18.Dec.2001
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Graphics Adventure Engine: Update of 'Inga'
A new udpate of the graphics adventure engine "Inga" is available on the
Inga homepage (title link), from now on. The following has changed:
- The sound plugin now enables voice and sound output via AHI.
- RAM cache system reworked.
- CLI programs can be executed with the "Extern" command.
- Single character animations are only loaded if required.
- Animations now appear as fast as if the engine would run at 20 fps (no frames skipped)
- The scroll text in sequences now also moves with constant speed, independant of the actual
number of fps.
- No more mouse pointer in sequences, anymore.
- Characters can be displayed that far on top of the screen, that e.g. only
the feet are visible (this would have caused graphic erros in the past).
- Running characters will reach their target point accurate on pixel (previously only roughly).
- Animated objects can be displayed as still picture, whereas the single picture to be viewed
can be set using Inga-Skript (see compendium under "Objekt-Standbild").
- Objects "bound" to the mouse pointer are now displayed along with thier animation.
- PlugIn system reworked (safer now).
- PlugIns can be disabled by thier options (tooltypes).
- Miscelleanous little bugs fixed.
So, only audio CD support is still missing, now.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Dec.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Image Editing: PNG-Box V 2.51 and SViewIV V 9.25
Andreas Kleinert has placed PNG-Box version 2.51 and SViewIV version 9.25 in the Aminet. With PNG-Box you can convert graphic files via the SuperView-Library to PNG.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Dec.2001
Amiga Future (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Andrzej Bugajny (Exodus)
Amiga Future has made an interview with Andrzej Bugajny, the coder of Exodus.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Dec.2001
Amiga Arena (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Darius Brewka
There are some startmenus for the Amiga, but non of those are currently
being further developed. With "AmiStart" recently a new version was released
on Aminet, which development leads back to 1998. The Amiga Arena talked to
the author Darius Brewka about the relaunche of the development of AmiStart as
well as about Amiga Inc., Amithlon and the future of "AmiStart".
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Dec.2001
PC-WELT
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PC-WELT: Beware of Exploding CDs
The article of "PC-Welt" (German computer magazine) reports that
CD-ROMs starting from 48x speed under certain circumstances get in that much strain that these explode inside the drive.
This also happened to the St. Andrews University in Edinburgh, England.
Read the University's advices on this subject:
Exploding CDs?.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Dec.2001
Charlene of Virus Help Team Canada (ANF)
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XAD Unpacks ZIP Archives For VirusChecker To Test
For quite some time, VirusChecker has been unable to unpack and virustest
any ZIP archives. I have now managed to unpack .zip archives quite nicely
with Dirks XAD shareware package. Please remember to support all our
excellent Amiga programmers, even if their particular program has gone
from shareware to freeware. You may not realize what a God-send they
are, until something goes wrong. Thanks!
These directions will always be available on the VirusChecker links page.
- a) get the XAD package (remember this is shareware)
- b) install xadmaster.library and accompaning files
- c) place the c: directory files in c:
there will be a file called 'c:xadunfile'
- d) start VirusChecker-II and go to the prefs
- e) add/edit for ZIP:
Name: ZIP
Offset: 0
Data: PK
Command: c:xadunfile "%s" "%s"
- f) save your settings, and you will be finished
(ps)
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17.Dec.2001
Charlene of Virus Help Team Canada (ANF)
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XAD Unpacks ZIP Archives For VirusZ To Test
For quite some time, VirusZ has been unable to unpack and virustest any
ZIP archives. I have now managed to unpack .zip archives quite nicely
with Dirks XAD shareware package. Please remember to support all our
excellent Amiga programmers, even if their particular program has gone
from shareware to freeware. You may not realize what a God-send they
are, until something goes wrong. Thanks!
These directions will always be available on the VirusZ links page.
- a) get the XAD package (remember this is shareware)
- b) install xadmaster.library and accompaning files
- c) place the c: directory files in c:
there will be a file called 'c:xadunfile'
- d) start VirusZ and go to the archive options
- e) add/edit for ZIP:
Name: ZIP
Offset: 0
Data: 'PK'
Command: c:xadunfile %f %P
- f) save your settings, and you will be finished
(ps)
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17.Dec.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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NetInfo Version 2.10 released
Today, the new version of the network information tool NetInfo
was released. Popular helping programs are integrated into NetInfo
such as "Tracerout", "Ping", "WhoIs", and "Finger".
Features:
- "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick
succession to get a route overview very fast, then
does accurate timings for the individual hops
- "ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host
to measure network latency and stability.
- graphical display of hop min/last/max timings for
TRACE
- graphical display of ping times for PING
- integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on
a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive
WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo
determines the WHOIS host to query.
- automatically retrieves WHOIS network information
for hosts
- automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP
server versions
- history for all queried hosts
- integrated FINGER client
- integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
- ARexx port
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Dec.2001
John Harris (Amiga Open-ML)
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AmigaDE: VP Starter code
On 14 December, 2001 John Harris released the current version
of his VP-Starter-Codes for AmigaDE.
This update contains bug fixes and improvements.
The archive contains examples and helpful routines in VP.
They are supposed to help you get started with the VP applications
or they might provide further support for those of you who are
already experienced.
Apart from the examples it contains routines to set up the AVE
and application window, manage events and cycling processes,
embed 16-bit compressed graphics, and draw graphics and text on screen.
Download: VP_Starter.zip,
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
Basil Flinter (amigaone-ML)
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Fair: ADUG-Stand planned at the IT COMDEX in Sydney
Following the great success of the Amiga Downunder (ADUG)
Stand at the IT/Expo + COMDEX mainstream IT exhibition
in Melbourne last September the Sydney Amiga User Group (SAUG)
is now planning an ADUG Stand at the IT COMDEX & NetWorld+Interop
Exhibition to be held in Sydney fom 5-7 March, 2002.
Just as in Melbourne, The ADUG Stand in Sydney is supposed
to present products which are relevant to Amiga,
including Amithlon and AmigaOne.
We need help urgently. No matter where you live you can become involved
in the project by means of running the stand or by financial and/or
product support. If you are interested, please contact one of the
following addresses:
secretary@amigadownunder.org,
www.amigadownunder.org.
The complete press report with additional information in the original
version can be found via the title link. (sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
Amiga Future
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WWW: SiteWay-Bundle "Web-Tools" V1.01
On 14 December, 2001 Christian Effenberger released version 1.01
of the SiteWay Bundle "Web-Tools". SiteWay is a content management
system and a collection of tools for the creation and maintenance
of web sites.
In the archive various tools have been put together. A list
of the tools including descriptions and screenhots is available
via the title link.
Download: SiteWay.lha (1,2M)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
Aminet
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Aminet: New Interface
There is a new WWW-Interface available on the Aminet site
US-Site.
The Interface has a white background. On the left-hand side there's
a narrow blue command panel and on the right-hand side the chosen
information is presented. On the homepage these are the uploads
of the last seven days.
In the command panel you'll find the search option, links to information
about Aminet as well as links to each single category.
After having clicked on a particular category, its content
will be shown on the righ-hand side and at the top the subcategories
will appear, by which means a quick search is possible.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
Chaos Update (Mailingliste)
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CCC: 18. Chaos Communication Congress
The CCC writes:
Hi,
The 18th Chaos Communication Congress is about to take place:
as usual at 'Haus Am Köllnischen Park' in Berlin
from 27 until 29 December 2001
The 18th Chaos Communication Congress
"18C3: Hacking Is Not A Crime"
Haus Am Köllnischen Park
Am Köllnischen Park 2-6
Berlin Mitte
All information about the congress is available at the
following web site address:
www.ccc.de/congress/2001/.
We're still working on the schedule
Congressfahrplan,
but it will soon be available on the web pages.
Whoever would like to take part in the congress
Hackcenter,
should quickly register on our pages about the 'Hackcenter'.
Only the people who register and receive a confirmation via e-mail
will be able to participate.
The Congress is an event which is organized by volunteers. As a so called
'chaos angle' everybody can get involved. If there's anybody out there
who would like to become a 'chaos angle', please contact us under:
www.ccc.de/congress/2001/engel.
Have fun
Chaos
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: CLMV V2.1" Full Version
In cooperation with Steffen Nitz Amiga Arena has released the
full version of the data bank "CMLV V2.1".
CMLV manages CDs, MCs, LPs and such media. For each entry within a project
it's possible to state per CD/MC/LP the name, a comment, the date
of purchase, the category, the type of music, up to 4 pages
with 30 songs each time (e.g. a pack of four CDs),
the length of the songs and their musicians.
Olaf Köbnik wishes everybody a nice Sunday in Advent- Amiga Arena
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
Oxygenic (E-Mail)
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Audio: AudioCutter Cinema V1.1, 3D-Chat
The "AudioCutter Cinema" of Virtual Worlds Productions
is now available in all the variations of version 1.1.
The AudioCutter Cinema HOME for non-commercial use can
be downloaded free of charge. For commercial use the AudioCutter
Cinema PRO is now also available in version 1.1. All variations
have been tested on the various hardware platforms (Intel-compatible,
PPC based Amiga, Mac). In addition the compatibility of the Linux versions
with the weakest Window managers has been tested (fvwm2, KDE, KDE2, Gnome).
The AudioCutter, a tool for the adaptation, generation and
manipulation of the sound and, in particular, of the sourround sound, is
as usual available in versions for Windows® and PPC as well as x86-Linux.
You can find further information and downloads under:
www.AudioCutter.de.
3D Chat: Shaman- und Guardian-Bot can be downloaded free of charge
For the 3D-Chat, which is based on ActiveWorlds®, the Bots "Shaman" and
"Guardian" can now be downloaded free of charge. The operating instructions
are only available in German at the moment. You can find information
about these Bots, the 3D-Chat and the download options under
www.VirtualWorlds.de/3DChat/
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
amiga.org
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MP3: mp3Play V2.01
On 15 December 2001 Carl Svensson published version 2.01
of his minimalistic GUI "mp3Play" for the MP3-Player "MPEGA".
The GUI has been made with ARexx and the rexxreqtools.library.
It calls up "MPEGA" in such a way that the player needs only
25 per cent of the CPU time on a 50 Mhz 68060 CPU, according
to DashBoard.
Compared to version 2.0 a standard C= installer script and
the ID3 tag viewer has been added.
Download: mp3Play.lha (14K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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16.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News
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CDTV: "C= CDTV Information Center" 1 year old
On 15 December 2000, exactly a year ago, the website
"The Commodore CDTV Information Center" went online. This site
gives detailed information about the history, the possiblities,
new developments and the software of the CDTV.
Just in time for its anniversary, the site has been redesigned,
90 per cent of which has been finished.
The new site "Using a CDTV" can't be uploaded yet, as there're
still some things missing. 15 per cent of
the CDTV-User-Clubs site, which is also new, has been finished (Icons,
background) and 50 per cent of the upgrades section has been
completed. Therefore you can still find the previous sites in some places.
The CDTV-User-Clubs site contains CDXL files, installation
guides, trouble fixes and a monthly electronic magazine.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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15.Dec.2001
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amiga-news.de poll: Which hardware broke last?
On proposal by Deepsilence (Silvio Kurze)
we have started a new poll in which we ask for your hardware that broke last. We'd be very pleased about big participation.
Update: (30.04.2011, cg)
For archiving reasons, the results of the survey are added to this news item:
Damage Votes
Netzteil - power supply 48 (8.42%)
Festplatte - hard disk 70 (12.28%)
Hauptplatine - mainboard 33 (5.79%)
Turbokarte - accelerator card 24 (4.21%)
Grafikkarte - graphic card 11 (1.93%)
Tastatur - keyboard 16 (2.81%)
Maus - mouse 36 (6.32%)
Diskettenlaufwerk - floppy 24 (4.21%)
Monitor - monitor 26 (4.56%)
Kabel - cable 7 (1.23%)
A3000 7 (1.23%)
Bhudda A4k 1 (0.18%)
nix Glückspilz ;-) 39 (6.84%)
CD Brenner 15 (2.63%)
RAM 5 (0.88%)
CDROM, ZORRO BOARD, BUDDHA 4 (0.70%)
CONTROLER, A1200 MOTHERBOARD
Daughterboard 1 (0.18%)
Hauptplatine - Eigenverschulden 7 (1.23%)
Scanner 2 (0.35%)
A4000 9 (1.58%)
Nothing! 19 (3.33%)
A1200 8 (1.40%)
ZIP-Laufwerk 5 (0.88%)
PPC 604 20 (3.51%)
Flickerfixer A3000 1 (0.18%)
iMac 1 (0.18%)
FlickerFixer A4000 von COMP SERV 1 (0.18%)
Glühbirne 4 (0.70%)
Zorro IV-Board 3 (0.53%)
catweasel zorro2 1 (0.18%)
Uhren-Akku 14 (2.46%)
silversurfer 1 (0.18%)
CDROM 14 (2.46%)
G-Rex 1200 2 (0.35%)
Grafikkarte-Eigenverschulden 3 (0.53%)
Hypercom 3+ 3 (0.53%)
PC-Mainboard 1 (0.18%)
Drucker 4 (0.70%)
X-Surf 2 (0.35%)
A2000 Mainboard (Eigenverschulden) 2 (0.35%)
Floppy-Disk 2 (0.35%)
BlizzPPC Flashrom 2 (0.35%)
floppy buffer chips on A4000 mboard 1 (0.18%)
IOblix 1200PAR 1 (0.18%)
IDN-Blaster durch Blitzschlag 2 (0.35%)
Idefix... 3 (0.53%)
BlizzPPC Board 7 (1.23%)
Mainboard 1200 + FastATA 1 (0.18%)
(mit BVision kurzgeschlossen)
CyberstormPPC 11 (1.93%)
Lyra Tastaturinterface 1 (0.18%)
Ariadne2 1 (0.18%)
serial device - Blitzschlag 1 (0.18%)
zukunft des AMIGA 7 (1.23%)
CPU FAN for 604 1 (0.18%)
Mroocheck 1 (0.18%)
keine 7 (1.23%)
Trackball 4 (0.70%)
Mein A4000/40 machte nie Zicken 1 (0.18%)
seit Jahren kein Hardwareschaden 11 (1.93%)
Hardwareschaden? Was ist das? 4 (0.70%)
2 A500, 1 A1200 + 1 A4000PPC -
alles funktioniert immer noch
problemlos! (Verschleißteile
wie Joysticks & Mäuse nicht
mitgerechnet)
Wackelige Joystick-Buchse 1 (0.18%)
im A2000 hat aufgegeben...
A4000 Paula 1 (0.18%)
Interface Ateo for keyboard 1 (0.18%)
A590 1 (0.18%)
Oktagon SCSI (Hitzetod) 1 (0.18%)
Tandem CD+IDE-karte 1 (0.18%)
Iomega Jazz 1GB SCSI 1 (0.18%)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazin: Obligement 30 is now out (Special 5 years birthday issue!)
Issue 30 of the famous french e-zine is now available. You can read in
this issue: latests Amiga news, interviews of Gilles Bourdin (ex-Amiga
Technologies) and José Grilliere (from Amigazette), report of the Koln
Amiga Show 2001, article about MorphOS and Pegasos, review of Earth 2140
Mission Pack and lots of others interestings articles!
Download it from the website:
http://obligement.free.fr/. (ps)
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15.Dec.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (email)
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Datatypes: new akPNG, JFIF, TIFF and NAIL datatypes V44.131
On the website of Andreas Kleinert you can find version 44.131 of the following
ak-datatypes: PNG, JFIF, TIFF and NAIL. These datatypes were also uploaded to
the Aminet.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
Daniel Miller (ANF)
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Call: vote for setting up of comp.sys.amiga.morphos as newsgroup
Daniel Miller is right now establishing a new newsgroup in comp.sys.* for MorphOS
as comp.sys.amiga.morphos. For this are some votes still needed. Normally, the
language spoken in comp.sys.* groups is English but in the statutes of
comp.sys.amiga.morphos is written that articles in other languages are allowed,
too, when (d) for German, (f) for French etc. is named in the subject. Please
give us your vote! You can participate in the vote until 20.12.2001.
If you want to know more about the vote's details you find them here.
If you want to participate directly in the vote you should follow these steps:
- Write an email to vote@Lugoj.com
- Enter the following in the first line of the text field:
"I vote YES on comp.sys.amiga.morphos"
- Enter the following in the third line of the text field:
Voter name: [your first name and surname]
- Send email
Please don't enter the quotation marks or the brackets. As subject you may enter
for example "comp.sys.amiga.morphos Ballot" (again without quotation marks).
After some hours you'll receive a confirmation via email.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
Tel. Alan Redhouse
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Eyetech site hacked
On the website of Eyetech is written today that Eyetech will go into bankruptcy
from tomorrow on. That is wrong, the site has been hacked. Alan Redhouse is
already on his way to the bureau to get the site right.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
Logain (ANF)
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Netscape for AmigaDE in the works
Logain wrote:
While searching through the Mozilla site I came across two interesting pages.
The first one can be reached via the title link and is the page of the AmigaDE port of
Mozilla that is developed by James Russell. The project is in a very early state
and he is still looking for strong support.
The other one's here, the site about the new "revolutionary"
browser engine of Netscape that is said to have a platform independant architecture
and is the main part of Netscape 6.1. As possible platform for a port they
mention, next to several Unix systems, BeOS and OS2/Warp, the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik
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Amiga Arena: Full version of 'Bürgermeister V2.78'
Amiga Arena - "Bürgermeister v2.78" full version
In co-operation with Steffen Nitz the Amiga Arena makes exclusively the download
of the full version of the economy simulation "Bürgermeister v2.78"
available. The goal of the game is to reach as many points as possible within 10, 25
or 50 years or to become the capital city. It's a registered full version
exclusively for the Amiga Arena.
Steffen Nitz has ceased the development as the source code got unfortunately lost.
Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena talked with Steffen Nitz, the developer of "Bürgermeister II",
"CMLV II" and "Regist II" about his software products and about the possibility
of new developments in the future. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
Bernhard Wörner
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Bernhard Wörner: new website
Bernhard Wörner introduces on his new website his self developed programs. For
the time being you can find there for example a program with which you can split
big files into several smaller ones. Or Amplify, with which you can edit audio
files.
As his website is quite new the author
would be very pleased about feedback and suggestions.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
EvenMore
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Textviewer: new plugin for EvenMore version 0.59
Chris Perver has programmed a new plugin for his freeware text viewer 'EvenMore'
with which documents created with the word processors 'FinalWriter' and
'FinalCopy' can be converted into pure text documents. EvenMore is right now
available in version 0.59.
Download:
finalwriter2text.plugin -
EvenMore.lha (585 KB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 14.12.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use
with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or
updated:
- 14.12.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) key to display codes added
- 14.12.01 new: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 14.12.01 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) another version added, save player fixed
- 14.12.01 new: Alfred Chicken (Twilight/Mindscape) done by Codetapper
(ps)
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15.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: New xsurfadsl.device and appp.device
A new archive with the PPPoE-drivers for our networking card X-Surf can
be found in the support-area of our website. The CPU-load has been
lowered, and some parts of the appp.device have been prepared for
further debugging. The performance is already a bit more stable on
some setups, so we can release this last version before Christmas
for a public test.
(ps)
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15.Dec.2001
IrseeSoft
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Printer drivers: Turboprint version 7.21 beta
Version 7.21 beta of the printer driver package 'Turboprint' has been released.
It contains updated drivers for:
- Canon S500/630/6300
- Epson Stylus C60,C70,C80, Photo 810
- HP DeskJet 92x, 94x, 96x
Download: tp721beta.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Dec.2001
tarbos (ANF)
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Registration site for Pegasos developer system online
On the website of bplan GmbH exists since yesterday the possibilitiy to register
as developer for the first series of the Pegasos mainboard via a form. The
developer system contains the Pegasos mainboard including CPU card + MorphOS
developing environment. The shipping will probably start in January 2002
and will take place in order of the registration. The needed additional
equipment is not included (casing, power supply, memory, keyboard, mouse,
harddisk, CD Rom, floppy, graphics card).
Information about the price and the CPU of the developer system are
unfortunately not publicly available but will be sent to the interested developers
via email.
The registration is no order of the above listed developing environment but an
inquiry. After successful and accepted registration you'll receive an offer
via email that contains price, date of delivery and conditions. This must be
returned within 14 days after receiving via mail or FAX back to bplan GmbH and then counts as non transferable order.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Dec.2001
Jörg Rebenstorf (ANF)
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Repulse sound cards: price reduction
ALiENDESiGN lowers the price for their Repulse sound cards. Orders for
the new price are possible in ALiENDESiGN's online shop and
soon also from your dealer. Merry Christmas!
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Dec.2001
Jim Steichen (ANF)
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AmigaTalk V1.8 (Update)
An updated version (1.8) of AmigaTalk, the best port of Little Smalltalk for
the Amiga was uploaded by the author Jim Steichen on 14-Dec-2001. AmigaTalk is a little
smalltalk interpreter that utilizes more of the AmigaOS than any other
smalltalk dialect for the Amiga. There is a large amount of documentation
included with the distribution, so check it out!
Download: amigatalk.lha
Attention: Archive not yet available on Aminet!
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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14.Dec.2001
ANN
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Hyperion: Ben Yoris no longer PR manager
PR manager Ben Yoris is leaving the software company Hyperion Entertainment for
personal reasons. The PR will be managed in future by the owner
Ben Hermans.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Emanuele Cesaroni (PuzzleBOBS)
The Amiga Arena talked to Emanuele Cesaroni,
Nexus Development, about
his current game "PuzzleBOBS".
"PuzzleBOBS" is a puzzle Bobble clone being completely configurabel and having
a very funny game mode and more. One game mode of cooperative style, where two
players stay in the same level and shoot at the same bobbles.
The interview.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Amiga.org
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NAG: AmigaOS XL Review
Rick Ruge of the user group 'Northwest Amiga Group' from Oregon, U.S.A., has written
a review of AmigaOS XL, which you can find in the "December 2001" rubric.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Michael 'Das MCP' Göken (ANF)
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GRex IRC Channel closed for the time being
Michael Göken, who presented DCE's PCI board GRex on the Amiga 2001 show,
has established a support channel for GRex users on 27. October 2001
(we reported about). Now, after
about six weeks this channel was put on hold until further notice.
Michael Göken: "I neither have the time nor the money to perform support
while DCE does not support me in doing this. After hundreds of miles and masses of
sparetime spend on it, I still haven't got a run capable A4000T beta board from DCE.
Thus for the time being I will not answer any questions regarding the GRex PCI board, any
more. Please, if you have questions contact T. Dellert in person." (ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: 18. Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin - 27./29. December 2001
From 27. to 29. December the 18. Chaos Communication Congress will take place
in the 'Haus Am Köllnischen Park' (HAKP) in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos
Communication Congress is the annual symposium of the Chaos Computer Club e.V.
(CCC). This three-days congress will be about technology, community, and
utopias. The congress will offer lectures and workshops about a variety of
subjects all around information technologies, computer security, Internet,
cryptography, the discerning and inventive use of technogies, and
discussions about how technological progress effects society.
The congress can be attended as permanent or one-day guest.
The
admission charges
are staggert. A standard one-day ticket will cost 30DM. More details under the
title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Blitz 2000
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Programming language: AmiBlitz Version 2.21
Blitz2 has been updated and is now released under GPL. It's now called
AmiBlitz2 and has lots of new features including optimisations, faster
compiler, PPC and FPU assembly and many bugfixes. A full distribution
will be worked out soon, but for now you will need to get this and use
some files from a previous Blitz installation (the demo might work).
Please, send bugreports for the program to the Blitz mailing list,
rather than to the uploader, to prevent double reports.
To subscribe to the mailing list send an e-mail to
blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
SonicPulse
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Sample Editor: SoundFX - Status of V4.2
SoundFX is an editor for digitized audio data (samples). SoundFX
was built modular and has a comfortable GUI. You can add digital effects
(which are unique on the Amiga) to samples and edit them. Currently the
programmer is working on version 4.2 and gives the following status report:
Stefan Kost: "The changes of the saving API were finished, so one now also
can save to areas. Now I will adjust the savers. Furthermore I have added some
new menu items (help menu). Of course some bugs had to bite the dust, too, and
the documentation is progressing as well (FAQ almost finished)."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Dec.2001
Vapor-ML
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AmTALK II Version 2.3
AmTALK is a combined server/client for the TALK-protocol of the Internet which allows chatting between two users. It follows the full message to the new published version 2.3:
AmTALK II is a combined server/client for the Internet TALK
protocol for point-to-point online chatting.
AmTALK II has the following features:
- fully multithreaded for several talk sessions at once.
- auto answer facility to accept talk requests and store
incoming messages. Can be triggered manually or by
a user-definable timeout. Optional auto answer
information icon on workbench displaying number
of new and unread messages.
- "Locate" function to locate an AmTALK II user on a dynamic
IP address even if you don't know the exact IP number
he is using right now.
- history of last used talk addresses for easy access.
- user configurable sounds for notification of incoming talk
requests and successfully established talk links and more...
- userlist to store frequently used talk partners,
with aliasing for easy talk start and specificable
access privilleges (override auto answer,
refuse/ignore always, locate always etc.)
- can be started from inetd, or reside resident in
the background, activated by hotkey.
- supports clipboard Copy & Paste from talk windows.
- keeps a full log of incoming talk requests.
- supports session log save in ANSI or plain text mode
- nice and friendly GUI to start talks, control
operation and configuration
- handles incoming talk requests with "wrong" usernames
gracefully.
- keyboard resethandler to gracefully close active talk
requests upon a soft reset.
- works with Genesis, AmiTCP, Miami and as225r2-derived TCP/IP stacks.
NOTE: the provided Installer script doesn't work with the old OS 1.3
1.24/1.25 versions of Installer. Please get Installer-43_3.lha from AmiNet
(/util/misc) or from ftp.vapor.com, /pub/misc/Installer-43_3.lha.
AmTALK 2.x uses different keyfiles than AmTALK 1.x; however, the
upgrade is totally free. New keyfiles have already been mailed out
to everyone who registered AmTALK 1.x, if you didn't receive yours,
please mail to
keyfile-update@vapor.com,
stating when and where you originally registered. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2001
Da SixK Port Page
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Game ports by SixK basing on the SDL Library
During last week it was often reported about the SDL library port for
AmigaOS and MorphOS. The SDL library allows platform comprehensive
programming of games and other multimedia products. SixK now published
five game ports on their website (title link), which base on this
library.
Note: These is about a beta versions, which in part were not tested
for run capability, yet.
Details:
- Xrick - A Rick Dangerous game using SDL. Work for 68k and Mos
(Except if you have a Mediator + P96 like me for Mos).
- Supertux - A platform game using SDL. Don't remember if it works,
but it should.
- Sdlroids - An asteroid clone game using SDL.
- Mangoquest - A GL game using SDL - not fully tested.
- Glaxium - An openGL game using SDL.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Dec.2001
Amiga Information Online
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Magazine: AIO collecting Christmas greetings for next issue
The English online magazine AIO (Amiga Information Online) accept
Chritsmas greetings to be published on their website in the coming
issue #54.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Dec.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 10.12.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with
disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 10.12.01 improved: Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin) requires less memory
- 10.12.01 new: Raffles (The Edge/Softek) done by Bored Seal
- 10.12.01 improved: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) support for another version added
- 08.12.01 new: Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
- 08.12.01 improved: Total Football (Domark/Acclaim) minor changes
- 08.12.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) more compatibility
- 08.12.01 improved: Operation Thunderbolt (Ocean) highscore saving, trainer added, several other changes
- 08.12.01 new: Joe Blade (Players Software) done by Codetapper
- 08.12.01 fixed: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) stuck in students class
- 08.12.01 improved: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small fixes
- 08.12.01 new: Abandoned Places 2 (ICE) done by JOTD
- 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
- 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
- 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
- 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
(ps)
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12.Dec.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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MPEG-Player: Frogger Version 1.67
Today the new version 1.67 of the MPEG-video-player called Frogger has been published and fixes many bugs of the previous version. You can download Frogger as WarpOS-, PowerUp- and 68k-version under the title link. But you can also try the following mirror: http://highantdev.de/frogger/.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Emulator: Bochs version 1.3 for AmigaOS / MorphOS
Version 1.3 of the PC-emulator called Bochs has been published. As you can read on the homepage Bochs now also support AmigaOS / MorphOS.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Interface card SER/PAR: Delivery date for VarIO
The last acknowledgments of orders from all suppliers arrived today,
now it's only a matter of parcel services if pre-ordered boards arrive
on december 24th or 27th. Our international partners shall most probably
not receive the boards until next year.
(ps)
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