09.Oct.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Steffen Häuser
At the Amiga Future home page today an
interview
with Steffen Häuser (programmer of Quake 2) was published. A detailed interview will be in the Amiga
Future 39 (November/December 2002).
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
Diverse
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Software News (until 09.10.2002)
At DiegoCR will find three updates
of his ports: highlight v1.2,
abcm2ps v3.1.10
and RingTone Tools v1.08.
For the Workbench replacement Scalos
there were the plugins WBRexx V39.13
and WB3.9 V45.23
updated and are ready for download.
The German programmer Oliver Achten has joined the team for the NES emulator for
Amiga A/NES CGFX.
"His skills and coding-experience will be of great help when developing A/NES CGFX.
A closer presentation of this guy will soon be available on this website."
At the Hungarian programmer LouiSe you will find loads of
Amiga ports of useful
programs. Among there is the source code of Thttpd
and php version 2.21b P22, a simple Web and PHP server solution for AmigaOS.
SixK, as well known for his many Amiga ports, has put at his new website Amiga Community several
SDL ports of games online. New are Mures and
Foobillard 1.7 for 68k.
Serverwatch reports,
that the server software 'Apache' (not the Amiga version!)
is released in version 1.3.27.
The new Apache HTTP
includes many bugfixes and should be more secure because three
security holes were closed.
At Rekonet are
six new card sets
for the well known card game Klondike available.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
IBrowse
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IBrowse: Mailing list for announcements set up
Those who don't want to participate the discussions regarding the
webbrowser 'IBrowse' but are interested in the news may sign the new
announcement mailing list:
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig
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Window organisation: DepthMenu version 2.38
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has released version 2.38 of his
program 'DepthMenu'. With this program you may manage, minimize, maximize etc. all opened windows at your Workbench. New in this version is a completely reworked API, the AmIRC modul and a new ScreenType modul.
Donwload: DepthMenu.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
OSNews
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OSNews: A Closer Look at MorphOS on the PEGASOS
Mike Bourma has edited for the online magazine 'OSNews' an article in English which deals with the advantages/disadvantages of the new PowerPC computer 'Pegasos'.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
Matay
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Matay: New software for Prometheus - PromUpdate 2.3
For the PCI busboard Prometheus there has been published the software PromUpdate
version 2.3. The update contains the following elements:
- prm-rtl8029.device V1.2 (fixed bug - it will just fail with prometheus.library 1.x instead of hanging up the system)
- prometheus.library V2.3 - prepared for firmware upgrade and DMA handling, can be used on old firmware however with all the drivers not using DMA (10 Mbit ethernet, S3Virge, Voodoo3, 4, 5)
- PrmScan V1.5
- DMAList V1.2 - a tool displaying allocated DMA buffers (requires Prometheus firmware upgrade)
- prometheus.card V6.506
- 3dfxvoodoo.chip V6.412
- emulation.library V40.893
- fastlayers.library V40.48
- rtg.library V40.3992
- Newer "vendors.txt" file used by PrmScan for identifying of PCI cards.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
aseq (ANF)
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Aseq not delayed anymore
I managed to revive the bppc and bvision by flashing the rom.
So I can continue development normally (keeps fingers crossed ;)
Thanks for the response. (ps)
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09.Oct.2002
Ben Hermans (ANF)
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Hyperion completes Quake 2 Amiga port
Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the completion of its highly optimised Quake 2 port for the Amiga.
A bundle containing the full PC version and a separate CD with the Amiga executable, the Quake 2 installer, GUI and over 600 MB of (compressed) extras such as (nearly 40!) Quake 2 mods , levels and models, will be available shortly from your local dealer. Pricing may vary.
The game complies with all the usual quality standards for which Hyperion has become known in the Amiga market.
Users can register their copy of Quake 2 on the Hyperion website (www.hyperion-entertainment.com) to obtain support and download further mods and updates as they become available.
System requirements are as follows:
- PPC equipped Amiga (WarpOS)
- 64 MB of memory (more recommended for certain mods)
- Graphics-card (3D acceleration supported but not required)
Dealers interested in distributing this product may contact
Timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com.
(ps)
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08.Oct.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Version 2.0 of Videokonverter-GUI for ffmpeg + VideoCD-Authoring
Carsten Siegner wrote:
The GUI "Videokonverter" in version 2.0 is finished. I have build in all features of ffmpeg not suspending each other. New is the port for plugin's of other GUIs. A plugin named "VideoCD Authorung" is added. With this plugin you are able to create VideoCD for DVD-Players. This means only the Mode-2-Images are created.
You have to use a compatible Burning Software. A created sample from the plugin I burned with MakeCD and tested on a Panasonic DVD-RV41 and it runs without problems, but the burner has mentioned an error and stopped burning. The first few seconds were played. I have to fix this error and then it will be free for download.
Now you can burn nearly every video format to a VideoCD, usable on a DVD-Player. If you want to get the program now send an email to me.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Oct.2002
Computer City (E-Mail)
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Event: Pictures from the Computer City Pegasos Presentation
On October, 5th'2002 in Rotterdam (NL) at Computer City a presentation of
Pegasos took part. Under the title link you will find some pictures of it. The configuration of the computer you will find here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Oct.2002
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Tool: Normalize Version 0.7.6
On October, 7th 2002 Fr3dY has released version 0.7.6 of the tool 'Normalize'. With this program you can regulate the volume of sound files (WAV, MP3, AIFF, NeXT/Sun, IRCAM).
Songs from different sources have different volumes you can now adjust onto the same level.
'Normalize' is available for the Amiga processors 68000, 68020, 68040, and 68060.
Download: normalize.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Oct.2002
Marco Neubauer (ANF)
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Installer: WHDLoad Version 15.1
On the WHDLoad website you can download the new version 15.1.
With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your hard disk.
Since our last message the following games are added or updated:
- 07.10.02 New WHDLoad V15.1, minor fixes, manual translated to cz/de/fr, some changes on developer files
- 06.10.02 improved: Wild West World (Software 2000) supports another version
- 06.10.02 improved: Nebulus (Hewson) supports another version, new icons
- 06.10.02 fixed: Moonstone (Mindscape) intro sound fixed
- 06.10.02 improved: Maximum Overdrive 2 (Rage) interrupts fixed for 040/060, new icons
- 05.10.02 fixed: Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin) slave was missing
- 05.10.02 improved: A10 Tank Killer (Dynamix) another version supported
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Showed AmigaOne and Pegasos
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Showed AmigaOne and Pegasos
OULU, FINLAND - October 7th, 2002 - Finnish Amiga Users Group's annual
meeting was held in Oulu, Finland on September 28th, 2002. The meeting was
visited by some 60 people and this well exceeded last years visitor count.
This didn't come as a surprise, even though the location was a bit remote
for people living in the more populated south of Finland. After all, the
users group had a lot more to show this year.
Travelling all the way from Holland, Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal of
Coyote Flux/Thendic France, were there to demonstrate MorphOS on the
Pegasos. This was the first public demonstration of Pegasos in Finland.
Sharwin and Rakesh spent the entire afternoon showing off the speed and
capabilities of their machine. Impressive demonstrations included J Miner,
a photogrammetry software that created 3D images out of 2D photographs,
and various features of MorphOS and emulation software.
Also on hand to discuss their work on MorphOS were the Finnish developers
and long-time Amiga enthusiasts Teemu Suikki and Harry Sintonen. They
travelled quite a distance as well, paid by Thendic France. Tomi Ollila
of the original AmiTCP group was also present at the venue. Discussions
about computer technology, operating systems and life in general were
rampant throughout the day. Finnish Amiga Users Group offered free
refreshments to all visitors, and some of the people went on to continue
the discussions at a dinner later that night.
Gentle Eye Ky, the only active Amiga dealer in Finland, was also present
with some of their inventory and two interesting pieces of new technology.
The AmigaOneG3-SE and a prototype AmigaOne-XE motherboards were on display.
Unfortunately the AmigaOneG3-SE had no working BIOS and the AmigaOne-XE,
which was all ready to go and hooked up, didn't boot Linux all the way.
This may be due to a configuration error or the fact that it was only a
prototype. It was interesting to see AmigaOne there anyway.
Finnish Amiga Users Group also held their official annual meeting and the
club is moving ahead with the help of new people and new ideas - although
more input and involvement is always welcome. The event was covered on the
Internet via IRC, a Shoutcast audio connection, digital photography and a
webcam. Unfortunately technical problems delayed these services quite a bit.
More photographs and notes from the meeting will be made available via the
users group website (http://saku.amigafin.org) and the Saku e-zine.
Finnish Amiga Users Group is interested in showcasing all progress made in
the extended Amiga community. In addition to the above-mentioned people,
Amiga Inc. was also invited to participate. We were frequently asked about
this by our members and visitors, but unfortunately Amiga Inc. did not
respond to emails from group officials this time. We hope to display
AmigaDE and other products from Amiga in the future, like we did last year
with our demonstartions of the Party Pack and the AmigaDE Player.
If you or your company are interested in getting in touch with Finnish
Amiga users, please contact the chairman of the Finnish Amiga Users Group,
Anu Seilonen, at thoriel@sci.fi to organize something. You do not have to
come here in person, we are happy to demonstrate products for you at our
meetings. Finnish Amiga Users Group is operated by volunteers interested
in supporting a common hobby, so our services are usually free of charge.
The Finnish Amiga Users Group would like to extend its warmest thank you
to those who supported our meeting and made it a truly memorable event. We
look forward to bringing together like-minded computer hobbyists in the
future as well.
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a
registered, non-profit organization dedicated to helping Finnish Amiga
computer users by preserving and advancing the Amiga hobby and knowledge
of the Amiga computing platform in Finland. The group aims to reach its
goals through volunteer efforts such as organizing events and publishing
an e-zine called Saku. (ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Martin Merz (ANF)
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New Themes for VisualPrefs
A new version of VisualMI is available on the MasonIcons homepage.
The following new themes were added: AmberMI, MirrorMI, WinMI and XenMI.
Please visit MasonIcons.de (title link) for further information.
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Official Amiga and Retro Computing 2002 Website on-line
Today the official website for the German Amiga exhibition of this year
is on-line. Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computer organizes this fair,
which will take place on 7th and 8th December 2002 in the Eurogress
Aachen. Thus Schönfeld breaks the good old tradition to let the
exhibition take place in Cologne but Aachen is a city worth seeing, and
the proximity to the Benelux countries is reliably a large advantage.
Refrained from it the organizer gets ready to break with another
tradition since he would like to turn around the trend of the last
years after, and attract more visitor than before.
The current website is only a preversion of the final one. It will be filled up with contnent bit by bit.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Oct.2002
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New Product Reviews Section in the Elbox website
You are welcome to visit the updated website of Elbox Computer.
A new section --Product Reviews--
has been added in the NEWS area.
The new Product Reviews section offers tests and comparisons made in the
Elbox laboratory as well as links to reviews of Elbox products published
in the Internet. If you know other reviews of Elbox products in the
Internet please inform us at webmaster@elbox.com.
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Michael Mann (ANF)
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TV-ads
At the title link there are two TV-spots advertising for Amiga available for viewing and downloading.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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The music group Moods publishes the two-hundredth song
The music group Moods working on the Amiga published recently their
two-hundredth song in the Internet. This Goatrack by the German musician
Psycho is called "Schmerz_Verschmelzumg". All 200 songs are available as
med, mod and mp3 file and can be downloaded free of charge from the
MOODS-side. On further publications and contributions to various
scene parties must be counted - Keep the trackers rolling! (ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Oct.2002
Michael Carillo (ANF)
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WOASE - Quake 2 Announcement
World of Amiga Southeast 2002 is proud to announce that the Amiga
area will be demonstrating the soon to be released
Quake2 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 by hosting a 4-player
deathmatch using the Roadshow TCP/IP service on a custom designed
Amiga level.
Come and marvel at one of the best games ever, now on the
Amiga platform, and look forwards to it appearing on the newest
incarnation of the Amiga platform.
All this and even more hot news to follow shortly. Buy your ticket now
from Fore-Matt Home Computing or
Kicksoft.
Tickets are only £3.50 (buy 5 or more you pay only £3.00 each).
World of Amiga Southeast 2002, Happens on the 2nd of November, Don't
miss it.
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Classifying: Results for Sept./Oct. 2002
Here the results of the elections by September/October 2002 by Amiga Games Classifying:
- (1) Napalm - 140 pts
- (4) Quake - 124 pts
- (2) Payback - 118 pts
- (3) Earth 2140 - 108 pts
- (5) The Settlers - 103 pts
- (7) Slam Tilt - 99 pts
- (6) Heretic 2 - 77 pts
- (8) Worms / Worms DC - 73 pts
- (9) SWOS - 64 pts
- (10) WipEout 2097 - 57 pts
- (11) Foundation - 55 pts
- (21) Fields Of Battle - 50 pts
- (18) Xtreme Racing - 50 pts
- (15) Colonization - 47 pts
- (33) Simon The Sorceror 2 - 47 pts
- (13) Civilization - 47 pts
- (17) Exodus : The Last War - 46 pts
- (12) Shogo - 43 pts
- (28) Speedball 2 - 37 pts
- (25) Nightlong - 35 pts
The next on-line election of Amiga Games Classifying for Nov./December 2002 for the most popular plays will start in the middle of November.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Oct.2002
ANN
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A.D.A.: 9 new productions
On 5th October 2002, 9 productions have been added to the Amiga Demoscene
Archive (A.D.A.). The additions are:
- Big!/Ephidrena
- Toxik/Amnesty
- Elektroboy Inside/Smoke
- Multica/ Andromeda
- Prism/Melon Dezign
- Roots 2.0/ Sanity
- Television/Bizarre Arts
- Guardian Dragon/ Kefrens
- Groovy/Lemon
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
CyberGFX
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Mediator: PatchInt V1.2 (3rd release)
Already on 3rd October 2002, Matthew Allatt has released version 1.2 (3rd
release) of 'PatchInt' for the PCI board 'Mediator' from Elbox.
The tool gets rid of the lockups which occur with various sound, ethernet,
serial and other PCI boards.
This update should fix the sound distortion which occurred with the
SoundBlaster after some time of playback.
Matthew Allatt writes on this:
"I'd just like to let you all know that I've finished a new version of
PatchInt..." - "I found that when using PatchInt, and playing tunes
through the SoundBlaster card, the sound would become distored after a
while. Others have reported this to me as well, so, having found some
time, I've written a new version which should hopefully fix this."
Download: PatchInt1_2.lha,
Readme
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld page updated and Status
From the Amiga Society site:
"The Schlachtfeld page has received a new design. The contents is not that far
yet, but the first graphics for a second level can already be seen.
Over the next weeks, some submenus etc. will be added to the page and some more
information will be provided.
Possibly the page will also get its own domain soon.
We still hope to have at least a beta of Phase I (with the old graphics) until
the show in December.
According to current estimation of the situation, Phase I will probably not
get over the beta stage.
The graphics of Phase II have advanced that much already that a parallel
development of code and graphics is beginning to make sense."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Hard disk: Hard Drive Guide updated, UAEInstall disk
On 6th October 2002, Peter Hutchison updated his
Hard Drive Guide
and released a UAEInstall disk for hard disks.
Hard Drive Guide contents:
- Choosing a hard disk
- Installing a hard disk in your Amiga
- Partitioning a hard disk
- Changing or Upgrading the FileSystem
- Installing Workbench on your Hard disk
- Installing software on your Hard disk
- Looking after your hard disk
- Problems that may occur
- Using Large Hard Disks
- List of SCSI and IDE Devices
- About the author
The guide is available as an HTML version
for online reading and as an AmigaGuide version for download.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
GFX-BASE
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Emulator: Petunia - Web site update about 68k JIT emulator
Already on 3rd October 2002, the Web site about the 68k JIT emulator 'Petunia'
for AmigaOS 4.0 has been updated.
Some information has been added, as well as a benchmark test to compare your
own computer with Petunia's benchmark results.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
amiga.sourceforge.net
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amiga.sf: SWFTools V0.4.2, cURL V7.10
The Amiga directory of Sourceforge.net by DiegoCR contains the following
updates:
- SWFTools V0.4.2 (020/040)
- cURL V7.10
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
amiga.org
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Web catalog: AmigaSource online again
The Web catalog 'AmigaSource' has
been online again since 3rd October. It currently contains 804 links in 40
Amiga categories.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
aseq (ANF)
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MIDI: Amiga version of 'Aseq' frozen
aseq writes:
"Part of my Amiga hardware died (bvision, perhaps more) so I have to freeze
development of the Amiga version of a midi and audio sequencer called
Aseq (www.aseq.de).
On a brighter side ;-) I can now spend more time on porting it to QNX,
Macintosh and Linux. A version for Pegasos-Morhpos has been planned, but
seeing as I can not yet even afford to replace Amiga hardware it will be a
while.
In case you care about dead Amiga hardware, I am using an A1200 with ppc
card and bvision, the system is not showing up any image through the gfx card
and I have no way of detecting if the ppc card is working, but I assume it
is as the system will boot normally from floppy. Not from hd though, a gfx
card related thing in the startup may very well screw up, or blizkick, which
could mean the ppc card IS dead (also) after all." (sd) (Translation: cb)
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05.Oct.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Poseidon USB-Stack now available as online version from IOSPIRIT
Chris Hodges and
IOSPIRIT have signed a contract
on the online-distribution of the
Poseidon USB stack.
Thanks to the extensive distribution infrastructure of IOSPIRIT,
the worldwide availability of Poseidon and various payment options
are now guaranteed.
The Poseidon USB stack unleashes the power and possibilities of the
Universal Serial Bus (USB) to you. With Poseidon you can now use
modern and low-priced USB-devices such as mice, keyboards, tablets,
joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flashcard-readers,
ZIP- and floppy-drives, hard disks and many more!
(ps)
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05.Oct.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB-driver: New version of Poseidon version 1.31
Chris Hodges writes:
Dear Poseidon users,
during these gray autumn days, just when you seem lonely and sad, and all
seems dull and dark, waiting for new things to appear, there is this small
light on this virtual planet. This location for recovering happiness is
called
http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html
That's the place, where you can download the latest, mindboggingly cheerful
update of Poseidon. And no, it's not Christmas just yet. Therefore, the
only new things you will get are more GUI's to play with (and I know you
love to play with the settings ;) ) and the ability to finally mount RDB
Amiga partitions automatically! But the good news does not stop here, no,
you can even boot from RDB partitions now (and using boot95 from the
fat95 package, you probably also can boot from FAT formatted media, if you
prefer). Sounds good, eh?
For the people that cannot wait for the HID class to pop up, there is a new
experimental wheelmouse mode in the bootmouse which supports a horizontal
wheel on some mice. But be sure to have MUIWheelPatch installed! Don't be
disappointed, if it doesn't work with your mouse, it's just a quick hack
that works with one wheel mouse I've got here, but not with the other
(because it doesn't send wheel information in boot protocol).
There is also something new, but this will be published in a seperate press
statement.
So enjoy the new stuff, and wait what happens next.
Changelog
~~~
poseidon.library 1.31
- Added stack config support.
Trident 0.12
- Added stack config stuff.
- Misc changes.
hub.class 1.17
- Fixed a bug where the hub task wouldn't
neccessarily fail out from the outer
loop on hub removal.
bootmouse.class 1.11
- Added experimental quick & hacky wheelmouse support. Will probably only
work with a few mice (the ones that report wheel movement in byte 4
even with boot protocol enabled -- works with my Sigma mouse, doesn't
work with my Logitech wireless desktop (no wheelmouse data in boot
protocol). Be sure you have MUIWheelPatch installed.
- Added class (defaults) and binding GUI to enable wheelmouse support.
massstorage.class 1.15
- Booting from RDB implemented (added a flag for this in the GUI aswell).
Thanks to Ralph Schmidt for contributing the CreateSegment() code.
- Misc internal changes.
- RDB Mounting added. Now RDB formatted partitions will be mounted
automagically on media insertion aswell.
- Mounting is not done from the device task anymore (as this could cause
a deadlock, if the filesystem wanted to do device IO before returning
from the mount call), but from a tiny seperate task, living only for
the moment :)
- Changed implementation of FIX_INQUIRY to fake inquiry. Old fix inquiry
is still present for wrong inquiry requests. Fake Inquiry should fix
a lot of broken devices.
- Added option to disable the initial bulk reset, as some broken devices
seem to choke on it (and crash their firmware, stupid thing).
- Changed NakTimeout prefs value from ms to 1/10secs. This seems more
reasonable. Please check your configs.
- Added option to delay the device startup. This is needed for some
broken devices, which crash their firmware, if they receive commands
during their setup (Nikon Coolpix).
- Added possibility to change the DOSType. If the DOSType is NOT
0x464154xx (FATx), LowCyl will not be 0 and autodetection of FAT95
will be disabled. This should allow the use of CrossDOS, but this has
not been tested.
- Added saving of default prefs.
- Added default prefs GUI (class config).
printer.class 1.14
- Added implementation of CMD_START/CMD_STOP.
- Added class GUI with two options: one disables the sending of the init
sequence on Epson printers, the other one disables the SOFT_RESET
command which causes problems on some broken printers.
(ps)
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05.Oct.2002
Various
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Software news (up to 2002, 05th October)
On the Amiga Community page of SixK
is a port of the 2D SDL space shooter Starfighter for 68k computers available.
Download: starfighter.lzx
On the Prometheus support page of VGR
you can find version 1.1 of the prm-rtl8029.device by Grzegorz Juraszek. The
program fixes the problem with the DHCP protocol and some minor bugs.
Download: prm-rtl8029-1.1.lha
Update 06.10.2002:
Starcraft -> Starfighter. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Oct.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: full version Hollywood Pictures and Hilt II missions
Hollywood Pictures - full version
With the manager game "Hollywood Pictures" makes Amiga Arena one further full version by "Sayonara Software" available for download. This is the version "Starbyte Software" had released again at that time.
Hilt II - missions final
The last missions Retrieve, Starwreck and Skeleton had been translated. So now are all missions playable in the German version as well as the campaigns Tutorial, Terrorist and Holowar. "Hilt II" got a rating of 91% by the "CU AMIGA" magazine. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Oct.2002
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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Registration of MCP (MasterControlProgram)
After a hard data loss just before releasing version 1.40 of MACP I have lost all registrations. Therefore I ask you to registrate yourself again before downloading MCP version 1.40. Then you can download the file under dl.dgroppe.de as usual.
Many bugs have been fixed and additionally there are some new features. If you want to get more details then please read the newsletter or have a look at the history or the readme-file in the archive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Mailbox software: Fame is now freeware
The author of the mailbox software Amiexpress, FAME (= Final Amiga Mailbox Engine) has declared it as freeware. The archive which has a size of 25 MB contains all components which you need to run such a mailbox. If you are interested in you should have a look at the homepage of the author and download the archive of the "Uphold The Law BBS" (telnet://utl.dyndns.org). Important: Please write down your telephone number if you registrate! (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Shortly "Betatester" on the market
Thendic France has announced on Morph-OS-News.de that the
"Betatester II"-conference has been defered to 14th/15th December in
Frankfurt. Furthermore in the week of the 13th October the delivery of
the Pegasos boards to the market will start whereby they still always
are called "Betatester". (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Intro of announcement of the scenediskmag Jurassic Pack#11 published
The Amiga demoscene group [S]carab has published an intro of announcement of the forthcoming eleventh issue of its diskmag "Jurassic Pack". Contributions of nonmembers of the demoscene are very welcome - please contact the editorial staff under ghandy@vantage.ch or
zito@uni.de. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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RNO Records published music track number 80
The music group RNO Records recently has published the eightieth track on
its homepage which all visitors of the page may download. RNO means Rave
Network Overscan and is mainly a Finnish Amiga demo group which has
published some good publications in the past years. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Diverse
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Software news (until 04.10.2002)
There are the following updates on the Amiga directory of Sourceforge.net:
Version 0.1 of MiniTV which is a graphical interface of the Mediator-tv driver of Mr. Gui has been uploaded to the 3rd Party Mediator Software Page of VGR.com.
This also applies to the Mediator-software PatchInt version 1.2. PatchInt is a patch of Matthew Allatt for the owners of the Mediator PCI-busboards which solves the problem of initializing of several PCI-cards.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
ANN
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Amiga University site updates and additions
Kevin Orme wrote:
We've got some cool new stuff online for you:
Site Mirrors:
- Amiga Source is now mirrored on our site, thanks Scott!
- We still maintain site mirrors of the excellent Blitz Basic,
Samplitude Opus (with software downloads) and Amiga
Interactive Guide sites, too.
Site Archives:
We have added two GREAT Amiga site archives from the somewhat recent past:
- National Amiga tech pages: these are full of great tech information,
including pinouts, motherboard configs and lots of accelerator
information - These were originally done by Greg Scott and used
to be on National Amiga's website - thanks to Larry S. and Joe at
Archtech in London, Ontario!
- Spock's Logical Amiga Pages: As many of you may remember, this was a great
site that has been offline for some time, unfortunately due to its author,
Eric Robertson, passing on last fall. Thanks to Donald Sowell for
providing this data as hopefully a little memorial to Eric's fondness for
the Amiga and his excellent site.
- Amiga Realm archive mirrors (12 of them) - Thanks to Paul Andrews for
providing data to mirror their site archives!
Additional stuff:
- 303 Tracker - this is a cool Roland TB303 emulator you can run on
your Amiga - software downloads included - thanks to Jeroen Schellekens
for his site archive and software
Events page:
- We have added an easy to find Events page for upcoming Amiga events & shows,
and we pledge to keep it current! :) If you have an event or show coming up
anywhere in the world, let us know so we can post it immediately.
- Thanks, keep on coming back and if you have additional Amiga sites for us
to help you mirror or archive (to preserve them), just let us know when/how.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 04.10.2002) (Update II)
With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your
hard disk. Since our last message the following games are added or
updated:
- 04.10.02 new: Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis Action (LucasArts) done by Galahad
- 04.10.02 new: Altered Destiny (Accolade) done by JOTD
- 04.10.02 new: Wicked Sensation (TRSI) done by Codetapper
- 03.10.02 improved: X-Out (Rainbow Arts) access faults fixed, new imager
- 03.10.02 improved: Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin) now uses KickDOS, new install script
- 02.10.02 new: Centrefold Squares (CDS) done by Psygore
(ps)
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04.Oct.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel ISA: Public beta test of the Windows-drivers
The archive that was published on October 1st has been extended by the
Windows 2000 drivers today. These are still beta versions of the drivers.
We still don't know if they work under Windows XP, because we don't use
that operating system on our machines.
Download: CW_win.zip (247 KB)
(ps)
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04.Oct.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Video converter-GUI for FFMpeg
For all those who want to convert videos from one format to another I have now written a GUI for FFMpeg. FFMpeg is available in 68k-, MOS- and PUP-version. The video converter-GUI has almost all features of FFMpeg. You can convert the following formats:
- RealMedia V1.0
- Windows Media Audio/Video V.1-2
- AVI (DIVX-2-3),h263, h236plus
- MOV (DIVX)
- MPEG
- ASF
- MJPEG
- JPG
- PPM
- PGM
- YUV
- Rawvideo
- Shockwave Flash
- mpeg 1 layer 2
- mpeg 1 layer3
- ac3
- gif
- ffm
- wav
- au
- openDIVX
Additionally I have uploaded the archive to Aminet.
Download: Videokonverter.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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03.Oct.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Hilt II - German Language Disk Version Online
There's now a stand-alone German disk version of the game Hilt II. In the future you will just need the "mission disk" to download new missions.
The missions "Reactor" and "Catacomb" have recently been made available on the Hilt II page (mission disk). Hilt II may be played from the hard-drive or directly from the floppy disk! Please pay close attention to the notes in the separately downloadable German instructions.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Oct.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Online Magazine: NoCover #103 Released
Today the 103rd issue of NoCover has been released, and it may be viewed on the APC&TCP homepage. This familiar online magazine has forged onward from the "old" editorship and has nothing to do with the future-appearing magazine GetBoinged.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Oct.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed Is One Year Old
Simon Neumann writes: Amiga Speed is celebrating its first birthday. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank all the Speed testers for their help and all visitors for their feedback. You've made it possible for Amiga Speed to improve and expand. That should also continue into the future, so I'm asking you to keep giving me suggestions for improvement and your reactions. This is the only way Amiga Speed can continue and meet the desires of its visitors.
Naturally there are once more new reviews to pore over. Simply take a look under Payback und Q***e.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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03.Oct.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Hot: Hard-Drives: Can You Fit Any More on There?
The 200 gigabyte Western Digital hard-drive codenamed Drivezilla, originally scheduled for August, has finally been released. The model WD2000BB comes with 2 MB cache, and the WD2000JB with 8 MB cache. Each has three platters, 6 heads, spins at 7200 RPM and uses the UDMA-100 interface.
You'll find the complete article under the title link.
Note: At this time there is no possibility with the Acard IDE-to-SCSI adapter (under firmware version 3.64) to make use of the entire hard-drive capacity, because these new drives use a trick to overcome the 137 UDMA-100 limit. The same thing goes for the new drives from
Maxtor
UDMA-133 hard-drives which exceed 160 gigabytes.
Acard adapters below firmware version 3.60 have a corresponding version sticker on the controller chip. Older adapters (until now only on PC or Mac, and perhaps Mac emulators) may be updated with the new firmware at the
support page.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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