02.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: New hardware vendor "Creative Development"
The recently founded company Creative Development
will presumably show a
new USB card called Ultrabus for classic Amiga computers at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002
show at the booth of Vesalia. "Ultrabus" has got four USB ports and can
be used in Zorro Amigas as well as on the clockport of an Amiga 1200. In
Zorro mode, a flash memory with 512k capacity can hold the complete USB
stack, so USB devices are available right after a cold boot. This enables
booting from USB storage devices.
(ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI 4000Di sales begins
The first batch of the Mediator PCI 4000Di busboards for Amiga 4000
in the standard desktop case is available from today.
To find the distributor near you or to order directly from our on-line
store please go to our Where To Buy section.
If you would like to buy Mediator PCI 4000Di in AMIGA+RETRO Computing 2002,
book it in Vesalia (order@vesalia.de) as soon as possible, as the number
of boards for sale on the show is limited. A special FREE Mediator T-shirt
is reserved for everyone who buys Mediator PCI 4000Di during the show.
The detailed specification of the Mediator PCI 4000Di: see the
product page. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Workbench gallery Update
The Workbench gallery on the Amiga Future homepage was updated.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark started new Amiga forum
Jan Andersen:
Today we have started a new service for you all, and that is the new
"Virus Help Team Forum". Here you can write and ask about Amiga viruses
or anti-virus programs, or you can even help other Amiga users with
problems, that might not be caused by virus, who knows, that is up to
all of you. We will check the forum as much as we can, to help you out
if you have any problems with viruses or anti-virus programs on your
Amiga. You can find a link to the "VHT Forum" here:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/news.htm.
(ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New driver for Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card
The SpiderUP 1.11 update for the Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed card has been
made available today.
Changes in usb.device ver.1.11: - speed improvements
The usb.device 1.11 requires the Poseidon stack ver.1.31 as a minimum.
Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS |
Mediator section. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox: MediatorUP 3.6 & MM CD UP 1.20
The MediatorUP 3.6 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX,
Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV and for the newest Mediator
model--Mediator PCI 4000Di has been made available today.
The update includes the new version of: · Voodoo.card driver
Changes:
Voodoo.card driver ver. 2.19 - improved quality of the display
generated by VSA-100 (Voodoo 4/5)
The MM CD 1.19 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T,
Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D,
Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV
and Mediator PCI 4000Di busboards, who are registered owners of
the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today.
The update includes the new version of: · Voodoo.card driver
Changes:
Voodoo.card driver ver. 4.19 - improved quality of the display
generated by VSA-100 (Voodoo 4/5)
Info on the current versions is available in DOWNLOADS |
Mediator
section. (ps)
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02.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Lotto / BabeAnoid News / Aqua-Demo
BabeAnoid:
Many of you will still remember the demo version of the Breakout clone
"BabeAnoid" by Richard Fhager. After he stopped the development due
to disappointing feedback, I am pleased to be able to announce that the work was taken up again and even an other PD
game will be developed. Richard Fhager is among other things well-known as the author of games
like "Dawn video Poker", "Titris", "Spaceball2000". I can
appeal only again and again to you to send a short E-Mail to the
developers if you like one of the mentioned programs!
Aqua - Demoversion Light
A new demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is now available. This playable
demo (9MB) contains no animations and intros.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Stefan Ruppert (ANF)
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Tool: UniView V40.9 Update, SDK dtwindow.class
Stefan Ruppert:
After some time of beeing away from the Amiga (due to time lacking and
defective hardware) I have found the time to release a small update for the MultiView replacement program UniView. This update does not add any additional functionality. The following modifications were
made:
- Some adjustments and smaller optimizations in dtwindow.class.
- Documentation adapted.
- UniView is Shareware without restrictions. Fee US 10$ or 10 EURO.
- Documentation of dtwindow.class created.
- SDK dtwindow.class
P.S.: The server is connected via DSL, thus please do not expect fast
downloads... Additionally I would like to publish my Amiga programs
and also source codes on my server. However this can take some time...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Dec.2002
Andreas Kürzinger (ANF)
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Mail program: New developer version of YAM 2.4-dev [ 020 ] BETA
Since yesterday there is a new developer version 2.4 of the
mail program YAM available, which is now available as Open Source. This
version is a version in development, which possibly still contains
a lot of bugs. There will be no warranty or support by the
developer team. Inquiries to developer versions by E-Mail remain
likewise unanswered. Use it on own danger!
The changes made can be found in this document. Additional information can be found at the Yamos SourceForge-homepage.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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01.Dec.2002
Amiga Future
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Emulator: MAME V0.60 for MorphOS
Fabien Coeurjoly has released version V0.60 of his port of the Multi Arcade
Machine Emulator 'MAME' for MorphOS. The
following changes have been implemented, compared to the previous version:
- New: Publication of the MorphOS specific source code
- New: AHI sound support
- Change: Slightly accelerated gfx output
Beside version V0.60, MAME V0.37b16 with AHI support is available for download.
This also supports a colour depth of 8 bits, while MAME V0.60 works only with
a colour depth of 16 bits.
Further information on the emulator are accessible through the title link.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel (ANF)
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Emulator: Bernd Meyer of Amithlon fame calls it quits
Visitors to www.amithlon.net will have
noticed that the site has been closed.
In his statement Bernd Meyer is giving the reason for taking this step, and
that he will stop working on Amithlon and its potential successor Amithlon V2
aka Berniethlon, aka Umilator. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
AmigaArt
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GoldED Studio AIX: GoldED barebone package, service pack #4
Already on November, 28th 2002 had the editor 'GoldED' been released in a special
barebone version as well as had been the service pack #4 for GoldED Studio AIX been released.
GoldED Barebones:
The new GoldED Barebones package is a GoldED AIX distribution reduced to the
bare essentials at an attractive price, with the added bonus of
CygnusED-inspired configuration.
GoldED Studio AIX:
Service pack 4 is now available for registered users. Major new feature is the
integration with gcc. This update is only available in form of a replacement CD
due to the enormous increase in size after adding gcc (67 MB were added since the
last version). Price: 10 EUR.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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01.Dec.2002
AmigaArt
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AmigaOne: screenshots from Istanbul with Linux
At AmigaArt have screenshots from Istanbul of an AmigaOne G3 SE (PPCBoot revision) running under Debian Linux PPC 3.0 been released.
The photos show: Debian 3.0 PPC with KDE2 and Gnome 1.4,
Sin by Activision (port done by Hyperion) as LinuxPPC demo version, Mozilla 1.0 and UAE LinuxPPC.
The release of further photos has been announced.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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01.Dec.2002
Amiga Future
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TV: AmithlonTV Beta 177
On 1st December 2002, the beta version 177 of 'AmithlonTV' has been released.
This is a driver package which allows the use of TV cards under Amithlon.
TVWatch is a small and easy to use example of a TV application which offers all
features needed for the setup of TV and radio. Compared to version 166, the
following changes have been made:
AmithlonTV Beta 177:
This is a special test version for users experiencing audio problems with TV
cards with the msp3xxx audio chip.
Test results about the function of all audio sources (SVHS, FBAS, Tuner) may be
sent to the AmithlonTV developers.
AmithlonTV Beta 170:
New VHI-Studio driver offering Multi-Channel support and also supporting all
other features of AmithlonTV and VHI-Studio.
Some small bug fixes.
New audio_msptest.lib which is automatically loaded for bug hunting. All users
with audio problems are kindly asked to establish and activate all external and
internal audio connections and carry out the following test.
- CD player/Audio source as input.
- Start TVWatch, open channel settings
- Switch Audio input to all available types.
- Report each working Audio output.
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta177.lha
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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USB: 'Thankyou' to all USB HIGHWAY owners
KDH Datentechnik writes:
"On the occasion of the Amiga und Retro Messe in Aachen, E3B and KDH
would like to thank the owners of the USB card HIGHWAY. With your
purchase you have been supporting an innovative product on the Amiga Classic.
As a small thankyou we are offering the owners of the HIGHWAY card the chance
to win a NORWAY Ethernet card. At the Amiga und Retro Messe on 07/08
December in Aachen we will draw a winner on both show days.
Prerequisite for the participation in the prize drawing is that the
registration card for the USB HIGWAY card has been filled out, sent in and has
been received by us. All registration cards received by us until 6th December
2002 are eligible.
All decisions are final. The draw will be carried out by KDH Datentechnik and E3B." (sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: KDH Datentechnik show news
KDH Datentechnik write:
"KDH Datentechnik will be present at this year's Amiga und Retro Messe
in Aachen with a sales and demo booth.
E3B will be presenting the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY, as well
as the Ethernet module NORWAY live at our booth, and give you a survey
over which USB devices you are able to use on your Classic Amiga. The newest
POSEIDON Software (THE Amiga USB software standard by Chris Hodges)
will naturally also be present, and will be included as a full version with the
products HIGHWAY and SUBWAY.
Experience how the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY connect your Classic Amiga with
the newest developments on the computer market. Furthermore we are offering you
to try out your USB devices directly on our USB boards and have all open
questions answered by the USB cards' developer, Michael Böhmer.
Of course we will be offering attractive bundles of all USB boards with other
USB products for purchase at our booth.
Further Demo and sales highlights at the KDH booth:
The Amiga One will be presented by our Austrian partner 'Point Design'
Jürgen Schober, who will also gladly answer all questions regarding the AmigaOne.
Pegasos boards will be available in sufficient quantities for sale (this
joyous piece of news was received from Bill Buck of Thendic France
just in time for the show). All Pegasos boards will be delivered and sold by
KDH with the SE version of the new game 'Tales of Tamar'. The full
version of 'Tales of Tamar' will also be offered at our sales booth, and can be
viewed in full action at Eternity's booth.
All products by individual Computers will be available from us.
Especially noteworthy are above all the new 'Catweasel Flipper' and the
new 'X-Surf-2' Ethernet card.
Apart from all that we are offering the complete Amiga product pallette at
attractive show prices, including an antiquarian department.
As we also have MAC products in our product line, we will also offer a
wide range of MAC software at fantastic show prices.
Come to Aachen for the meeting of all friends of the Amiga, show your support
for the Amiga. Get to know likeminded Amiga friends, or meet old acquaintances
and talk shop about your favourite hobby, the Amiga. We will do our best to
make the event a success for the Amiga. Please help with your visit.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Yours
Horbach family
KDH Datentechnik"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Vector tracer: GUI for autotrace completed
Carsten Siegner writes:
"Today I have completed the 'Final GUI' for autotracer.
Autotracer is a very fast vector tracer for 68k (faster than XTrace!!) and
knows lots of different input and output formats:"
Input formats (a.o.):
AVI Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap image
EPDF Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
GIF CompuServe graphics interchange format
HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (http://)
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
MPEG MPEG Video Stream
PCL Page Control Language
PDF Portable Document Format
PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNM Portable anymap
PPM Portable pixmap format (color)
PS3 Adobe Level III PostScript
RLA Alias/Wavefront image
SGI Irix RGB image
SHTML Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
SVG Scalable Vector Gaphics
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
YUV CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2
Output formats (a.o.):
eps Encapsulated PostScript
ai Adobe Illustrator
svg Scalable Vector Graphics
fig XFIG 3.2
swf Shockwave Flash 3
mif FrameMaker MIF format
pdf PDF format
dr2d IFF DR2D format
"As autotrace can do pdf, ai or dr2d, it's excellently usable for Pagestream,
Drawstudio or Apdf.
However, you need a certain degree of understanding of tracing settings for the
use of 'Vectormaker', as there are loads of options.
I have made it available for download on my home page."
Download: Vectormaker.lzx
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002: DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen sponsored by Thendic&BPlan
Press announcement re ARC 2002:
"The DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen's football team, which is sponsored by Thendic
and BPlan, will attend the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING on Sunday, 8th December
2002. We are wishing the team the best of luck for the match against the TuS
Wickrath, which will take place on 7th December."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New prize draw
Andreas Magerl writes:
"As of today, a new prize draw is online on the Amiga Future home page.
In order to win the full version of EaSys, you only have to send in your charts
to the editors.
http://www.amigafuture.de/interactive/verlosung.php"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
freecd (E-Mail)
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freeCD: Almost Real, Digital Postcard System, Racer
With 'Almost Real - The Directors Cut' (Amiga), a new CD has been released in
the freeCD series. The 'Digital Postcard System' (WWW) allows deferred sending
of holiday cards, and the CD 'Racer' (Linux, Mac, Windows) is announced for
February 2003. In case of enough interest, a port of this car simulation to
Amiga systems is possible.
Almost Real - The Directors Cut (Amiga)
This CD contains flight simulations and further material on the theme of
flying. In this version, the flight simulation 'flightcontrol' has been added.
Additionally there are now paper models of various military aircraft as well as
photos of the Airbus A320 and the Ju52.
Digital Postcard System (WWW)
This system allows to write the holiday cards already before leaving and later
have them sent automatically by the computer.
Photos of Argentine, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, animals, general
places as well as greeting cards are included.
Furthermore, own photos may be uploaded.
Racer (Linux, Mac, Windows)
'Racer' is a simulation for cars, which very accurately simulates different
cars from the domains classics, race cars and street cars. The cars can be
tested on tracks like Indianapolis and Le Mans.
Expected release date for this CD is February 2003 for Linux, Mac and Windows.
AmigaOS and MorphOS developers interested in a conversion are welcome and may
contact freeCD.
Further information on the products as well as supply sources are accessible
through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
AmiATLAS Development Team (E-Mail)
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Route planner: AmiATLAS 6 - new version for ARC 2002
The AmiATLAS Development Team writes:
"A new version of AmiATLAS 6 will be released for the Aachen show!
Although over the last months most of the remaining Amiga users have been very
reserved in their purchase behaviour, probably not least of all hoping for new
hardware, work on AmiATLAS 6 has been going on continuously...
For the show, a new edition will be released with fully updated (as per 4th
quarter 2002) and expanded data stock. Now, among other things, with the most
current touristic information and some more, like infos about number plates of
all supported countries.
That's an increase of about 200%, compared to the old version!
Not forgetting the updated map material, e.g. Germany now with the complete
Autobahn network with all clearances until end of 2002!
In the program itself, lots of reported bugs have been fixed and some
optimisations implemented, and of course, as far as possible, some users'
wishes realised. Supported languages now are German, English, French and
Italian.
The new version of AmiATLAS 6 including new improved cover design has already
been shipped in sufficient quantities to KDH Datentechnik and IOSPIRIT for sale
at the show. APC & TCP will also have some copies.
Due to organisational reasons, updates can only be shipped shortly after the
show. And of course, as always, only to registered users of AmiATLAS 6.
Please mail requests or wishes to:
AmiATLAS@gmx.net"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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30.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark is finally back ...
Good news all. The VHT-DK website is ready and will be up in about 3 hours.
All the pages has been updated, and are ready to be used. Nice to be back and
do some antivirus work. Please all send me any new viruses or trojan that you
might fall over. Thanks for your great support in the last few months!!!!
And another great thing has happend to VHT. After almost 15 years of fighting and
hunting virus the Virus Help Team has finally been nominated for our work at the
"Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees". Please all go and vote for VHT, it would
be nice if VHT could get this award.
The link is: amiga-award.org
Thanks all.... (ps)
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30.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Hollywood Screenshots - JP Credits & Senso
Today I have published screenshots that show a remake of the Jurassic Park
credits done with Hollywood and a game called Senso (a software version of the
popular board game Senso). The screenshots show again the extremely wide
ranged functionality of Hollywood: You can do everything from the simple
credits roll to the complete game. The only limit is your creativity. (ps)
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30.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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RiscPC: New computers for the Acorn fans
The one or the other perhaps remembers the RiscPCs based on ARM/StrongARM processors built by the Acorn company.
The manufacturer changed some years ago its name to Element 14 and abandonned the further develoment of its desktop computers. The rights for the operating system "RiscOS" now belong to the company
RiscOS Ltd.
RiscOS compatible computers are produced by smaller independant British manufacturers like Castle or MicroDigital.
As OSNews
report, is on the "Midlands RISC OS Show" the iyonix PC sold for the first time; priced at 1299,- UKP it offers the following features:
- Totally new motherboard design
- 80321 XScale 32-bit ARM processor. This processor runs at 600MHz and is a system-on-a-chip, containing all the necessary interface electronics for things like PCI under the hood.
- RISC OS 5 in FlashROM (Rewritten for 32 bit, equivalent to RISC OS 4.02 with added fun including updated font manager with unicode support and new icon set too)
- 128MB 64-bit DDR RAM for high speed access at 200MHz
- UDMA 80GB Hard Drive
- Support for industry standard interfaces:
- 2 64-bit PCI slots, 2 32-bit PCI slots
- 4 USB 1.1 sockets
- 2 RS232 serial ports
- 10/10/1000baseT networking port
- Dedicated high performance graphics card, nVidia GeForce2 MX400 (up to 2048x1536 in 16 million colours)
- CD quality 16-bit Soundblaster support
- CD-ReWriter (48x speed)
- 240 Watt PSU with two near-silent fans
- Wide range of bundled 32-bit software: Writer+ (word processor with enhanced Word import and export), Fireworkz (spreadsheet with Excel import and export), Oregano 2 (web browser), Messenger Lite (email client), PDF (for reading PDF files), Zool (game), CDBurn (CD writer). Also, USB printing support.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
JTs Homepage
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Spiel: ADOM version 1.1.1 for Amiga and Windows
On the website of Jochen Terstiege you can find Amiga ports
of the game ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) for the different
68k processor types, for PPC and also for Windows (beta) in version 1.1.1.
The game has been developed by Thomas Biskup. Further information can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Amiga Award 2002
Large acts must be celebrated on a grand scale. As of December 2002 the
German print magazin AMIGAplus and varyingly partners are assigning the
annual Amiga Award. With this price elected representatives of the
Amiga-community are awarded for special achievements during the last
12 months at a time.
The laureates of the Amiga Award 2002 will be honored at the AMIGA +
Retro Computing in Aachen, Germany, on 7 December 2002.
Take part in the elections!
Express your Thanks with us to all Amiga developers out there once in a year!
The elections will be put together by one third of these parties: Firstly you as an active or inactive Amiga user, secondly selected representatives of the community and thirdly the editorial staff of AMIGAplus. So you have the opportunity to take part in the appointment of the Amiga Award 2002 laureates!
Among all participants of the election we draw prices in the value of over 1000 Euro, among them one Amiga 1200/060 sponsored by eXpreSystems as well as various games and applications. The winners among the users will be announced on December 20th, 2002.
Participation conclusion is December 6th, 2002, at 15:00 CET. The course of law is excluded as always.
Amiga Award 2002 - Nominees
Please specify a candidate, who (from your point of view) distinguished himself by an innovative product or another special achievement in the year 2002 and who pushed the Amiga one step forward by this action.
The award in this category is sponsored by falkemedia.
AudioLabs (ProStationAudio)
- bplan GmbH (Pegasos)
- Bernd Meyer & Harald Frank (Amithlon)
- E3B - Michael Böhmer (Highway)
- Eternity Computer (Tales of Tamar)
- Eyetech (AmigaOne)
- Grasshopper LLC (PageStream)
- Hyperion Entertainment (Freespace u.a.)
- IOSPIRIT (fxSCAN u.a.)
- ZeoNeo (Planet Zed)
Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees
Additionally to the main category Amiga Award we are assigning the alternating Amiga Award Extra. This year a person or group representing the software developer community (shareware/freeware) shall be honored.
The award in this category is endowed by 250,- Euro and realized in this year by the financial support of Genesi, a fusion of Thendic-France S.A.R.L. and bPlan GmbH.
- AmiATLAS-Team (AmiATLAS)
- AWeb-Team (AWeb)
- Chris Hodges (Poseidon)
- Gabriele Greco (SDL)
- ScummVM-Team (ScummVM)
- SixK (diverse Portierungen)
- VHT-DK-Team (Anti-Viren-Software)
- WHDLoad-Team (WHDLoad)
- WinUAE-Team (WinUAE)
- YAM-Team (YAM)
Amiga Award 2002 - Free elections
- Best Amiga hardware 2002
- Best Amiga software 2002
- Best Amiga game 2002
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30.Nov.2002
ANN
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TTEngine 5.2 released
TTEngine is a text rendering environment basing on TrueType Font for
AmigaOS. The version 5.2 can be downloaded from the homepage of TTEngine. The new version has the following new features:
- Fixed UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE encodings, now byte order mark ($0000FEFF) is skipped properly.
- Added low endian (UTF-16LE and UTF-32LE) and auto detect (UTF-16 and UTF-32) Unicode encodings.
- Added UTF-8 encoding (conforming to RFC 2279).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
Petra Struck
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ARC 2002 News: AmigaOne will be shown
After it was clear that neither Amiga Inc., nor Eyetech and Hyperion
Entertainment will present the new AmigaOne at the AMIGA + RETRO
COMPUTING 2002, we started thinking about how to get an AmigaOne to
the show anyway.
The solution is an offer from Computer City.
Owner Ron van Herk provides his own AmigaOne, and the members of the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet
will do the presentation.
The computer on display is an AmigaOneSE-G3 with 750CXe 600 MHz CPU,
equipped with 128 MB SDRAM PC133 and an ATI Radeion 7000 64 MB SDR
VGA graphics card with TV-Out, and of course the Cherry
Cybo@rd-keyboard that's being sold by Computer City. The operating
system installed is only a Suse LinuxPPC 7.3, but it'll give an
impression of the hardware. (ps)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Unofficial G-REX PCI homepage
There is a new website to the topic "G-REX PCI" which you can access under the title link.
You will be informed about products and software and there is also a
discussion board and a mailing list.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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First picture of ColdFire V4 CPU-card for Amiga
There is a picture of a very early prototype of a ColdFire V4 turbo card for the Amiga 4000
in the news section of amiga-coldfire.de (title link).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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KDH Advent calendar 2002
This year there is the annual Advent calendar at "KDH Datentechnik" again. We will offer you each day
until 24th December 2002 a very special Advent offer. You can daily expect a special Amiga highlight.
All offers will be valid for three days.
We wish you a good Advent time and hope many visitors will come to the Amiga fair in Aachen to our
stand.
Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Homepage for demofreaks
For those ones who like current demos, intros, diskmags, slideshows and packs there is a new homepage
where you can easily look for current releases. The site has been created in the Amiga BBS-software Fame
design but novices will also get on well with it after a short time.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT V2.0 demo galleries
Due to numerous requests, we have decided to put online two
demo galleries created with fxPAINT 2.0. The
first gallery
uses the dropshadow-skin and slideshow- and fxCARD-options were
activated. A second gallery
has been created without the use of skins. We hope you enjoy the two demos!
fxPAINT 2.0 can only be preordered until 9th of December 2002 at a reduced
price of only 79,00 EUR (89,99 EUR previously).
(ps)
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29.Nov.2002
Patrick Jung (ANF)
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Amigabest Updated
Amigabest, the website on which Patrick Jung kept busy with Amithlon, has
been updated and refurbished with new graphics and Amiga news. The
website is available in French and in English. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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29.Nov.2002
Björn Dehmel (ANF)
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PC-Magazin Reports on Amiga
PC-Magazin [refers to German edition -dm] reports in its January, 2003 issue on page 15 under the heading New AmigaOne Platform - OS4 Will be Delivered Afterwards about the new AmigaOne.
In this article (which will only appear in the print magazine) it is reported that Eyetech wants to bring the AmigaOne to market before the end of 2002. It is further reported that two mainboards, the AmigaOne GS-SE and the AmigaOne XE will operate under Linux because Amiga OS4 is not ready yet. Additionally it's explained that the boards are based on PPC G3 CPU, are fitted with PC133 SDRAM, work with the VIA-Southbridge 82C686B, but of all things only four USB-1.1 ports will be supported. It is thoroughly described that over two AGP, one 66-MHz-PCI and three 33-MHz-PCI cards may be inserted. Towards the end of the article the different CPUs and pricing are discussed, and in the article it is said to be unclear when Amiga OS4 will appear, at which point Eyetech suggests that the software could be delivered by the end of the year, or the beginning of 2003 at the latest.
A picture is shown in which part of a mainboard with a PowerPC CPU may be seen. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
M. Lueck (ANF)
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GRex Petition: Results So Far
M. Lueck:
Today at 10 pm we had in total 256 entries. This list of names was given to DCE and Thendic-France (Bill Buck).
T. Mangold (aka TriMa) and I sincerely thank everyone who participated by signing the petition. We hope now that the gentlemen give it some consideration.
The petition is being continued and we will provide the additional names at a later date. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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New AmithlonTV Beta 161, FAQ and GUI-Screenshots online
In the version AmithlonTV_Beta161.lzx
changes are some fixes to Installer Script and fix of small problem
that could only happen on systems with less than 2 tv-card or non-existent
channel list prefs :) You can simply download the new Beta from our Download
section or click just here on it's link name.
Finally we made the
AmithlonTV-FAQ
section up and ready and added some interresting question/answers that was
suggested inside of some comments on various Amiga related newssites.
In screenshot section
we added pictures of our current GUI, so that people can get some idea about how
it looks like from the user interface side.
Have alot of fun with it :)
(ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB Card: SUBWAY Update
SUBWAY will be delivered after a short delay. Unfortunately due to the adapting of SUBWAY to the new Xsurf II things were delayed a bit. So now SUBWAY will be shipped with the latest Poseidon-Update - so HID Classes and improvements are already in there :)
For anyone who would like to have a look at the installation before having the detailed instructions, have a look here and you will see a few helpful (hopefully) pictures that may clarify things for any coming questions. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
beauty (ANF)
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New Logos for the most popular programs
There are some new logos for Frying Pan, Yam, VirtualCD, Mp3 to CDDA etc.
on my homepage. (ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: OctaMED Soundstudio Notification and Poll
Olaf Köbnik:
After Amiga Arena was able to make possible the further development of the beloved route planner "AmiATLAS," and until today the free release of many shareware programs, we are very happy to share with you that another valuable part of Amiga software history will be further developed as we move into the future.
Through so far positive talks I succeeded in convincing RBF Software (Ray Burt Frost) that "OctaMED SoundStudio" for the Amiga should be further developed.
The sources are already in the possession of possible future developers for a closer look. After evaluating considerations and market conditions and the last contractual agreements of both parties the advancement of the development should proceed as quickly as possible.
To identify bugs in the short term and add new functions in the future everyone is requested to send reports and suggestions on these subjects Amiga Arena or alternately you could post these in the news forum of our partner site amiga-news.de.
Please share with me in this interest for further development of OctaMED, all your experiences and wishes!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
Andreas Just (ANF)
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Amiga Complete without Software for Tax Clarifications?
Andreas Just:
I got the following mail from Fa. Olufs yesterday (shortened):
Your update of the income tax program for 2002 is ready. All legal changes including the tax effects of the Riester pension. The self-printed forms are of good quality and the price has not been changed.
[snip ...]
Note to Amiga and Atari customers: we had to shutter this enterprise, but you'll have a lot of joy with the Windows version.
On the homepage there is no direct notice given, except that no updates are available for Amiga. It is such a shame to lose another program. (ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Thomas Frieden (ANF)
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False OS4 Beta Possibly a Trojan
In the last few days a so-named Amiga OS4 beta has popped up. It is anything but a real beta version. An investigation revealed that the program gives out a series of messages and pictures from WoASE that have been childishly altered.
It is unknown if the program also tries to harm one's data, therefore we wish to warn everybody to avoid running it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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28.Nov.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V1.32
Dear Poseidon Users,
some time has passed since I spoke to you the last time with good news, but
it tastes best, when you don't expect it. So let's get right to the goodies:
- The HID class is finally in a state that allows a release. Try it, you'll
love it :) There's now full support for wheels (as many as you have) and
any special key on the keyboard. Tablets are supported aswell (as long as
they're confirming to the HID specs). Some features are still missing,
but I don't think they'll hurt you right now. Just one thing: Please read
the docs. There's about 20KB of it for the hid.class alone, and don't be
offended, when I'll just reply with RTFM to some of your queries.
- This is only for the underpriviledged Highway/Subway-Users: The driver
has been optimized a bit and now allows reading in data at a speed that
is very much comparable to a certain PCI solution (at least if you've got
a fast machine).
- Trident has been updated. It now supports so-called forced bindings. This
allows you to fix an interface or an device to a certain class. Use with
care. But it comes in handy with the new...
- Rawwrap.class. Yes, this is a wrapper class that makes it possible to
speak to an USB interface through a standard exec device (usbraw.device).
This class can be used for BetaScan. It might also work with SpitFire
and some other programs.
- Some more options and workarounds for the massstorage.class were added.
- Heaps of bugs were fixed. Thanks to all those users who reported them.
The update can be downloaded from http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html as
usually.
(ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Jeri Ellsworth's flight confirmed
United/Lufthansa has confirmed Jeri Ellsworth's flight today. The young American
has become the star of the 8-bit scene with her C-One design. She will present
the Commodore One for the first
time in Europe at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002.
The new computer can be turned into nearly any home computer of the 80s, and
its reconfigurable hardware is a revolution in computer technology for home
use. Unfortunately, the board will not be for sale at the fair, because the
design has been improved to be even more flexible only a few days before
production start. The new date for production start is now January 2nd, 2003. (ps)
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28.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future Urgently Needs a Layout Person
The print magazine 'Amiga Future' is urgently seeking a new layout person. This new person should have the necessary hardware and software, and experience.
Amiga Future is a non-profit project. This means that collected funds, which are counted, are divided between the editors and the layout person. The publication itself doesn't earn anything.
So the layout person doesn't work for nothing... but he or she surely won't get rich! Interested layout people may apply as soon as possible to redaktion@amigafuture.de
or better give us a call 0174/9197036 (24h).
Because of this problem we aren't sure when the issue #39 of Amiga Future will be published.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Guido Mersmann (E-Mail)
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AmithlonTV homepage online
Guido Mersmann:
We're proud to present you the new AmithlonTV. For all those out there who never
heard about AmithlonTV here is a small summary:
The original AmithlonTV was made by Michael Ulbrich in the beginning 2002. Due a
lack of time I took over his project and started a complete new AmithlonTV
in June 2002. In the beginnig of November the hardest part was done.
Well, now at the end of November I came to a point, where I need more
information about the cards out there. So here it is: The new AmithlonTV!
I made AmithlonTV for you, so I need your help to support all the cards out
there. My personal card is already full supported! Your job, if you take em, is
to test AmithlonTV with a TV card available and send me debug information. I
need detailed information on the used card (name, vendor, internal and external
connectors ...) and the used chips on the card. It's also required to send in
the "AmithlonTV/Libs/TVCard_CardData/Autoconfig.card" file, which will be created
when running the tool TVCardSetup. When you're able to use Windows it would be
very helpful, if you could start "btspy" to create a setup logfile, which is also
available on the AmithlonTV homepage in the Support/Download section.
On the AmithlonTV homepage you can also find a hardware list containing all
tested cards. With your help this list will grow rapidly within the next weeks.
99% of the listed cards should at least deliver a picture on all available video
inputs.
There is also a new mailing list
"AmithlonTV" for AmithlonTV specific discussion available on our homepage.
(ps)
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27.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: A Few Clarifications and Explanations about the AmigaOne
On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) talked about a few points (click on the title link for the full email) that
were not clear until now:
The AmigaOneG3-SE will be delivered without an AMR (Audio-Modem-Riser) card, because Eyetech couldn't get any at
reasonable prices. AmigaOne Customers who buy an SE model must therefore rely on external modems and a PCI soundcard
instead of the integrated AMR slot.
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren (one of the AmigaOne testers) has personally developed an AR (Audio Riser) card, without modem. He will
offer these at a "very reasonable" [quotes are Alan Redhouse's] price.
The Amiga One-XE motherboards are not affected by this: they don't have an AMR slot, the audio output goes directly out on
this model.
Work is occuring on a list of hardware that has been tested with the Amiga One. It was stated that to use this stuff under
OS 4 is going to require Amiga drivers, so pay attention to what Hyperion says about it.
The "Earlybird" systems will come with an installation diskette and a minimal version of SUSE Linux. Additionally provided are
UAE and a licensed Amiga Kickstart ROM image.
The Escena PCI cards that were to allow the AmigaOne to access the custom chips of an attached A1200 motherboard are
considered by Eyetech to be "probably not existent," because no information about the current status of the cards could be
obtained from Escena.
Update: (26.07.2014, cg)
A complete copy of Alan Redhouse's mail (added since the Original has been moved elsewhere by Yahoogroups apparently):
Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20021127140602.01ffd840@192.168.1.5>
An: amigaone@yahoogroups.com
Von: Eyetech Group Ltd
Datum: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:39:40 +0000
Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Some answers
> > > The AMR 'was' there in May, now gone!
> >
> > The answer was "this has still not been decided yet". That's not the same
> > as
> > "is gone". I agree that the answer was late and is far from being
> > satisfying, but I don't see a need to start panicking
After having some feedback from the A1 dev list the AMR card issue has now
been decided.
The G3-SE boards will not come with an AMR riser card as we have not been
able to source these at a sensible price. However Ole-Egil is rolling into
production soon with and audio-only in/out card for the AMR slot and those
AmigaOneG3-SE purchasers that want one will be able to buy one directly
from him ad a very reasonable price. (If we were to sell them then the
additional margin, VAT and shipping that we would have to add would mean
that it would have to cost considerably more to the end user). However the
G3-SE boards will be shipped with (small, quiet) cpu fans and modified ATX
I/O backplates within the published price (ie ukp360/euro580/usd580 ex-VAT)
which I hope helps.
We did not consider the loss of the modem to be too important as most Amiga
users will have external modems - or ethernet broadband connections - anyway
For those that require an entry-level sound card to get going we can supply
the Creative labs Vibra 128 card for UKP10/euro16/usd16 ex VAT.
The production version of the AmigaOne-XE boards (now in manufacture) will
come with an onboard codec etc and audio sockets in the usual positions on
the ATX I/O knockout - and no AMR slot.
A list of tested hardware is being assembled by people on the A1-dev list
and will be made public shortly. Clearly as far as graphics and other
PCI/AGP cards are concerned these should be chosen from the OS4 support
targets, and not just those that are supported by PPCLinux. The Articia
northbridge uses server-type registered RAM and a list of tested, supported
RAM manufacturers/part numbers will also be included. Quite a few
non-registered SDRAM DIMMs will also work, but only as singles (ie you can
only have one slot populated) These also will be available types will be
included on the list as well.
For the 'Earlybird' systems the SuSE Linux PPC installer is now complete
and comes with a licenced UAE PPC + ROM image. We will be shipping bare
boards with this installer disk and a minimal SuSE linux distro, but unless
you are experienced with Linux we recommend that you buy the full SuSE
LinuxPPC distro with 8 CD's and manuals either from us or elsewhere.
Finally we have been unable to find out from Escena what, if any, progress
that they have made on their PCI-A1200 bridge card so I think that it is
fair to assume that this is unlikely to materialise. However the benefits
of that approach - over networking a 1200 to the A1 and using the latter as
a file etc server - are in my view minimal anyway. This is because most
non-retargetable (eg games) software will get no advantage by running on
the G4 (rather than the A1200+accelerator), and the keyboard and monitor
would have needed switching with either approach. We do still have some
Mk4/5 EZTowers available for anyone who would like to have their A1 and
A1200 networked together in the same case.
Hope this helps
Alan (ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Early December a spam Internet archive will be opened
»spamarchive.org would like to support developers to fight against spam
On November the 20th 2002 the website www.spamarchive.org
opened it's doors and gets currently more than 5.000 mails with
spam content daily. The owners of this site want to publish a first
spam archive on December the 6th to support tool developers fighting
against those ad mails.
«
Complete article see title link (German). (ps) (Translation: ub)
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27.Nov.2002
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM: S-FILE 20: HOLIDAY SPIRIT
Nov. 28, 2002
Hi,
We have a major update for Amiga players. Basically, all of our "premium" files that were
available just to the Portal users are now completely free to everyone. Consider it our
gift to you for the holidays.
WE DON'T PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR THESE FILES
QUAKE
Happy Holidays,
Sofia (ps)
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27.Nov.2002
Nowee (E-Mail)
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OverShaker first birthday and contest
It's Overshaker's first
birthday, and we start a workbench grab contest. A good opportunity to
show us your skills! Send us your snaps, with NEW, previously not released
GUIs, at Overshaker@nowee.org.
Best GUIs/themes will be distributed, and the 2 winners will be granted
prizes!
(ps)
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27.Nov.2002
Dietmar Knoll
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Dietmar Knoll: Test Report of AmigaOS XL Expanded
Yesterday, Dietmar Knoll's test report of AmigaOS XL was brought up-to-date in the following points: "The hard-drive:
an overview of the partitions (new: Windows98)."
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Thomas Würgler (ANF)
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Pagan Games Update
Pagan Games posted an official update on their website today regarding
current and future projects:
27th November 2002 - Hello everyone!
It's been a while since our last update, but here is a report on our
current status.
First of all we might as well get this out of the way - Dafel:
Bloodline is still on hold. It's not cancelled, but we're reconsidering
what the appropriate media for this title is. It is obvious that doing
a version for 68k Amigas would be futile nowadays, yet on the other
hand it would require a serious overhaul to be suitable for the
AmigaOne. We've been considering smaller versions of the game -
installments if you will - on AmigaDE, which would allow users to play
the game both on PDAs and Amigas, once AmigaDE is implemented in
AmigaOS 4. We do have plenty to do with our current projects, though,
so time will tell what happens. One day Dafel: Bloodline will be a
reality, but not just yet. The same goes for Scavengers and Magick by
the way.
What are we doing then? Well, first of all we are working on two
AmigaDE titles. One will be a puzzle/platformer called Quingle and the
other is a straight puzzle game. The latter is as of yet unnamed, but
will be rather different from what you've seen before. We're
progressing quickly on the unnamed title, and hope to have it out very
soon.
Quingle hit a bit of a speed bump some time ago, but is picking up its
pace again. Hopefully we'll have some screenshots for you to look at in
the near future. It is a very nice looking game. It has a old-school
cartoony pixel-style, which has been updated for the 21st century,
combining the best of both worlds.
We're also working on a shoot 'em up project. This is a somewhat
massive project, so it will be some time till it's done. We are
currently developing it with the Dreamcast in mind, thanks to the
excellent publicly available development tools, but we are definitely
interested in seeing it on other platforms as well. AmigaOne could do
with a bit of hardcore shooter action - don't you think? The game has
an unusually interesting story line, highly polished graphics and lots
and lots of action. If you have seen GigaWing 2 or Ikaruga, you know
what I mean when I say action.
Here's hoping that we'll all have shiny new AmigaOnes in the near
future. We want to express our gratitude towards Amiga Inc., for
providing excellent support, Hyperion for doing such an awesome job on
AmigaOS 4 and being generally nice guys, and Eyetech for making the
effort to get the AmigaOne out there to the people.
Sincerely,
Pagan Games
(ps)
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27.Nov.2002
AmiSpaTra
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Meeting: BAP 2002 in Armilla, Spain from 6th to 8th December, 2002
This year's BAP 2002 (Bestial Amiga Party) is taking place from 6th to 8th December, 2002
in Armilla (Granada), Spain. Tickets are 15 euros.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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27.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Ultron presents interesting and new products
ultron AG - successful vendor of
high-quality computer hardware - will present it's product line for the
first time this year at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002 show.
The visitors can see a wide range of computer accessories for all
applications from a small laptop mouse through networking products
to hightech-TFT monitors. The dolby surround sound systems combine
perfectly with the ultron sound cards. Furthermore there are a number
of cases that bring diversification to the grey monotony of computing.
New highlights in the product line are TFT-monitors that combine
hightech-technology with very attractive design. Silver cases make
every desk an eyecatcher. The removable black base enables easy wall
mounting. (ps)
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26.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Elbox will be present!
Elbox Computer, the company that pioneered
PCI adapters for classic Amiga computers, will be present at the AMIGA + RETRO
COMPUTING 2002 show. The hardware vendor and developer has hit the headlines
lately because of a disputed protection mechanism in their driver software.
Therefore we're especially happy that the company from Poland will face up
to the dialogue with the users.
(ps)
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26.Nov.2002
Dieter Groppé
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Tool: MCP Version 1.40
The multifunctional tool MCP ("MasterControlProgram") is available in version 1.40 for download.
It is an update archive which needs an installation of version 1.39 and a complete archive available.
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[News message: 26. Nov. 2002, 15:47] [Comments: 0]
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26.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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TTEngine 5.1 released
TTEngine is the TrueType font based text rendering engine for AmigaOS.
Version 5.1 can be downloaded from the home page of TTEngine.
TTEngine 5.1 has been released. New features:
- Recompiled with newest FreeType 2.1.3 sources. After some research I've decided to leave bytecode interpreter turned on by default (it is turned off in default FreeType config). Autohinter seems to be not that good as FreeType authors advertise.
- Two wersions of TTEngine are now distributed. One full featured and one without bytecode interpreter. Both have 100% compatible API and can be interchanged by just replacing library file. The "light" version of the library may be interesting for commercial applications authors, since bytecode interpreter uses some patented things.
- TTEngine now supports all ISO-8859 encodings (from 1 to 16, except 12 which probably does not exist), also UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE.
- Application programmer can specify custom 8-bit to Unicode character mapping.
- A few more precise global metrics attributes have been added.
- Added some example programs and "ViewISO" tool showing all ISO-8859 encodings for a font face.
Check "release_notes" file in the distribution archive for the full list of changes.
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