13.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Thomas Schulze/Dreamworlds (CrossfireII)
The Amiga market may be small but sometimes the Amiga users are surprised by publications of
hardware or software products who had nobody expected.
"Crossfire II" is one of these products. After a developing time of more than two and half a year where
the team had to fight against breaks and loss of data the full version of the game was published
on the "Amiga + Retro Computing 2002" in Aachen.
People who like the classical 2d shooters will love it because today this genre of game has almost
vanished.
"Crossfire II" is not only a simple shooting game but has various players modes and the single player
"story mode" where you have to face up single tasks as a pilot.
Please read the interview with the
developer "Thomas Schulze" from Dreamworlds what you can expect of "Crossfire II".
Olaf Köbnik: "I can recommend "Crossfire II" all those ones who like action shooters!"
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2002
ANN
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 beta 13.12.2002
On December 7, 2002 Lukas Stehlik published a new beta version of
'AmiGOD 2'. This is an AmigaOS benchmark. The following things have
changed:
- Amiga Continued special version (Czech Amiga magazine)
- MorphOS test: new internal module Pegasos G3/600MHz (!!!) + Voodoo4 AGP
- Amithlon test: new internal module Athlon XP 1700 + TNT2
- UAE test: new internal module P/166MHz + Tseng PCI
- Amiga test: new internal module A1240/25MHz + Voodoo3 PCI
- added info buttons to the database
- small bug in database was removed (thanks to Don Cox)
- please, do not run it on Amiga without FPU (not debugged yet)
The benchmark runs from AmigaOS 3.0 on (AmigaOS 2.0 was not tested), with CPU 68k, PPC (or PC and UAE or
Amithlon), 0.2 MB RAM and identify.library (included).
Download: AmiGOD2.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2002
ANN
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ARC 2002: Pictures of Pegasos UK Ltd.
Under the title link you can find other 100 pictures of the Amiga + Retro
Computing 2002 which took place on the last weekend in Aachen. On the last
site you additionally will find seven different videos.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2002
Heise Newsticker / (Eule) (ANF)
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heise: Metabox shut down
The company of Metabox which was founded by former members of Amiga Technology has finally shut down
as heise reported. Metabox was one of a various amount of firms which sold SetTop-boxes. Metabox get
talked about because of some announcements of sensational delivery contracts which probably only
had the use of temporal increase or its rate.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2002
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A.: Update with 5 new productions
Amiga Demoscene Archive (A.D.A.) was updated today with 5 high quality
productions: the stunning slideshows "The puppets/Iris" and "Photocell
1x1/Anadune and Madwizards", two demos "Megademo4/Artwork" and
"Monoxide/Vanish" and one 64kb intro "Shema/Nah Kolor".
Enjoy the wonderful world of Amiga demos!
(ps)
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13.Dec.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.0 available
From today on fxPAINT 2.0 is available.
All advance orders have been already sent. fxPAINT 2.0 is available on CD-ROM and as download version
and runs on 68K, PowerUP, WarpUP, MorphOS and Amithlon.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2002
Martin Strojek (ANF)
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GOLEM: PPC-mainboard Pegasos available - rival for AmigaOne
Under the title link you can find a detailed description of the new PowerPC mainboards Pegasos/AmigaOne.
There is also a little comparision of the features of the two mainboards. It follows a short extract
from the text:
"While Amiga Inc. and its AmigaOne partners concentrate on the forthcoming commercial
operating system AmigaOS 4.0 which is supposed to inspire the Amiga platform with new life Thendic-France
and bplan deliver its board together with MorphOS and DebianPPC-Linux."
You can find the complete article under the title link (in German).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Dec.2002
(ANF)
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Pictures of ARC2002 from Virtual Dimension
Bridging the time when the video of the fair from Virtual Dimension will be available there are some
pictures on the homepage...
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.12.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated since our last message:
- 11.12.02 improved: Elvira 2 - The Jaws of Cerberus (Horrorsoft/Accolade) supports another version
- 10.12.02 new: Formula One Grand Prix (Geoff Crammond/Microprose) done by Codetapper, congratulations 200 installs!
- 10.12.02 new: World Circuit (Geoff Crammond/Microprose) done by Codetapper
- 10.12.02 new: Eco (Ocean) done by Codetapper
- 10.12.02 new: Exit 5 (Vectors) done by Codetapper
- 10.12.02 new: Exit 4 (Vectors) done by Codetapper
- 10.12.02 new: Exit 3 (Vectors) done by Codetapper
- 10.12.02 new: Exit 2 (Vectors) done by Codetapper
- 09.12.02 new: Exit 1 (Vectors) done by Codetapper
- 09.12.02 improved: Lionheart Demo (Thalion) supports another version
- 08.12.02 new: XR-35 (Anco) done by Psygore
- 08.12.02 improved: Railroad Tycoon (Microprose) supports German version, font bug fixed
- 07.12.02 new: Bards Tale (Interplay) done by Agressor
- 06.12.02 new: XP8 (Weathermine Software) done by JOTD
- 06.12.02 improved: Dragon's Breath (Palace Software) supports German version
(ps)
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12.Dec.2002
(ANF)
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MacOnLinux for AmigaOne Available
MacOnLinux is now available for AmigaOne. MacOnLinux emulates a PowerMac, on which MacOS8.x und 9.x currently may be installed.
MacOSX support is now being worked on.
Operational Requirements:
- AmigaOne with current PPC Boot BIOS
- Voodoo3 graphics card (ATi Radeon hasn't been tested yet)
- Debian-Linux for AmigaOne
- Kernel and Kernel module for Debian-LinuxPPC from Ross Vumbaca
Download links:
MacOnLinux for AmigaOne: mol-amigaone-0.96.7.deb
Kernel and Kernel module: http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Dec.2002
Chaos Computer Club (CCC)
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CCC: Website of the 19th Chaos Communication Congress is Online
The website of 19C3 (19th Chaos Communication Congress) is online. There is where you'll find all the important advance information about
this year's congress, which takes place from the 27th to the 29th of December in "Haus Am Köllnischen Park (HAKP)" in Berlin. The entrance
fee for one day for non-members is 20 euros, for a multiday pass it's 40 euros. There are discounts offered if a valid student ID is presented
and children under the age of 12 enter costlessly, when accompanied by an adult.
The Chaos Communication Congress is a three day event about Technology, Society, and Utopia. The Congress offers performances and
workshops on a variety of topics having to do with Information Technology, computer security, Internet, Cryptography, and the critical creative
intersection with technology, as well as the effects of technological development on society.
The Chaos Communication Congress is the yearly specialty congress of the Chaos Computer Club e.V. (CCC). The congress takes place this
year for the 19th time and has its origins in the "European Hacker Party" of 1984.
The congress is not only for techno freaks, but also for anyone interested in the utilizations and effects. Near the conference program there
are other elements of the congress such as the Art&Beauty project, the Labor, the Chaos Archive, the Hack Center and the 6th German
championship in lock picking. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Dec.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Test Program MpegMasterPlayer (made with Hollywood)
Here comes a test program named MpegMasterPlayer (downloadable under the title link), which was put together with Hollywood. It's
really a player built on mpega. Further, I would like to state that this player and a few other programs originated only with this Amiga
editor, because the scripting language of Hollywood is very simple.
Attention: the archive includes only executables (no script data). Because of this you can't examine the program code. In order to modify
the program code, you'll need the complete Hollywood pack. Additionally the three most important libraries are in the archive, and
these are needed to run the executables. Because the player currently only supports Amithlon's Soundblaster 128, you won't hear any
music on a normal Amiga (so this should be seen as only a demo of what is possible with Hollywood). (ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Dec.2002
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N°36 now out
Issue 36 of the French e-zine is now available. You can read on this issue:
latest news, article about MorphOS games, report of the Amiga Retro
Computing, interview of Bill Buck and Raquel Velasquo, interview of
Arnaud Schwetta, review of Puzzle Bobs, Software Tycoon and FroggerNG 2.05,
and more others articles!
Download it from title link. (ps)
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12.Dec.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Interview with Nicholas Blachford (Genesi)
On OSNews.com (title link) there's a short interview with Nicholas Blachford, whose position at Genesi is Eclipsis Project Manager. Included
are also some screen-shots. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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11.Dec.2002
MorphOS-News / Martin Heine (ANF)
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MorphOS: Feature list version 1.1 (update)
MorphOS-Featureliste:
- Native PowerPC Operating System
- Supports Pegasos and Amigas fitted with PowerUP cards
- Runs Native PPC and Amiga OS (to v3.1) RTG Applications
- 68K JIT compiler runs applications at up to 75% of native PPC speed
- Hardware 3D support (3dfx, 3DLabs, SiS + more to come)
- New Ambient Desktop with 24 bit colour support
- Fully Skinnable user interface
- MUI Object Orientated GUI Toolkit
- Media Player (Frogger)
- Multi-threaded Image viewer (MysticView)
- Web browser (Voyager)
- PDF viewer (APDF)
- Built in Software Development Kit
- AHI Audio
- USB Support
- Multiple 64 bit Filesystems supported including FFS2 & SFS
To briefly? The complete feature list (24 pages) in PDF format is available here:
morphos-full-features-list.pdf.
Furthermore there is also a text version. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Hollywood now available also for MorphOS (Update)
A native MorphOS version of Hollywood is now available. This PPC version
is of course much faster than the 68k one, so many effects can now be
displayed in real time at an acceptable speed (on 68k computers most of
the CPU intensive effects were precalculated and displayed then to make
them appear smoothly). It is already very fast on my Blizzard PPC with
200 MHz so it should really fly on a Pegasos system.
So you can create now cool applications, games and demonstrations even
for PPC and convert them also into native PPC executables! All Hollywood
CD-ROMs shipped from now, will contain the 68k and MorphOS PPC version.
If you already have the first edition of the Hollywood CD-ROM you can
request the MorphOS version of Hollywood from me by sending an e-mail to
me. By the way, if you want your Hollywood CD-ROM before Christmas, it
is high time to order now.
Update 14.12.2002:
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
As I got some mails from people saying that they won't buy Hollywood
because I'm supporting MorphOS I have to clarify that there will be
AmigaOS4 version of Hollywood of course. But before this can happen,
I need a developer version of AmigaOS4 and because such a version does not
seem to be available currently, I cannot do anything yet. But there will
be definitely an AmigaOS4 version of Hollywood (if it is API compatible
to the classic AmigaOS). So, don't panic and don't send me any more
of such threatening letters. It's really astonishing how serious this topic
seems to be to some people. Additionally the update to the AmigaOS4
version of Hollywood will be free of charge too (as the update to the MorphOS
version was). So if you are interested in Hollywood, you can also buy the
program now and get the update for free when AmigaOS 4 is finally
available.
(ps)
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11.Dec.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Abakus-Design: AMHuhnXE and more
Update now published
The update to AMHuhn1.1 is released now and is directly downloadable for everyone.
This means registration is also not possible that way anymore. Who likes to have AMHuhnXE
for Christmas time anyway is pleased to use the contact form and to send an email to the webmaster
"Cj-Stroker".
AMHuhnXE just about to be published
The Xmas edition of AMHuhn is to be finished actually and available within the next days.
The accounts for the registered users are set up right now and will be delivered after the release.
We hope to get all this done straightly so everyone will get it some time before Christmas.
The accounts will be deliverd in order to the receivement of the registrations.
Future related
For coming projects we will try to support the 68k as long as possible. In the future there will be support not only for the 68k but also for AmigaOS4.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2002
Diverse
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More photos from the ARC 2002 (update III)
One by one there are posted more links to pictures which were taken at the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002 in Aachen. Here is a list of those links which were not published at amiga-news.de yet:
'Moneyless' sent us some pictures aswell:
Daniel Bindel |
Martin Wolf (Eternity) |
Jeri Ellsworth and her CommodoreOne. |
Torsten Kleinz (print magazine c´t) |
Andre89 |
This guy claims he had to answer the question where to get proper lunch 3867 times |
AmigaZeux members ToDi, UltraGelb and Ingo (vlnr). |
Ingo from AmigaZeux |
UltraGelb |
A worthy successor of the Video Toaster |
Duscussions at the Elbox booth |
Got you! |
APC&TCP |
Crossfire 2 |
Another one bites the dust ... |
Petra Struck |
The Genesi booth |
Jens Schönfeld... |
...once more |
Hendrik and Meike |
Minor problems... |
...getting solved step by step... |
...so Bill Buck and Gerald Carda could do their keynote |
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(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2002
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan GmbH thanks for the Amiga Award 2002
At the ARC 2002 the price for the most innovative product and for special effords during the year 2002 was awarded to the bplan GmbH by Nico Barbat from Falke Media Verlag,
publisher of the AMIGAplus. We would like to thank all participants and are georgeously proud of this award.
As a Christmas present you may get the film "Making April" by the following link
http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/gfx/movie/april.mov.
It's 12 MB Qicktime format.
We wish all visitors of our website a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus
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Amiga Award 2002 for the bplan GmbH and Chris Hodges
Important and eventful twelve months have passed the Amiga community. Several new products which will smooth the way for the Amiga saw the light of the world in the year 2002. With the Amiga Award 2002 the Amiga community says, together with the AMIGAplus, "thank you" for these effords!
Amiga Award 2002
During thre AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002 at the 8th of December 2002 the Amiga Award 2002 for the most innovative product of the year 2002 was awarded to the bplan GmbH . The company, situated in Frankfurt/Main, has developed during the last two years the new µATX sized PowerPC mainboard "Pegasos" ready to introduce to the marked.
The Amiga Award 2002 was presented to Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda as deputies for the bplan GmbH by Nico Barbat, editor of the AMIGAplus.
"We would like to thank all participants and are georgeously proud of this award." said Thomas Knäbel, managing director of the bplan GmbH.
Amiga Award 2002 Extra
Beside the main category the 2200 participants voted for the Amiga Award 2002 Extra also.
As a representative for the shareware programmers
Chris Hodges was honoured for the development of his USB stack "Poseidon". This award was remunerated with EUR 250,- and was made possible by the financial encouragement of Genesi.
Amiga Award 2002 - Free votes
The free votes were won by the Pegasos for "Best Amiga hardware 2002", Amithlon for "Best Amiga software 2002" and Tales of Tamar for "Best Amiga game 2002".
Statistics and winnings
All particiapants have the chance to win one of the winnings of a totally worth more than EUR 1000 including an Amiga 1200/060 sponsored by eXpreSystems and some games and applications. The winners will be announced on December the 20th 2002.
The Amiga-Award-Team of falkemedia and the AMIGAplus
is looking forward to the Amiga Award 2003 already and thanks for the good participation and gratulates all winners and nominees for their Amiga encouragement once again!
P.S.: At the website of the Amiga Award 2002 there are photos of the ceremony and the Amiga Award 2002 and additional statistics.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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More screen shots of Crossfire II
At the APC&TCP page there were more screen shots from the game Crossfire II published.
With the new screen shots it's even better to see that Crossfire is not a simple
shooter but a game with comlexe missions, much variations and a big
factor of addiction. The game is available at APC&TCP directly. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Dec.2002
Thomas Schulze (ANF)
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Solution of the bug in the CrossfireII version sold on the fair
Even returned from the fair, the first e-mails reached us. Unfortunately in haste to finish the work on Crossfire II still
before the fair an error occured. If you trie to start the program, bought on the fair, after the
installation the error message "... File not executable" appears. In order to solve
this problem, one has to select the menu option "instruction executes" from
the Workbench menu and input in each case one of the following two
lines:
protect <Ihr Crossfire2-Verzeichnis>/CF2 ADD RWED
protect <Ihr Crossfire2-Verzeichnis>/CF2_PPC ADD RWED
We would like to apologize for this error and hope for your
understanding. The update that will probably appear this week will contain this correction as well as MorphOS support
and German translation.
Thanks to all involved and supervisors of the
fair, particularly to Eternity, which exhibited "valley of
Tamar". Next year we will place the coffee. Promised.
Thomas Schulze (Dreamworlds Development)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Dec.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Printer: Epson Stylus Color (24bit) driver V44.02 by Peter Hutchison
On 7th December 2002, Peter Hutchison has updated his home page. The Epson
Stylus Color 24bit driver now has an install script, and the Epson Stylus
Color 200 has been added to the list of printers.
The driver runs on AmigaOS V3.5 and V3.9 from a 68020 and 6MB RAM.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Verschiedene
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ARC 2002: German Reports
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
LouiSe's home
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LouiSe: PHP V4.2.3 (Standalone), CircleMUD V3.1
Already at the beginning of December, LouiSe had released ports of PHP V4.2.3
and CircleMUD V3.1 for 68k Amigas.
PHP V4.2.3:
This is a standalone (without WWW server) version of the script language PHP,
which is used in particular for generating dynamic Web pages.
CircleMUD V3.1:
CircleMUD is a multi user dungeon game
system (MUD) by Jeremy Elson which had originally been developed at the John
Hopkins University's Department of Computer Science and represents a derivative of
DikuMUD Gamma 0.0, which had been developed in 1990 by Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen,
Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Michael Seifert and Sebastian Hammer at the University
of Copenhagen.
MUDs are text based worlds, into which users log in through the Internet to
explore the worlds with an own character and interact with other characters.
More about this on the home page of CircleMUD.
The Amiga archive contains only the binaries - no lib, doc or other files. The
complete archive is available on
ftp://ftp.circlemud.org/.
There are binaries for 68020, 68040 and 68060.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Verschiedene
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ARC 2002: English reports
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
amiga.org
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GUI: MUI-MIAMI panels by Alfonso Ranieri
Alfonso Ranieri has released two new MUI-MIAMI panels for MiamiDX on his home
page.
MUINList.MiamiPanel uses NList and MUI.MiamiPanel uses a Virtgroup for panel
display.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
amiga.org
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GoldED Studio AIX: Service Pack 5, FACE/ON V0.9
Already on 6th December 2002, Dietmar Eilert had released service pack 5 for
his editor package 'GoldED Studio AIX' as well as version 0.9 of the theme
installer 'FACE/ON'.
Service Pack 5:
Service Pack 5
is available to registered users for free download. It is mainly a maintanance
upgrade, yet it also contains some fine tuning of the optics.
Prerequisite for this upgrade is GoldED Studio AIX SP3 or GoldED Barebones SP3.
Older installations can only be updated with the Service Pack CD.
Free versions:
The GoldED demo version available for free
download
has also been updated to Service Pack 5. These versions are restricted to a
text length of 1000 lines - yet the editor itself has no other functional
restrictions. The only things missing are some add-ons such as the gcc compiler
and the spell checker to keep the download size within limits.
FACE/ON V0.9
FACE/ON
is a theme installer for GoldED. With FACE/ON theme previews can be viewed and
the themes as well as alternative menus can be installed
(screenshot).
System requirements contain a gfx card and GoldED Studio AIX SP5 or GoldED
Barebones SP5.
Download: faceon.lzx (30K)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Sylvio k. (ANF)
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Game: DeepSilence Team with new team name and new Soms3d Web site
Because of legal problems, the software development team DeepSilence has
decided to change the team name into 'Anime Development for Amiga', in short
'ADA'.
Additionally, a new team page has been added on which new screenshots of 'Secret of
my soul 3d' have been published. It can be accessed under
http://galileo.spaceports.com/~dssoms.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Heise Newsticker (ANF)
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ARC 2002: Heise announcement re. Amiga show
An announcement of the Heise newsticker re. the ARC 2002 can be found
under the title link. The emphasis of this announcement lies with the Pegasos.
Additionally, the AmigaOne and C-One are mentioned.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Verschiedene
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ARC 2002: More pictures of the show
Pictures by Jens Neubauer (ANF):
Show, T.o.T. knight, Pegasos, Walker, MorphOS plasma.
Pictures by Caghan 'Muaddib' Demirci (AmigaArt):
AmigaOne, Pegasos, MorphOS.
(sd)
Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel (ANF):
Just now I have uploaded a couple of pictures of the Amiga und Retro Computer
Messe on my site. In case somebody is interested in the fxPaint Web Catalogue
Skin "ARC" to use them for his/her own pictures, please send me a short mail.
P.S.: Oliver has also posted a fairly extensive show report in our Amiga forum
under the thread
"Heute ist es soweit". (ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Petra Struck
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ARC 2002: Pictures of the first day by amiga-news.de
Hilke made a bunch of photos at the ARC 2002. As you can see from the pictures and subtitles, the Pegasos was the
highlight of the show. However, until noon Thendic were busy setting up and
installing all in all 30 computers. After that the users were able to get a
picture of the Pegasos in conjunction with MorphOS.
The AmigaOne, however, was presented as well. Once at the stand of Amiga-Club and
at Vesalia's. In both cases the operationg system running was Linux. There were
no news to be gathered about AmigaOS. Yet I have clearly sounded out a tendency
with the users: Many look upon a Pegasos with AmigaOS as the optimal solution.
Thendic France is working hard to setup the demo machines |
A pegasos in a micro wave oven |
The door acts as the monitor |
Sebastien Lokhamkhouak build the crazy micro wave oven Pegasos :) |
Martin Merz (Mason Icons) |
Christian Kemp (ANN) |
Ron van Herk (Computer City, NL) |
Guido Mersmann (right) presenting Amithlon ... |
... together with Timo Hegemann (right) |
Amithlon |
Jeri Ellsworth presents the CommodoreOne |
Daniel Bindel as ´Lord Fox´ von Tamar |
Otis from the club "User der Nordseeküste" |
the fair |
Pegasos inside |
Martin Heine, one of the Pegasos/MorphOS betatesters |
McGreg, an enthusiastic Pegasos/MorphOS betatester |
Thomas Schulze showing his game Crossfire |
Dennis Lohr presenting Digibooster Pro |
The Thendic booth |
Sebastian Brylka and Olaf Köbnik (Fun Time World and Amiga Arena) |
Ebay explaining irritated Amiga users, why Java can't be avoided for certain things |
A total of 30 Pegasos computers available for testing |
Christian Kemp (ANN) and Petra Struck (amiga-news.de) discussing with visitors |
Bill Buck and Gerald Carda answering questions about the Pegasos |
Timothy de Groote and Steffen Häuser (far left) showing games in the AmigaOne ... |
... like Majesty |
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(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Andre Dörffler (ANF)
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Context menus for OS3.5+
The program ContextSAS allows creation and use of context sensitive menus for
AmigaOS3.5+. It supports the DefIcons system. With the help of a few additional
tools you can even iconify Workbench windows and create links. The author is
always thankful for remarks and suggestions.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Falcon (ANF)
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Falcon: Pictures from the Aachen show
As of now all interested people can gaze at some pictures from the Aachen show
under the title link. Featured are a.o. the Walker (which was actually
running!), Pegasos' by the cartload, and much more...
Furthermore a video of the show including an interview with Petra Struck will
be released shortly on CD-ROM. However, a date has not been set.
Have fun,
Falcon
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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First winner of HIGHWAY raffle
As the winner of KDH Datentechnik's und E3B's "thank you" raffle, at which a
NORWAY networking module is raffled on each show day among all registered
HIGHWAY users, today ... fanfare ...
Mr. Michael Narramore from Swindon, England
has been drawn by our lucky fairy. Congratulations!
Michael Böhmer / E3B
Günther Horbach / KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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07.Dec.2002
Chris Hodges (email)
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Chris Hodges: Time to say goodbye!
In his known humorous way Chris Hodges tells us that he'll be on vacation for the next seven weeks. He'll be in New Zealand till 2003, 24th January and has today uploaded an update for Poseidon with some bug fixes. Here's the original message:
Dear Poseidon users,
I'm leaving the Amiga. Yes, I've had enough of all that fighting and
bitching. Instead, I'll try to live on a green island with lots of sheep.
Good bye and farewell!
Now get up from the floor, stop crying, I'm only off to New Zealand for
about seven weeks of vacation and I will return to my one and only true
love (currently, just my Amiga :( ) on 24th January 2003. But before I'm
leaving on a jet plane, I've uploaded a small update of Poseidon for your
benefit. Not much has changed, however, a few bugfixes reported by some of
you have been incooperated. See changelog for details.
As I'm away from my machine, don't write private emails, if you have any
problems. Please use the Yahoo Mailing List instead, there are a lot of
people who could give a hand.
So, please enjoy the time off, I will certainly do so. And don't forget to
use Trident regularily >>>;-) (ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
several (ANF)
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ARC 2002: pictures of the fair
Pictures of the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002 that is taking place on December, 7th and 8th in Aachen:
Jochen Abitz (ANF):
Pegasos, Pegasos micro oven, AmigaOne, Amiga Future, KDH, fair
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF):
AmigaOne, Pegasos micro oven, fair
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Gamel: ScummVM 0.3.0 released
Version 0.3.0 of the popular interpreter for Lucasarts games has been released today. On the download page are executables for several operating systems available including the MorphOS binary. A complete distribution with PDF manual and Ambient PNGIcons will be released probably tomorrow by me.
ScummVM MorphOS supports now also MIDI music that is qualitywise much better than the Adlib sound used until now. What is needed for this is the Etude MIDI device that I unfortunately can't make available for download yet. People who should see me today in Aachen at the beta tester conference may ask me for a version.
Regarding the legal issues with Lucasarts there's still no solution. A comprehensive description of the situation as it is right now can be found on the ScummVM site.
The improvements in detail:
0.3.0b (2002-12-06)
- fix major race condition resulting in extremely frequent crashes on MorphOS/PocketPC (supercedes unreleased 0.3.0 version)
0.3.0 (2002-12-01)
- massive cleanup work for iMUSE. Sam and Max music now plays correctly
- many bugfixes for Zak256, + sound and music support
- music support for Simon the Sorcerer on any platform with real MIDI
- experimental support for Indy3 (VGA) - Indiana Jones + Last Crusade
- completed support for Monkey1 VGA Floppy, The Dig
- added akos16 implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle costumes
- added digital iMUSE implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle music.
- Loom CD speech+music syncronisation improved greatly
- added midi-emulation via adlib, for platforms without sequencer support
- code seperation of various engine parts into several libraries
- several fixes to prevent Simon the Sorcerer crashing and hanging
- hundreds of bugfixes for many other games
- new SMUSH video engine, for Full Throttle and The Dig
- new in-game GUI
- launcher dialog
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld tel.
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ARC 2002 News: Massimo Mancini unfortunately not there
As we just now heard from Jens Schönfeld via telephone is Massimo Mancini
not at the fair because of a sports accident and is therefore not able to introduce his new USB card by himself. The card itself will be presented, though.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
falkemedia (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: "Digital Camera Magazin" by falkemedia
From December 2002 on you can buy the worldwide popular print magazine »Digital Camera Magazin« in Germany, too!
It offers on a monthly basis everything you want to know about digital cameras, how to use them in the most efficient way and what to do with them to make full use of their potential. With it comes every month a CD with full versions, tools, filters, drivers and more.
DCM will be available 2002, 18. December throughout Germany.
You can buy the first issue of the »Digital Camera Magazin« already exclusively at the booth of falkemedia at the AMIGA + RETRO Computing 2002 for a reduced exhibition price of just 5.- Euro! (ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: AMIGAplus 12/2002 and more
Also at the booth of falkemedia at the AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002 in Aachen will visitors be able to get the new AmigaPlus 12/2002 with the main topic "Amiga allrounder - emulations with the Amiga".
This issue is available at the fair for a reduced price of 4,- Euro only, the bundle with the "Digital Camera Magazin #1" and "Mac Life 01/2003" only costs 10,- Euro! The regular subscription sendings of the AMIGAplus 12/2002 will take place at the end of the coming week.
Next to this latest issue you'll be able to buy all A+ issues of the last two years, issues of the st-computer and Mac Life, hardware like USB hubs and interfaces, CD pockets, the AMIGAplus readers CDs, Wildfire 7 for the special price of 29,- Euro and much more.
We are looking forward to your coming to the show and wish all visitors of the AMIGA +
RETRO Computing 2002 much fun at this weekend!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: FroggerNG at Amiga Arena / FTW available
You can buy the popular multimedia player "FroggerNG" version 2.0 on the Amiga + Retro Computing 2002.
The version of the fair will contain a temporally limited keyfile.
After the fair you will get your personal keyfile via email or post for free (they still just have to be
generated).
Demo CD available
Each customer will additionally get a special fair demo version with the products of the Fun Time World
and of Amiga Arena. You can buy this demo CD for 2,- Euro but if you will buy one of our products this
amount will be credited you later! So you have the possibilty to test our products!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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Two new Quake2 mods available
There are two new Quake2 mods on the Amiga Quake2 site (title link) available called "Blastchamber" and
"Jailbreak" (but which are very big: Blastchamber=60MB, Jailbreak=30 MB).
Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Guido Mersmann (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Guido Mersmann with 1st stand of Shareware
Guido Mersmann who is the author of programs like AmithlonTV, AView, AFind,
BoulderDaesh, GuideCheck, GuideFormat, Execute64, SiedlerBoot, R(equest),
DVBControl, MCControl, Simplecat, AvailCPU, VBRControl, TrackDisplayClock,
SnoopRouter, Meridian, MMKeyboard, ParKeyboard and WheelMouseSupport will have a
stand of Shareware on the ARC 2002 together with Timo Hegemann.
Guido Mersmann: "By the friendly help of Haage & Partner we are able to performance the current
Amithlon with some new applications on our stand on the "AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002".
You will see the new VHI-Studio v6.0 working together with the current driver for AmithlonTV. Of course
we will introduce AmithlonTV and will demonstrate the support of several boards which has been doubted.
You can also see the keyboard adapter hardware called "MMKeyboard" and the software packet which belongs
to it. But there will be no sale!
Furthermore we will answer questions concerning Amithlon, AmithlonTV, VHI-Studio, MMKeyboard, MCControl
and other software products as far as possible.
I will also answer questions concerning the support."
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Vesalia Computer (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: Turboprint 7.40 available at Vesalia
For the first time the new version 7.40 of Turboprint Professional will be available at Vesalia Computer.
Besides this owners of version 7.x will get an update to 7.40 on our stand.
We hope we will see you!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed with the first Quake2 tests
On the site of Amiga Speed there are finally the first tests of Quake2.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 05.12.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated since our last message:
- 05.12.02 new: Dragon's Breath (Palace Software) done by Galahad
- 05.12.02 improved: Zaxxon (Bignonia) supports another version, skip greetings
- 30.11.02 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) supports another version
- 30.11.02 new: Return to Genesis (Firebird) done by Codetapper
- 30.11.02 new: Leatherneck (Microdeal) done by Codetapper
- 28.11.02 new: It Came From The Desert (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 27.11.02 new: Mini Golf (Magic Bytes) done by Psygore
(ps)
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06.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus
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AROS: SVGA-driver and mascot Kitty
AMIGAplus wrote:
There is the first beta version of the new SVGA-graphic driver for the operating system AROS which can
be activated over the boot menu. The driver may not work on some computers but nevertheless it shows
what can be graphically possible. The current used 4bit VGA modus is supposed to be substituted by
the 16bit or 32bit SVGA modus.
Besides this Eric W. Schwartz has given the AROS project a mascot: Kitty
should be worth a look.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
Amigan Software
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Game: Saga version 1.23
Version 1.22 of the game Saga has been published. Saga is a port of the board game called Saga: Age of Heroes
which was published in 1981 from TSR. It can be played by up to six players and the players can
be controlled either by the Amiga or by men. You have to defeat monsters, find magic treasures and
support great kingdoms being glorious and heroic.
Currently the game is available in English and German and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0+, AGA/RTG.
The archive also contains the source code.
Download: Saga.lha (290 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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06.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: AmigaOne boards available on the ARC 2002
Last minute KDH news:
We have just got the AmigaOne boards by UPS Express and thus are available on the stand of KDH Datentechnik.
We hope we will see you all again.
Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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