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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09.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 09.07.2001
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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
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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06.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (e-mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Matay
An interview with Matay was published today
on the Amiga Future homepage. The English translation can be found in the English
section of the homepage.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Jul.2001
DirOpus 4
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File manager: DirOpus 4.16j
Jacek Rzeuski has released version 4.16j of the file manager 'DirOpus'.
DirOpus now contains the following localizations: Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. The most recent changes and improvements
can be found in the history.
DirOpus is a file manager, programmed by Jonathan
Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software.
The Windows version is now available in version 6.
The sourcecode of version 4 was released 1999 under the GNU Public License.
Jacek Rzeuski then started to work on the program and improve it.
Download: DOpus416JRbin.lha (873 KB)
Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/
Alternative download: DOpus416JRbin.lha
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Action: Interview with Rob Northen
Action has made an extensive and interesting
interview with Rob Northen. Rob Northen wrote the copy protection for dozens of
Amiga games. Action will make more interviews with VIPs from the Amiga scene.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Jul.2001
Sven Ottemann (e-mail)
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Tool: Contextswitch
Sven Ottemann writes:
A new version of Contextswitch is available at the titlelink. This tool is
monitoring the number of context switches between PPC/68k on WarpOS. It was originally
developed by Haage & Partner and is contained for example on the StormC4-CD.
Download: ContextSwitch.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Jul.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE:Interview with the programmer of DiamondBOX
Richard Kapp writes:
Yesterday, Nikolaj Thygesen has released a new version of his excellent layer-based
paint program 'DiamondBOX'. Maybe you have already downloaded the program - but maybe
you want to learn more about the author. Just at the right time you can now read
a current interview with Nikolaj. He reveals and explains the new features of the
current version, talks about new plans, the creation of DiamondBOX and much more.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Jul.2001
Richard H. Poser (e-mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM 0.9426 beta
The new beta version 0.9426 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga by
Richard H. Poser, is available. All AmigAIM text files such as AmigAIM.guide,
custom.txt and history.txt were updated and are available for download as well.
Changes:
- Implemented the apparently forgotten about Notify menu items...
- Added a Reset Connection menu item.
Download:
AmigAIM_Beta - full archive
AmigAIM.lha - update
AmigAIM.guide
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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05.Jul.2001
Nikolaj Thygesen (E-Mail)
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Paint program: DiamondBOX Version 1.12
Nikolaj Thygesen has released version 1.12 of his Amiga paint program 'DiamondBOX'.
This program is CGFX compatible and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, 8 MB RAM, 1 MB
harddisk space, an Amiga with 68020 CPU and of course a little creativity.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 05.07.2001
DOpus416JRsrc.lha biz/dopus 981K+Great filemanager from GP Software
DigiCamGUI.lha comm/misc 6K+TritonRexx based GUI for DigiCam v1.01
PinkFloyd.lha demo/intro 1.7M+Vidi_Pink_Demo
vbcc.lha dev/c 3.6M+Optimizing ISO C compiler (68k/WarpOS/Po
SetFileSize.lha disk/misc 14K+Truncate or expand a file
AIOV48.lha docs/mags 560K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 48 (June
eyangband.lha game/role 808K+EyAngband 0.3.3 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha game/role 975K+Gumband 2.1.7a - Roguelike solo RPG
psiangband.lha game/role 741K+PsiAngband 1.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
vcdimager_077.lha gfx/conv 535K+VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Sup
amifig31.lha gfx/edit 308K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa
amifig31_68k.lha gfx/edit 338K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa
mouseps2.lha hard/hack 12K+PS/2 Mouse conv. No drivers needed! v1.0
mamevg37b16.lha misc/emu 2.5M+MAME Visual Guide 37b16 Addendum - PDF I
sg-strip_13.lha pix/misc 48K+[ancor] strip 13 of the online-comic
sg-strip_14.lha pix/misc 41K+[ancor] strip 14 of the online-comic
ReqToolsLib.lha util/libs 195K+V39 reqtools.library w/src (AROS back po
ACE-Startup.lha util/wb 15K+WBStartup-Prog for ACE-Progs
MemoryRemV1-18.lha util/wb 57K+Clock-Replace, shows actual RAM & Larges (as)
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05.Jul.2001
Scalos
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Workbench replacement Scalos: New Plugin 'Device Filter'
A new module named 'DevFilter' for the extended Workbench replacement Scalos
was released. With this plugin drive icons can be blinded out from the Workbench.
Unfortunately the download page currently is not available.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jul.2001
CodePoet
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Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.16R4 released (Update)
Version 0.8.16 Release 4 of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K, and WinXP,
was released. The following has changed:
- FIXED: 50Hz/60Hz switching (B.C. Kid) works again. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Various Picasso96 issues. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: F11 should be back-slash again.
- ADDED: .GZ support in floppy dialog. (Timothy Roughton, aka Inner)
- CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will be less choppy.
- CHANGED: Tweaked the exception-handling code for JIT. (Bernie Meyer)
- REMOVED: icon1.ico from the source-code archive.
Download: WinUAE0816R4.exe -
help.zip (German) -
help.zip (English)
Update:
This version was created on 03. June 2001, already.
Sorry for this double message, must be due to the heat ;-).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jul.2001
Green-Hosting / Ragonsoft (E-Mail)
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Web-space: Cheap Hosting for Amiga Sites
From now on Amiga users, devotees, etc. can host their websites at Green-Hosting.
There are deductions from regular offers and even free web-space (e.g. for www.yourname.de):
- Free web-space 50 MB for Amiga relating sites (banners in return).
- Deduction of 20-30% from existing offers!
- This offer applies to Amiga users and Amiga sites.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jul.2001
Wolf Faust (ANF)
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Universal-Filter V2.1 Update for PageStream 3.x/4.x
A new version 2.1 of the PageStream universal filter was released.
This free universal filter enables PageStream to load many graphic formats,
BME or HHV.
This new version fixes a v2.0 filter problem in loading pictures with colour palettes, which
could crash PageStream or HHV. It is strongly suggested to install this update.
Beside of the above fix some more small things were enhanced (e.g. new pnglib, lower stack
requirement). Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to finish the support for the PhotoShop
format. :-(
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jul.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)
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Magazine-CD: 100%AMIGA Issue 14
Issue #14 of the Amiga magazine '100%AMIGA' was released - the magazine you
don't need to read, but can watch from CD. Read the original message:
»The July edition of 100%AMIGA is now available for sale. This month's
magazine features the start of our new monthly "Easy to Understand"
Assembly Programming Tutorial. So you think there is not enough
Amiga programs? Then write your own or brush up on your skills with
this non-technical guide to technical things!
Alternatively, browse a great new collection of icons or just sit back
and let us take you through a visual tour of the recent K4 Show, Land
of Genesis from Clearwater Interactive as well as our usual news and
latest previews.« (ps) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jul.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update V3.8
The update to V3.8 of the astronomy program 'Digital Almanac III' was released.
Again this time some new features were added and wishes of users were taken into
account.
The update can be downloaded from the mailing list by Yahoo members. It already was
uploaded to the Aminet and should appear there, soon.
(ps)
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04.Jul.2001
Mike Bouma (ANF)
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Photo report about the Benelux Amiga Show 2001
Mike Bouma wrote:
I've bundled some of my pictures from the Benelux Amiga Show. You can
view them on my website.
I also put down some English words. :-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jul.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register June 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana
Computer User Group dealing with topical and important information
regarding the Amiga, Macintosh, and PC, as well as the computer industry.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jul.2001
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: Greenpeace seizes the intercepting station
The environment and human rights organisation Greenpeace seizes the
US intercepting station Menwith Hill (UK) to protest the utilization of
this station for Bush's Star-Wars-plans.
Closer information are to find
here,
here, and
here.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jul.2001
Fun Time World
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Compiler: vbcc V0.8
Volker Barthelmann released version 0.8 of his portable ANSI-C compiler 'vbcc'.
This compiler is open source. There are backends for m68k, PPC, i368, DEC Alpha, c16c,
and HC12. Program code for AmigaOS, several Unix variants, and Windows can be
generated.
The archive released for Amiga computers contains the compiler, preprocessor, assembler,
linker, frontend, message browser, startup codes, C libraries, amiga.lib, replacements,
as well as several other tools for generating code for AmigaOS/68k, WarpOS, PowerUp, and
MorphOS.
Most of the tools (but not all of them) are available as binaries runnable on 68k Amigas
or PPC Amigas with WarpOS or PowerUp.
The following has changed since the prior Amiga version:
- Bugfix: several bugs fixed in compiler, optimizer, tools, and libraries.
- Changed: enhanced generating of code.
- Changed: enhanced optimization, incl. inter-procedural-,
cross-module-optimization and alias-analysis.
- New: some c99 features supported:
- long long
- flexible array-members as a structure's last element
- mixing of statements and declarations
- declarations inside of the for-loop
- inline function-specifier
- restrict-qualifier
- Vararg-Makros.
- _Pragma
- increased translation-limits.
- stdint.h
- New: Stack check as well as measurement of the stack size required.
- New: Documentation in PDF- and HTML format.
- New: New Attributes like '__amigainterrupt' and '__section'.
- New: New #pragmas for PPC like 'amiga-align', etc.
- New: Inline-headers for the WarpOS PPC-native-libraries.
- New: (Backend-specific) pre-defined makros.
- Changed: Enhanced libraries and headers.
- Changed: New versions of Frank Wille's assemblers and linkers.
- New: Use of a built-in preprocessors.
- New: MorphOS support.
The developer kit runs on AmigaOS 2.0 and above with at least 1 MB RAM.
But to compile bigger programs definite more RAM is required.
To compile Amiga programs the AmigaOS includes are required in addition
(Developer-CD by Amiga, Geek Gadgets CD, and similar).
Download: vbcc.lha (3,6M),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jul.2001
VaporWare
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Mail- and Newsreader: Microdot II 1.4.15beta
Yesterday, a new beta version 1.4.15beta of the mail- and newsreader 'Microdot II' was released.
Many new features were integrated, for example multiple POP3 folders can be created and
display of the head-lines of mails is configurable, now. Moreover handling of mailing list
was enhanced and the number of bugs reduced.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jul.2001
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Music: Inutilis News about Moonlight
Timo Kloss wrote:
There are two new listening patterns of Moonlight. These are about extracts
from the songs "Fallen Angel 2" and "Night", which do NOT originate from
test recordings, but from the original CD versions! This music mainly was
created on an Amiga.
Since I don't have enough web-space, I only can offer two patterns at once.
To enable an overview regardless, the songs will be changed about every second
week.
inutilis.de now has got a new start page containing
an advertising banner, too. You might be right, if you think that inutilis will be
infested with advertising, now, but there will be Moonlight banners on many other
pages in return. So please, forgive me!
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04.Jul.2001
Apple
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Apple puts Power Mac G4 Cube on hold
Apple Press information:
Feldkirchen, Germany, 4. July 2001: Apple will put on hold the production of the
Power Mac G4 Cube for an indefinitely time. Even though there is little
chance to re-introduce this unique computer by an all around renewed model,
there are currently not plans to do so.
"Owners of a Cube love this computer, but most of the customers decided in favour of
a Power Mac G4 mini-tower, instead", said Phil Schiller, vice president, worldwide product
marketing, of Apple.
The Power Mac G4 Cube, only 25% as big as a common PC, represented a completely new class of
computers: the power of a super-computer in a 8-inch-cube hanging inside of a glassy casing.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jul.2001
Heise [Newsticker] / SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Heise: Cell phone manufacturers for 3G game standard
To put developers of games and manufacturers of cell phones into the position to
agree to a mutual and open standard for future 3G cell phones, some cell phone manufacturers
have started the "Mobil Games Interoperability Forum". Ericsson,
Motorola, Nokia, and
Siemens will discuss with game developers consolidated.
See Heise's article (German) under the title link.
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03.Jul.2001
Amiga Future
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Game: New map for Payback
For the game "Payback" from Apex Designs a new and updated map is available in
the "Extra Maps" section for download.
The upgrade fo the PPC version is not ready yet because the author wants to
release it as bugfree as possible.
In "Payback" you are a young driver on escape and now tries to become a big
gangsterboss.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Martin Elsner (Update)
A detailed interview with Martin Elsner is published on the interactive section
of the Amiga Future homepage. Martin is the author of the program "ClassAction".
An english translation of this interview should be available soon.
Update 05.07.2001:
Translation: English
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03.Jul.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Airsoft Softwair: Online-Ordering by credit card
It is now possible to order my programs with a credit card via RegNet. More information
is available on the Airsoft Softwair homepage in the section "order". Especially
for all users from overseas this is a real easy method to order for example the
"The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM. RegNet accepts all major
credit cards, checks and money orders. Ordering by phone is also possible. Please
see the Airsoft Softwair homepage for more details.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jul.2001
Amiga.org
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NEC Corp. uses Boingball
On the website of the NEC Corp. the BoinBall is used as a logo in a shockwave
flash (down right) for an announcement of the 'Permeo Technologies'.
If and how this has to do with Amiga, Inc. or if it is a violation of copyright
is not known to us, but we will clear up things.
Update: The Boingball is replaced by a logo that is similar to the Windows program
"GetRight".
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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