18.Aug.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT appoints Mr. Hardware Computers as Official US-Distribution Partner
In an effort to improve the availability of its AmigaOS/MorphOS line of products in the United States of America, Mr. Hardware Computers has been appointed by IOSPIRIT as the Official Distribution Partner for this region.
US customers interested in the IOSPIRIT titles will benefit of shorter delivery times and the US-centric infrastructure of Mr. Hardware Computers. When ordering through this partner, US dollars can be used as currency for all payments. Furthermore locally popular methods of payment like money orders or the Amex, Mastercard, Visa and Discovery creditcards are then available. Off of this list, IOSPIRIT at the time of writing does only offer Visa and Mastercard.
"We are very glad we could win Mr. Hardware Computers as Official Distribution Partner for the US region and can now jointly offer US customers a tailor-made solution for purchasing our products." said Felix Schwarz, IOSPIRIT.
"Mr. Hardware Computers is happy to include IOSPIRIT's products to our line of software programs. Demonstrations of these powerful programs will be given at usergroups around the New York area." said Russ Norrby, Mr. Hardware Computers.
About IOSPIRIT
IOSPIRIT is a software-development and -distribution company based in Herzogenaurach, Germany. It's the company's declared goal to bring innovative, fast and reliable graphics software products to the desktop of its customers at competitive prices. The inhouse development has created - among others - such popular titles as fxPAINT, fxSCAN and VHI Studio. IOSPIRIT also is worldwide distributor of IBrowse and the Medusa USB bundle.
About Mr. Hardware Computers
Mr. Hardware Computers is an Amiga Sales, Service and Product Development company since 1985. Based in New York, USA. Devoted to the Amiga since its inception. Amiga computers are used to run all aspects of the company. The company's main software is a database called "SBase" (formerly SuperBase) and also produces Amiga Mouse and Keyboard Adapters for Classic Line Amigas. Being on the OS4 Development/Betatester team, Mr. Hardware Computer's commitment has been strengthened to continue to upgrade and repair all Amiga computers. (snx)
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18.Aug.2004
z5 (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive: 400 productions reached
Yes, we did it! After what is probably our biggest update yet (7 productions added), we finally reach 400 (!) productions. If you like the site and appreciate the effort, please support it!!! We want your votes and comments. :)
In the last update, 7 productions were added:
- Headcase/Axis
- Baahl/Traktor
- Behind The Flute/Traktor
- Rink A Dink/Lemon
- Razorback/Reason
- Phi/Artwork
- Elektrik Baby/Da Jormas.
Other recent additions include:
- Zero/Universe (first OS4 demo)
- Rebirth/Push Entertainment
- Wessyde/RNO
- Major Release/Da Jormas
- Flow/Kangooroo
- Borst/Ephidrena
- Coma/Ephidrena
- Sun/Trsi
- Peanut/Efreet.
Some stats: 400 productions, 4113 screenshots, 67 logos, 380 users, 75 parties and 139 groups.
Meanwhile, the top 10 chart has changed a lot. Planet Potion is still head and shoulders above the competition with a faultless 5/5, Hardwired has settled in 2nd place and Future Visions from Potion has climbed up to 3th position. (snx)
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16.Aug.2004
e.p.i.c. interactive (e-mail)
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Spellbound Entertainment and e.p.i.c. interactive to enter license agreement
Kehl/Tübingen, August 16th, 2004 - Spellbound Entertainment AG and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh have reached a comprehensive license agreement that will bring many of the popular Spellbound games to other systems like the Apple Macintosh and Linux among others.
The first title to be ported will be the strategy game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", which will initially be released for Apple Macintosh and Linux. Versions for other systems are planned. Further Spellbound titles are to follow soon.
"We are very proud to have the chance to cooperate with one of Germany's longest standing developing companies. Finally great Spellbound titles, which all have gathered a large and loyal following, will become available to gamers on other computer systems", said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. interactive, about the deal.
Armin Gessert, CEO of Spellbound, added: "In e.p.i.c. we have found a competent partner and we are happy that the long neglected users of systems such as Macintosh and Linux will soon be able to play our games too."
More information about "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" will be available on our website soon. (snx)
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15.Aug.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers at Classic Gaming Expo 2004
The big exhibition for classic computers and video games Classic Gaming Expo takes place for the seventh time this year. It is a tribute to the people, systems and games of yesteryear. The event has moved from Las Vegas to San Jose, California, it takes place in the Convention Center, located downtown San Jose, and is therefore much bigger than the previous years.
More than 60 celebrities that played important roles in development of computers and games in the past 25 years are on the guest list. CGE is open to the public and gamers of all ages are welcome.
Individual Computers will be a guest at the booth of Cloanto. We will show the new Catweasel MK4, which is an ideal complement to their Amiga Forever emulator. The Catweasel controller lets you use Amiga disks, Amiga joysticks and Amiga keyboards with today's computers.
The Catweasel MK4 will be available starting October 2004. (snx)
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14.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Error in AmiChameleon installer script
In the version of AmiChameleon released on August, 12th (we reported) is a bug in the installer script. According to a user's report the installer script aborted during the installation process. As an entry in the startup-sequence must be done the startup-sequence wasn't readable anymore after a reset.
The new script now doesn't add an entry to the startup-sequence anymore but gives the user the information that an entry has to be done and where it has do be done.
If this error occurs to other users, too, here is the solution of the problem: Before the writing to the startup-sequence a backup of this file was created called s:startup-sequence.orig. Just give it back its original name and everything should work as before.
Jörg Renkert (ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi attending SNDF Europe as exhibitor and Gold Sponsor
As already at the American event in Dallas in April (amiga-news.de reported), Genesi will also attend Freescale's Smart Networks Developers Forum Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, September 28-30. Again, the Luxemburgish computer manufacturer will not only be an exhibitor there but also provide the Internet café as a Gold Sponsor. (snx)
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14.Aug.2004
Robert Wahnsiedler (e-mail)
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New address of French Amiga repairer Amiga.fr
The French Amiga Center for spare parts and repairs (including PowerUp cards), formerly known under the URL Amiga.fr, is now accessable via http://www.bourgogne-informatique.com.
The e-mail address of the Amiga Center is jean-jacques.boulet@wanadoo.fr. The snail mail address, bank account, telephone number and the offered services stay unchanged.
Furthermore, they are still looking for someone with interest to translate the homepage from French to English.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: demo of quiz game Miliarderzy released
Miliarderzy, a quiz game based on TV shows like "Wer wird Millionär" and on ideas of the authors, was now released as a beta version for MorphOS as well as for PPC-Linux and Windows.
All three versions are part of the archive (5.5 MB) and are available right now in Polish, English and Swedish. The programmers are looking for support to finish the game and for support of more languages.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Amiga-News.com (ANF)
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Event: Amigaparty Friedrichsdorf
On August, 21st 2004 an Amiga party will take place in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Next to AmigaOS 4.0 several more software pieces will be shown there.
These are:
- ANotice (a notepad program for the Workbench)
- JAmiga (Javacompiler for AmigaOS)
- Hollywood (presentation software and more)
- and one or the other surprise :)
The entry is free. Further information can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Commodore and Amiga show in the Netherlands on August 21st
Our C= and Amiga show on August 21st 2004 will be from 10:00 till 16:00 at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen, Holland.
There will be again a lot of C= and Amiga fans together with their computers. You can buy and exchange stuff, discuss with a lot of other freaks and we do repairs. Come and join us and look for more info at the title link. (snx)
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13.Aug.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS-Skin: SpaceStation
On morphzone.org there is a new skin for MorphOS (screenshot).
Direct download: spacestation.lha (755 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Aug.2004
heise online
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heise: The City of Munich Advances with Linux Migration
Last Wednesday at a press conference at city hall, München's (Munich's) Mayor and SPD politician Christian Ude stated that the Munich government would go ahead and begin accepting bids for the outfitting of their desktops with unrestricted software, in spite of legal unclarity and persistent fears of a patent war over open source.
Read the complete heise article under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
e.p.i.c. interactive (E-Mail)
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E.p.i.c. Interactive to attend Games Convention in Leipzig
E.p.i.c. Interactive will participate again this year in the 19th through 22nd August Leipzig Games Convention, which is the European gaming industry event.
You'll find us at the stand of our partner company Magnussoft in Hall 3, Stand B10. There we'll present various new items for Macintosh, Linux and Pegasos computer systems. We'll be happy to see you.
Best wishes,
Thomas Steiding
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
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4Players: Interview w. Former Demo Scene Member Jesper Kyd (Hitman-Soundtrack)
Under the title link you'll find a short interview that the videogame portal 4Players conducted with Jesper Kyd, a former adherent of the Amiga demo scene who is credited among others with the musical accompaniment of the "Hitman" games (PC, X-Box, PS2). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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AmiChameleon V1.35 Released
The theme installation program AmiChameleon has reached version 1.35. The following changes have been implemented:
- After Thilo Köhler reorganized the skins of his ArTKanoid, AmiChameleon was adapted. It now supports the new skins as well as the new sounds.
- It's immediately possible to have the AmiChameleon server check for certain program updates. Every time AmiChameleon starts (if this feature is activated and you're online) it checks to see if a new version is available from the server and notifies the user accordingly.
- AmiChameleon is now available in 68k and WarpOS versions.
- The localization data and installation script have been updated.
AmiChameleon v1.35 is available on the developer's homepage as a free download. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Version 0.10 beta of information tool statline
Version 0.10 beta of the information tool 'statline' is available.
Changes:
- size gadget area is now a bit larger (catoh, canuma)
- added placeholders for opened screens and windows
- uses now BetterString for the formatstring (prefs)
- added placeholder for env vars
- added poplist for placeholders (prefs)
- added uptime and record uptime
- added placeholder for context switches per second
- added CPU temperature (not tested, maybe it works with MorphOS > 1.4.2 and G3)
- added CPU usage with dnetc filter
- certain smaller optimizations
- optimized calculation of load average (thx to piru for example)
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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10.Aug.2004
Gerhard Schmid (E-Mail)
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WinUAE: Major bug in version 0.9.90
The latest version 0.9.90 of WinUAE contains major bugs in the filesystem emulation,
that can lead to data loss.
Verson 0.9.91 (in progress) will contain these changes:
- Bugs in 0.9.90 fixed:
- Multiple directory filesystem emulation bugs (files getting truncated
to zero if opened in rw-mode, read-only files failing to open and some
operations returning incorrect AmigaDOS error codes)
- AGA horizontal scrolling bug in some games.
- Stereo separation setting was not always set properly.
- Another task-switching Direct3D/OpenGL-mode problem.
- Other bugs:
- Picasso96 black screen after CTRL-ALT-DEL.
- New features:
- "uae-configuration" Amiga side program that can list current configuration, change all
configuration parameters and send any inputevent on the fly.
- Both right alt and ctrl are mapped to firebutton in keyboard layout B
(some laptops don't have right ctrl).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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