16.Mar.2001
amigasdk.com
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Espial Escape - Slim Webbrowser for AmigaDE
"Escape is a HTML4.01 webbrowser which just happens to work on AmigaDE
thanks to its Java support. Escape is not only small, but fast and loaded
with features including HTML4.01, DHTML and more."
On amiga.org
you can read about it:
I noticed that the easiest way to install Espials Escape on the AmigaSDK was to simply
unzip the *.jar files to the root. Sadly there was no archive on Espials homepage that
made it easy for me to get them. So I mailed them about the problem. Now they have
added an archive of Escape with the Jar files on their homepage.
Further links on Espial Escape:
Espial Homepage
internet® product watch
devices.internet.com
Espial Escape is a slim webbrowser for smart devices which supports all modern web standards.
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16.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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Merlancia Industries and Nova Design: Keynote Address on Amiga 2001 show
Merlancia Industries and Nova Design will both be making some astounding announcements
during a joint Keynote Address that will open the Amiga 2001 show on Saturday, March 31st, 2001.
Details are not available in advance, but both companies promise some great news.
The Keynote Addresses will begin before the opening of the exhibitor floor on
Saturday and are open to all at no extra charge.
Best Regards,
Bob Scharp
bscharp@icon-stl.net
http://www.amiga-stl.com/
Links to the companies:
Merlancia Industries
Nova Design
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16.Mar.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Update
The first update for Payback
is available. Several reported bugs were fixed and a screen scaling feature was added
for slower processors. Also, new graphics were integrated.
There's also an update of the demo version,
which raises the time limit of three to five minutes.
On the Payback website, an FAQ about
Payback was opened which answers frequently asked questions. The game can be ordered directly in the
online store.
In an interview with the Amiga-Future, programmer James Daniels describes Payback as follows:
"The player assumes the role of a young, fleeing driver and attempts to become a big
gangster boss. The game is entirely non-linear. To complete a level, the player has to
collect a certain amount of points. How he achieves that is entirely up to him. You can
follow the advice of the local Kingpin, uncover secret missions, or get into a fight."
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16.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
TermiteTCPDemo.lha biz/demo 201K+TermiteTCP demo
TTCP110_to_120.lha biz/patch 162K+TermiteTCP 1.10 to 1.20 patch
Aminet.awnp.lha comm/www 72K+AWNPipe gui. Searches/Downloads Aminet F
DeluxeMapV2_1.lha dev/amos 283K+Map editor
Amiga-C-Feb01.lha dev/c 112K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Febu
dech.lha dev/e 43K+Deniil's E-Compiler Handler v1.38
m2latex.lha dev/m2 64K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
adaratio.lha dev/misc 494K+Hypertext Ada 95 Rationale
TTCP_SDK.lha dev/misc 121K+TermiteTCP Software Development Kit 1.00
Abbo.lha dev/src 444K+Source of game written in E
BattleDuel1.7P.lha docs/help 14K+Polish Locale for BattleDuel1.7
MetalCorner401.lha docs/mags 357K+German Metal Mag in HTML - April 2001 Is
WarpUp-Feb01.lha docs/misc 21K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in F
Bdynamite.lha game/data 96K+Another style/graphics module for dynami
Detris.lha game/wb 80K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715! v3.1
Emerald.lha game/wb 1.1M+Simple simplicity in graphical games and
jpeg6bwosutils.lha gfx/conv 238K+IJG's 6b JPEG utilities for WarpUp
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 86K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 82K+V0.35 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
bc-conta.mpg mods/mpg 3.9M+Contact: Ambient Electronic Dance
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 84K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
Bounce3.lha pix/anim 492K+Some animations and some players 'Bounci
AmigaUnited.mpg pix/mpg 912K+First Render of the Amiga United Group l
AmigaUnited1.mpg pix/mpg 912K+First Render of the Amiga United Group l
CoolWb.lha pix/wb 806K+Patterns, audio and docks for a very nic
ThrymWB.jpg pix/wb 227K+Thrym's 1024*768*24 bit WB screen
YureWB2.jpg pix/wb 141K+A beautiful WB screen
QuickNote.lha text/edit 63K+Notepad for scrap-notes (very handy)
startmeupv1_25.lha util/boot 31K+Startup files management
MultiRen.lha util/misc 176K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
UntarV1_11.lha util/pack 16K+Tar files extract util
DRemind.lha util/time 215K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.57!
trackdisplaycl.lha util/time 37K+V1.15 Use hardware track display as cloc
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16.Mar.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark Presents VTC Hamburg
Virus Help Denmark presents the virus test center Hamburg
(VTC)
and reports on their anti-virus-scanner tests for Amiga which can also be
read online.
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16.Mar.2001
ANF
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UAE 0.8.16 (Beta/ Developer Version) Released
A new beta/developer version of UAE, the Amiga emulator, has been released.
Download Version 0.8.16:
uae-0.8.16.tar.gz
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16.Mar.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert via E-Mail
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akJFIF datatype Version 44.96 Released
On Andreas Kleinert's support site, version 44.96 of the akJFIF datatype for
several processors (68k, PUP and MOS) with notable speed enhancements are
available for download.
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16.Mar.2001
Stefan Schulze on ANF
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New Screenshots of the Real-time RPG "Between the Lines"
Because of a harddisk crash, we have lost all source codes of our games
"Crossfire II" and "Between the Lines". At least Crossfire II could partly
be recovered, but it'll take several months to fully restore it.
As a compensation and the long time during which nothing happened on our
homepage, there are a few new screenshots of the real time RPG BtL.
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16.Mar.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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Updates of the Warp datatypes and Warp Preferences Available
Oliver Roberts has made available new versions of his Warp datatypes for JPEG,
PNG and BMP images on his homepage. Besides some optimizations and bugfixes,
a preferences program was added which offers several dithering algorithms.
Download:
WarpJPEG: WarpJPEGdt.lha
WarpPNG: WarpPNGdt.lha
WarpBMP: WarpBMP.lha
WarpPrefs: WarpDTPrefs.lha
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15.Mar.2001
CD³²-Allianz on ANF
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CDTV DeveloperKit Released
From now on the CDTV DeveloperKit is available for free download at
the CD32-Corner.
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15.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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Monkey Island Tones for Nokia 3210 Cell Phone
At Arcadetones you can find new ringtones for your Nokia 3210 cell phone.
Worth mentioning in this is that those are to be pices of music from the
popular adventure game 'The Secret Of Monkey Island'. Available are
music from Ghost Dance, Le Chuck's Theme, Scumm Bar, Title Music, and
Voodoo Shop. Those either can be downloaded as .mid files or directly
fed to the cell phone with a certain character string.
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15.Mar.2001
amiga.com.pl
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What's Faster - G4/733 or Dual G4/533?
Bare Feats have tested what's faster, the Macintosh G4/733 or PowerMac Dual G4/533.
You can read the test results generated with different programs under the title link.
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15.Mar.2001
Amster
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Amster News
Amster is a program for downloading of authorized MP3 music files from
Napster. One also can let the program
(client) search for music files made available by other participants or can
chat with other participants.
Yesterday the Amster source code was put on
SourceForge.
Interested developers can participate in further development under
'CVS access' (explanation in addition).
Since it wasn't clear to me what CVS access means I asked about this on
our internal mailing list. Ruediger Hanke
took the task to give an extended
explanation. Because I can imagine our readers to be interested in this, too,
I post his answer here:
What is CVS access?
CVS = Concurrent Versions System, a program for source code management.
Among other things the program saves old versions of the source code, so
one can trace changes from one version to another. Furthermore it coordinates
changes in source codes if several developers are working on one single
program. Else there would happen situations like follows:
- developer A loads source ab.c
- developer B loads source ab.c
- developer A saves source code ab.c including changes done by him
- developer B saves source code ab.c including changes done by him
and by doing so overwrites the changes of developer A.
CVS cares for changes not to be accidently overwritten by somebody and
in the case of need announces conflicts caused by changes. Thus it is
essential if several developers are working on one single program.
Amster seems to be under CVS control. "CVS access" in this case means
that people wanting to participate in programming Amster can get
access to the CVS server managing the program's source codes.
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15.Mar.2001
Michael Mueller on ANF
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New Amiga Game for Everybody
A new freeware game for grown-ups and kids. Download Amiga-Superball for free.
The game is runnable on any Amiga with 1 MB of Chip-RAM.
You can also register for the game info-letter and then directly will receive an e-mail
with information if a new game get's available for download.
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15.Mar.2001
Halvadjian Georges on ANF
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PerfectPaint V2.5
PerfectPaint V2.5 is available. New in the current version:
- Add AppIcon
- Drop one file, Pfpaint will ask you if you want to load the file as a picture, brush or anim.
- Drop several files, and PfPaint will create an anim.
- Improve Undo:
- Entirely Rewritten
- add a Real Redo
- Add Prefs
- little bug corrected with 'Adjust levels'
- Last Jpeg.library is used.
- bug fix with effectbrush and picasso96
- Improve Edit mask: 'Pick color' now have tolerance.
- New Arrex Commands
- pp_GetCurrentFrame
- pp_GetCurrentBuffer
- pp_GetCurrentBrush
- pp_FindEmptyBuffer
- pp_FindEmptyBrush
- pp_SetBuffer
- pp_ClearCurrentBuffer
- pp_AnimGui
- You can have ten buffers, each buffer can have a picture or an anim, with different depth.
- Improve Scaling anim picture, and scaling anim window
- Improve animation storage: RAM or HD (you can also select a path for the storage.)
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14.Mar.2001
IT-Business News No. 11
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Plextor Stops SCSI
Plextor Europe will stop production and distribution
of SCSI CDRom drives this very year. As reason for this
the company named regressive sales figures as well as
problems in providing components. In the long term this
would also affect the American and Japanese market. One
would want to address the DVD market segement with
devices with USB and Firewire interfaces in the future.
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14.Mar.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Inutilis News
Good news: It has been just uploaded the third demo-version of
Ermentrud!
It is a new graphic adventure which plays in the Middle Ages.
There has not been many changes to the content but you can finally check out the inventory and dialog
system! Do not miss it!
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14.Mar.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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The Register: IBM serves up PowerPCs for Hitachi
»IBM and Hitachi are to jointly design and make a range of selected
server and semiconductor components. The plan is to speed up product
development.
The agreement covers future versions of IBM's PowerPC processors,
selected chips to support Hitachi's VOS operating system, and
technologies such as multi-chip ceramic modules and memory cache
components for use in IBM and Hitachi servers.
Hitachi will also sell rebadged PowerPC-based servers and embrace
AIX 5L as a strategic platform.«
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14.Mar.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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A Ground-shaking Event
Amiga, Inc. announce the Gateway Computer Show 'Amiga 2001' which will take place from March 30th to April 1st, 2001
in St. Louis with the following curious making and hope for something great raising words:
On February 28th, 2001 an announcement was made to a group of employees, and other well
known technical people within the Puget Sound region.
Moments later a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northwest.
What was said? What was the possible reason for the sudden shift in the earth?
Come to St. Louis and learn the answers.
You can find the link to Amiga 2001 here.
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13.Mar.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News
Preface
Since I cannot affect as much as I would like to on my own I decided to
take a chance for a partnership with the Fun Time World!
The Amiga Arena homepage will remain what it is, now, and I hope to be able
to act even more effective in this partnership than before !
Olaf Koebnik - Amiga Arena
Amiga Arena - Fun Time World Partnership
The shareware market suffered from evaluations of the past years. The amount of
new releases decreased very much every year. To stop this evaluation the pages
Fun Time World and Amiga Arena agree to a partnership to patronize the
shareware market. This partnership's objective is to call user's attention
to developments at the shareware market.
This is to serve the purpose of higher sales and to motivate developers to continue to develop
new and better programs, at the same time. In the future by a closer cooperation
with the developers user's wishes shall be taken into account more than this has been
done before. In further steps registration of programs from foreign countries shall
be facilitated.
It will be determined from surveys which kind of software is in demand most.
Special wishes from now on can be sent to the Fun Time World and to the Amiga Arena.
Programmers who would agree to offer their programs at a more cost-effective price for a certain
period of time, can contact the Amiga Arena at any time.
Amiga Arena
The Amiga Arena is a shareware / freeware support site with special prices for
shareware software, links, interviews, and full versions of shareware software
which will not be further developed.
Fun Time World
The Fun Time World page provides the Amiga users with topical news, test of
software and hardware, as well as important information since several years.
Meantime the service has been extended by adding an online shop as well as
auction and forum sections.
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13.Mar.2001
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM S-File # 10
In the latest S-File clickBOOM say that all the defective Nightlong-CDs are
pressed again. Registered Nightlong-users can fill in a formular at the password
protected portal of clickBOOM to receive the new CDs.
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13.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
Football.lha biz/dbase 583K+*NEW* Version 2.6 - Setup your own leagu
HTMLread.lha comm/mail 484K+YAM-Plugin to read HTML-Emails
OrangeFTPd.lha comm/tcp 16K+OrangeFTPd V1.0, freeware FTP daemon.
Tango.lha comm/tcp 114K+Samba/smb-handler gui.
NGC-Animatunes.lha demo/file 1.7M+Animatunes / N.G.C (WHD version)
NGC-ArtParadis.lha demo/file 1.4M+Artificial Paradise / N.G.C (WHD version
wpz-impact.mpg demo/file 12M+VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Sa
SceneArchives.lha demo/mag 1.3M+SASU v1.09: Ultimate Demo CDs-11 CD's (8
clockita.lha dev/basic 67K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Dorkalize.lha dev/c 172K+Very powerful localization tool, v0.9
AmiSlateSource.lha dev/misc 188K+Partial source code for AmiSlate1.4
Amygate1.1PL.lha docs/help 5K+Polish Locale for Amygate1.1
Virus_ChkII_PL.lha docs/help 7K+Polish Locale for Virus_CheckerII
starmag26_ht.lha docs/mags 1.6M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
TheCrypt16.lha docs/mags 2.1M+Issue 16 of "The Crypt" magazine
Toadies_Interv.lha docs/misc 3K+Amiga Arena Interview mit Thilo Khler
FA_Talkie.lha game/2play 6K+Better talkie files for Frontal Assault
Toadies.lha game/2play 1.0M+Version 8.0 - a real Worms clone !
ChaosLite.lha game/board 5.7M+World's Best Board Game! 1-8 players! Fa
Inju2CARDS.lha game/data 253K+Anime Cardset for Soliton
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 37K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
Diamchal.lha game/misc 248K+Platform: collect diamonds V1.0 !FINAL!
NapalmPL.lha game/patch 11K+Polish Locale for Napalm
angband.lha game/role 726K+Angband 2.9.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
World.lha game/role 199K+"WORLD" text adventure, includes source
colourlines.lha game/think 107K+Logical ball game
Now_Pop_Quiz_2.lha game/think 351K+Quiz for all music fans around the world
Now_Pop_Quiz_3.lha game/think 486K+Quiz for all music fans around the world
Now_Pop_Quiz_4.lha game/think 542K+Quiz for all music fans around the world
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 17K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
FlashMandelPPC.lha gfx/fract 3.9M+The best fractal rendering program for A
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 120K+V2.2, Driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/Waco
cpcd2dsk.lha misc/emu 15K+EmuCPC .CPCD to .DSK format converter
imdbDiff010302.lha misc/imdb 5.9M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Da_13b.lha misc/misc 126K+Calorie counter and more, italian versio
atom.lha misc/sci 78K+Propability densities of electrons in p
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 77K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 121K+A no fuss multiformat audio player.
Panos3D.lha pix/trace 203K+Some 3D pictures by Panos
recoilwb02.jpg pix/wb 206K+*recoilBENCH 2001* 1024x768x16bit Picass
recoilwb03.jpg pix/wb 280K+*recoilBENCH 2001* 1024x768x16bit Picass
recoilwb04.jpg pix/wb 179K+*recoilBENCH 2001* 1024x768x16bit Picass
CloudedViews.lha pix/wfm 2.2M+7 graphix on knowing the heart
QuickNote.lha text/edit 63K+Notepad for scrap-notes (very handy)
HP_Deskjet870C.lha text/print 41K+Deskjet 8x0C/9x0C Driver for WB V40.13
BackDrop12.lha util/boot 26K+Force Workbench 1.3 to run in a normal w
Kill2090.lha util/boot 14K+Reboot, toggle NTSC/PAL, disable autocon
mathlibspatch.lha util/boot 9K+Mathffp, ieeesingtrans libs SpeedUp Patc
Wibby.lha util/boot 19K+Small, quick, and useful taskbar util
HardwareInfo2.lha util/libs 31K+Library for hardware check and control
Pony3D.lha util/libs 43K+Library with 3D graphic functions
ReqAttack.lha util/misc 628K+Best, configurable requesters for Amiga
ReqAttackUpd.lha util/misc 85K+RAPrefsMUI1.71 - ANOTHER BUGFIX
Lightpen.lha util/sys 9K+Lightpen-Handler, use lightpen instead o
MegaRamfix.lha util/sys 4K+Elsat.device fix
SaveROM.lha util/sys 6K+Save`s ROM to file
QuickLens.lha util/wb 7K+A quick lens, any OS, source included
SystemReset.lha util/wb 22K+Simply reset tool
VBRControler.lha util/wb 18K+Tool to control your VBR location.
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13.Mar.2001
Amiga Support Network
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Dave Haynie Describes PIOS One System
Dave Haynie has released on the developer-supportpage of Amiga, Inc. some technical
documents which deal with the PIOS One System. The original message:
Open Documets
These are Technical and Informational documents that are either supplied by Amiga
or Third Parties, as noted.
- The PIOS One System Specification - Graciously supplied by Dave Haynie
[PDF (33.8 MB)]
- The PIOS One Open CPU Module - Graciously supplied by Dave Haynie
[PDF (729 kB)]
- Zip file containing both PIOS One documents [zip (2.73 MB)]
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12.Mar.2001
Stefan Blixth via E-Mail
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OnyxSoft News
New version : DECH (Version 1.38)
Information : - Removed "Stack of executed programs" and
replaced it with "Stack of the compiler".
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : Detris (Version 3.1)
Information : - A lot of changes and added features,
mouse/joystick can be used to control the
game.
- Two new draw methods for the background etc.
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : DRemind (Version 1.57)
Information : - Removed a longstanding Enforcer hit.
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : MultiRen (Version 1.44)
Information : - Fixed the MP3-Info plugin (returned wrong
layer).
- Enable what entry the program will sort
(secondly) by.
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : QuickNote (Version 1.4a)
Information : - Fixed the enforcer hits that was
introduced in 1.4,
Thanks to Luca "Hexaae" Longone and
Stefan Ruppert...
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.07)
Information : - Added some options for BladeEnc.
- Moved the encoder paths to make the GUI
smaller.
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12.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
CygnusEd Professional 4.21 for MorphOS
There are a minor update for CygnusED available at the
MorphOS-Website. The official CygnusED4 CD-ROM is recommended for this update.
Download: ced_mos_ppc-upd421a.lha
WBStartEmu Version 45.1d
Stephan Rupprecht released version
45.1d of his wbstart.library for OS3.9.
Download: WBStartEmu.lha
Randomizer for the Workbench-background
Stephan Rupprecht released version 39.9 of
'random wbpattern picture selector'.
Download: rndwbpix.lha
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12.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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New Products for ImageFX by LegacyMaker Inc.
Legacy Maker, Inc. released a tutorial-video named
Catalyzer Vol. 3 for ImageFX version 4.0.
The video deals with layers, scaning, printing, animation and FXForge.
Version 2 of the Motion Control Plugin PanCanvas,
for ImageFX were released.
"PanCanvas 2 lets you take a large image in ImageFX and move a virtual
camera over it. You end up with an astonishingly smooth documentary-style
animation.
You can output frames, anims, FlyerClips, and even Jstreams for the
Broadcaster Elite. The virtual camera can zoom in and out, accelerate
and decelerate, and move along a spline curve. You can add motion blur,
render fields for video, and run macros on each frame before saving in
a variety of formats."
Legacy Maker, Inc. will exhibit at the Gateway Computer Show in St. Louis.
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12.Mar.2001
Jens Schönfeld at ANF
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isdnsurfer.device V1.942 Released
Few weeks ago a new programmer took over the work at the ISDN-software and ported the source to a new compiler.
Because we could not find any bug in this new version we decided to release it as a public test version but
there are no new features or bugfixes.
Download: isdndev.lha
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11.Mar.2001
AmiSource on ANF
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Finally Fresh Explosives: dynAMIte is Ready
At the Cologne 'World of Amiga' the AmiSource-Crew had already spread a
free preview version of the new network Bomberman clone 'dynAMIte'. Now, three
months later, the game is ready and is downloadable as freeware exclusively
from the AmiSource website.
French and English documentations are included while the
single player mode desired by Petra didn't make it.
Download, log-in and take pleasure in the game. And all for free.
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11.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
ppclibemu
Frank Wille has made version 0.8f of his PPC library emulation
ppclibemu
available for download.
Download: ppclibemu.lzx
HP Deskjet 870C driver
On Peter's Amiga Page you can find
a new printer driver version 40.13 for the printer HP Deskjet 870C.
Download: HP_Deskjet870C.lha
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11.Mar.2001
Gunter Hinrichsen on ANF
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New Version of HTMLread
A new version of HTMLread (v1.1) can be downloaded from the support page.
HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a wonderful mailer, but not
capable of displaying e-mails written in HTML code as like as sent by
Netscape, Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these e-mails
to a HTML viewer.
Some changes were made in the new version:
- HTML parser rewritten (faster, more compatible, , full «base» tag support),
- Problems with blank characters in the name fixed.
- New GIF for condition.
- Better error handling.
- HTMLreadPrefs rewritten (now with MUI GUI)
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11.Mar.2001
Gary Peake via E-Mail
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AMIGA Inc.: New PDA Projects
As already reported on
amiga-news.de, Amiga Inc. is organizing a project for programming software for PDAs.
People who want to take part in this project as programmers may announce
himself/herself via this
page.
Amiga already has contact with companies who like to use the AmigaDE software on
their appliances. In this context Gary Peake, director for development
and support at Amiga Inc., wrote the following on AMIOPEN mailing list:
We have spent considerable time talking with a company who likes what they
see of the Amiga content thus far. They will not be announced until St
Louis, but we all know that development needs lead time.
This company has some PDA models coming out real soon now and we have sold
them on letting Amiga developers produce their content.
This content will be sold via a web portal and all certification and
runnability testing will happen here at Amiga Inc for logistic reasons.
Specs are as follows for two separate units:
Screen Size: 240x320, 65k color3.5" reflective-TFT
Screen Size: 176x220, 65kcolor, 3" reflective-TFT
Both units will be able to handle up to 500k games and applications. Due to
CPU speed limitations, code must be tight and efficient as always. This
customer prefers VP coding, but won't pass on C, C++, or Java apps.
Examples of content needed:
Hoyle type card games
Chess
Checkers
Armageddon
PokeYman derivatives
No X rated content!
I am sure they would welcome any freeware content, but they are mainly
looking for commercial quality content. Details on how the system will work
will be released shortly to those who respond to this email.
If you are seriously interested in producing PDA content please send me an
email to gary@amiga.com.
You MUST be under NDA AND be a registered Amiga developer before I can
release any further information to you so make sure you have a valid NDA on
file.
If you have not yet registered and you have a copy of our SDK, please go to
www.amigadev.net and register as a
developer.
If you do not have a valid NDA with us, simply look at
www.amigadev.net under the "legal"
menu, grab a copy of the NDA and get it mailed back or faxed back ASAP.
Address and fax number is on the NDA.
Only serious need respond as we will be on a tight schedule to meet the
first delivery date.
This may be cross posted to Amiga news web sites and other lists.
Gary Peake
Director - Developer Relations and Support
Amiga Inc.
www.amigadev.net
www.amiga.com
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11.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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New Development System for PDA Games for the AmigaDE
Ast, by the makers of
KDP,
is a new PDA game for AmigaDE. The game uses the gm-Engine to give
developers easy access to the basic functions necessary for games
developement for PDAs.
The release of Ast and gm is still long in coming. But for the meantime there's a
picture of an Ast beta
version. This imgae was taken before the final graphics set was added.
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11.Mar.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel on ANF
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Wordworth Developments
Unfortunately development of Wordworth for the AMIGA has ceased several
time ago. The last version 7 indeed contains many features, but also lacks of things
like for example a JPEG filter. So you have to convert the wanted JPEG graphic
for now into IFF or another format Wordworth supports using a separate program.
Another thing completely missing is PPC (WOS) support.
I'd like to call programmers among other things working with Wordworth to
program the missing things (I'm mainly about the JPEG filter). Provided that I'd
have the needed development tools, compilers etc., and a supporting (teaching!)
programmer, I'd do it myself.
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11.Mar.2001
Greg Donner
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OS 3.9 FAQ Update Version 1.4
Greg Donner has updated the following parts of his official OS3.9 FAQ
(Version 1.4):
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11.Mar.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via E-Mail
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AKIconzGold Update
5 days after the latest update there's again one due.:
On my homepage can be found the third (and probably the last) "homepage only"
preview of the AKIconzGold.
There are almost 40 new icons. Additionally the ReadMe was extended by an
important part regarding the installation in which the setting of the correct
color palette is described that is necessary to display the icons as wanted.
The setting of this color palette gives some more advantages: All
icons, no matter whether MagicWB (8 colors), RomIcons (16 colors, often to be
found with the installers of WHDLoad and jst) or just the AKIconzGold (and also
the similar BNSMWBicons) have always the right colors with this setting. And
NewIcons, too, manage with this palette, and even GlowIcons do look relatively
appealing on a 32 colors screen!
People who don't want to restrict themselves to one "kind" of icons but want to
have the correct color settings for almost all icons should set this palette!
Besides, all sites of the homepage were recreated. Although less the design but
especially the colors were chosen completely new. This looks, in my opinion,
much better (and is much better matching the homepage title ;-)).
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11.Mar.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via E-Mail
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NetBSD/Amiga IOblix - Driver Change
The NetBSD/Amiga - IOBlix-Zbus driver was changed in a way that the quartz
frequency is changeable via the kernel variable _iobzclock (with binpatch
and reboot) or via the kernel option IOBZCLOCK.
Newer IOBlix cards use a 22.1184MHz quartz that allows more standard baud rates,
older ones on the other hand use a 24MHz quartz. Owners of a 24MHz quartz need to
set _iobzclock or IOBZCLOCK to 24000000.
Besides this, iobl* at zbus? is now included in the GENERIC configuration.
NetBSD-current testers are asked for review reports, also about the parallel
interface. Details about the availability of source code etc. can be found at:
NetBSD in general
NetBSD on Amiga hardware
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10.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
QuickNote
At OnyxSoft version 1.4 of
QuickNote has been released.
As it's name already suggests this program is a virtual notepad.
Download:
quicknote.lha
Tales of Tamar
For registered users of the online strategy game Tales of Tamar
the new version 0.10 for Atari and v0.33_R6 for Amiga with bugfixed trading and further bugs fixed
are available for download.
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10.Mar.2001
Elbox via E-Mail
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FastATA Version 2.4 Released
FastATA v.2.4 is a common version of software designed for:
- FastATA 4000 Controller (A4000 Power Flyer) for
A4000, A3000 or A1200 with ZORRO III busboard,
- FastATA ZIV Controller (A1200 ZIV Power Flyer) for
A1200 with ZIV busboard.
New in this release:
FastATA software version 2.4 improves HDD reading procedures
and the bug in nosplit disk identification process,
which could make difficult the change of the way of HDD
installation (SPLIT/NOSPLIT), was fixed.
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10.Mar.2001
Mennosto via E-Mail
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PC MP3-Player 'Sonique' Planned for AmigaDE
Sonique is an audio player often used on PCs.
According to the current Sonique newsletter
it is planned to port version 2 - which is under development at the time being - to as much
platforms as possible. The interesting thing in this is the AmigaDE being mentioned, too. Further
details can be taken form the Sonique 2 FAQ.
This is from the Sonique newsletter, (sonique as you may
know is a rather good MP3-player on the PC)
SONIQUE NEWSLETTER - VOL 2. ISSUE 4. - MARCH, 2001
INTRODUCTION
As promised, this issue is a special update on the
current state of Sonique 2. Things are progressing
very well and we're wetting ourselves several times
a day from sheer excitement. We have to keep the
entire office covered in plastic. We've got webvan
delivering rubber pants and huggies directly to our
workstations. Yup, Sonique 2 is really that cool.
(stuff about sonique 2 deleted)
SONIQUE 2 PRIMER
You are probably wondering just what this Sonique 2
thing is really all about. How is it different than
Sonique 1? Why should you even care? Well, first
off, let's talk about the number 2. The "2" in
Sonique 2 is really less about Sonique VERSION 2.0
and more about Sonique 2, THE SEQUEL. Sonique 2 is
not just another upgrade of the same old tired software.
No No NO! Sonique 2 is completely different. Sonique 2
has been in development for over 2 years and shares almost
no code with Sonique 1. It is based on entirely new
ultra-swoobtastic(tm) technology. Audio system,
GUI engine, Skinning system, plugin architecture,
visual system, all sparkling new! Even has that great
"new software" smell.
SONIQUE 2 & MANTIS
Sonique 2 is based on some very nifty technology that
Andrew, Nicholas, and the rest of the Sonique coders
have been developing for the last year called MANTIS.
MANTIS serves two important functions: First, it separates
GUI design from application development, allowing designers
and programmers to work separately on the same app, freeing
designers from the need to program and programmers from the
the need to do GUI design (they hate that). Second, it
provides an extremely powerful environment for creating and
operating real-time GUI interfaces. Animation, effects,
layering, font rendering, menu systems, and just about
everything else are handled by MANTIS, giving the GUI
designer supreme control over the look and feel of their
app. Want to make a fully animated semi-transparent free
floating dockable custom menu with flames shooting out of it?
Want it in 200 languages? MANTIS can do that for you...
OTHER TECHNOLOGY
MANTIS is not the only booty-slappin' body rockin' trick up
our sleeve. There's also the new audio system. It features
24 bit audio (just like professional studio gear), support
for DSP effects chains, can easily handle just about any file
format, and is faster than fast.
The plugin system is flexible and powerful. There are
really no limitations to what you can do. Plugins can take
advantage of MANTIS and integrate seamlessly. We expect a lot
of really interesting plugins to be developed for Sonique 2.
This is going to be amazing...
(stuff about skins removed)
PLATFORM SUPPORT
Sonique 2 is very portable. We designed it to be from the
beginning.
Expect Sonique 2 for Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2K, XP as well as
Mac OSX,
Linux, BeOS, and AmigaDE
LEGACY SUPPORT
Yes, Sonique 1.x Skins and Visuals will work with Sonique 2..
QUESTIONS
If you have questions about Sonique 2, ask them in the forum
(0000,8000,0000 http://forum.sonique.com).
We will go through the threads in the forum every so often
and move common questions onto the FAQ.
The answers that you seek are often available from other users
or Team Sonique members themselves. We prefer communicating
in the forum to receiving tons of email. We get enough email
as it is.
CONCLUSION
Sonique 2 is something everyone at Team Sonique cares about
deeply. We're sure that you are going to love it. We
certainly do...
BIZ DEV
If you have business related questions about Mantis or Sonique2,
please contact our business development staff at 0000,8000,0000
info@sonique.com or call 415-276-3940.
I hope this is of intrest to you,
Bye M Stormink.
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