07.Dec.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses
"The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses"
"Stefan Robl, author of OS 3.9's AmiDock, has agreed to support the
OOP4A project by providing his class system 'WizardClasses' which is
extensively used in all of his programs. The class system also
contains - among many other classes - a GUI class system. We hope to
release a first package sometime in Q1, 2002 - this will enable programs
using OOP4A to use GUI in a truly object oriented way as well.
Martin Kuchinka, author of the PowerD programming language, agreed
too to support the OOP4A-Project within PowerD.
New features in this weekend's release of OOP4A are argument types and
method overloading. These are the last basic oop functions which had to
be implemented, so that the next releases will concentrate on building
new classes."
OOP4A stands for Object Oriented Programming for All and offers full oop
support to nearly any programming language used on the Amiga. Project
start was the around the 5.10.2001. German Pages see title link.
English Pages
Marius Schwarz
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07.Dec.2001
Elbox Computer / Wojtek Kozlowski
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Event: Amiga 2001 pictures by Elbox
At the title link you'll find images from the Amiga 2001 fair by Elbox Computer.
The images are subtitled in English.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Dec.2001
Ralf Steines
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Back2Roots.org: Friday, 7th december offline
On Friday, 7th December 2001, at about 11:00 GMT
Back to the Roots will temporarily go offline,
since we upgrade the server's harddisks, memory
and operating system.
If all performs well it should be back online in
less than one day, and should allow our future
updates and services to be even more massive :)
Sorry for the inconvenience.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Dec.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga board elects Frank Wilde as Chairman of the Board (update)
Update:
Carsten Schröder of Amiga Aktuell
explains in a special the following terms:
"First of all for clarification: in American companies the "chairman" is the head
of the "Board of Directors", some sort of administrative council which is elected
by the company shareholders and decides on the basic company politics as well
as announcing the "Executive Officers" who are responsible for daily business.
Thus the chairman has - at least formally - a higher influence as for example the
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a company."
Wilde brings 18 years of experience in the personal computer industry
to Amiga's Board of Directors
(December 6, 2001) The Board of Directors for Amiga Inc. have elected Frank Wilde as
its new Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Wilde will bring his many years of experience and leadership to Amiga to help
expand its business into new markets while releasing new products.
Mr. Wilde joins Amiga from Ravisent Technologies where he was President and Chief
Executive Officer. Frank was appointed Chief Executive Officer of RAVISENT Technologies
Inc. in April of 1998, a year after joining the company as Director and President.
Wilde brings over eighteen years of sales, marketing and business development experience
in the computer industry holding key industry positions at IBM, Dell Computer Corporation
and Memorex Telex Corporation. He has over 15 years P&L experience and is a veteran of
six startup companies and has led or been a team member of companies that have raised over
300 million in venture funding. He strongly believes in developing highly competitive and
fast growing organizations that enable individuals and teams to grow and develop their
professional capabilities in such a way that shareholder value is maximized. Wilde was
instrumental in the planning and execution of the company's transition from a hardware
company to a software Intellectual Property licensing company. Under his leadership,
RAVISENT was able to raise $18 million in private funding in June of 1998. Wilde also led
the company through the IPO process, taking the company public in July of 1999, raising
$61.4 million. RAVISENT's flagship product family, CinePlayer, offers consumers a
single look-and-feel PC solution for interactive playback of a wide variety of multimedia
formats - including CD Audio, MPEG audio, MPEG video, DVD, Dolby Digital audio, MP3 audio,
LPCM audio, digital television (DTV), analog (traditional) television, high definition
television (HDTV), and "time-shifted" television broadcasts (so-called digital
video recorder files or DVR).
“I had many choices on where I wanted to go next and where the best opportunity
for the future was. Bill McEwen and I had been speaking for many months on business
plans and other issues, and after meeting with the team, and viewing the technology and
their partners, there was no better choice for me than joining Amiga" said Frank
Wilde, Chairman of Amiga, Inc. "The Amiga has an amazing past and is well known at
Ravisent, but seeing what I have seen of the technology, they have even a brighter future,
and I am pleased to be here".
"Frank brings a level of expertise and knowledge that is second to none. His level
of excitement and dedication to Amiga, will be seen shortly as we continue to build and
release new products" said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc.
"I look forward to working with Frank, and the two of us working with the community
and our partners on building a very solid future".
Over the years, Wilde and RAVISENT received recognition from numerous business and
technology organizations. Most recently, RAVISENT was recognized as the #7 in the 2000
Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern
Pennsylvania. He was also recognized as a Technology Pioneer, an award that is developed
jointly by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to recognize the world's
fastest growing, most technologically innovative companies. In 1999, RAVISENT was named
the #1 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in
Eastern Pennsylvania. Also, RAVISENT was recognized as the #9 in the 1999 in the Deloitte
& Touche Fast 500 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the United States. In
April of 1999, RAVISENT was ranked #8 in the Electronic Business list of Top 20 Small
Electronics Companies. Frost & Sullivan granted RAVISENT the 1998 Marketing
Engineering Competitive Strategy Award because the company was able to create and
implement an effective competitive strategy.
Wilde received a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Seton Hall
University. He is a member of the American Management Association, American Electronics
Association, USA Reserves Officers Association, Special Forces Decade Association and the
Army Aviation Association of Aviators and Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He has also been
named to Who's Who in International Business and awarded the Republican National Committee
"Businessman of the Year" award for 1999.
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a
new multi-media operating system which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint
development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated.
AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS
R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on
Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and
applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com.
Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices
worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Dec.2001
Joachim Schmid (ANF)
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Freespace demo update 4 released
The fourth update to the demo version of the game Freespace
has been released for download on the Hyperion homepage.
It removes several smaller bugs (like the bug in the third statistics table)
as well as a new option to allow switching voicestreaming on and off.
Also included is a description how you have to connect an analog joystick.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena/Fun Time World: Puzzle BOBS Website online
After the game "Puzzle BOBS" was for the first time presented to the audience
on the "Amiga 2001" show, an own
website for the
game was created at Fun Time World.
Puzzle BOBS was successfully tested under "UAE" and "Amithlon". More and topical
information on the game you can find at
Nexus Development.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with the Scalos team und special price project
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
With the Workbench replacement "Scalos" a good alternative for the Amiga and
your very own desktop. The acitve and steady further development or support
makes "Scalos" getting more and more extensive and multifunctional. The Amiga Arena
talked to the entire team of "Scalos" about past, present, and future.
Amiga Arena - AmiATLAS 6 Update Special Price
From now on all registered AmiATLAS 5 users can take the special price for
AmiATLAS 6 (wihtout the term of the registered additional maps).
The programs "X-Trace", "MicroPaint", and "MicroBase" are available at the
respective special price thru 31. December 2001.
Amiga Arena - The fire still burns
After hardware problems and an internal rework of the hompage, now it should
not be a problem to display the "Amiga Arena" with the "Voyager" browser, any
more.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
A.S.Munde (ANF)
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DocDatatypes Version 40.30 Released
DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported
formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works,
AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word,
Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.
New for this version (40.30) is the support of reading and writing TEAL Docs
and RichReader Docs. MS-Word XP (2002) is also supported. Available to download
only from http://go.to/docdatatypes.
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06.Dec.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update
Just in time for Santa Clause day there is a tasty thing for all astronomy fans and DA III owners!
From today a new version 4.6 was released on Aminet to be installed by every DA III user. This update
fixes some more smaller bugs from the prior version and offers the possibility to move the star map
with the joystick as a new feature (little marginal gimmick).
This is to be the last update for Digital Almanac III for this year.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Innovative (ANF)
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Drawing- and imagemanipulation: fxPAINT Christmas-action from Innovative
Just in time for christmas time we now offer fxPAINT 1.0 for an
incredibly low price (see title link). We hope to allow many users a
look at the power of fxPAINT at a low price and want to shorten the
waiting time for those users that are waiting for Version 2.0 that is
currently under development and will again set new standards.
fxPAINT 1.0 is fully updatable to the current V1.5 and Version 2.0
at a low price. This special offer is valid until 31th December 2001
and only as long as enough fxPAINT 1.0 are in stock. You can place
your order directly via our online-shop.
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06.Dec.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Financial software: Bonds Version 1.84 available
Bonds is a financial software for bonds management of any kind, but mainly
focuses on shares. This software is specialized for the financial center
of Germany and best handles German bonds, since it uses the bond ident number
system of the German stock exchange.
The current version again fixes some of the bug, of which a lot still exist, and
some innovations have been implemented. The following items are enjoyable:
- Enhanced installation script, which now asks in advance if the exsample
charts shall be installed.
- The depot manager now got its final form, you can already buy and sale,
more actions are planned (share splits, etc.).
- Slightly enhanced design, more detailed program messages.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
AROS-ML
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AROS News: Success and reverse
»I just got a mail from the kind guys who provide us with
free web and ftp space. AROS finally seems to have made it.
We had over 10GB of downloads last month and that means,
I have to take the FTP space down... (What kind of smiley
is suitable for this ???).
So if you have lots of bandwidth to spare, call me :-)
Until then, FTP is down. I'm in contact with Urban
Mueller of Aminet but I guess he won't want to
check in AROS images every night ;-) So maybe
there will be an update just once per month or so.
Thanks go to the tireless AROS developers who have made
us so attractive and to all the fans who still hold on
to their beloved system :-) The images will come back,
promised. And you will see the V1.0 of AROS :-)« (ps)
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06.Dec.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: DSPSpeed Version 1.02
AudioLabs have released a benchmark tool for ProStationAudio. This tool
named DSPSpeed is avialable as version 1.02 and measures the performance
of ProStationAudio on 68k Amigas with AmigaOS and on emulated Amigas as well.
More details under the title link.
Download: dspspeed.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Amiga.org
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Event: Amiga Inc. attends the 'University of Washington Career Fair'
From the participants list of the 'University of Washington
Career Fair' event one can learn that Sanjay Menon, VP of Engeneering, Amiga Inc.,
will attend the show, which will take place on 11. April 2002 for the students of
the University of Washington.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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amigaland.de: Server Problem fixed, Games available again
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Just two games are still missing. All demos, programs, and emulators
will be available again within the next days. Special thank to Birdy,
webmaster of amigahistory.de, who supported me with his webspace.
(Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
GameIcons.info
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Icons: New Game Icons by GameIcons.info
The icon packets #09 and #11 by Dr. Zarkov have been restructured and
put together and there are many new icons, too. More icon packets under
the title link.
Download: GameIcons-2001.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
GFX-BASE
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GFX-BASE: Report about the O.A.S.E. Event
Last weekend most of the members of GFX-BASE have
visited the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga South East Europe) in
Graz, Austria. Jürgen Schober, the organizer, has shown an official Scala presentation of
the promised AmigaOS 4.0 features in his Amiga shop
point.design. Furthermore other Amiga highend
products were shown like G-Rex and Mediator PCI boards, the AmigaOS XL packet,
some new games, and much more.
You will find the report by GFX-BASE in form of a picture gallery with detailed subtitles.
Click the thumbnails to read the subtitles. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Dec.2001
SomS Newsletter (E-Mail)
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Game: Deep Silence news to SomS
The team of the action-adventures 'SOMS' has a new member. Her name is Rei from Japan. She is from the Manga-RPG-source at all. For SomS she will compose a part of the music and will synchronize voices.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2001
morphos-news.de
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morphos-news.de: Interview with Ralph Schmidt
The team of morphos-news.de interviewed Ralph Schmidt who is the head developer of MorphOS. Today a summary of the interview has been published. You can read it under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2001
Gary Peake (ML)
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Amiga names Sanjay Menon as vice president of department engineering
press release:
Amiga names Sanjay Menon vice president of engineering
Menon brings 10 years of experience in delivering software solutions
to Amiga's hardware agnostic multimedia platform.
Snoqualmie, WA - December 3, 2001 - Amiga Inc., a provider of multi-platform
multimedia content solutions, today announced the hiring of Sanjay Menon as
their Vice President of Engineering. As Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Menon
will be responsible for delivering Amiga solutions on a multitude of platforms.
“Sanjay has several years in the software industry and has a track record
of successes with projects he has worked on or managed” said Bill McEwen,
President and CEO of Amiga Inc. “We look forward to having him deliver
many different types of solutions both to consumers and developers alike”.
“His leadership will help make our Amiga developers be more successful
in their roles toward the completion of our vision for the digital world”.
Menon brings more than 10 years of development and management experience to
Amiga and is adept at planning and executing development strategies ensuring
quality product releases in a timely fashion. His most recent accomplishments
were at Microsoft Corporation where he spent 5 years in various management positions.
His responsibilities there included shipping portions of the Microsoft Java
Virtual Machine which was delivered in the Internet Explorer browser. Previous
to his experience at Microsoft, Menon was a Lead Developer for Connectsoft Corporation
where, among other things, he delivered advanced communication applications
and protocols.
“I am very excited to have this opportunity with Amiga” said Menon.
“I believe that Amiga is poised to deliver quality solutions across a wide
number of market segments that are in growth areas of communication and computing.
I look forward to working with both our Amiga developers and the developers
in the Amiga Community who are going to deliver leading edge solutions for numerous
different devices”.
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications
to a new multimedia operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is
a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga
Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC,
M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors.
The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT,
CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can
be purchased at http://de.amiga.com/. Amiga
is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide.
Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com/. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Dec.2001
Heise News Ticker (ANF)
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Heise: Programming competition for Linux-PDA
Sharp is looking for some applications of the sectors games, entertainment, business-programms, utilities and communication for its LINUX PDA Zaurus SL 5000 and therefore has started a programming competition. You can gain attractive prizes.
Have a look at the title link for the full Heise-article.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Dec.2001
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neo Award: Intermediate Result - Position #23
As already reported amiga-news.de
was nominated for the Internet-Award neo, category "favorit website".
At the time being we rank on position #23 what we think to be a huge success.
We thank all readers who voted for us! Since you can vote every week, you can
vote for amiga-news.de using your password again, this week. Put please, keep being
fair and vote only once per week, cause otherwise we would disqualify ourselfves.
One word about data security: The organizer assures explicit that your registering
data will be treated strictly confidential.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Dec.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' Team
Andreas Magerl did an interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' team for the
'Amiga Future' magazine. Schlachtfeld is about a strategy game.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Dec.2001
W.F.M.H. (ANF)
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Electronic Teacher 5 - special offer + new site
W.F.M.H. has launched a new internet site for one of its flagships: Electronic Teacher 5 CD. The multimedia language tutor home can now be found at http://eteacher5.com . Besides, the package can now be ordered at promotional price (even 50% off)!
As publishing house informs, the software is still under heavy development and among tons of new features (including even animation support) then new release will bring us, the two new language data CD are expected to be released as well, with lessons of German and French! Electronic Teacher 6 is expected to be released at the end of April 2002. (ps)
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04.Dec.2001
Christian Hujer (ANF)
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Adobe SVG Viewer for Unix
Since a couple of days Adobe is offering the
SVG Viewer for downlaod on the page for
unsupported versions
as version 3.0 beta 1 in English for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Solaris 8.
The SVG Viewer is a web-browser plugin for displaying vector images of the XML
basing W3C standard
Scalable Vector Graphics
(see Heise's articel, German).
The Windows and Mac versions have an ActiveX interface for the Internet Explorer and a Netscape
plugin interface for Netscape 4.x (and by this it is supposed to run with Konqueror and other
browsers supporting the Netscape interface at 100%). Contrary to that the Linux version has
a Mozilla interface and does not support Netscape's plugin architecture which is poorly
documented, anyway.
In a first try this plugin could not be used under SuSE Linux 7.2 with
Mozilla 0.9.5 RPM, it was not recognized, but Mozilla 0.9.5 and the plugin
still are beta versions. For the final versions a better cooperation of both
may be expected.
With the Adobe SVG Viewer available for Linux and Solaris the popularity and
use of SVG might increase very much.
Of course the Linux port is available as binary only unfortuantely, meaning that
it mainly contains of .so files (libraries) compiled for x86 Linux. That is, though
there is a x86 Linux port now, an Amiga port is as far away as ever. Even the
efforts of Mozilla.org are promising more remedy.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Dec.2001
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: DBPro Mod-Compo - Rules
Plans about a DBM-Compo by the Digibooster Pro Community. But they do not want to make the according rules without requesting the ideas and opinions of the users. Proposals can be made until Friday (7.12.2001) by posting them at the DBPro-Community forum at the title link.
It would be grade if as many as possible users would participate in this discussion and in the upcoming competition.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Dec.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets
WHD-Load lets you install your floppy-based games on to your harddisc. The follwing packets were updated or newly included:
- 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
- 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
- 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
- 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
- 30.11.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) joypad support added
- 30.11.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) supports another version
- 30.11.01 new: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) done by Psygore
- 30.11.01 improved: New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) supports another version and some fixes
- 30.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) supports another version
- 30.11.01 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) joypad support added
- 30.11.01 new: Friendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape) done by CFOU!
- 30.11.01 new: Death Bringer (Empire) done by CFOU!
- 30.11.01 new: Black Crypt (Raven Software) done by CFOU!
- 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
- 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Dec.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: Interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion
There is an (English) interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainmet available at Amiga.org (title link).
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Dec.2001
Håkan Parting
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Instant Messenger: AmiComSys Version 2.1
Håkan Parting released version 2.1 of his program AmiComSys.
Changes:
- BUGFIX: When all the checkboxes in the Client list settings/Show which information were checked the computer crashed.
So if you had that setting in v. 1.34 and tried 2.0 the computer just crashed.
- BUGFIX: It didn't work to install plugins directly from the plugin installer, by setting
the environmental variable ACS_INSTALLPLUGIN.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Dec.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)
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DCE makes "Visionary" TV-Software online available
The TV-software "Visionary" for the G-Rex PCI-board is now available at the homepage of DCE. This release includes the skins for this program.
A driver for 100MBit network adapters (based on RTL8039) is still beta and will soon be available at the DCE-supportpage.
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03.Dec.2001
Oliver Wagner (ML)
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Vaporware: New Regtool with Euro-support
The offline-regtool 'Regtool' by Vapoware is now available with Euro-support and contains all new Vapor-products.
All prices can be converted with the help of MUI (short help system). Products can still be paid and registered online by using a credit card and with the help of Silicon Circus Ltd. (UKP).
Download: regtool.lha
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03.Dec.2001
Martin Strojek (E-Mail)
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AMIGA in the media: 'Bild am Sonntag' of 02.12.2001
In the yesterday's issue of the German newspaper "Bild am Sonntag" the Amiga was
mentioned in the special column "VIVABamS" on page 3. There is a draw with
ATB (André Tanneberger, musician), mentioning the Amiga. Tanneberger said that
his first computer was an Amiga on which he made electro songs.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Dec.2001
Andreas Steup (ANF)
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Emulator: Amiga Forever 5 Benchmark
Andreas Steup writes:
In the stated URL you can find a few short Benchmark-Tests for
WinUAE-Emulators from the Amiga Forever 5 package.
Result: A 300MHz Pentium is almost enough to emulate a 68040 Amiga with 80MHz,
which means double the speed.
The English version of the tests are available.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Dec.2001
ANN
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Workbench: Scalos with new Domain
You can now get access to the website of the Workbench Replacement
"Scalos" under the new domain
www.scalos.co.uk.
This means that all the e-mail addresses have also changed as they
now end with "@scalos.co.uk".
We've got outselves a new domain because the previous one
Domain expired
and was taken over by namezero.com.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Dec.2001
Gabriele Greco (sdl-amiga ML)
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Library: SDL V1.2.3 Beta
On 2. December 2001 Gabriele Greco published the Beta-version
1.2.3 of the Multimedia-Library "SDL" for AmigOS and MorphOS.
All the improvements and bug fixes of 1.2.3. should
have been implemented in this version.
The following amiga-specific improvements have been made:
- Completely compatible with libnix (the 68k as well as the
MorphOS version). Some demos (testsprite, testpalette)
show that the libnix-version is 30% faster than the ixemul-version
- Bugfix: A crash or a corruption of the memory list was possible
in the hardware-accellerating and full-screen mode.
- Modification: General clean up of the CyberGFX-Codes. Maybe
this has also removed the Colors-Bug of Picasso 96 (wasn't tested).
Gabriele Greco is hoping to finish the final version by next weekend
in order to add the new sources to the official Source and
Development-Package on the official site
SDL-Site.
The archive contains: include, docs, gcc 68k lib, SAS/C 68k lib
and gcc MorphOS PPC lib.
The SDL enables the
platform-independent programming of games and multimedia products.
Download: SDL-1.2.3-Amiga.zip
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Dec.2001
V3Portal
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VNC: zvnc V1.0
On 1st December 2001 David Gerber published Version 1.0
of VNC-Clients "zvnc".
This is a small VNC-Client without Display-Support which is
supposed to controll a second PC with monitor.
The advantage of "zvnc" is that only minimal data is
transferred through the network since there are no graphics.
In this way the mouse and keyboard input is very direct.
"zvnc" applies to AmigaOS V2.0 (68000),
AmigaOS V3.0 (68020) and MorphOS (PPC).
Download: zvnc_1.0.lha
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Dec.2001
Aminet
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XML: Expat as Shared-Library
The porting of the XML-Parser-Library
"expat"
for AmigaOS was published by James S. Perrin in Aminet.
This version is available as Amiga-Shared-Library.
Expat is among other things used by the Web-Browser "Mozilla"
for parsing XML-documents.
"Expat" was originally developped
by James Clark,
who also was technical manager of the XML Working Group of
W3C for the
drawing up of the XML 1.0 specification.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Dec.2001
ANN
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USB: Information about "Subway" (USB about Clockport)
KDH Datentechnik has published Information about the USB-Controller
"Subway" for the Clockport of Amiga 1200:
- compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0.
- integrated 4 Port-HUB.
- all ports are protected against over-tension and over-burdening.
- integrated Power-Management for all ports.
- energy is saved due to 3,3V Technology.
- compatible with all 68030/40/060 and PPC-Turbo Cards.
- no technical problems with Amiga 1200-Busboards.
- compatible with all Amiga 1200 Tower Casings.
- Standard Amiga 1200 Clockport-Connection.
- Highspeed-Clockport-Connection for a quicker transfer of data.
- Works on every Amiga 1200 compatible clockport.
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02.Dec.2001
ANN
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IRC: AmIRC V3.5.21beta
Oliver Wagner published the beta-version 3.5.21 of the IRC-Clients "AmIRC"
on the 30th November 2001. This version solves various little problems.
This update can only be used by registered users.
The package contains text input V29.3.
Download: amirc_3521beta.lzx (222K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: Free classified advertisements relaunched
Daniel Orth writes:
Apart from the new design of our webpage for the Amiga-Magazine
"amiga-topcool" we have also designed the section for the
classified ads in a new way. The advantage is that you don't have
to wait that somebody inserts an advert since this is now done by
a small CGI-Script.
It's also now possible to buy advert space by means of an auction.
Offers from 1 DM onwards are accepted.
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02.Dec.2001
Ralf Hasemann (ANF)
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Trade fair: Amiga Expo announced (Update)
The trade fair "Amiga Expo" takes place in Baltimore, MD USA in the
Marriott Hunt Valley Inn on 29th until 31st March 2002.
Further information about the trade fair can be found under the
title link.
Appendix 02.12.2001:
date corrected as follows: 2002.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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02.Dec.2001
Jens Henschel (ANF)
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BASIC: AmiBlitz User-Site now also for Amiga-Browser
Jens [bruZard] Henschel writes:
I have completely changed the design for the Blitzbasic-Site
(www.blitz3d.x-cellence.de)
since Amiga-Browser wasn't able to bring it up.
From now on problems won't come up any more.
Should it nevertheless come to some incompatibilities here and there,
please inform me, so that I can solve the problem.
Contact address: bruzard@x-cellence.de.
The site and the forum have been enlarged by an AmiBlitz-Section
because of wide-spread interest. This will be filled up over the
next few days. First, a tutorial for beginners will be published
so that the Blitzbasic-Community might increase after all.
happy programming,
Jens [bruZard] Henschel
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02.Dec.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society.de: It's all over
Horst Diebel writes:
1.12.2001 - This is the end of the Amiga-Society.de.
Why should we create such a site that is of no use at all and that
only causes trouble?
This question has occurred to me over the last few weeks
more and more frequently.
After our relaunch we had more and more attacks on our site and in particular
on my PC, that is to say my e-mail address. A week ago it finally happened
that I gradually switched off the e-mail addresses because only virulent
e-mails were arriving.
The initiators will know what I mean.... maybe they have reached their objective
in this way.
By the end of the year I will have the site switched off! The competition
will of course be finished - relevant addresses will be available before
the end of the year and approximately until the 6th January 2002.
The announcement of the lucky winners will be around mid-January 2002.
After this event I will retire completely. The project "battlefield"
will certainly be continued by some of the participants - alternative
Internet addresses will probably be announced very soon.
BI would like to thank all the people who have helped create the site.
Bye....
Horst
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02.Dec.2001
Alexander Pfau (ANF)
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Amithlon.net now also in German
Bernd Meyer's Website "Amithlon.net", which accompanies the Amiga-Emulator
for x86er-Systems, is now also available in German.
It was translated into German by Alexander Pfau.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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01.Dec.2001
Michael Ulbrich (ANF)
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Amithlon-"Party" in Berlin
An Amithlon event is being planned to be held in a little local Internet Café in
Berlin.
More information (German) can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Dec.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Interim results of the vote
The survey of Virus Help Denmark about the anti-virus programmer who
has done the most against viruses is still running for a month. Here
are the current results:
- Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor: 169 votes
- Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library: 168 votes
- Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe: 18 votes
- Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II: 9 votes
- Heiner Schneegold _ VT-Schutz: 4 votes
- Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III: 3 votes
Who hasn't participated so far can still vote at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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01.Dec.2001
(ANF)
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Preordering the Show Video CD
Due to not only a few users showed me their interest in my video CD within
a short period of time I've put an order form on my homepage, with which you
can preoder the CD online. Just enter your name and address an you will
receive the CD for free. You'll have to pay postage, only.
If you happen to have problems submitting the order, please send an
e-mail with subject 'Video-CD' to me.
Of course names and addresses will be treated strictly confidential and deleted after
this project.
Best regards,
Falcon
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Dec.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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C't reports extensively about Amiga
The German computer magazine c't reports in its current issue (issue 25/01 on Monday
at the newsstands) extensively on a full page (page 46) about the Amiga 2001 show
and the Pegasos board! Also mentioned are AmigaOS XL, Hyperion, PCI boards and the
USB port.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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01.Dec.2001
amiga.org (ANF)
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Apex Designs: Payback being ported to AmigaDE and Macintosh
Apex Designs' 'Payback' will be ported to Intent/AmigaDE and Apple Macintosh.
The port to the AmigaDE will be done by Apex Designs, the port to MacOS by
Vitual Programming.
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