28.May.2001
Kickstart Show 2001
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Event: Pictures of the Kickstart Show 2001
There is a collection of pictures of the Kickstart 4 at the title link.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Thomas Steiding (e.p.i.c. interactive) via E-Mail
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New Multiplatform-CD: Amiga ClassiX 3
The Multiplatform-CD ´Amiga ClassiX 3´ will be available on
the 6th June 2001. This CD will contain more then 100 classic games.
For example:
Der Seelenturm, Lure of the Temptress, Wheelspin, Crystal Dragon, Ziriax, Der
Trainer, Tactical Manager, Pinball Obsession, Fatman, Embryo, Sixth Sense
Investigation, Kid Pool, Xtreme Racing, Blade, Virtual Karting II and many more.
´Amiga ClassiX 3´ will be available for Amiga, Macintosh and Windows.
Additional information is available on the webpages of
Darkage Software.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden via E-Mail
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Hyperion Entertainment changes status of Warp3D V4
Hyperion Entertainment changes status of Warp3D V4
We would like to inform you that after extensive deliberation, Hyperion
Entertainment has decided to upgrade the status of Warp 3D V4 from a
freeware product to a commercial OEM product which will offered to Amiga
hardware developers for a moderate license fee.
This decision was prompted by two major reasons:
- Hyperion Entertainment has reached an agreement with Amiga Inc. to
incorporate Warp3D V4 into Amiga OS 4.x on a per unit royalty
basis. Producers of zico compliant hardware (Amiga One etc.) will be
required to license Amiga OS 4.x and will as such be paying
indirectly for Warp 3D V4 drivers. It would be unacceptable to both
Amiga Inc. and these hardware producers that they would be required
to pay royalties for a product which other hardware producers would
receive free of charge.
- Warp 3D started out as a freeware product developed by non-commercial
developers to support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. Compared to
current chipsets, the Virge and Permedia 2 are extremely primitive
and feature-poor. The effort and time needed to adequately support
modern chipsets such as the Voodoo 3 and Matrox G450 with their rich
and advanced feature-set is far greater than the effort required to
support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. Combined with the fact
that there are currently no less than 7 different PCI product from
three different manufacturers, it's clear that the effort required to
support modern chipsets on all the different PCI hardware available
goes far beyond the scope of a freeware project.
As the original Warp 3D developers have now moved on to commercial
development, maintaining Warp 3D as a freeware product would entail that
development of new Warp 3D drivers and extension of the Warp 3D API
would be very slow as development could only take place "after hours".
This is not only not in the interest of Amiga users but it is also not
in the interest of hardware producers and resellers who rely on the
availability of Warp 3D drivers to successfully market their Amiga
hardware.
Hyperion Entertainment fully understands that the company has a
responsibility towards the Amiga community including the hardware
producers because of its control over the Warp 3D API and no attempt has
ever been made or will be made to exploit this position unfairly.
We have already successfully negotiated agreements with Matay and DCE
regarding Warp3D V4 support for the Voodoo 3 on their respective PCI
hardware. We are therefore happy to report that Voodoo 3 drivers for
these PCI solutions will be available shortly.
A similar proposal was made to Elbox but so far we have not received any
reaction.
Users considering purchase of a PCI solution for Amiga and who are
interested in high-performance 3D graphics should investigate the
availability of Warp3D drivers prior to making their decision to opt for
one or the other PCI solution.
It should also be noted that Warp3D will remain free for end users.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Oliver Roberts
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Datatypes: WarpDTPrefs V44.4a
Version 44.4a of the preferences-program for the datatypes by Oliver Roberts is
now available. This program lets you change the
preferences of the following datatypes: WarpJPEG, WarpPNG, WarpBMP and WarpPSD.
This version now contains a Portuguese catalog and documentation.
Download: WarpDTPrefs.lha - 122 kB
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Thrill (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE-Kaillera Release 1 released
The newest version of
WinUAE-Kaillera was released today.
This modification of the well known emulator offers the possibility to play over the net.
Further information is available at the title link
Download: WinUAE-Kaillera_r1.zip
(ps)
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28.May.2001
PerfectPaint
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Paint program: New modules for PerfectPaint V2.6
There are new modules for saving and opening of jpeg-files.
Download: modules.lha
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Brad Webb via E-Mail
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Newsletter: Amiga Update by Brad Webb
Brad Webb is publishing a monthly newsletter, 'Amiga Update', that deals with news
concerning the Amiga. Read the newsletter at the title link.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Press conference by Lineo about co-operation with Sharp on Friday
Lineo announced that they will hold a press conference on the 1st June 2001. This
press conference will deal with the co-operation
of Lineo with Sharp for the Zaurus-device by Sharp.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Icon-Designer for DirectDos wanted
Marius Schwarz is searching a graphician who could 'just' paint about 1,200 icons.
Those Icons shall be used to identify datatypes in DirectDos, so it isn't really about
1,200 icons, but might be only 300 to 400 - so it's an absolutely practicable task :-).
At this time 166 (more or less good) icons exist. If you are interested, please mail
to Marius Schwarz.
(ps)
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28.May.2001
AIO
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Magazin: AIO issue #47 published
AIO is still looking for authors of articles and reviews. They are especially looking for some one
who is able to write 2-3 game-reviews per month.
Download: AIOV47.LHA
(ps)
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28.May.2001
Andreas Magerl via E-Mail
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APC&TCP: LOM 2.0 - Science Fiction CD
Version 2.0 of the CD-ROM 'Lights over Mars' was released. An update will be available,
if you own the original CD, for 5 DM.
The CD-ROM contains a big archive of the most well-known science fiction visions. Additional
information is available at the title link
in the 'support'-area. (ps)
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27.May.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Survey on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
The Airsoft Softwair Homepage
was completely reworked on this
weekend and also a poll was added which will contain a recent vote
from time to time. The first poll has just been added: Many users
told me that they would prefer paying by credit card for my programs
(especially users from overseas). So I'm asking now if there are really
people out there who want this method of payment. If you do not
order any of my programs or the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold
Edition CD-ROM just because you cannot pay with credit card please
vote now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
But please vote honestly! Thank you!
(sd)
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27.May.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: Test of 'WordHunt', Search, Links
Kevin Hansen has released an English
test
of the think-game 'WordHunt' by Robert/Bob Dickow on
GFX-BASE.
'WordHunt' is about finding words hidden in a box full of characters.
Moreover the website was extended at other areas:
the search function has been strongly enhanced, so among other things
searching inside of the scene demo database is now possible, too.
New links as well as game and scene demo entries were added and some days
ago the GFX-Base introduced the last week's Aminet highlights.
(sd)
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27.May.2001
Czech Amiga News
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File manager: DirOpus V4.15k Beta
Jacek Rzeuski has released beta version 4.15k of the file manager
'DirOpus' on 25 May 2001. This update contains some small enhancements
listed in the history.
This version outputs debug information to the serial interface which can
be redirected to a Workbench window using Sushi/Sashimi.
This beta version only contains changes since 'Directory Opus v4.15'.
That version and the source code are to find on the
download page.
DirOpus is a file manager, coded by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of
GP Software. The source code
was released under the terms of GNU public license in 1999.
Jacek Rzeuski then started to rework and enhance the program.
Download: DOpus415kbeta.lzx,
History
(sd)
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27.May.2001
Grzegorz Juraszek (ANF)
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PCI: Matay and Elbox (Update)
Matay published an official statement about the letter Elbox Computer
sent to Fabio Trotta. The letter by Elbox bears on Fabio Trotta's test
of the Prometheus board on NoRiscNoFun and
is part of the statement.
Supplement 27 May 2001
Elbox accused Matay to use graphics board drivers by Elbox without permission,
whereas Matay refers to an existing contract with the Picasso96 team.
(Desiatox)
(sd)
Supplement 28 May 2001
Today also the Picasso96 team piped up to definitively invalidate the accusation,
"we, the Picasso96 team, just want to straighten out that the Voodoo
boards driver utilized for the test was written by ourself. After all we have
experiences with this chip-set since the MacPicasso850. Furthermore Matay are
respectable business partners of ours. From our point of view all of the accusations
launched by Elbox are completely weak and of unbelievable bad style".
Entire message here.
(ps)
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27.May.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Flame: Problems with British Server
Philip Cosby at the time being has no possibility to access the
British Amiga Flame website, due to the carrier of the web-server
is closing business. That's why this site cannot be updated.
He does not think this problem to be solved in short term.
But the US mirror still is available under
http://www.geocities.com/~amigaflame/.
The Amiga Flame website contains current news messages and tests regarding Amiga games.
(sd)
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27.May.2001
REBOL
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REBOL/Command V2.0
On 25 May 2001 version 2.0 of REBOL/Command was released. This version
supports HTTPS, SSL, FastCGI, external libraries, as well as several
encryption systems like Blowfish, RSA, and DSA. REBOL/Command/View is
an additional part of the packet.
In the case of databases Oracle 8 (Windows, Solaris Sparc, and Linux libc6), and
MySQL 3 are supported. The ODBC interface was tested with
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and
MySQL.
REBOL/Command V2.0 is runnable on 30 platforms including:
- Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME
- BSD Unix: BSDi, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD for several CPU's.
- Linux libc5 and libc6 for several CPU's.
- Other: Sun Solaris, BeOS R5, HP-UX, Amiga, IRIX, QNX RTP, Mac OS/X.
(sd)
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27.May.2001
László Török
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AVI/MOV-Player: MooVId and PIV-MooVId version 1.5
László Török announced on his website that versions v1.5 of the AVI/MOV players 'MooVId' and 'PIV-MooVId'
have been finished. Registered users should mail him to
get the updates.
(ps)
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27.May.2001
Apex Designs
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Game: New Extra-Maps for Payback
In the ´Extra-Maps´ area there are new towns for the action game »Payback«
by Apex Designs. In one or two month there also will be a PPC version (WOS) for the game in which you
can rise from a nobody to a gangster's boss. (ps)
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27.May.2001
Hĺkan Parting
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Amiga-Buddy and Chat Program: AmiComSys 1.34
Hĺkan Parting has released version 1.34 of his Amiga-Buddy and chat program
´AmiComSys´. This program functions similar to the popular ICQ, but only
exists for Amiga computers, at this time. Currently about 200 users are using this
program. The central server moved to Sweden and now is available under
amicompsys.dhs.org, port 2957. (ps)
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26.May.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 26.05.2001
DOpusRxTrash.lha biz/dopus 3K+Global trashcan for DOpus Magellan
AmigaDynsCX.lha comm/tcp 2K+Update Dynamic IP at dyns.cx/dyns.net
rxsocket.lha comm/tcp 162K+Rxsocket.library TCP/IP ARexx library
clockita.lha dev/basic 68K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Rkm_asm.lha dev/src 272K+My own translations and codes of the R.K
ReCatItPro_PL.lha docs/help 11K+Polish Locale for ReCatItPro1.0
SGrab1.14PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for SGrab1.14
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 188K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Mattonite.lha game/demo 259K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 323K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
ArTKanoid.lha game/wb 104K+ArTKanoid V1.1 - a tiny break out game f
da3v21.lha misc/sci 1.6M+Update Digital Almanac III V1.x to V2.1
da3v31.lha misc/sci 2.0M+Update Digital Almanac III V2.x to V3.1
da3v35.lha misc/sci 1.9M+Update Digital Almanac III V3.x to V3.5
rno-r061.lha mods/misc 252K+Rno-records release no.61 by spektra/boh
Juman_en.jpg pix/art 42K+Japanese portrait (10.000 Yen banknote)
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 24K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
MiraWizARC_HU.lha util/arc 2K+Hungarian catalog for MiraWizARC11b
unpacker.lha util/arc 26K+GUI for CLI based unpackers (LHA...)
Stm.lha util/misc 41K+A replacement SAY/GUI that uses most, if
MemTest.lha util/moni 53K+Test CHIP/FAST memory. V1.0 (MAY/20/2001
rmh.lha util/rexx 70K+Rmh.library - Rexx Must Have library
rxasl.lha util/rexx 22K+Rxasl.library 9.0 asl functions for ARex
rxcd.lha util/rexx 34K+RxCD 8.1 - Audio CD ARexx Library
envhandler.lha util/sys 13K+A happyenv replacement (1.7)
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 59K+Creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.17)
sgrab.lha util/wb 53K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.15) (as)
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26.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via email
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Amiga Arena News: interviews and updates
Amiga Arena Interview campaign
The Amiga Arena talked to Markus Pohlmann about the present state
of the development of his game "Projekt Crashsite" which is a science fiction
role playing game (RPG). The interview can be found in the section "Aktionen".
Markus Pohlmann is urgently looking for users supporting him in rendering. If
you're interested please send an email to: Markus-Pohlmann@t-online.de.
Amiga Arena preview and updates
For FBase were German short instructions added.
In the area ´PD links´ you can find the German translation of the
preview of the Snake clone Krsnaked Preview. In the area
´Aktionen´ is the English translation of the interview with Dirk
Stöcker online. Special thanks go to Kilian Server and Kai Stegemann for
the translations. (ps)
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26.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via email
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Amiga Arena: full version of "Pferderennen"
With permission from Markus Pohlmann the Amiga Arena makes the use of the full
version of "Pferderennen" available. ´Pferderennen´
is, as the name already suggests, a bet game in which you can place a bet on one
out of six race horses. The game is available for download in the section
"Vollversionen".
"Pferderennen" offers:
- entertainment for up to 8 players
- detailed "horse powers" ;)
- 30 stables with a maximum of 50 horses each
- a horse editor
- saveable scores
(ps)
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26.May.2001
amiga.org
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Event: 28./29. July: Ottawa Amiga Show, Canada
Amiga.info organizes after three years the first Amiga Show in Canada. The
'Ottawa Amiga Show' will be held on the 28. and 29. July 2001.
The place of the event hasn't been fixed yet. Information regarding this will
be made known as soon as possible on the website (title link).
(ps)
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26.May.2001
Matay
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Developers: free SDK for Prometheus PCI card
Company Matay offers to all developers who want to write drivers for Matay's
Prometheus PCI card a free Software Developer Kit (SDK).
In case you need some help or have questions, please contact the Prometheus
designer and programmer Grzegorz Kraszewski.
For general questions and comments Grzegorz
Juraszek is at your disposal.
(ps)
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26.May.2001
Fun Time World
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MPEG player: Frogger 1.65rc5 for PowerPC released
A new version of the Amiga MPEG animation player ´Frogger´ for PowerPC
computers has been released. With this it is now possible to select several
animations at once that are then played one after another.
The graphical user interface (GUI) has been revised and causes less often a
system crash. The speed was also part of the revision and much has been improved.
In case that the original Frogger website (title link) is too slow, you can use
this mirror site for
downloading, too. The program is shareware and can be registered either directly
at the author Sebastian Jëdruszkiewicz in Poland or for German readers at
Fun Time World. (ps)
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25.May.2001
Ralph Ewers
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New pictures and report from the 'Japanese Business Show 2001'
As already reported,
Sharp Corporation presented the Sharp Zaurus pocket computer with AmigaDE as application
for the first time at their booth at the 'Japanese Business Show 2001' in Tokyo. Ralph
Ewers, an amiga-news.de reader currently living in Tokyo, has visited the show for us
and sent us more pictures and a small report.
Ralph Ewers had the chance to talk to Sharp's planning manager and obtain the following
information:
The Zaurus is supposed to be available in America this autumn running Linux (in English) instead
of the Japanese ZaurusOS. The American version will most likely contain some improvements:
in the same case, a faster CPU may be built into (the current CPU was at times indeed
slow running the DE), a battery with longer life and a keyboard with larger keys is planned
as well. Whether AmigaDE will be included depends on the licence fees which are currently
not decided yet. A first prototype of the English Zaurus may be seen at the Java-One taking
place in early June in America.
At least, Bill McEwen (here only called "Mister Bill" since it's easier to pronounce for
the Japanese) has had some successful meetings with a Sharp manager (these personal
meetings are very important!). He's at least in e-mail contact with the "planning manager"
I spoke to.
Amiga is definitely seen "only" as "content provider". A native DE hasn't been
thought about so far. (At least that's the official reply!)
Other "highlights":
The color display of the Palm m505 is at least in the default configuration
rather ugly and strongly reminds of the PalmIIIc. It also reflects awfully
(it has that - sadly - in common with the Zaurus). Regarding this, the
Cassiopeia s700 (or was it i700) impressed me very much. Subjectively not
any heavier than a Palm V (slightly deeper) and a great display with higher
resolution.
Logitec plans to release a DVD-R/RW (yes, "R") drive with FireWire in June,
the price is interesting: 120,000 Yen (plus 5% tax here in Japan).
Bluetooth was a big topic. Panasonic for example has presented miscellaneous
hardware; some kind of Gameboy, headphones, expansion cards for the
memory card slot and so on, and there's also a lot of choice for the Zaurus.
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(ps)
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25.May.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c source code available
Alfred Faust wrote:
»Today, Todor Fay gave me the permission to make the source code of
Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c available to the public.
He asked me to spread this information as far as possible. Thus
I ask you to pass on this information to all those who are interested.
A group of programmers looked at the source, completed it and cleaned as many
errors as possible; made it compliant to the new ANSI-C standard (as far as
possible and necessary), adapted it to several compilers (CompilerSpecific.h
was built in), tested it with SAS/C 6.50 and DICE 3.16.
Any commercial distribution is prohibited. A release on Amiga CDs is no problem.
Distributors of Amiga CDs who want to release the source code on a CD are asked
to contact me.« (ps)
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25.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: what you always wanted to know about the GPL
»The GNU project has put an extensive FAQ
online. Here Richard M. Stallman, initiator of the GNU project, president of the Free
Software Foundation and prominent advocate of free software, answers many questions
about the GNU general public license.«
Full article (in German) at the title link. (ps)
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25.May.2001
ANN
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New pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard
At the title link, you'll find new pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard.
The pictures were shot in France at a meeting to which
Alan Redhouse of Eyetech
had invited Adam Carrano of APS, Ben Yoris of
Hyperion and
Christophe Decanini of ANN.
(ps)
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25.May.2001
Amigan Software
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Software: Amigan Software's Worm Wars and Report+ updated
Version 6.7 of the game 'Worm Wars' and version 4.63a of Report+ have been released.
Report+ allows you to easily create bug reports, Aminet readme files, documentation
and similar reports. The ReAction- and GadTools-based program and is freeware.
Donwload:
wormwars.lha - 730 kB
report.lha - 380 kB
(ps)
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25.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Software: SGrab and EnvHandler updated
The screen grabber SGrab has been compiled entirely with StormC4 and is now available
in version 1.15. Stephan's EnvHandler has been released in version 1.6.
Download:
sgrab.lha - 55 kB
envhandler.lha - 12 kB
(ps)
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24.May.2001
jami0003 (ANF)
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New PowerPC Roadmap from IBM
IBM announced their updated PowerPC roadmap.
Future IBM PPC CPU's among other things would have a multimedia unit and direct SMP support.
If that multimedia unit is about to be the Altivec engine developed by Motorola neither was
repudiated nor confirmed. The next generation will be produced in 0,13µm - 0,10µm technic.
(ps)
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24.May.2001
Amiga Future
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Interview: Amiga Future talked to Thomas Knaebel (bplan GmbH)
Amiga Future (Anton Preinsack) did an interesting interview (title link) with the CEO of the
bplan GmbH about the PPC platform
'Pegasos' being developed.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 23.05.2001
QuickFile_3.27.lha biz/dbase 361K+Powerful, fast and easy database.
dnotify.lha comm/irc 0K+Arexx-script for AmIRC/dynAMIte Server t
SMS2D2.lha comm/misc 9K+Send sms to german D2 via modem or ISDN
facts.lha comm/tcp 89K+V4.5 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
js_umsrfc.lha comm/ums 147K+Umsrfc update (1.7)
hungarian.lzh demo/euro 124K+Another simple demo
rno-min4.lha demo/intro 53K+RNO: "MiNUS 4" a 64k intro from TP2k
PowerAmiga1.lha demo/mag 481K+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
PowerAmiga2.lha demo/mag 566K+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
PowerAmiga3.lha demo/mag 1.1M+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
xmplay-lib.lha dev/asm 190K+Xmplayer.library - plays a FastTracker m
powerd.lha dev/e 806K+New powerful programming language v0.17
Lgui.lha dev/src 173K+My own translations and codes of the R.K
FindChanges.lha disk/misc 89K+Finds changes made to disk
AmigaInfo.lha docs/hyper 365K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Maggio 2001
starmag26_ag.lha docs/mags 339K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
starmag27_ht.lha docs/mags 2.0M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
pbcomplete.lha game/actio 31K+A viewable demo of me completing Payback
RiVA.lha gfx/show 36K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
Medication.lha hard/misc 107K+V1.0: A powerfull GUI for Mediator owner
Alcuin1_2.lha misc/emu 257K+HP 48 (S/SX/G/GX) emulator. Release 1.2
Nostalgia-IT.lha misc/emu 3K+Italian catalog for Nostalgia 2.0
mhimdev.lha mus/play 17K+MHI driver for mpeg.device
Greek_Locale.lha pix/nicon 21K+Greek Locale Icons
WirlpoolGalaxi.jpg pix/trace 112K+Trooper Fighter from Starship Trooper
dfback.jpg pix/views 468K+Bras lia
BareED.lha text/edit 280K+Simple text editor which supports propor
CharMap.lha text/font 72K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 23K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
ltdic_engfra.lha text/misc 638K+English-French dictionary for LangTools
ltdic_engger.lha text/misc 1.0M+English-German dictionary for LangTools
TextView125.lha text/show 59K+Textviewer for PP,XPK,AGuide,HTML,Pipes.
LoadModule.lha util/boot 9K+Install Libs/Devs reset-proof, ROM-Updat
PatchRAM.lha util/boot 19K+Patch Os 3.9 RAM-Handler to show right s
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 113K+WarpDT preferences program V44.4
WBCycle.lha util/wb 18K+Cycles a single WB colour register to pr (as)
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23.May.2001
amiga.org
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amiga.org: Interview with Ruben Monteiro (SoundsCool)
Wayne Hunt from amiga.org interviewed Ruben Monteiro from CyberOxygen. Monteiro is the programmer of
Sounds Cool which is a sound-editor tool for
AmigaDE. Read the interview under the title link.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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WebTool: New SiteWay-Modul 'SiteCatcher'
SiteCatcher is a simple tool for easy downloading of full websites. It only offers the absolutely
most necessary possibilities of preference. Therefore it is easy to use.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
NewOS (ANF)
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New OS for AMIGA: NewOS
As it seems soon we can be pleased about another OS for the Amiga. NewOS is already available for Intel-platforms
and for the Sega Dreamcast-console. Porting this operating system which was written by a former
BeOS-kernel developer to Amiga 3000 - M68040 is standing on the fourth place of a so called ToDo-list.
We may be curious to know what will be come there.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
Dirk Baeyens via E-Mail
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Amiga Inc.: Sharp shows AmigaDE application
Today in Tokio, Japan Sharp Corporation shows Sharp Zaurus handheld computer with AmigaDE as application
publicly for the first time. You can look at the first pictures under the title link. The fare continues going
until 25th of May. Over 400.000 visitors are be expected.
Read also the message
at the ´Amiga Support´ area, and the press release
of Sharp.
(ps)
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23.May.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Metatrash
"Metabox AG, Hildesheim" applies for a insolvency proceedings after a turbulent year
(suspicion of deception and manipulation of market value, invented profits, decline of the share).
(td)
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22.May.2001
Tom Parker
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Software: AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin
Tom Parker has written a PowerPC JPEG plugin for the internet browser AWeb. For
now the software has alpha status and contains known bugs. If you want to test
the plugin follow the title link for more informations and the latest version.
(ps)
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22.May.2001
CLICKFISH.com
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Article about amiga-news.de at CLICKFISH.com
Torsten Kleinz has written an article about amiga-news.de:
"Amiga strikes back". Read the complete article (German) under the title link.
(ps)
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22.May.2001
Vladimir Chikov aka djv (E-Mail)
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Game: Amerikan Chajnik In Russia
This game dedicated to all "Simpsons" cartoon fans. But now Homer Simpson
adventures are in Russia. The word "chajnik" in title mean "dummy" (it's
Russian slang). This is first (not last, I hope) big game project from
Russia. Autor -- Vladimir Berezenko aka Q-Master. Original version of this
game was developed by Vlad Scherbakov and Renat Farhulin (aka Mr. Gluk)
for ZX-Spectrum (yea, this computer still popular here in Russia).
There are English text strings in the game - you have to click on "AMERIKA"
on the title screen to play in English instead of Russian.
There also is an English text version of this game. To play this you have to
click on "Amerika" on the title screen.
(ps)
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22.May.2001
Michael Jurisch (ANF)
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Update: "Big Book Of Amiga Hardware"
The BBOAH is a localization of information about Amiga hardware in pictures and
documentations. The following sections are updated:
- NEW MYSTERY #12 (thanks to Robin Pillow)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE BCD 2000A Video Control System (thanks to Robin Pillow)
- UPDATE Kickstart (thanks to Gregory Donner)
- MANUFACTURER ADDED Vector (thanks to Rainer Schreurs)
- UPDATE DeInterlace 2000 (thanks to Rainer Schreurs)
- PICTURE Altais (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE DracoMotion (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Eltanin (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Rastaban (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Amiga Teletext (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE OverDrive CD (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW PICTURE CD1221 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW PICTURE CD1252 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW PICTURE CD1253 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW PICTURE CD1301 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Commodore 1MB (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE YC Genlock (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE MTec AT 500 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- IMPROVED PICTURE KCS Power PC 500 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- IMPROVED Rockey RG320C (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE 2061 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
- UPDATE EasyL (thanks to Calum Tsang)
- UPDATE G-Force 040 A3000 (thanks to Wade McIntyre)
- NEW ENTRY "Sega Development Unit" (thanks to Rude Cow)
- NEW ENTRY Mastercard (ZII) (thanks to Frank Ciesiewicz)
- NEW MYSTERY #13 (thanks to Serge)
(ps)
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22.May.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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Hardware: New Mediator PCI Boards
On the homepage of KDH are informations about the new PCI boards from Elbox available.
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 is the most advanced version of the Amiga-related PCI busboard.
The card is dedicated for working in E/BOX 4000 tower systems (also known as Power
Tower 4000). The card is installed in the special slot of the Elbox Zorro III/PCI 4000
busboard. MEDIATOR PCI 4000 combines the most advanced electronic solution with a
special perfect mechanical design enabling use up to six Zorro III cards simultaneously
with up to five PCI cards. Here are some MEDIATOR PCI 4000 features:
- supports 5 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- enables simultaneous operation of Zorro III/II cards
- works with all the turbo card models for A4000 computers
- ready for installation of the SharkPPC G3/G4 and SharkPPC+ G3/G4 turbo cards
- up to 1GB continuous PCI memory space
Mediator PCI ZIII
MEDIATOR PCI ZIII is a PCI busboard in the Zorro III card form. MEDIATOR PCI ZIII
is dedicated for all the models of Amiga computers fitted with Zorro III slots:
A4000T, A4000D, A3000 and A1200 equipped with the ZorroIII busboard. Here are some
MEDIATOR PCI ZIII features:
- supports 4 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- enables simultaneous operation of Zorro III/II cards
- works with all the turbo card models for A4000 computers
- ready for installation of the SharkPPC G3/G4 and SharkPPC+ G3/G4 turbo cards
- up to 512 MB continuous PCI memory space
Mediator PCI ZIV
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EDIATOR PCI ZIV is dedicated for Amiga 1200 computers fitted with the Zorro IV busboard.
It is connected to one of two of the ZIV connectors in the Zorro IV busboard.
Here are some MEDIATOR PCI ZIV features:
- supports 4 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- enables simultaneous operation of devices connected to the Clock Ports in the ZIV busboard
- works with all the turbo card models for A1200 computers
- ready for installation of the SharkPPC G3/G4 and SharkPPC+ G3/G4 turbo cards
All PCI boards are available from June 2001
(ps)
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22.May.2001
Marvin Droogsma - AmigaScene (ANF)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show - AmigaOne comes to Europe
In Rotterdam, Netherlands will take place a unique Amiga Show on 23rd of June.
The Benelux Amiga Show will present many VIPs and the latest hardware, including
the AmigaOne! This show will show that Amiga is alive and will have a good future.
One of the VIPs will be Petro Tyschtschenko and maybe he will talk freely about
the history of Amiga.
(ps)
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22.May.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Software: isdnsurfer.device V1.944 now with Sync-PPP!
A converter from async-PPP to sync-PPP that enables the using of the Windows standard
sync-PPP is added. The new device can be found in the support section.
Download: isdndev.lha
(ps)
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22.May.2001
AudioLabs
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Audio: ProStationAudio Update - 24bit Import
Beyond 16bit audio.
The current trend in the audio industry is to propose
alternatives to 16bit audio storage. Efforts are
targeting opposite directions: uncompressed high
resolution (24bit/96KHz) and high compression ratios
(MPEG).
In order to keep up to date in handling data generated
by latest Mac and Windows audio applications the new
ProStationAudio 4.10 now can import and convert to
16bit for multitrack editing from:
- 24bit/96KHz (packed data, mono and stereo) AIFF (Macintosh)
- 24bit/96KHz (packed data, mono and stereo) WAV (Windows)
- Raw MP3 files
- WAV MP3 files (0x55 format)
- WAV MP3 files (0x50 format)
- Shoutcast live streaming MP3
Enhancements over 4.05 include a mouse-over capability
that allows to inspect objects' attributes by moving the
mouse pointer over the timeline, and fixes. The product
is ready now, there's no new public demo for 4.10.
ProStationAudio 4.10 will also be available to current
customers in a few days, free update as always.
ProStationAudio runs on AmigaOS (classic only) systems
(Amigas and Dracos). An additional version for Windows
is in the works.
(ps)
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