18.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)
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RealAudio/Media-Support page updated (Update)
A few days ago Sigbjørn Skjæret
released version 2 of his RealAudio/Media player "RAPlay". New is among other things
the support of the RealMedia format, which could not be played up to now.
More information e.g. about installation as well as download possibilities
are to find under the title link. Of course there also is a PPC version.
Update 19. July 2001:
Thorsten Schoelzel wrote:
As I just was told by Sigbjørn Skjæret,
RealMedia is not supported, yet. But there is a better RealAudio 1 & 2 support.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Tom's Hardware Guide: Corel takes over Micrografx
The Canadian software manufacturer Corel according to Tom's Hardware Guide
is about to take over their American graphics software competitor
Micrografx. This fusion will be established by exchange of shares. Some
32 Millions USD were mentioned for the price.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware Update
On the 5th of July in 2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware has been updated. From today the updates are also available at the German mirror.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Diverse
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Apple: Quarterly results Q3/2001
After Apple has published its quarterly profits- and loss results there are some articles in various media. At Macworld Expo which currently takes place in New York some new models are supposed to be showed.
Apple: Apple Reports Third Quarter Profit of $61 Million
Golem: Apple looks optimisticly in the future
Heise: Apple gains hope
Macnews.de: Detailed quarterly results q3/2001 of Apple
Spiegel: Apple: Anxious in the autumn
Stern: Apple finally is profitable again
ZDNet: Apple got profits
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Scalos
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Workbench replacement: New autodocs for Scalos
In the section 'Developers' of the website you can find new autodocs for Scalos. Autodocs are developer-documentations which were made in a standardized way.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Oliver Roberts
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Datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.21
With the help of so called datatypes various datatypes can be showed
with different programs. Oliver Roberts has published version 44.21 of
his 24-bit JPEG-datatype which is available for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.
Some bugs has been fixed and the support for some webcam-pictures has
been added. Besides this the memory management has been optimized and
the PowerPC-version was newly compiled with VBCC 0.8.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (134 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: StormC student version (Update)
Because of the immense request Haage&Partner offers a student version of the developer system 'StormC'. It is a cheap full version without any restrictions. It is available for schoolboys and schoolgirls as well as students who send H&P an officially recognized evidence of their school or their university with the order.
Postscript:
If you can prove a valid training contract trainee can order the student version, too. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe version 16.2
With the virus scanner 'Safe' you can detect virus but you can not eleminate them. It follows the details to version 16.2 which has been published today:
Name: Safe v16.2
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 37.500 bytes
Release date: 17. Juli 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Required: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER!
IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY
IF POSSIBLE!
New in v16.2
- Added XFD slave to detect and remove PENETRATOR
and two SMEG2 clones from files.
Please use xfdDecrunch to perform cleaning
or VirusZ to see the infected files.
- Added to Safe memory removal for SMEG2 viruses.
Added generic memory removal for PENETRATOR and
other SMEG1 kind infectors.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2001
Joerg Rebenstorf, CEO ALiENDESiGN (ANF)
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New web-design at ALiENDESIGN
The web-design of the ALiENDESiGN company was completely reworked.
We think that our web-designer FoX did a very good job, again, as he previously did
with the product pages, and so we would be happy, if you would drop by.
The Repulse sound card still is available from our online shop and the online shop
now is fully integrated to the web-offer. Suggestions are welcome, contact
sales@aliendesign-gbr.de.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 17.07.2001
IBrowseMI.lha comm/www 26K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.2.0
MD2MI.lha comm/www 25K+GlowIcons Toolbar for MicroDOT 2
simplehtml.lha comm/www 38K+V0.17 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
lns-hst.lha demo/aga 2.6M+Hotstyle Takeover by Loonies (MS2001 2nd
PhxAss.lha dev/asm 151K+PhxAss V4.40 68xxx Macro Assembler
uncat.lha dev/misc 8K+Create .cd file from running program
PFS3ud.lha disk/misc 124K+PFS3 undelete
qformat.lha disk/misc 6K+Quick format for FFS disks
SyQuest270-ML.lha disk/misc 17K+Mountlist for SyQuest 270MB Drives
f1me.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Formula 1 Manager enhanced
paranoia.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Paranoia Vol.1
psv.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: PSV Football manager
revolution.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Classic Revolution
scorpius.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Scorpius
toons.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Amiga Toons Vol.1
vt2.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: VideoTracker 2.0
PSX-BlackCheat.lha docs/mags 177K+PSX-CheatBook HTML-Only
CircusLinux.lha game/actio 744K+SDL game compiled for Amiga
Mattonite.lha game/demo 484K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
FoundationMan.lha game/misc 256K+Foundation Manual (PDF version)
IChing.lha game/misc 100K+V2.0 of a GUI I-Ching fortune telling pr
PicShow.lha gfx/show 9K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
DickTracy.lha mods/misc 32K+Custom module from "Dick Tracy"
rno-r063.lha mods/misc 190K+Rno-records release no.63 by tang (triph
NeuralAss.lha mods/pro 100K+Two Protracker mod's from the demo 'Neur
ClassMI.lha pix/gicon 33K+A GlowIconsSet for ClassAction
eNoteMI.lha pix/gicon 9K+A GlowIconsSet for eNote
PlayMI.lha pix/gicon 38K+A GlowIconsSet for PlayGUI
FF9_icons.lha pix/nicon 29K+Great set of FF9 Newicons
HP_Deskjet400C.lha text/print 24K+Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.10
HP_Deskjet600C.lha text/print 26K+Deskjet 600C Driver for WB V40.12
CheckX.lha util/arc 28K+V1.85 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
alba.lha util/boot 61K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
JPEG-DT.lha util/dtype 433K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.5)
JPEG-DT35.lha util/dtype 357K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.3a)
JoinReplace.lha util/sys 17K+V1.20 powerful Join replacement
Easyreset.lha util/wb 18K+EasyReset - system reset utility
Memicon.lha util/wb 17K+Memory/Screen/OS display for OS3.5/OS3.9 (as) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
Da SixK Port Page
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Tool: Webalizer 2.01-06 for MorphOS
With this tool HTML statistics can be created from Apache log-files. This
version is for MorphOS and is faster than the 68k version (1.8 seconds contrary to 11 seconds,
determined using the same Apache log-file).
Download: webalizer-2.01-06_mos.lzx
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: New Schlachtfeld pictures
In spite of the turbulences around the Amiga-Society of course development of
the Game Schlachtfeld is being continued.
Edgar Leiding rendered some units for the game's board, again. Thus now there are
nine unit previews available - there will be some changes, of course. There will
be a survey regarding the camouflage: the question is, if the enemies should use
different colours (red, blue, ...) or should differ by different textures and/or
tactical field signs. You can also post your opinion about that in the forum of
the Schlachtfeld website.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
I. Souvatzis (ANF)
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NetBSD-1.5.1 released
NetBSD-1.5.1 is a patch release for the Unix like open source operating
system from now available via FTP.
Since NetBSD-1.5 mainly some enhancements regarding system security were
added. VLAN's (viruel LAN's) support is one of the new features.
Closer information can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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mSQL database administration program
Who ever dealt with SQL database systems soon realized that in fact
only mSQL comes into question for working offline.
mSQL is the most compact and resource sparing SQL-DBMS for the Amiga.
One example to point this up:
The mSQL daemon requires less than 10% of the resources the MySQL
daemon needs and even can react 4-times faster on client requests
via mUSD (unix socks daemon).
The biggest disadvantage of all SQL systems for the Amiga is the lack
of any GUI software for administration and database care.
That's why I wrote a program named mSQL-Administrator, which
contains the operation of the following executables of the "mSQL.bin"
directory:
msql, msql2d, msqladmin, msqldump, msqlexport, msqlimport,
relshow, and mUSD.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
Richard Körber (ANF)
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Palmiga is now called amiga-pda
The Palmiga Project is a project for all Amiga users that own a PalmOS-PDA
to use with their Amigas.
Palm Inc. wrote to me that the name is violating their trademark, combined with
the request to change it.
Due to this the mailinglist can from now on be reached via "amiga-pda": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amiga-pda.
Assigned members should post to amiga-pda@yahoogroups.com.
The Pamiga website will be redesigned in the near future available at the URL
http://amigapda.shredzone.de.
I want to let you know they have send their request in a very polite way against
the trend without announcing any lawyers. :)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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16.Jul.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
By using WHDLoad you can install floppy-based games on your harddisc. Available new packages:
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
Sebastian Bauer
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HTML-Offline Browser: SimpleHTML Version 0.17
SimpleHTML (version 0.17) is a HTML offline browser. It lets you quickly display small HTML-files (for example as a MIME-viewer of HTML-files with YAM). But only a small set of HTML-tags is supported. A html.datatype is available, too.
Only OS3.0 is recommended. For dislpaying embeded pictures you need the corresponding datatype.
Download:
simplehtml.lzx (36 KB)
html-dt.lzx (27 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Edivision LLC working with Amiga Inc.
Edivision Teams Up With Amiga To Develop Exciting New Content
Snoqualmie, WA - July 12, 2001
Edivision LLC announced today that they would create game applications for the Amiga Digital Environment
(AmigaDE). The company plans to create 3 titles in the coming year for the AmigaDE environment. The games
will be distributed through the Sharp Space Town web site for release in Japan and through other Amiga
distribution channels worldwide. Amiga and Edivision also announced a joint relationship where Edivision
would provide key pieces of technology for the AmigaDE.
The principals at Edivision have more than 30 years of
experience in the computer graphics field. Patrick Roberts
created 2D and 3D effects for Walt Disney's feature animation
classic "Dinosaur". He has also created software and animation
for Dreamworks Animation, Disney Classics and the Disney
channel. Jeremy Engelman is one of the finest 3D artists in the
world. His best-known work is the artwork for Cyan's Riven, the
sequel to Myst. Steven Haun is an award-winning computer
graphics producer with more than 10 years of experience in the
computer graphics and entertainment industry. His credits
include effects production for Warner Brothers, Universal
Pictures, ABC, CBS, and Fox Television.
"This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some
exciting content and an enjoyable experience that they will want
to share with others," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of
Amiga, Inc. "Patrick, Jeremy and Steven are longtime supporters
of Amiga and we appreciate their contributions to driving
adoption of our software. With their expertise in gaming and the
entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary
games for the PDA market."
"We are very excited to be working with Amiga to generate
compelling content for the AmigaDE," said Patrick Roberts, one
of the founders at Edivision. "When Amiga announced their
relation with Sharp, we saw this as an opportunity to get in
early on a new, exciting gaming platform. Devices like the Sharp
Zaurus and other PDA's offer the ability to reach a new and
different generation of gamers."
Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set of
releases. The company is also negotiating with other content
providers to bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform.
The market for video games in the United States, which includes
arcade, PC, console, and online gaming, is currently estimated
to be worth $11 billion. The AmigaDE platform allows developers
to create game applications that target this market. The binary
portable nature of AmigaDE content allows applications to
migrate seamlessly from cell phones and handheld devices to
set-top boxes and up to desktop machines and servers.
Edivision Press Release
Los Angeles, CA - July ##, 2001
Edivision LLC announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement
with Amiga, Inc. Amiga, Inc. will have world-wide distribution rights on
software titles Edivision will produce using the
AmigaDE operating environment. Also under the agreement Edivision will make
technology it develops for its AmigaDE titles available to Amiga, Inc.
Edivision LLC will create 3 development labels over the next year that run on the AmigaDE platform.
Two labels will be exclusively devoted to entertainment
titles, while the third will provide utilities, drivers, and extended
functionality. Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set
of releases, but the company is also negotiating with other developers to
bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform.
"This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some exciting content
and an enjoyable experience that they will want to share with others," said
Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "With their expertise in
gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary
games for the PDA market."
"Titles created for the AmigaDE are capable of running unmodified on a
number of platforms including PocketPC, Zaurus, Windows, and Linux. This
gives us a tremendous advantage in bringing a title to market." remarked
Steven Haun, CFO of Edivision. "It allows us to focus development on the
title itself and not the limitations of cross-platform least common
denominator intrinsics."
About Amiga Inc.
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and
porting applications to a new multi-media 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,
SH3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted
on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4.
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.
About Edivision
Edivision LLC was formed in May 2001 in Los Angeles, CA. Its
founders, Patrick Roberts, Jeremy Engelman, and Steven Haun are
veterans of the computer gaming industry. They have received
numerous awards and accolades for their cutting-edge work in
computer graphics and animation. For more details about
Edivision, visit http://www.e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or contact
Steven Haun at Steven.Haun@e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or via phone at
(323) 578-1998.
All Trademarks are the Property of their Respective Owners. All Rights Reserved. ##
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Jul.2001
Ben Yoris/Hyperion (ANF)
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Hyperion publishes Voodoo3 vs. Permedia 2 benchmarks
Hyperion Entertainment recently conducted some tests benchmarking the
Permedia 2 based Cybervision PPC against a Voodoo 3 / Prometheus combo.
The test is a timedemo in Heretic II.
Cybervision PPC
640x480: 14.9 FPS
800x600: 9.9 FPS
Configuration:
Cyberstorm PPC 604e/233-060/50, 128 MB of RAM
Voodoo 3 (Prometheus)
640x480: 18.6 FPS
800x600: 18.6 FPS
Configuration: Cyberstorm PPC 604e/200-060/50, 96 MB of RAM
For more detailed informations you may check the Amiga Extreme Web
site.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
Milan Pollé (ANF)
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Genetic Species for Gameboy Advance petition
Milan Pollé (author of the site, but not the petition pages) write:
Seeing the FPS games announced for the Gameboy Advance started me thinking
about the awesome Amiga game Genetic Species, by
Marble Eyes.
This game is an FPS with really great atmosphere and elements borrowed
from the classic 'Paradroid', like being able to take over the bodies
and skills of your enemies.
As this game worked well on low-end Amigas, about three years ago, I
thought it might be possible to port it to the Gameboy Advance. The
developers of this game worked for three years on it and only sold
hundreds or at the most a couple of thousands of copies, as the Amiga
market had shrunk when the game was completed, but also because of
piracy. Needless to say the developers were really disappointed.
I coined this idea in the Gameboy Advance forum on www.ign.com
and people were really interested in this game, so they started
contacting the developers, who were suprised by the sudden attention
this game got. At the moment the developers are looking into the
possibilities of doing a port.
We ask anyone interested in a Gameboy Advance version to sign our
petition. Even if in the end a port won't or can't be done, it will
show the developers that their work is appreciated by a lot of
people. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
Webmaster SAUGe.V. (ANF)
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Attention: virus after EBay-auction?
Attention: virus after EBay-auction?
Attention: sellers and byers:
It seems that shortly after the end of an auction some sellers and byers got an e-mail with the sender of the seller or byer that contains a ".exe"-file.
Do not open this file! If you do your Windows-system will be infected with the "W95/Hybris.worm.B"-virus. Maybe this virus makes it possible to attack your system with a subseven program. EBay is allready informed.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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nrnf: Voodoo3 Speedtest
Fabio Trotta wrote:
The day before yesterday when I wanted to post the Voodoo3-speedtest
I recognized that there was a new version of the display driver.
This was why I trashed all the findings and retested everything with
this new versions of the P96 and W3D drivers.
Now my findings are available at the title link. I compared the speed of
the Voodoo3, the CVPPC, PicassoIV and the AGA-chip. There are some
3D-game-tests and also 2D-graphicfunctions-tests available now. Find
out what a Voodoo3 is able to offer you in your Amiga.
(ps)
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16.Jul.2001
ANN
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Event: Saku 2001 - Website online
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science
Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and
end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge.
Finnish Amiga Users Group is pleased to announce that the Web site for its
fourth Amiga event, Saku 2001, is now open. The Web site features
highlights, directions and other vital information for interested visitors and
exhibitors from Finland and abroad.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Finnish Amiga Users Group Announces Saku 2001 Web Site
VANTAA, FINLAND - July 15, 2001 - Finnish Amiga Users Group is
pleased to announce that the Web site for its fourth Amiga event, Saku 2001,
is now open. The Web site features highlights, directions and other vital
information for interested visitors and exhibitors from Finland and abroad.
Two webcams will be available from the venue. We are also planning an
IRC channel.
Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Amiga Inc., will attend the show and
demonstrate the latest Amiga products such as the AmigaDE. A
representative of Matay company will present their new PCI bridge, the
Prometheus. The Mediator PCI bridge will also be demonstrated with a
Voodoo3 graphics card. Latest versions of Nova Design's ImageFX and
Aladdin4D are available for testing. Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle Eye Ky
offers a variety of Amiga products to buy at the venue. Other highlights and
competitions are planned.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science
Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and
end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge.
Please stay tuned for more details as the planning progresses. For further
information, visit Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at
http://saku.amigafin.org/ or
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson (terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
Please also contact Terho if you or your company have products that you
would like
to demonstrate or advertise in Saku 2001.
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the group is trying to
accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine.
Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its predecessors have
released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public
gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a
national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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15.Jul.2001
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Icons: MasonIcons - New Archives
Some new and reworked archives are available on the MasonIcons homepage
and on Aminet:
- ClassMI - complete icon set for ClassAction
- eNoteMI - reworked toolbar image set for eNote
- MD2MI - new GlowIcons toolbar for MicroDOT II
- PlayMI - image set and new skin for PlayGUI
For further information, please visit the 'projects' site of Mason.Home.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Amiga Future
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History: ExoticA extended
The ExoticA website
deals with the music capabilities and history of the Amiga.
On the website you will find exotic Amiga music, demo information, Amiga games
cover-scans, utilities, disk magazines, and more of nostalgic and historic value
from the Amiga world.
On 14. July 2001 the site was updated and many new things were added:
- The 'BP-SoundMon-section' was extended.
- Missing Newsflash issues were added - this disk magazine contains many exclusive software
and music reviews.
- 'The tracker history' is now online, again, and can be found in the 'Info-section'.
- The 'Demo Scene Reference Manual' and 'The Demo Pack Reference Manual'
were extended very much.
Closer information can be taken from the
news site of
ExoticA.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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History: AmigaPage extended with adverts
Marcus Neervoort wrote:
Again an update after longer delay....
I received some Amiga adverts and Amiga show adverts, again.
Those are online from today and can be found under
'AMIGA GESCHICHTE'.
Furthermore from today my special site about the Amiga World 2001 is
online. Unfortunately there is not much content, yet, but this will
change during the following weeks.....
So, have fun till the next update.
Kind regards, Marcus
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena News: 'The Prophet'
Olaf Koebnik wrote:
Amiga Arena Full Version
With permission of Mark Ford the Amiga Arena makes possible the
release of 'The Prophet'.
'The Prophet' is a role game released by 'Alive Media Soft' in
1999. Unfortunately a number of problems occured, hence more
than one year of development were in vane for Mark F. The 'Amiga Format'
rated 'The Prophet' at 81%, those days.
'The Prophet' is available in English, only.
Some features:
- more than 200.000 locations
- non-linear game flow
- HD version
- different enemies
Amiga Arena Status Report
Due to holidays and Amiga's future in the air activities decrease somehow, at
this time.
Several things are in the works, but I don't want to put you off with
announcements (unfortunately that's what others are doing sufficient!). :-(
Also it becomes more and more difficult to achieve special prices for shareware
software, cause almost no market remaining.
Ideas and tips are always welcome!
Also I'm still wanting someone who would like to translate interviews and texts.
Contact: Olaf Koebnik (olaf.koebnik@online-club.de)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Andreas Wolff (gg-gcc-ML)
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Compiler: gcc V2.95.3-3 Bugfix
On 15. July 2001 Andreas Wolff has released a new version of his gcc-m68k port for
the Amiga on Geek Gadgets.
This one fixes problems with the compiling options:
'-fbaserel' und '-fbaserel32'.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Metalmoon-ML
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Music: Faces of Mars
Patrick Henz released 'Donwloads', which contains the best-of of the
'Faces of Mars' series including music taken from other free CDs like
'Formula 1 Manager enhanced', 'Paranoia' or 'Amiga Toons'.
The following pieces of music are contained:
Lexx, Mulher do meus Sonhos, The Song G'Kar, Herzschlag, Faces of
Mars, Verao, Theme from 3Pyramids, Party Time, Dias Oscuros,
Traveller, Das Experiment, Faces of Mars 2001, Future World,
The Dark Theme, Lights over Mars, Human by Design, Touching
Earth, Elegant Sound of Hal, Samba de Smurfet, History and Future,
Phoenix Machine, Martians! - Part 2, and Dartk Time.
'Downloads' can be ordered as CD or VHS video tape via the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Amiga Future
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Scalos: New Plugin 'Titlebar Clock'
On 14. July 2001 the new plug-in 'Titlebar Clock' was released for the
alternative Workbench 'Scalos'. This plug-in adds a clock and date
display to the titlebar of the Scalos desktop.
Download: Scalos-Plugin_Clock.lha (12K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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The end of Amiga-Society?
On 17. July 2001 the Amiga-Society would have had their first
anniversary. After the initial problems on start-up, the end of A4EP, etc.,
etc., etc., the new page was taken offline (for the time being).
Hence among other sites also the mirror of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
and the new Schlachtfeld website were disabled. On 17. July an opinion poll
shall determine whether or not we should continue the pages / projects.
But the previous feedback rather indicates the end of the project.
Best regards,
Horst Diebel
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Bernd Gmeineder / Peter Levan (ANF)
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Game: Emerald Mine Online now part of AMI Sector One
The popular site 'Emerald Mine Online', dedicated to the same named
well known Kingsoft game, now became a part of AMI Sector One by the
name of 'Emerald Web'.
Emerald Web offers downloads of hundreds of Emerald Mine clones for the
Amiga as well as editors, cover-scans, and more. The layout of Emerald Web
was adjusted to AMI Sector One, too.
Who owns Emerald Mine relating games still not listed on Emerald Web,
please contact.
The URL of Emerald Web is http://amiga.emucamp.com/emerald/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
REBOLforces
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Magazine: REBOL/Zine Issue 3 Vol 1
On 13. July 2001 Jeff Kreis has released the 3rd issue of the REBOL/Zine magazine.
This online magazine deals with the REBOL system. The current issue contains articles
about the following subjects:
- REBOL Puzzles and Idioms
- Compose is your friend
- Compose Idioms
- Block stripper
- Parsing financial statements - sort of.
- Doing the impossible - shell access without shell access
- Iterated Fields?? (an iterator intro and iter-field howto(-fakeit))
- Get-Word!
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jul.2001
Starmag-Team (ANF)
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PSX-CheatBook V1.7.1 released
Today a PSX cheat book was put online on our site. Unfortunately only
PSX 1 relating at this time, but this would change in the next version.
The cheat book is located under "PSX".
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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14.Jul.2001
Amiga Inc.
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AMIGA Inc. News
press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Amiga joins Tao in its plans to support Open Contents Platform Association
Snoqualmie, WA - July 13, 2001
Amiga today announced its support of the Open Content Platform Association
(OCPA), The Tao Group, along with Sharp, JVC and Kyocera, launched the
OCPA today to promote the creation of a flexible and open environment
that will benefit hardware vendors and content developers.
The Amiga developer community is the largest and most experienced
at creating applications targeting the intent platform from Tao. Amiga
developers are well known in the industry for creating compelling
multimedia applications. Amiga is already working with a number of
Tao partners to deliver games and productivity applications for the
intent platform.
"The standardization of the intent platform will help Amiga's development
community target a broad number of hardware devices", said Bill
McEwen, the President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "Our experience with intent has
shown that it is an excellent platform for building multimedia applications.
We have more than 18 months of expertise in creating application that run on
intent and we look forward to working with the OCPA to share our experience
with them."
"Amiga has been an excellent partner with a worldwide development community
that can benefit from this initiative", said Francis Charig, Chairman of the
Tao Group. "Amiga's inputs will be valuable to the working members of the
OCPA and we welcome their participation."
Amiga offers developers a number of programs and products to help build
applications. The Amiga SDK (available at http://www.amiga.com) offers a
development environment and tools for developers. The Amiga Support Network
(http://www.amigadev.net) offers developers a forum for discussion, mailing
lists, and other infrastructure for joint collaboration efforts.
Amiga has also signed a distribution agreement with Sharp Corporation that
allows content created by Amiga developers to be distributed on Sharp Space
Town. Sharp Space Town provides applications and other content that run on
the Sharp Zaurus and other Sharp PDA devices. Amiga also offers distribution
channels for worldwide markets.
About Amiga Inc.
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media operating system which is hardware
and operating system agnostic. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA,
28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide.
Contacts:
Bill McEwen
Amiga, Inc.
Tel: +1 (425) 396-5660
Fax: +1 (425) 396-5671
Email: bill@amiga.com
http://www.amiga.com (ps)
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14.Jul.2001
Matay
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Matay: New Prometheus SDK and new drivers
There's a new software kit for developers in version 1.49 ready for download at
Matay's homepage. All Voodoo3 2000/3000 drivers have been revised and are now
available in a final version.
Download:
Prometheus149.lha
V3_13JUL.lha
Picasso96InstallPrometheus.lha
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14.Jul.2001
Steffen Haeuser (ANF)
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Hyperion and the StormC 4
Steffen Haeuser wrote:
After our reactions on the "StormC 4 news" I was asked by Ben Hermans to explain
our position on this topic to clarify some misunderstandings and
falsifications.
At Heretic II times we were using a "self development" called gcc-WarpUP, a self
standing port of gcc to WarpUP and 68k. This compiler had the substantial
disadvantage that no debugger - very important for program testing and fast bug
fixing - was available (and wasn't easily made, either). Besides that the
compiling speed was quite slow (despite PPC exe), and there was no GUI
available. At that time this compiler was the only alternative, though:
- SAS/C: Even when leaving aside the missing WarpOS support, this compiler
isn't really suitable for a "big" PC port. Doing a PC port there's normally a
heavy use of C++, and when a compiler isn't 100% compatible with the standard
used by compilers like gcc/VisualC++/Metroworks CodeWarrior - inclusive
possible "enhancements" of these compilers - doing a port is made much more
difficult, if not even impossible. It may well be possible to develop a C project with
such a compiler but not a C++ project. The only one of our projects being not
C++ was Heretic II. And the most of our projects rely HEAVILY on C++, with STL
and all things belonging to it.
Because of that we don't feel like doing long ports and then, when linking,
having to realize that the compiler isn't compatible enough with gcc/... making a
compiler change necessary.
- vbcc: In my opinion this is a great compiler, too, but as it doesn't support
C++ using this compiler is completely out of question for us. Besides that
we prefer a commercial product. In case of bugs you may demand a fast bugfix,
or you get telephone support or so.
But sure, the vbcc is a good compiler - but it simply doesn't suit our needs.
By the way: vbcc has no source level debugger, either (wosdebug is not
source level but assembler level).
- StormC 3: For StormC 3 (in contrary to 4) counts the same as for SAS/C - a
special compiler not compatible enough for the Amiga market.
Now Haage&Partner have decided to drop their "own" code generator in favour of
the gcc code generator - what was welcomed by us - with the version 4 of StormC.
That means: StormC 4 has more in common with gcc-WarpUP than with StormC 3.
That means that with StormC 4 you get all what you get with gcc-WarpUP but
additionally you get the special features of the StormC that gcc-WarpUP doesn't
offer:
- A superb source level debugger
- 40% faster compiling than with gcc-WarpUP thanks to optimizations
(in the PPC version)
- A significiantly more efficient I/O linker library
- A profiler for 68k and PPC
- A graphical IDE
- The possibility to compile via network
- (Partly) Object file compatibility with StormC 3 and vbcc-WarpUP
and SAS/C 68k
- The possibility to create mixedbinaries
- The possibility to easily create PPC shared libraries
- Support possibilities from the developer (very important for us,
no matter what compiler !!!)
Though this sounds like advertising: For a developer of commercial software
there's simply no alternative to StormC 4 on the Amiga.
And I don't see any rason why people absolutely want to talk about an
alternative.
If I only think of the many weeks (!!!) of work the debugger of StormC 4 has
shortened my work on the port of Freespace. These are REAL working hours I have
saved through this.
By the way, the BSD compatibility of the includes of StormC (as gcc derivative)
is considerably better than the one of the CodeWarrior includes for MacOS.
Steffen Haeuser
Hyperion Entertainment
SteffenH@hyperion-software.de
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jul.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF)
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Failure at amigakult.com repaired
Lift switchboard
Unfortunately my site couldn't be viewed since Friday. Because of a small error
was the start of the page cancelled. This error was removed now and therefore
the is the lift switchboard for the Cologne exhibition reachable again. Please
excuse this disturbance many times.
Thomas Wolf
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 14.07.2001
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 476K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
MKD_Euskal9.lha demo/aga 390K+Euskal Party 9 invitation 680x0 aga/cgx
PerfectCircle.lha demo/aga 5.2M+Perfect Circle demo by TBL - fixed versi
i3Pm-qcv.lha demo/intro 67K+Q[r]COV - intro contribution to Flag2001
Devotion2.lha demo/mag 1.3M+Devotion issue 2 - diskmag by Haujobb
SNMAOptsMUI.lha dev/asm 29K+Modern SNMA assembler options GUI v1.4
2b_CreativE.lha dev/e 120K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar
2b_CrtvE_src.lha dev/e 183K+AmigaE compiler [sources]
AmigaSDLstorm4.lha dev/misc 171K+Version 1.2.0 of Amiga SDL for StormC4 (
MakeTagBase.lha dev/misc 7K+Make methods and tags bases 1.15 (21.06.
urltext.lha dev/mui 19K+MUI public custom url class
AaktInt0601.lha docs/mags 166K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0601GFX.lha docs/mags 147K+International infotainment magazine
mc801.lha docs/mags 260K+German Metal Mag in HTML - 8 / 01 (Augu
TheCrypt18.lha docs/mags 2.8M+Issue 18 of "The Crypt" magazine
Mattonite.lha game/demo 484K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
SWOSEd_GR.lha game/patch 18K+Greek documentation for SWOS Ed 1.85
WHD_Ikari.lha game/patch 20K+HD Installer for Ikari Warriors
WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 18K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer
MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 153K+V1.14 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
imdbDiff010706.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
bird.lha misc/sci 2K+Small program of flocking birds
MoonDial.lha misc/sci 46K+Graphically shows the moons phase. V1.6
Relativity.lha misc/sci 16K+Time dilatation calculator V1.1
Chipnonchip.lha mods/blkha 235K+Chipy styled PT mod by blakkhar
Finsternis.lha mods/blkha 261K+"Schranz" PT mod by blakkhar
Solong.lha mods/blkha 1.0M+16 channel DBM by blakkhar
NP_ZShuf.lha mods/misc 858K+Noyz Phaktah '007 - Zombie Shuffle by Ho
Projectyle.lha mods/misc 88K+Custom module from "Projectyle"
rno-r062.mpg mods/mpg 6.7M+Rno-records release #62 by Habit(Elektro
vdo_ninj.lha mods/vdo 39K+Ninjat rannalla [xm 18ch]
ForrestLevel.lzh mods/xm 989K+And in the forrest we go...
EP_JasonPage.lha mus/play 17K+EaglePlayer "Jason Page" external replay
EP_SteveTurner.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "Steve Turner" external repl
EP_TME.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "The Musical Enlightenment"
MASMPegDevice.lha mus/play 129K+CBM compat. device for MAS MP3 Player
htmldoc.lha text/misc 844K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.14
alba.lha util/boot 62K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
TxtToHTML.lha util/conv 23K+TXT files to HTML Documents Converter
ReqToolsLib.lha util/libs 195K+V39.1 reqtools.library w/src (AROS back
Safe.lha util/virus 33K+Virus detector v16.1
classaction.lha util/wb 399K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager
handmouse.lha util/wb 1K+Cute mousepointer (hand+sleeping mouse)
suomicountry.lha util/wb 1K+Suomi.country file (Finnish) (as) (Translation: wk)
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14.Jul.2001
Michael Merkel (ANF)
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Amiga chooses H&P's StormC as official development environment
July 14, 2001
Amiga Inc is pleased to announce that it is partnering with
HAAGE&PARTNER GmbH, of Glashuetten, Germany in order to provide Amiga
developers with a world class development environment.
Amiga Inc is working closely with HAAGE&PARTNER to provide for the
first their flagship StormC developer package will become the official
Amiga Development System. This will see StormC providing transparent,
language independent support for both the AmigaOS and the
AmigaDE.
"Amiga is committed to moving application development forwards to
support our new architecture." said Fleecy Moss, Chief Technical
Officer of Amiga Inc. "This means dynamic, persistent components,
descriptive, location independent interfaces, brokered services and
a complete separation of design from implementation. HAAGE&PARTNER
have spent many years creating a simple, easy to use, yet powerful
development package for the AmigaOS, and we are delighted to be
working with them as we push forwards.
"We are very pleased about the Amiga certification on StormC",
said Jürgen Haage, General Manager of HAAGE&PARTNER GmbH. "This
certification is a quality assurance for Amiga Inc. and guarantees
the Amiga developer community a continuous further development of
our StormC development system."
The complete press release can be found following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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13.Jul.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden (e-mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Warp3D for Voodoo 3
We are pleased to announce that our Voodoo 3 Warp 3D V4 drivers for
Prometheus (both 68K and PPC) are now fully completed.
We are currently in the process of rewriting the Warp 3D license agreement so
you can expect the full driver package in the course of the next week.
As we are still getting e-mails about the Elbox situation, we would like to
point out that we have not heard from anybody at Elbox for over two weeks now.
At this point it appears to be highly improbable that we will ever see 3D
drivers for the Elbox's range of PCI products.
Again, we would like to ask everybody mailing us about 3D support for Elbox
PCI hardware to contact Elbox rather than Hyperion Entertainment.
We cannot be held responsible in any way for the lack of 3D support. If 3D
graphics are important to you, we advise you to look into purchasing a
competing PCI product."
Ben Hermans
Managing Partner, Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Amiga-Mailbox Stardate access disrupted
The Stardate mailbox (Amiga mailbox since 10 years and since more than one year
accessible through web portal http/telnet) can not be reached for some days
because of a lightning stroke.
Also affected is the Dynamite server stardate.2y.net.
Polling boxes and users are asked to switch to the Modem/ISDN numbers
(can be found here in the Amiga Link Directory).
It'll be announced when access via internet is possible again.
(ps)
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13.Jul.2001
Bernhard Kellerer (e-mail)
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Soundtrack and Boing beachballs sought
My name is Bernhard Kellerer, I am Creative Director of the London
film production company "iMagic Films Limited". I am Amiga fan since 1987,
foundation member of the Austrian Amiga Club Tirol
and still convinced that we'll be "Back For The Future" one day. What always
fascinated me about the Amiga is the community that sticked through thick and thin
with our "girlfriend". And just this community it is that gave me this idea.
We will soon film a commercial for an Austrian town. It is a low budget production which
is made possible only through the (mostly) free of charge working volunteers. Despite
the low budget, the 30 - 40 second spot will certainly have a high cinematic standard.
It is about a young woman who is catapulted from a dreary surroundings into a fascinating
dreamworld. About 150 extras, some fire-eaters, pyros and confetti bombs will provide
a proper spectacle. The spot will be shown in many cinemas.
Now we're looking for a piece of music which accompanies the dream journey of our
protagonist. GEMA-free music is out of question, but a real movie composer too expensive.
Here the community comes into play: there are many talented musicians in the Amiga
MOD- and demo-scene who could easily compose a soundtrack for us. Maybe an already
existing piece could be modified. We haven't agreed on any music style so far and
are thus open for everything.
Since nevertheless some conditions regarding length and structure of the piece should
be obeyed, I suggest that people who are interested in the project contact me directly
by e-mail.
As a special insider gag it's supposed to rain boing balls which the local firemen
will let fall down upon the extras from a net affixed to a ladder. For this, we need
a larger number of boing beachballs. And here again the community is asked: who can
do without his beachball before the summer vacation? Which dealers have maybe still
boing beachballs in stock and could put them shortly at our disposal? Maybe this
commercial could later be adapted as an AMIGA commercial.
My postal address is:
Bernhard Kellerer
Langgasse 8
A-6065 Thaur
- Austria -
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
AMIGAplus newsletter
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Event: AMIGA World 2001 website online
The website of the AMIGA World 2001, which is held from 20th to 22nd September 2001
in Cologne together with the maxpo2001, can from now on be reached at
www.amiga-messe.de and contains
the first, preliminary information. The English version should be available this
weekend.
If you want to book a booth at the show, please note that the definitive deadline
for booking is the 31st July. Later bookings are not possible.
Please send organizational or technical questions to info@amiga-messe.de.
If you are an exhibitor and want to publish news on the show website, please send them
to nico@amigaos.de.
Please note also that the phone and fax numbers of the show organizer
falkemedia have changed. The new numbers are (+49)-431 200766-0 and (+49)-431 200766-1
respectively and will be available from tomorrow on.
Contact:
falkemedia
An der Holsatiamühle 1, D-24149 Köln
Tel: (+49)-431 - 200766-0
Fax: (+49)-431 - 200766-0
info@amiga-messe.de (ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Saku 2001
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Event: Matay and Nova Design at Saku 2001
The companies Matay and Nova Design will attend the Finnish Amiga show Saku 2001
held on September 1st in Vantaa (near Helsinki). Read the announcement at the
title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Pawel Filipczak (ANF)
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SMS-Tool: TaskiSMS version 2.58
The new version 2.58 of TaskiSMS has been released. With this program you can
send short messages (SMS) to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The
program can be downloaded from the TaskiSMS homepage
or on Aminet.
News in this release:
- updated HandyLand plugin
- updated Lycos plugin
- added GoldenTelecom plugin
- fixed sms split routine, it's now more intelligent
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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epic interactive: Amiga version of The Feeble Files?
In the last weeks we received quite a few e-mails and requests for an
Amiga version of our upcoming Mac conversion of the cartoon adventure The Feeble
Files. Since porting the game to the Macintosh is now completed we have
evaluated the possibility of an Amiga version of this great game. An
Amiga version would require an 060/PPC equipped Amiga with 32 MByte RAM and a
graphics board (4 MB). The game would come with complete English and German
speech versions on at least 2 CDs. You can find more information on this great
title in the projects section of our homepage.
Because the Amiga market has declined over the past 12 months and porting a
game to another platform is always also a financial risk we have decided to
start a preorder campaign for The Feeble Files Amiga: If we receive at least
400 preorders for this game we will bring The Feeble Files to the Amiga.
Porting the game from the Mac to the Amiga should not take more than 6
weeks, so that the game could theoretically reach Amiga users by early
September. Please send orders to order@epic-interactive.com. The game will
cost Euro 51,10 (plus shipping). If you wish to pay by credit card please
contact KDH Datentechnik.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Fun Time World
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MP3 Encoder: LamePPC 3.89
Jarmo Laakkonen has released version 3.89 of the MP3 encoder LamePPC,
which only runs on WarpOS.
Download:
lame.lha (246 KB)
lam_src.lha (933 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Updates of bootable disks
Virus Help Denmark has updated the bootable antivirus disks, with version 33.26
of xvs.library. And we have also made a new disk with VirusExecutor
by Jan Erik Olausen.
Here is some info about the disks:
Kickstart 2.0x or higher:
VirusExecutor v2.19 (xvs.library v33.26) - 563.617 bytes (.dms packed)
VirusCheckerII v2.5 (xvs.library v33.26) - 468.680 bytes (.dms packed)
VirusZ III v0.94b (xvs.library v33.26) - 545.671 bytes (.dms packed)
Kickstart 1.2 or higher:
VT-Schutz v3.17 - 428.401 bytes (.dms packed) ** NOT UPDATED **
Virus Help Denmark still needs some translators who can translate some virus tests from
German into English. E-mail Jan Andersen
if you want to help.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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12.Jul.2001
Merlancia Industries
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Dave Haynie: CTO of Merlancia Industries
Dave Haynie is the new CTO of Merlancia Industries. Dave Haynie might be well known by any
Amiga user, cause he's a kind of living legend. The following is a brief summary of his career so far:
Dave Haynie studied electronic engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. After his studies four month
of employment at General Electric he was hired by Commodore in September 1983 to support their "TED" project,
which was started by Jack Tramiel. Later the C116 emerged from the "TED" project. While his times at Commodore
Haynie decisively worked on many projects, like several 8 bit machines (e.g. C128), the Amigas A500, A2000,
A2500, A3000, and A4000, Zorro-III, and he took part in the development of the AA and AAA chipsets, etc..
All in all he spent 11½ years at Commodore. 'Beside' of that he wrote about 50 articles for Amiga magazines
of those times; Amiga Sentry, .Info, Amiga Transactor, Amazing Computing, Amiga World, etc.. Furthermore he wrote
some developer tools and the FFS tool "DiskSalv".
Some of his 'stations' at Commodore:
- 1983: Commodore "TED" project, low-cost VIC-20 replacement.
- 1984: Commodore 128 project, the sequel to the venerable Commodore 64..
- 1986: Amiga 2000-B - slot-based Amiga.
He designed the gate-array (Buster) and a "coprocessor interface" for the CPU slot.
- 1988: Amiga 2620/2630: 68020/30 CPU cards for the Amiga 2000.
- 1989: Amiga 3000: First fully 32-bit Amiga architecture. As a co-creator of the system, he designed
the basic system architecture, the Zorro III expansion bus standard, and the "Buster" bus control
gate array which implemented Zorro III.
- 1991: Amiga 3000+": initially a product oriented design, this coupled the new Amiga "AA"
system/graphics chipset, an AT&T DSP3210 media coprocessor, 16-bit audio and modem CODECs, etc.
Management changes canceled the project, though some of its "DNA" lived on the Amiga 4000 and 1200.
He also developed basic modular "Acutiator" architecture for next-generation Amiga systems.
- 1992: Developed 32-bit SCSI controller for Amiga 4000, architecture for stand-alone DSP add-in cards,
and prototype of "AAA" motherboard, for Commodore's 4th generation, 64-bit Amiga graphics system.
System works, but by 1993, there's no money left to fix the four full-custom ASICs.
- 1994: Developed plug-in graphics subsystem for the Amiga. Commodore declares bankruptcy,
this is never built.
Haynie created a 2-hours video about the last day at Commodore and the goodbye-party, known by the name of
"The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales of Digital Angst". This video for example is as a bonus content of the
"Amiga Forever" CD by Cloanto.
After his times at Commodore Dave Haynie worked for the Scala Inc. company for a short time, where about 80%
of the former Commodore engineers met, again. In November 1995 Amiga Technologies contracted him to consult for
the PowerAmiga project. He developed a concept, but due to Escom's financial problems this project got canceled.
After that, in May 1996, Haynie was contracted by the PIOS Computer AG, where he was in charge of the hardware.
Shortly before founded by Stefan Domeyer PIOS engaged also other former Amiga Int. or Commodore employees, among them
such clinking names like Dr. Peter Kittel and Andy Finkel. PIOS formed up to become a successful distributor of
PowerPC hardware and to make the PowerAmiga dream reality - the term of "PiosONE" was born.
Later from the PIOS Computer AG the Met@box AG emerged, a group of meanwhile
six companies with among other things Settop boxes as part of their product line. Me@box made application for
insolvency in May 2001.
More stations on Haynie's way:
- 1999 - Fleecy Moss started the KOSH project
to develop a new open source operating system for the Amiga - Dave Haynie is responsible for the hardware.
systems and audio.
- 1999 - The "Phoenix Platform Consortium" to define the Amiga's future was founded - beside of Dave Haynie
also Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical, Wolf Dietrich (Phase 5), and Dan Dodge (QNX) were part of it.
- 2001 - In July Dave Haynie became CTO of Merlancia Industries.
He contributed information for the "The International Technology And. Computing Historical Association"
ITACHA, who collect 'artefacts' from technic and computer industry
and make these information available online. Unfortunately at this time there is only one page about the
"C65" available.
Also a really rich source for Amiga devotees are the
"The Dave Haynie Archives".
Last but not least it might be to mention that he became known and dear to many of the Amiga community
as a an unweary, all-time helpful co-worker/partner/friend. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF)
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Ride agency at Amigakult
Thomas Wolf wrote:
I created a rubric on the new page of Amigakult (www.amigakult.com)
where people wanting to attend the Cologne show can search or offer a ride to the show.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Change of address: PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
The new address of perSuaSiVe SoftWorX since 01. July 2001 is:
Andreas R. Kleinert
Rabenflugstrasse 1
D-57074 Siegen
E-Mail-address, phone and fax number did not change and letters to the
old address will not get lost.
(ps)
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12.Jul.2001
Deftone (ANF)
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Website: graphician wanted!
Who would be interested in creating a logo for the DJ portal for a banner on the
site in return? Just send an e-mail to
deftone@blitzengineers.de.
Thanks.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
amiga.org (ANF)
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CNet: Psion leaving handheld business
Psion, who were about to utilize the AmigaDE for future PDAs, will leave the
handheld business. The reason might be that Psion do not have enough financial
resources to compete with PalmOS or WinCE products.
The share declined in price to it's all-time-low during the last weeks.
But Psion is working on the Netbook. It is obscure to what extent these changes will affect
the use of the AmigaDE.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Golem IT-News (ANF)
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Golem: Motorola at severe loss
As to read at golem.de Motorola suffers from a crisis in the tele-communication
market. The company drew sales of 7.5 millions USD in 1Q/01 which stands for a
minus of 19% compared to last year's sales.
Follow the title link for the Golem article (German).
Edtor's note: Since at the moment every chip manufacturer in fact is in the same situation
this seems to be more likely a normal evolution of market.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
SixK
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Webserver: MorphOS Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.0.6
Version v1.3.20 of the webserver including the script language module
PHP v4.0.6 for MorphOS is available from the 'SixK Port Page'. This version
is for use with the official
Amiga Apache archive.
Download: apache1320_php406_mos.lzx
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)
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CD32-Allianz website moved
Thorsten Schoelzel wrote:
CD32/CDTV-Corner moving
Unfortunately I'm not able to update the CD32/CDTV-Corner more often, at
the time being. The server space decreased more an more, so the site now
move to a new server. The new address is:
http://home.nexgo.de/cd32-allianz/
Along with this move new possibilities raise for the CD32/CDTV-Corner, cause
now other CD32 and CDTV freaks can help working on the website to design it
more interesting and topical. Everybody wanting to help now can contribute
own content, as long as this content matches the subject of the page. Who is
interested and means business will get all access data via e-mail promptly.
If this test of organizing a webpage with several webmasters will succeed,
this will sure affect other homepages, too. A very interesting test, I think.
(ps)
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