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22.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)


News-flash: IBM Introduces Their Own PDA Concept
Yesterday in New York at the LinuxWorld convention IBM introduced their own concept of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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22.Jan.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


Freeciv Amiga native 1.18
The new Freeciv Amiga native version is available from now on for download at Sebastian Bauer's homepage. It covers exactly the version 1.14.10 which has been published at www.freeciv.org two days ago.

Freeciv is a free Civilisation clone which is playable via Internet versus several players or offline versus the computer. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
EdWord


Editor: EdWord Professional V6.0 - source code
After Martin Reddy published the full version of his editor EdWord Version 6.01 for Amiga computer as freeware in September 2001 he has now released the source code under GPL (GNU Public License) also. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Nova Design


Nova Design PR: Giant Nova Design Software Sale
By the title link there is a press release by Nova Design which covers offers for several software e.g. ImageFX or Alladin 4D. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Onyxsoft


Onyxsoft: QuickSketch and several updates
With QuickSketch a new freeware program by Daniel Westerburg is introduced to the product portfolio of Onyxsoft. The program is similar to 'QuickNote', it might to be used for text notes, but QuickSketch can additionally handle graphic (sketched) notes.

Furthermore the following updates were made available:
  • DagensTV (version 1.2)
    The program processes information of the TV pogram which are sent by dagenstv.com via email.

  • MultiRen (Version 1.53)
    MultiRen is a tool for renaming files comfortably.

  • TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.23)
    TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical interface for MPEG audio encoder.
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Amiga Society


Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld - 32x32 patterns in raw format
The 32x32 patterns for the action strategy game 'Schlachtfeld' (graphics phase I) are in a raw format online now. The patterns do not fit exacty together. This is mostly because of the rendering which shifted the patterns a little bit. This requires a massively post production work for some patterns. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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22.Jan.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)


Diskmag: Eurochart needs support!
One of the last diskmags of the Amiga demo scene, "The official Eurochart", will be published by middle or end next month. The editors ask for a vote for volume 48 and to participate the poll (Scene Survey) or to contribute something else e. g. English articles, graphics or musics. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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21.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


News from Eyetech: State of AmigaOneXE
After moving the website of Eyetech onto another server the site is now up to date. Beside some changes in prices for the Eyetech complete systems a change for the AmigaOne interested persons is interesting: The AmigaOneXE-G3 will be delivered with a G3 CPU (750FX) with 800 MHz instead of the announced 700 MHz.

On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse is talking about the latest stateof the delivery of the AmigaOneXE:

It seems the first 25 boards are delivered to Eyetech and are taken under another quality control by 25 chosen testers. The other motherboards will be delivered to Eyetech in the next week. Because of the high inquiry and the fact of the quality check by Eyetech the delivery will take a longer time than expected so the boards will be delivered to dealers and customers in February. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Jan.2003
Amiga.sf


Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 21st January 2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:

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21.Jan.2003



Aminet uploads until 21.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:

AMIthlon_CD.lha      docs/help    2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha     pix/gicon   25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
SSGlowIcons.lha      pix/gicon   72K+Samurai Shodown glow icons by Ponos
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21.Jan.2003
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 21.01.2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:

  • 21.01.03 new: 1000cc Turbo (Energize) done by Codetapper
  • 21.01.03 fixed: The Speris Legacy (Team 17) fixed save game bug
  • 21.01.03 improved: Sky Chase (Imageworks) supports 2 new versions
  • 21.01.03 new: Lunar-C (Mindscape) done by JOTD
  • 21.01.03 new: Battle Chess (Interplay) done by Psygore
  • 21.01.03 improved: Better Dead Than Alien (Electra) supports another version
  • 21.01.03 improved: Lost Patrol (Ocean) NTSC version supported, miscellaneous fixes
  • 21.01.03 improved: Iron Lord (UBI-Soft) supports German version
  • 21.01.03 new: Fascination (Coktel Vision) done by CFOU!
(ps)

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21.Jan.2003
S. Eichholz (ANF)


heise: Atari-ST-Emulator for PocketPC
As "heise" says for PocketPCs with StrongARM CPUs has been released an Atari ST emulator. The emulator is "Donorware", this means it is for free but donations are welcome. If there are enough "donations" maybe the coder will develop an Amiga emulator. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Jan.2003
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)


Today grand opening of The Butterfly Vale
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages! The Butterfly Vale has opened its gates for visitors. The Vale is your future source for MorphOS ports and high-quality own MorphOS developments.

As for your journey to us, please recall that the Vale is located in a remote place where the air is still fresh and clean. We would like to keep it that way and ask you to if possible leave your power-consuming Pentium switched off and use alternate means of transportation. We recommend coming in by flying horse.

Here's a short overview of our main attractions. While you browse our various areas, you may notice that we have some smaller archives up that are not mentioned here.

cdda.library 1.0

cdda.library is a MorphOS library that provides CD digital audio services to A-Box programs. Developers benefit from the library's high-level functions such as drive search by certain criteria, looped playing of CD sections, event callbacks and author/track title information where available.

Users benefit from the library's drive autorecognition by not having to enter or even recall any device/unit values in most cases - thanks to cdda.library's powerful functions, ScummVM MorphOS is the only port that does not need the user to specify a CD drive.

ScummVM 0.3.0b + new CVS

The full ScummVM 0.3.0b MorphOS distribution is now online. It includes an updated PDF manual, and the icons have been converted to Ambient format. Also, there are now new icons for the Simon the Sorcerer games.

A new CVS snapshot has been uploaded as well, this one is the first public MorphOS snapshot with experimental, preliminary support for "THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND", as well as support for the Mac/Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 2 and early support for the CD32 version of Simon the Sorcerer.

Exult 1.0

Exult is a rewrite of the Ultima 7 engine for modern operating systems. It allows you to play one of the best and most detailed parts of Origin's famous Ultima series. Exult has recently turned to version 1.0 which means that both parts of Ultima 7, "The Black Gate" and "The Silver Seed" along with their add-ons "The Black Sword" and "Forge of Virtue" are fully supported now. The original data files are required to play.

FreeSCI 0.3.4

The MorphOS port of FreeSCI had been announced three days ago on the FreeSCI homepage (http://freesci.linuxgames.com). Today saw the official release of FreeSCI 0.3.4, and the MorphOS version is available for download from the Vale on the same day! FreeSCI is an attempt to create a portable interpreter for games written for Sierra On-Line's SCI system. Playable games include King's Quest IV, Space Quest 3, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, The Colonel's Bequest, and several others. 32 bit Ambient icons for nine games known to be completable are included in the archive.

Frotz

Frotz is an interpreter for the adventure games produced by Infocom, and fan works created with Graham Nelson's Inform compiler. Frotz MorphOS Release 1 is based on David Kinder's Amiga port, Release 14 (the current Amiga version is release 16). Major changes to the Amiga version (14) are:
  • Updated port to Frotz 2.43 code base
  • Made Frotz fully graphics cards compliant
  • Rewrote GUI code from BGUI to MUI
  • Rewrote audio.device code to AHI
  • Aspect correction for V6 graphics
  • Fixed lots of preferences issues


Inform

Graham Nelson's Inform allows you to write your own games to run on Infocom interpreters. In addition to the binary, I've provided an archive with most material from Glenn Hutchings' all-in-one Inform package. It is meant for new users who want to start quickly with Inform. It includes the library, some useful 3rd party contributions, examples and a tutorial, all ready to use.

Magnetic

Magnetic is an interpreter for the adventure games once produced by the British company Magnetic Scrolls. It is based on David Kinder's Amiga port. Major changes from the Amiga version are:
  • Rewrote Copper code to proper graphics cards compliant code
  • Implemented title splash screen
  • Implemented animations for Magnetic Windows games
  • Implemented online hints for Magnetic Windows games


The Butterfly Vale is looking forward to your visit. Also keep in mind that this is just the beginning ... (ps)

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21.Jan.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper: Another SID-driver for the Catweasel
The second Amiga-based SID-driver is a playsid.library that accesses the SID of the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper directly. At the moment this only works on Catweasel controllers that are plugged in a Zorro slot of an Amiga, support for Clockport-connected controllers will be added shortly. Playsid plays back a lot of tunes that are known from C64-games and demos. The probably most famous collection of SID music is the High Voltage Sid collection that contains more than 20000 songs.

Special thanks goes to the brothers Rakesh und Sharwin Raghoebardayal who have adapted the library to the Catweasel in their spare time, and released it as freeware.

Download: playsid.lha - 19 KB

Link: High Voltage SID collection (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Free Pascal


Compiler: Free Pascal 1.0.7 Amiga snapshot available
A new snapshot of the compiler Free Pascal version 1.0.7 is now available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
AND Software


Context menu: ContextSAS Version 1.65
The program ContextSAS by Andre Dörffler enables you to provide and to use context sensitive menus for AmigaOS3.5+. The DefIcons system is supported. By using a few additional tools one can thereby iconify even Workbench windows and create links.

With the new version 1.65 newdrawer_gui was added in the tools, which can be used as replacement for newdrawer. This time with GUI. This version offers the possibility of defining a dividing line for each menu entry and the activation by the middle or left mouse button is now functioning correctly. In the next update a hierarchical menu definition will be added, so stay tuned...

Download: ContextInstall165.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


TV board software: AmithlonTV Beta-Version 240
Guido Mersmann published beta version 236 of the TV board driver software AmithlonTV.

Changes:

  • BUGFIX:
    Several small fixes and changes on the library core.
  • CHANGED:
    Added some information to the driver programming guide


Download: AmithlonTV_Beta240.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Amiga Flame


Amiga Flame: Select from the Top 5 the game of the year 2002
Amiga Flame would like to determine the best game of the year 2002 out of the Top 5 of the Amiga games. Nominates, and thus being available, are the following games:

  • The Feeble Files (Adventure) - Epic Interactive
  • Software Tycoon (Simulation) - Epic Interactive
  • Tales Of Tamar (PBEM Strategy) - Eternity
  • Quake II (3D Shooter) - ID Software
  • Crossfire II (Mix of Shooter, X-Out and Wing Commander) - Dreamworld Development
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Czech Amiga News


Audio: AHI 5.4=6.0rc0-m68k / PPC
Martin Blom, developer of the sound map driver system AHI, published new beta versions for m68k and PPC.

ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-m68k.lha
ahi-5.4=6.0rc0-ppc.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003



Aminet Uploads until 20.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:

SN-BackupArc.lha     biz/dbase   86K+V1.0 Provide Backup's automatically (Ger
newscoaster.lha      comm/news  428K+NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.55) (MUI)
newscoastersrc.lha   comm/news  186K+NewsCoaster Source Code (v1.55 - 18.1.20
mhm-BeApe.lha        demo/intro  85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
BlitzLstDec02.lha    dev/basic  525K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
BlitzLstOct02.lha    dev/basic  140K+Blitz mailing list archives for October 
BlitzLstSep02.lha    dev/basic  241K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
FindModule.lha       dev/e       13K+Find OS Function or CONST or whatever yo
nano.lha             dev/lang   192K+Interpreter with syntax near to BASIC an
AMIthlon_CD.lha      docs/help    2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
Frenchies.lha        docs/misc  275K+French translations from Didier Giron
UklSloneczny.lha     docs/misc   89K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about Solar Syst
cf2_demo.lha         game/demo   11M+CrossfireII demo, advanced single/multip
cf2_demo_upd03.lha   game/patch 400K+Patches any CrossfireII demo version to 
DVD2VCD.lha          gfx/conv    93K+DVD2VCD(Cli Usage) 
imdbDiff030110.lha   misc/imdb  5.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha     misc/misc   68K+MUI Biorythm tool v1.0b. Now localised (
newbaer.lha          mus/misc    19K+GNU/GPL updated Paula-to-AHI redirector 
PlasmaPlugin.lha     mus/play    24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
XenoMorph_WB09.jpg   pix/wb      68K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
XenoMorph_WB10.jpg   pix/wb     114K+XenoMorph's WB Extreme Personalization
MemTrailer.lha       util/boot    4K+Allocates 16 bytes for MEMORY-PROTECTION
DirSSCompare.lha     util/dir    13K+Compares two dirs (for differences)
EBGuide.lha          util/rexx    2K+View Australian TV Guides in Shell/CLI
VClock_v1.7c.lha     util/time  332K+Real Speech Clock - Final Release
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20.Jan.2003
Amigan Software


Tool: Report+ Version 5.64a
For users of AmigaOS 3.9 version 5.63 of Report+ is set to be downloaded. With Report+ from Amigan Software it's easy to create bug reports, Aminet "readme" files, autodocs and similar reports. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.

Download: ReportPlus.lha - 304 KB (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Alex de Vries (E-Mail)


New Amiga-Product: Pure Basic
Xing Interactive are very proud to announce the release of the powerful and versatile programming language "Pure Basic". The product will be released in the second week of February 2003 and is available to consumers at the very competitive price of 29,95 Euro in DVD case packaging.

Pure Basic is more advanced and flexible then any of the other Basic programming languages currently on the market and it comes at a fraction of the price. The beauty of this product is the versatility though as you can develop your own games and applications on PC Windows, Linux or even AmigaOS! Speed is another unique selling point. Where other Basic programming languages crawl at a slow pace due to complex instruction translations Pure Basic shines by even outperforming C++ written code. If you ever wanted to program your own commercial quality games or applications in an easy to learn and even more easy to use language then this is your chance! (ps)

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20.Jan.2003
Sylvio K. (ANF)


ADA team with inquiry over the Soms3D-Engine
Sylvio K., director/conductor of the Anime development for Amiga team, decided to start an inquiry concerning the Soms3D-Engine due to the many e-mails with suggestions he got.

Originally it was intended to make Soms an on-line adventure but due to the suggestions in various mails something else could become of it. Everyone who would like to participate in the inquiry, please answer the following questions by sending an e-mail with the reference "Soms3D". These are the questions:

What do you think? What shall become of the Soms3D engine?

Currently the favorites are a 'Silent Hill' similar horror game and a 'GTA3'-Clone. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Jan.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)


FreeBSD 5.0 available
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development. (ps)

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19.Jan.2003
Daniel Miller (ANF)


Genesi on the CES: Some more pictures and words (Update)
In case you are interested, you can find an article on Genesi's show appearance at the CES 2003 in Las Vegas, USA by Daniel Miller under the title link.

Update 20.01.2003:
Today was released another summary of the CES 2003 show by Nicholas Blachford. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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19.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.01 with numerous improvements
An update from fxPAINT version 2.0 to 2.01 is now available for free download. Changes include:

  • fxPAINT no more requires a fxPAINT: assign
  • the behaviour of the slider has been changed due to numerous requests
  • the "Choose"-button now switches forth and back between plain paint-mode and gradient-mode
  • further adaptions to MorphOS
  • the IFF24-saver now works correct
  • other bugfixes
A fully detailed list of all changes can be found in the update archive. (ps)

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19.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


Crossfire II shipped & further news (Update)
On Monday Crossfire II will be shipped to all subscribers and Amiga dealers. The shipped version of the game will be v1.03, which contains various bug fixes and the following new featueres as compared the the show version:

  • Full MorphOS and Pegasos compatibility
  • Complete story in German
  • Many mission details changed and difficulty level adjusted
  • Tutorial now optional
  • Currently selected weapon will be highlighted

Furthermore a new demo version of Crossfire II has been released on the APC&TCP and Dreamworlds Development home pages. There you will find the updates of the game and the demo version V1.03. In addition the support pages for the game on the APC&TCP home page have been updated and a.o. a FAQ added.

Update 20.01.2003:
On the Amiga Future home page you will find an interview with Dreamworld Development. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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19.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


Set-top boxes and more: New statement by Genesi
In a new statement (title link) Raquel Velasco und Bill Buck of Genesi have a.o. announced a contract for Pegasos and MorphOS based set-top boxes, which provides for the cash flow necessary for the other projects.

Shows are expensive. 100,000 Dollars have been invested in a short period of time just for the CES in Las Vegas and the ARC in Aachen and the respective attention grabbing (not to forget the cost for the other public presentations and events).

Furthermore it contains another hint at having applied legal measures to get AmigaOS on the Pegasos.

According to the announcement, the Pegasos is shipped with MorphOS, DebianPPC, Mac-on-Linux and a bundle of games and applications. Ports of OpenBSD and Gentoo are said to be in the works and available before the CeBIT. Furthermore there are talks about ports of BeOS, OpenBeOS, NetBSD, Zeta and NewOS. SuSE and Mandrake are already running on the Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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18.Jan.2003
Petr H. (email)


New beta version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D (beta 10)
Under the title link is the new version of GLQuake for WarpUP/Warp3D available for download. The author of the program is Massimilano Tretene.

The minimum setup to run GLQuakeWOS 1.09 beta 10 are:
  • PowerPC processor
  • 3D graphics card
  • 32 MB Ram
  • AmigaOS v3.x
  • WarpUP
  • Warp3D
What's new:
Fixed: paula allocation routine bug
Fixed: input.device allocation bug
Fixed: mouse allocation bug
Added: Sky Boxes support (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Preview of the new GUI for ffmpeg 0.4.6
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today I've made the first preview of my "Powerkonverter" GUI available on my homepage. This GUI isn't created with Gui4CLI anymore but with Powergadgets.

Download: Powerkonverter.lzx (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Gojira (ANF)


Mail program: new YAM developer version dated 18.01.2003
Since today there's a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA of the mail program YAM available which is Open Source for some time now. This version is a pure developer version that may still contain bugs and for that the developers team doesn't give any warranty and support. Request regarding the developer versions via email aren't answered, either. Usage at your own risk!

The made changes can be taken from this list. Further information can be found on the Yamos SourceForge page.

Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
C-One Website


CommodoreOne: new pictures
On the website about the CommodoreOne you can see in the area "Picture" new pictures of this by Jeri Ellsworth new designed nostalgia computer. Interested ones can find technical details and many further information following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Computer City (ANF)


New pictures-search-game for Amiga
Computer City will release in 2003 a new game for Amiga computers, more details can be found on the provisional website. For further information please contact info@compcity.nl or the Attention programmers team.

The freeware game developed by the programmers group Attention, these are Philippe van Calsteren, Elvis Poldervaart and Patrick Henz is a game similar to a FindIt error searching game called Foto/Foto that will be available for many platforms. This will work in the way that a website will be created on the Internet where the game will be played. Two almost identical pictures will be uploaded with one of them containing five errors.

The game itself will be run locally, there'll be only a contact to the server to download the pictures or to upload the result and to be entered into the highscore list. The first betas are said to be shown on the Benelux Amiga Show that is planned for April 2003. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


UADE version for MorphOS
Harry Sintonen has created with UADE 0.80pre1-mos1 a MorphOS version of UADE the Unix Amiga Delitracker emulator. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


TV-card software: AmithlonTV beta version 236
Guido Mersmann has published the beta version 236 of his TV-card driver AmithlonTV.

New in this version:

  • FEATURE:
    The new bt8x8 driver supports the new interlace mode, that is useful in several cases. (e.g. VHI Studio)
  • FEATURE:
    Some already implemented functions are now available within the menu.
  • FEATURE:
    Added some missing menu entries to the TVWatch setup window.
  • CHANGED:
    Many catalog changes.
  • FEATURE:
    Online help added (currently German only).
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta236.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2003
Jarmo Laakkonen


Jarmo Laakkonen: Lame V3.93.1 - FFMpeg V0.4.6 - mpgtx V1.3
Jarmo Laakkonen has updated some of his programs:

  • LamePPC - Lame MP3 encoder version 3.93.1 for WarpOS - lame.lzx 241 KB

  • Lame source code for C-Compiler lame_src.lzx - 952 KB

  • FFMpeg 0.4.6 - Fast video- and audioconverter. Supports AVI/QT/ASF/MPEG/DIVX/WMV1/MP3/AC3 and other - for 040/WarpOS - ffmpeg.lzx - 890 KB

  • FFMpeg source code for C-Compiler ffmpeg_src.lzx - 639 KB

  • mpgtx 1.3 - MPEG video-/audio-splitter and "Joiner", unfortunately there is no 68k version, because the author has no time of fighting with gcc-bugs - for WarpOS - mpgtx.lzx - 81 KB

  • mpgtx source code for C-Compiler - mpgtx_src.lzx - 77 KB
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2003
GFX-BASE


GFX-BASE: Review of fxPAINT 2.0
GFX-BASE has a new review. This time they put the latest version of the image-authoring-software fxPAINT v.2.0 to the test. In this review they tried to give you an impression of the new features, optimizations and improvements in this new release (especially for those who already own a previous version of fxPAINT) as well as an overview for those, who have not tried or seen fxPAINT before. Read it under the title link. (ps)

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17.Jan.2003
amiga.sf


Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 17.01.2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Jan.2003



Aminet Uploads 17.01.2003
Since our last message there were the following uploads to the Aminet:

YAM22_no.lha         comm/mail   23K+Unofficial Norwegian locale for YAM v2.2
BlitzLstNov02.lha    dev/basic   48K+Blitz mailing list archives for November
SvIVFix930.lha       gfx/misc    56K+*Fix* for SViewIV V9.30 (31.8.2002)
Luefter.lha          hard/misc    2K+Fan replacement for CyberstormPPC
goaschlageins.lha    mods/blkha 346K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
monster.lha          mods/blkha 350K+Techno PT mod by blakkhar
X-mas_time.lha       mods/blkha  99K+X-mas PT mod by blakkhar
vd-ami2k1_eng.mpg    pix/mpg    135M+<VD> show report "Amiga 2001", medium, E
c64Hero.lha          pix/nicon  243K+35 cool new icons [by cYbo]
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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16.Jan.2003



amiga-news.de: Amiga Link Directory Filled with over 1000 Links
Our Amiga Link Directory (ALD) set forth in January, 2000 to fill the big hole left by the closing of AWD [Amiga Web Directory -DM]. Since then the result has been positive: 29 categories with over 1000 hand-sorted links. Alfred Sturm is the man who labors behind the scenes in this area, entering new links almost daily.

If your own homepage has something to do with Amiga we would be happy if you would enter it in this area. You can also help by notifying Alfred Sturm of dead links or address changes. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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16.Jan.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)


Amiga Games Hit Parade January/February 2003
It's time to vote at the Hit Parade - January/February 2003. We need the classifying of your current prefered Amiga games.

Send us your classifying (20 games max) at our address: daff1@club-internet.fr.

You can also vote at our website: http://hitparade.amigagames.com.

Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, freeware, old, new,...). If your list don't have changed since last time, simply reply the mail with the subject "no change for me".

Final classifying will be published in early February. (ps)

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16.Jan.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Data Rights Group against the Collection of Flat-rate IP Numbers
Regulations designed to protect personal rights have been twisted to do the opposite.

After the government of Darmstadt, according to multiple press reports, directed Internet provider T-Online to archive which customers used which IP numbers at which times (because of many customer complaints), the Independent Center for Data Rights (ULD) commented on the decision. The Darmstadt oversight officials pointed out that the ruling was limited, and that the rights situation to the officials of other German states would be unchanged.
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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16.Jan.2003
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)


PerfectPaint V2.91
PerfectPaint V2.91 is available.

What's new:
  • A lot of new keyboard shortcuts
  • Improve for Animation:
    Crop - Scale - Scale page Color correction - Gamma - Negative - ScrollRGB - Swap RGB
  • Remove some requester when ARexx is on.
  • Numeric keyboard to select brush (0-9)
  • Preview effect for very small picture is fixed
  • Minimum, maximum and median effect works well now for very small picture
  • Improve creation of Animation when several pictures are dropped into the appicon.
  • Improve drawing effect: Colorize
  • Add Brush Handle (Alt x)
  • New picture effect: Mirror
  • 'Ctrl' can be used now to block cursor in X or Y position
  • Improve addframe, delete frame and copy frame: Jiffies are now respected.
  • New animation effect:
  • Double each frame
    All frames will be duplicated with a mix option.
  • Cel Number: This script places the cel number on each selected frame. Prefix and suffix can be assigned
  • Insert picture works correctly now with indexed palette
  • New ARexx command:
    pp_RemapBrush
    pp_SetRGBcolor
    pp_PickColor, pp_GetPickRed,pp_GetPick_Green,pp_GetPickGreen
    pp_AddFrames
    pp_TextGui
    pp_FixBrush
  • Convert to RGB and Convert to CMAP works now with animation
  • Improve Text_Gui and palette requester
  • Add an 'Info Button' on some requester.
  • Show Grid works now in "non classic" mode.
  • New picture item: Erase All Buffers (K)
  • And always several little bug fixed.
Download: PfPaint_V291.lha

Update 17.01.2003:
There is an update, that eliminates a bug in version 2.91.

Download: PfPaint_V291b.lha (ps)

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16.Jan.2003
CHIP online (ANF)


CHIP online: Hacker-Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software?
Roland 'Cyco Myco' Weigert writes:
I just read two very interesting columns at CHIP Online. The first is from January 14th and covers the topic: "Hacker Group: Spy Tool for File Exchange Software." According to this there is apparently a hacker group in the service of the RIAA which uses a covertly installed worm in Windows and Linux media players to see what media files the user has, then sends the information back over the Internet to the music industry (RIAA).

In the second article, from yesterday, comes this: (Music Industry: No Spying in File-sharing Software), denies the RIAA, who have something to do with all this. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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16.Jan.2003
Petra Struck


amiga-news.de: Small Changes in Design
In order to make our menus a bit more readable we have removed the headings for 'Sub pages' and 'Special Pages.' These links may now be found in the upper menu under the link ´Sub Pages´ (bottom row, all the way on the right.

The links to our Partner Pages, which were formerly in the upper menu on the third row, are now in the right menu under ´Amiga Network.´

This was reached by a clear division between internal (upper menu) and external (right menu), and the right menu has become considerably shorter and thereby more readable. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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