15.Oct.1999
Jens Schönfeld by e-mail
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Silversurfer Update
Jens Schönfeld writes:
Sales of the Silversurfer started surprisingly well. Preorders have been catched up, so there
will be no more delays for orders.
Since October 15th, there is a software update available from my
website.
Changes:
- device now 68000 compatible
- A600 adapter supported
- crashes with Z4 board fixed
- Installer script optimized
- successful installation can now be checked by the power LED "morse code" even without a 15kHz monitor
Start of delivery for the A600 adapter is November 10th, 1999. Preorders are not accepted, to
avoid confusion with people who placed pre-orders but bought one at the Cologne show.
Available since Thursday is the Silversurfer limited edition. It has a 26pin
port for connecting with old Buddha controllers (those with a green board) or the Catweasel
Z-II (all versions). The number is limited to 88. The limited edition is not available
in shops, but only by fax order from individual Computers.
Due to the small numbers, the price is ~40 Euro plus ~5 Euro P&P.
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15.Oct.1999
Nico Barbat by e-mail
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Cologne Conference 99
nico@barbat.de writes:
Parallel to the Home Electronics World 99 in Cologne, there will again be the computer party
"Cologne Conference" taking place. The party, hosted
by three well-known scene groups, lasts from November 13th to 14th, and runs under the motto
"fun over commerce", with remarkable contests all around computers and a big lottery. We
expect visitors of all systems all over Europe.
Contact:
Nico Barbat
Tel. +49 - 221 / 430 46 56
e-mail: cc@scenet.de
WWW: www.scenet.de/cc/
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15.Oct.1999
Apex Designs
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Apex: Payback status report 2
There is a new status report about Payback from
Apex Designs.
- Bugs have been removed. There have been problems with collision control. It now
works faster and more reliable, but needs some more work.
- The sound mixing code has been implemented. It is a very flexible system. A total
of 12 sounds can be mixed with their exact 3D position, and be reproduced in stereo
via the inverse square law. Moreover, a realistic doppler effect simulation is available.
All this runs on the Amiga soundchip "Paula", and will be optimised by Assembler code.
- Talks have been made with several bands about the soundtrack. Perhaps more in the next update.
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13.Oct.1999
Czech Amiga News
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2nd beta of AHI/PPC
Martin Blom has released a new beta of AHI for PPC. This version supports WarpUp,
but right now is 35% slower than the PowerUp version. Therefore you shouldn't expect
much speed from this version, but simply tell Martin Blom if it runs.
Due to a recently discovered bug in WarpUp, AHI is kept from using the
cache like it is supposed to. AHI will either provide a workaround for this, or
require a newer version of WarpUp.
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13.Oct.1999
V3
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V3 plugins poll
There is a form on the V3 homepage asking "which plugin do you want the most
for V3?". You can choose from:
- VRML
- PDF (Acrobat)
- Quicktime VR
- RealAudio
- VFlashPPC
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13.Oct.1999
Christoph Kimna in ANF
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Napalm Update to v1.4
Christoph Kimna writes:
It's there! On October 12th, the long-awaited Napalm update to v1.4 has been released!
- Networking mode now functional
- new c2p RTG-Master graphics mode "Lucy"
- numerous bugfixes
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12.Oct.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Future of Amiga Nutta
On his Amiga Nutta website, David Flaherty re-and previewed games for 3 years now.
The statement on his website tells, why his motivation lets down now.
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12.Oct.1999
Czech Amiga News
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2 New Maim & Mangle Screenshots
TWF released another two screenshots of their upcoming 3D realtime strategy game
Maim & Mangle.
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12.Oct.1999
Czech Amiga News
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glTron
glTron by Andreas Umbach is another 3D port of the well known racing scene from the
movie "TRON". The game is available for download for Amiga, BeOS on x86, FreeBSD, Mac OS, Linux,
and Windows 9x/NT. The Amiga port is being done by Oliver Schuler. It requires a 68060
or an WarpOS PPC Amiga and a 3D graphics board.
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11.Oct.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Clickboom looking for BVision board
Clickboom is urgently looking for
a BVision board. If you have one for sale, contact info@clickboom.com.
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11.Oct.1999
AWD [News]
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Diavolo Backup Update in November
Since September 8th, a hint can be found on the Computer Corner
news site
about a new version of Diavolo
Backup will be available by November.
Registered customers will recieve the update for 20,- DM. It will support
hard disk partitions >4GB, if the new file system from Amiga has the appropriate
features. Aside from other improvements, Catweazel support is planned.
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11.Oct.1999
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF
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Rainboot v2.69 released
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
A new update for Rainboot has been released: Version 2.69. This version
contains some bugfixes and small improvements, and can be downloaded from
the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
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11.Oct.1999
AWD [News]
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XLight / LaserMax
XLight is a soft-/hardware project by Christian Entrup for controlling
lighting systems for small and large events. On the homepare the following
information is available in adition to the manual and screenshots:
Right now, ony a demo version of this software is available. It is a demo
version WITHOUT HARDWARE OUTPUT on the parallel port. The subroutines for
driving the hardware are missing in this version! The software is fully
functional, however, including writing and saving lighting skripts. Sadly,
the switch group and strobo group with their abilities cannot be marveled
at, since there is no graphical representation on the user interface for
them. Registering is not planned right now. A full version is not yet
delivered. Since I am not sure about how to distribute the hardware
(own manufacturing, construction set, giving out layouts, or...) and the
hardware tests are not yet finished, this is delayed, since quality and
safety are #1 issues.
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11.Oct.1999
V3
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V³ pre4
The latest version removes numerous bugs. It is recommended to reboot after
installation to make sure no old libraries remain in memory. Additionally, V³
now sports a demo mode, so the program can be tested without keyfile for 30
minutes; and a new toolbar by Loonstar.
There is a seperate PPC version of VFlash V3.0pre3 is now available.
The current V³ versions are prereleases meant for testing and
locating bugs; they are not final versions with more or less guaranteed stability.
Download:
v3_prerelease4_101099.lzx (1.3M)
VFlashPPC-0.16.lzx (117K)
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11.Oct.1999
ANN
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GoldED Virus Warning
Two hacked versions of GoldED Studio 6 have surfaced recently, 6.2.0 and
6.2.1. The latter seems to be virus infected.
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11.Oct.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Interview with Carl Sassenrath
Rediff has released a throughout
interview with
Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec, Rebol) about
the programming language "Rebol".
The interview contains information about the history of Rebol and
Carl Sassenrath (among others), and describes, whta makes Rebol different to
other languages.
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11.Oct.1999
ANN
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World of Amiga #5 released
On October 9th, the 5th issue of the World of Amiga
magazine has been released.
Contents:
- Program a multiuser 3D Environment!
- iWin feature
- The Direction Changers
- iBrowse Rundown
- And More!
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11.Oct.1999
ANN
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Spoletium2 - demo party on November 1st/2nd
The italian demo group Darkage hosts
the Spoletum2 on November 1st
and 2nd.
The party will be Amiga only, and submissions (intro, demo,
gfx, 4-channel audio) can also be submitted by e-mail.
Details about the party are available at the title link.
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11.Oct.1999
ANN
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Edgar M. Vigdal's homepage - Deluxe Galaga
Since early September, Edgar M. Vigdal
has his own homepage. Here, you can
e.g. download the shareware
version of Deluxe Galaga, Deluxe Pacman (both in ECS and AGA versions) as well as Tetriz.
Especially his interpretation of Galaga is one of the top FD Amiga games.
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11.Oct.1999
Markus Fellhauer on ANF
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MCP V1.33a35 released
Aliendesign has released the alpha
version 1.33a35 of the multi commodity
MCP.
Changes from 34-Alpha include WBGauge being deactivated under AmigaOS 3.5
and a corrected dispose option during hotkey definition.
Download: MCP133a35.lha (245K)
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11.Oct.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Frogger V1.3.9
The MPEG 1&2-player "Frogger" has been released in version 1.3.9 on
October 8th, 1999. Changes to the last version are two removed Enforcer
hits (display code, end of data stream) and the corrected 68k version of
the yov->8bpp conversion.
The player can be downloaded from the above URL for PPC and
68k CPUs (68030 + FPU or better).
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11.Oct.1999
Urban D. Mueller in dcsam
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Aminet Status
Urban Mueller writes in dcsam that right now there is no way to say when
Aminet will be running again. Older files can be downloaded from the usual
servers, new uploads are still not exchanged between servers.
Reason for the trouble is that the main server in Paderborn has
been hacked, and has to be completely rebuild.
If Aminet should stay down for duration, the main server will be
transferred back to wuarchive, which would however take some time, too.
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10.Oct.1999
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon: Something has survived
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01.Oct.1999
PC-Welt
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PC-Welt: Transmeta unveiled: Patent for cheap CPU
PC-Welt writes:
The mysterious company Transmeta, having Linux developer Linus Thorvalds on their
payroll, has filed a patent for a processor emulating an Intel chip. As US news
service CNet reports, it is a combination of CPU and software behaving like a
X86 CPU. The software translates Pentium commands in a way that the chip can
parse them.
The Patent is available online.
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01.Oct.1999
V3
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V³ pre3 available
This version is only for registered Voyager 3 users. Download:
v3_prerelease3_011099.lzx.
The Popplaceholder.mcc for MUI seems to be missing. Download:
MCC_Popph.lha
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01.Oct.1999
Martin Strobl by eMail
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COOL bits Newsticker
Martin Strobl writes:
- first, despite the latest news from America (Gateway, Amiga Inc., Collas, etc.)
we will of course continue to support the Amiga :-)). If our business can remain
"Amiga only" (well, and a little bit Casablanca :-) ), is very uncertain currently,
however :-(. No matter what might be our new business, it won't be PC :-)))).
All in all, I think the future for the Amiga (or whatever it will be
called) lies in the PowerPC (603/604 - G3/G4). I don't believe anything usable will
come from Amiga Inc. any more :-(. I'd like to be convinced otherwise.
I recommend all Amiga users join the PPC movement, or at least wait
until the Amiga show (Home Electronics World) in November before deciding to change
platforms.
- our homepage is undergoing a complete restructuring right now, so there
are no updates for now. I home the new homepage to be online in about two weeks.
I'm on holiday this week, and won't be answering emails before it's over.
Our shop remains open, of course :-)
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01.Oct.1999
Screens
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Screens: Now more than ever
Due to the unfortunate decissions of Gateway, the Screens development team will
work harder than ever for this project (Amiga PPC operating system) to become
reality. A beta version is not yet available, but it's worked upon.
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01.Oct.1999
Camouflage
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Latest info about CamX/Camouflage project
Amiga development has been put on hold, sadly. We no longer sell to customers.
The decission of Gateway / Amiga Inc. has been accepted with great regret -
really disappointing. CamX will be developed for BeOS and Linux - with unclear
priorities so far. Registered Amiga / Camouflage users can cross-update.
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01.Oct.1999
GoldED
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GoldED Studio 6.2.1
Download: sp621.lha (1,02 MB)
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30.Sep.1999
Daniel Bindel by eMail
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Hyperion News
Hyperion will port the plus pack "The Heretic Fortress" for the game "Heretic II".
A connection with a PC is possible. For owners of the full version "Heretic II" for
Amiga, it will be released for free download.
A new status report
about "SHOGO" is online.
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30.Sep.1999
Ralph Debusmann by eMail
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EasyPlayer
"EasyPlayer" is a configurable GUI for all shell based music players. Be it
"mpega", "SIDPLAY" or "GMPlay" or any recently released shell-based player -
with "EasyPlayer", you get a unified interface with playlist (load, save,
append, shuffle...) and all eytras. It's a totally free software ("open source"
style).
You will be able to get EasyPlayer form Aminet soon, or at the title link.
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30.Sep.1999
Jochen Abitz by eMail
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Eyelight development
Jochen Abitz writes:
Mage for AmigaPPC has been canceled. :(
Eyelight has released a demo of Gamma on their website: www.eyelight-it.com. The
development has been put on hold, and will only be continued if 500 people preorder
Gamma.
Here's the original text from the demo:
Gamedemo for CGX3Drave, (c)1999 Eyelight
This is a rather old "game-like" demo for CGX3Drave that showed off the
basics of Gamma, the 3D games construction kit from Eyelight. It requires a CVPPC
since the software engine we developed for CGX3D rave is not available to the
public.
Being completly unoptimized and running on 68K only, it still shows off
nicely what could have been possible with Gamma. Source code (in C but is actually a
direct translation from Golem, Eyelight's scripting language used in Tornado3D) that
creates the whole game is provided. As you can see it is rather simple, and the
scripting environment made Gamma easy to use even for people with no 3D graphics
programming experience.
Unfortunately Gamma has been canceled for the Amiga, due to the many
shakes the market suffered. If there is enough interest and at least 500 Amigans
pre-order Gamma for as low as 50.00 EURO/ US Dollars, we'll still produce it both in
68K and PPC versions.
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30.Sep.1999
Martin Baute by eMail
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Version Watch: We'll be back!
The Amiga Version Watch,
which has recently been put on hold, will be continued. The software,
which automatically offers the versions of numerous programs as a
website, will be reworked and improved by Martin Baute and Lucas von
Stockhausen as project within their studies. We will report as soon as
the Version Watch returns to functionality.
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