05.Aug.2003
CAM (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine #7 to be released on August 8th, 2003
Issue 7 of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been delayed by the editorial
team for one week. The new issue will be released on August 8th, 2003. (nba)
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05.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 4th August 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk
that had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have
been added or updated since our last announcment:
- 04.08.03 improved: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) supports CD³² version too
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 5 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 new: Leisure Suit Larry 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 04.08.03 improved: King's Quest 2 (Sierra) supports another version
- 04.08.03 new: Fightin' Spirit (Neo) done by Psygore
- 04.08.03 new: Conquests of Camelot (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 03.08.03 improved: Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix (Martech) supports another version
- 02.08.03 improved: Storm Master (Silmarils) another version supported, slave optimised
- 01.08.03 new: Pyramax (Arc) done by Psygore
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05.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Event: "The Assembly 2003" - August 7th-10th, 2003
On the forthcoming long weekend of August 7th (Thursday) to August 10th
(Sunday) the big demoscene event "The Assembly" will be held in the
well known ice stadium "Hartwall Arena" in Helsinki, the capital of
Finland.
This event will take place for the twelvth time in a row and be the
meeting point of personalities from the demo and game scene. About
4500 visitors from all over Europe are expected. During the days several
competitions will be held, including demo competitions for the Amiga,
as well as many seminars and speeches will be made. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Primal" by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold
Some of you may remember Nightshade/Crusaders from various Crusaders
Amiga demos in the past. He also wrote the music for a few Amiga games,
the best known amongst them being "SWIV". He has now started a
composing/production company together with his friend Paul Arnold. Their
first real release is the soundtrack to the game "PRIMAL". This is a
fully orchestral soundtrack recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic
orchestra and choir. It sounds great!
Track-Liste:
- Opening credits
- The Timekeeper
- Arella's Theme
- A Love Lost
- Jen Meets Arella
- Raum & Empusa
- The Demon Awakes
- Coliseum
- A Prince in Chains
- World of Water
- The Turbulent Depths
- A Kingdom Restored
- The Mad King
- Mountain of Suffering
- Devil's Waltz
- Dark Science
- The Helot
- Temple of Flame
- Hall of Gods
- Journey's End
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Sidologie" by Marcel Donne
Sidologie is an album of Commodore-64 remixes Marcel Donne, all done in
the style/sound of classic Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis albums. To put
it simple, Marcel Donne has taken the *melodies* from famous C64 music,
and mixed it with the *sound* of old-school Jean-Michel Jarre and
Vangelis.
It is a great album for nostalgics of all ages, and especially those who
enjoyed Jarre's and Vangelis' classic early albums, or those classic C64
melodies. The song name in [brackets] indicates which Jarre or Vangelis
album that production was particularly influenced by.
Track-Listing:
- Sidologie Intro - Marcel Donne [Revolutions]
- Rambo Loading Theme - Martin Galway [Equinoxe]
- Lightforce - Rob Hubbard [Revolutions]
- Bombo - Ben Daglish [Oxygene]
- Cobra - Sylvester Levay/Ben Daglish [Bladerunner]
- Yie-Ar Kung Fu II - Martin Galway [Chariots of Fire]
- Knucklebusters - Rob Hubbard [Zoolook]
- Wizball High Score - Martin Galway [Band in the Rain]
- Miami Vice - Martin Galway [Equinoxe/Oxygene]
- Nemesis the Warlock - Rob Hubbard
- Rambo High Score - Martin Galway [Oxygene]
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04.Aug.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2html Version 0.2 released
In line with the project 'Hardware Assistent' version 0.2 of the tool DD2html has been released.
DD2html creates a html file containing all driver discriptors in a directory. If the attribute 'DRIVERURL' is set a hyperlink will be added.
Further details are available at the titlelink.
Download: DD2html
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04.Aug.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.25
Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5.25 of the filemanager DiskMaster. Details about made changes and a download link are available at the titlelink.
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04.Aug.2003
ScummVM (Website)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 released (Update)
Version 0.5.0 of ScummVM is now available for Windows, MorphOS and other operating systems.
Because of some serious bugs in the current version (0.5.0) there will soon version 0.5.1 be available.
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04.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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YahooGroupsRipper v1.0 released
Because of the upcoming changes of the Yahoo! Group Services Diego Casorran released a tool called YahooGroupsRipper.
YahooGroupsRipper (YGRip) is an easy to use tool to download all messages of a Yahoo! Group mailinglist.
Download: YGRip (18 Kb)
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04.Aug.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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AmiGate: Search entries can be modified
AmiGate is a collection of web links concerning the Amiga. From now on every user or company can add entries in a special category and can administer them afterwards.
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04.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 03.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
XADOpus_Ger.lha biz/dopus 1K+German catalog for XADOpus 1.2
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 167K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
RenderDevBas.lha dev/basic 39K+Using Render library from HBasic
PluginDemo.lha dev/c 8K+V1.0 plugin demo using LoadSeg
sfdc.lha dev/gcc 73K+Compile SFD files into someting useful
Python201.lha dev/lang 365K+Amiga Python patched to fix the os.chdir
Detour.lha dev/misc 10K+Change pathes of C-include-files for Max
fd2sfd.lha dev/misc 86K+Convert FD files to SFD files
diskimage.lha disk/misc 80K+Mount any disk image file as a DOS devic
RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 5K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2003 (Itali
nocover113.lha docs/mags 1.5M+Great german diskmagazine
obligement39.lha docs/mags 1.8M+Obligement #39 - The Famous FRENCH fanzi
saku43.lha docs/mags 6.7M+Saku #43 (2/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Saga.lha game/board 323K+Saga 1.3: Conversion of TSR boardgame
CD_Illust.lha game/data 701K+AGA Fantsasy cardset for REKO Klondike
UFOquicksav.lha game/patch 15K+UFO CD32 quick HD Install
Trihex.lha game/wb 24K+Logical board game with easy rules (0-2
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 35K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
layerifx.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Scripts for layer cropping & offsetting
LCD-Test.lha hard/misc 20K+LCD Test: helps to find broken Pixels
Artworks030726.lha pix/wfm 31M+Artworks Issue, July 26, 2003, PDF & EPS
BareED_Alone.lha text/edit 85K+Simple text editor which supports propor
LaTeX-hlp.lha text/tex 145K+These files documents LaTeX (2.09 & 2e)
UnRAR.lha util/arc 261K+For 680x0 and PowerPC
Kill68k.lha util/boot 1K+Simple but powerful multiboot tool
sdiREKO-DT.lha util/dtype 42K+40.12 datatype for .REKO/.RKP cardsets
Menu.lha util/misc 182K+Another great program starter :P
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 320K+Report+ 5.7: Multipurpose utility
htmlaccents.lha util/rexx 1K+CygnusEd 4.2x ARexx script to convert ac
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04.Aug.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 16
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 16 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) CanGuy: I'm getting into wireless technology at the moment and see a lot of applications for it. Is it likely that AmigaOS will contain something like Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous in Apple-speak) in the next year or so?
Fleecy: Part of the remit of AmigaOS4 is to ensure that devices that use it can work together with each other and as part of a hetergeneous network. We are already working on this with the tethered connection and this will be followed up relatively quickly with the untethered technologies, initially 802.11 and then Bluetooth.
2) ikir: OS4 supports multiprocessors so.... any idea when a double G4 AmigaOne will be realesed?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 will support SMP first and then AMP second but it is more important for us to have a shipping product running on one processor first. I believe that a double G4 AmigaOne will be out in the next year - indeed a prototype dual processor module is already in our hands.
We have a lot to do already in developing AG2 - graphics, audio and a new user environment to name but a few. These are much more important than supporting SMP in the short term and as I have said before, I see AMP as being far more important in the long run.
3) Turbo: SoundBlaster Live! & SB512 support 128 instuments & 10 drums. Hercules/Guillemot have several high quality sound cards available, most of which have a Yamaha Synth with 676 instuments & 21 drums combined with a CS4624 or CMI-8738 DSP. Are there any future plans for Amiga OS4.x to support alternative sound cards when a higher Amiga user base is established?
Fleecy: Very much so. However, as always, until the AmigaOS4 market grows to the point where audio card companies will write the drivers themselves, we have to expend our own resources and thus will be limited in what can be supported. Our initial plans are to support one card each from the three natural groups. As an example (and only an example), AC-97 on-board audio for desktop, SB Live!, Audigy or Terratec for gaming and Echo for pro-audio.
4) Hondo_DK: Has Amiga Inc. at any point, contacted third party commercial/brand making companys, to develop a path for the future amiga platform? And can we expect amiga commercials in magazines, tv, internet, etc?
Fleecy: We have a very definite path already mapped out for the Amiga platform as both an overt and an embedded solution. In talking with OEMs, IHVs and the like, these plans have been developed further but many of them would involve Amiga technologies within their own branding/marketing strategies.
We do intend to make use of the full spectrum of marketing and advertising media, as well as visiting a few unorthodox efforts.
5) Darth_X: If we wanted to start a project, like AmiZilla, to port OS4 to the Pegasos, how much money would we need to raise? :D In other words, what is the minimum amount of $$$ needed to port OS4 to the Pegasos?
Fleecy: There are three possible routes in considering AmigaOS4.0
- We see an existing market in which AmigaOS4.0 makes commercial sense.
- We see a developing market that we believe will deliver commercial success.
- A third party approaches us with enough money to make the creation of a port a commercial success regardless of its sales.
Since the Pegasos is a deprecated product, its sales would be minimal and so the amount of money needed would be excessive to a community driven project. Of course if an eccentric user turns up with a few million Euros then we'd certainly chat with him or her.
6) Eric_Z: There has been a rather interesting discussion over at Aorg latly on the possibility of using an Elbox SharkPPC card in a PC/MAC as an inexpensive way to run OS4. Do you know if this is possible and do you think that such an product ("OS4 on PC") would be desirabe to have in the "Amiga hardware matrix"?
Fleecy: On a general level there is no reason why it shouldn't work, although you'd have to look at the effect of having the processor board on the PCI bus. In terms of is it desirable then you have to look at the usage equation. If you have a PC that can easily jump between the huge mass of PC applications and the smaller amount of Amiga pplications then would there be enough of an incentive for native Amiga development to take place if users could just as easily use Photoshop or Cubase or play UT2003?
7) Asemoon: I have read that parts of AmigaOS4 could be stored in ROM. Could future Amigas using such a ROM start multimedia software from CD/DVD/Disk without going through a fully running OS (like classic systems and consoles do)?
Fleecy: Yes.
Seeing AmigaOS4 as a solution for such products was part of the plan from the start.
8) Asemoon: I heard debugger software will come integrated into AmigaOS4. How would this work?
Fleecy: When a program crashes, you'll get the option of starting a debugger and attaching it to the crashed task. From there on, you can fully debug the program, probably including the possibility to re-start the crashed task.
9) Herewegoagain: I am familiar with the OS4 feature list, but I would like to know if there will be any driver support for Serial ATA controllers and drives for OS4? Possibly in a boing bag update?
Fleecy: Yes, although I can't give you a timescale at this point.
10) CanGuy: This new "Bowser services" mentioned at the AmigaWest Q/A sounds very interesting, probably more useful to programmers than "just another browser". Will these services include a JavaScript engine? and will it support web standards like DOM1, CSS, etc.
Fleecy: Precisely. The aim is to provide core services rather than a monolithic application. We already intend to use a few of these services for the new documentation, help and user guide system and of course they will be completely open to developers to use for their own projects, in both traditional and non traditional projects.
HTML/XML rendering and processing, Javascript and CSS will all be part of the initial service set and others will follow.
(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=17
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: sk)
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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Special price offer with PhotoAlbum/Cybershow
One of the few Shareware programs which has been further developed since the
first special price offer by Amiga Arena in 1998 up to today is the
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow package by Helmut Hoffmann. For this reason Amiga Arena operator Olaf
Köbnik is all the more glad that the package can be offered at the special
price of EUR 15.00 for the "Amiga Arena" jubilee. This offer is valid only up
to 31st August 2003.
Features of PhotoAlbum (excerpt):
- lightning fast load function for more than 20 picture formats.
- combinable picture subtitles (Name, Comment, Size, Type).
- high functionality.
- delete function for mucking out pictures.
- copy function for copying picture groups into other directories.
- ARexx load commands for ADPro, ArtEffect, PPaint, XiPaint 4, ImageFX and Photogenics.
- direct call of external viewers "CyberShow" and "CyberTVPlayer" possible.
- slideshow presentation function in collaboration with CyberShow Pro.
- configarable ARexx commandline, also usable for external viewers.
- Changable picture comment.
- save function for converting pictures into various 24bit formats.
- direct transfer function to various programs.
- preview file generation.
- generation of catalog files for large thumbnail collections.
- extensive special functions.
- HTML Web page generation from picture collections.
- picture rotation by 90 degrees (left/right) and 180 degrees (in the picture windows).
Future of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow
Several months have passed since the last update for "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow"
and you might think thet development has been discontinued. This is not so,
internally the program package has been further maintained. So why have there
been no more updates to date? Since the last update the number of registrations
have fallen towards zero and even feedback or suggestions for improvements and
wishes have failed to appear. It seems as if there was no interest anymore in
this brilliant program, or has the Amiga market been saturated? Due to this
situation Helmut Hoffman is not very motivated to publish any further updates.
Alas, even the last "Amiga Arena special price offer" with "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow"
was no success! Thus Amiga Arena hopes to rekindle the users' attention and the
interest in "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" by way of the "Amiga Arena Jubilee Ofer" and
hopes for a success of this offer, so "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" will still enrich
the Amiga software market in the future. It would be more than a pity if this
longtime high quality program would vanish, too.
Anyone who wants to take advantage of this offer please exclusively use the
Amiga Arena's designated registration form under the the title link. Further
information about "PhotoAlbum/Cybershow" canbe found on Helmut Hoffmann's Web site.
Special thanks go to Helmut Hoffman who has mae this offer possible.
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03.Aug.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena celebrates 5th birthday
"Amiga Arena" celebrates its 5th birthday. For this reason there will be many
specials with new and old "acquaintances" who have accompanied "Amiga Arena"
until today. In addition there will be for the first time the "Amiga Arena"
history with screenshots from days gone by, a retrospect to five years of active
Amiga support with all its highs and lows.
Read about what became of then developers or programs. Personal comments as
well as a nearly complete compendium from the works of "Amiga Arena" are
rounding off the history. The start is of course the year 1998, here you will
learn a.o.t. how "Amiga Arena" was created and which were the first Shareware
special price offers.
Of course Amiga Arena operator Olaf Köbnik will be just as glad about feedback,
suggestions and congratulations. For this there is a guest book available to the
visitors.
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03.Aug.2003
Wolf Zimmer (E-Mail)
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Online magazine: NoCover #113 published
Punctual as usual issue 113 of the online magazine NoCover has been published
and already delivered via eMail to all subscribers.
The current issue can be read online on NoCover
and the homepage of the APC & TCP.
Furthermore the magazine is availbale on the Aminet and on the well known cover
CD-ROMs or may be ordered directly via the eMauil address nc113@nc-mag.de.
At last there are again many articles to be read in this issue. Regrettably the
Amiga themes are growing less and less, and the operators would wish for more
Amiga users writing about their computer system. Thus diligent writers supplying
the team with articles on a regular basis are wanted. Single articles are always
welcome, too. Regular authors are rewarded with a Web online package by
ConnectWeb.de which includes free eMail address, POP3 mailbox with up to 256MB,
SMTP-Auth server usage and sub domain. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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03.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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ImageMagick v5.5.7 released for AmigaOS.
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a usage
license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 87
major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and
As ImageMagick is one of the programs with the most downloads from Diego
Casorran's Web site, a special area has been set up for this software under the
title link.
With the new release 5.5.7 the complete distribution was split up into six
archives: Precompiled utilities for 68020 as well as 68040, a basic archive
with the docs and MGKs, a developers archive for GG users, the source code
tree and a contributions archive with some helpful components such as ARexx
scripts, MUI etc.
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03.Aug.2003
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New survey: Which region do you live in?
We have just started a new survey because we're interested in where most of our
readers come from. You can choose among the following possible answers:
- D - Postal area 0
- D - Postal area 1
- D - Postal area 2
- D - Postal area 3
- D - Postal area 4
- D - Postal area 5
- D - Postal area 6
- D - Postal area 7
- D - Postal area 8
- D - Postal area 9
- BeNeLux
- Other country
Have fun voting, and we are already very anxious for the result.
The results so far can be looked into here.
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02.Aug.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show: temporary list of exhibitors
On the first October weekend, 4th/5th 2003 takes the combined Benelux Amiga Show and Benelux Pegasos Show place in Rotterdam. The event takes place at the Engels near the mainstation. A temporary incomplete list of exhibitors:
- Genesi (with Pegasos II)
- Computer City
- Amiga Plus
- Amiga Scene
- Fun Time World
- Epic Marketing
- Vesalia
- Amiga.org (with webcam and chat sessions)
- Ebay.nl
- Oliver Hanaford-Day (Amiga Coldfire project)
- Point Design
- Attention Software (FotoFoto)
- HCC Commodore Amiga Club (biggest Netherland Amiga/Commodore-Club)
- MorphOS-Club Germany
- HellHound (among other things HellChess, Bruce Lee and robot projects programmed on the Amiga)
- Further companies and persons follow as soon as their participation is confirmed.
The following events had been announced:
- "OS4 on Tour" demonstration by Jürgen Schober
- Amiga museum with all "Classic" Amigas plus Walker, DCE A5000, Access and mnay more things
- draws
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
Yahoo! Groups (E-Mail)
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Yahoo! Groups Service Changes on August 7th, 2003
As part of the efforts to ensure that all Yahoo! Groups users
enjoy the same high-quality service, the Yahoo! Groups providers
will implement the following service changes on Aug. 7, 2003:
Message Attachments: Yahoo! Groups will continue to deliver all
attachments sent via email, however, the attachments will no longer be
archived within the Messages area. You may continue to upload files and
images to the Files and Photos areas of your groups. Please re-upload
any attachments you would like to preserve to the Photos or Files areas
of your group. On Aug. 7, all attachments in the Messages area will
be removed, and Yahoo! will be unable to retrieve such data.
Add Members: The "Add Members" feature will now allow you to add 10
new members per day (e.g., the ability to directly add your friends
and family to your group). You may still use the "Invite Members"
feature to invite others to join your group.
Files and Photos: Groups web membership will be required to access
a group's Files and Photos areas. (nba)
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01.Aug.2003
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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GAUHPIL: Many areas updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll about websites of Amiga users that
is sorted geographically according to continents and countries. Yesterday
the following areas have been updated:
- Europe
- New Links List
- Lost Links List
- History 2003
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01.Aug.2003
Poseidon Website
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Poseidon: Registration process closed
As of 01-Aug-03, further support for Elbox hardware has been dropped for
all times. No keyfile can be obtained anymore that will work with the
Spider.
Users, who have registered before this date are not (yet) affected.
Eventually, the free updates will cease at some point (but not this year).
I've said this before, but I think I have to say this again: Users of USB
solutions, that come with an OEM-Licence (this includes Subway, Highway,
Algor and Pegasos), are not affected at all and will have full support as
long as Poseidon is available as a product. (nba)
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01.Aug.2003
Oliver Roberts (email)
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Warp datatypes v45.4 released
Oliver Roberts has released version 45.4 of his datatype WarpTIFF that comes with the following features:
Added support for files using the old-style JPEG compression
scheme. Implemented preliminary support for Xerox image files (XIF),
which use a proprietary format, but is actually extended from standard
TIFF format PC scanner software, Pagis Pro, uses this file format.
The free download is available on the WarpDT website following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
McFly (ANF)
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Powerpoint presentations in the Amiga Hollywood format
Following the title link are several presentations in the Microsoft Powerpoint format available for free download that had been converted using Hollywood. The Amiga PPS are sorted by cathegories.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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Update: VCD Save now saves audio tracks
Now VCD Save does also save CDDA tracks and creates a prefs file in which are among other things device and unit and, if wanted, the window position on quitting the program being saved. A support for Intel and Motorola data model CDRs is built in. For the time being not every CDR is reacting on the CDDA mode. But this problem is being worked on.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Aug.2003
Brad Webb (email)
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Amiga Update newsletter by Brad Webb #030731
Following the title link youcan find the complete newsletter of Amiga
Update for this year's July. In his english newsletter Brad Webb summarizes once in a month all news about the subject Amiga.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jul.2003
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus 07-08/2003 - Shopping-Time
Issue 07-08/2003 of the German 68 pages, 4c paper magazine AMIGAplus is
out now including eight hardware-reviews, workshops and much more.
Content of this issue:
- Reviews of X-Surf II and Catweasel MK3/PCI Flipper
- Reviews of ATI Radeon Pro 9000, Plextor Premium CD-RW 52x24x52,
LaCie Data Bank Pocket Drive, Konica Digital Revio C2, Canon BJC i850
and Creative Optical Mouse
- eMail-Special: Review of YAM 2.4 plus "Anti-Spam with YAM" workshop
- A+ in Augsburg: AmigaOS 4 on Tour
- Interview with Micky "Diavolo Backup" Wenngatz
- Listen: Audio-CD "Amiga Immortal 2"
- Workshop: NetBSD auf dem Amiga (part 2)
- Workshop Video & DraCo (part 5)
- Amiga Status Report: 64-Bit-Fever
- Demoscene: Underdogs
- Amiga market overview: prices, distributors a.s.o.
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available via subscription, direct order or through
your local Amiga dealer on demand for 5,- EUR. (nba)
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31.Jul.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 31st July 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk that
had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have been
added or updated since our last announcement:
- 31.07.03 updated: Xenon (Bitmap Brothers) rewritten for kickemu, no more slowdowns
- 31.07.03 improved: Lemmings (Psygnosis/DMA Design) supports another disk and CDTV version
- 30.07.03 fixed: Cavitas (Nite Time Games) access fault fixed
- 30.07.03 fixed: Cavitas (Nite Time Games) access fault fixed
- 28.07.03 improved: Subwar 2050 (Microprose) added support for CD32 version
- 28.07.03 new: Space Quest Enhanced (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 28.07.03 new: Space Quest 3 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 27.07.03 new: King's Quest Enhanced (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 27.07.03 new: Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon (Master Designer Software/Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 27.07.03 new: Police Quest 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 new: Space Quest 2 (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 new: Space Quest (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 new: Police Quest (Sierra) done by JOTD
- 25.07.03 fixed: Cannon Fodder 2 (Sensible Software) keyboard handling corrected
- 23.07.03 improved: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) rawdic imager updated, new icons
- 23.07.03 improved: Jaguar XJ-220 (Ocean) loads and saves games and maps, new icons
- 23.07.03 fixed: Elfmania (Terramarque/Renegade) rawdic imager fixed, new install script
- 23.07.03 improved: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (Tynesoft) disk images optimised, requires reimaging
- 23.07.03 fixed: Black Sect (Lankhor) new install script
- 23.07.03 improved: Black Crypt (Raven Software) spell list added
- 23.07.03 improved: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) supports another version, uses kickemu
(nba) (Translation: nba)
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31.Jul.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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OpenAmiga On the Lookout for a Logo
The website for OpenAmiga has been thoroughly rebuilt and now offers forums and a new look. The authors are now looking for a logo for the OpenAmiga project. If you would like to furnish or help work on such a logo, click on the menu button Compliance Logos.
The initiators of OpenAmiga have made it their goal to establish a standard for the Amiga. This standard should then make it easier for a programmer to port between future Amiga platforms such as Amiga OS 4, AROS and MorphOS, at the same time offering the user a higher degree of flexibility in determining which system is for him or her. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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31.Jul.2003
Massimiliano Tretene
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Beta-WarpOS-Version of Duke Nukem 3D Released
Massimiliano Tretene has put a WarpOS port of the action game Duke Nukem 3D on his website. This versions is untested. unoptimized, and offers neither sound nor 3D acceleration.
To test it you must set the stack to 16384 and raise the partition buffer to 2000. For the installation please follow the instructions from the original 68K port from Dante/Oxyron, already
reported by amiga-news.de. Bug notifications with all relevant offerings may be emailed to the developer at
glquake@libero.it.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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31.Jul.2003
Troels Ersking
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AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour in Dänemark
9th August from 13:00 to 17:00 at Syvstjerneskolen in Værløse, Denmark.
We hereby welcome all Amiga fans to a couple of hours of Amiga OS 4
demonstration. Amiga OS 4 will be shown running on an A4000 fitted with a
CyberstormPPC accelerator, but it will also be possible to have a closer
look at an AmigaOne. Sodas and coffee will be on sale at the venue.
Please send us an e-mail if you intend to show up, so we are able to
estimate the total attendance. Mail: os4tour@amigadk.dk.
(nba)
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31.Jul.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (E-Mail)
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Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown Also for Xbox
"Robin Hood", the sequel to to the Amiga-Classic "Defender of the
Crown", will be offered by Capcom and Cinemaware for Microsoft Xbox along with versions Sony Playstation 2 and Windows PCs in September
In a talk with AMIGAplus Cinemaware did not categorically rule out a version for the upcoming Amiga platforms. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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31.Jul.2003
Russ Norrby (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0: Präsentation in New York
Mr. Hardware Computers and A.M.U.S.E (New York City Amiga Users Group)
are happy to announce the showing of Amiga Operating system OS 4.0 next
Tuesday Aug 5th 2003 8:00pm-10:00pm Room 706, Meyers Hall New York
University Washington Place (Between Broadway and Washington Square East.)
The OS will be running on a Power Pc processor in a Amiga 4000. This is
Beta version and the first showing on the East Coast. We will also be
showing the AmigaOne G4XE based systems and we will have many Amiga
hardware and software items for sale, held over from the Sacramento
California show. All are invited. Amiga, Back for the future.
Further info call Russ Norrby 631-821-2364 (nba)
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31.Jul.2003
Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Neue Hollywood Presentation Appears
Kai Stegemann has released a new Hollywood presentation and made it available for download under the title link. In the archive the executable data for MorphOS and AmigaOS may be found with the script. More presenations will follow in the future.
We're still looking for fellow warriors to help build a Hollywood portal, warriors who could design the website, create presenations, or come up with new ideas. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Wanted: Programmer or team for Digibooster Professional
APC&TCP together with Dennis "Psyria" Lohr are now the owners of all rights of
Digibooster Professional. "We are very interested to ensure that this program will get a continous further development inthe future. Because DBPro is the last commercial program of it´s kind for the Amiga it´s our aim that the program will be improved in future and to show that the Amiga still can be stand the competition now and in future!"
Planed extentions are in the first instance to ensure a working on MorphOS, AmigaOS 4, Amithlon and WinUAE. Further features and
details will better be discussed later and together.
Therefore a programmer or team is wanted who has:
- Knowledge of assembler (68k) and C(++) (original source is assembler)
- Some knowledge of special music programing ideally
- A lot of motivation
Very much appreciated would be if there would be enough time as well.
Interested programmer or programming teams might please contact:
digiboosterpro@apc-tcp.de.
All further details as e.g. the salary will be discussed then.
What´s Digibooster Professional?
DBPro is a so called tracker program. It´s possible o produce your own music by using samples.
So called pattern are prgrammed by typing in sequences of
programmiert. Put together the paterns lead to a whole music track.
Wht´s the features of the program?
With the current version of DBPro it is posible to manage up to:
- 128 tracks
- 256 samples (sound files with no size limitation)
- 1024 Patterns
- 1024 Pattern positions
within one song.
Track format loading:
- Digibooster 1.x (digi)
- Protracker (mod)
- Oktalyzer (okt)
- Octamed (mmd0-mmd3)
- OctamedSoundStudio (oss)
- FastTracker (xm)
- ScreamTracker (s3m)
There is the possibility to save the tracks not only as the Dbm format but also as Xm or Mod format.
Sample format loading:
- IFF 8SVX (mono - 8 Bit)
- IFF 16SV (mono - 16 Bit)
- RIFF WAV (mono/stereo - 8/16 Bit)
- AIFF (mono/stereo - 8/16 Bit)
- MP3 (CBR) import LayerI-III
With the following extras there are nearly no limits for the creativity:
- (B)eats (P)er (M)inute Pitcher
- DSP echo (Echo Delay, Feedback, Mix und Cross)
- volume envelopes
- balance envelopes
- Roland TB-303 "GrooveBox" emulation (not realtime)
- HD recording of Samples (utilizing HardDiskRecord from AHI)
- optional high quality 32 bit mixing with linear interpolation in realtime
- up to seven Octaves
- CyberGraphX & Picasso96 Gfx card support
- and and and ...
Thanks to AHI support every AHI soundcard can be used. Who likes to know more about Digibooster Professional is invited to visit the following addresses:
Furthermore there is an IRC channel regarding Digibooster Professional:
- Channel: #digiboosterpro
- Server: irc.phat-net.de
- Port: 6667
Every interested one is invited to come around. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jul.2003
Thomas Schulze (ANF)
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Crossfire II and a evaluation abonement of the Amiga Future as a special offer
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jul.2003
Mariusz Wloczysiak / Elbox (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Free Terratec 512i Digital with Purchase of Mediator
Elbox Computer, the leading manufacturer of hardware for Amiga computers,
announces promotion for all Mediator PCI busboards purchased in the Elbox
Online Store from 30 July to 18 August 2003.
With every Mediator busboard purchased in the promotion period, the
end-user will be eligible to receive a free Terratec 512i Digital
sound card enclosed in the Mediator shipment. For details, see the
Special Offer page.
About Mediator:
The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed to enable expansion of Amiga
computers with a wide range of PCI cards. The following PCI cards are
already supported in Mediator busboards: Voodoo5, Voodoo4, Voodoo3,
Voodoo Banshee, S3 VirgeDX and S3 Virge PCI graphic cards; Spider USB
2.0 host controller cards; Fast Ethernet 100Mbps and Ethernet 10Mbps
PCI network cards; Sound Blaster 4.1 digital, Sound Blaster 128 and
ForteMedia FM801-based sound cards; TV tuner cards. The Mediator busboard
is a necessary expansion for Amiga computers to employ the power of
the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+
cards are based. Mediator busboards are available for the following
Amiga models:
- - Amiga 4000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 4000D (Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 3000T (Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 3000D (Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T),
- - Amiga 1200 (Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI ZIV, Mediator PCI 1200 LT).
About Terratec 512i Digital:
The Terratec 512i Digital offers everything you need to achieve perfect
sound. With up to 4 channels for connecting 2 or 4 loudspeakers and
top-quality recording and playback at up to 48 kHz you can enjoy crystal
clear sound all around. TOS-Link digital output guarantees lossless
recordings via direct optical connection for DAT or MiniDisc recorders.
With 8- and 16-bit mono and stereo playback and 16-bit stereo recording
plus user-selectable sampling rates from 5kHz to 48kHz, the Terratec 512i
Digital produces precise audio fidelity.
Order your Mediator Now and get the best sound card for your Amiga for FREE!
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
contact: press@elbox.com
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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30.Jul.2003
Dietmar Eilert (Website)
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Editor: Servicepack 2 for MorphED released
Dietmar Eilert has released the Servicepack 2 for the Editor MorphED
today. MorphED is a free Text editor and
gcc development kit for the operating system MorphOS.
Download: sp2.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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