reason why we will continue releasing programmes free of charge, so that the existing lack of Amiga-Software can be repaired. We hope you can use our software and we would be happy to hear some feedback concerning our products.
You'll find more information on our website. You can buy all our products in our Alinea-Shop. As a dealer, please contact us via this e-mail.
We would be glad to welcome you as a new customer!
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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13.Nov.2005
ANN (Web page)
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OpenPCI: PciTool provides information on installed PCI cards
PciTool by Marian Guc is available in versions for AmigaOS 3 and MorphOS, and provides information on installed PCI cards on a system equipped with the openpci.library.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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13.Nov.2005
Thorsten Passow (ANF)
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Spreadsheet: StarAm Plan 2.3
Thorsten Passow discloses the completion of version 2.3 of his spreadsheet StarAm Plan. Changes compared to version 2.24:
- almost all chart types can be created using the graphics menu now. This includes the superpostion auf different charts. A requester pops up first, now, to request the most important settings.
- the error messages of the commands in the menus edit and format contain more information and give you different choices in some cases now. The commands will be executed incompletely if this makes sense now.
- the data in the clipboard can be inserted as complete row or column if desired
- it is possible to insert references to other worksheets or layers in a formular by mouse now
- the options empty and zeros are supported by all chart types but the 2d area chart now
- the feature provided by XPK to save worksheets encrypted is better supported now
- the autosave function has been improved
- a lot of further improvements
- many bugs fixed
- registered users can get the german manual as PDF file if desired now
[sic]
A complete list of changes is part of the archive, which is available for download under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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13.Nov.2005
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Status Report: Schlachtfeld Phase II - Unit development
The makers of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld Phase II" deliver a further short insight into the current state of developments:
Stefan Jurisch has taken over the new development of the units für Schlachtfeld Phase II, based on the designs by Edgar Leidig.
The destroyer, as the first unit, has received its last grinding for the time being, and can be surveyed on the page of Stefan Jurisch (title link).
Under the Destroyer Gallery item, the development of the unit is illustrated with 19 pictures in total.
But the final version of the unit will only be released in the course of the first half of the coming year. For a start, the development of the next unit (out of 42 in total) is moved on to.
(cg) (Translation: cad)
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12.Nov.2005
Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco (Blog)
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Japanese Pegasos web page established for developers and users
Under the address pegasosppc.jp, registered by Genesi, a Pegasos web page is now also available in the native language for Japanese developers and users. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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12.Nov.2005
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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AROS: Interview with Michal Schulz (English)
Paul J. Beel has carried out an interview with AROS developer Michal Schulz within the scope of his blog "The AROS Show." Herein, among other things, in addition to his personal career as programmer, he also describes what AROS lacks most desperately at present, in his opinion: that is particularly a better documentation for developers, reportedly, in addition to more drivers as well as a complete compiler toolchain.
Michael Schulz has contributed, among other things, the native bootability on x86 systems, the first versions of the trackdisk.device and the ide.device, a new ata.device, as well as a range of drivers, to AROS. (snx) (Translation: cad)
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11.Nov.2005
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Patch for reactivating the network chips after using Linux
There is a patch called Via-Wakeup for all Pegasos users who use MorphOS as well as Linux 2.6.9 or
higher which reactivates the Via Rhine-network chip under MorphOS after usinf Linux.
Copy the patch to the MorphOS directory SYS:C and start it before you
use a network progrmm. It is recommended to start Via-Wakeup with the help of
the user-startup.
Download: via-wakeup.lha (13 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Nov.2005
Grasshopper LLC (E-Mail)
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AmigaOS 4: New beta versions of PageStream 4.1 and 5.0
According to Deron Kazmaier from Grasshopper there are new beta versions
of the DTP program PageStream for AmigaOS 4.
Loading, Saving, editing and printing documents is already possible and all other
remaining PageStream bugs concerns Interface/MUI. Please have a look at the Readme file.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Nov.2005
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Beta testers for Prometheus PCI-Board wanted
For the new firmware of the Prometheus pci board (which allows full pci dma at all four pci slots of the Prometheus and 100MBit / for the first time with it) E3B is urgently looking for beta testers.
Interested people should possibly live in Germany (headword: postage costs), own a functional amiga system and a Prometheus (firmware revision doesn't matter), run dma cards (like 100MBit RTL8139, usb NEC) in their system and should have a tolerable knowledge of it.
Anybody who wants to assist bringing the Prometheus board one important step further, can contact Michael Böhmer atE-Mail. (ps) (Translation: ts)
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10.Nov.2005
PPCNUX (homepage)
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Test report: 3D shooter under MorphOS with different graphics cards (Update)
Under the title link PPCNUX performs a detailed test of Morphos' suitability for 3D shooters with the use of different graphics cards.
Ports of Quake I-III were tested on a Pegasos II/G4 with the graphics cards Radeon 9200SE, Voodoo 3 3500TV and Radeon 9000 Pro All in Wonder.
Conclusion: "All games ran smoothly and without trouble - except the fatal try to set a 1600x1200 gaming resolution with the Voodoo 3."
Update: (08:33, 11.11.05, snx)
The test report has been translated into the English language meanwhile, thus the title link has been changed accordingly. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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