09.Aug.2001
Fun Time World
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Blittersoft: Future development of iFusion
The future development of iFusion
We are pleased to announce agreements with several partners to bring new
features and enhance iFusion. This is part of our commitment of continued
development.
Microcode Solutions
When Blittersoft purchased iFusion, we did so with an agreement to allow
Microcode Solutions to add new features for us. We are pleased to say
that we have now agreed the following news features to be added:
- Direct SCSI - Allowing direct CD-ROM, Scanners, etc. (with appropriate Mac drivers)
- Networking - Allowing networking between iFusion and another computer
- Parallel/Serial support - Allowing printing and modem use.
Merlancia Industries
We have signed a developer agreement with Merlancia Industries. This will
initially provide a new GUI for iFusion, but other features are possible
in the future.
Haage & Partner
We have signed a developer agreement with Haage & Partner. This is to devote
more time to the Blizzard PPC problem with iFusion. Other features are also
possible.
(ps)
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09.Aug.2001
DCE Computer Service GmbH
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DCE: Warp 3D GREX-PCI Voodoo3 VGA board drivers released
DCE have released the Warp 3D GREX-PCI drivers for Voodoo3 VGA boards and made
them online available for any GREX user.
Furthermore DCE is reworking their website.
There was a flash update released for Blizzard PPC containing the PCI library v1.3.
Any GREX user is recommended to use this version.
Download:
Warp3D-4.2a.lha
BlizzPPC_1_3.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)
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Game: RekoNet online again
After a long break the RekoNet is online again, at last.
Rekonet is a playing card collection for the popular Klondike AGA
Solitair variant (also for PC). Interested people might drop by and get
some card sets. Card sets still not included are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
The Register
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The Register: Gateway pulls out of UK and Ireland
As already reported for several times, the American PC manufacturer Gateway - who
obtained AMIGA in 1997 and sold it again in late 1999 - this year is deep in the red.
After the closing of 27 US stores and the announcement to close their German offices, now
the closing of their European headquarter in Dublin as well as their English office
was confirmed, too. Only for Ireland and England 1,200 people will loose their jobs.
See title link for The Register article.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software
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Eternity News: New Eternity1 offers and packets
Since some time Eternity Hard- and Software offers a PC named 'Eternity1'
with an Amiga emulator pre-installed. Since 01. August 2001 they changed the
distribution concept for the Eternity1 to offer two different basic machines.
Moreover the software is delivered separately (meaning no pre-installed software,
anymore). This should better meet future offers of different alternative Amiga
systems.
At the time being Eternity offers the following computer configurations:
1. Eternity One Economy
- Midi-Case 300W
- AMD Athlon 1Ghz
- Quantum Fireball QML 30000 30 GB
- GeForce 2 MX-200
- 128 MB SD-RAM
- CD-ROM BTC 52x
- Gigabyte Mainboard GA7ZX (5 PCI/1 ISA/1 4xAGP)
- Keyboard, Mouse
2. Eternity One Business
- Midi-Case 300W
- AMD Athlon 1,4 Ghz (266 FSB)
- Seagate Barracuda III 40 GB 7200 rpm
- GeForce 2 GTS
- 256 MB DDR-RAM (266 FSB)
- DVD-ROM LiteOn 52x
- Gigabyte Mainboard DA7DXR (5 PCI/1 4xAGP) incl. Raid-Controller (266 FSB)
- Network Card 100 Mbit
- Keyboard, Mouse
3. Eternity One Amiga-Software Packet 1
- Amiga-Forever
- WinUAE-JIT
- Amiga OS 3.9
More details and prices are to find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: SGrab Version 1.18
Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.18 of his screen grabber SGrab.
With this program you can create screen grabs and save them in different formats.
Download: sgrab.lha (97 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Satra Systems
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Database: SatraDB for AmigaOS
Satra Systems develops a new database management system for AmigaOS 3.5
called SatraDB. 85% of the design have been finished, development progress is
at 66%. More details under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Fr3dY
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Tool: xlHTML for MorphOS Version 0.2.9.11
Fr3dY has written loads of useful tools for the AmigaOS and MorphOS.
On 07. August 2001 he has released version 0.2.9.11 of xlHTML. This
program converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML.
Download: xlhtml.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: News from the Bitboys - XBA about to outplay GeForce3
»Extreme bandwith due to embedded DRAM within the graphics chip
Since 1998 the Finnish graphics chip manufactures Bitboys are working on
their Xtreme Bandwith Architecture (XBA), a memory architecture embedding
fast eDRAM directly into the graphics chip and thus is said to offer
noticeable higher bandwith than GeForce3 and similar. Now the Finns have
released some new information: Their upcoming "wonder graphics chip" now will
have integrated 12 MB instead of 9 MB eDRAM and additionally will be capable
to address up to 64 MB external SDRAM.
«
For complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Chip: ATI Radeon 2 - Samples of the new 3D board
»Initial samples of an ATI graphics board with Radeon-2 chip have shipped in
Korea. The hardware magazine "Brainbox" contains pictures of a Radeon-2 board with
64 MB DDR-RAM at 4 ns access time.«
See title link for complete article.
More messages about this subject:
The Register: ATI Radeon 200 debuts on Web
Brainbox: ATi R200 (incl. pictures)
The Register: ATI R200, R300 roadmap spied
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Borut Zivkovic (ANF)
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Game: Heretic II patch (especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this)
Hyperion Entertainment released a patch for Heretic II for download.
Especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this one;
BilzzardPPC users with 040/25 CPU will experience significant more
speed. Moreover now the so called "wheel mouse" is supported and visual
effects have been enhanced.
The innovations are:
- Speed. The new version is up to 25% faster depending on the hardware.
Especially users with relatively weak hardware (BlizzardPPC with 040/25) will notice a significant speed-up.
- Mouse Wheel support. Heretic II now supports mouse wheel adaptors that map to rawkeys 122/123 (newMouse etc.).
- Improved visual effects: "new" Permedia 2 additive blending mode (requires Warp 3D V4.2)
(see before and after screenshots) and full Voodoo 3 support.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Ben Yoris / Hyperion (ANF)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Website moved and has got new features
Hyperion Entertainment is very proud to announce our webmaster has completely
revamped our website and migrated it to a more powerful server.
The new website can be reached on www.hyperion-entertainment.com.
Key-sections of the site including the general FAQ and the corporate info
have been updated.
Apart from a new progress report on Freespace, the new site now also has a
download section where users can register their copies of Heretic 2 and
Shogo:MAD.
Registered users will be able to download updates of Heretic 2 and
Shogo:MAD which will address certain issues with the Voodoo 3 drivers,
squeeze out more performance and boost visual quality.
Registered users will moreover enjoy further priviliges such as early
access to new versions of Warp3D and be eligible for beta-testing of
our future titles.
Please take the time to register your copy of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: First version of Opera-browser for QNX
»Unicode-support for Opera-versions announced
The strategy of Opera supporting as many as possible operating systems continues: The Norwegian programmers has now published Opera 5.2 for QNX. The QNX-version supports Unicode as the first Opera-browser.«
You can read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: New open-source-competition for DivX and Co.
»On2 Technologies releases TrueMotion VP3.2 video compression technology
The small software company On2 Technologies which is situated in New York has released its powerful video compression algorithm TrueMotion VP3.2 as open-source. With this step the company which formerly has been known as Duck Corporation wants to offer a powerful competition to DivX and the ISO-standard MPEG-4 which has to be licensed.«
Read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Ralf Berg (ANF)
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Tool: New alpha-version of IFFAnzeiger
Ralf Berg writes:
Today I have uploaded a new alpha-version of the IFFAnzeiger on my homepage. IFFAnzeiger can also display oversized pictures directly of the harddrive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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ASP: e-mail address changed
Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz wrote:
At eanet.de there is probably a problem with forwarding of mails.
Because of that I have changed the email address. All those who have
sent me mails in the last week and who did not get any response please
send it again to the new mail address.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Corel wants to take possession of SoftQuad
»Enterprises signed taking possession
Corel wants to take possession of the enterprise SoftQuad Software which is specialized for XML-solutions. The enterprises informed that a corresponding agreement has been signed. According to it Corel will take possession of SoftQuad by buying of shares.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
M0rpheus (ANF)
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New Amiga-website for hard- and software news
M0rpheus writes:
I have created this website to confirm my existing interest in the Amiga-computer. At the moment only one project is online which is a new Amiga-online-game based on the board game RISIKO!
I hope you will enjoy this site and the content :)
Respects M0rpheus
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.27
Yesterday Jan Erik Olausen has published version 33.27 of 'xvs.library'. This version contains the following changes:
- Added Penetrator 2001 Link virus
Thanks to Krzysztof Duda for the files.
- Added CCCP Clone Bootblock virus
Thanx to Mr Yoard for sending me this bootblock
- Fixed bug in recognition code for DKG-Blum file virus again!
Thanks to Urban Mueller for reporting this.
- Added Smeg2a Installer File virus
Thanks to Antonio De Cicco for the file.
- Added Smeg2a Link virus
- Added Smeg2b Link virus
Thanks to Zeeball for the files.
To be done:
- Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory.
Name: xvs.library v33.27
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 56.483 Bytes
Release date: 7. August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
eMail: virusexecutor@c2i.net
xvs.library program length: 56.828 Bytes
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)
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AROS reachable at new URL
As reported earlier there was a hardware problem
with the server hosting the AROS website. In the meantime you can get to the
website with this URL: http://www.hepe.com/aros/
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Emerald Imaging
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Game: Demoversion of Aqua released
A demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is released. In this game you will find
yourself in a mysterious world and have to try to get a way out.
Download:
AquaDemo.lha -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Assembly
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Event: Assembly 2001
At the Finnish Demoparty Assembly 2001, that has happen not long ago in Helsinki,
MatureFunk has won the first place with the Amiga demo Lapsuus.
This demo and other you will find under the title link for download.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk.
These are the new packages:
- 05.08.01 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts)
- 05.08.01 new: Missiles Over Xerion (Kingsoft/Cycletech)
- 05.08.01 new: Garfield: A Winter's Tail (The Edge)
- 05.08.01 enhanced: Fly Harder (Starbyte)
- 05.08.01 new: Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 new: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software)
- 04.08.01 new: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision)
- 04.08.01 new: Castle Vania (Konami)
- 01.08.01 enhanced: IK+ (Archer MacLean)
- 31.07.01 enhanced: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 07.08.2001
YAT.lha comm/mail 577K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
crossgcc_linux.tgz dev/gcc 2.8M+Crossgcc linux to AmigaOS
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 952K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2001 (Itali
Aakt0801GFX.lha docs/mags 542K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801GUIDE.lha docs/mags 73K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801HTML.lha docs/mags 218K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
HBible.lha docs/misc 1.2M+Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillatio
ChaosHeavy.lha game/2play 16M+World's Best Magic Game! 1-8 players! Fa
AquaDemo.lha game/demo 2.5M+Aqua demo version of great new adventure
mhi_MASPro.lha hard/misc 10K+MHI MAS Player Pro driver
ASIE.lha misc/emu 45K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
mhi_dev.lha mus/play 56K+MHI Dev - The new standard in MPEG audio
mhi_MASStd.lha mus/play 9K+MHI MAS Player Standard driver
PlayGUI.lha mus/play 785K+Skinnable multi-format player-GUI
PlayGUIShot.jpg mus/play 172K+Screenshot of PlayGUI 3.2
arcadesnookeri.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Arcade Snooker
doomicon.lha pix/mwb 65K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
quakeicon.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Quake
Robot.jpg pix/trace 20K+Raytraced Robot
StarRacker.jpg pix/trace 36K+Futuristic Rocket Car
Alecos-WB-1.jpg pix/wb 141K+A nice desktop 800x600 16 Bit by Alecos
Ital301.lha text/misc 566K+English to Italian Translator v. 3.1
GS-JAnim.lha util/batch 7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species)
2b_Spiral.lha util/boot 3K+A little toy to make Your Workbench look
e-bin.lha util/cli 72K+Port of "e", a full expression evaluator
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 122K+WarpDT preferences program V44.5
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 209K+TIFF datatype V44.1 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
AslToRT.lha util/misc 23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
envhandler.lha util/sys 14K+A happyenv replacement (1.10)
Safe.lha util/virus 35K+Virus detector v16.3
FlagsWB3.9_GR.lha util/wb 3K+WB 3.9 Flags, Country files for Greece,
sgrab.lha util/wb 95K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.17) (as) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9430
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9430 of the AIM-client AmigAIM. It
is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger. Here is an
excerpt of the history where you can see the changes:
- Found bug in Mail Checking routine that could cause the program to go into
an infinite busy loop under certain circumstances.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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06.Aug.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Project: AmigaFFE status
I would like to give a short update of the topical status of the
AmigaFFE-project. Due to the fact that the release of the source code
of Frontier-First Encounters (quotation: "..when it's done.") I would
like to suggest a small project that deals with Frontier, too.
Maybe some of you know the game "Elite - The New Kind". It is a Elite
version, that looks slightly better then the original Amiga version.
The Allegro-library (used for the new version of First Encounters, too)
is used for the programming of this game (for Windows). Here is my
question: Is out there any interest in a port of this game (for practice)?
Furthermore, I get an email containing the info that Alive Mediasoft
already had a running version of First Encounters that was never finished.
Does someone out there have any contact information (e-mail, snailmail)
of one or more former employee of Alive? Because I would like to ask them
if we could finish this version.
Additionally:
The analysis of the actual situation will be seperated in two parts:
- Technical information concerning the game (shortkeys, engine, and so on)
- Some kind list about what we can do and what we can not concerning the port.
In the near future I will put some impressions for example pictures on my page. I will publish the soundtrack (MIDI and maybe MP2 version, too.
If you did not hear anything about the AmigaFFE-project here are some information:
The AmigaFFE-project wants to port the game Frontier First Encounters, the successor of Frontier Elite II, to the Amiga.
This is an "Everyone's Invited"-project. That means that everyone is
welcomed to join the team wether he/she wants to program or 'just'
write the documentation. Further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Amiga Security Page (ANF)
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Information about SMH.com.au: 6000 Hacks a Week
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Because of the
article
(6,000 attempted hacks a week gets home user a bit annoyed) at
smh.com.au I put together
a small compilation of information concerning this topic.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster 2.5b12
Rudolph Riedel released DiskMaster 2.5b12 and DM2.guide 1.97. It is available at the Archive-section of his homepage.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Amiga. Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: e.p.i.c. about to produce programs for the AmigaDE
The well known software house
e.p.i.c. interactive
entertainment
will produce games for the AmigaDE. These games will be released
for PDA's and micro-computers like the Sharp Zaurus. The first three
games will be "Boxikon", "Piles O' Tiles" and "Pegger". The whole
press release can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.3
Virus Help Denmark released version 16.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes
them if possible.
Changes since last version:
- fixed ReadArg() template in order to remove wrong
message on machines which users didn't noticed that TCPPATCH is dead!
- optimization
- small fix in xfd slave for new SMEGs
- added analyse of SMEG2 viri
Name : Safe v16.3
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 36.032 bytes
Release date : 05 August 2001
Compilation date: 30. July 2001
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
Download: Safe.lha (35K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Richard Hackelbusch (ANF)
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Game: Spaceward Ho! for free download
Richard Hackelbusch wrote:
While searching for signs of life of one of the best Amiga games
(Spaceward Ho!, AmigaMagazin rated it "very good, 10,2", issue 9/94),
which even runs on graphics boards, I happened to find the homepage of
the author who has ported Spaceward Ho! to the Amiga,
(http://www.bebbosoft.de/), and it
turned out that with permission of the manufacturer
(Delta Tao Software) he has put the
game online for free download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Developer tool: CVS V1.11.1p1
Version 1.11.1p1 of the AmigaOS port of 'CVS' has been released.
This update among other things fixes another Enforcer hit, which occurred
along with an error message when using the internal SSH client.
Beside of this bugfix two more new features have been added to simplify
working with cvs and ssh a bit or to make it more compatible with the
prior version.
Jens Langner advises any developer to get the latest version at the following
and well known address:
http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
During the following days this update should be on Aminet, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: cnvtools V0.99a Beta
Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.99a of his 'cnvtools'.
The archive contains four tools for image and audio formats supported
by the ave/cnv tools, including cpm and rpm. Using these tools you can
convert the formats, get information about audio or image files, and more.
The tools' source codes are part of the archive.
Download: util/conv/cnvtools.tgz (29K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: playsound V0.96 Beta
Patrick Roberts released 'playsound' for the AmigaDE SDK v1.1.
Playsound plays audio samples and supports all AVE-CNV formats.
Download: unclassified/playsound.tgz (425K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Fun Time World
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Graphics: ImageFX V4.5 Introdution
Nova Design introduced version 4.5 of the image editing and
effects software 'ImageFX' on the AmiWest 2001 show.
New drawing modes and a new animations system were added. This
animations system can load GIF animations, ANIM's, ANIM brushes, as
well as a set of single frames and can operate those using keyframe
animation.
Follow the title link for the full press release.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Bernd Gmeineder (ANF)
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AMI Sector One: Update with additional games
Bernd Gmeineder wrote:
'Paradox Software' and 'Hartwerk' are two more companies allowing us to
make their software available for free at AMI Sector One. Some of the
games and applications, which now can be legally downloaded, are 'ST-Protector',
'War Zone', and the translation software 'Translate It'. Beside of these there
is also Ed Scio's futuristic flight simulation 'Armour-Geddon'. Various interesting
public domain games and new Emerald Mine clones round out this little update.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AmiWest 2001: 9 minuts movie from the show
On http://emrl.com/amiwest/ a 9 minutes movie from the
AmiWest 2001 show was released. This movie shows the responsiveness to AmigaOS x86, views on
the Boxer, AmigaDE programming, Amiga tatoos, and SOCK PUPPETS.
It shows Kermit Woodall, Joe Torre, Dr. Ryan of Merlancia Industries, and many more.
There are two versions of the movie, one of low (8,795k) and one of high (25,567k)
resolution MPEG-1 video format.
A copy of this movie, the MP3 files of the speeches, and the Sheep screenshot are also
available from http://amiga.mc-kenna.org/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.8
On 4. August 2001 beta version 40.8 of the alternative Workbench 'Scalos' was
released. This release in particular fixes several bugs and makes it easier to
handle the different preferences formats of Scalos.
Now Scalos tries to load the latest format, at first. If not available it falls back to
prior formats, but always uses the latest format for saving.
All changes can be taken from the
history.
You can report bugs using the
bug report page.
Download: ScalosBeta.lha (210K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Kevin Orme (ANF)
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Website: Amiga University updated
OK. We've done quite a bit of work since the last
update, and while that was too long ago (mid May, blame
too much work travel! :) we've got some cool stuff up
there now for you!
1) New Pages. Not only have we gone back and
re-verified links throughout the site (we are up to ~2,000
links, probably only about 15% of those are 'within site')
we have added new AmigaDE, Draco, and TVPaint
pages as well as a huge slew of REBOL links to the
'rebol on the web' page in our programming section.
There are many other new links throughout the site in its
various sections as well, please let us know if we missed
*your* site. If it has to do with Amigas and especially
learning how to use them, enjoy them, etc., we're all
ears. :)
2) Site Mirrors and Archives. We are pleased to
announce that thanks to Bob Maple, Paul R.
Santa-Maria and Marc Albrecht we have been able to
'preserve' three Amiga sites otherwise having been
taken down, namely 'Zip Drives and the Amiga',
'Motorola 68000 Resources' and the former
Amiga-software.com website. Take a look from the 'site
archives' link off the home page.
Even cooler is the generosity of David McMinn, who is
allowing us to mirror his 'Blitz Basic 2000' site. This is
still an active and growing site, even though at the
moment he's changing servers on the home site in the
UK, thus not all his content is online at the moment but
that will soon change. Check it out!
3) Downloads. As you may or may not already know,
we've had Bars & Pipes available for download for a long
time, probably almost a year now. But we are pleased to
announce that due to the generosity of NewTek, (who
released Amiga TVPaint a while back as freeware),
TVPaint is also now free to be distributed by other sites
as well. We have created a ~4MB zip archive containing
all you'll need to install this premier Amiga paint package
(you'll need UnZip from Aminet as well as a graphics
card, however, to use TVPaint - UAE/Amiga Forever
users can also use it because they employ Picasso96
within the emulation). To help thank NewTek for their
continued support of the Amiga community, if you use a
PC, buy a copy of Aura, their newest and incredibly
powerful paint/graphics package - you won't be
disappointed.
In sum, come on back and check us out, we've got lots to
offer and hopefully will have another large site update
next month to announce. In the meantime, enjoy! (sd)
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05.Aug.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: New units for "Schlachtfeld"
Horst Diebel wrote:
Again, there are new unit pictures as in-game graphics by Eddy for the strategy game
'Schlachtfeld'. This should almost complete the vehicle fleet. Please, use the forum
of the page to post any suggestions about the final design or textures.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM with new WWW and download addresses
The WWW and download addresses have changed for the instant messenger 'AmigAIM' by
Richard H. Poser II to use the AOL messenger service.
The new addresses are:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Robert Williams, Editor Clubbed Magazine (E-Mail)
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SEAL: Clubbed Issue 8 Now Available
A brand new issue of Clubbed, South Essex Amiga Link's (SEAL) quarterly
subscription Amiga magazine, is available now. All subscriber copies
have been posted and should be received in the next week.
We are also happy to announce that you can now buy your Clubbed
subscription online from at Kicksoft
using a variety of credit and debit cards.
Highlights of issue 8 include:
Networking Explained: Find out how you can connect several Amigas or
integrate your Amiga into a network with other platforms. This feature is
complemented by a tutorial on setting up network printing with Samba.
Photogenics 5: What did we think of the latest release of this well known
art and image processing package?
DrawStudio Tutorial: We guide you through combining bitmap and structured
elements in this recently re-released drawing package.
Plus much more (including our first Reader's Wives section!)
If you'd like to know more visit our website
for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues.
Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication.
(mj)
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04.Aug.2001
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 released
The August issue of AMIGA aktuell contains this time even three top reviews:
We take a close look at
- the AmigaDE in the »Party Pack« version,
- the PCI busboard »Prometheus« and
- the soundcard »Repulse«.
Additionally AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 contains
- the second part of the background report about the legendary
»Phoenix« mainboard,
- the second part of the experience report about the emulator package
»AmigaForever«,
- of course extensive information about the latest AMIGA announcements
and much more. AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 can be read online on our website
as well as it can be downloaded in HTML resp. AmigaGuide format.
Attention: As the AMIGA aktuell website is on its way to moving to
another server some services, among others the archived online issues, are
unusable for quite some time. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
Carsten Scholling (ANF)
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The revolution - a fictitious story
The vague information one gets from Amiga Inc. don't allow a continuation of the
story about Amithlon and the forces
of darkness for the moment. But surely later :)
But as I was asked to write something, now for something completely different.
Though not very Amiga related it fits somehow the present situation.
Ciao, Carsten
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Disk magazine: NoCover 89 released
Today the NoCover issue #89 has been released. It can be read online on the APC&TCP
homepage.
The online subscriptions were sent away today. The disk subscriptions will be
brought to the post on Sunday. As usual, the NoCover contains the latest issue of
the 'Amiga Aktuell' magazine.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
Thomas Hoppe (ANF)
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Domain amiga-center.de to give away
For some months now the domain amiga-center.de lies fallow. I don't need it
anymore, and I'm now looking for a new non-commercial user. A permission for
such a non-commercial use was given by Amiga Inc. but would have to be renewed
with a change of the owner and the service.
I give the domain away for free. The costs resulting from a change may be taken
over by the new owner. When interested please send an email to Thomas Hoppe.
For now the domain is looked after by DomainFactory. A change is no problem but
needs a little more time at DomainFactory.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 04.08.2001
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AmigArt / Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Alan Redhouse (Eyetech UK) comments AmigaOne, OS4-PPC and Amithlon
»Well apart from unduly cluttering up the AmigaOne mailing list I think
Gary has handled the points raised admirably. Of course a large proportion of
posters appear to have completely ignored his answers and have started
indulging in even greater realms of virtual computing fantasy. I dont
really see it as a particularly good use of my time or the lists bandwith
to comment until the party atmosphere has died down a little.
However, since you ask, this is how I see things, (having first discussed
it with Bill, Fleecy & Gary):
There are currently 4 Amiga-on-PC emulators in existence/under development.:
UAE (Linux/windows); Amiga Forever; Amithlon; and 'x' (as previewed in
AmigaActive but shortly to be released).
All use the same basic 68K emulation process, but have different trade-offs
in terms of speed, chipset emulation (and therefore compatibility), windows
integration and other features. All only run 68K (not PPC) code so cannot
run modern software with PPC code.
All can only run os3.x (for which development has been capped) and will not
be able to run any version of OS4.x , all of which are PPC coded. All will
be irrelevant with OS5.0 (sometime) as this will run native on PPC and x86
(plus possibly some other) hardware.
From Amiga Inc's point of view all these products have a potential benefit
in increasing the overall Amiga user base. The theory is that they will act
as a taster to get old PC-owning Amigans excited again and to give ex Amiga
(who are now PC) dealers a low cost way of re-evaluating the Amiga. The
ultimate goal (in Amiga Inc's eyes) is to get more people to purchase/stock
the new PPC-based Amigas.
I am personally unsure whether this will be successful as:
Virtually all new software will be written to OS4.x and PPC interfaces.
Showing PC users an old unsupported operating system and its associated
68K applications does not - to me - seem the best way to impress them and
get them to change platforms.
(As Ben Hermans from Hyperion says) these emulators will inevitably be
installed on an existing windows machine where more functional - but mainly
more familiar - productivity and games software already exists for these
users.
I personally feel that we have the best chance of winning back old Amigans
with an all new hardware (including case - details available in a couple of
weeks), OS and application software bundle. That is we need a stand-alone
fully functioning solution with sufficient native applications and performance
to impress existing independant PC dealers. Of course this means that we need
some of these new applications ready when os4.2 arrives and that means that
we need sufficient sales of the AmigaOne with OS4.0 to make it financially
attractive for software developers to port their games and
applications. Careful timing is everything - we (Amigans) will only get one
chance to get it right.
Contrary to what many may expect, I actually believe it would be helpful if
OS 4.0 could be made to run on some of the existing PPC platforms (eg on the
Cyberstorm PPC) - albeit at lower performance - to rapidly increase the OS4.0
user base that application developers can write for. As I understand it this
would be possible but would need the cyberstormPPC's flash ROM to be updated
and made available by its author (Ralph Schmidt I believe).
BTW I do think Bills statement at AmiWest that three products (AmigaOne,
OS4.0, and Amithlon) are all to be launched simultaneously in November is
a bit of orator's licence. As far as we are concerned we will be sticking
to the (October) timetable for the AmigaOne and OS4.0 as announced in
Rotterdam in June. Hope this helps.«
(ps)
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UAE Discussion Board (ANF)
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Emulator: UAE 0.8.17 (beta) released
Beta/Development versions of UAE will be available here, as
soon as there are any changes to the code. The current stable
versions are numbered 0.7.x, while the next beta versions of
UAE will be numbered 0.8.x; and finally 0.9.0 once it's stable
again. Previously, the idea was to have a stable version 0.x.0
and beta versions 0.x.y, for y > 0. That didn't work very well:
all versions that appeared in public were rather stable, while the
beta versions mostly remained in a private directory. We'll try a
different model now and see how it works out. You can also check
out the ChangeLog of the latest version here.
Download: uae-0.8.17.tar.gz
(ps)
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04.Aug.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Stardate-BBS again out of business because of flash of lightning
Again is the Stardate during a strong storm affected by a flash of lightning.
In the exchange my port only works for two hours then the Telekom has to reset
the whole router. Again has expensive equipment to be exchanged. I was told that I shouldn't count on this until next week.
So the Stardate is again not accessible via the Internet. All Telnet
points/ boxes please use the access numbers instead (you can find them e.g. here
in the ALD). The http access of the mailbox isn't possible for now, either.
I should like to emphasize that this is (as was the last time) an act of God
(struck by lightning). On my site of the Telekom all pieces of equipment are
secured and there is backup equipment for the case of emergency.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (e-mail)
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Datatype: akPNG V44.110 released
Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.110 of his akPNG datatype.
As usual there are several processor versions available.
With help of datatypes you can view all kind of files in many programs.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)
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H&P: English PageStream manual released
The English manual for PageStream 4 for Amiga, Windows & Macintosh has
just been released as PDF file. The PageStream customers registered with
us for the online service get the download link by e-mail. If you haven't
signed up yet, you can do this at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New screenshot of AmigaDE/Sheep
Fleecy Moss has provided a new Screenshot of AmigaDE. An open window shows the sourcecode of a "Sheep" program:
"Sheep" is a scripting language (similar to ARexx) which is part of AmigaDE.
Update (06.12.2012, cg): integrated the screenshot into the news item.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)
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H&P: ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection available now
Haage&Partner write:
Update: we have now opened a special area which presents all effects. Also now the
improved ArtEffect 2.5 is shipped with it since there were problems with the border effects.
Here you will find all
details
on the ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection and
sample pictures for the border effects
(all in all more than 250 borders are contained!). Further an
overview of the effects
with samples was added.
The ArtEffect-Plugins-Collection brings for the first time a comprehensive collection
of sensational effects and postprocessing filters for the bestseller
ArtEffect. The collection is shipped with ArtEffect 2.5 so that you can start
right away.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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Software: RB2Exe v1.5 released
RB2Exe version 1.5 is available now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This
program converts Rainboot multimedia shows into executable programs.
Version 1.5 allows you to use all great features of Rainboot3+ in your
executable shows! Additionally the memory routines have been optimized and
the generated executables' memory usage was reduced by almost 60 percent (!).
Also, the GUI's functionality was improved and bugs were fixed. Online help
is available now too. This version is only available for owners of the
'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM'.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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epic interactive: last status update for 'The Feeble Files' on Amiga
So far we have received 328 preorders for a possible port of the cartoon
adventure 'The Feeble Files' to the Amiga. Required are 400 to make a port of
this great adventure possible. The preorder campaign will run until
12.8.2001. If we have received 400 preorders for this game by then, we will
port it to the Amiga and it should be available within 4-6 weeks.
In order to run The Feeble Files on your Amiga you will need either a 68060
or a PPC CPU, 32 MByte Ram and a 4 MByte gfx board.
You can place your preorder directly with us by sending an e-mail to
order@epic-interactive.com
or the following dealers who will accept preorders for it:
Germany: KDH Datentechnik
Italy: Virtual Works
England: Amiga Games and Eyetech
Netherlands: Computer City
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Bright Light Software (ANF)
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Development and bugfixing suspended
Frank Fenn writes:
Because of a defect motherboard, the development and bugfixing
is suspended for some time. If anybody should have a RAMSEY
(A3000) in revision 4 and doesn't need it anymore, please contact me.
Affected from this is software as for example Audiomaster,
WBStartup, TIDesigner, AmiMTI and many other small tools.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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