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06.Jan.2003
AmithlonTV


TV board software: AmithlonTV beta version 209
Guido Mersmann published beta version 209 of the TV board driver AmithlonTV.

New in this version:
  • Bugfix: Fixed a small bug, that may caused a damaged memory list in very rare cases.
  • Bugfix: TVCardDump is opening the requested card. This forces all drivers to be running and creates a full dump.
  • Feature: Reworked the old card scan core within the library. Now it's possible to set an "ignore" value insteed of a valid card ID.
  • Feature: Added new card files for Pinnacle_PCTV2 and LiveView FlyVideoII.


Download: AmithlonTV_Beta209.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
Lizard / ANN (ANF)


CManager now available under the GPL
Briefly announced: CManager from Alfonso [alfie] Ranieri is now available under GPL license at SourceForge.

Contact manager is a program, with which you can administer your addresses as well as user information. That can be Web addresses, ftp addresses, IRC channels or other addresses. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus


Interview with LhA developer Dr. Haruyasu Yoshizaki
The developer of the LhA compression technology, Dr. Haruyasu Yoshizaki, mentions in an interview a possible port of future versions of LhA for the Amiga OS. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
amiga.org


AB Glow Icons support side
A support site for the Glow Icons of Alessandro Bacchia is now available on the Italian website 'Ikir sector'. Currently the following pictogram collections are available for download:

AB Glow XMAS (81 Icons)
AB Glow Icons 2 (26 Icons)
AB Glow Icons 1b (32 Icons)
AB Glow Icons 1a (167 Icons)
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
The Register


The Register: Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner - full details
Andrew Orlowski deals in the English language article, which you can read under the title link, in detail with how the dispute between Microsoft and the telephone manufacturer Sendo started out, and who carries which responsibility for this argument.

In this connection we remind of the fact that Amiga Inc. announced in their Executive update of November 2002 a partnership with Sendo concerning their Smartphones Z100. The telephone should be delivered together with the SmartPhonePack by Amiga Inc. Few days later Sendo announced in a special report that the development program for Smartphones was given up, and as consequence the Z100 will not be delivered. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
MooBunny


Board: MooBunny in version 4.2 beta 32 on-line again
The English discussion board 'MooBunny' is now, after some changes of the underlying scripts, back on-line. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
Rudolph Riedel


File manager: DiskMaster version 2.5RC8
Yesterday Rudolph Riedel published the beta version 2.5RC8 of his file manager. The download is available at the title link.

Innovations in this version: 2.5RC8 (03-01-05) 72700 Bytes
  • Corrected default display-format to "N S C".
  • Bugfix: digits calculation for file-size display returned one digit to less on sizes of 10/10x/10xx/10xxx...
    Thanks for reporting to Jostein Klemmetsrud!
  • Added different modes for file-size display.
  • Added "separator=" & "sizes=" options to 'SetX'.


Download: DM2beta.zip (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2003
Paul Huxham (ANF)


Image cataloging: PhotoFolio 2.3 upgrade released
Steeple Software is proud to announce the release of PhotoFolio v2.3. After two free updates (2.1 and 2.2) that introduced many new features, PhotoFolio v2.3 is a paid upgrade that adds even more features:

New browse window functionality
  • Sorting ascending and descending in the browse window.
  • Select orphaned proofs (proofs that have no images associated with them).
  • Open with configurable context menu can send a proofs' image to any application.
  • On opening can automatically synchronize the browse window contents with an updated directory.


Better proof management
  • Delete orphaned proofs. Images that have been deleted that have already had proofs created can be deleted automatically.
  • Create proofs for new images. Creates proofs for new images that have been added to directories automatically (where proofs have been created for the directort before).
  • Send a list of proofs and details to a text file.


Improved drag and drop support
  • ARexx scripts can be dropped onto browse windows, the main window and the ARexx settings window.
  • Images can be dragged and dropped from the Workbench to add them to a browse window.


New program windows
  • Path palette window for storing paths that are used often.
  • Directory view module - now has toolbar with copy, move, rename, delete.


Show window
  • Can save the loaded size image or the original full size image.
  • Can perform image processing. Current operators include Flip X and Y, Rotate 90, -90 and 180, Sharpen and Gamma adjustment.


Main window
  • List of open browse and show windows in a menu for easy selection to bring to the front.


Tooltypes
  • Per project settings with the SETTINGS tooltype.


ARexx - Additional commands:
  • ADDIMAGE (Adds an image to a browse window)
  • DELETEORPHANEDPROOFS (Deletes proofs that have no image)
  • CREATENEWPROOFS (Creates proofs for new images)
  • SELECTORPHANEDPROOFS (Selects proofs that have no image)


There have also been many minor improvments and several bug fixes. See complete list complete here. With continuing support, PhotoFolio promises to be one of the most powerful image cataloguing systems available on the Amiga platform. PhotoFolio v2.3 is available now. Full purchase details are available here.

Steve Quartly and Paul Huxham
Steeple Software (ps)

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06.Jan.2003



Aminet: New uploads from 06-Jan-2003
As requested by our readers we publish here the list with the new Aminet uploads. Due to the fact, that we made our own recent list, in future you will see only the new daily uploads.

SN-AnlagenArc.lha    biz/dbase  100K+V1.0 Money units archive (Germany only)
SN-KontoArc.lha      biz/dbase   76K+V1.0  Accout archives (Germany only)
nc21.lha             biz/patch  1.1M+NetConnect v2 Service Pack 1
nc22.lha             biz/patch  1.7M+NetConnect v2 Service Pack 2
GoPortscan.lha       comm/net   376K+V1.0 TCP/UDP Portscanner + more with MUI
LinksysTIADCC.lha    comm/tcp     2K+Set ENV:TIADCC from LinkSys router BEFSR
Yam2Thor.lha         comm/thor    3K+Addressbook (YAM) -> User List (Thor)
NetNifty-WS02A.lha   comm/www     8K+Early preview of NetNifty Web Server - u
wpz-frozen50.lha     demo/aga   1.4M+Frozen#5o - Christmas Edition [2oo2]
wpz-frozen51.lha     demo/aga   874K+Frozen#51 - Christmas Edition [2oo2]
mhm-BeApe.lha        demo/intro  85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
mhm-BeApe_Rele.lha   demo/intro  85K+Beape 4k intro - CAFe02 winner with sour
ASM-One.lha          dev/asm    295K+68k & PPC Assembler Development Environm
clockita.lha         dev/basic   85K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
MBPrefs.lha          dev/basic   24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas
RenderDevBas.lha     dev/basic   12K+Using Render library from HBasic
Mods-JMH.lha         dev/e       11K+Some useful E Modules
mkisofs-2.0bin.lha   dev/gg     326K+Mkisoft v2.0 - CD image builder for Amig
php-4.2.3-bin.lha    dev/gg     618K+PHP 4.2.3 - AmigaOS 68k binary
rinetd-0.61.lha      dev/gg      83K+Rinetd v0.61 - TCP port redirector daemo
sox-12.17.3bin.lha   dev/gg     317K+SOX v12.17.3 sound converter for AmigaOS
sox-12.17.3src.lha   dev/gg     525K+SOX v12.17.3 sound converter for AmigaOS
Flexy.lha            dev/misc   102K+FLEXY 1.3  A very user-friendly GUI for 
MySqld-v3-upd.lha    dev/misc   621K+MySQL v3.23.51 update (68040 exe only)
MySqld-v3.lha        dev/misc   2.5M+MySQL v3.23.48 database (complete)
MySqld-v4.lha        dev/misc   4.9M+MySQL v4.0.4 database (complete)
MCC_BWin.lha         dev/mui     62K+MUI public borderless window class
MCC_SpeedBar.lha     dev/mui    205K+Highly configurable toolbar class
MCC_Urltext.lha      dev/mui     32K+MUI public custom url class
GL_BMP_Load.lha      dev/src    226K+OpenGL BMP texture loader routines
TimedSerial.lha      dev/src     25K+Serial I/O functions that time-out. Sour
BackupRexx.lha       disk/bakup  24K+Backup.rexx uses MirrorCopy to backup ha
EasyACDDA.lha        disk/cdrom 409K+Play&Save CD tracks with Gui - EasyACDDA
fdisk.lha            disk/misc  126K+PC partition table editor for Amiga
LutherBibel.lha      docs/etext 1.4M+The bible (German) by Martin Luther
Monedas.lha          docs/hyper  10K+Numismatica guide of spanish history coi
Poczet.lha           docs/hyper 161K+Guide ***POLISH ONLY*** about polish mon
SpanienSS.lha        docs/hyper  97K+SpanienSS guide of few history some span
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 1.4M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 12/2002 (Itali
AIOV66.lha           docs/mags  405K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 66 (Dece
nocover106.lha       docs/mags  1.5M+Great german diskmagazine
vchess_dt.lha        game/board  12K+V1.3, German catalog for VChess 4.1
2Decide_Demo.lha     game/demo  232K+A highly customizable 2D strategy game.
Filepoke.lha         game/patch  48K+Filepoke V3.1 cheat your games
Gomoko-Ninuki.lha    game/think  21K+Reflexion game
MenoBoxXmas.lha      game/wb    629K+3D-platformer in OpenGL-window V1.0 (68k
W3DInformer.lha      gfx/board   10K+Show supported efects in W3D driver(s)
Gif2anim.lha         gfx/conv   151K+Converts & scales GIF animations to amig
ImageConvert.lha     gfx/conv    29K+ImageConvert 1.10, batch converting with
swfplayer.lha        gfx/show   306K+Standalone player for Amiga (v1.2d2) 68k
3c589.lha            hard/drivr  53K+Driver for 3Com PCMCIA network cards
newkernel.lha        hard/drivr 1.0M+GNU/GPL updated kernel for AMIthlon
WinSP.lha            hard/drivr   4K+New driver for Window's spanish keyboard
TestGear-Extra.lha   hard/hack  140K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TestGear-Notes.lha   hard/hack  749K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
amitrs80.lha         misc/emu   312K+TANDY TRS-80 Model 1 Emulator V1.0
Wintec.lha           misc/emu     3K+Wintec keyboard config for UAE
imdbDiff021220.lha   misc/imdb   15M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff021227.lha   misc/imdb  827K+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmiBiorythme.lha     misc/misc   63K+MUI Biorythm tool. French only. v1.1
amoon.lha            misc/sci    99K+Map of the Moon
Darius+.lha          mods/misc  114K+Custom module from "Darius +"
Foundation1.mpg      mods/mpg    10M+First part of a three part suite
Foundation2.mpg      mods/mpg   5.0M+Second part of a three part suite
Foundation3.mpg      mods/mpg    11M+Third part of a three part suite
Oriental_sun.mpg     mods/mpg   6.3M+Oriental song by Pero-Fotar 
Prelude3.mpg         mods/mpg   1.6M+Prelude3. MPEG of old tape of me on keys
rno-r082.mpg         mods/mpg   6.8M+Rno-records release #82 by Roz(Tekno)
TheSpell.mpg         mods/mpg   3.3M+The Spell MPEG of old tape of me on keys
AmySequencer.lha     mus/edit   224K+MIDI sequencer for the AMIGA
abcm2ps.lha          mus/misc   294K+Convert music tunes from ABC format to P
EP_StevBarrett.lha   mus/play     8K+EaglePlayer "Steve Barrett" external rep
EP_WallyBeben.lha    mus/play     7K+EaglePlayer "Wally Beben" external repla
mhm-mAYhem.lha       mus/play   148K+MAYhem pak II for DT2 (AY/YM chip emulat
mhm-mAYhem_del.lha   mus/play   148K+MAYhem pak II for DT2 (AY/YM chip emulat
PlasmaPlugin.lha     mus/play    24K+Plasma-Spectrum Plugin for AmigaAMP Powe
AllBlue.png          pix/back   399K+An nice WB background [by cYbo]
nICkONs.win98.lha    pix/gicon  110K+Glowicon`s from Win98 4 your AmigaOS
anl-strip_7.lha      pix/misc    58K+[ancor] a normal life
explosion.lha        pix/misc   368K+[ancor] a picture with an explotion done
nwo-strip_10.lha     pix/misc    45K+[ancor] now way out
sgf-strip_1.lha      pix/misc    53K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
sgf-strip_2.lha      pix/misc    47K+[ancor] StarGround flashback
vd-ami2k1_eng.mpg    pix/mpg     11M+<VD> show report "Amiga 2001", medium, E
AmiReplace.lha       text/edit   60K+MUI text replace tool. French but easy. 
JanoEditor.lha       text/edit  290K+Simple and efficient text editor v1.01d
MyNotes.lha          text/edit   31K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
BibVision.lha        text/show   97K+Bible text viewer for 68k/WarpOS. V1.4
CheckX.lha           util/arc    39K+V1.92 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
P96EmulUpd.lha       util/boot    5K+Hacks version information in the CGX (V3
DepthMenu.lha        util/cdity  54K+Popup menu for depth gadgets. V2.41.
dir2html_trans.lha   util/dir    16K+Translations for Dir2HTML
ExtraLib.lha         util/libs  241K+Dynamic buffers, filesystem CRCs, colorf
pccard.lha           util/libs   51K+Library to parse PC Card information
EasyInterest.lha     util/misc   25K+Compound interest calculator
VClock_v1.7b.lha     util/time  331K+Real Speech Clock - Bug Fix
VirusZ.lha           util/virus  85K+VirusZ III 0.9d - Antivirus Software
RandomWBPatt.lha     util/wb     29K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB
ScalosPlugAP96.lha   util/wb     12K+Avail Picasso96 plugin for Scalos
VolumeMeter.lha      util/wb     34K+Transparent graphical hard drive usage m
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05.Jan.2003
TGD (ANF)


REBOL/View on Amiga - new Reblets available
As from now some new Reblets/programs are available in the download area under the title link, which have all been developed on the Amiga (68k) under REBOL/View.

Apart form the tool "Web-GetIt!" for downloading complete HTML conforming Web pages, four interesting gamelets (Kniffel-It!, Move-It!, Cascade-It! and Break-It!) are waiting for you to try them out. The size of each Reblet is less than 30 kBytes!

Minimum requirements for these programs are an Amiga with 68030/50 MHz processor as well as the corresponding REBOL/View environment. Of course the programs can also be used on every other platform under REBOL/View or REBOL/IOS. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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05.Jan.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)


Amiga Inc.: T-Shirt statement
Amiga Inc.'s Web site features a statement on the T-Shirt situation in conjunction with the Coupon campaign.

This is the statement:
(4-Jan-2003) Amiga Inc. would like to apologise unreservedly for the delay in getting the T-shirts out. We have received all the orders from the dealers and no blame should be attached to the dealers for the delay. There are several reasons for the delay and we are working on trying to get these remedied as quickly as possible. We hope to have everything sorted out in the next few weeks. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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05.Jan.2003
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)


Amiga .mod remix scene
It seems that many people long to see more remixes of classic Amiga .mod music. In an attempt to create an Amiga .mod remix scene as have been achieved in the C64 scene by sites like remix.kwed.org, c64audio.com and remix64.com, I have created a new Amiga remix specific mailing list at Yahoo Groups.

Let's hope for a growing Amiga remix scene in 2003. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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04.Jan.2003
Petra Struck


Innovation at amiga-news.de
With the beginning of this month is Sven Drieling not anymore at our services for news and commentation as after 3½ years full of work for amiga-news.de he now wants to attend to his own projects again. For possible problems with the scripts Sven remains, though :). Very special thanks to Sven for the work he had done.

Up to now Sven had done the Sunday news and had helped in managing the forum and the comments. Besides that he lent a helping hand in cases when I had no time. We have internally discussed several possibilities how to fill this gap respectively how to solve the problem as I really can't and don't like to give up my free Sunday.

On Sundays and public holidays only ANF news
So to take the load off all (the translators, too) a little bit we came to the conclusion that from now on there will be no news investigation and no entering of news from our side on Sundays and public holidays but only releasing news that were entered into the ANF. That means that also news that are sent to us via email will not be released until the next working day.

Help of any kind wanted
On this occasion we'd like to remember our readers that amiga-news.de is a news site from users for users meaning we have to rely on help. Your help could be for example that you enter news that are coming across your way while surfing into the ANF or you enter a good web site you encounter into the ALD. A good help would also be the arranging of payed advertisement banners as these are the basis of the financing of amiga-news.de.

Another possibility to work actively on amiga-news.de is the creation of articles of all kind, for example workshops, experience reports, previews, reviews, exhibition reports and everything else that could interest our readers. The help in translating is also everytime very welcome.

Further suggestions?
We are very interested to hear your suggestions how we could improve amiga-news.de and are eagerly awaiting your hints and proposals. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Martin Kuchinka


Programming language: PowerD v0.20 alpha 4
Martin Kuchinka has today released the version 0.20 alpha 4 of the programming language 'PowerD'.

Download: alpha.lzx

What's new with this last alpha release? Well, again several bugfixed, but there is also one new executable called 'dc_68k', which is the same as 'dc' except that this executable generates the 68k only code, so it's only for ppl with older non ppc Amigas. Else it's completely the same as the 'dc' compiler.
Uploaded the TextInput.mcc modules by Miklos Nemeth. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


Music scene: AMP updated!
The two Amiga demo scene musicians Curt Cool and Crown have collected a very comprehensive data base for all in all 9424 musicians. Here you can download their music pieces directly, read uncounted interviews, etc. etc. All people interested in music created on the Amiga should risk a look at AMP (Amiga Music Preservation). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


Scene: disc mag Jurassic Pack now with own domain!
One of the last active Amiga demo scene disc mags 'Jurassic Pack' has now an own domain. Right now is issue #12 in preparation. People who'd like to participate with an English article, a music piece or a title screen should contact the main editors as soon as possible for further details. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


Music group Moods welcomes the new year with four titles
The music group Moods welcomes the new year with four songs, all downloadable from the group's website. Furthermore a new MoodTant called Raztaman had recently been contracted who'll introduce in the future his works under this label. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)


The Ascii scene is not dead!
The Amiga Ascii scene lives and lives and... ! The two scener Dipswitch and Potzkoten from Cologne have released shortly after the turn of the year the colly named Klockwerk. Shortly before that Marc Zito Oberst showed his activity with En-Sof.

Further information about this topic can be obtained from ThugLife. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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04.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)


IOSPIRIT guest of Genesi at CES 2003
IOSPIRIT will attend the CES 2003 as guest of Genesi in Las Vegas (Booth #29101 in the Home Networking, IT & Wireless Pavillion). Among others, fxPAINT 2.0, fxSCAN 4.0 and VHI Studio 6.0 will be shown. Felix Schwarz will be available for questions.

At this point we also would like to thank Genesi for this great opportunity and their continued commitment.

Due to our participation at CES 2003, dispatching of postal orders is only possible after the 15th of January again. Orders for download version via credit card are not affected by this, though. Also, our availability via phone and email is very limited until 15th of January - thanks for your patience. (ps)

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03.Jan.2003
Blackbirds Nest


Retrogame: Missile Command
Today the website of Blackbird celebrates its third birthday. Because of that Blackbird makes the readers a present with the retrogame 'Missile Command'.

Compared with the original version (made by Michael Rosskopf) Blackbird has added three different levels of difficulty, a title screen, a screenmode requester and many minor improvements. For instance it is now always possible to quit the game by pushing the ESC-key.

The game runs starting from a 30er processor with 2-4 MB FastRAM and graphic card. Besides this it is UAE-compatible. Under UAE you simply have to choose UAEGFX 640x480x8bit.

Download: MC.lzx (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Creative Development


USB-card: First snapshots of UltraBUS
For the first time Creative Development shows a few simple snapshots of the first prototype of its USB-card which many people have already seen at ARC 2002.

You can have a look at the card here. At the second picture you can have a more detailed look at the card - you can also recognize the FlashROM as well as both extension ports.

The final layout will be clearer and possibly more compact but already right now the card makes a good impression. Creative Development is very buzy while finishing the development of the card and hopes to report further news soon. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
AND Software


Context menu: ContextSAS version 1.63
The program ContextSAS written by Andre Dörffler makes it possible to create and use context sensitive menus for AmigaOS 3.5+. The DefIcons-system is supported. With the help of a few additional tools it is possible to iconify Workbench screens and to create connections.

Today version 1.63 has been published. Some new features have been added in this version. It is now possible to show the name (=title) of the context. A new internal command has been also added. With its help it is possible to filter the content of WB-listers. Of course some bugs have been also fixed.

Download: ContextInstall163.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Richard Small (phone)


The end of an era - last Aminet CD published
Because most Amiga users have direct access to the Internet now, the bimonthly Aminet CD has become somewhat redundant. As a consequence, the Aminet team has decided to stop distributing CDs. Aminet as a whole is of course not in danger of being shut down, the service offered by the web and FTP servers will remain the same.

The latest (and final) Aminet CD, no. 52 (December 2002), includes the full version of Andreas Kleinert's Superview Productivity Suite II as the highlight. SuperView II reads, writes and/or converts more than 50 graphic formats and also integrates external programs like Xpk, Ghostscipt or MetaView. In addition to converting or displaying graphics (on more than 20 supported graphic cards (via CyberGraphX, Picasso96 or special driver systems)), the program offers more than 30 different effects for picture manipulation. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Idruna Software


IconDesigner for Photogenics wanted
Paul Nolan is looking for a talented icon designer who can design the toolbar of Photogenics completely new. People who are interested in this can mail to info@idruna.com and should send some samples of former projects. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Dietmar Knoll


GAUHPIL: Many sections updated (02.01.2003)
GAUHPIL (Geographic Amiga User Home Page Internet List) is a list of websites of Amiga users which has been created by Dietmar Knoll which has been sorted considering continents and countries. Yesterday the following sections have been updated:

Additionally several history sites have been updated. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
Maxworld


Book of budget: HomeBank version 2.1 (beta 2)
With the Shareware program called HomeBank you can manage your finances and e.g. calculate the costs of your car. There is the possibility of displaying the cost in graphical statistics. The new version 2.1 (beta2) fixes minor bugs.

Download: HomeBank21beta2.lha - 303 KB (ps) (Translation: dr)

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03.Jan.2003
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.01.2003)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly only meant for playing from disk on your hard drive. The following packets have been updated or completely new added:

  • 03.01.03 new: Cracker Journal 1 (Alpha Flight) done by Wepl
  • 03.01.03 improved: XP8 (Weathermine Software) misc changes
  • 03.01.03 improved: Slam Tilt (Liquid Dezign/21st Century) support for NTSC added, memory requirement reduced
  • 03.01.03 improved: Bubba'n'Stix (Core Design) supports CD³² version
  • 03.01.03 new: Ashes Of Empire (Midnight) done by JOTD
  • 02.01.03 fixed: Knight Force (Titus) better save game support
  • 02.01.03 new: Gravity (Image Works) done by CFOU!
  • 02.01.03 new: Dimo's Quest (Infernal Bytes/Boeder Software) done by CFOU!
  • 02.01.03 new: Cardiaxx (Electronic Zoo/Team 17) done by CFOU!
(ps)

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03.Jan.2003
ANN


Wired: Vaporware 2002: Tech up in Smoke?
Amiga Inc. is placed nineth of the top 10 (or better spoken bottom 10) of the Vaporlist which is selected by the readers of Wired. Vaporware are here products which have been braggingly announced but until today have been not deliverd.

It follows an extract of the full list of the winners of the Vaporware award:
  1. Duke Nukem Forever
  2. Mac and Linux clients for Neverwinter Nights
  3. Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms
  4. Oqo's Ultra-Personal Computer
  5. Infogrames' Master of Orion 3
  6. NVidia's GeForce FX graphics card
  7. QuarkXPress for Macintosh OS X
  8. Ubi Soft's Shadowbane
  9. The new Amiga
  10. Silicon Film's Electronic Film System
You can find the full Wired article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


Event: Benelux Amiga & Pegasos Show 2003
As Ron van Herk of Computer City announced on MorphOS-News.de, a Benelux-Amiga-Show combined with a Benelux-Pegasos-Show is planned for April 2003 in Rotterdam, Holland.

You'll find out more from cindy@beneluxpegasosshow.com. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
John Chandler (Suite101)


John Chandler on Suite101: Expecting
John Chandler regularly writes Amiga-themed articles for Suite101.com. In his latest (which may be reached by clicking on the title link) he refers to what we may expect from Amiga Inc. in 2003, or not. Chandler doesn't forgo mentioning that 2002 didn't go as expected, and he can hardly conceal his disappointment that he and many others still can't use an AmigaOne with OS4. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Eric Schwartz


Sabrina Online: Holiday Greetings
Eric Schwartz had Sabrina send you holiday greetings on your Amiga. :) (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Amiga Future


Magazine: NoCover #106
Under the title link you may reach the online version of the current issue (#106) of the magazine 'NoCover.' Between convention reports and diverse articles (for example articles on ArTKanoid, YiYa.de, personal responsibility and heavy metal lyrics) Wolf Zimmer has put together a colorful mixture of themes for this edition. Included are reader letters, as well as Small Talk and naturally the obligatory help-line. The Amiga Arena interviews with Andreas Falkenhahn and Thomas Schulze additionally may be read through.

Download: nocover106.lha - 1,6 MB (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Thylacine Updates


USB: New Drivers for USB Card Thylacine from 31st December, 2002
The following new drivers for the USB card Thylacine are set for download: (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Webseite von Stiftung Warentest


Foundation Stock Review: What's Changed Since 1st January, 2003 (w. Update)
In a thorough article Foundation Stock Review summarizes what has changed since the 1st of January this year. Starting with altered highway signs, progressing to the changeover from 0190 to 0900 telephone area codes, and including all the important and interesting changes.

Update of 2nd January, 2003:
In the same vein as the new 0900 phone service numbers is the following interesting Golem article: Telecommunications: New Charges for 2003.

Here is an excerpt: 0900 numbers change to the prefix of 0190 after January, 2003. After the regulatory officials partially approved the new telecommunications charges, they come into effect on the 1st of February, 2003. Along with that come reductions in urban and German charges, and increases in the monthly base fee for analog T-Net connections. Immediately after January the phone service will raise the setup charge for T-DSL. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Webseite von Jocke Sjöblom


GUI: Overview of MUI Classes Updated by Jocke Sjöblom
Jocke 'Zerohero' Sjöblom, as earlier reported, established a website on 26th December 2002, which provides readers an overview of MUI classes along with download links and directions to homepages. In the time since then the website has been updated with the very latest information. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: Interview: How the Penguin Came Across the Xbox
Michael Steil and Milosch Meriac from the Xbox Linux Project interviewed:

The XBox Linux Project is the successful attempt to run the open-source operating system on Microsoft's cheap game console. Golem.de spoke with both German maintainers of this enterprise, Michael Steil and Milosch Meriac, in detail about the success up until now, the posted "bounty" of 200,000 Euros, the hacker work among the team, and what still must happen in order to fully realize the Xbox as PC equipment.

Click on the title link for the Golem-Article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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02.Jan.2003
Webseite von Chris Perver


Text Viewer: EvenMore Version 0.61
Chris Perver has updated his website, and published version 0.61 of the text viewer 'EvenMore.' New to this version is the capability to function as a plugin, by which the program is usable with different GUIs.

Along with that comes the necessity to completely reconfigure your settings for this version. Detailed information about all this may be found in the History. Newly added are also Portuguese and Polish speech catalogs.

Download: EvenMore.lha - 800 KB (ps) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2003
Emerald Imaging


Emerald Imaging announces new RPG game called eVe
Emerald Imaging, known from the adventure game "Aqua", works on a new RP game called "eVe". The game will have hand drawn scenes and selected music should increase the fun factor. Here is the original announcement:

Announcing the next game from Emerald Imaging!
eVe is the next project that we will be working towards. It's a unique "console style" action RPG with hand drawn artwork beautiful music and addictive gameplay. Work has just began on this project and the game is still in Alpha state but I am putting it on the site so that I can keep people updated on the development status. More information will follow... (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
ASM-One


Assembler: ASM-One version 1.48 revision 482
Today Boushh has released version 1.48 revision 482 of the freeware assembler package 'ASM-One'. This version runs on Amigas with the original chipset as well as on Amigas with gfx cards (RTG). Added features are:

  • FPU EQUates can now be used (EQUS/EQUD/EQUX and EQUP)
  • WL bug fixed
  • Fixed serious bugs with PPC registers
  • More read and write directories
  • Cleaned out the 'V' directive
  • Updated the Guide


ASM-One is an assembler, a disassembler, an editor, a debugger and a monitor (Hexadezimal/ASCII/Binary/Disassembly) as well.

Download: asmonev148.lha - 302 KB (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #021231
Following the title link you may find the complete newsletter by Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for December 2002. In his English newsletter Brad Webb briefs monthly all news regarding the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Sascha Brandt (Ancor)
Happy New Year!
Olaf Köbnik of Amiga Arena wishes healthy and successful year 2003 for all! The "flame" will burn in 2003 also and the (Amiga-Arena) year starts with a little surprise.

Interview with Sascha Brandt (Ancor)
Remembering the demos and announcements of adventure games like "Shadow on Time", "Gilbert Goodmate", "Middle City" or "The last Seal"? None of these games has been available in a final version yet (and will mostly never) except the last one!

The sci-fi adventure "The last Seal" by Ancor is still under development and early this year there will be a new demo version released. Since 1997 Ancor are developing "The last Seal", after a first playable demo was published it became quiet around this group. Read within that interview why this has been so and what the current development stage is. (ps) (Translation: ub)

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01.Jan.2003
Joseph Duchâtelet (ANF)


CdBuilder: A new productivity program launcher for the Amiga
Joseph Duchâtelet writes:
CommandBuilder version 1.03 (CdBuilder.lha) has been uploaded to Aminet util/wb. Programmed in Gui4Cli this program allows you to compose CLI, ARexx, Gui4Cli and WorkBench commandlines very easily, using mostly just button & mouseclicks.

New commandlines can be saved directly to CommandSelection files. CommandSelection files organised according to your specific needs are a fast and effective way to make use of your computer. Find out what are some of its concepts:
  • selection files
  • expanding files
  • scripting
  • and more to come: ask me for my latest HD version
Download: CdBuilder.lha (ps)

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31.Dec.2002



amiga-news.de wish you a Happy New Year 2003!



© 2002 by Rolf Tingler
(ps)

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31.Dec.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


New Hollywood screen shots
As some people did not know that Hollywood is also able to import the popular Rainboot boot configuration file format, I have put up some screenshots in the Hollywood section which show Hollywood running Rainboot configurations. This gives you real Rainboot feeling on your Workbench. The screenshots show the boot configurations Alien Boot, AmigaOS 3.5 Boot, CloudBoot, PCommBoot, Pixel Art Boot & Windows Simulator Boot. Finally, I wish all Amiga users and all my friends a Happy New Year! (ps)

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31.Dec.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)


Tool: ViewISO 1.1
ViewISO is a TrueType font viewer using TTEngine. Now with ARexx port and commandline interface it can be used as TrueType viewer in filemanagers. Download it here.

ViewISO is a program designed for viewing ISO-8859 charsets using TrueType Unicode fonts. It can be useful to check if a TrueType font contains glyphs for given charset. On the other hand you can see how some exotic glyph looks like. ViewISO requires MUI and TTEngine installed.

Changes from version 1.0:
  • ARexx command 'LoadFont' (script for filemanagers included).
  • 'Load' button.
  • Accepts font name as a commandline parameter.
  • Serious memory leak fixed.
(ps)

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31.Dec.2002
Elbox (E-Mail)


New Year Greetings from Elbox
Elbox Computer would like to wish Amiga users and its supporters a Happy New Year. Year 2002 was a time of intense and effective work for Elbox. We enriched Amiga computers with eight new products: five new Mediator PCI busboard models (4000D, 3000D, 3/4000T, 1200SX and 4000Di), two comprehensive Mirage tower systems (for A4000D and A3000D computers) and a USB High-Speed controller (Spider USB 2.0).

In 2003 we are focusing on the SharkPPC G3/G4 product line, which will turn your PCI Amiga into a new powerful G3/G4 system. A New Year Gift from Elbox: With every Mediator busboard or Spider USB bundle purchased in the Elbox On-line Store between 31th December 2002 and 17th January 2003 you will receive a free Mediator T-shirt! (ps)

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