13.Jul.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden (e-mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Warp3D for Voodoo 3
We are pleased to announce that our Voodoo 3 Warp 3D V4 drivers for
Prometheus (both 68K and PPC) are now fully completed.
We are currently in the process of rewriting the Warp 3D license agreement so
you can expect the full driver package in the course of the next week.
As we are still getting e-mails about the Elbox situation, we would like to
point out that we have not heard from anybody at Elbox for over two weeks now.
At this point it appears to be highly improbable that we will ever see 3D
drivers for the Elbox's range of PCI products.
Again, we would like to ask everybody mailing us about 3D support for Elbox
PCI hardware to contact Elbox rather than Hyperion Entertainment.
We cannot be held responsible in any way for the lack of 3D support. If 3D
graphics are important to you, we advise you to look into purchasing a
competing PCI product."
Ben Hermans
Managing Partner, Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Amiga-Mailbox Stardate access disrupted
The Stardate mailbox (Amiga mailbox since 10 years and since more than one year
accessible through web portal http/telnet) can not be reached for some days
because of a lightning stroke.
Also affected is the Dynamite server stardate.2y.net.
Polling boxes and users are asked to switch to the Modem/ISDN numbers
(can be found here in the Amiga Link Directory).
It'll be announced when access via internet is possible again.
(ps)
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13.Jul.2001
Bernhard Kellerer (e-mail)
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Soundtrack and Boing beachballs sought
My name is Bernhard Kellerer, I am Creative Director of the London
film production company "iMagic Films Limited". I am Amiga fan since 1987,
foundation member of the Austrian Amiga Club Tirol
and still convinced that we'll be "Back For The Future" one day. What always
fascinated me about the Amiga is the community that sticked through thick and thin
with our "girlfriend". And just this community it is that gave me this idea.
We will soon film a commercial for an Austrian town. It is a low budget production which
is made possible only through the (mostly) free of charge working volunteers. Despite
the low budget, the 30 - 40 second spot will certainly have a high cinematic standard.
It is about a young woman who is catapulted from a dreary surroundings into a fascinating
dreamworld. About 150 extras, some fire-eaters, pyros and confetti bombs will provide
a proper spectacle. The spot will be shown in many cinemas.
Now we're looking for a piece of music which accompanies the dream journey of our
protagonist. GEMA-free music is out of question, but a real movie composer too expensive.
Here the community comes into play: there are many talented musicians in the Amiga
MOD- and demo-scene who could easily compose a soundtrack for us. Maybe an already
existing piece could be modified. We haven't agreed on any music style so far and
are thus open for everything.
Since nevertheless some conditions regarding length and structure of the piece should
be obeyed, I suggest that people who are interested in the project contact me directly
by e-mail.
As a special insider gag it's supposed to rain boing balls which the local firemen
will let fall down upon the extras from a net affixed to a ladder. For this, we need
a larger number of boing beachballs. And here again the community is asked: who can
do without his beachball before the summer vacation? Which dealers have maybe still
boing beachballs in stock and could put them shortly at our disposal? Maybe this
commercial could later be adapted as an AMIGA commercial.
My postal address is:
Bernhard Kellerer
Langgasse 8
A-6065 Thaur
- Austria -
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
AMIGAplus newsletter
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Event: AMIGA World 2001 website online
The website of the AMIGA World 2001, which is held from 20th to 22nd September 2001
in Cologne together with the maxpo2001, can from now on be reached at
www.amiga-messe.de and contains
the first, preliminary information. The English version should be available this
weekend.
If you want to book a booth at the show, please note that the definitive deadline
for booking is the 31st July. Later bookings are not possible.
Please send organizational or technical questions to info@amiga-messe.de.
If you are an exhibitor and want to publish news on the show website, please send them
to nico@amigaos.de.
Please note also that the phone and fax numbers of the show organizer
falkemedia have changed. The new numbers are (+49)-431 200766-0 and (+49)-431 200766-1
respectively and will be available from tomorrow on.
Contact:
falkemedia
An der Holsatiamühle 1, D-24149 Köln
Tel: (+49)-431 - 200766-0
Fax: (+49)-431 - 200766-0
info@amiga-messe.de (ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Saku 2001
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Event: Matay and Nova Design at Saku 2001
The companies Matay and Nova Design will attend the Finnish Amiga show Saku 2001
held on September 1st in Vantaa (near Helsinki). Read the announcement at the
title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Pawel Filipczak (ANF)
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SMS-Tool: TaskiSMS version 2.58
The new version 2.58 of TaskiSMS has been released. With this program you can
send short messages (SMS) to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The
program can be downloaded from the TaskiSMS homepage
or on Aminet.
News in this release:
- updated HandyLand plugin
- updated Lycos plugin
- added GoldenTelecom plugin
- fixed sms split routine, it's now more intelligent
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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epic interactive: Amiga version of The Feeble Files?
In the last weeks we received quite a few e-mails and requests for an
Amiga version of our upcoming Mac conversion of the cartoon adventure The Feeble
Files. Since porting the game to the Macintosh is now completed we have
evaluated the possibility of an Amiga version of this great game. An
Amiga version would require an 060/PPC equipped Amiga with 32 MByte RAM and a
graphics board (4 MB). The game would come with complete English and German
speech versions on at least 2 CDs. You can find more information on this great
title in the projects section of our homepage.
Because the Amiga market has declined over the past 12 months and porting a
game to another platform is always also a financial risk we have decided to
start a preorder campaign for The Feeble Files Amiga: If we receive at least
400 preorders for this game we will bring The Feeble Files to the Amiga.
Porting the game from the Mac to the Amiga should not take more than 6
weeks, so that the game could theoretically reach Amiga users by early
September. Please send orders to order@epic-interactive.com. The game will
cost Euro 51,10 (plus shipping). If you wish to pay by credit card please
contact KDH Datentechnik.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Fun Time World
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MP3 Encoder: LamePPC 3.89
Jarmo Laakkonen has released version 3.89 of the MP3 encoder LamePPC,
which only runs on WarpOS.
Download:
lame.lha (246 KB)
lam_src.lha (933 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Jul.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Updates of bootable disks
Virus Help Denmark has updated the bootable antivirus disks, with version 33.26
of xvs.library. And we have also made a new disk with VirusExecutor
by Jan Erik Olausen.
Here is some info about the disks:
Kickstart 2.0x or higher:
VirusExecutor v2.19 (xvs.library v33.26) - 563.617 bytes (.dms packed)
VirusCheckerII v2.5 (xvs.library v33.26) - 468.680 bytes (.dms packed)
VirusZ III v0.94b (xvs.library v33.26) - 545.671 bytes (.dms packed)
Kickstart 1.2 or higher:
VT-Schutz v3.17 - 428.401 bytes (.dms packed) ** NOT UPDATED **
Virus Help Denmark still needs some translators who can translate some virus tests from
German into English. E-mail Jan Andersen
if you want to help.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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12.Jul.2001
Merlancia Industries
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Dave Haynie: CTO of Merlancia Industries
Dave Haynie is the new CTO of Merlancia Industries. Dave Haynie might be well known by any
Amiga user, cause he's a kind of living legend. The following is a brief summary of his career so far:
Dave Haynie studied electronic engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. After his studies four month
of employment at General Electric he was hired by Commodore in September 1983 to support their "TED" project,
which was started by Jack Tramiel. Later the C116 emerged from the "TED" project. While his times at Commodore
Haynie decisively worked on many projects, like several 8 bit machines (e.g. C128), the Amigas A500, A2000,
A2500, A3000, and A4000, Zorro-III, and he took part in the development of the AA and AAA chipsets, etc..
All in all he spent 11½ years at Commodore. 'Beside' of that he wrote about 50 articles for Amiga magazines
of those times; Amiga Sentry, .Info, Amiga Transactor, Amazing Computing, Amiga World, etc.. Furthermore he wrote
some developer tools and the FFS tool "DiskSalv".
Some of his 'stations' at Commodore:
- 1983: Commodore "TED" project, low-cost VIC-20 replacement.
- 1984: Commodore 128 project, the sequel to the venerable Commodore 64..
- 1986: Amiga 2000-B - slot-based Amiga.
He designed the gate-array (Buster) and a "coprocessor interface" for the CPU slot.
- 1988: Amiga 2620/2630: 68020/30 CPU cards for the Amiga 2000.
- 1989: Amiga 3000: First fully 32-bit Amiga architecture. As a co-creator of the system, he designed
the basic system architecture, the Zorro III expansion bus standard, and the "Buster" bus control
gate array which implemented Zorro III.
- 1991: Amiga 3000+": initially a product oriented design, this coupled the new Amiga "AA"
system/graphics chipset, an AT&T DSP3210 media coprocessor, 16-bit audio and modem CODECs, etc.
Management changes canceled the project, though some of its "DNA" lived on the Amiga 4000 and 1200.
He also developed basic modular "Acutiator" architecture for next-generation Amiga systems.
- 1992: Developed 32-bit SCSI controller for Amiga 4000, architecture for stand-alone DSP add-in cards,
and prototype of "AAA" motherboard, for Commodore's 4th generation, 64-bit Amiga graphics system.
System works, but by 1993, there's no money left to fix the four full-custom ASICs.
- 1994: Developed plug-in graphics subsystem for the Amiga. Commodore declares bankruptcy,
this is never built.
Haynie created a 2-hours video about the last day at Commodore and the goodbye-party, known by the name of
"The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales of Digital Angst". This video for example is as a bonus content of the
"Amiga Forever" CD by Cloanto.
After his times at Commodore Dave Haynie worked for the Scala Inc. company for a short time, where about 80%
of the former Commodore engineers met, again. In November 1995 Amiga Technologies contracted him to consult for
the PowerAmiga project. He developed a concept, but due to Escom's financial problems this project got canceled.
After that, in May 1996, Haynie was contracted by the PIOS Computer AG, where he was in charge of the hardware.
Shortly before founded by Stefan Domeyer PIOS engaged also other former Amiga Int. or Commodore employees, among them
such clinking names like Dr. Peter Kittel and Andy Finkel. PIOS formed up to become a successful distributor of
PowerPC hardware and to make the PowerAmiga dream reality - the term of "PiosONE" was born.
Later from the PIOS Computer AG the Met@box AG emerged, a group of meanwhile
six companies with among other things Settop boxes as part of their product line. Me@box made application for
insolvency in May 2001.
More stations on Haynie's way:
- 1999 - Fleecy Moss started the KOSH project
to develop a new open source operating system for the Amiga - Dave Haynie is responsible for the hardware.
systems and audio.
- 1999 - The "Phoenix Platform Consortium" to define the Amiga's future was founded - beside of Dave Haynie
also Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical, Wolf Dietrich (Phase 5), and Dan Dodge (QNX) were part of it.
- 2001 - In July Dave Haynie became CTO of Merlancia Industries.
He contributed information for the "The International Technology And. Computing Historical Association"
ITACHA, who collect 'artefacts' from technic and computer industry
and make these information available online. Unfortunately at this time there is only one page about the
"C65" available.
Also a really rich source for Amiga devotees are the
"The Dave Haynie Archives".
Last but not least it might be to mention that he became known and dear to many of the Amiga community
as a an unweary, all-time helpful co-worker/partner/friend. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF)
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Ride agency at Amigakult
Thomas Wolf wrote:
I created a rubric on the new page of Amigakult (www.amigakult.com)
where people wanting to attend the Cologne show can search or offer a ride to the show.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Change of address: PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
The new address of perSuaSiVe SoftWorX since 01. July 2001 is:
Andreas R. Kleinert
Rabenflugstrasse 1
D-57074 Siegen
E-Mail-address, phone and fax number did not change and letters to the
old address will not get lost.
(ps)
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12.Jul.2001
Deftone (ANF)
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Website: graphician wanted!
Who would be interested in creating a logo for the DJ portal for a banner on the
site in return? Just send an e-mail to
deftone@blitzengineers.de.
Thanks.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
amiga.org (ANF)
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CNet: Psion leaving handheld business
Psion, who were about to utilize the AmigaDE for future PDAs, will leave the
handheld business. The reason might be that Psion do not have enough financial
resources to compete with PalmOS or WinCE products.
The share declined in price to it's all-time-low during the last weeks.
But Psion is working on the Netbook. It is obscure to what extent these changes will affect
the use of the AmigaDE.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Golem IT-News (ANF)
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Golem: Motorola at severe loss
As to read at golem.de Motorola suffers from a crisis in the tele-communication
market. The company drew sales of 7.5 millions USD in 1Q/01 which stands for a
minus of 19% compared to last year's sales.
Follow the title link for the Golem article (German).
Edtor's note: Since at the moment every chip manufacturer in fact is in the same situation
this seems to be more likely a normal evolution of market.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
SixK
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Webserver: MorphOS Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.0.6
Version v1.3.20 of the webserver including the script language module
PHP v4.0.6 for MorphOS is available from the 'SixK Port Page'. This version
is for use with the official
Amiga Apache archive.
Download: apache1320_php406_mos.lzx
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)
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CD32-Allianz website moved
Thorsten Schoelzel wrote:
CD32/CDTV-Corner moving
Unfortunately I'm not able to update the CD32/CDTV-Corner more often, at
the time being. The server space decreased more an more, so the site now
move to a new server. The new address is:
http://home.nexgo.de/cd32-allianz/
Along with this move new possibilities raise for the CD32/CDTV-Corner, cause
now other CD32 and CDTV freaks can help working on the website to design it
more interesting and topical. Everybody wanting to help now can contribute
own content, as long as this content matches the subject of the page. Who is
interested and means business will get all access data via e-mail promptly.
If this test of organizing a webpage with several webmasters will succeed,
this will sure affect other homepages, too. A very interesting test, I think.
(ps)
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11.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: ENVHandler V 1.9
Stephan Rupprecht has released version 1.9 of his HappyEnv replacement 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha - (13 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Jul.2001
T.o.T.
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Game: Tales of Tamar now also for PC
Tales of Tamar is an Internet-based round game for Amiga, Atari,
Linux and PC
of Eternity Entertainment Software.
With PC-version 0.20 the game is now playable without any restricts on a PC. Distributing grain, feeding the folk, gathering the corn, controlling the increase of the population, setting the tax, exploring...belong to the tasks of the ruler in the PC version up to now.
Thus Tales of Tamar is the first game in the world which unites the computer platforms of Atari, Amiga and PC in an online-game.
We are still looking for alpha-tester for each platform. Ask your friends and acquaintances and try to prove yourself in this fantasy-world. Who really is the better strategist? Please mail to Martin Wolf if you are interested in.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2001
Chris Hodges
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MP3: MASMPegDevice V1.4
On 9th July 2001 Chris Hodges has published version 1.4 of the MASMPeg-device. This device is a Commodore compatible mpeg.device for the MAS-player (MP3/2-audio-hardwareplayer) of Dirk Conrad.
It enables MAS-player being used together with software which support the mpeg.device standard. AMPlifier, Frogger and MPEGMovie belong to this.
Download: MASMPegDevice.lha (129 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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NARR-site: Skin for MUICD-player and MI-set for PlayGUI
Richard Kapp writes:
All those who do not like the OS 3.9 CD-player and miss a graphically appropriate other one should risk a peep at MUI-CD player where you can exchange the graphical buttons. On my homepage you can download a gfx-set with aqua-look for the great CD-player ´MUICD-Player´. The alternative images glow and give away when clicking them. Have a look at a screenshot.
Maybe it encourage some users to create their own sets?
Besides this some areas have been changed. There are now more current screenshots and a MI-icon (thanks to Martin Merz!) image set for PlayGUI which also contains a special MI-skin.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2001
Rüdiger Engel (ANF)
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Homepage of IMAGE now hosted on an Amiga
From today on the homepage of IMAGE works on proper Amiga! For this
purpose an Amiga 4000 equipped with AmigaOS 3.9, a 68040/40, a X-Surf
and hopefully sufficient RAM as well as Amiga-Apache, Amiga-MySQL,
PHP4 and Perl has been set up at a web-hoster.
Thus the IMAGE-pages might be the only sites of a
Amiga user group which also run on an Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets
Games which formerly have been made for disks can be installed with the help of WHDLoad to the harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:
The current version of WHDLoad is version 14.3 from 04.06.2001.
Download: WHDLoad_14.3_usr.lzx (119 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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11.Jul.2001
Paul Nolan, CEO Idruna Software Inc. (ANF)
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Image editing: Photogenics for Pocket-PC 1.0A published
The image editing program 'Photogenics' for Pocket-PC 1.0A supports Compaq iPAQ, Casio Cassiopeia, HP Jornada and Palmax Amigo. You can download a demo version and some videos.
The program will be sold for a special introducing price for another week. All those who already own the demo version only have to download the free upgrade-file of 1.0 to 1.0A and the full guide in HTML- or Windows-help-format.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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10.Jul.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark needs your help
We need your help to get our "Amiga Virus Encyclopedia" on our website up to 100%.
So we are looking for a few persons that can help us with to translate about 200
German virus documentation into English. If you will help us, we are waiting
for your reply. We have about 200 tests that we need translations for, so we do
need more that one person. We can't pay you any money for your work, but you will
support the a 'Good Case'....
If you are interested, mail to Jan Andersen.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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10.Jul.2001
AWeb ML
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Help: ARexx / AWNPipe Tutorials
Bruce Steers has written several tutorials for ARexx and AWNPipe and released
them in the net (title link).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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09.Jul.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Updater v1.31 / Reactions of the press
Airsoft Softwair released Updater version 1.31 on there homepage. The program lets you - as a owner of ´The Best
Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM´ - download new updates from the protected downloadsection. The new version contains a major bugfix so it is highly recommended to use the new version.
Furthermore there are some pressreviews of this CD-ROM. For example an article by AMIGAplus (7/8 2001) and one by the Amiga-Magazin (7/2001). So if you want to find some information about the CD you are now able to find some at the Airsoft homepage.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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09.Jul.2001
Ralf Berg (ANF)
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IFFAnzeiger
Ralf Berg wrote:
Today I released the first ALPHA-version of my program
called IFFAnzeiger (IFFDisplayer). This program lets you display
images that have actually a bigger size than your memory has.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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09.Jul.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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Midi-Sequencer: BarsnPipes1
Alfred Faust wrote:
The first official version of the new development fork of the well known
and popular MIDI-sequencer BarsnPipes is now available in the
download section of my homepage.
New: The screenmode can now be changed via a requester. You can change
the resolution, the color depth (up to 256 colors), and the size of the
screen. Nearly every requester and menu is now ported to Gadtools.library
without losing the feeling of BarsnPipes.
This makes it possible to control big parts of the program
via the keyboard. The program now supports different languages.
Volunteers who want to translate the program can download a small
development package (CatTrans.lha)
that contains the catalogue-compiler CComp and a small how-to.
Download: BarsnPipes1.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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09.Jul.2001
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amiga-news.de headlines on your homepage
Within the scope of a PHP workshop the (German) Amiga-Magazin has recently dealt with
the possibility to include our news via a backend within their own PHP website. As the scripts were thoroughly tested since then we don't want to withhold this possibility from our users. Here you can see an example of the result.
Important: The preset time of six hours must not be reduced! Calls with shorter intervals will lead to IP blocking!
Please read in the following translation of the article from Amiga-Magazin
how you can include this service in your website:
Fresh news with PHP
Some news sites like amiga-news.de offer a backend service for up-to-date news.
To do this the site creators provide a special file on the server that e.g.
makes the last ten headlines available. These data can be included in the own
start page by using PHP so that you can always offer fresh news on your site.
In listing 3 you see a solution in PHP. You can include this script snip in the
own document and with every call are the current headlines of amiga-news.de
shown on your page. The PHP script pulls the data file and does a conversion into
HTML code. This is written into a temporary file and then included in the page.
Before doing the transfer the script verify the age of the present local data.
After reaching an appointed age the head file of amiga-news.de is read and the
list is created anew. Then the script overwrites the local data.
In the first part are declared some variables. These are the server address, the
port used by the script to transfer the data from amiga-news.de and the file the
data are written to. The following variables define some values for time and
date. In the example comes a list with names of months next that are later needed
for generating the HTML text.
Now the actual program begins. The script gets the headlines every six hours from amiga-news.de. A shorter period of time shouldn't be chosen because of performance reasons. Otherwise data would be pulled too often from the server
and unnecessarily increase the data transfer. If the data are too old the
script opens a connection via port Port 80 (HTTP) to amiga-news.de, transfers the
data and generates the HTML data by using these. If a connection to amiga-news.de
can't be established a corresponding error message will appear.
The script now read line by line the data -- the format of the amiga.news.de
headlines can be found in listing 4. If the script hits the string %%
(beginning of a message) it starts the evaluation of the data. The first line in
the headline is the title -- it is read into a corresponding variable
($headline). Then follows the link to the message -- it goes to $headlink. After
that follow date and time.
In our case only the date is of interest for us. That's why the back part of the
data is simply cut with the strtok command. The space between date and time is the
parting sign.
In the example we want always summarize the news of a day and place the date
before it. For that reason the program is testing the date -- if it's empty it
becomes the current date. With explode the year, month and day are parted into
single strings (parting sign is a hyphen -- see listing 4). Then is the string
for the output of the current date assembled. A non-breakable space is set at
the beginning so that the date is inserted a little bit and the tag for the bold
print (<B>) is set.
Now follow the day, the month and the year. In this step are also the
predefined month names inserted (see beginning of the listing). At the end there
has to be a </B> to deactivate the bold mode (bold print).
With the following if-clause the program tests whether the last read data
($current_date) is greater than the obtained one ($akdate). If this is the
case a new date line for HTML has to be generated, as the next message comes
from the previous day. Here is the advantage of the automatic type conversion
in PHP used. When comparing with »greater« PHP interpretes the string as number.
If $current_date is not greater than $akdate there's simply an empty string
allocated for $ak_date.
Hint: The variable $akdate has two functions in the script - it is used as memory for the date obtained by amiga-news.de and later on used for the date line in the HTML code.
When the date line is done the HTML code for the headline with link is being
generated. At the beginning is the date integrated. Is the headline from the
same day as in the line before this string is set to »empty« during the date
comparison in the upper part -- no date is inserted. After that the program
writes the generated HTML line into th local news file. This is done until all
lines of the headline file have been read. The local data file will then be
closed and the connection to the server of amiga-news.de will be closed.
In the last part of the script is the integration of the news file (that already
contains HTML code) into the website done. The server then sents this part to
the client.
The presented solutions can in principe already be integrated in the own
website. But it contains almost no text formatting. During the assembling of the
string for the date the text is set to bold in the example -- but you can here
also change the font size (font tag). You can built a table, too, and feed the
other data (time, rubric, editor) into the list.
With kind permission by
© 2001 Amiga Magazin, WEKA Computerzeitschriften GmbH
http://www.amiga-magazin.de/ (ps) (Translation: sk)
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Aminet Uploads until 09.07.2001
BlitzLstJun01.lha dev/basic 64K+Blitz mailing list archives for June 200
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afm2pfm.lha text/font 71K+Converts Postscript font metric files
ttf2pt13.3.4.lha text/font 141K+Converts Truetype fonts to Postscript fo
ttf2pt13.3.4PP.lha text/font 147K+Converts Truetype fonts to Postscript fo
ttf2pt13.3.4sr.lha text/font 92K+Converts Truetype fonts to Postscript fo
HP_LaserjetIII.lha text/print 14K+Laserjet III Workbench Driver v1.2
GS-JAnim.lha util/batch 7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species)
JPEG-DT.lha util/dtype 433K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.4)
Catharsis.lha util/libs 55K+Shared library to modify looks of fonts
GEV_SetUp.lha util/misc 25K+Make `SetUp' Global Enviroment Variables
Gev_setup.lha util/misc 25K+Make `SetUp' Global Enviroment Variables
NH.lha util/misc 18K+Uses NumericPad Keys for functions, etc.
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 400K+Report+ 4.71: Multipurpose utility
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 499K+V1.45 - WB graphics benchmark
Libby.lha util/moni 3K+Libraries manager
LSClock.lha util/time 40K+SHAREWARE clock utility - New Release v2
classaction.lha util/wb 399K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager (as) (Translation: sk)
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09.Jul.2001
Amiga.org (ANF)
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Movie / anim player: SoftCinema with DivX for Amiga
Robert wrote:
Softcinema released version 0.13 of the movie and anim player
'SoftCinema'. 'SoftCinema' offers the possibilty to display DivX
on the Amiga (not OpenDivX or 3ivX).
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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09.Jul.2001
3ivx
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3ivx: New URL
The 3ivx homepage moved to a new URL. http://www.3ivx.nu changed
to http://www.3ivx.com.
3ivX is a compression algorithm for video files with integrated
audio-stream. It is available for different OS's such as Windows,
Linux and Amiga (WarpUP and PowerUP).
(mj) (Translation: sk)
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09.Jul.2001
TheLegacy
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Nostalgie: The Legacy - new screenshost and cover-scans
There are some new screenshots, cover-scans and genredefinitions of up to 335 games in the 'Nostalgic Game Museum'. 'The Legacy' contains screenshots, cover-scans and information about the developers of old C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC games.
(mj) (Translation: sk)
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09.Jul.2001
PureBasic
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Programing language: PureBasic V2.32 for Linux released
The preview version PureBasic v2.32 for Linux contains the following
libraries:
- File
- FileSystem
- Gadget
- Keyboard
- Misc
- Network
- Requester
- Sound
A MS Word version of the manual of PureBasic is available for free download from the
PureBasic support page. An online version of the manual is available, too.
Download:
PureBasicDemo2_32.tgz
Furthermore required:
nasm-0.98-1_lib6.i386.rpm
SDL-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
purebasicmanual.zip - PureBasic manual (MS-Word)
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
AMI Sector One (ANF)
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AMI Sector One: Airbus A320, Airball, Amiga Soccer...
At 'AMI Sector One' the zivil flight simulator 'Airbus A320' by Rainer Bopf
is available for free and legal download. Flight physics, navigating and
flying skills are focal points of this realistic simulation.
Also another game by the programmer of 'Airbus' never released before
is available: the 'JU-52 Flight Simulator', again a very complex flight
simulator.
With permission of the former employees of 'Microdeal' the oldies
'Airball' and the seldom 'Amiga Soccer' are now online, too.
Of course there are more games, music disks, applications, as well as cover scans.
Closer information are directly available on
AMI Sector One.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
ANN
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Jobs: Bonehead Development - help wanted
Newly founded Bonehead Development needs help for High-End Amiga game.
Yes, thats right! The newly founded game developer Bonehead
Development is seeking help for their new and first project. We need all
kind of people working with us and don't think twice about sending in your
work to us. Please mail us soon!
Wer are a very small group of people who want to aim high on the
gaming market with our first project called "Z-Squad" which is a mix of
horror, 3d action, humour, beat 'em up, and strategy. We are early in
development, in fact that early that we need help to get it going and we
need GFX artists, coders, sketch artists, musicians, sound artists, and
maybe some more. We hope that the game will be released both to Amiga
and PC, cause we're seeing very serious in the matter and were not doing it
out of good will. In other words, if there's no money there's no game. We
want your work, but please don't mail us your 20MB demo before letting us
know, cause our mail-server is a bit slow.
PS: It's an advantage if you live in
Sweden, but no demand. So now, send us your work and we will answer all
of those who will mail us.
With Regards Fredrik Robertsson Game Designer
and in charge of this project
Contact address: Fredrik Robertsson
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
ANN
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Game: Short interview about PaybackPPC
On 7. July 2001 a short interview with James Daniels, Apex Designs, about the
PPC version of Payback was published on amipal.
Among other things the current frame-rates accomplished by James Daniels can be taken
from this interview. Indeed these lag behind of what Jack Daniels was hoping for. The memory
bandwidth appears to slow down.
- 30 fps on 320x240
- 17 fps on 480x480
- 12 fps on 640x480
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
3ivx
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3ivx: Changing server
Due to changes of server locations it might happen that the web- or mail-server
of 3ivx is temporary not available.
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
Heise Newsticker
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Heise: Linux developers planning .NET as Open-Source
According to reports on TechWeb and Wired the Linux company
Ximian is about to
announce an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET frameworks.
Read the full article under the title link (German).
There is an article (English)
regarding this subject on ZDNet, too.
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
BoingWorld
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Game: BabeAnoid Screenshots
Richard Fhager released some links to screenshots of his BreakOut clone
'BabeAnoid' on BoinWorld.com.
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
ANN
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Events: AmiWest 2001 Rides
Who is looking for a ride to the AmiWest 2001 in Sacremento, California, U.S.A.,
(28th to 29th of July at the Holiday Inn) might sign up the guest-book on 'AmiWest 2001 Rides'
(title link).
(mj)
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08.Jul.2001
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Graphic Adventure Engine: Inga Beta
Timo Kloss wrote:
The developer pack for the graphic adventure engine 'Inga' was
finished, more or less. Thus I'm now wanting beta testers.
Since the engine itself was not finished, yet, testing will focus
the tools and manual. The following shall be checked:
- Are the developer programs bug-free?
- Do these run on any machine?
- Are there suggestions for the tools?
- Is the manual complete and plain?
- Of course also the runability of the engine shall be tested.
If you are interested, please contact
Timo@inutilis.de and provide close information
about your configuration (hardware, software, versions, etc.)
The people elected will then receive the developer pack as digital version, only,
(that is to say without the printed manual, but with a text file) and are enabled to purchase
it at the half price on release. You will be allowed to go on using the digital version, anyway.
The developer pack runs on: AmigaOS V3.0+, CPU 68020+, graphics board with CyberGraphX.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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AmigaDE: CodeWarrior for AmigaDE
Gary Peak, Amiga Inc., did the following expression in a posting on the
AmigaOne mailing list (title link):
«As you may or may not know, Code Warrior has agreed to
develop a professional IDE for the DE. We are still
talking details so I can't give any at this time.»
CodeWarrior is a very popular developer environment available for
different systems (MacOS, PalmOS, and more). It is being developed by
Metrowerks.
Update 12.07.2001:
Martina Jacobs has compiled more information on this topic:
About CodeWarrior:
The cross-platform-compiler CodeWarrior supports C, C++, Java, and
assembly programming languages and is being used by more than 200,000
developers in over 80 countries all over the world to create platforms
and applications for desktops and embedded systems.
The open architecture of this integrated development system allows to
add new programming languages and computing platforms to it's IDE with
relative ease. From the CodeWarrior White Papers
you can learn more about this multi-architecture, how to use GNU tools in CodeWarrior and how to import makefiles.
Extent:
CodeWarrior comprises a multitude of developer tools for different platforms / processors.
Here you will find a list and detailed descriptions
of these tools.
Currently supported:
Standard platforms:
- Windows
- Macintosh
- Solaris
- Linux
- PalmOS
- Java
Processors by Motorola:
- PowerPC-CPUs, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx and 8xx PowerPC processors AltiVec (7400), PowerQUICC II (8260), MPC 8240, hosted on Windows and Solaris.
- 68K/ColdFire-CPUs, incl. CPU32, DragonBall, DragonBallEZ, DragonBallVZ, ColdFire 5206e, and 5307.
- Motorola MCore-CPUs, incl. CMB1200/EVB1200, CMB2080EVB2080, CMB2107/EVB2107, CMB210, and CMB3401
evaluation boards.
- 568xx DSP (Digital Signal Processors).
Processors by others:
- StarCore DSP
- NEC V8xx
- MIPS
- Special version for Java development.
RTOS development:
- Embedded Linux
- QNX Neutrino
- Nucleus PLUS
- 8, 16 and 32 bit architectures
Game consoles:
CodeWarrior is being developed, marketed, and supported by
Metrowerks.
About Metrowerks:
Metrowerks was founded in 1985 in Montreal, Canada. 10 years later the
corporate headquarters were moved to Austin, Texas. Metrowerks has offices
in Silicon Valley, Europe, India, and Tokyo. In September 1999 Metrowerks became
an independently operating subsidiary of Motorola.
They have strategic partnerships with several important companies including
Apple Computer, Microsoft® Corporation, Sun Microsystems®,
and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
amiga.org
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AmigaDE: AmigaDE Interface FAQ
The 'AmigaDE Interface FAQ' has been released on teotwin.com.
This FAQ contains tips on how to customize the AmigaSDK together with the PartyPack.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
Carl Sassenrath (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: Build Package
Carl Sassenrath has released the utility 'build-pack' for REBOL
on 06. July 2001. This utility comes in handy for bigger REBOL
programs existing of many files, but are to be distributed as one single
file.
A list of files gets assigned to this tool, being merged to one single and
compressed script. Beside of the program code binary files - like graphics
and sounds - are supported, too.
The script can be downloaded from the Util section of the REBOL script library.
Download: build-pack.r
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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08.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: The Crypt #18
Issue #18 of the English online magazine 'The Crypt' was released, yesterday.
This issue contains tests of the jump'n run game 'Furball' and of two Amiga ports
for Windows - Warblade ('Deluxe Galaga') by Edgar Vigdal, and DOpus 6.
In the article 'A wooden Amiga tower case' Fisherking introduces his wooden Amiga tower case
and shows several pictures.
Moreover there are other articles, news, stories, and graphics.
Download: TheCrypt18.lha (2,8M)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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07.Jul.2001
Richard H. Poser II
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9427
The latest version has been uploaded to the normal locations, on the webpage
and descriptions on the links section of the mailing list have been changed.
History Extract of AmigAIM...
AmigAIM 0.9427 Beta (7 July 2001)
- Found a bug in the Instant Message Windows color system, it wasn't being
told to turn on the colors, as it didn't have access to the prefs
structure.
- Also made a small cosmetic change in a couple items having to
do with returning from away via the Dock Window's contextmenu.
AmigAIM is a client for connecting with America Online's (AOL) AIM service.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn
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Emulation: CD32 emulation for Windows (update)
The first CD32 emulator for Windows, the CD32 Games Install
Kit, was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This
emulator works in connection with the famous WinUAE. Exactly
like in the Amiga version, patches are applied to every single
game. This gives a very good compatibility. Even digital CD audio
is already supported. However you will require a custom version
of the WinUAE which can be downloaded from my web page.
Currently the CD32 Games Install Kit for Windows is only available
for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
(download it in the protected update area!).
Update 08. July 2001:
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote in the German comments on this message:
I have had implemented some functions for CD audio handling in the custom version
of WinUAE. Indeed those only can be utilized by my sub-system Install2001 which runs on
the Amiga part, thus I don't know if the WinUAE team would like to have those functions
in every official release. I will inquire it, anyway. But like already told, without
Install2001, so without the Install Kit, those functions are just useless....
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
Suite101.com
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AmigaOS: AmigaSDL
The cross platform handling of games and multimedia applications is
often very difficult. There's a great number of libraries that are supposed to
close this gap. Among them SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) seems to come out
as the probably most elegant and best supported project of this kind. Thanks to
the latest work of long standing Amiga developer Gabriele Greco there's now an
AmigaOS port of SDL available.
In his article (title link) John Chandler wrote on Suite101.com why SDL may
probably be the best solution in cross platform programming for the AmigaOS and
delivers some links.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
SixK
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Webserver: Apache 1.3.20 binary for Morphos
The Amiga webserver Apache (v1.3.20) is available as binary for MophOS and can
be downloaded at SixK.
This binary was not compiled with the PHP module but there's a version with PHP
in the work. This MorphOS version is for use with the official Apache archive
that can be found on amiga-apache.org.
To be able to use Apache several more packages of the Geekgadgets project are
needed. Please look at the hints on the download page of amiga-apache.org.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
Martin R. Elsner
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Tools: ClassAction v4.2 (update)
After a long waiting time it's now time to let the users enjoy: ClassAction
V4.2 - The Next Generation!
Many proposals have been implemented, such as configurable icons, more
images, better archive handling, easy configuration, many many new options,
...
You will find ClassAction on my homepage and soon in Aminet.
This will not be the last version - I have a list of other features that
will be found in V4.3. But for today, accept this version - you can't
loose!
Many thanks to all who have contributed to this version - betatesters,
translators, and of course all users for their good proposals and
encouraging words!
Update 08. July 2001:
ClassAction is a multifunctional file manager for the AmigaOS.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena full version!
In co-operation with Christian Steiner the Amiga Arena makes the release of
"Sharks Multi Version 1.5 Final" possible!
SHARKS! is a skill game playing underwater.
Our brave diver is away to search the sea ground for treasures.
The area in which he is is full of sharks, though ..., so: BE CAREFUL !!!
Collect as many treasues as possible and be aware of the sharks! Because of too
little feedback by the users the further development has ceased!
Amiga Arena "File Cutter" code!
Stefan Berge has made the code of File Cutter available to the Amiga Arena!
File Cutter serves to split files. You can e.g. split a file of 8MB (animation,
LHA archive) into several small files so that you can put this file with no
problem shared over several disks for further transport.
On another computer these files are put together to the original complete file
again.
Amiga Arena full version
Beneath a Steel Sky:
With permission by Revolution Software Ltd.
(thanks to Tony W.) the readers CD of the Amiga Future 31 contains the original
sales version of the presumably best action adventure for the Amiga until today.
Very special thanks to:
Jürgen B. who made the archive available to me.
(mj) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
Rene Stelljes
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Amiga users list updated
Rene wrote:
"The Amiga users list was again updated and is now available in version 11.00 on
my homepage.
The version change from 10.00 to 11.00 was made because I got erroneously an old
version of the list when taking over the AUL. All entries that were made in the
last Amiga users list by Stefan Martens are now contained in the new version, too.
From the next version on I'll update the AUL, therefore I'll verify the entries
and delete all non up-to-date entries without replacement!
Everybody already listed should check his/her entry and tell should something
have changed meanwhile."
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Simulation:new Freeciv beta version
A new Amiga Freeciv beta version has just been released on the freeciv page of
my homepage.
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Fonts: new Fontutility ports / dictionaries wanted
On my homepage (and soon on aminet, too) can two new ports of font utilities be
found that will be of use for the DTP interested and the font freaks.
"ttf2pt1" converts TrueType fonts into the Postscript format for use in
Pagestream, FinalWriter, Drawstudio, etc. and bases on the latest source codes.
"afm2pfm" converts between Postscript fontmetric files. Despite the archive's
name it's also possible to convert from PFM files to AFM files. Both programs
can be found in the "Font Utilties" area of my website, additionally there's a
PowerPC version for WarpOS available of "ttf2pt1".
Furthermore I'm looking for German language dictionary files of all kind (term
definitions, thesaurus, foreign word dictionary, ...) for my new project. In
contrary to the English there seems to be a real lack in the German speech area,
at least regarding free, documented formats. If anybody owns such files or some
Duden software out of the PC library series (or something similar) I'd be
thankful if he/she would contact me via email.
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Jul.2001
(ANF)
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Software: The Other Amiga World
Biggest public collection of Amiga demo-scene material.
Available via
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