28.Jun.2004
Diverse
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Software News in Summary
Update of various Asoft tools
Alfonso "alfie" Ranieri released updates of RxMUI (40.8), RexxMustHave (22.5), RxToolkit (2.6) and FreeDB (10.1).
Worm Wars 7.81
"Worm Wars" is a Tron clone by James "Amigan" Jacobs. Version 7.81 introduces a new object ("Autojump"), beyond that there are various optimizations and several mistakes have been resolved.
Direct download: WormWars.lha (541 KB)
Saga 1.4b
Also from James Jacobs comes "Saga", a computer version of the board-game "Saga: Age of Heroes". The update takes care of a couple known errors.
Direct download: Saga.lha (332 KB)
68060 version of "libmad mpega.library"
A special 68060 version of "libmad mpega.library" that offers speed advantages due to the avoidance of a few opcodes unknown to the 68060.
Direct download: mpega_libmad_060.lha (59 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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26.Jun.2004
amiga-news.de editorial staff
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amiga-news.de: comments script enhanced
After enhancing the comments function in March 2004
with the possibility of an optional registration Sven Drieling has now further improved the script.
Update
Changes:
- Login now via HTML form including logged in-stay option instead of the login via HTTP authentification.
- After login/logout as well as after sending a comment you stay on the original page.
New features:
- Preview - Before sending a comment you get a preview so you are able to do corrections.
- Direct link - Within the comments there's now a direct link (without sessionID) so the coments can now easily be bookmarked and the link to a coment can easily be forwarded to others.
- Admin comments - Three following stars '***' can now be entered only by admins. They are used for highlighting (green text, BLOCKQUOTE) of hints to the comments' presentation.
- Admin - Various enhancements for an easier administration of the comments.
Bugfixes:
- The '&'-separator in the URLs appears in the HTML source code now as '&'.
- If the text of the comment now passes the allowed 10.000 characters the text won't be deleted anymore.
During the script change have some comment s gone into the Nirvana.
We ask for your understanding.
Update 27-Jun-2004:
If problems or errors happen because of the new script we ask for a most detailed and comprehensive description of these in the comments. Please name also the used browser. We will fix appearing bugs one by one as soon as possible.
It has shown to be helpful to delete all previous cookies from amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jun.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Designers and musicians for new AmigaOS
For the games project "TripleA" (working title) designers and musicians are looked for. To say it straight away there will be no pay for it.
The official designer(s) and musician(s) will get free access to all games versions. Of course, they'll be mentioned in the game credits. In return the graphic and music files will be part of the official release.
Graphics:
- The games graphics are fully 32bit, so everything from render graphics to cartoon graphics can be used.
- The single games objects aren't restricted by the resolution.
- The minimum number of needed objects can be enhanced by the designer (!) and will be automatically integrated into the levels by the games engine.
- The number of animations is also not limited.
Music:
- It is thought of a music player similar to the one already existing in BoulderDäsh. Various tests with Protracker AHI players are still running.
- The musician should therefore have knowledge in composing with Protracker and should be capable to create subdued (lift/golf-course) music, too.
- The possibility of creating sound effects is advantageous.
Interested people can mail directly. Please use "Grafiker" or "Musiker" as subject so the mails don't end in the SPAM filter.
For easy selection, designers can attach a picture showing at least three animation phases of a walking person e.g. a cartoon person. Musicians can attach a small piece of music.
Questions about the kind of game or similar won't be answered.
Guido Mersmann
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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25.Jun.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Microsoft warns of specially critical lack of security
Today Microsoft which is the worldwide biggest producer of software has pointed out to
a critical lack of security in its WWW-browser Internet Explorer which has been known
for some weeks. According to the statement users can be infected by Trojans on pages
which seems to be reliable. This applies to servers which use the Microsofts Internet Information Services (IIS)
and which have been manipulated by another lack of certainty. This can be fixed by
a patch. The lack in the Internet Explorer can be only fixed by installing of a preversion
of the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP but which should not be used on computers which are
used in the production. You also can set the preferences of security of the Internet Explorer
to "high" but thus you cannot use JavaScript any longer. Those ones who do not want to
risk something should not use the Internet Explorer as long as it is not fixed.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
Michael C. Battilana (e-mail)
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Events: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 Update
Amiga Alpe Adria, the annual alternative and classic computing get-together organized by our Italian Amiga Forever team, will take place in little more than a week in Udine, a beautiful town
located between Venice and the Alps.
The event home page is at http://0xAA.org. The web site has just been updated with the latest flight and travel resources, links to cultural events, and exhibits information. It is now a very good time to take advantage of last-minute airline offers.
Additionally, tickets are still available for concerts and
performances which range from hip-hop superstars Cypress Hill (at
the nearby Rototom Sunsplash festival), to Michael Flatley's Lord
of the Dance, to Italian singer and songwriter Nek.
This week's confirmed Amiga Alpe Adria guests include Ben Hermans
of Hyperion (developers of Amiga OS 4.0), Christian Kemp (founder
and maintainer of Amiga news site ANN.lu) and other Amiga
personalities.
Amiga Alpe Adria is free to all attendees, including exhibitors.
Pre-registration is appreciated. The Amiga Alpe Adria web site
includes additional details and contact information to assist
visitors in their preparations and journeys.
We hope to see you on July 3rd!
Regards,
Michael C. Battilana
President, Cloanto (snx)
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25.Jun.2004
S. Eichholz (ANF)
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Demo-Scene: Results of opinion poll to Breakpoint-Party
The results of the
poll (amiga-news.de reported)
of the this year Demo-Party "Breakpoint" in Bingen are available online.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
Tristan 'TriMa' Mangold (ANF)
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MorphOS: "Blue Space Ninja"-Skin published
I have finished my second
MorphOS-Intuition-Skin.
This has been made in Amiga style and additionally contains MUI images and a MUI configuration.
(screenshot). (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
Jürgen Schober (ANF)
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Dealer: point.design closed
Not long ago we could proudly deliver the first AmigaOS 4.0 version to our AmigaOne customers.
We are very delighted about this.
Nevertheless point.design in Austria has been
closed because of personal reasons. I will move to Phoenix, AZ, in the USA because of a job offer.
The desicion has been not easy for me but I had to use this chance. This unfortunately
means the end for point.design and for OASE, too.
It has been a very exciting time. We succeeded in building up something in a market which
to many users was alreday dead. We helped to organize the "AmigaOS 4 on Tour", have organized
a show event in Austria called OASE and have tried to offer products and support for
Amiga users.
So I am really delighted that we finally succeeded in publishing the AmigaOS-pre-CD.
I am still looking forward to new Amiga products.
I want to thank you all customers and all who helped us. It made lot of fun to work with you.
YOUR
Jürgen & Silke Schober
PS: Maybe I will make it to see Sacramento in July. ;) (snx) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jun.2004
www.xbaze.tk (ANF)
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Data base: XBaze Version 7.3 Beta 18 available
The data base programm XBaze is available
in version 7.3 Beta 18 (619 KB).
You need at least AmigaOS 3.0 but the programm also works under MorphOS.
XBaze is Cardware and uses a dynamic memory management so the size of the data base is
only limited by the available memory.
Some features of XBaze:
- Easy to use GUI
- Six freely configurable kinds of fields
- URL-use via openurl.library
- Use of the system-Clipboards
- Layout-Editor with Drag&Drop
- Flexible sort- and search-options
- Configurable print-option
- Saving and loading in ASCII-format (CSV and TSV)
- ARexx-Port (over 80 commands)
- Statistic-option
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jun.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Golem: Why Don't We Rebel Against Copyright Law - Interview with L. Lessig
"Why don't we rebel against copyright?" is the question, in relation to which Golem.de has conducted an interview with professor of jurisprudence Lawrence Lessig, who's a decisive critic of the present
copyright regulations and a member of the board of the Free Software Foundation.
In the discussion with Golem.de he talks about his vision of the culture of the 21st century, criticizes copyrights - which belong to companies, who hold onto them while the actual author dies sooner or later, and speaks in favor of necessity to have P2P exchange methods. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Presentation: "Pegasos - The Open Platform"
Under the title Pegasos - The Open Platform you'll find a presentation in which Genesi attempts to lay out advantages of the Pegasos and their strategy as an open PPC platform for business customers. Along with this Genesi's leadership makes clear on MorphZone that no-one has to worry about MorphOS because now as before it's a part of the whole picture. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Jacek Piszczek
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MorphOS: TranspoClock 1.04
Jacek Piszczek has released a new version of his transparent desktop clock for MorphOS.
Changes since the last version:
- Memory amount display with configurable colors
- Window positions in the selections are updated automatically
- Small bug fixes
(cr) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Amigaplus
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AMIGAplus 06/2004 - Everything for the Amiga One
In the new AMIGAplus 06/2004 (#148) you can read about the following reports among others:
[report summaries not translated -DM]
Amiga One: Compatible Hardware
Big Special: the 50 best Tools for the Classic Amiga
Review: Open Transport Tycoon
And more:
- Test: Turboboard Viper 1230/40
- Review: Cocolino mouse adapter
- Amiga Status Report: Before the Pre-Release...
- Shareware: New from the 'Net
- Emu-Corner: New Version of WinUAE
- Table Calculations Workshop (Part 3)
- The latest from the Amiga Market
- Report: Demoscene, What Now?
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available by subscription, single issue order and in Amiga speciality shops at the price of five euros. (sn) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
Matthias Bertram (ANF)
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Update of the New Edition of the Turbo-Card Apollo 630
Matthias Bertram wrote to provide an update of the new edition of the Amiga 600 turbo-card Apollo 630 (68030@40 MHz, SIMM socket for up to 32 MB RAM, connection for 68882 FPU) through Individual Computers (amiga-news.de reported):
"There's news again on the Apollo front: I've already found 70 purchasers for the new Apollo!
About 25 other interested people have not yet decided. Should 100 units be ordered, the price will be 100 euros instead of the 130 euro price listed until now.
Jens Schönfeld has a couple ideas concerning the CPU and the attachment of the turbo-card. But he says he doesn't want to reveal more right now." (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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Chess Game: HellChess Released (Update)
HellChess marks the appearance of a new chess game that is free in the Amiga version, and also of all things payment-required for the Linux, Windows, GameBoy Advanced, Palm and PocketPC versions in development (screenshots).
An excerpt of the features of the program (9 MB):
- Capable AI for the single player mode
- many exercise instructions
- many configuration options
- online play possibility through Direct Connect or the HellHound master server
A PPC/RTG Amiga version is still in development.
Update: (26th June 2004, 17:52, snx)
As the author commented, the next-released version of the game has problems with AGA/ECS, therefore the archive from yesterday has been replaced with an update. To that end there's an 8-bit version of the contained animations being worked on for systems without graphics cards. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
pegasosforum.de
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Pegasos 2: Debian Linux 2.6.7 Kernel with GigaBit-LAN
Sven Luther (Genesi) released a Debian Linux kernel for the Pegasos 2, that supports the gigabit ethernet port of the motherboard.
The use of the gigabit ethernet is possible after the execution of a firmware update that should appear in the next few days.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jun.2004
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AmigaOS 4: Current Ports
SMBFS
Mark Bond compiled Olaf Barthel's SMBFS (SMB Filesystem) for AmigaOS 4.
xMameGui
xMameGUI is a graphic user interface for the AmigaOS port of xMame.
KmailtoMbox
"KmailtoMbox" is an ARexx Script that can convert "KMail" (Linux) e-mail-archives to the "MBox" format that YAM requires. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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23.Jun.2004
Andreas R. Kleinert
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: More keyfiles
Andreas R. Kleinert has made some more keyfiles publicly
available at his homepage.
Those are intended for some of his programs which will appear
at the Aminet soon.
The keyfiles are for the following products, the first four of
them support the PPC (PowerUp):
- PNG-Box
- JPEG-Box
- akMPEG
- akMPEG4
- DRAFU
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
ANN (website)
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Version 1.5 of the FlashROM software Luciferin for Algor / ROMulus
Dear E3B customers, E3B and Chris Hodges are proud to announce the availability of a new version of the Luciferin FlashROM software for the Algor and Highway/ROMulus expansion cards. It is a free update provided as service to all registered Algor/ROMulus users.
Although the last update is nearly a one year old, nearly all of the reports were positive and only a few requests have been made. The software was indeed ahead of its time. However, developers of other FlashROM solutions have planned some new features, which were missing in the old version of Luciferin. As usually, Algor and ROMulus users are the first to get these features working in their machines, preserving that the Algor/ROMulus continues to be to the best FlashROM solution on the market.
An absolutely new feature is the ability to now install a (possibly custom) Kickstart ROM image inside the FlashROM. It then can be enabled instantly at the first boot with the newly included AlgorKick module. AlgorKick uses the MapROM option of the various phase5 CPU cards, most of the users have in their machines. The 512KB Kickstart image easily fits into the FlashROM using compression, taking less than 300KB inside the FlashROM. There is still plenty room for lots of other modules! No need for BlizKick anymore!
The following boards are supported by AlgorKick:
- Blizzard 1230-I/II/III/IV, 1230-T/ERC, 1260, 2040-ERC, 2060, and PPC
- Cyberstorm MKI/MKII/MKIII and PPC
- (Commodore A3640 / Blizzard A4030 -- please ask)
Also, a new tool "HatchSentinel" has been included to generate a password protection to the machine. Once installed in the FlashROM, it will present a password screen instantly after turning the machine on. The Sentinel module comes with various options, such as starting itself in the background, so that the booting process is not delayed.
The Bootloader has been improved to correctly determine the Kickstart version number with the BoingBag2 exec.library update. This was only cosmetic, but was added on user demand. The loader now also comes in a new "permanent" version, that will add ROMTags only once, making it even faster than before.
Several other new ROMTags have been added to the archive, such as modules to disabled the IDE controller to avoid unnecessary waiting (if you don't have any IDE devices connected). Or removing the bootmenu for secure and even faster booting. Or SpeedRamsey, a contribution by Christian Sauer.
Luciferin, the user friendly graphical tool for handling the FlashROM contents has become even better and will now warn you, if you try to include a program that shouldn't be installed into the FlashROM.
This is the list of most improvements. The update will be emailed free of charge to registered users the next days. Users of the Highway should be reminded that they still have the offer to update their card with a ROMulus module, check out the IOSpirit website for details.
E3B and Chris Hodges hope that you will enjoy this update. (snx)
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23.Jun.2004
Amiga.org (Forum)
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RISC OS: "Are we so dissimilar?" - a comparison with AmigaOS
Whoever guesses the Amiga market situation - the split of
development, different visions - would be some kind of unique
might change his mind after reading the following English
article RISC OS vs.
AmigaOS by Chris Williams.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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AmigaOS4: New article about the boot configuration
Philippe 'Elwood' Ferrucci has released an
article at the help section for AmigaOS4 of
IntuitionBase.com explaining the boot configuration of
AmigaOS4.
The article explains the differences between Classic Amigas
and UBoot as well as the SLB (Second Level Bootloader)
of AmigaOS4. There is also information how the Kickstart
images work and how to build a backup configuration which will
boot even the system was some kind of misconfigured.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Samba 3.0.4 ported (alpha version)
Michael Grunditz has ported Samba 3.0.4 to MorphOS. The
alpha version
(30 MB) is available from the MorphZone. Samba is used for
file access and printing within heterogeneous networks.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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23.Jun.2004
Heise (Newsticker)
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Motorola officially announces stock market flotation of Freescale
As reported by Heise,
Motorola announced official the planned stock market flotation of
Freescale semiconductor to the US stock exchange
authorities. An actual date for that has not been announced
yet.
Motorola will keep 92% of the votes at Freescale first and
hopes to raise up to 2.5 billion US Dollar by selling the
stocks. Further details are to obtain from Heise
(German).
PowerPC processors by Motorola/Freescale are used with the
AmigaOne by Eyetech as well as with the
Pegasos by Genesi. The latter company just
announced to have held a
Pegasos trainig seminar for Freescale employees.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jun.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Events: New website for Amiga Alpe Adria
A new web site for the Amiga Alpe Adria, which takes place July 3rd in Udine, Italy, was placed online at 0xAA.org over the week-end, and is now fully functional.
The site includes updated information about airlines, official hotel, time and place (availability of a new, larger facility has been confirmed), maps and other events in the region (e.g. concerts, museum exhibits, et cetera).
Please use the registration and contact forms at 0xAA.org if you are planning to attend Amiga Alpe Adria, or if you require additional information. (snx)
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21.Jun.2004
ANN (Website)
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Web browser: AWeb 3.5 APL Lite Beta released
The AWeb open Source Project released a first beta version of 'AWeb 3.5 APL Lite' today.
An overview of the most important changes since AWeb 3.5 (complete ChangeLog):
- HTML: Support for <INS> and <DEL> tags
- Rendering: Double Buffered Rendering - Optional double buffering dramatically reduces the flickering during rendering of long table based pages.
- Background Images no longer force a complete redraw off the
document, resulting in a dramatic speed up of some pages.
- Layout: Fixes and standardisation to the way tables are laid out, and to the way background images in tables are align mean that many more pages
render "correctly".
- Internal image decoder: Fix to the transparency bug in the internal gif decoder.
- Gopher Support: Improved gopher support.
- Character sets: Support for translating character sets enables pages using a different character set to be displayed.
- Splash screen: New more attractive startup screen and about requester.
- AWebplugins: Fixes to a major bug in the image decoder plugins where AWeb would crash with bad memory trashing on repeated iconificataion.
- AWeblibs: The aweblib version numbering has been changed, all version start from 35 as of this release. This avoids some clashes that would other
wise occur with previous version of AWeb. 'awebjs.aweblib' has been renamed 'javascript.aweblib' for the same
reason.
- Javascript: Fundamental support for Regular Expression objects has been
introduced in this version. However, the string methods using regular
expressions have not yet been implemented and as most real world
sites uses these methods few new sites will work, rather this is the
first step on the journey.
- Developer compile: A compile of the developer version of AWeb (AWeb.developer) is included in
the archive. It is not installed by the Install script. It allows developers
and beta testers to generate extended debug info and should only be used for
this purpose. It contains no extra browsing functionality.
(cg)
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21.Jun.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Tutorial: Samba on AmigaOS 4.0
Alan Buxey and Olaf Barthel compiled a short Tutorial explaining how to install and configure Samba on AmigaOS 4.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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