10.Jan.2004
Henrik Mikael Kristensen (E-Mail)
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AWeb: Overview page of the features in development
Our new Work Overview page will help us getting more structure in future
development of AWeb. It's Bugzilla with a friendlier face. :-)
http://hmk.naff.dk/overview.php (this link may change)
In other news, the GCC conversion of AWeb APL Lite is progressing very
well, as the first tests shows a fairly stable internal release of the
full program. All parts have been converted now, which means in theory,
it should be possible to create a native AmigaOS4 version. If anyone
wants to do that, contact us.
Hopefully we can get a beta out soon, and work towards a 3.5 release.
Regards,
AWeb Development Team (snx)
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10.Jan.2004
T.o.T.-Forum
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T.o.T.: Update 0.51 r2
The update fixes the "Black Screen" error under MorphOS.
Download: ToT_Amiga_V0.51_R2.lha (864.2 KB)
Before installing the fixed version you have to update to the recently released version 0.51 r1 first.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jan.2004
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)
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PerfectPaint: Development halted for the time being
Georges Halvadjian, author of PerfectPaint,
writes:
No news and update since a long time. Development of PerfectPaint is
actually in stand by. I'm just waiting to see the future of Amiga.
Regards,
Georges
(snx)
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09.Jan.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent: Update of "Driver Descriptor Creator"
Version 0.72 of "Driver Descriptor Creator" (ddc) is available under the title link.
Some bugs have been fixed which caused some failure.
Soon the CD to HardwareAssistent will be also available.
Then it will be possible to install the drivers directly from the CD. Besides this
some additional material will be there, e.g. many manuals in pdf-format.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
Anonym (ANF)
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Print magazine: Pegasos2-article in "WCM"
An article about Genesi and its Pegasos2-mainboard has been published in the Austrian
PC-magazine called WCM (issue 2/04, page 17). Furthermore you can read there about
the co-operation with IBM concerning the successor with G5-CPU. You can read the full
article under the title link (in German).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Medusa USB Bundle available
IOSPIRIT announces the immediate availability of Medusa USB, a driver
package enabling the use of OnBoard- and PCI-USB-controllers under
Amithlon and other supported PCI-solutions.
Medusa USB contains full versions of the USB-stack Poseidon, the
PCI-USB-driver ArakAttack and special full versions of the IOUSB DigiCam
and IOUSB Scanner packages.
Medusa USB enables users of Amithlon and other supported hardware, to
completly avoid the purchase and installation of additional USB-hardware
and instead make use of already existant OnBoard-controllers, thereby
saving precious PCI-slots.
About Poseidon
The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB
interface. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.
Poseidon has a modular design that fits into the AmigaOS environment very
neatly. It is no port of an existing system (like the Linux USB stack),
but has been created with the unique features of AmigaOS in mind that make
the operation system so efficient. Already in 2002 Poseidon received the
Amiga Award as best Amiga software.
About ArakAttack
ArakAttack is a USB driver-package for Poseidon, with which USB shall be
made possible on every PCI-capable AmigaOS. The supported standards
currently include UHCI and OHCI. Nearly every PCI-USB-board or
USB-OnBoard controller are compatible with one of these standards. A list
of already tested devices can be found in the respective subpages of the
Medusa USB product pages.
About IOUSB Scanner and DigiCam Package
As a bonus, the IOUSB packages, which for the first time allow the use of
USB-scanners and -digicams, are contained in special SE-versions (equal to
the full versions in functionality). However, since it's a free bonus and
testing with all possible hardware combinations was impossible, these
SE-versions come without support and functional guarantee.
Compatibility
ArakAttack usually should work with every OnBoard- and PCI-controller
supported by PowerPCI (Amithlon) and OpenPCI. Nonetheless, it is possible
that in certain constellations and especially with PCI-solutions not, not
fully or not error-free supported by OpenPCI (Mediator, Prometheus,
G-Rex), there can be compatibility problems. It is thus recommended
to download the demo versions of Poseidon and ArakAttack and to test it
for compatibility with the hardware in use prior to the purchase.
Availability
Medusa USB is immediately available as download version for 34.99 EUR and
as package version (with certificate) for 44.99 EUR. Dealer inquiries
desired. (nba)
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09.Jan.2004
Orbiter on Scenet (Website)
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Event: AmigaOS 4.0 at Compusphere 14
The ACGGbg will participate in the this year`s Compusphere 14 in Sweden and will present
AmigaOS 4.0. At this event a presentation of the operating system with its news and several
applications and of an AmigaOne will be shown.
The Compusphere 14 will take place from 13th until 15th February 2004 in the
Älvsjöstrandens restaurant in Göteborg.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
Scenia (Website)
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Grapevine-Team searches Amiga-developer
A community of developers, editors and readers of the legendary diskmag "Grapevine"
is going to reanimate it. Therefore a developer is searched who can program a
diskmag engine for AmigaOS. If you are interested in then please write a mail to
Nico Barbat.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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New opinion poll: Amiga "unword" of year 2003
We have gone through twelve exciting months. amiga-news.de wants you to participate in
a new opinion poll:
Choose the Amiga "unword" of the year 2003!
You can choose between the following names:
- Articia-Bug
- Insolvency
- Platform-change
- Troll
- T-Shirt
- "Abzocke" (to rip sb off)
- When it's done
- FUD
Have fun! You can read the results here.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Crystal Symphonies 1 & 2 added
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) can present some new productions:
The legendary sound disks "Crystal Symphonies" by Phenomena, Scoopex and Rebels
from 1991 with music by Mantronix und Tip as well as "Crystal Symphonies 2" by
Phenomena from 1992 have been added. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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Amazon changes partner program
Amazon cancels the classic partnership program with 15%. According to that
direct links can only achieve 7,5% instead of 15%. This effects several
Amiga homepages as affiliate-partner and amiga-news.de, too.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org Soon To Go Temporarily Offline
Sometime between Friday, January 9th and Monday, January 12th, the Amiga portal amiga.org will be taken offline for an unspecified time to accomplish maintenance and upgrades. During this time, and for a while afterwards, e-mail forwarding will not work. They report they've been planning these actions for quite a while, but the changes are quite in-depth, and prone to error.
Contrary to circulating rumor, Amiga.org is not being retired at this time. They state they will be back ASAP. More information about the changes and new features will be made available after their return to service. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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AROS: Poll About Desired Hardware
Under the title link you'll find a survey that those responsible from Team
AROS are trying to find out what potential AROS users want. Would you rather run AROS on high performance hardware, or the quietest hardware, or the cheapest hardware? (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #064
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 64th music pack yesterday. It contains a trance track named "Beautiful Morning" from musician Maxus. The cover is by DaFreak.
Title: Beautiful Morning
Musician: Maxus
Style: Trance
Song lenth: 3:49
Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
Size: 4.5 MB
The zipped file is available under the title link as a free download. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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BTTR: Previously missing HD-Games added
The BTTR-Team writes: Although already announced in our Christmas update
we forgot to add 20 new HD-Games into our database.
This mistake has been fixed today, so if you already
downloaded all files of the update then please check
the HD-Games link on the news page for the previously
missing files.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but imagine, we added
3890 entries and more than 25GB of new files with the
last update (that's about the size of entire Aminet),
so the error ratio isn't that bad. ;-) (nba)
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08.Jan.2004
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)
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T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.51 R1
A new version of Tales of Tamar appeared this year. There have been some more improvements since the last update.
[Extremely long list of itemized changes not translated from German. Click on the title link for the ToT homepage]
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Jan.2004
MorphZone (website)
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Spanish manual for the Pegasos II available
Thanks to Juan Carlos Marcos Rodríguez, now also a Spanish version of the Pegasos II manual is available. Furthermore he did not just translate the text but also he prepared an HTML document and reworked the figures. The archive (202 KB) can be downloaded from MorphZone. (snx)
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07.Jan.2004
exotiC (ANF)
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People: What happend to Sam Jordan?
Our reader exotiC found Sam Jordan's (WarpUP, Warp3D) home page.
There he gives some views to his new life as well as something about his Amiga history.
In autumn 2001 Sam Jordan bought a Mac. The current Amiga situation he describes as follows:
"I didn't follow the development of the Amiga since the century change, but some brief research let me conclude that
the Amiga market is not existing any more and activities went down to a minimum."
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
SixK (Website)
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Two new MorphOS games by SixK
The French developer SixK has released two new ports for MorphOS:
Supertux
(v0.0.5) is a Mario clone based on SDL,
VirusKiller
is a new shooter which is available in version 0.1.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi: Internet sales suspended until 15-25 February
As Genesi announce on their website, the Internet sales are suspended until 15-25 February.
Pegasos I upgrades will be handled by any of the resellers listed on PegasosPPC.com as Pegasos II boards become available. Pegasos I boards will now be resold for 149 Euros for the Pegasos I April 2. If you purchased your Pegasos I from Genesi directly, the boards should be returned to the US office if you reside in North America and to a TBD (To Be Determined) location for all other customers.
The Phoenix Phreeboard Program will commence 25 February 2004 and feature the Pegasos I April 1 board. Please see details at the Phoenix Developer Consortium.
Resellers have until 25 February 2004 to place their next orders. Orders received at this time will be produced the first week of March and shipped by 15 March 2004. After this production the next Pegasos II production is scheduled for the last week of April 2004. (snx)
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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Freeware game: "2 Pairs 2 Furious Deluxe"
A reworked version of the "Memory" clone "2 Pairs 2 Furious" is
available now. The author promises new levels, additional skins
and "some several more improvements". The game should work on every Amiga
with gfx card.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Pegasos 2 Reviews (Update)
By the title link there is a summary by amiga.org reader "Takemehomegrandma" of his experience
with the "Pegasos 2" motherboard available.
Update: (07.01.2004, 17:45, cg)
A German report of his experience by
our reader Granada is available within the forum.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Assembler: ASM-One V1.48 Rev. 482 released
The assembler ASM-One is now a vailable as
V1.48 Rev. 482
(302 KB) which is a bugfixed new beta version. Kickstart 2.x, ReqTools
and ASL are required. Further information in English is available at the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware: URL reachable again
After the hard disk failure and due to this the offline time of the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware"'s domain (we
reported
the page is now reachable again.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages until 7th January 2004
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to hard disk which were initially intended for floppy disk usage. Since the last
report the following packages were added or updated:
- 06.01.04 new: Barbarian (Palace)
- 04.01.04 new: Life & Death (Software Toolworks/Mindscape)
- 04.01.04 fixed: Dune (Cryo)
- 04.01.04 improved: Bubble And Squeak (Audiogenic)
- 03.01.04 fixed: Knights of the Sky (Microprose)
- 03.01.04 improved: Alien Breed 2 (Team 17)
- 02.01.04 new: Road Blasters (US Gold)
- 02.01.04 new: Sword (Serio-Comic)
- 02.01.04 new: Que? (The Black Lotus)
- 01.01.04 new: California Games (Epyx/Westwood Associates)
- 30.12.03 new: World Games (Epyx/Westwood Associates)
- 30.12.03 fixed: Shaft 7 (Bomb)
- 30.12.03 new: 7 Colors (Infogrames)
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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07.Jan.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet uploads until 7th January 2004
Since our last report the following Aminet-Uploads were added:
SPA-AmIRC.lha comm/irc 16K+Update Spanish catalog for AmIRC 3.5.x
SPA-YGMail.lha comm/mail 1K+Spanish catalog for YGMail
SPA-CManager.lha comm/net 7K+Spanish catalog for ContactManager
SPA-JabberWock.lha comm/net 2K+Update spanish catalog for Jabberwocky
SPA-MiamiDx.lha comm/net 15K+Update spanish catalog for MiamiDX
SPA-OpenURL.lha comm/net 2K+Spanish catalog for OpenURL
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 31K+Online Dictionary
JabberwockyBIN.lha comm/tcp 209K+Jabber client
JabberwockySRC.lha comm/tcp 284K+Jabber client
SPA-AmiFish.lha comm/tcp 1K+Spanish catalog for AmiFish
StripHunk.lha dev/misc 25K+Tiny cli-command strips hunks/relocs
Image2Disk.lha disk/misc 13K+Read/write adf-images from/to disk
AmigaChannel.lha docs/anno 5K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i
AmigaPower.lha docs/hyper 57K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (30 De
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 11/2003 (Itali
AmigaFuture45.lha docs/mags 800K+Great german paper mag preview
nocover118.lha docs/mags 3.0M+Great german diskmagazine
CC.lha game/patch 1.2M+Carrier Command and various tools for
FinalChapter.lha game/think 234K+1-6 Player strategy game
PairsNG_Demo.lha game/wb 2.3M+Great board game for CGFX/P96/AHI (V2.4)
Time-Waster.lha game/wb 34K+Useless Time Wasting Game.
GS8gui.lha gfx/conv 14K+GUI for Ghostscript8 done with rxMUI
Sv5-1.lha gfx/misc 565K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 1/8
Sv5-2.lha gfx/misc 156K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 2/8
Sv5-3a.lha gfx/misc 127K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 3a/8
Sv5-3b.lha gfx/misc 329K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 3b/8
Sv5-4.lha gfx/misc 38K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 4/8
Sv5-5.lha gfx/misc 147K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 5/8
Sv5-6.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 6/8 (opti
Sv5-7.lha gfx/misc 158K+SView5 V1.40 (1.1.2004) - Part 7/8 (opti
Sv5-8.lha gfx/misc 154K+SView5 V1.00 (1.1.2003) - Part 8/8 (opti
Sv5Fix130.lha gfx/misc 7K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.30 (31.12.2003)
swfplayer.lha gfx/show 345K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.3) 68k+W
swfplayersrc.lha gfx/show 473K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.2e2) 68k
PoseidonMain.lha hard/drivr 423K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.2
PoseidonMOS.lha hard/drivr 579K+Poseidon USB for Pegasos Update 2.2
SPA-GhostMix.lha hard/drivr 1K+Spanish catalog for GhostMix
SPA-Mixer.lha hard/drivr 2K+Spanish catalog for Mixer
Flamingo.lha misc/emu 167K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.54, 68k & PPC
Wzonka-Lad.lha misc/emu 575K+Wzonka-Lad - Gameboy emulator v1.03 (Ful
AMoviedb.lha misc/imdb 1.4M+Moviedb with GUI
Power-icons.lha pix/icon 48K+Icons for Powericons
WHD-Icons2.lha pix/icon 385K+Games icons for WHDload installs (pack n
AP25Covers.lha pix/misc 277K+AMiGa=PoWeR n 25 Covers Recto & Verso
guideml.lha text/hyper 66K+V3.1 AmigaGuide -> HTML converter with G
SPA-ViewDiz.lha util/arc 1K+Spanish catalog for ViewDiz
Entries.lha util/cli 9K+List files matches by a given pattern
QSort.lha util/cli 11K+Quicksort cli-command
SetDTool.lha util/cli 8K+Change DefaultTool_Entrys
ChkIndex.lha util/misc 14K+Check aminet indexfile for equal entries
am1.001_aos.lha util/moni 233K+AmigaMARK LPA Benchmark Suite - AmigaOS
am1.001_base.lha util/moni 681K+AmigaMARK LPA Benchmark Suite - Base arc
am1.001_mos.lha util/moni 374K+AmigaMARK LPA Benchmark Suite - MorphOS
SPA-FullPalett.lha util/wb 1K+Spanish catalog for FullPalette
SPA-MagicMenu.lha util/wb 2K+Spanish catalog for MagicMenu
WindowBar.lha util/wb 223K+Window mimizer and program launcher
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07.Jan.2004
Michael C. Battilana (E-Mail)
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Cloanto: Personal Paint 7.1 for AmigaOS 4.0
Seattle, WA - January 6, 2004 - Amiga Inc. and Cloanto are
delighted to announce that Personal Paint 7.1 will be available
on the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 operating system.
The Personal Paint series of 2D graphics and animations
applications has been a mainstay of the application base for
the Amiga platform ever since its introduction in 1992 and it
is also a star attraction of the Cloanto Amiga Forever package.
As Cloanto considers a new version of the product for AmigaOS
4.0, it has decided to show its commitment to the Amiga
platform and community by making the source code of the current
version available to Amiga Inc., allowing them to create a
PowerPC native version for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0 product.
The created binaries will be owned by Cloanto but will be made
available for free download from the Amiga and Cloanto web
sites.
Cloanto and Amiga are also in talks concerning a new version of
Amiga Forever, as well as a special version of Amiga Forever
for AmigaOS 4.0, which aims to provide chipset-level Classic
Amiga compatibility integrated with the new generation Amiga
operating system and hardware.
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. AmigaOS support and information is
available at os.amiga.com.
About Cloanto
Cloanto started as an Amiga software house in 1987 and remains
passionately committed to supporting its Amiga customers, the
Amiga community, and those who have not yet had a chance to
experience an Amiga. Cloanto's Amiga solutions are at
www.amigaforever.com. For the nostalgically-minded, Cloanto's
original Amiga site is online at
www.cloanto.com/amiga/classic/.
Links
Announcement by Amiga:
http://os.amiga.com/corporate/010604-cloanto.shtml
Amiga Forever Home Page:
http://www.amigaforever.com
RSS Information
Amiga Forever RSS Feed:
http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml
Cloanto.com RSS Feed:
http://www.cloanto.com/news/rss.xml
Using RSS Feeds:
http://www.cloanto.com/kb/3-192.html
Important: Future Amiga and emulation news from Cloanto will be
delivered preferentially via RSS. (snx)
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06.Jan.2004
Claudia Forsbach (E-Mail)
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Tales of Tamar: 250 Euros to win
At Tales of Tamar, a platform independent roundbased massiv-multiplayer-online-strategy
and partplay early "Kaiser" or "Civilisation", which was developed by Eternity, there is the chance to win 250 Euro.
Be a tester and win 250 Euro
"Tales of Tamar" a roundbased fantasy-, strategy- and partplaygame, is going to the next step of development.
In honour to our "Tales of Tamar" (short ToT) a Windows client, which is advanced in development, we are going to make
a competition to test our game in larger gamecircles.
The player who is first in our world and gets the title of an emperor, gets a prize of 250 Euro (twohundretandfifty).
Because of testing the game the game is for free for testers. But please work with us because of bugs. Play and Win!
We also search the best strategic, mathematic and diplomatic, the best trader or those who have many of this properties, we show you the
prize while you are testing.
Come in into the great and faszinating world of mysts and legends. Fight with elfs, dragons, gnomes and orks.
Enter your empire and be a part of this world. Fight with 350-2000 players for the crown of Tamar.
You don't only find friends in this community, it would be a new part of your life and it will change your life, sure!
These are the rules for the competition:
- The prize for the competition is 250 Euro!
- Members or exmembers of the development team are not allowed to take part
- The tester has to fill an application as a beta tester on www.tamar.net
- The empire has to be registered after the 31.12.2003
- Every player has just one empire, payed secondgames are not possible, payed singlegames are possible
- The team of "Tales of Tamar" doesn't take any responsibility for ay bugs and other faults of the programm also if they are the ground for losing the account
- Old Vasall contracts are not allowed to be transfered to the game
- Serve its purpose is the improvement of the game
- This offer is also for new Amiga users or compatibles with a serial key.
Lowest configuration:
PentiumPC 200 MHz, Windows 95, Gfx card with 4 MB and DirectX7
Amiga with AGA, 68030 & 8 MB Fastram, OS 3.1
You can get mor information to "Tales of Tamar" http://www.tamar.net. (snx) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Operating system patch: Stackattack 2
"StackAttack" is patching different operating system functions to cancel crashes because of too low stack memory. The new version of StackAttack was written completely new
to stop problems with the old version.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT prolongs special price promotion
IOSPIRIT press release:
"Due to the still high interest in our special price promotion just after the official end of it, IOSPIRIT has decided to prolong the special price promotion by a month until the 1st February 2004.
In the scope of the special price promotions, you can buy selected quality software at almost 40% reduced prices".
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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06.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)
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Experimental UAE-Version: New Version, AmigaOS Binaries
Richard Drummond has published a new version of his experimental UAE-Port, which makes possible many improvements of the WINUAE-version.
Between many small changings and bugfixes (see Changelog)
there are now also binaries for AmigaOS and BeOS.
The AmigaOS-version with no sound at the moment has following system requests:
- OS2.0 or higher
- 68020 or better
- min. 40MB RAM
- a stack of 16384 bytes
The ixemul.library is not needed.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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06.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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Cloanto: Personal Paint for MorphOS announced
Genesi and Cloanto announced today that they entered into an agreement to develop a port of Cloanto's Personal Paint for MorphOS.
Under the new agreement, Cloanto is sharing the source code with Genesi, who will assist in the port to its PowerPC-based computing platform. Personal Paint will be bundled with MorphOS. (snx)
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06.Jan.2004
David Doyle (ANF)
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AmigaWorld.net: Second annual IRC-meeting next weekend
Over the past 5 years #Amigaworld on IRC has seen a lot of people come and go, if you were one of these people or a current member of the channel then please join us in this get-together this weekend, starting 20:00 GMT each Night, Friday 9 Jan to Sunday 11 Jan on irc.SuperHosts.Net.
PS. All Amigans welcomed, not just members.
To join the Channel (Chatroom) get an IRC Client such as AmIRC, mIRC or X-Chat and connect to /server irc.amigaworld.net and then /join #amigaworld, or you can use the IRC JAVA applet on the site.
For more information about the Channel and how to use IRC visit http://chat.amigaworld.net. (snx)
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05.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Amiga Forever RSS-Newsfeed from Cloanto
After a few weeks of testing Cloanto announced the public access URL for
its RSS news feed at amigaforever.com, covering Amiga and emulation news:
http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml
The feed already contains a few hints about the news which will follow
this month, and later during 2004 and beyond.
At the same time, the Amiga enthusiasts at Cloanto would like to take this
opportunity to wish a healthy, happy and prosperous continuation of 2004. (nba)
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03.Jan.2004
AmigaWorld.net (website)
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OS4: Screenshots of a "Wolfenstein" port
At AmigaWorld.net, Steven Fuller has released screenshots of the game "Castle Wolfenstein" ported to AmigaOS 4.0:
picture 1, picture 2, picture 3
Steven Fuller is a developer of the team which is porting Gorky 17 to Linux and AmigaOS4. (snx)
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03.Jan.2004
MorphZone (forum)
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MorphOS: GUI for MLDonkey available
Attention Software have created a Graphical User Interface for the P2P filesharing program MLDonkey (amiga-news.de reported). An alpha version (12 KB) can be downloaded from their homepage. (snx)
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03.Jan.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)
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Some details about the OS4 SDK
At AmigaWorld.net, Hans-Jörg Frieden announced further details about the AmigaOS4 SDK which will be included on the Developer Pre-Release CD:
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GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 3.4 have been ported to OS 4 native (and as a cross compiler for Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Windows/Cygwin, Darwin/PPC, AmigaOS 3.x/m68k) The SDK will also contain gdb, the Gnu Debugger.
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Then there's vbcc. vbcc is Frank Wille's contribution, I don't know if it will be contained in the SDK directly, but it will in any case be downloadable.
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The SDK also contains a number of additional utilities, among them "fdtrans", which is a program to convert old-style SFD files into next-gen XML files.
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XML files are used by the program "idltool", which is a program that converts these XML files into all sort of output files (much like fd2pragma or SFD before). idltool is primarily used to generate all required include files for an OS 4 style library, but it can also generate a skeleton source code for a library, so that a programmer only has to write an XML file, turn it into source code, and add the functions to it. This should make it easier to write libraries in OS 4.
(snx)
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03.Jan.2004
DENIC (website)
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DENIC: Ten years of domain administration
From 1.000 to seven millions in ten years: this number shows the successful work of the DENIC on the field of the domains. On the 1st of January in 1994 started the DENIC in an institutionalised form as a project financed from third-party funds at the University of Karlsruhe. Read more about the DENIC and their work on their website.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jan.2004
Andreas Kleinert (email)
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Graphics: SView5 v1.40 released
The graphics viewer and converter SView5 has been released in version 1.40
and can be downloaded as a demo version from the website of the developer
Andreas R. Kleinert under the title link. The package contains the eight distribution archives and the plug-in for ImageFX.
(New) Features:
- SView5: the powerful main program that allows to access all options
and settings, allows to load, save, process and convert images - not only
via the GUI but also using ARexx and so on. Includes a RTG-compliant
screen-grabber!
- BatchProcess: Batch conversion tool, for applying upto 4 image
processing operaters to a number of graphics by
wildcards and save them in a different file format, e.g.
load a bunch of JPEGs, then resize, dither and save them
as PNG files.
- SVProPics: Ulrich Falke's "SVProPics" batch-processing
ARexx script now is part of the SView5 archive
- PNG-Box5: dedicated tools for creation of graphics for JPEG-Box5
- JPEG-Box5: WWW usage (HTML pages) with progressive/interlacing
and transparency support
- WinSlide: for viewing images in a window on public screens,
using as few memory as possible - smooth scrolling
inclusive! Supports 8 through 24 bit displays.
- ScrollSlide: like WinSlide but using its own screen,
for best colors even on 8 bit displays
- CyberSlide: like viewing images from SView5 using a CyberGfx
SV5Driver with 16/24 bit capability, but implemented as
small standalone program
- SuperSlide: like CyberSlide but for AGA screens and screen modes,
additionally dithering is done when necessary
- SVPrefs: for changing settings of SView5-Library modules easily.
- also: JPEG2000 support, lots of new SVOperators, bugfixes, ...
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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03.Jan.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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Music: New track on the Psyria homepage
A new year, new chances: With this in mind Psyria tries to go their way to the top. To be successfull with this Psyria's homepage got a new design due to the third anniversary of their Internet presence and this is not all: right at the beginning of the year the fans get something for their ears: "Until Dawn", a chill out track for quiet moments, is available from now on and exclusively in the download area.
Psyria wishes a Happy New Year all their fans and all the Amiga users!
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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