14.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Antivirus program: Mill version 0.79
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski has just released a new update of his new
antivirus program "Mill". Here is some info about the new update:
- Name: Mill
- Version: v0.79
- Archive name: Mill.lha
- Archive size: 222.067 bytes (lha packed)
- Release date: 14 November 2002
- Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - zeeball@interia.pl
News: Mill v0.79
- 0. Better late than never :)
- 1. Please begin from one of 'Readme'. You can choose
English, Italian, Polish, German, Spanish, Greek,
Czech and Bosnian version of this file.
- 2. You can choose sample to play when virus is found
from another archive called 'mill-media.lha'...
- 3. Get TestVirus.lha to see how
MILL deals with viruses...
- 4. "How about Safe?"
- Integrity and/or Notifier (used well) beat Safe.
- Safe is frozen due to lack of bugreports/ideas...
- 5. Please get from Aminet newest xvs, xad and xfd!
- 6. VHT-DK is online again! Temporarily in quite limited
form, but it's back!
- 7. I am looking forward to see your bug reports. Especially
bugreports concerning:
- filerequester of MILL (is there any problem?)
- strange quarantine behaviours
- crashing on file-check even with XFD slaves OFF...
Fixes from previous public version:
- added Czech doc - thanks to Boleslav Kristen and Vaclav Kalas
- added Magyar catalogs - thanks to Marton Dosa
- added French catalogs - thanks to Pascal Rullier of ATO
- MILL: removed About gadget from GUI
- MILL: tried to fix known bugs
(reported by Voytec and Michael 'DMX' Bagmaijer)
- added OS35 style icons (thanks to Martin Mertz!)
- MILL: removed internal Neurotic installer detection
(included in xvs - thanks to Georg Hoermann)
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus: Up-to-date Online
Every day new software for Amiga and Amiga-compatible systems appears, whether commercial,
sharware, or freeware. AMIGAplus summarizes the new things of the last few weeks, so read "Up-To-Date"
either online or each month in the current AMIGAplus. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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14.Nov.2002
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R2 released
Today the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 0.8.22 R2 by Toni
Wilen.
New features:
- Kickstart 1.3 RDB and regular hardfile autoboot/automount support.
KS 1.3 regular (non-RDB) HDF autoboot requires FastFileSystem from WB1.3:L in KS roms-directory.
- Keyboard/mouse/joystick handling rewritten for DirectInput.
Windows keys are now 100% usable as an Amiga keys and SHIFT-keys don't get stuck anymore.
- Mouse speed configuration.
- All keyboard keys (even special "multimedia keys") are available in input-tab configuration window.
- Configurable floppy drive type (3.5"DD/3.5"HD/A1010 5.25"SD).
Following features require Windows 2000 or Windows XP:
- "Unlimited" hardfile size (2G limit removed),
uaehf.device now supports TD64 and NSD -style 64-bit addressing.
NTFS filesystem required for >4G hardfiles (FAT32 max file size is about 4G).
WARNING: Make sure installed AmigaOS is new enough (OS 3.9 recommended).
- Ability to mount real harddisks with full RDB automount/autoboot support.
- Amithlon partition support.
Bugs fixed:
- Slow harddisk, CDROM, etc.. performance in non-CPU idle mode.
- CPU idle tweaks, defaults to off, config file support.
- Disk emulation improvements.
- Added missing configuration file entries.
- Better compatibility with old config files.
- 68000 "more compatible"-checkbox works again.
- Fixed uaehf.device crash with older HDToolBox versions.
- Custom chipset fixes (Chaos Engine AGA/CD32, Obliterator, Terrorpods etc..).
- GUI's screenshot-button was always disabled.
- State file restore fixes (CPU type is automatically restored correctly and more).
- Switch from fullscreen/no-vsync to vsync-mode crash fixed.
- Filesystem "ghost"-file bug fixed (but filesystem emulation still have some bugs left..).
- Bsdsocket emulation compatibility fixes.
- Fixed serial and printer port defaults.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
T.o.T. (email)
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Game: Tales of Tamar - New Amiga version 0.46
Version 0.46 is the first official (and of course free) update for Tales
of Tamar. As promised, we'll keep improving and expanding the game.
Since the release of the CD version, quite a few things have happened:
New features:
- Title screen reconverted. Antialiasing improved
- Diplomacy: Personal messages can be sent and received
- Cheat protection for ARMY, SHIP and MOVE chunk
- Fonts have been reworked by Damaso Dominguez
- Spanish characters are now shown correctly
- ToT is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos
- new BardsTale stories
- Ruines added
- new map images for town level 2 to 4
- CGX V5 is now recognized
Bugfixes:
- first level town had incorrect number of inhabitants
- plundered trade ships left their loaded figure in the water. Fixed
- loss of capital caused problems
- fallback mode for screen mode rewritten
- output in FTP routine and diplomacy removed
- Bugfix in chunkmachine
- Bugfixes in stringinput
- Bugfixes in TaverneOfflineChat
- resources display under AGA fixed
- some bugfixes relating to ships
- repair routines for ship
- building screen updated
- gotcha changed from hardware to software
- fadein and fadeout is in software on the Pegasos now
- CGX V5 check
- MorphOS is now detected correctly
- BardsTale now completely in German available
We'd like to discuss three things in particular:
First is the new option to send "intime" messages directly
to another player. The feature allows you to act completely
undetected, you don't have to use a secondary email account
to exchange messages without a third party noticing. A quite
useful addition.
Next is the addition of ruins and different town levels on the map.
Before, all towns had the same image, the one of a small village.
From now on, abandoned towns will show as ruins and the image of a
town will adapt to its size. Major towns will be visible as such to
everyone.
The whole system can be extended as far as adapting the land around a town.
The bigger your town becomes, the more settlement and small buildings
will appear in the surrounding lands. You may see small farms, picturesque
houses by small lakes, or hunters hideouts. Your land can change every turn.
The possibilities are only limited by the capacity of the server and the
number of players. The more players, the more possibilities :-)
Last but not least, we would like to thank some people for helping us
bringing Tales of Tamar to MorphOS. First would be Ralph Schmidt, who
really helped and just talked like other people. And Frank Mariak, whose
fixes to CyberGFX V5 made it possible for Tales to be adapted. Thank you
to both of them!
Tales of Tamar is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos. It benefits
from the WarpUP emulation in MorphOS, which seems to be even faster than
the original. Since Tales of Tamar is a mixed binary, the PPC routines
work under MorphOS as well. Animations are even faster there. We will
keep adapting more features to MorphOS in the future.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Offensive Elbox driver and consequences for Poseidon
Chris Hodges writes:
Dear Poseidon Users,
in the last few days, there were rumours posted to ann.lu, claiming that
the usb.device, that is provided by Elbox Computer Inc. for the Spider USB
PCI card would contain malicious code. This code was posted disassembled
on various websites. This source code, if assemblied into an executable,
would indeed have the ability to kill the RDB (if it was found in block
0). Code destroying data on purpose like this is illegal in most countries
(including Germany) and moreover, is one of the ethically worst things
I've ever seen.
As the source of this security warning was an anonymous poster and
therefore was not reliable, I wanted to check for myself. So I loaded the
usb.device (some friendly Mediator user sent me, as Elbox never offered me
a SpiderCD to check the contents of the CD), let it decrypt itself and
just searched for the 'RDSK' string in the driver (as seen on the
disassembled source code on the websites). No disassembly was used. The
string was found. I could therefore verify that the offensive code is at
least in version 1.2 of the device, I had here to test (there is
absolutely NO reason why 'RDSK' would appear in an usb hardware device
driver).
I gave Elbox the chance to clear things up in public by posting an apology
and removing the code. They didn't. Instead, they said that all my
"doubts" would be answered in the press statement released yesterday and
ignored the consequences that I already had proposed to them.
Well, my "doubts", which actually are facts, that I could see with my own
eyes, remain. Any Mediator user can check this by using a memory monitor
and searching for the usb.device in memory (after loading up Poseidon) and
see, if there's the 'RDSK' ID string within the next 10000 bytes.
As a consequence, I have to warn Mediator users that their machine is in
danger, when running the usb.device. In the non-memory protected Amiga
environment it might get damaged at any time and then cause the routine
that kills the RDB to become active. The next update of Poseidon will
refuse to load up the usb.device, if it detects malicious code. This is
to protect yourself from damage and myself from being held liable for any
loss of data or damage done.
Moreover, I hereby withdraw the permission to include Poseidon in ELBOX's
software distributions, until they
- admit, that the code was in their driver,
- admit, that they have constantly lied to the users,
- have placed a public apology for the first time in their life,
- and have removed any malicious code.
I don't want Poseidon to be included with third party software, that's
highly illegal and whose originators don't deserve any trust.
I do understand that people try to protect their work from being hacked. I
do this too, but not by risking the data of legal users and I cannot
tolerate this offensive behaviour any longer (I admit, I'm again rather
upset and therefore this statement is not as objective as it could have
been).
The Spider users out there are adviced to confront Elbox with the demands
mentioned above, so to allow Poseidon again accept the usb.device driver.
I hope that you believe the facts and my worries and understand the steps
taken.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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UP ROUGH Releases "The Yard BBS Intro"
Yesterday the Swedish Amiga demo-scene group UP ROUGH released an intro for their BBS "The Yard." The
intro in C64 may be utilized directly from the group's new homepage. Further, older Amiga demos, intros and
diskmags may be utilized in the download area of
diskmag.de. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New driver for Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed card
The SpiderUP 1.10 update for the
Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed
card has been made available today.
As anonymous hackers attempted to spread the patch supposed to allow
hacking the code of our driver, we are releasing the new driver version
protected against such attacks.
The usb.device 1.10 requires the
Poseidon stack
ver.1.31 as a minimum.
Info on the current versions is available in the
DOWNLOADS | Mediator
section.
Mariusz Wloczysiak Press Department
Elbox Computer
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Elbox dispels rumours about usb.device
Press release: For long years, our company has been making efforts to make users of our hardware proud that they receive the best software support. This support is also the most dynamically expanded in the Amiga market.
Some persons/companies do not like this situation, as they would like to compete with Elbox. They know they cannot, though: they have no knowledge or employees to work with or determination to provide on-going support for their products. However, we continue receiving signals from various sources on attempts at disassembling and hacking our drivers for the purpose of stealing the results of our efforts and work.
In recent days the Amiga community witnessed rumours related to our latest product: the Spider USB 2.0 card. In order to clarify this we feel obliged to respond officially to them.
Rumour: Using the Elbox usb.device with an USB PCI card other than Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed may lead to trashing the disk RDB.
Answer: Not true.
If anyone is trying to run the Elbox usb.device with any USB PCI card other
than Spider USB 2.0 (for which this driver is dedicated), the only result
is that the driver does not work with this card and a requester window
appears on the screen: 'No Spider USB 2.0 card found.'
Rumour: Whoever has a Mediator may modify Spider drivers so that they support USB PCI cards from other parties.
Answer: No.
The Elbox usb.device is software protected by international copyright law.
Only owners of the Spider card are licensed to use these drivers (the
drivers are bundled with the cards). The only legal way to acquire the
usb.device drivers is to buy the original Spider package. The software
is always licensed for a specific person and only that person. The
licence for using the driver does not give any right to modify the
code (which is property of Elbox).
Rumour: The usb.device driver has some procedures, which may damage hdd RDB if any external program accidentally damages the driver code.
Answer: No.
Elbox pays much attention to protect its drivers against any improper operation in case of accidental damage to their code by any external events. To ensure this, Elbox drivers are encrypted. When run, they automatically decrypt themselves and verify internal checksums to guarantee the maximum security of operation. This is the best way to prevent program crash if, due to any reason, the code is damaged when read from the media.
Obviously, even such protection measures cannot protect the program against a hacking attack, that is against a program, which purposefully modifies the code to make some part of it operate in a way different from the original intention. No software available for Amiga computers, including Amiga operating systems, can be 100% protected against such hacking attacks.
We hope that what we have stated here explains away all the doubts for good. As always, we stand with full guarantee for our software and our registered users have no reasons to worry. We develop and distribute software, which is reliable, efficient and innovative.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
AmigaZone (ANF)
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AmigaZone present StAHG - The Standard Amiga Help Guide
Press Realease from AmigaZone
Presenting StAHG, The Standard Amiga Help Guide
AmigaZone's FREE GIFT to the world-wide Amiga Community..
© 2002 The AmigaZone division of Merlancia Industries
The AmigaZone division of Merlancia industries is proud to present StAHG,
a simple ReAction based tool created for the purpose of making an Amiga's
collection of help files easier to access. Naturally, the first question
to come up is, "What help files?" The answer is, "Exactly!" Or, if you
prefer, all those help files buried deep within the confines of the
"HELP:" assign.
Now, the AmigaZone division of Merlancia Industries is offering a free
program that helps to clean that mess up, and in the process takes
advantage of an overlooked feature of AmigaOS 3.5 (and above).
StAHG builds a list of all of the documents found in the "Help:" assign and
its subdirectories (.doc, .dok, .txt, .guide), then creates "Workbench.guide"
in the propor location to satisfy the requirements for the HELP button to
open the file in Multiview. Once run, "Workbench.guide" is available to
the OS, and StAHG does not need to be run again (unless you want to update
your "Workbench.guide") Directory Opus users may want to note that
"Workbench.guide" does not clash with, or override, the Magellen help system.
StAHG is a free download. This is AmigaZone's gift back to the community
for years of their support. Of course we would like you to sign up for
the free trial period to try AmigaZone.. We'd like it even more if you'd
join AmigaZone as a fully paid member.. We do not, however, require that,
in order for you to have StAHG. There are no pop-up advertising windows,
as this was just a fun way to remind everyone of the wonderful service we
offer.. and have been offering since the Amiga was born in 1985.
StAHG's Requirements:
AmigaOS 3.5 or higher
AWNPipe
RexxTricks.library
ReqTools
RexxReqtools
Author's note: It's not the end-all of applications, but hey, it's free,
right? ;-)
Download: stahg.lha (ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Scott Pistorino (ANF)
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AmigaSource: Interview with Fleecy Moss
AmigaSource is proud to announce its second interview with the big names
in the Amiga Community. Drop on in and read the exclusive
interview with Fleecy Moss
of Amiga Inc.
(ps)
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13.Nov.2002
Celso (ANF)
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Kyocera PDA with Intent in Japan
Who likes to see a PDA with Intent, might do this here. Japanese might be
useful but with the flash animations not required. The exact
specifications of the "Cosmo" are to find
here. But its way to Europe seems to be still a long one. In Australia it looks like it will be to buy.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Remote control GUI for FroggerNG
Carsten Siegner writes:
Motivated by boredom I tinkered a "remote control" for FroggerNG. This offers a data requester, play, pause,
stop, multi data select and prevfile/nextfile (if several files are selected).
Furthermore it can easy used to control the volume of FroggerNG. There is a video CD option for replaying VCDs, but this function isn't integrated into FroggerNG yet. Only an error message appears. The numberblock isn't read in yet. Since this is only a test program don't expect something special.
Download: Froogerfernbedienung.lzx
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
Apex Designs
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Mac: Demo version of Payback available for Mac
Since today there is a demo version for the game Payback for Macintosh available.
Playing Payback you slip into the role of a young driver, who is on the escape and aims to become a big gangster boss.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
GFX-Base
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GFX-Base: Some changes
The English news page GFX-Base has optimized their web site and will in the future deliver with news not only belonging
to the Amiga as well. There are the following categories planned:
Funny web sites, cool flash animations, interesting IT news, retro news, demo scene
news and other interesting things. Actually Michael VanAllen works on an improvement
of the GFX-Base forum.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
Grasshopper LLC
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DTP: PageStream 4.1 - New help data files
For the DTP program PageStream there were new help data files published.
Future versions will contain these help files automatically.
Download: pgs41help.zip
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
ANN
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Events: Ottawa Amiga Show reports
As reported, on the 9th of
November the Ottawa Amiga Show 2002 was held in Ottawa, Ontario. By following the title link there is a picture report by Zoltan Hunt (Zee4) available.
Another report by Darren Eveland is to get at ANN
here.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
DeNIC
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DeNIC: New DENIC name servers are showing effect
After inauguration of the new servers - among other places one in Tokio
and two in the USA - the response times for DE domains were decreased
dramatically. User in Asia, North America and from the Pacific area are
gaining most. This was shown by measurements of the Japanese domain
register authority JPRS and the DENIC. Recently Internet users from Japan,
Corea, China or Australia had to wait 300 milli seconds avaragely, this
values were more than halved now. Most drastically this decrease shows
effect in Japan where the times were cut from 270 to less than 5 milli
seconds. Requests from the USA for DE domains are also answered faster
now by the both new servers at the American east and west coast. The
response times were reduced from about 170 to 70 milli seconds.
In Europe the coverage was very hight recently. But it has been further
improved by some more name servers. With the additional name server in
London as an example the response time for Great Britain was halved to
about 25 milli seconds.
Background: Name server
Name servers ensure that an Internet site is reachable, because these
have the assigns between domain and numeric IP address saved. The central
name server for all DE domains is run by the DENIC eG located in Frankfurt.
Copies of the information of this primary name server are stored at
several secondary name servers in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Dortmund,
Stuttgart, London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Tokio,
Elmsford, NY und San Jose, CA. The worldwide distribution ensures that
the information is everywhere in a short time available and even a server
failure don't lead to reasonable delays.
In peak times there are 20.000 and more requests to be answered by each
server. At all there are more then a hundred million requests daily.
Picture material:
A map with all name servers for the DE-Zone is at the
website http://www.denic.de/images/nameservermap.gif
available.
A graphic with the comparisation before and after the inauguration is to get at
http://www.denic.de/images/nameserver.pdf.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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TTEngine 5.0 released
TTEngine is the TrueType font based text rendering engine for AmigaOS.
Version 5.0 can be downloaded from the home page
of TTEngine. New version has some interesting features.
- Two new functions: TT_GetPixmap() and TT_FreePixmap() for text pixelmap
extraction. Pixelmap is 8 bit per pixel, 256 gray levels. Then the pixmap
may be further processed. Useful for e.g. painting and image processing
software.
- Antialiasing is now based on pixel luminance and hue (RGB correction is
applied as well). Gives even better text quality especially on contrasting
background (e.g. red text on green).
- New text styles: underline, double underline, overstrike, double overstrike.
- Fixed bugs in JAM2, INVERSVID and COMPLEMENT draw modes.
- Colours of text can be now specified directly as RGB via TT_Foreground
and TT_Background tags.
As always some bugs have been fixed. Check "release_notes" file in the
distribution archive for the full list of changes.
(ps)
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13.Nov.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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Game: New settings for Bots Quake2-Mods
It's happend to be that the new "Battle of the Sexes" mod, which is at the Amiga
Quake2 site downloadable is incompatible if run with the default settings. At the Amiga Quake2 site I made a new QuakeII.info (Bots.info) downloadable which contains slightly modificated settings and works with Bots also.
The not yet released "Blastchamber" mod
and several other modules not yet released, might have this problem.
So better use the new icon file.
With the basic game Quake2 and most other mods the default settings will
work as well. Only some mods like Bots were hit by that problem and for these the new file solves the problem.
Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Matay: Prometheus RTL8029 driver update
V1.3 of prm-rtl8029.device (a driver for Ethernet cards) is available for
download here.
It will also be available soon at Matay website. (ps)
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13.Nov.2002
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Sharp announces new Zaurus models
Like Infosync (see title link) reports, Sharp announces two new Zaurus
models. The SL 5600 (B500 in Japan) for the USA and Japan and the
C700 for Japan only. There is nothing said about an availability in Germany.
The model SL 5600 is a further developed SL5500. A comparisation of the technical dates is to obtain from
linux devices.
The SL5600 contains with the XScale 400 MHz a faster processor,
a stronger accu and an updated software suite (e. g.
newer Linux kernel, Opera6). Furthermore the SL 5600 has a lot more (64 MB instead of 16 MB) Flash memory than the SL 5500. This will be used now with the SL 5600 for installing additional programs and to save data. So programs and data won't be lost even the accu runs empty.
The original press announcement by Sharp about the SL 5600 is to get
here.
This even shows that the Jeode Java System by Insignia will be used and not the Java implementation of he Amiga partner TAO.
At Golem there is the article
reworked Linux-PDA Sharp Zaurus introduced in the USA to read.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Nov.2002
AmiSpaTra
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Australia: Synapse Computer closes - many special offers
The Australian trader Synapse Computer closes after ten years at
30th November 2002 its shop and has created a list with Amiga software
offered at special prices.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Nov.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.11.2002)
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:
- 11.11.02 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) more stable, support for EZMouse
- 11.11.02 improved: Mig-29 Soviet Fighter (Code Masters/Rapier Design) small fixes, supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Midwinter 2 (Maelstrom Games) supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Campaign 2 (Empire) supports another version
- 11.11.02 new: Blazing Thunder (Hi-Tec Software) done by Galahad
- 07.11.02 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) supports another version
- 07.11.02 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) miscellaneous changes
- 07.11.02 improved: Midwinter 2 (Maelstrom Games) supports German version
- 07.11.02 improved: Campaign 2 (Empire) supports another version
- 05.11.02 improved: Monkey Island 2 (Lucasfilms Games) miscellaneous changes
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12.Nov.2002
OSNews.com
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ExtremeTech: Interview with Bill McEwen
Under the ExtremeTech title "Amiga`s Grand Plans Revealed" you will find an interview with Bill McEwen, talking about the future plans of Amiga Inc.
In the interview Bill McEwen mentions that AmigaOS 4 for PPC will be finished in three weeks - the single components are ready have to be fit together.
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12.Nov.2002
Steffen Haeuser (ANF)
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Amiga Quake2 Page with new design
The Amiga Quake2 page has a new design, thanks to Tristan Mangold. To consecrate the new page two new mods are released on it:
Annihilation Q2 - a deathmatch mod with many weapons
HolyWars Q" - chase the one with the halo!
Have fun!
Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment
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12.Nov.2002
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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freeCD: Amiga Fonts
Amiga Fonts contains about 700 fonts in TrueType- and CompuGraphics format.
The fonts are sorted by name and a special drawer with SciFi fonts is integrated. The CD can be ordered on the FOM site and will cost 3 Euro.
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11.Nov.2002
Digital Almanac Homepage
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Astronomy: Modifications in Digital Almanac III
Achim Stegemann writes:
In order to keep the program slim, I decided to cut off some very old stuff. In this
case the support of the graphics format IFF-RGFX will be stopped. IFF-RGFX is an
alternative graphic format to IFF-ILBM, which was originaly developed by Andreas
Kleinert and carried by me.
While IFF-ILBM only archieves a weak image compression, IFF-RGFX offers by the use
of the XPK modular compression rates for the encoding. Unfortunately this format was
never assumed by the Amigans. I do not know any other program, which supports RGFX
except SuperView and Digital Almanac. Therefore I threw it now of the program. RGFX
was replaced by the portable PNG format, which is supported already for some time in
DA III.
Moreover I am developing a new concept for the program documentation. Instead of
using connected HTML files as before, which can be read then in an external Browser.
From now on a program assistance will appear within DA III. Each window therefore
possesses its own description, which in an extra assistance window is displayed.
Thus storage space is saved and an update of the documentation is likewise simpler
than so far. The release of the new DA III version 4.9 are to be expected in December
2002!
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11.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Antivirus software: xvs.library Version 33.39
Georg Hoermann has just released a new update of the xvs.library.
Remember this library is very important for all the major antivirus
programs, because they all use this library to get recog. for viruses.
Here is some info about the new update:
Name: External Virus Scanner Library
Version: v33.39
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 91.362 bytes (lha packed)
Release date: 11 November 2002
Programmer: Georg Hörmann - ghoermann@gmx.de
News: xvs.library 33.39 (size: 61.196 bytes)
- Added size check to bootblock virus recognition in xvsCheckFile().
Any files bigger than 2048 bytes will no longer be tested for
bootblock viruses to avoid fake recognitions inside disk-images.
- Finally fixed the last MuForce hit ($c0.w) in xvsSurveyMemory().
Thanks to Sensei again for the report and Zeeball for further
suggestions on this topic.
- Fixed severe bug in 'Illegal Access' recognition code that caused
crashes on any files with virus-like hunklengths. Thanks to
Zeeball for the report and the example files.
- Added 'NoName (196 Bytes)' linkvirus and 'XFD Infiltrator' virus.
Thanks to Zeeball for sending them.
- Fixed problems with native MorphOS applications that directly call
xvs.library functions. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the report and
for further help.
- Implemented custom Disable() function that prevents loss of data
on the serial port during xvsSurveyMemory() calls. Thanks to
Christian of CAPS (www.caps-project.org) for the report and the
excessive beta-testing!
- xvsSurveyMemory() now closes TCP ports opened by several viruses.
These currently are: 1666, 2000, 2001, 2227, 2333, 2421, 2551,
4097 and 9876. Please note that closing an open port doesn't cause
a virus report, it just happens!
- Once again improved the internal security stuff for less timing
problems with sensitive software (serial.device still has trouble
with 115200 baud on a MC68030, use 8n1.device instead!).
- Added 'Neurotic Death' viruses (6 versions) to xvsSurveyMemory()
and the installer files to xvsCheckFile().
- Added new developer files created by Dirk Stöcker. Thanks a lot
and sorry that I forgot to add them to the last release.
- Added installer script written by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks
a lot for this contribution.
(ps)
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11.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Emulator: WinUAE v0.8.22r2 announced
Amiga plus writes:
The Windows based Amiga emulator WinUAE is to appear in the coming week
in the version 0.8.22r2. Additional information can be found at the
title link.
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11.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark online again
Jan Andersen writes:
Hi all.....
It has been some time now, I have been moving and I have had
no Internet connection. But just to inform you all that I'm alive and
still kicking....
I got an email from Charlene, that she had a hard disk crach. So I
have desided to make an emergency Virus Help page, where users
can get the latest antivirus programs. I'll do the uploading from my
work computer (my boss does not mind) :-)
Okay, so the Virus Help Denmark page in up and running at a small
size, but all the latest Antivirus programs are on it. And only Amiga
stuff is for download.
The complete Virus Help Denmark website will be up on the 1'th of
December 2002. Then I get my ADSL connection back.
I know that this has been as much a problem for you, as it has been
for me. But this was out of my hands !!!!
My new email is: vht-dk@mail.dk
VHT-Denmark: www.vht-dk.dk
I hope to hear from you all soon.....
Kind Regards
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
vht-dk@mail.dk
www.vht-dk.dk
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11.Nov.2002
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A. celebrates 1 year online with 10 new demos
One year ago, Amiga Demoscene Archive appeared online with 123 demos and
about 900 screenshots. One year later, we have updated the database to
234 demos and 2142 screenshots.
On the newest update, which was the biggest update we ever did, 10 high
quality Amiga demos were added:
9 fingers/Spaceballs, Authentik/Skarla, Crash test/Cryptoburners, Dust
addict/Fiction, Guardian Dragon 2/Kefrens, It can't be done/Ram Jam,
Mosaic/Exceed, System crime/Scoopex, Xpose/The Silents and
Omnirush/Mystic. Enjoy!
(ps)
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11.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Flash: Swfplayer V1.2c (07-Nov-2002)
Alexandre Balaban published the version 1.2c of the independently running Shockwave Player 'Swfplayer' in the Aminet. The Player is based on libflash for Linux by Olivier Debon. In this version the PPC support (WarpOS) was added. In detail in relation to the previous version the following changed:
- New: Loop-Play-Option.
- New: PPC-version for WarpOS (WOS)
- Changed: improved Makefiles
The Player supports Flash files up to version 4 and some Flash 5 features. It runs on 68040+ or PPC and needs AGA (thus also on graphic cards). Further information can be found in the Readme of the program as well as notes about well-known problems.
Download:
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with Strips 204-207
On 10th November 2002, the German edition of Eric W. Schwartz's cartoon series
'Sabrina Online' has been updated.
The additions are:
- 204 - Straßenraub als Pointe
- 205 - Das Stinktier-Einmaleins
- 206 - Taktvolles Mädchen
- 207 - Angst hat heute Verspätung
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 Beta 10.11.2002
On 10th November 2002, Lukas Stehlik has released a new beta version of
'AmiGOD 2'. This is a modular AmigaOS benchmark. Changes as compared to the
previous version:
- The previous archive (AG2 BETA 14.10.2002) was defective.
- Internal module for UAE + GeForce2 Ti.
- Load/Save module in development.
The benchmark runs from AmigaOS 3.0 (AmigaOS 2.0 has not been tested), CPU 68k,
PPC (or PC and UAE or Amithlon resp.), 0.2 MB RAM and the identify.library
(enclosed).
Download: AmiGOD2.lha
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #2
On 10th November 2002, James Daniels (Apex Designs) has published the second
status report on the Gameboy Advance version of Payback. Over the last month
the game has been speeded up by about 30% due to optimizations. The full
report, screenshots and further information about Payback are accessible
through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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UAE: Winuae.chm V1.7.1
On 9th November 2002, Peter Hutchison has released Version 1.7.1 of the
Winuae.chm file. This version contains some small updates and additional
information about the Amiga programs enclosed with WinUAE. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Martin Kuchinka's home page
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Programming language: PowerD V0.20 Alpha 3, AHI archive
On 10th November 2002, Martin Kuchinka has released version 0.20 alpha 3 of the
programming language 'PowerD'.
Additionally, Philippe van Calsteren has put the developer archive for AHI on the PowerD site. Changes compared to the previous PowerD version are:
- fixed (u)word/(u)byte shifts/rotates under PowerPC
- fixed an old bug in PowerPC support, that made executables about 5%-10% longer!
- added support for functions pointers in variables:
DEF a:() // define the variable as a function pointer (no args here)
a:=&func // assign a function address to the variable
a() // launch the function addressed in variable a
- fixed static lists containing doubles under PowerPC
- added some examples written by Philippe van Calsteren
- basic OOP again started to work :) (see oop.html)
- bugs reported/fixed by Marco Antoniazzi
- shared library support is now working better and safer!
Download:
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Game: Detris V3.2 Beta 6
On 8th November 2002, Daniel Westerberg of OnyxSoft
has released the beta version V3.2 Beta 6 of Tetris clone 'Detris'.
Changes as compared to the previous version:
- Bugfix: Now the highscore should let you enter stuff even if
it's full, given that you are better then the worst that is.
- The auto-resize of the window should work better now.
Detris works from AmigaOS V2.04 with MUI.
Download: detris.lha
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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MIDI: BarsnPipes V1.17
Already on 7th November 2002, Alfred Faust has released version 1.17 of the
MIDI software 'BarsnPipes'.
Compared to the previous version, the following changes have been made:
- Double ScreenWidth and Double ScreenHeight now are exactly the double
of the Text-Overscan of the current choosen screenmode, equal, which
dimensions you have had defined in the screenmode-requester before.
NB.:Text-Overscan is the size of the screen, which fits exactly the
visible range on the monitor.
ATTENTION !
These values are not stored anywhere. If you want to go back to these
values, you must:
- uncheck the Double Width and Double Height gadgets
- "Choose" - screenmode and insert your values into the Width and
Height integer-gadgets in the screenmode-requester and resume
- after that you may click "Save" or "Use", like you want
- Changed the method of altering a value with the mouse in the
List-Editor in "Magic-Wand"-mode
- Changed the colorization in the song-construction-window.
Now the marked and shifted range is more "colored".
(Not in the "classic" version)
- MIDI-Defaults now defineable for each MIDI-channel separate, and
they may be saved and loaded in separate files
Download: BnP1_17.lha (575K),
History
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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GUI: reaction.lib alternative by Stephan Rupprecht
On 9th November 2002, Stephan Rupprecht has released an alternative to the
NDK 3.5/3.9's reaction.lib for software developers. The reaction.lib
contains support functions for the ReAction GUI classes from AmigaOS 3.5.
This release is NO official Update from Amiga Inc., but a
redevelopment of most of the original SAS/C's reaction.lib which is enclosed
with NDK 3.5 and 3.9.
The library's full source code, the project file and the binary for StormC4 as
well as a modified clib for this library are included (unsupported functions
have been removed).
Download: reactionlib.lha (11K),
Readme
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10.Nov.2002
ANN
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Audio: OctaMED SoundStudio 2 for Amiga discontinued
RBF Software have announced that development of the sample sequencer 'OctaMED
SoundStudio 2' for Amiga has been discontinued. According to RBF, the only
chance for further development would be if the makers of the new Amiga were
ready to talk with RBF Software about a possible new version.
"If you still want to see OctaMED arise again on the new Amiga,
the only way forward is if the manufacturers of the new Amiga
are willing to hold talks regarding a possible new version."
(RBF Software)
It is not possible to release the Amiga source code as Freeware as some vital
parts of the source code have to remain copyrighted.
OctaMED SoundStudio V1.03c itself is available for
download as Freeware.
The makers' full announcement is accessable through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
amiga.org
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Magazine: The Crypt - New mailing lists
The online Amiga magazine 'The Crypt' has set up two mailing lists on Yahoo!.
The general mailing list for discussions as well as the mailing list for
announcements can each be subscribed to via a form on the bottom of the
magazine's entry page.
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10.Nov.2002
amiga.org
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AmigaOne: #AmigaOne IRC web site updated (a.o.t. Aminova)
The web site on the
#AmigaOne IRC channel in the Undernet has been updated. The site now contains a mirror of the Aminova News, a publically accessible forum, the Photo of the Week and an article area for guests and members of the channel in which articles about anything they like can be published.
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10.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Audio: APC&TCP has acquired rights to DigiBooster Professional
Lately APC&TCP have concluded a contract with the programmers of
DigiBoosterPro and thus acquired all rights to the program, source and the name
DigiBoosterPro.
DigiBooster Professional is a sample based music tracker program. With
- more than 60 commands
- a choice of 128 tracks
- 255 available sample locations
- DSP echo
- and much more
there are no boundaries for inspiration. So, those who have already worked with
programs such as Protracker will be able to shortly find their way around DBPro.
As DBPro runs completely through AHI, any sound card whose driver is AHI based
is automatically supported. Also well known module formats get their fair share.
So DBPro is currently able to read and process
- MOD (Protracker/Noisetracker)
- DIGI (Digibooster 1.x)
- XM (FastTracker)
- S3M (ScreamTracker)
- MED (Octamed & OctamedSoundStudio).
As soon as an able programmer will have been found, it is planned to further
develop the program in big steps.
Furthermore it is planned to publish future versions on CD instead of diskettes.
Detailed information about the program can be found on the APC&TCP homepage
which has been extensively updated this week.
In the future, APC&TCP will also work very closely with the DigiBoosterPro
community.
Thus, for example, Dennis Lohr (Psyria) is taking over support for this
extensive program.
In order to have support for the program as uncomplicated as possible, a forum
has been set up especially which can be accessed from the community, APC&TCP
as well as the Amiga Future homepage.
We would be glad if you would write down your suggestions for improvements and
new features in the support forum.
This is how you can contact us:
Distribution : http://www.apc-tcp.de/
Community : http://www.digiboosterpro.de/
Support Forum APC&TCP : http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/index.php?c=3
Support Forum DigiBoosterPro : http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/index.php?c=4
Distribution (E-Mail) : info@apc-tcp.de
Support (E-Mail) : Psyria@apc-tcp.de
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10.Nov.2002
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Developer tool: CVS V1.11.2 for AmigaOS and MorphOS
Today Jens Langner has released an update of the CVS (Concurrent Versions
System) port. Apart from some important bug fixes re. local repositories, now
there is also a MorphOS/PPC version contained within the archive. The complete
codebase of CVS has been adapted to gcc so there is nothing standing in the way
of a subsequent port to AmigaOS4.
As usual, all interested developers can download the newest version under the
address http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
Please find all changes in the attached ChangeLog.
Download:
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09.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: interview with Torsten Giebl (Turricane 4 Ever)
If there's any cult figure on the Amiga existing then it is "Turrican"!
A game that had set new standards at its time and had an ongoing influence on a whole genre.
In 1993 the "Turrican" series had ceased on the Amiga with the release of the third part but Turricane lives! With the project "Turricane 4 Ever" exists the possibility of the hero of old times returning to the Amiga.
The Amiga Arena spoke to Torsten Giebl who's working with his team on an unofficial successor and asked for details about the game's progress and how this project came to live.
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09.Nov.2002
Andreas Günther (ANF)
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ScanQuix for USB scanners
The known scan software is now also available in a version for USB scanners. The software package "ScanQuix USB" is based on the proven software "ScanQuix 5" and works with the scanners "HP ScanJet 2200c" and "Epson Perfection 1250". Next to the drivers for these scanners is among other things software for saving, printing and post-processing of the scanned pictures as well as there is for easy creating photo copies.
"ScanQuix USB" needs an USB card with the Poseidon USB stack (e.g. HIGHWAY by E3B). Because of the teamwork with E3B and Chris Hodges (Poseidon) who have actively supported the project is a flawless use also via the USB connection guaranteed.
"ScanQuix USB" is available at Vesalia Computer.
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09.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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fxPAINT 2.0 in December
We are proud to announce the long awaited version 2.0 of fxPAINT today.
fxPAINT 2.0 includes many new features, that will open up new graphical horizons to you. Besides the generally improved working speed and many new effects, a lot has been done at the modules, too. The fxALBUM- and fxCONV(batch processing)-modules have been heavily extended, new modules like e.g. the "Navigation Builder" and the "Color variations"-wizard have been added.
One of the most important new features is the support for gradients that may consist of a theoretically unlimited number of colors and transparency-values. Together with the also brand-new gradient tool you can easily add gradients to pictures or use them as background.
Furthermore direct support for Truetype®-fonts, PNG-files (loading and saving, incl. all options like alpha-channel, etc.), the system clipboard and Turboprint has been added. The ARexx-port and its nearly 90 new commands as well as the numerous scripts contained offer additional functionality.
fxPAINT 2.0 will, besides the support for 68K-systems, also offer native support for MorphOS, Amithlon, PowerUP and WarpUP and thus, independant of which platform it runs on, allow you to work at full speed. An adaption for AmigaOS 4.0 is already being worked on and will be made available as a free download upon the time of completion.
An overview over all, including many more, new features as well as the possibility to purchase fxPAINT 2.0 at a time-limited special price can be found on the all-new fxPAINT 2.0 subpages. Delivery is scheduled for the first half of December 2002. (ps)
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09.Nov.2002
sylvio k. (ANF)
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Avcodec.Library for 68k and PPC released on Aminet
On the Aminet have the Amiga ports of the ffmpeg libs appeared:
Short: Audio and Video codec library for 68+PPC CPUs
Author: chip@amiga.rulez.org (Csaba Simon)
Uploader: chip@amiga.rulez.org (Csaba Simon)
Version: 1.45
Type: gfx/misc
Downlaod: avcodeclib.lha
This shared library is an Amiga port of the opensource ffmpeg project's
libavcodec static library. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg)
This archive contains:
avcodec.library - for 68020 and upper CPUs
avcodecwos.library - for PPC603e and upper CPUs
Installation:
Copy them to your Libs: directory
Features:
Decoder for the following video codecs:
MPEG1VIDEO, H263, RealVideo1.0, Motion JPEG,
MPEG4, OpenDivx, Divx3, Divx4, Dix5.xx, MP41, MP42,
WMV1, SVQ1 Sorenson, DV Video
Decoder for the following audio codecs:
MP2, MP3, DV Audio, WMV, PCM, ADPCM
Todo:
Compile the encoders too.
Autodoc Documentation
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Winner of the Messages-Remix contest
AMIGAplus wrote:
Some weeks ago had Bjorn Lynne started a remix contest for the title sound "Messages" of the latest Lynne album "Colony" for which 29 people had sent in music pieces. Today the lucky winner was announced:
"PROJECT 2020" took part with a fantastic mix of Dub, Hip-hop, Club, Dance and Tribal and put with this the competitors in their places. This one and seven more tracks will be played in a special radio show on The Mixdown, a FM and Internet radio station on November, 9th between 3 and 5 o'clock (Central US. time). Besides, the winner gets 100 US-Dollars and a copy of "Colony".
All eight remixes can still be downloaded at JavaMusic
(http://www.javamusic.com/bjornlynne.
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09.Nov.2002
Amiga SourceForge
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DCR8520 Amiga ports: updates done on 08.11.2002
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has made some ports available for download on his web site. Yesterday were the following programs updated:
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09.Nov.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 11/2002 released
The November issue of the free magazine AMIGA aktuell has just now been released and can be read online on the website of the distributors as well as it can be downloaded in the HTML respectively in the AmigaGuide format.
It contains among other things
- a "small tools" special about the audio compression format "Ogg Vorbis",
- the sixth and last part of an introduction in the ReAction programming,
- a background article about data types and their recognition,
- a workshop about programming a note book in PHP with mySQL,
- a review of the German version of the graphics adventure "Aqua",
- the most important news and press releases regarding Pegasos & MorphOS, AmigaOne & AmigaOS 4.0 and Amithlon,
- a comment about the supposed quarrelsomeness of the Amiga community,
- reports from the Amiga events in Graz and Grebenstein,
- a note about the future proceeding with a lack of sent contributions,
- and much more.
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09.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: translation of the AmigaSource interview with Ben Hermans
Following the title link you'll find the German translation of the interview with Ben
Hermans that AmigaSource had made. The translation into German had been done by Markus Castro of Amiga Future. The original can be found
here.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: New screen shots from Hollywood
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
Many people e-mailed me because they wanted more
screenshots from Hollywood. Therefore I published 5 new
screenshots from a game done with Hollywood and a demo
done with Hollywood. More screenshots will be published
over the next weeks. All applications whose screenshots
are on the Airsoft Softwair homepage are of course included
on the Hollywood CD-ROM.
(ps)
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08.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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HTML-Tool: HSC and HSC-RPM v0.927
On 06th November 2002 version 0.927 of the HTML-preprocessor "HTML Sucks Completely" (HSC) written by Matthias
Bethke has been published. The delivered source code can be compiled on each supported platforms. It
has been tested under SuSE Linux 7.3 and HP/UX 10.20.
There is also a HTML-documentation available online.
Besides this the download archive contains the current preferences and macro files, too.
Version 0.927 contains several minor bugfixes.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Nov. 2002, 21:38] [Comments: 0]
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08.Nov.2002
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Update of Ian Chapmans BBoAH
From now on the last update of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware written by Ian Chapman is also available
on Amiga Society. Additionally there are minor upadates of the Little Book of Amiga Society.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Nov. 2002, 21:22] [Comments: 0]
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08.Nov.2002
MorphOS-News.de
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Event: First pictures of Thendic of the ExpoProtection
Thendic France has published first pictures of its stand on the ExpoProtection (SecurityExpo).
For the first time Thendic France has officially introduced its Eyecam together with Pegasos/MorphOS on
this fair with the topic Safety.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Nov. 2002, 20:35] [Comments: 0]
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08.Nov.2002
ScummVM at SourceForge.net
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Hardware of the SourceForge.net-server will be changed
On the page of ScummVM at SourceForge.net has been announced that between the 14th and 17th December
the hardware of the server will be changed. Therefore single offers will be temporarly not available.
Please read the following original message:
Downtime notice
Greetings fellow Adventurers!
SourceForge, our host, is moving hardware on the 14th and 17th of November.
During this time, there will be a number of outages:
- 14th: ScummVM Downloads and Mailing Lists will be unavailable between
approximatly 16:00 Pacific Time (GMT-8), till 19:00.
- 17th: The main ScummVM site, and CVS tree, will be unavailable from
10:00 Pacific. This may last up to 12 hours, but hopefully less!
Thank you, and please shop at Snuckeys again!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Ottawa Amiga Show
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Event: Ottawa Amiga Show with Randy Hughes of Amiga Inc.
As we have already reported the Ottawa Amiga Show 2002 in Ottawa will
take place on 09th November 2002. The
team of organization has announced that Randy Hughes of Amiga Inc. will take place on the dinner which
will follow after the show and will answer questions. This will take place from 3:30 p.m. on in the Royal
Oak.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Haage&Partner
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Haage&Partner: Offers
Additionally to the current version of the DTP program PageStream 4.1 (Amiga, Windows, Macintosh) H&P
now also offers the professional graphic program ImageFX 4.5 containing the German documentation for
a special price. There are also special prices for the OS 3.9 book (second edition), the bundle with OS 3.9 and ArtEffect4 together with
the AE Collection. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Cloanto (ANF)
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Event: WoASE 2002 - Pictures from Cloanto
More pictures, including panorama view, at
http://cloanto.com/news/20021102woa.html.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 08. Nov. 2002, 17:09] [Comments: 0]
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08.Nov.2002
Fun Time World
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Fun Time World: Situation of Frogger explained
Fun Time World which is the German distributor of the video player software Frogger announces
that the development of Frogger has been ensured. Few days ago the author Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz
has got uncertain if he offend against GPL and he was going to publish the program as Open Source.
Fun Time World wrote:
»Development of Frogger ensured
We are glad to inform you that the development of the unique video player called Frogger has been
ensured. After an exact examination of the licences there is no reason for publishing the program
as Open Source. Only two codecs will not be contained as components of Frogger. These ones will be
freely available on Internet. If we are allowed to deliver these codecs on our CDs have to be cleread
but we cannot see any problems there.
All orders which we have got we will handle during the next days. You may be looking forward to
your registered version of Frogger.
We would like to thank you for your confidence and the positive feedback we have got.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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