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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29.Jul.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2AG Version 0.2 appeared
In setting of the projekt "Hardware-Assistent" the version 0.2 of the toll DD2AG has been appeared. In the new version bugs have been repaired.
DD2AG produces an Amiga-Guide file, which contains an index of tool appeared "Driver Descriptor" So you always have an actual index of the
supported hardware. Also it is possible that you can install drivers from the produced guide- if OpenURL is installed it is possible to download the
drives via internet.
Download: DD2AG_0.2.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jul.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn
"Hollywood" is one of those programms, which earned the most attention in the small getting Amiga-Software-Landscape.
It is one of the "Killer-Applications" in the multimedia area, which we need at the Amiga urgently. In the interwiew with the
author Andreas Falenhahn it was possible to catch some more details of the latest "Hollywood"-version and the planed features.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Jul.2003
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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DTP: PageStream 4.1 Pro
The american Producer "Grasshopper" published his new prices for PageStream not long ago. It took a bit of time until we could
take over this offer, but so we can offer an other product of the PageStream familiy. The Pro-Version contains instead of the Standard-Version
of TextFX2, Gary`s Effects and Borders 1&2, which were else available as singlepackage, resp. Extensions-Bundle.
The new Pricearrangement (from 109,95 EUR) shows directly the attention to the large applicationbase
PageStream 4.1 and PageStream 4.1 Pro are available at the moment for: Windows,Amiga and Macintosh. The Linux version is tested
at the moment. All versions are available in English. The Windows- and the Amiga version is also available in German.
PageStream is there for all kinds of Publishing-Jobs, started at newspaper articles, going to colored advertisings to technical books.
Letters, studyworks, presentations, visitingcars, flyer and many more is produced quickly.
Thousands of advertiseres are using PageStream for years to do their jobs.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Jul.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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VCD-Ripper released
With the help of VCDSave one can copy VideoCD tracks onto your harddisk without the need to use AllegroCDFS.
A shell as well as a WB-GUI version is available.
A co-operation with Frogger, the lately released videoplayer, made this program possible.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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First Hardware Assistent Homepage
There is a new webside about 'Hardware Assistent' available at the titlelink.
Users of the Amiga-News Forum critized that there is no such thing like plug'n'play for the Amiga. This project is a first step towards a solution for this problem.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Hints for the download of MorphOS 1.4
MorphOS will be released, at the new MorphOS.net Website, on the first of August. The release date for the SuperBundle will be the 30. July, at PegasosPPC.
Further details about the download as well as the mentioned programs is available at the titlelink.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Thorsten Mampel (ANF)
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Videoplayer: Frogger Version 2.07
»Here it is, brand new 2.07 release. This update includes lot of bugs fixed,
some new codecs, extended REXX interface, improved A/V sync in AVIs, seeking
in ASF/WMV/WMA, new subtitle parser and display code and more. Detailed list
of changes can be found in CHANGELOG (there should be a copy in every Frogger
archive). Those who have previous version installed may download only main
Frogger binary and codecs update archive. All the rest should go for Frogger
+ all codecs archive.
Last, but not least, there is Toad 1.0 available in download section, Toad
is RxMUI Control Panel for Frogger, created by Dave Crawford.« (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Sedat COLOGLU (ANF)
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APUC Amiga Professional User Club
The turkish Amiga Proffesional User Club (APUC) would like to call your attention to theire existing Yahoo mailinglist. If you would like to participade in the discussion feel free to register.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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AmiWest: MP3-Interview with Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco
There is the recording of an interview by Joël Ehret with Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi available for download (9MB) at the titlelink
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc.
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AmiWest: Ben Hermans AmiWest AmigaOS 4 Presentation
The AmigaOS 4 presentation by Ben Hermans at the AmiWest show is now available for download at the Amiga Inc. homepage. There are 3 different versions (PDF file, zip file, slideshow).
Update: (06.05.2014, cg)
Amiga-News is now hosting a local copy (PDF file) of the presentation. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
ANN
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AmiWest: Ben Hermans Q&A MP3 available
There is a recording of the interview with Ben Hermans by Jonl Ehret available for download (22MB) at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jul.2003
ANN
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AmiWest: Alan Redhouse Q&A MP3 available
There is a recording of the interview with Alan Redhouse by Jonl Ehret available for download (7,2MB) at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jul.2003
Evil (Kommentar)
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QUAG: More pictures from the AmiWest 2003 Show
Under the title link you'll find a number of new pictures from the AmiWest 2003
show which was held this weekend in Sacramento. The pictures are from the user
group QUAG and thankfully subtitled.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Evil (Kommentar)
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Polarboing: Interview with Fleecy Moss
In the interview Fleecy Moss answers some questions around the AmiWest 2003
show. Fleecy was interviewed by Polarboing.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: SUBWAY available again
E3B has resumed production of the Clockport USB controller SUBWAY
due to increased user demand. The first modules from the very limited-lot
production run are already available.
In the context of the ROMulus upgrade program we have so far been able
to fulfill the high expectations set by us as regards swift processing: every
single HIGHWAY sent to E3B for upgrading could be sent back to its
owner already on the next day.
Tests and user reviews of our USB products can be found in two current issues of
AmigaPlus (05/2003) and Total Amiga (Issue #15).
News in detail can be found on our Website
under the heading of "News". (ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Daniel Miller live from AmiWest 2003 (ANF)
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Daniel Miller's Amiwest 2003 Show Report Part II
Before I leave a necessarily critical report of the MorphOS and Pegasos presentation
on Saturday morning, I will do the single courtesy of stating that it was a
setup-type problem that caused things to go haywire. As the presentation started
there was an awkward several moments as the Pegasos which had just been hooked up
to the projector failed to cooperate, requiring multiple reboots and typing in the
open firmware command line. The presenters were unable to improvise effectively in
the absence of stuff on the screen to click on and the presentation limped painfully
on for about 15 minutes before ending rather prematurely.
A speaker came energetically up to begin the presentation at first but the problems
started when Voyager was clicked on but failed to load. There was a reboot, and then
another but the Pegasos wasn't finding the hard-drive or something. There was a lot
of feverish typing from different people at the command line but thins just weren't
going right. The speaker wasn't improvising very well. Other guys fom the Genesi
team were running back and forth to get CDs or check things or fleeing for their
lives or who knows what. In all it was less than professional and it's a good thing
they presented early in the day so there weren't more people present to witness all
the problems. After 10 or 12 minutes of pain the machine was booting MorphOS 1.4 off
the CD and Bill Buck himself got up to try to rescue the show. He demonstrated just
a couple things, Voyager running a very pretty Flash or Shockwave animation of
butterflies and a new "Zoom Feature" of MorphOS in which any little part of the screen
may be blown up in a dynamically updated resizable window. You can open a bunch of
zoom windows and they all display very quickly. If you set the focus of the zoom
window on a video, you see the blown up section of the video displayed in the window
just as fast as the video plays. You can magnify to 2 or 4 or 8 or 16 times or
whatever and open as many zoom windows as you want.
Bill stated that last week Genesi had obtained Marvell's approval to start
using the G-4 in the new Pegasos 2 boards. Stated that he realized that MorphOS
needed to be a bit farther along before being marketed to the average computer user.
In this case however I felt that MorphOS was working fine. The problems in the
presentation didn't have a whole heck of a lot to do with MorphOS. One of the
presenters had commented that MorphOS 1.4 wasn't officially released, it was beta,
and this was just the public introduction, but what little I saw looked fine to me.
I should mention that it was Nate Downes who appeared to be the one that finally got
things going off the boot-CD. This presentation didn't go well at all, we'll see how
they do on Sunday.
The OS4 demo on Saturday: this was a wonderfully executed presentation. Ray Zarling,
graybearded Doctor of Matematics and long time Amiga believer conducted it, showing
several Workbenchrelated features like window gradients, opaque window movement and
right mouse click menus. Dr. Zarling was clearly a big Amiga fan, stating that "I
waited 12 years to see the new OS. We can all see that it is real. I just can't wait
for it to be finished."
The window gradient feature had a lot of options and the user can also set the
thickness of the window title bars and so on. He showed the opaque window movement,
moving the windows very slowly to make the effect look good. If you move the windows
quickly I think you would see unsightly updates. As Dr. Zarling pointed out, that is
because this is on a 200 MHz PPC and might not be a problem on a 800 MHz processor.
Dr. Zarling stressed that configurability was a key part of OS4. He stated that there
much of the upper level stuff (like Workbench) which runs emulated now will be
rewritten for the shipping version of OS4. He stated that "OS4 is the official Amiga
PPC OS."
He stated that what we were seeing did not use the 68K processor at all, it was all on
the PPC. In question and answers after, I asked him to tell us about the machine running
the demo. He stated that it was an Amiga 4000, I think he said with Cyberstorm PPC card.
I asked about the use of the 68K processor and he said it was not being used at all except
during the boot process to load up OS4 PPC..He stated that a brave owner could physically
yank out the 68K processor after OS4 loaded and OS4 would continue to work, but he did
not demonstrate this capability.
This presentation was conducted toward the back of the convention hall at the stand of
Computer Connection where Amga Ones were for sale.
One of the best illustrations of te spirit of the Amiga community at Amiwest was the
"Mr. Zoil" booth, where Glenn Fuller demonstrated the Amiga work of his son Ben, who
died in 2002. Ben Fuller was known mainly for Project D, a disk coper, backup program
and multipurpose tool which had some success during the Amiga's heyday in the late
eightes and early nineties. Mr. Fuller stated that the last known version of Project
D was from 1994. He said that Ben went on to do work on other computer systems but
never gave up on what he considered "the Amiga vision."
Mr. Fuller explained that he and Ben attended Amiga conventions as a father and son
activity,and he came to enjoy them very much. He said that if this were to be the last
Amiwest owing to fading interest, he wanted to be here. But I told him what the event
organizers told me, that things were going better than last year and interest seemed
to be increasing, so it should not be a worry that ths is the last.
This will probably be my last report, because I am losing hotel Internet access at noon.
I should touch on a few things, here and there. First, Mr. Hardware came all the way from
New York City to sell Amiga wares. It was a brilliant move because they turned out to be
the only all-around vendor here, and they are doing a lot of business. Umm, it was great
of Jens Schönfeld and Ben Hermans and Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco to come all the way
from Europe to support the show. Although I was critical of Saturday's Pegasos presentation
I should point out that the Pegsasos stand is getting a lot of visitors, and people really
enjoy sitting down and using MorphOS and playing BirdieShoot and Quake and Software Tycoon.
The Super Bundle has been released and I got my free copy (thanks). Unfortunately I will have
to wait until I get home in 8 or 9 days to see what all is on this three CD set.
Everyone seems to get along very well at these conventions, in spite of the online flaming
that we see so much of. Bill Buck sat next to Ben Hermans at the panel last night and said
how coexistence was possible even when there was no cooperation, unfortunately the two men
didn't hug. ;)
The banquet was delicious and the Sacramento Amiga user group SACC really did a fine job of
everything. I would like to thank those who edited and translated my reports, I would do
this myself but the connection and software here at the hotel is not really suited for smooth
work. There is another Amiga Show next month, a minishow at Computerfest in Dayton Ohio next
month and we have something coming up in Washington DC area in October. These shows are a lot
of fun and I recommend interested people to come check them out. Tschüss! (ps)
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27.Jul.2003
Michael Christoph (ANF)
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amigaFoulEggs - a new Tetrislike game has been finished
In time for the summer break the game 'amigaFoulEggs' Version 1.0 has been
completed! amigaFoulEggs is a tetrislike game in which at least four tokens
of the same colour have to lie beside or on top one another in order for them
to get removed. The window size is freely customizable. The tokens size adjusts
to available space.
Extensive settings allow the customization to your own preferences: keyboard
mapping, speed, colours, patterns for tokens and background and more are
possible. The more tokens are removed in one go but also systematic putting down
of formations gain extra points.
There is also a
Highscore file
in the Internet.
amigaFoulEggs requires AmigaOS 3.0; Settings and highscore windows require
OS 3.5. A graphics card is recommended. An extensive guide desciption in German
is included.
There is an English catalog file for the program.
It has been tested with Classic Amiga, Amithlon and WinUAE.
The game also works flawlessly under to upcoming AmigaOS 4.0.
The game is freeware and is available at no cost on demand.
Simply fill out the application form
and shortly after the lha archive arrives in your e-mail inbox. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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27.Jul.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Hollywood Video released
At the request of many people who wanted to receive an impression
of the multimedia authoring system Hollywood before buying it, Andreas
Falkenhahn has released a MPEG video that shows the functionality of
Hollywood. You can download the 30 MB file here
HollywoodDemo.mpg
from Aminet. The video shows parts from example scripts that come
with Hollywood to give you an impression of what Hollywood is able to do.
(ps)
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27.Jul.2003
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Aminet uploads until 27.07.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
PrintMail1.3.lha comm/mail 14K+ARexx print YAM e-mail w /header & page
TView.lha comm/tcp 77K+List TV-programs in Europe.
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 166K+Create HTML/JS driven language independe
znn_goo7.lha demo/sound 105K+Multitasking Chippack from zenon, CGFX/A
Brandy.lha dev/basic 529K+Basic V Interpreter (prerelease)
6581sid-sdk.lha dev/misc 2K+Unofficial 6581sid.library SDK, StormC s
WolnyCD.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Better read-spead, quiet working CD. v0.
SaltLakeCity_G.lha docs/hyper 14K+Results (and more) of 2002 olympic games
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 51K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
smoother.lha game/gag 9K+Small joke program to "smoothen" your mo
WormWars.lha game/misc 527K+Worm Wars 7.53: Advanced snake game
ColorBarr.lha game/wb 37K+Line-up coloured tiles!
Iamdagod.lha mods/blkha 22K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
Nummer1.lha mods/blkha 134K+Techno DBP mod by blakkhar
Ashlexiss.lha mods/essen 293K+Ashlexiss by Essential Sound www.essent
SongPlayer.lha mus/play 611K+Cool and powerful audio player V1.60 (68
HollywoodDemo.mpg pix/mpg 29M+MPEG showing Hollywood's functionality
WW4SE_7fin.lha text/edit 19K+Wordworth 4SE & 7 Finnish catalogs
froggui_en.lha util/misc 27K+GUI for FroggerNG
froggui_fr.lha util/misc 27K+GUI for FroggerNG
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27.Jul.2003
Daniel Miller live from AmiWest (ANF)
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Daniel Miller's AmiWest 2003 Show Report Part I
This is the Sacramento's 5th Amiwest, but my first. I used
frequent flyer miles to get a free flight to San Francisco, from there
I took trains through scenic northern California to Sacramento where I
took a taxi to the Holiday Inn. On Monday I rent a car and head to Reno,
later Yosemite, but for now the Amiga scene is on my mind. This is
supposed to be the biggest Amiga-oriented convention in the USA but we'll
see what Nova Design and Genesi pull off in Washington DC this October.
Right now it's Amiwest in Sacramento. I arrive late on Friday. In
front of me in the line at the hotel check-in desk is John Harris, the
author of the arcade classic Frogger. Looking around further I see that
two medium halls have been reserved for Amiwest. The halls open on each
other to make a larger. There is a smaller enclosed room also reserved,
maybe that is the banquet hall.
It's late on Friday and the show has not opened, but there are people
still setting up. There are four Pegasoses on a long table. Nate Downes,
one of Genesi's reps from Florida, works feverishly on a fifth. He says
he's tired but he's determined to get ImageFX successfully set up for
Kermit Woodall of Nova Design to demonstrate.
I see some other familiar faces. Someone points out Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainment to me, which is a surprise. He hadn't announced
his appearance. Maybe we will finally see OS4 on the Amiga One as opposd
to an Amiga 4000. Or maybe not.. I hear that Jens Schönfeld, famed Amiga
hardware maker is here, and Jeri Elsorth, Commodore One engineer and geek
fantasy girl arrives in the morning.
There is an historical sequence of old Amiga models on tables throughout
the room. The event organizers want to illustrate the past, and the future.
There's a 3000 and a 600. The machines and their peripherals are yellowing
and stained from age. There might be a crack here and there. It has been a
long time since these rolled off the manufacturing lines.
At the hotel nightclub it's Big Band Night. Three couples gyrate
kinetically on the dance floor as a six piece brass and sax ensemble,
drummer, and bassist accompany a xylophonist. It's jazz and swing and
the singer joins in as the happy music rushes out the bar entrance into
the hotel lobby.
The next morning at break fast I run into John Harris again. Overnight
I remmbered that he wrote not only Frogger, but also Jawbreaker for the
Atari 8bit, one of the greatest games ever for that line of computers.
I tell him how great it was, with the toothbrush animation and all and he
tels me a bit of the history behind it. Jawbreaker! He explains that he
will give the first seminar this morning on his current focus: Amiga DE.
John Harris gave the first presentation. He talked about his work on Amiga
DE. He demonstrated his Gobbler game, his WordSearch game, his calculator
program and his Solitaire, spnding a particular amount of time showing the
versatility of his Solitaire, which runs in different resolutions depending
on the handheld unit. On DE itself he joked that the original concept of
"runs anywhere now means runs nowhere" owing to failed business deals and
runtime modules whch have not materialized for the various handheld devices.
But he still loves the technology of DE and thinks it will eventually be
successful it's "just taking a little longer than they thought."
His calculator program is advanced, and he talked about how valuable the
cooperation was between hm and the math professor who helped him write it.
Asked whether DE stuff would ever run on a Palm Pilot he said a Palm Pilot
version was unlikely since Tao stuff doesn't run on 68K processors.He said
it might happen on the new Palm Pilots running on ARM processors.
To be continued ... (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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ACBB-Homepage not available
Markus Lunk wrote:
Because of technical problems with the hoster of our domain acbb.de we ask all to use
our mirror under http://www.acbb.de.ms/ until
the domain is available again. Thanks a lot.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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26.Jul.2003
carls (ANF)
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Web server: gW3S v2.2.8 released!
A new version of the ARexx web server for AmigaOS has been released.
The major new feature of this release is Webalizer-compatible log files (Apache-style). Now you can make pretty graphs and statistics from your gW3S access logs! The problem with Opera on PC (couldn't access gW3S sites) is also fixed and the HTTP support has been enhanced.
gW3S is open source and available for download at http://gonzo.1av10.nu/w3s/ (ps)
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26.Jul.2003
ANN
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First pictures from the AmiWest 2003
Under the title link you will find the first pictures by Douglas McLaughlin from the
AmiWest 2003 show. (ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Amiga Inc. (ANF)
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AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state of AmigaOS 4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Please read the complete PR here or under the title link.
AmigaOS4.0 to be demonstrated at AmiWest
July 25, 2003 - Amiga Inc, in conjunction with Hyperion Entertainment
and Computer Connection of California will be demonstrating the current state
of AmigaOS4.0 at the up-and-coming Amiga show in Sacramento, California.
Louie Dituri of Computer Connection, an Amiga dealer since 1988, will demonstrate
AmigaOS4.0 running natively on a Cyberstorm PPC A4000. A lot of progress has
been made in moving 68k modules to PPC-native since the end of the European
AmigaOS on Tour roadshow as well as the default look evolving still further.
Computer Connection have also donated an AmigaOne as a raffle prize and, additionally,
will be demonstrating AmigaOnes running Linux.
A representative of Hyperion Entertainment, the project manager for AmigaOS4.0,
will be on hand to answer questions on the product. In addition, John Harris,
a renowned AmigaDE developer (and the creator of the classic Frogger and Jawbreaker
games), will be present at the Computer Connection stand to show off a variety
of AmigaDE applications.
We urge all Amigans attending the show to flock to the Computer Connection stand
and see the future of the Amiga Platform. No rumours, no spin, no hype, just
the real deal!
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media
technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media
by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and
porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic.
Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications
to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel
X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted
on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x,
2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications
can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com.
About Hyperion:
Hyperion Entertainment
is a privately held Belgian-German company, founded
in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and the conversion
of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to niche-platforms including
Amiga, Linux (x86,PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X). Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken
contract-work in the field of 3D graphics for companies such as Monolith
(www.lith.com)
and has developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D graphics
to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's. Hyperion is currently
working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC native incarnation of the groundbreaking
multimedia OS introduced by Commodore in 1985.
About Computer Connection:
Computer Connection has been serving the needs of the Amiga, Toaster and Flyer
community in the US since 1988. For more information, visit
www.compamiga.com
or send an email to dituri@comp-connection.com.
(ps)
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25.Jul.2003
Kai Stegemann (ANF)
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Presentation about the history and the future of the Amiga
Read the overview
about a presentation of the history of the Amiga. The future and the past are described
with detailed texts. Additionally there are a Hollywood presentation (MOS-only) as well as
the corresponding script.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS call
Certainly many users have been worried that one of the maps of AmiATLAS did not
contain a desired destination, location or attraction or even had incorrect information?!
But this never has been a real problem! In AmiATLAS you can add or change your own
completions. Something like that you will not find at PC route planners.
But would it not be better if all users could use your changes and if you could use the changes
made by other users? Therefore here is a call to all new or old users of AmiATLAS:
Please report your wishes what you miss in the maps or what should be changed because
it is incorrect. Information to locations or attractions are also very welcome.
We are glad about all useful emails which you please send to
support@amiatlas.net.
For all useful and used information there will be a little surprise. Thanks to all
Amiga users for the help!
AmiATLAS Development Team
Gerd Frank, Maintainer
Manfred Rohde, Mapmaster
http://www.amiatlas.net
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2003
Daniel Trompetter (ANF)
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Game: Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS
After at beginning of April 2003 the source code of Duke Nukem 3D has been released
there is a first official version of Duke Nukem 3D for Amiga- and MorphOS which you can
find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jul.2003
Carsten Siegner bei MorphOS-News.de (ANF)
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Music: SongPlayer Version 1.60 for MorphOS and 68k w. OggVorbis Support
Version 1.60 of Stéphane Tavenard's music player 'SongPlayer' came out today, the main thing is that there's a native MorphOS version of the program and support for the Ogg Vorbis music compression format.
Mathias Parnaudeau and
Nicolas Det are busy with the current development, your comments and feedback may be sent to songplayer@free.fr.
Download MorphOS/AmigaOS: SongPlayer.lha
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
(ANF)
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Ben Hermans speech in Gothenburg
Ben Hermans speech
in Gothenburg with two interesting statements, listen for yourself. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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24.Jul.2003
BIAF (ANF)
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AmigaSearch
Just to let Amiga Internet users, webmasters and those who are interested know. A new search engine for Amiga content only, has arrived. Webmasters, please freely submit your Amiga related websites using the 'Add site' link on main page. AmigaSearch is at an early stage so the primary function of this service is useless to Amiga searchers unless webmasters submit their content.
NOTE: AmigaSearch will support IBrowse, Opera, IExplorer, Netscape and most other web browser packages. If you find AmigaSearch to be working on other browsers, please let us know. (ps)
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24.Jul.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Summer events with individual Computers
"No summer break this year!" While our office in Aachen is closed
from July 24th until August 18th, there are several Amiga- and classic
computing related events during the time.
It's startig with Amiwest
in Sacramento, California this weekend. This is a show of long tradition
that has been taking place for many years. This year we attend the show
as exhibitors for the first time. In the past years, we have only
exhibited at the Amiga show in St. Louis in the midwest of the USA.
On the same weekend, the computer-party
Little Computer People takes place
in Sweden. It's organized by C64-fans for C64-fans, and we're supporting
it with some prizes. The current state of development of the
C-One is shown, and our
netowrking card "RR-Net" is demonstrated to a larger audience
for the first time. It's also going to be for sale!
The height of the season is the
Classic Gaming Expo 2003 in Las Vegas
on August 9th and 10th. We're also exhibiting at this show for the first
time. At the expo for classic computer games and arcade machines, names
like Atari, Activision, Vectrex, Intellivision and of course Commodore are
revived. The guest list contains big names like
Paul Norman,
David Crane and
Garry Kitchen. (ps)
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