20.Sep.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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DigiBoosterPro Community starting survey
Matthias Münch wrote:
The DigiBoosterPro community page is starting a topical survey, today, to
learn how much are interested in DigiBoosterPro being further developed. This survey has
a 30 days duration. We then will analyze the data and contact the developers.
Thus I ask for your active participation.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Matay
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Matay: Network card driver for RTL 8029 version 0.22
Version 0.22 of the driver for the chip based network card RTL8029
is available at the download section of the Prometheus support page.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Amiga.org
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Errorwear: Guru Meditation (Amiga) T-Shirt available
The Amiga Guru Meditation t-shirt announced
by Errorwear is available now and can be ordered under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: New winnings for demo competition
As already reported
the English news service Amiga.org is organizing a demo competition for
the AmigaDE with categories for 64k and 4k demos.
Amiga Inc. is giving away some merchandising
products like the Amiga watch, mouse pads, coffee cups, and hats for this competition.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packets (until 20.09.01)
Thanks to WHDLoad floppy-disk-only games can be installed to harddisk. The following packets
have been added or updated:
- 20.09.01 new: Road Kill (Vision) done by JOTD
- 20.09.01 new: Chuckie Egg 2 (Pick and Choose) done by Codetapper
- 20.09.01 new: Chuckie Egg (Pick and Choose) done by Codetapper
- 19.09.01 improved: Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm) supports another version
- 19.09.01 improved: Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (LucasFilms Games) supports another version
- 19.09.01 new: Eswat (U.S.Gold) done by CFOU!
- 19.09.01 improved: Perihelion (Psygnosis) misc changes
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Frogger
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MPEG: Frogger in Russian and with new Argue-GUI
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz is offering for download a Russian translation of the Frogger.guide on
his website, now. Furthermore the Argue-GUI was updated.
This MPEG player supports playing of MPEG-1/2 videos with MPEG layer I, II, and III as well as
AC3 audio formats. The program is available in versions (1.66) for PowerUp, WOS, and 68k, while
audio output is disabled for the 68k version due to a bug which could not be located, up to now.
A version with audio output will be released after this bug was fixed. Als the MorphOS version
was almost finished.
Download of the different versions is possible via
frogger.rules.pl and
highantdev.de/frogger.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ Version 5.04
With Reoprt+ by Amigan Software bugreports, Aminet readme files, autodocs, and
similar can be created easily. The program is freeware and supports the GUI systems
ReAction and GadTools.
Download: report.lha (376 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Fr3dY's Software: Ixemul Libs V48.2 and more updates
- 20/September/2001: Updated Ixemul Libs to v48.2
- 19/September/2001: Added Anubis v1.0.1
- 19/September/2001: Added /var/tmp to IxEnv (tip by Jean Holzammer)
- 18/September/2001: Updated SoX to v12.17.2
- 13/September/2001: Updated wvWare to v0.6.7
(ps)
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20.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Radoslav Marusa
Radoslav Marusa, developer from the "Ablaze Entertainment" team and known by
games like "Strangers" (distributor Vulcan Software) and a realtime strategy game
for ClickBOOM as well as the program "ACommander2" for the AmigaDE SDK answered
questions of the Amiga Arena. Ablaze
Entertainment is developing for the AmigaDE SDK only, at the time being. Read the
interview at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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ACBB: ComBär pictures online
From now on pictures from the ComBär are available at the web-gallery.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Saku 2001 Pictures and Fleecy's Greetings Online
Following the tradition of the Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku events,
Saku 2001 generated a lot of material in the form of pictures, sounds
and text, which is now available online. All material, including Fleecy's
letter to Saku 2001, can be found via the official page of the Saku 2001
event at http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001.
(ps)
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19.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD update 1.04
Elbox Computer has made available the MM CD 1.04
upgrade today for registered Mediator Multimedia CD users.
The update removes a bug, which led to incorrect
settings for the Sound Blaster PCI128 playback frequency.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
Markus Nerding (email)
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H&P: news about AmigaOS XL
Markus Nerding (H&P) wrote:
Discussion forums
19. Sept. 2001: with the beginning of this week we created two discussion forums
at Yahoogroups. First you have to register at Yahoogroups (groups.yahoo.com or groups.yahoo.de) and than subscribe to the
group. The subscribing is only possible via groups.yahoo.com (just enter there
amigaxl or amithlon in the search field) because the national access doesn't know
these groups. A real stupid error of Yahoogroups.
Important hint: we recommend to discuss all questions in the group amigaxl as
most of the people certainly can't know which emulator they'll use. More
comprehensive instructions will follow tomorrow.
The dealing with the questions runs at full speed.
19. Sept. 2001: We are right now dealing with the countless questions that were
asked. Using these we'll create further texts regarding the products
Amithlon/AmigaXL to make the advantages and limitations more apparent. Please
give us 1-2 days time for this ;-)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packages (till 18.09.01)
Games that are thought to run only from disks can be installed to hard
disk thanks to WHDLoad. The following packages were added or updated:
- 18.09.01 improved: Control (Oxygene) better performance
- 18.09.01 new: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (LucasFilm Games) done by JOTD
- 18.09.01 new: Demons Are Forever (D.O.C.) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
- 18.09.01 new: Tune Disk 1 (Concept) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
- 18.09.01 new: Hardcore (Anarchy) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
- 18.09.01 new: Super Cauldron (Titus) done by CFOU!
- 18.09.01 new: Quik (Stywos/Titus) done by CFOU!
- 18.09.01 new: Maupiti Island (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
- 18.09.01 new: Kult (Exxos) done by CFOU!
- 18.09.01 new: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (tyne Soft) done by CFOU!
- 17.09.01 improved: Zak Mc Kracken (Lucasfilm) supports another version
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
GoldED / Czech Amiga News
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Discussion forum for GoldED
A discussion forum has been created for visitors of this site to share
comments and opinions with other users of our software. On occasion of
opening the forum, the first week's visitors will get a 50% rabate on
all prices in our shop (while stock lasts). To claim your discount,
log-in to the forum and register your e-mail address during the
process.
(ps)
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19.Sep.2001
AROS
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AROS status: 76,62 % finished and 6,68 % in the works
The development of AROS steadily continues. Right now, already 76,62 % finished
and 6,68 % in the works. This means 16,7 % work still to be done. AROS is an
Open Source reimplementation of the AmigaOS 3.1.
Next to the source code executable versions for Linux/i386, Linux/m68k,
FreeBSD/i386 and the standalone version for IBM compatible PCs have been
released. On the AROS main site you can find
further details regarding this project.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)
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MagicMenu searching new home
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Olaf Barthel, the actual programer of MagicMenu, is leaving. Unfortunately
he hasn't enough time anymore for the project as other works take too much time
(e.g. the programming on AmigaOS 3.9...). For this reason Olaf has sent me all
sources of MM with the request to find a successor. So, everybody with interest
to continue the project may send me his/her application. ;-) This week there'll
be an update to version 2.31. This will probably be the last update done by
Olaf. Further information should follow soon on www.magicmenu.de (title link).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
ANN
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ANN reactivated
Christian Kemp, the maintainer of Amiga Network News (ANN), is working on
version 3 of the scripts for ANN and had therefore stopped the possibility to post
news at short notice. As the new scripts now do demand more time than supposed
first this function has been reactivated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench will soon be aged four
AmiBench, the refuge for small advertisments in the Amiga section,
can soon celebrate its fourth birthday. For this reason there'll be a birthday
quiz where among other presents Photogenics, the known image processor for
various platforms, will be raffled.
Besides that, Mark ´tecno´ Wilson, the maintainer of AmiBench,
bannounces that Neil Caunt will support him in the task of managing the site by
doing the daily work.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
ALiENDESiGN
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ALiENDESiGN: CD read errors
Some CDs, that were delivered with the Repulse Gold soundcard, have read errors.
Affected are CDs that were delivered with Repulse Gold soundcards with a serial
number between 51-32-2-0000 and 51-32-2-0069. We will exchange these CDs.
Should you have such a CD then please contact ALiENDESiGN.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
WinUAE Homepage (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.17 release 1
Since yesterday is in download area of the WinUAE
homepage the WinUAE 0.8.17 release 1 available.
Changes made in version WinUAE 0.8.17 release 1:
- FIXED: Various AGA and chipset-related fixes. (Bernd#1, Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: .GZ support in floppy dialog doesn't cause corruption. (Timothy)
- FIXED: Updated sprite-collision logic which fixes Leander, Archon 1 and 2,
Menace, etc. (Toni)
- FIXED: Updated disk-emulation code, for higher compatability. Also now
supports .fdi and high-density .adf images. (Toni, Adil Temel)
- FIXED: 60Hz support in Dynablaster and BC Kid (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: BSD-Socket emulation is mostly working, although bugs still exist.
(Bernd#3)
- FIXED: Picasso96 screens smaller than their display-mode would have crap
in their left-hand-border if you grabbed the screen's title-bar and
moved the screen to the right.
- FIXED: Updated copy of rtg.library, including more patches. (Bernd#3)
- FIXED: You can set the WinUAE resolution in full-screen to whatever you
desire. Especially useful so that you set your full-screen size to
match your desktop size, and it will prevent all your desktop icons
from moving around after exitting WinUAE. (me, Georg)
- FIXED: Stupid sound_channels=0 stuff in config-files works properly.
- FIXED: Stupid gfx_center_xxx=yes/no stuff in config-files works properly.
- FIXED: Selecting an item in the Hard Drives page of the GUI and then
moving its position in the list now leaves the item highlighted.
- FIXED: Detect OS version early, and inform the user appropriately instead
of crashing. Windows NT is no longer a supported OS for WinUAE.
- FIXED: Various little off-by-one pixel errors in the GUI.
- FIXED: MIDI in/out lists in the Ports page of GUI were behaving strangely.
- FIXED: Floppy-disc emulation change to allow Shadow of the Beast Trainer
to work. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Small change in MIDI support so that closing MIDI and then
reopening it will work properly. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Call ahi_install in main.c. No Amiga-side AHI driver yet.
- FIXED: MIDI-input doesn't have the concept of a "default device", unlike
MIDI-output. Changed the GUI and programming accordingly.
- FIXED: MIDI-output now does the right things with the serial-port after
each written byte, which allows some other programs to finally
work (MusicX, Deluxe Music, etc.)
- ADDED: New hook function in uaelib for checking on removable drive state.
- ADDED: Disk-change status is now tracked via WM_DEVICECHANGE notifications
which allows "run >nil: uaediskchange cd0:" in the startup-sequence
to work properly. Eject a CD-ROM, and the Amiga knows about it.
Insert a new CD-ROM, and the Amiga knows about it. Woo-hoo!
NOTE: Probably really buggy.
- ADDED: New collision-modes, fast-copper mode (not save-able with config).
- ADDED: State-save support. (Toni Wilen)
- ADDED: Option in Sound page of GUI to enable/disable synchronized sound.
- ADDED: Printing of DDCAPS info for display-driver, to help diagnostics.
- ADDED: FDI disk-image support (Toni Wilen)
- CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will get less out of
sync. (Jose Gil, myself)
- CHANGED: Add PC Drives no longer adds the floppy-drives. If you want access
to A:, then you'll have to add it manually in the GUI.
- CHANGED: Added ability to allocate larger amount of ZorroIII memory.
(Bernd#3)
- CHANGED: Added ability to allocate larger amount of RTG (Picasso96) memory.
(Bernd#3)
- CHANGED: Removed Vertical Blank Synchronization (VSync) support in Flip
calls. This should increase synchronization and performance in
full-screen mode, but may introduce some tearing/artifacting.
- CHANGED: Use the system "hand" cursor when pointing at web-links in the
About page (if available). (Oscar Sillani)
- CHANGED: Use Tahoma font in About page of GUI.
- CHANGED: Use up/down icons in the HardDisk page of GUI. (Oscar Sillani)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
Thomas Steiding (email)
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Strategy game: Knights and Merchants (Mac) shipping
Realtime strategic economy simulation Knights and Merchants is now shipping
for the Mac. Knights and Merchants recreates the era of the Middle Ages. The
player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the king's Palace guard
who finds himself responsible for the defense of the last loyal province.
You, the player, must win back all those provinces which once belonged to
your king. You have to manufacture different products, making use of
numerous buildings and producer goods of the Middle Ages period. One result
of your productive labor is the manufacturing of weapons and armor. But your
success or failure depends mainly on the structure and organization of your
economy. An efficient organization increases production, while a badly
organized structure will cause non-stop delays.
Features:
- about 25 different types of buildings , including horse stables, farms and
schools
- over a dozen different types of characters such as serfs, miners or
winemakers
- 10 different types of military units including archers, Knights and
pikemen
- realistic landscape display using complex Gouraud Shading techniques
- production processes portrayed in detailed animation (watch your horses
grow)
- rendered cutscenes
- german localisation
- onscreen hints and tutorial mode provide easy guidance to get started
- multiplayer Mode for upto 6 players in LAN
- 20 singleplayer missions
- 10 multiplayer maps
Knights and Merchants comes in fully localised english, french, german and
spanish versions.
The distribution in Germany is done by the company Arktis. More
Information about Knights and Merchants can be found in the project area on our
pages (title link) or under
http://www.knightsandmerchants.de.
(ps)
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19.Sep.2001
Peter Sander (ANF)
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AS-WebShop online again/ server problem fixed
Peter Sander, manager, wrote:
The SGH-Hildesheim (provider) seems to have solved the server problem.
I could upload the webshop again - inclusive env variables - and run it. All is
(hopefully) in best conditions.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
Amclust "Amiga Club Steinfurt" (ANF)
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Amclust & AC Osnabrück hardware event with (DCE) PCI board presentation
On the next weekend Amclust and the AC Osnabrück meet for a "Amiuser"
weekend in Rheine. The meeting is taking place from 21.09. to 23.09.2001 in
Rheine in the TV-Jahn Haus, Germanenallee 4.
Following are the activities planned:
- Computer check
- Software hints
- Cando programming with Ch. Effenberger (support)
- Discussions with Frank Mariak and Thomas Dellert
- Hardware presentation of the GRex PCI boards in A1200, A4000D/T with Thomas Dellert
- Presentation of CyberGraphX (native) under MorphOS with Frank Mariak
- Hardware presentation of the keyboard adapter for multimedia keyboards
(SuperFeatures).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: PC monitors and your Amiga
Someday there'll be the day all fear. The monitor stops working! Amiga monitors
aren't built anymore for several years now. And now? Or your monitor is still
working but you're looking enviously at PC and Mac users with their 17 or 21
inch monitors. In both cases this short text, written by a reader of the Amiga
Future, helps.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Sep.2001
Jazzy (ANF)
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Boing-ball on Microsoft's website
I was just looking at some screenshots of Windows XP and found a boing-ball in some
demo step. :-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Sep.2001
Henning Thielemann (ANF)
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Sound card: Realtime effects for Delfina
Who's owning a Delfina sound card will receive some nice realtime effects
with "DelfLuxe", such like filters (band-passes, low-passes, flanger, allpas-phaser),
reverberation, distorter, similar to the effects of my sound synthesis program Assampler.
Who additionally has a MIDI interface can access the parameter from MIDI devices, too, e.g.
the claviature, the pitch-bender or the modulation-wheel. Furthermore it is possible to
combine the software modules of the card using "DelfSetPipeMui", which has a MUI interface.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)
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World of Amiga Tickets can now be purchased ON-LINE!
We are happy to announce that our show sponsors,
Amiga Active Magazine have set up an
online service for you to buy WOA southeast tickets in advance via their secure server.
Why queue outside in the cold November weather whilst you can waltz straight in with your pre
purchased ticket?
Remember if you purchase 5 or more tickets, you pay the reduced fee of just £3.00 per ticket!
Alternatively, tickets can still be purchased via our exclusive Telephone/Mail order, sales
re-seller, Fore-Matt Home Computing on +44 (0)8700 112234.
Visit our website for ticket purchasing information
http://www.worldofamiga.com
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18.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xfdmaster.library Version 39.13
Dirk Stöcker updated his xfdmaster.library which is very important, since almost
any antivirus software requires it for unpacking and archiving before and after
virus tests. Here are the details:
Name: xfdmaster.library v39.13
Archive name: xfdmaster.lha
Archive size: 163.510 Bytes
Release date: 17. September 2001
Programmer: Dirk Stöcker
Xfdmaster.library info:
The XFD system is for single file decrunching. It can be compared to
XAD system, which is for file extraction from archives! They do
different work, but are used together often.
This software package allows you to decrunch almost every packed file
known on the Amiga. It consists of the xfdmaster.library as the brain
and a couple of programs that offer certain functions to the user.
The xfdmaster.library is a standard Amiga shared, runtime library. It
works with Kickstart V33+ and offers applications the possibility to
directly support any crunched files.
Other than the predecessor decrunch.library, the xfdmaster.library has
a more flexible interface, offers the possibility to decrunch already
loaded program segments, supports external decrunchers, is able to
unlink 4EB9/4EF9- and text-linked files and can scan for crunched data
in any memory area.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Sep.2001
NetBSD/Amiga (ANF)
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NetBSD-1.5.2 released
The NetBSD project announce the release of NetBSD-1.5.2.
NetBSD-1.5.2 is a "pathc release" building on the NetBSD-1.5 branch and
basically containing corrections.
For example a problem with the installation procedure for NetBSD/Amiga was
fixed, which creeped into NetBSD-1.5.1.
Furthermore secure problems in sendmail, telnetd, openssl, dmuplfs, fts,
dhcp, and the size test parameter with some kernel calls were fixed.
Please, take more datails from the original announcement (title link).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.9
Version 16.9 of the virus detector 'Safe' was released. Here are the details:
Name: Safe v16.9
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 18.371 Bytes
Release date: 14. September 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
News in v16.9:
- cosmetic changes
- removed most of offending texts
Thanks to Charlene McNulty for paying attention.
- removed ZeebsVS as I have shown what I had to
Thanks to Dirk Stoecker for paying attention,
thanks to Georg Hoermann for reaction!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Sep.2001
Apple
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Apple Expo 2001 in Paris canceled
Yesterday, Apple announced cancelation of the Apple Expo which was planned to
take place from 26th to 30th September in Paris, Porte de Versailles, France.
"Under the clouds of last week's tragical and disastrous incidences we feel impelled to cancel
the Apple Expo", said Steve Jobs, CEO Apple. "We are sorry to disappoint our customers and
exhibitors, but your security takes priority."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Sep.2001
entwickler.com
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entwickler.com: Trend Micro obtained US patent for scanning Java viruses
Trend Micro, known by extensive
antivurs sofware solutions, patented their Trend-Mirco technology for scanning
Java viruses as patent number 6.272.641 for the USA. The company considers viruses
to be dangerous also outside of PCs and networks, due to the increasing distribution
of Java in the mobile phone field.
See title link for the article of entwickler.com (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Sep.2001
Reader (ANF)
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Sourceforge: Internet C++ - Build One Program - Run It Everywhere
A reader wrote:
There is a new project at sourceforge (follow the title link). This project has the following description:
"Build One Program - Run It Everywhere". I think that I know this concept. Slashdot called it an alternartive for Java.
It will be a hard struggle for Amiga if this becomes a common thing. It is released under the GPL and supports OpenGL,
Java and much more.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Sep.2001
The Register
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The Register: Motorola completes 1.6GHz PowerPC G5
According to 'The Register' the new PowerPC 8500 (G5) will soon be available as 800 MHz, 1 GHz, 1.2 GHz, 1.4 GHz an 1.6 GHz
versions. The processor is a 64Bit one and will support multiprocessor systems. The new processor will be shipped early next
year.
The whole article is available at the title link.
(cm) (Translation: sk)
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17.Sep.2001
Hugo Hoekstra, GREat Effects Development (E-Mail)
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GREed Website: new URL
The website of "GREat Effects Development", developers of the "Professional FileSystems" (PFS),
has a new URL (http://on.to/greed). Please change your bookmark.
(mj) (Translation: sk)
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17.Sep.2001
Christain Rosentreter (ANF)
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New cartoon by Eric Schwartz
The new cartoon by Eric Schwartz deals with the topical situtation in the USA.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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Logo competition of AMIGA Center
The French Amiga specialist 'AMIGA Center' is organizing a logo
competition. You can win an A1200 Magic. More detailed information
in French are available via the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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MP3: mp3Play V1.1
On 16. September 2001 Carl Svensson has released version 1.1 of
his 'mp3Play' GUI for the MP3 player 'MPEGA'.
This GUI distinguishes by the player being started with the respective
options set in a way that only 25% of the CPU time given is used on a
68060/50 (according to Dashboard). The GUI was written in ARexx using
ReqTools. Changes since prior version:
- Bugfix: Pressing 'Cancel' now brings you back to the GUI with a
'no file' display, as with pressing 'Stop'. In v1.0 always a file requester was
show first.
Download: mp3Play.lha (38K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Game: dynAMIte V1.7
On 16. September 2001 version 1.7 of the network capable Bomberman clone
'dynAMIte' was released.
This version fixes some small bugs and comes with many smaller changes, a lag'O'meter was
added and sprites handling was completely changed to make the sprite routines use less
CPU performance.
All changes in detail can be taken from the
changes text.
Download:
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16.Sep.2001
Milan Pollé (ANF)
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Game: Genetic Species for Gameboy Advance
Some time ago Milan Pollé started a petition
to learn how much are interested in a Gameboy Advance port of the Amiga ego-shooter 'Genetic Species'.
Many interested people vote for such a port
(http://www.dreamcast.ca/gameboyland/gs/gs.htm) and
there where even more Amiga users for such port than people from the
'IGN Gameboy Advance'-Forum.
Now Milan Pollé received an e-mail from 'Marble-Eyes' anouncing the porting in cooperation with the Danish games
developers 'Entale'. Those introduced the game to publishers on the ECTS 2001 by screenshots and tests:
«Hi,
Marble-Eyes has recently started cooperation with Danish game developer
Entale on porting GS to Game Boy Advance. Armed with sales documents,
screenshots and rave reviews, Entale representatives have attended the
ECTS 2001 show in London to meet publishers and show them the potential
of GS.
We are all very excited and looking forward to a possible revival of GS
on the GBA console. GS and Amiga lovers out there, thank you for the
great support!
For future news on the progress of GS Advance, please visit
www.entale.com.
For any questions or encouraging words, feel free to write Entale at
geneticspecies@entale.com
Regards
Martin Halberg, Marble Eyes Development»
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - News
Distribution of the astronomy program 'Digital Almanac III' must be put
on hold for an undefined period of time due to the Amiga computer being
defective.
Because of occupational reasons also further development of DA III was stopped
for the time being (lack of time).
At this time no decision was made regarding a possible OS 4.0 port for the
AmigaOne board.
Support and mailing list is being continued without any cutback.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Website for card reader / writer almost completely online
Carsten Siegner put online a website about the use of the card reader / writer
'PCD47' by Microtech with the Amiga.
Already some information about this device can be found there and some material
and programs can be downloaded.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Requester - fjm V1.2
On 13. September 2001 Claudio La Rosa has released version 1.2 of
the requester tool 'fjm' for the AmigaDE SDK. This is about an
Intent-Secondary-Tool which emulates the AmigaOS-EasyRequest() function.
Download: dev/tlib/fjm.zip (28K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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16.Sep.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Tool - devinfo.00 V1.0
On 14. September 2001 Robert Kocher has released version 1.0 of the
'devinfo.00' tool for the AmigaDE SDK. This is about a replacement of
the original devinfo tool from '/app/sdtio', with some extensions.
Those extensions are coloured output and the output of descriptions of
all devices, and more.
Download: util/moni/devinfo.00 (3K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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15.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence News
News about DeepSilence - SOMS
On the homepage you can now subscribe to a
newsletter that sends the latest news regarding the game project.
For the moment is the forum inactive. As soon as it works again we'll inform you
via the newsletter. Besides that, the email address of the leader Sylvio Kurze
changed to Sylvio.K@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: minor updates
Today several updates had been uploaded. For one, some new entries have been
added to the software page - some will follow later this evening. Besides that,
there are now surveys for news, hardware and software where links corresponding
with the subjects will be entered in the coming time, and of course you can pass
on links regarding all subjects to us.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - special discount campaign
In co-operation with Sven Dröge the Amiga Arena makes a special price
available for "Bonds". Bonds is a finance software for the managing of
securities of all kind. The main focus are shares, though. The software
is specially adapted for the finance market Germany and handles best securities
that are dealt in Germany as it uses the security identification number system
of the Deutsche Börse.
Some features in overview:
- Management of objects of different cathegories
- Cathegories are: shares, fonds, subscription warrants, indices or currencies
- Graphical display of the price data as lines chart
- Opening, closing, maximum and minimum prices as well as traded volume
- Several chart levels (complete, 30 days, 1 year, etc.)
- Several gliding averages like 7, 38, 200 days lines
- Free scalable charts
- Graphically displayed function for comparing two charts in percentage
- Draw function for own technical chart analysis
Olaf Köbnik: "I'm once again pleased to be able to offer a software for the Amiga for
a special price that shows that the Amiga still covers versatile areas!"
Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena made a detailed interview with Sven Dröge, developer of Bonds. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Inutilis News / Timo Kloss (email)
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Developer kit: Inga on the shelves
The Inga developer kit for graphic adventures is from now on available in the
shops. This system is already used for the adventure "Ermentrud" that is in
development right now and can shine with the following features:
- Graphics: 640x480 pixel in 256 colors (CyberGraphX required)
- Voice and sound output via AHI possible
- Music from audio CD possible
- Easy usage without classical verbs list
- Easy to use developer tools
- Script language for flexible story design
The package contains three installation disks and a comprehensive printed manual.
System requirements:
- CPU: 020 (060 recommended)
- Graphics card with CyberGraphX or compatible (P96)
- AmigaOS 3.0 (3.5 recommended)
- Hard disk
- Also successfully tested on UAE with P96!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga Future
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Amiga Flame article about AmigaPDA translated by Amiga Future
Following the title link you'll find the German translation by Markus Castro
(Amiga Future) of the article Amiga's Role in the PDA Market
by Amiga Flame.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Amiga.org / Dirk Baeyens
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The question for the future of MUI
Remco Komduur, editor of the Dutch Amiga magazine
AmigaScene, has written an interesting
English article about the future of MUI (Magic User Interface, by Stefan Stuntz).
You can find the article using the title link.
Amiga.org has furthermore started a poll dealing with MUI as subject. You can
find the poll on the main page of Amiga.org
in the right menu.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Card reader/writer news
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today, slightly delayed, I have now tested my card reader/writer with Sony
memory sticks. These run as expected very good and I can access them like a hard
disk.
Some users say that the device would be too expensive. These users have to
consider that they'll own a universal key for all mobile digital devices.
These are among others digital video cams (especially those of Sony), digital
photo cameras (all cameras with card slot) and MP3 players (with card slot).
Additionally, I can imagine that in conjunction with IBM microdrives these
drives may be used for data exchange between laptops and Amiga. (Because of a
lack of money I wasn't able to test this yet).
A user asked whether compact flash cards would work, too. This can be answered
clearly with "YES".
Boot ability of memory cards:
Not tested yet but theoretically possible as I use mount lists to access the
memory cards.
A RDB block cannot be written on the cards as they have always to be formatted
in photo cameras or MP3 players.
This is absolutely necessary because of compatibility reasons though you
may probably be able to format these memory cards with an Amiga file system,
too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
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H&P: AmigaOS XL for x86
Under the title link you can find the promised details regarding AmigaOS XL,
two new Amiga emulators for x86 computers that are offered in a double pack.
Here's an exerpt:
AMIthlon - The fastest Amiga ever
Insert the CD-ROM, switch on your PC and boot into the fastest Amiga ever. There
is no complicated and boring installation. The development team of Harald Frank
(VMC) and Bernd Meyer even implemented native support for nVidia and Matrox
graphics cards providing maximum graphics performance. Opening windows on the
Workbench is so fast that you can barely watch it anymore.
With AMIthlon you can even use your old Amiga hard-disk in your PC. Simply
connect it to your PC, start AMIthlon and that's it.
AmigaXL for QNX - The most functional Amiga ever
The host operating system for AmigaXL is QNX 6.1. It is included in the package.
QNX has many similarities with the AmigaOS. It has a micro kernel and the
drivers are separate processes. Like devices and handlers in AmigaOS these can
be dynamically started and stopped. This makes the system extremely light weight
and resource efficient.
Features that QNX provides can directly be used within the emulated Amiga. This
includes network functionality and multimedia features. QNX applications like
the web browser Opera® can be started directly from the AmigaOS screen. One can
say both operating systems work together seamlessly.
System requirements:
Athlon-, Duron, Pentium-, Celeron-CPU with 500 MHz or more. AmigaOS XL supports
usual graphic, sound and network cards. A complete list is available on our
homepage amigaxl.haage-partner.de
or www.amithlon.com.
Availability: The delivery will start about 41st week. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Sep.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Stock exchange software: Bonds V1.83 available (update)
The version 1.83 of the stock exchange software Bonds is available. Some smaller
bugs have been removed. Major improvement of the package is that there exists finally
an installer script. The NewInstaller by AirsoftSoftware is used to get an
appropriate scale. The tool "KursUpdater" is from now on not needed anymore as
Bonds now contains the shell option "JUSTUPDATE", and therefore makes the
updater needless.
Update 15.09.2001:
Sven Dröge wrote:
Unfortunately had the archive Bonds.lha on my webpage a CRC error. I apologize
for any inconvenience. In the meantime there's a corrected archive available.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Sep.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE: Interview with Spot (member of Up Rough)
Richard Kapp writes:
Again we have a new interview for you. This time we have talked to Spot,
member of the scene demo group Up Rough who have made the 9th place at the
Mekka Symposium 2k+1 with their demo 'April in Paris'. We have asked him
some questions about his group, but have also talked about the situation of
the Amiga scene and of course we haven't forgotten about the topic scene
demos and graphics cards (we also wanted to know which coder he currently
considers to be the best).
Other than that, our vote is still running and some new entries (such as
a couple of scene demos not available on Aminet) have been added as well.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (e-mail)
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Elbox: SB Power in Mediator
ELBOX COMPUTER - Krakow, 13 September 2001
SB POWER IN MEDIATOR
Elbox Computer hereby announces availability of the
software update for the Sound Blaster PCI128 sound card
for all the users of MEDIATOR PCI busboards, who have
registered as users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package.
This update expands the list of supported operation modes
of the AHI drivers with the '++' modes and introduces
support for the Sub_Update AHI function used by tools
software for edition of music.
The Sound Blaster PCI128 card working in the DMA mode
loads the Amiga processor when playing back uncompressed
music files much less than any other sound card connected
through Zorro II or the clock port. This feature, combined
with high playback quality and flexibility of configuration
resulting from the number of mixed inputs/outputs makes
Sound Blaster PCI128 the best sound card offered at any
time for Amiga computers.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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14.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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DeepSilence-SOMS is back
Sylvio K. writes:
The game developer team DeepSilence is back with their game
´The Secret of my Soul´.
For a long time, the developer team DeepSilence did their name great credit.
Due to the lack of personnel we had to put our activities for some time on ice.
Now we have found a new programmer as well as a new storywriter for our game.
Also, our page is back online with a new exclusive demo of SOMS. The demo comes
with PPC and graphics card support, as well as new effects and brand new graphics.
You can reach our page at http://soms.fanhp.de (no
advertising) or at http://soms.debox.de.
Sadly we have to say that our newsletter does not exist anymore. We thus ask
the subscribers for some patience. There'll soon be a new newsletter.
Also the IRC channel #Amigafun at ie.altnet.org is now the official SOMS chat
channel. Here you can chat with some of us (Sylvio K. = MangaClub and Markus B. = Trojan)
and ask questions.
Details are at http://amigafun.stefan1200.de.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
Cyborg (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: CIM improved to current version 1.03_10
Cyborg's Instant Messenger in version 1.03_10 now supports PGP encryption so
that a communication cannot be read by others without huge efforts. A recognition
of the transmission by the system administrator is still ensured. No hidden
message is sent, it thus can hardly be considered a hacker method. The preferences
window can now be enlarged and the problems with some installations are fixed.
The next improvement should be the file transfer, but due to my job I won't have
the time to work on it in the next weeks except for some bugfixes.
Cyborg
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Sep.2001
PCWelt download area (ANF)
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Clock as Amiga ball for Windows
This tool is basically a "desktop improvement" - an analog clock which is shown without
window and frame. The background can be chosen from a list of provided graphics. Of
course there is a possibility to create own graphics for the background.
An individual color can be set for hour, minute and second clock-hands to achieve
an optimal user-defined design.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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