08.Feb.2002
Thomas Tavoly (ANF)
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Distributed Amiga/The Amiga RC5 Team effort homepage temporarily offline
Distributed Amiga/The Amiga RC5 Team effort homepage (normally reachable
under http://distributed.amiga.org) is temporarily offline due to moving
to a new server. It is unknown how long the move will take, please bear
with us until the move is complete. (ps)
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08.Feb.2002
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)
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100%AMIGA CD Magazine issue 21
100%AMIGA has had a makeover for 2002 with a new look interface and we
are pleased to announce that we now can offer a second GUI that is
compatible with ALL A1200/4000 Amigas with expanded hardware.
This month we take a look at the graphically stunning Descent game
Freespace: The Great War and an interactive guide to the upcoming
ALT-WOA Amiga show on the 23rd February.
We have also introduced some new sections where we delve into the Amiga
News Headlines of years gone by and lend a helping hand with Hints, Tips
and Cheats. More information is available from
Amiga Online Superstore. (ps)
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08.Feb.2002
Amigan Software
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Amigan Software: Worm Wars V6.9 and Report+ V5.3
Worm Wars has been released in version 6.9. The game requires OS2.04+ and
PAL/DblPAL, as well as an MC68020+. Report+ can be downloaded in version 5.3.
With Report+ you can easily create bug reports, Aminet readme files,
documentations and similar reports. The program is freeware and is based
on ReAction and GadTools.
Download:
WormWars.lha
ReportPlus.lha
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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08.Feb.2002
YAM
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Mailprogram: YAM mailing list moved
The YAM mailing list moves
from Yahoo to Freelists.org. List members are invited to subscribe to the
new list.
(ps)
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08.Feb.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 08.02.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were formerly
meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or
updated:
- 08.02.02 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) supports German version too, misc other changes
- 08.02.02 new: Carcharodon - White Sharks (Demonware) done by Galahad
- 06.02.02 improved: Rotor (Arcane) blitter waits added, snoop mode fix
- 06.02.02 new: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) done by Bored Seal
- 06.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) music/sound fixed, blitter waits added and more
- 06.02.02 improved: Cliffhanger (Psygnosis/Spidersoft) Fast-Mem support
- 06.02.02 improved: Alien Breed Story (Team 17) Fast-Mem support, delay added
(ps)
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08.Feb.2002
T.o.T.
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Game: Tales of Tamar - New Amiga version 0.41 R1
Tales of Tamar is an internet turn-based strategy game for Amiga, Atari,
Java, Linux and PC by Eternity Entertainment Software. For registered
beta testers there's a new Amiga version 0.41 R1 available for download.
The latest version finally enables players to annex enemy towns, thus
exterminating enemy players. It also allows them to maintain several
towns in a country.
The only things missing until the release the Amiga base set are towns
for level two, three and four, cavalry, artillery, settlers and a few
other bits. The light at the end of the tunnel is near :-)
(ps)
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08.Feb.2002
OnyxSoft
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OnyxSoft: MultiRen V1.48 and TheMPegEncGUI V2.10
MultiRen, available in version 1.48, is a very powerful multi-file renaming
tool with dozen of features. TheMPegEncGUI, available in version 2.10, is a
Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MPEG Audio-encoders. Both tools are
programmed by Daniel Westerburg.
Download:
multiren.lha
thempegencgui.lha
(ps)
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08.Feb.2002
Amigart
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Amigart.com: Redesign finished
The redesign of the englishspoken newsservice Amigart is finished.
Amigart now use PHP-Nuke and has a nice design. (ps)
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08.Feb.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - homepage offline
Because of server changes the homepage of the astronomy software is
expected to be offline until Ash Wednesday, 13th February 2002. I
apologize for the inconvenience.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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08.Feb.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Homepage Updates
After a long period of time our Workbench gallery has been updated, today. We would be happy if you would send us new shots. There also is a new version of the article database and the interactive page was recreated. (ps)
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08.Feb.2002
Elbox Computer / Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator PCI 3/4000T Quick Installation Guide
The Elbox Website has been updated today.
The Mediator PCI 3/4000T Quick Installation Guide has been added
in Support - Product Manuals (title link).
The manual illustrates installation of the Mediator PCI 3/4000T
and PCI cards in original Amiga 4000T.
(ps)
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08.Feb.2002
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: THE FEEBLE FILES Amiga-Version in production
THE FEEBLE FILES has now been completed for the Amiga and sent off to go
into production. The finished game should be sent out to all those who have
preordered the game within the next 10-12 days. THE FEEBLE FILES is a
cartoon adventure from the makers of the famous Simon The Sorcerer series.
You are Feeble or rather you're a down trodden Grenelon who just happens to
be called Feeble...
Rendered animation, stereo sound and a plot of epic proportions take this
adventure into a different galaxy. Witty and humerous but with dark
undertones. THE FEEBLE FILES contains acts of betrayal, intrigue, revolution
and even a bit of cross dressing. Add to that around 80 locations to visit,
six thousand voice lines to interact with, there should be plenty to keep
everyone happy without the aid of chemical supplements.
THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga comes on 2 CDs and contains both full english
and german speech versions. The Amiga version requires either an Amiga with
68060, 4 MByte Gfxboard and 32 MByte RAM or an Amiga with PPC, 4 MByte
Gfxboard and 32 MByte RAM.
You can find more information on THE FEEBLE FILES in the projects section
under the title link.
(ps)
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08.Feb.2002
Jim Steichen (ANF)
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AmigaTalk updated to V1.9a
A new update to AmigaTalk has been uploaded to aminet (by the Author).
Several new classes, such as Boopsi, IFF & DataTypes have been added to
the system, as well as a lot of bug fixes. Since I found some more bugs
at the last-minute (after the archive was uploaded, sigh), please be sure
to download the AmigaTalk-Update archive as well. AmigaTalk is a port of
Little SmallTalk with a GUI for the Amiga.
Jim Steichen, Author of AmigaTalk.
Download:
AmigaTalk.lha
AmigaTalkUpd.lha
(ps)
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07.Feb.2002
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)
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FTD: Elsa: Specialist for graphics and network crashed
»The German specialist for graphics and network Elsa is illiquid.
FTD Online (Financial Times Deutschland) found out about that from bank and
business circles.«
See title link for complete article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)
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07.Feb.2002
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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Amithlon site by Shop'n Fun now in English too
The Amithlon help site, put online by Michael Ublrich, now is also available in
English. Amithlon users are adviced to have a look on it, especially for the
AmiTV page.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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07.Feb.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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ScummVM Version 0.1.0 for MorphOS released
Rüdiger Hanke released his new version of the ScummVM-MorphOS. He wrote, that
this new version would fix many bugs from v0.0.3.
The MorphOS version got some display code now and became independent of SDL.
This reduces the program in size and switching from full screen to window mode
now works clean. Other enhancements are being worked on.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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07.Feb.2002
Tom Duin alias amigaharry (ANF)
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RealPlayerInfo 1.2 with DefIcons support
RealPlayerInfo 1.2 shows title, author and copyright tag stored in
Realmedia files, and DefIcons support.
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07.Feb.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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GP appoints H&P German Distributor
The Australian software house GP Software appoints
HAAGE&PARTNER exclusive distributor in the German language area
of the product Directory Opus 6 for Windows.
H&P first will distribute the English version and offer German speaking
support via email and phone. The translation of the program is to follow, soon,
and will be available for free download to H&P's customers. Translation of
the detailed manual is being worked on, too.
The price of the new version 6.1 was lowerd. There is also a sidegrade
possibility for registered users of the Amiga version.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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07.Feb.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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CD32-Emulator for Windows: Akiko v1.2
Finally the time has come! A new version of Akiko, CD32 and CDTV
emulator for Microsoft(r) Windows(r), can be downloaded from the
Airsoft Softwair homepage (http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/)
Version 1.2 is a major update which is about 20% faster and
supports emulation of the CD32's nonvolatile memory including a
cool nv ram editor which supports importing, exporting, locking
& patching of save states.
Example of patching a save game is included
in the documentation. Additionally Akiko has now a real Joypad emulation
which means that the user can map every key / joystick button to
the CD32's joypad buttons. Akiko also supports the emulation of the
language identifier of the CD32 and CDTV now so some games appear
now automatically in the language you configured in the Akiko settings.
Finally there were some bug fixes and improvements in the single
patches as well as an extended documentation.
If you still haven't
registered Akiko (only $15US/15 EUR) you should have a look at
Defender Of The Crown 2 CDTV which can now also be played with the
Akiko demo version. But don't forget to set your native language
to the CDTV's language in the Akiko settings so that the game appears
in it. By the way, Akiko does not require the extended ROMs of the
CD32 & CDTV. Kickstart 3.1 and 1.3 are enough. Registered users
please send an email to akiko@airsoftsoftwair.de with "subscribe"
subject and you'll get the latest version (you'll only have to
subscribe once, then you'll always get the latest version of Akiko)
If you haven't registered yet, you should definitely get the demo
version of Akiko! (ps)
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06.Feb.2002
Dennis Lohr (ANF)
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3. IRC meeting of the DigiboosterPro community on 07.02.2002
On Thursday, 07.02.2002, takes the 3. IRC meeting of the DigiboosterPro
community place, beginning at 20.00 h. The channel is accessable as follows:
Channel name: #digiboosterpro
Server: ie.altnet.org
Port: 6667
We'd be very pleased about numerous appearance of active DBPro users and
interested people.
Furthermore we'd like to draw your attention once again to the DBPro mod compo
running for the time being. For further information please visit the
DigiboosterPro website (title link).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Jochen Abitz (ANF)
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Wipeout 2097 for the Mac
Wipeout 2097 has been released for the Mac. The interesting point - it is
advertised as Playstation and Amiga classic.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)
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CAPS Update
CAPS (The Classic Amiga Preservation Society) is working to save original
Amiga (read: even copy protected) games from floppy disk extinction (for
remastering or emulator use) and has had a huge update!
Including:
- Very detailed report of last months WIP
- Lots more games dumped, with hundreds still waiting
- Portugese translation (French, Spanish and German on the way)
- New credits section
(ps)
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06.Feb.2002
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX sells Amiga Sources
Due to a lack of time, motivation and general interest,
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX is looking for licensees that
are willing to obtain the source code for the well-known
ak Datatypes (other products on request) under exclusive
or non-exclusive license on as-is basis.
The license will not include the keyfile-code (removal)
and it won't include the right to sell a product under
the same name. So the licensee will be able to work out
new products based on the sources, without any further
relations or obligations. Basic help for getting started
with the sources and concepts will be provided.
We're awaiting your offers.
OpenSource projects may obtain FREE licences under
certain circumstances. Please contact us.
This offer is limited until 31.03.2001.
In the meantime, our website will be reworked.
The Amiga section was removed.
(ps)
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06.Feb.2002
AMIGAplus
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Event: HobbyTronic 2002
From 20. to 24. February 2002 takes in the Dortmunder Westfalenhallen
4 and 5 the HobbyTronic place. The HobbyTronic computer fair shows the offer for electronics fiddlers, radio amateurs, Dxer, tape and TV amateurs, video
fans, electronic acoustic handicrafts and CB radio operators and
presents a great offering for computer users in hobby, job and
training with devices, systems, add-ons and programs. A special service offer
the actions center and the computer street where specialists from all electronic
fields pass on valuable information and hints.
Further information can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 04.02.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were
formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets
have been added or updated:
- 04.02.02 improved: Pirates! (Gold) CD³² (Microprose) various changes, supports german version too
- 04.02.02 fixed: Magic Boy (Blue Turtle) protection correctly removed, minor other changes
- 04.02.02 improved: Adventures of Robin Hood (Millennium) sound replay fixed, faster
- 04.02.02 improved: No Excuses (Arcana) various changes
- 04.02.02 improved: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin) supports another version
- 04.02.02 improved: Rampage (Activision) keyboard fixed
- 04.02.02 improved: Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (Lucasfilms Games) ingame bug fixed
- 04.02.02 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) supports french version too
- 31.01.02 Searching the website works again
- 31.01.02 new: Teenage Queen (Ere) done by Psygore
- 31.01.02 new: PGA European Tour (The Dome/Ocean) done by Codetapper
(ps)
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06.Feb.2002
VIM
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Editor: VIM version 6.0.189
VIM is an editor that has its roots in the Unix editor "vi" and that is
available for different systems like AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, MachTen,
OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000).
Today has version 6.0.189 been released.
In issue 1 vol. 1 of the
Free Software Magazine
there's an article that
covers among other things the history of VIM.
VIM was developed by Bram Moolenaar first for the Amiga and had its first
appearance on the Fish #591 (November 1991).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Official: NVidia introduces GeForce4 - first benchmarks
»GeForce2 and GeForce3 will be replaced
Now that almost all information became known in advance,
has NVidia themselves officially announced their new GeForce4 graphics chip
family. This one replaces its predecessors GeForce2 and GeForce3 completely.«
Full (German) article see title link.
Further link covering this subject (German):
Heise: Nvidia
introduces 3D chip GeForce4
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: AWeb workshop reworked
Ricco Clemens has updated and reworked the AWeb workshop on the Amiga Future homepage.
The new version is now online.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2002
Andreas Magerl (email)
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#AmigaFun: chat with Hyperion on 18.02.2002
On Monday, 18. February 2002, beginning at 19.00 h will Steffen Häuser,
Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden from
Hyperion answer to questions
on the IRC Amiga channel #AmigaFun. All three are programmers at Hyperion and
deal with AmigaOS 4 and with games ports, like for example Quake 2. The chat
with Hyperion is organised in co-operation with the Amiga Future.
How to access the IRC channel #AmigaFun:
IRC server (enter WITHOUT "irc."): rollingrock.altnet.org
IRC port: 6667
IRC channel: #amigafun
Should the server fail you can access the channel via this server:
amigafun.ma.cx (please enter again without "irc.").
Further information especially for IRC beginners can be found on the #AmigaFun homepage.
HINT:
The chat can be accessed via HTML chat from the #AmigaFun homepage, Amiga Future
homepage and from the amiga-news.de forum. As we can't guarantee an error free
functioning of the HTML chat and programs like AMIRC or BlackIRC are anyway
nicer to use we recommend to use an IRC client in any way.
Possible languages are German and English. The logfiles of the chat will be
later released on the homepages of the Amiga Future and the #AmigaFun in German and
in English.
Stefan Martens: "I'd like this time to point to the fact that nobody else may
release the logfiles of the chat this time." (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Feb.2002
AOG (ANF)
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Amiga Online Games - Onlinegame at 09.02.2002
On Saturday, 09.02.2002 on trima.2y.net port:8000 a HBMonopolyV2.6-Server is running. All interested Monopoly-players are invited to play from 18 o'clock. Further informations you can request under IRC (irc.altnet.org / Channel #AOG).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Markus Nerding (ANF)
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AmigaOS XL: Official update for Amithlon and AmigaXL
This is the first official AmigaOS XL Update from Haage&Partner,
which will fix all known problems. Amithlon now features an improved
sound output as well as enhanced mouse and keyboard drivers and a bug
fixed CPU/FPU emulation. HDToolBox will now run stable again under
Amithlon and AmigaXL.
(ps)
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05.Feb.2002
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailprogram: SimpleMail Version 0.15
The new version 0.15 of SimpleMail is released.
Latest changes:
- SimpleMail is converted internal to Unicode
- New localisations added
- Two new columns added in mail list: "POP3 Server" and "Received"
- Little layout changes in mail writing window
- "Content-Description:" field is supported
- Some bugfixes
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Golem - IT News(ANF)
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Golem: Yamaha provides SCSI converter for internal IDE CD-writers
Yamaha announced a new SCSI converter for both CD-writer lines
CRW3200E (24x) und CRW2200E (20x)to use those IDE drives with
SCSI host adapters, too. Yamaha plans to start delivery in early
February.
See title link for the Golem article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Feb.2002
ANN
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Older interview with Bill McEwen from Steve Folberg
Steve Folberg has published an older unreleased interview with Bill McEwen on his website. This interview was made at the Amiga2001 for the AmigaWorld #5, but was not released there. You will find the long and interesting interview here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Games: Charts from AGC (Amiga Games Classifying)
AGC has released the Charts January/February 2002 of the most popular games. The first three places are Quake, Napalm, and Payback. In March 2002 starts the poll for March/April 2002.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Matay: P96-Drivers only on request
Matay has removed the archive with the P96-drivers V2.1a for Prometheus from the server and will send the archive only on request via email. It will be available again later on when a registration process will be implemented. Owners of a Prometheus board can get it sending an email to info@matay.pl. Matay has decided to do so because also users without a Prometheus board are using these drivers.
You find this text at the archive:
"This archive has been deleted from the page because of numerous downloads
by people who don't have Prometheus boards but are still using our page to
recieve a full archive of shareware program. In short future there will be
a questionary veryfing and writing down all necessary data of the one who
is downloading. Till then, please inquire to info@matay.pl, we will send you
this archive on your email account. Thank you, Matay team"
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
David McMinn (ANF)
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Programming Language: AmiBlitz2 Version 2.24
Version 2.24 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been published.
If you have bug reports please do not send them to the uploader but
to the mailinglist to avoid double bug reports.
In order to subscribe the mailinglist please send a mail to
blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
For unsubscribing please send a mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
Download:
amiblitz2_distro.lha
Original message:
The Blitz2000 site is dedicated to bringing you the best
information and resources about the programming language AmiBlitz2
(formerly Blitz Basic 2). It has been updated and a new version of
AmiBlitz2 has been released (v2.24 - both an update and a full
user-distribution). Loads of other smaller updates have been made
(mainly more documentation and source examples).
Check out the news page for a full list of changes.
(ps)
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04.Feb.2002
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Morpheus Security Bug at last public
Once more Amiga users are informed faster and better than the PC world.
As the Amiga Security Page
is already reading since 24. August 2001, Morpheus clients can be spied using a simple web browser and
avoid any file sharing settings of the client.
This concerns all P2P clients using the Morpheus protocoll. See also
description of Morpheus on the ASP.
BTW: Now there also is a topical virus / trojan list on the ASP sponsored by
Sophos Anitvirus.
See title link for the Heise article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Feb.2002
OSNews/ANN (ANF)
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Running AmigaOS on a PC: Review of Amiga XL
OSNews is running a review of AmigaXL, a system that allows you to boot
AmigaOS on your PC in a way that resembles a regular-booting x86
operating system. Screenshots accompany the article show the latest
version of AmigaOS 3.9 running on a Compaq laptop. With AmigaOS 4.0
coming out in March with lots of new features (antialias fonts, better
memory protection etc) is AmigaXL the one true future of Amiga, a future
that AmigaDE, QNX and Gateway failed to materialize through their
involvement with AmigaOS?
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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04.Feb.2002
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Andreas R. Kleinert: References to pirate copies of my programms wanted
Today, I read the article about
shareware and pirate copies on amiga-news.de. Very interesting. Well, it is that
from time to time people send me illegal keyfiles and/or key generators for my
programs - sometimes refering to the source where to find those.
This often enables me to deactivate the respective keys, which respond to a certain
pattern. So there are faithful users too - who nevertheless stumble upon such things
from time to time - and help program authors to embank pirate copying.
I would like to offer the following to those users:
Who will send me keyfiles for my programs (or the respective generators),
up to now not recognized as "pirate keys" by those, will receive an
original keyfile at a time. In especially fiddly cases I will charge even more.
For multi-transmittal applies: "The first to send in, will win".
Naturally data will be kept in confidence and anonymous if desired (the real
name is only required for the keyfile).
P.S.: Dubious software gets tested under UAE,
insofar transfecting virsues is useless.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Feb.2002
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MMKeyboard Version 1.20
There is a new version of MMKeyboard available now. Besides many changes and improvements the archive now contains some Win95 keymaps compatible with the Euro.
Older hardware is, of course, still compatible,
Download: MMKeyboard.lha
A more detailed description of the funcionality of MMKeyboard can be found in the readme file included in the archive.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Feb.2002
GameDev.net
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Shareware: Bitwise Operator: The Plain Truth About Piracy
In the above mentioned English article by "Ambrosia Software", a company
that develops software for Apple computers, the company's experience
with shareware and privacy is described.
The change from a fully functional shareware to a more crippled version
didn't cause people to register 5 times more often as mentioned in
the article
"Why Do People
Register, Does Crippling Work, Does Anybody Really Know?" by Colin Messitt
but it triggered off an increase in sales figures.
A change of the registration procedure in the middle of last year showed
that more than 50% of the people who had installed the update for
the software "Snapz Pro X" were using a pirate code to activate the
software.
The article is available via the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Robert Reiswigh (G-Rex ML)
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G-Rex: SoloOne Mixer V1.2
On 3 February 2002 version 1.2 of the 'SoloOne' mixer was released on
vgr.com. It supports
sound cards with the SoloOne chip (e.g. Terratec 128iPCI).
The ESS Solo1 mixer will now run under CGX V3 & V4 and
contains a few other minor updates.
Download: SoloOneMixer1_2.lzh (12K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
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Amithlon: Update 3-Patches (Update)
The text of this message was deleted. The Amithlon developers did not grant permit to release beta test drivers on the relevant website.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: PygmIconsGL Icons (Update)
On 2 February 2002 the gamesicon collection "PygmIconsGL Icons" was published
by Frank on the gamesicon.info website.
It contains more than 250 icons for all games for the Workbench V3.5.
Download: PygmIconsGL_G1.LHA
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Amiga and AmigaDE - game of the year election 2001
Amiga Flame has published the results of the game of the year election 2001
for Amiga and AmigaDE.
The first place for
Amiga goes to
Payback (Apex Designs), Shogo and Freespace: The Great War
(both portings from Hyperion Entertainment).
The first place for
AmigaDE goes
to Planet Zed (Zeoneo), Blobula (Pagan Games) und Boxikon (Zeoneo).
All further rankings and additional information about the games
are available via the links.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
AROS
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AROS: Downloads, JanoEditor, PCI.hidd, DOS
After the publication of AROS snapshots on SourceForge 475 downloads
measuring 4GB were registered.
Daniel Holmen published a Norwegian translation for JanoEditor.
Michael Schulz has added a new PCI.hidd. It scans the PCI bus and
enables the enquiry of application information via PCI tools.
Besides he has started to write something which he calls "nvidia.hidd".
Whatever this may be ;-). There isn't a lot of code available but it should
run on all boards such as Riva 128, GeForce2 and Quadro.
Georg Steger has removed a few problems in the DOS and Startup code which
shouldn't try to examine the command line if the program was started
from the workbench.library. He has also improved JanoEdit (catalogues
are now created. Some small bugfixes for AROS).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
ANN
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AmigaDE: mailing list for Technomages
Technomages develops games for
AmigaDE and has now installed a mailing list for their own news.
This list can be ordered by sending a blank e-mail to
announcements-subscribe@de.technomages.net
So far Technomages has released 5 memory games for AmigaDE
(Memory, Get To Work, Art Avenue Puzzles 1 und 2, Tikino).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Alt.WoA 2002: car sharing
On 23 February 2002 the Alt.WoA 2002 takes place in Huddersfield, England.
A notice board has been
added to the website of the fair in
order to organise car sharing.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: new and updated MasonIcons
Martin 'Mason' Merz has published in the
project category
of his homepage some new and updated 'MasonIcons'.
- AmiMCDMI - Reworked toolbar for AmiMDC
- AminetIdxMI - New toolbar set for AminetIdx
- AudioMI - Extended toolbar for AudioMaster
- AWebMI - Reworked navigation board for Aweb
- CharonMI - Redesigned toolbar for Charon
- GiambyMI - New toolbar for GiambyNetGrabber
- IBrowseMI - A navigation board for IBrowse with additional images by Kristóph Gruber
- MiamiPhoneMI - Glow icons toolbar set for MiamiPhone
- SimplePostMI - Reworked toolbar for SimplePost
- VideoMI - New toolbar for MUI Video
- VoyagerMI - Extended navigation board set for Voyager
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Virus Help Denmark (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.8
On 3 February 2002 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.8 of
the virus detector 'Safe' developed by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski.
'Safe' recognises any viruses that are in the memory of the
computer and, if possible, removes them. Compared with the previous
version, the following features have changed:
- some at least imaginary MGA hits removed,
report if this new Safe causes any MF/MGA hits
Name: Safe v17.8
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 18 855
Date : 3 February 2002
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library
Download: Safe.lha (18K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
AudioLabs (ANF)
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AudioLabs: AHI driver for Sunrize AD516
Chris Brenner has released an AHI-driver for the Sunrize
audio board "AD516" (Zorro II), available on Aminet.
The Sunrize's AD516 has been one of the most interesting ZII audio boards. Unfortunately, until now, there haven't been any drivers of any kind for this card, leaving owners in need for realtime software with the only option to use Studio16, the application developed for this hardware by Sunrize and bundled with the product.
Lack of detailed documentation, and the fact that Sunrize left the market, prevented people from taking advantage of more modern non-linear editing software, developed years after Studio16. Until now.
Chris Brenner has just released his new excellent AHI driver, available on Aminet, that now allows AHI-compatible applications to access the AD516 A/D D/A converters (for SMPTE support, Studio16 is still the right tool). Several applications have already been tested and work fine.
Early reports about ProStationAudio and this new development say that the driver exhibits low-latency, extremely important to allow using mixing automation and the 30+ realtime DSP effects for ProStationAudio. More information soon, as soon as they arrive.
To download the driver, search for "AD516" on Aminet. Information about the developer is in the driver archive, don't forget to send him feedback.
In the Dev-archive the hardware of the board is described. This description
is incomplete but good enough to program drivers.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Suite101.com (ANF)
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John Chandler: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
On 31 January 2002 John Chandler published on suite101 a new English column
about the Amiga in which he talks about AmigaOS 4.0.
"One thing that anyone still using an Amiga has gained over the years is a sense of patience. No matter how tough things get, no matter how much the situation ups and downs, most Amiga users will remain fairly patient in the face of frustrations that would have owners of other platforms cursing and wailing. Yes we do get moments of despair, yes sometimes it does look bleak and you can be forgiven for losing the optimism and thick-skins built up in the post-Commodore years... but then things come along and suddenly everything looks bright again."
.....
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03.Feb.2002
Vim (ANF)
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Editor: Vim-6.0.160
VIM is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems.
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor: unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more.
VIM runs on many operating systems:
AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS,
MachTen, OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000)
In edition 1 vol. 1
of the Free Software Magazine there is an article which mentions
amongst other things how VIM came into being.
VIM was developed by Bram Moolenaar first for Amiga and was released
for the first time on Fish #591 (November 1991).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Feb.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Microsoft defends themselves against petition bundestux.de
»In the discussion about the introduction of Linux in the German
Bundestag Microsoft's speaking from official side. Kurt Sibold, chairman of the
Microsoft GmbH management and Vice President EMEA, turns in an open letter to
the politicians, that are counting to the first signers of the online petition
(to be found under bundestux.de).«
Full (German) article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena - You never leave completely :)
Amiga Arena - Update
I'd like to thank very much all those who gave me so much positive feedback
with their mails and comments! The Amiga Arena will stay online and the support
for the game "PuzzelBOBS" is also guaranteed. In irregular intervals will
smaller updates of the Amiga Arena be possible and still incoming interviews etc.
will of course be released. A "time out" for an undefined period of time will
come as announced, though.
Thank you very much for your understanding.
Yours Olaf Köbnik
Amiga Arena - Interview campaign
It is thanks to Nicolas Ramz with his "ScummVM" Amiga68k port that it is
possible to play old games by LucasArts like for example "Day of the Tentacle"
on the Amiga. The Amiga Arena talked to Nicolas Ramz about his work on "ScummVM"
and how he's seeing the future of Amiga.
Special thanks go to Christian Busse for his tireless translations for the Amiga Arena!
Interview in German
Interview in English
Shareware news
After a long time could the Amiga Arena find the developer of the shareware
software "ScanTek" and has the following information:
The new version 4.6 is from now on available for download on the homepage under
http://www.zoehner.de/scantek.html.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
Torsten Dudai (email)
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New cartoon: "IBM and Linux", cartoon gallery added
Since June we have to get by without the wonderful and accurate cartoons
by Torsten Dudai, as he's suffering from a lack of time aswell as a lack
of motivation for further cartoons.
The more we're pleased that Torsten found two nice pieces while searching
through old backups that he wants to share with us. First there's a
PDF version of the old Amiga park cartoon, perfectly suited for printing as
a poster (to be found under the title link), and then there's a previously
unreleased cartoon about IBM and Linux done about six months ago.
Additionally, we created a gallery that contains all of Torsten Dudai's
released cartoons, and we're inviting you to take a nostalgic trip browsing it.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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CD-ReWriter Plextor: 40x burner for the ATAPI interface (E-IDE)
The company Plextor now offers a 40x burner for the ATAPI interface (E-IDE). The
PLEXWRITER 40/12/40A allows the burning of CD-R with the CLV process and the zone
CLV process with max. 40x (6000 KB/s) as well as the rewriting of CD-R/W with
max. 12x (1800 KB/s). CDs are read with the CAV process with 17x-40x (2600-6000
KB/s) speed.
The burner has a buffer of 4 MB and is equipped with the proven BURN-Proof
technology that almost completely excludes a burning of defective CDs.
For the time being there are no information about the price.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
Bernhard Wörner (ANF)
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Audio: Amplify
Amplify is in the version 1.3 online.
Compared to the version 1.2 nothing important has been changed. Just the code has been
revised a little bit and Bernhard Wörner has fixed one or another small bug in
the requesters.
In the next version (probably next Saturday) will then the MP3 import be ready.
In the current 1.4 beta (unreleased) it works already quite well. This version
has just to be tested.
The homepage can from now on also be reached via www.amiga-amplify.de.vu.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Feb.2002
VaporWare
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Chatprogram: AmIRC 3.5.23beta
This beta version is available for registered users only, and fixes some
small issues. (ps)
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02.Feb.2002
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9440
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9439 of the AIM compatible
messenger software AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client to connect with the
America Online Instant Messenger (AIM service). Here's an excerpt taken
from the history where you can find the changes made:
- Added a special mode in the prefs under "Connect" for AmigaXL users
to use a timer based signal instead of the socket signal. (not
fully tested yet)
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
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