04.Mar.2006
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distributed.net: PowerPC/AmigaOS now 13th at OGR-25
In the OGR-25 competition did PowerPC/AmigaOS today move up to the 13th place and leaves Alpha/DEC OSF/1 behind.
The next to be overtaken are PA-RISC/HP-UX and MIPS/IRIX. With constant gains this will happen in appr. 65 respectively 231 days.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.Mar.2006
Amigaworld.net (website)
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Issues of the Italian Amiga Magazine online
Under the title link were most of the 95 issues of the Italian Amiga Magazine (released from 1988 to 1997) made available for download with official permission.
Readers appreciated the magazine because of its professional technical emphasis being the reason why they only marginally wrote about games.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.Mar.2006
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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MorphOS: new developers snapshot of MUI 4.0 alpha released
For peole loving to experiment did Stefan Stuntz release an up-to-date snapshot of the current version alpha 4.0 of his Magic User Interface (MUI).
Please note that it is in no way a finished version but still further development is needed - so you use it at your own risk.
Besides, some fundamental changes regarding the internals of MUI were made so that it may well be that some of your older MUI programs won't work anymore under the current version. So it is advised to backup your MUI version before installing this one.
MUI 4.0 alpha is available only for MorphOS, there are no limits of the usability regarding a keyfile or a timeout. Support of AmigaOS 4 is said to still fail because of the lack of supply with such a computer for porting.
To install just unpack the archive's content to MOSSYS. Developers can find the SDK in the file muisdk.lha.
Download: muibeta_20060226.lha (2,5 MB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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04.Mar.2006
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: moving and news.
Amiforce moved and is now completely available under the original domain Amiforce.de again. The forum is now directly integrated into the main site. new added are the sub forums "Code archive" and "Beginners tutorial". Furthermore was a new board for PerfectPaint set up The latest PerfectPaint update is available here, too. Detailed information can be found on the website
www.blackbird-net.de.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Mar.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Issue 59 (March/April 2006) published
Today the newest Amiga Future has been delivered to customers who ordered in advance.
It contains a report about the latest prerelease-update of AmigaOS 4 and a
detailed test of Hollywood 2.
On the reader -CD there are the following full versions of these games:
Defender of the Crown, Defender of the Crown 2, Pulsator with unpublished material,
Beneath at Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress
and Indigio.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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03.Mar.2006
Pegasos.org (website)
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Pegasos: Mac OS-loader MOLK 0.7
Version 0.7 of MOLK, Marcel 'Frostwork' Unbehaun's Mac OS-loader for Pegasos computers, is available by Torrent file-sharing now.
MOLK boots Mac OS X by Mac-on-Linux without the necessity of a Linux harddisk-installation. It is configurable under MorphOS and supports Tiger, CD/DVD-R/RW, USB and AC97.
Changes in version 0.7:
- Linux kernel 2.6.15.4 with integrated ASFS-support
- Soundcards available as module
- Selection of the MOL-data/config partition via kernel-commandline
- Integration of awk - so tunconfig should work now
- Addition of mkswap
- Addition of the missing default gateway line in start-misc
- USB2.0 device problem fixed
Torrent file: molk.lha.torrent (snx)
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03.Mar.2006
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III is Freeware
The astronomy-programm Digital Almanac III was published as Freeware
by the programmer Achim Stegemann. On Aminet there is
a 400 Megabyte big file
which contains the current version of as burnable CD-ROM Image-File (ISO-Format).
Together with source code which is also available on Aminet the author
makes all programmers possible to convert the program to
MorphOS or AmigaOS 4.
You can get further information to this prgram and to updates under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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02.Mar.2006
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga-C course and "Hardware-Assistent" move
Norman Walter's homepage is currently moving to a new server. The new url is http://w3.norman-interactive.com. Among other things "Hardware-Assistent" and the "Amiga-C-Kurs für Einsteiger" are affected from it.
Because of the move short technical problems could happen. Norman Walter is apologizing in advance for this. Please update your present links to the old url. (snx) (Translation: ts)
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02.Mar.2006
David Brunet (ANF)
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New reports at the obligement homepage(French)
Within the last two months the homepage of the French magazine Obligement was extended with some reports again:
- Amiga and MorphOS news of january/february 2006.
- Interview with Olivier Adam (AROS developper).
- Review of Quake 3 Arena.
- Review of Sudoku.
- Point of view : wrapper GTK/MUI.
- Point of view : discovered of AROS.
- Article about beginning on MorphOS and Pegasos (update).
- Hardware : SCSI bus of the BlizzardPPC 603e+.
- Tutorial : use of the keyboard.
- Tutorial : use and configuration of CTorrent.
- Tutorial : Perfect Paint - draw a CD.
- Tutorial : installation of Linux Ubuntu on Pegasos II.
- Tutorial : delete a Master Boot Record.
- The Amiga quizz
(cg) (Translation: ts)
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02.Mar.2006
MorphZone (Forum)
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MorphOS: mldonkey 2.7.4
Christian Rosentreter has provided the MorphOS version 2.7.4 of the filesharing client mldonkey. Besides the present archive the last complete version 2.6.3 as a basis is necessary, the content of the archive must be copied by using "bzip2 -d" over it. Additionally under MorphOS 1.4.x yarandom mut be installed.
Download:
mldonkey-2.7.4debug-morphos.bz2 (4,8 MB)
mldonkey-2.6.3-morphos.lha (10 MB)
yarandom-1.0.lha (7 KB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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02.Mar.2006
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Stock exchange software: proBonds V2.30
Sven Dröge's stock exchange program proBonds (Screenshot) is now available as version 2.30. Among other things the compatibility with AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS was increased, although the latest prerelease-update of AmigaOS 4 makes its contribution to the improved ability.
Detailed information of the changes can be found in the changelog proBonds_Info included in the program archive
Overview of the most important new features:
- Support of further languages, a test version of the English catalogue file is included; the language is automatically adapted to the system language at the program's start and cannot be changed manually in its current condition
- Improved compatibility with MorphOS and AmigaOS 4
- Small changes of the user interface
- Redesign of the import manager
(snx) (Translation: ts)
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02.Mar.2006
MorphZone (Homepage)
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MorphOS: User interface system Feelin 060207
The version 060207 of Olivier Laviales' graphical user interface Feelin (amiga-news.de berichtete) is available for Morphos as well.
Download: feelin060207_mos.lha (3,3 MB) (snx) (Translation: ts)
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02.Mar.2006
PPCNUX (website)
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PPCNUX: Passive-cooling of a Pegasos by heatpipe
At the title link, you can find a report with photos how to modify your Pegasos to become passively cooled by using an AeroCool VM-101 VGA Heatpipe. (snx)
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01.Mar.2006
amiga.org (Webseite)
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Linux: driver for FastATA
Krystian Baclawski has released a Linux driver for the IDE controller FastATA (Elbox).
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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01.Mar.2006
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MorphOS: MorphUp 0.956, TD MPlayer GUI 0.6, Bourriquet 0.2.9.5
MorphUp 0.956
The MorphOS packet manager MorphUp is avaiable in version 0.956 now. The new features include more preferences and the option to open a detail group by dobble clicking the packet.
Please note that after the update and before the next launch of MorphUp (client or generator) the following two files must be deleted to init the new default settings: config/cl.cfg und config/gen.cfg.
Download: morphup-morphos.lha (398 KB)
TD MPlayer GUI 0.6
TDolphin`s GUI for the video player MPlayer is available as version 0.6 for download. Among many minor changes and improvements, the tooltypes VIDEOPAT and SUBTITLESPAT were added.
Download: tdmplayergui.lha (51 KB)
Bourriquet 0.2.9.5
Bourriquet, a filesharing client for the eDonkey protocol, has been released in Version 0.2.9.5 for MorphOS by Eric Russeil.
Download page
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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28.Feb.2006
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies release #091
The scene group Liquid Skies yesterday released their 91th music pack. It contains the track "Guitar Vibes" by the Russian musician Alex West and a cover by DaFreak. The style of the track is rather soft natured.
- Title: Guitar Vibes
- Musician: Alex West
- Style: Ambient/Chillout
- Length: 4:31
- Format: mp3
- Size: 5,0 MB
The zipped file is available for free download under the link above. (cg) (Translation: iw)
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27.Feb.2006
Pegasos.org (Webseite)
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Linux: Gentoo 2006.0 released
The Linux-Distribution Gentoo is in Version 2006.0 available
- among other also for the Pegasos. Included is now the new
Gentoo-Installer
, which simplify the installation and works with several Frontends,
for example gtkfe. (snx) (Translation: aj)
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27.Feb.2006
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Minimig: Technical specifications of the Amiga-clons fixed
Dennis van Weeren, Developer of the FPGA-based Amiga 500-clons
Minimig
(amiga-news.de reported)
, has now the technical specifications to tranfer his prototype on a board
fixed.
A keyboard support, a on screen menu and if possible the support of all
games which needs 1MB memory will be added if this board is finished.
The technical specifications of the board:
- Board: 2-layer, 150 mm x 150 mm
- CPU: Freescale MC68SEC000 @ 10 MHz
- Memory: 2 MB, 70 ns SRAM (therefrom 0,5 MB for the Kickstart-ROM)
- FPGA: Xilinx Spartan-3 XC3S400-4PQ208C
- Mikrocontroller: PIC18LF252-I/SO
- 2x Gameports (9-Pin)
- 2x PS/2-connector (Mouse and Keyboard)
- 1x VGA-Connector (15-Pin)
- 1x Stereo-Connector (3,5 mm)
- 1x Serielle Port (9-Pin)
- 1x Powerconnector (8 - 12 Volt DC)
- 1x MMC-cartdreader
- 2x LED (Powersupply and Drive)
- 1x Pushbutton (Onscreenmenu)
- 1x Switch (Videooutput 31 or 15 KHz)
(snx) (Translation: aj)
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27.Feb.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AmigaOS 4: Video shows RDesktop-Performance and Screen-Dragging
Amiga-User Darren "Ryu" Glenn has on intuitionbase.com a Video
released, which shows the performance of the
RDesktop
-client and the with Update 4 added Screen-Dragging.
(cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Feb.2006
amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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MP3-Player: Changed Versionen of AmigaAMP-Engines
Thomas Wenzel changed the Decoder-Engines of his MP3-Player AmigaAMP:
several memory leaks and the AmigaOS 4 "unfreed signals"-Error are
fixed. (cg) (Translation: aj)
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27.Feb.2006
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Aminet-Uploads til 26.02.2006
Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
lohnsteuer.lha biz/misc 152K OS3 calculate the taxes and social insurance
wookiechat.lha comm/irc 458K VAR IRC Client (Internet Relay Chat)
facts.lha comm/tcp 198K OS3 NTP clock time synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
A71Mail.lha comm/www 19K GEN Email Form multilanguage written in php
asp2php-mos.lha comm/www 125K MOS ASP to PHP converter.
httphandler.lha comm/www 24K OS4 HTTP: device for accessing web-hosted fi
SFinfo.lha dev/basic 23K OS3 "sndfile.library" dev kit for Blitz
simplecat.lha dev/misc 103K VAR V2.20 Powerful CatComp replacement
amon.lha dev/moni 23K GEN AMON hex monitor (Pascal source)
DC2Lvl-EMine12.lha game/data 386K GEN 81 levels for Diamond Caves II
OpenJazz.lha game/jump 203K OS4 Jazz Jackrabbit games interpreter.
Arkanos.lha game/misc 518K OS3 free break out game like ARKANOID
scummvm-0.8.0.lha game/misc 2.4M MOS Adventure game engine
Wolfenstein3D.lha game/shoot 110K OS3 Amiga port of Wolf3D
Wolfenstein_3D_MOS.tgz game/shoot 1.3M MOS Wolfenstein 3D for MorphOS
adv770_os4.lha game/text 976K OS4 Text adventure Adv770
abandoned_bricks-mos.lha game/think 2.2M MOS SDL cross-platform tetris-like game
PaperBox.lha gfx/3d 2.0M OS3 Realtime rendered paper boxes using Stor
PaperBox_1.png gfx/3d 12K GEN Screenshot from PaperBox
PaperBox_2.png gfx/3d 4K GEN Screenshot from PaperBox
PaperBox_3.png gfx/3d 21K GEN Screenshot from PaperBox
SView5.lha gfx/misc 2.2M VAR SView5 Image Viewing/Processing Package
TVPAnimScripts.lha gfx/misc 11K GEN TVPaint Image-sequence transport scripts
mijfif.lha gfx/show 31K MOS JFIF&BMP24 viewer for CGX MorphOS
hatari.lha misc/emu 1.7M OS4 Atari ST and STE emulator
rundos.lha misc/emu 55K VAR run MS-DOS soft by clicking on the icon
ruidos_nuevos_4.mp3 mods/mpg 3.6M GEN Song by Diezi7
aifc2wav_4.lha mus/edit 16K OS3 Converts IMA4, SOWT and SDX2, AIFC to WA
playmate.lha mus/misc 130K OS4 General purpose instrument tuner & metro
nICkONs-4.lha pix/gicon 83K GEN Game Glowicons
2001_icons.lha pix/icon 390K GEN '2001 a Space Odyssey' a PNG iconset.
animauls.lha pix/icon 213K GEN 'Animauls' a PNG iconset. (128x128)
cheesefolders.lha pix/icon 105K GEN 'Cheese Folders' a PNG iconset. (128x128
chocolatefolders.lha pix/icon 154K GEN 'Chocolate Folders' a PNG iconset (128x1
cowmilk.lha pix/icon 102K GEN 'CowMilk' a PNG iconset. (128x128, 64x64
digital_video.lha pix/icon 235K GEN 'Digital Video' a PNG iconset. (128x128,
HunoPNGsPack1Fix.lha pix/icon 731K GEN HunoPNG'sPack1 Fix for Workbench
HunoPNGsPack2Fix.zip pix/icon 982K GEN HunoPNG'sPack2 Fix for Workbench
icollection.lha pix/icon 657K GEN 'iCollection' a PNG icon collection.
kiwiana.lha pix/icon 147K GEN 'Kiwiana' a PNG iconset. (128x128, 64x64
pizzaicons.lha pix/icon 962K GEN 'PizzaIcons 1 and 2' a PNG iconset. (128
totalchaosagav5_review.jpg pix/misc 177K GEN Review of the game Total Chaos AGA
ikir_theme.lha pix/theme 1.1M GEN ikir's AmigaOS 4 Theme
mixer-fire.zip pix/theme 62K GEN Brighter Them for Audio-Mixer (A1-AOS4)
dt.jpg pix/wb 620K GEN Amikit scren shot
BareED.lha text/edit 347K OS3 Text editor supporting proportional font
IconBeFast.lha util/boot 20K OS3 for faster icons & better color mapping,
Transmitter.lha util/cdity 58K OS3 Reads text-clips and stores them as inpu
codesets.lha util/libs 349K VAR Library for handling codesets and charac
TritonPPC.lha util/libs 409K MOS Triton GUI creation system
zlibrary.lha util/libs 40K OS4 zlib core as a shared library for AmigaO
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27.Feb.2006
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os4depot.net: Uploads til 26.02.2006
os4depot.net uploads since our last report:
wesnoth_exe.lha gam/str 4Mb Battle for Wesnoth
aquastars.lha gra/ico 372kb 'AquaStars' a PNG iconset. (128x128, 64x
geekysweets.lha gra/ico 389kb 'Geeky Sweets' a PNG iconset. (128x128)
sddapple.lha emu/com 310kb Apple II emulator.
ww2.lha gam/boa 2Mb World War II strategy war game
codesets.lha lib/mis 349kb Library for handling codesets and charac
cheesefolders.lha gra/ico 246kb 'Cheese Folders' a PNG iconset. (128x128
chocolatefolders.lha gra/ico 153kb 'Chocolate Folders' a PNG iconset (128x1
cowmilk.lha gra/ico 102kb 'CowMilk' a PNG iconset. (128x128, 64x64
pizzaicons.lha gra/ico 961kb 'PizzaIcons 1 and 2' a PNG iconset. (128
playmate.lha aud/mis 130kb General purpose instrument tuner & metro
2001.lha gra/ico 389kb '2001 a Space Odyssey' a PNG iconset.
animauls.lha gra/ico 213kb 'Animauls' a PNG iconset. (128x128)
digital_video.lha gra/ico 235kb 'Digital Video' a PNG iconset. (128x128,
fight_club.lha gra/ico 554kb 'Fight Club' a PNG iconset. (128x128, 64
icollection.lha gra/ico 657kb 'iCollection' a PNG icon collection.
kiwiana.lha gra/ico 146kb 'Kiwiana' a PNG iconset. (128x128, 64x64
apod.tar.bz2 uti/har 783kb apod - perl based ipod application for O
mixer-steel.lha aud/mis 9kb Mixer theme
dosbox.lha emu/com 1Mb MS DOS emulator
freesci.lha gam/adv 678kb Sierra games interpreter
icns2png.lha gra/con 232kb MacOs Icons (icns)-To-Png-Converter
feltcritters.lha gra/ico 993kb FeltCritters , fluffy pngicons =)
zlibrary.lha dev/lib 40kb zlib core as a shared library for AmigaO
adv770.lha gam/adv 976kb Text adventure Adv770
openjazz.lha gam/pla 202kb Jazz Jackrabbit games interpreter.
wesnoth_data.lha gam/str 46Mb Battle for Wesnoth - Data File
hunopngspack4.zip gra/ico 981kb HunoPNG'sPack2 Fix for Workbench
analog.lha net/mis 2Mb Analog - A popular server log analysis t
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25.Feb.2006
Martin 'Mason' Merz (ANF)
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Toolbar icons: Amiga Image Storage System 2
Amiga Image Storage System (AISS) is a system for managing toolbar pictures under AmigaOS and comes with a big collection of default icons. The pictures are saved in two separate directories (standard images and further icons added by the user) which can be accessed via a common assign.
Important: AISS 2 is incompatible with earlier versions! The document 'Uninstall.html' explains how to remove older versions. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Feb.2006
x (ANF)
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Amithlon: step-by-step installation guide
Under the title link is an hard disk installation of the emulator Amithlon demonstrated with many pictures.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Feb.2006
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Charset conversion: codesets.library 6.0
The codesets.library allows applications to use codeset/charset tables via a unique interface and to convert between different charsets, e.g. within an email client from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.
Applications already using the codesets.library are among others the Instant Messenger 'Epistula' and the current "developer" versions of the known mailer software YAM.
The library (recently released under the LGPL) is available as version 6.0 for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOSt. Next to the porting to AmigaOS 4 were numerous changes made in this version making it in some points incompatible with earlier versions.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Feb.2006
amigaworld.net (website)
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AmigaOS 4: MSN plugin and updates for Instant Messenger Epistula
A new version of the Instant Messenger Epistula is available for download via the title link. Since the last release were numerous bugs found and fixed, besides there's a new version of the plugin development kit. A plugin for the Microsoft MSN protocol is available, too.
Epistula requires the codesets.library to work.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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25.Feb.2006
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Car racing: update for Desert Racing released
There are three patches available for the racing game Racing for the full version and the demo version. While the patch files for the full version can only be requested via email because of copy protection you can download those for the demo version using the title link.
The demo version can be downloaded there, too, if needed (230 MB, reuired hard disk space 600 MB). To receive the patch for the full version your real name and the retailer's name and the invoice number are needed if the game's bought somewhere else than from APC&TCP. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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