21.Nov.1999
Steven Flowers by e-mail
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The Pulse Issue 9
Alive Mediasoft is shipping the English magazine The Pulse
for free on a regular basis, which at the same time is a catalog for ordering
the products advertised therein.
more ...
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21.Nov.1999
Thomas Lorenz by e-mail
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FusionPPC status
Paul Lesurf (Blittersoft) had a long talk with Jim Drew about FusionPPC. The current
status is:
- As previously announced, FusionPPC for Amiga was not
released on November 20th as scheduled.
- FusionPPC development for Amiga is continuing as normal.
- Jim Drew explained that the project is in advanced state
of completion, and everything is done to have a release version ready by christmas.
- Like stated in the prepayment contract, all customers are free to cancel the
contract with Microcode Solutions in writing. The money is transferred back within
30 days after recieving the cancelling note. This was stated clearly on the webpage,
top of the online ordering form.
Paul Lesurf asks people to have patience until FusionPPC for Amiga is released. Jim
and Joe are working hard to present an excellent package for PPC Amiga, and due to
Paul Lesurf, it will be worth the waiting.
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21.Nov.1999
AWD [News]
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Ami@reek
At the link above, latest Amiga news are posted in Greek.
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21.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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AmiDog's Movie Player v1.30
On November 20th, version 1.30 of the Movie Player
has been released. Changes from the previous version:
- reworked shell user interface
- completely rewritten AmigaOS code
- MPEG: VLayer support
- MPEG: some optimizations in the decoder
- MPEG: faster YUV->RGB converting
- MPEG: greyscale window on Workbench with 15/16/24 bit
- MPEG: 2-width HAM about 40% faster
- MPEG: greyscale playback about 20% faster
- QT: index creation many hundred times faster
- QT/AVI: CVID decoder bugged in v1.26
- QT/AVI: YUY2 decoder playing movies upside down
- bugfix: a char array being copied to unallocated memory
The QT parser has some bugs in the playback code, and this version is for now
missing a GUI. If you want one, you can get one from version 1.25/1.26.
Download: AMP130.lha.
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21.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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MSD95 V1.5
MSD95 is an Amiga filesystem allowing to read IBM-PC partitions and floppy disk (the
latter by using the mfm.device). Supported are FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 with or without
long filenames. Download: msd95v15.lha.
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20.Nov.1999
Fred Fish in gg-ML
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Coordinator wanted for AmigaOS Geek Gadgets
Since Fred Fish is lacking the time and motivation for some time now to look after the
AmigaOS version of Geek Gadgets, a new coordinator is wanted for the Amiga version.
If you are interested in taking this job, you should have good organisational
and communicative talents, being an active member of the Amiga community, and have enough
time to look after all aspects of AmigaOS GG.
Additionally, someone is wanted who can generate a new snapshot on regular basis.
For this, an Amiga 68060 would be nice, since a 68040 takes several days for compiling all
sources, so creating a snapshot can take several weeks. Even while there is no need for
manual editing most of the time.
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20.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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MPEG+Sound module project for CV64/3D
The Cybervision64/3D offers a S3-Scenic-Highway (LPB) bus. This allows for adding useful
expansions like a MPEG decoder or such. While the hardware is readily available, the
needed Amiga software is missing. Those interested in writing such software, can get
further informations about the project from the title link, or write an e-mail to
rob@vgr.com.
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20.Nov.1999
Fun Time World
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fxPaint test and MP3 software overview
At Fun Time World, a review of the image processing software
fxPaint and an
overview over MP3 software have been released.
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20.Nov.1999
Dimitris a Gourlis in c.s.a.g.
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Cinemaware Webring
Dimitris a Gourlis has created a webring about the games by Cinemaware (It came from
the Desert, Defender of the Crown). You can join this webring at the title link.
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20.Nov.1999
Amiga.org
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HEW '99 report by Caghan Demirci
The article is very detailed, and contains one piece of information or
another that escaped some people so far. Like, Epic's "Simon the Sorcerer 2"
might be released early next year as Amiga version if at least 500 preorders
are recieved.
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20.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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JST v2.9
The degrader "JST" has been released as version 2.9. It now offers an emulation of the
CD32 joypad. Download: jst.lha
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20.Nov.1999
AWD [News]
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Eyelight - Millennium Amiga Poll
From November 19th to December 19th, Eyelight
is conducting the Millennium Amiga Poll.
Reason for this poll is to find out how many Amiga users there are, and what they
want. To encourage participation, Eyelight offers prices for more than 5000 USD.
Every day, a PowerPack Volume I + bonus cupon, a Tornado3D t-shirt + bonus
cupon and a bonus cupon are given away. Every week, a Tornado3D SE package + bonus
cupon can be won.
The detailed form can be downloaded from the title link.
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20.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Atéo Concepts News
The serial driver of the AtéoSer/AtéoIO card now works correctly. Error
handling took so much time since it was both a soft- and hardware issue. As a fix for
the software there will be an update at the
Atéo Concepts website next week.
The hardware issue makes a small modification of the Atéo bus necessary, which
can be done by yourself - there will be a manual on the website, or you can send in
the board after calling in (phone +33 (0)2.40.85.30.85).
Atéo has a limited number of A4000 keyboards in stock, which can
i.e. be connected directly to the Atéo tower. Price is 36.90 Euro.
Atéo bus works correctly with OS 3.5. If problems should occur,
the usual patches are to blame. Otherwise try an additional "COLD" argument when calling
the 'StartAteoBus' command.
Release of the scandoubler has been delayed due to the AtéoSer issues
and the prototype being delivered early September instead of end of July, but should
be available by the end of the year.
Atéo Concepts warns that Picasso96 V2.0 does not work with the Pixel64 due to
a bug in the files. When the bug is fixed, a P96 update will be available in the
download area. On the other hand, CyberGfx does also support the Pixel64
now.
Development of an audio board with DSP, MIDI, MPEG compression etc. is planned.
Suggestions and ideas can be send to Atéo Concepts.
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19.Nov.1999
Sid4Amiga
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Sid4Amiga version 3.24 released
Download: Sid4AmigaV3_24.lha
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19.Nov.1999
amiga-news.de
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HEW '99 Special
First short previews 12./14.11.1999
Pictures of the first day Impressions - 12.11.1999
Details and pictures of the Met@box processorcard for A1200 - 13.11.1999
Pictures of the second day Impressions II - 13.11.1999
Pictures of the last day Impressions III - 14.11.1999
HEW '99 Report from Caghan Demirci - 29.11.1999
more ...
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19.Nov.1999
Benjamin Dauhrer in ANF
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PowerOS mailinglist
Due to the many e-mails every day with questions about PowerOS, a PowerOS mailinglist has
been opened. More informations available from posinfo.listbot.com.
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19.Nov.1999
Thomas Lorenz in ANF
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FusionPPC - remark and request
The article below is taken from the Fusion mailinglist.
Since so far only a quarter of the placed preorders have been backed up with payments
(which results in Microcode Solutions having to write the whole code themselves ->
delays in Amiga and PC version), Jim Drew sees four options for the Amiga version:
- paying back the prepaiments, aborting the project!! (NO!!)
- continuing the project, finishing by christmas. BUT: Only for those who pre-ordered
and pre-payed (hardware dongle) (not so great either)
- bumping the price to 299 USD (probably by christmas, too) (oops, expensive...)
- hoping that those who stated interest in FusionPPC will finally place their
prepayment
so the project can be finished quickly by external reinforcements.
Jim Drew is ready to hear other suggestions. Due
to the large investments done so far, he is reluctant to drop the project.
more ...
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19.Nov.1999
Total Vision
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Total Vision News
An update for the video MPEG player Frogger version 1.43 and an update for
SoftCinema (version 0.7) is available for download.
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18.Nov.1999
Daniel Schulz by e-mail
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ANNEX not splitted!
In the net there is a rumor that ANNEX has split. I do not know who tells such
rumors, or what for, but it is 100% sure that ANNEX has NOT split, and does not
plan to do so for a long time.
There have been only three of us in Cologne, but you can read that
on our homepage. On the contrary, we are planning to present a vinyl release to
the market, and to announce this on this occassion, too!
If you want to get an impression how things are going on at ANNEX,
you should have a look at our homepage. ANNEX is continuing, and will not split
as long as there is an Amiga user left on the world!!! Even if that user has to
be myself!! :-) See ya at the next big show.
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18.Nov.1999
Roman Schaub in ANF
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PTOW now freeware
The periodic table of elements (short: ptoe) is a list that shows all the known
elements in a certain order. This program shows such a list and the information
about the elements contained in it.
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18.Nov.1999
Vapor.com
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AmTelnet version 2.1.3beta released
Download: amtelnet_213beta.lzx
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18.Nov.1999
Markus Fellhauer in ANF
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A/NES emulator CGFX version 1.10
Download: anescgfx.lha - 72 kB.
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18.Nov.1999
Detlef Zirpel in ANF
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Which OS is the best?
At the title link, you can vote what you like about which Operating System
and what you dislike. The Amiga - OS dropped from position three to position
six during the last months. Whoever agrees with me that the Amiga - OS is
better should announce it there as soon as possible. And then lets see ...
PS: Thanks to Detlef's call, AmigaOS is back where it belongs :-) (ps)
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18.Nov.1999
Jens Schönfeld by e-mail
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individual Computers says thank-you
Silversurfer number 400 has just left the house, which proves: the Amiga market is alive!
Independant magazines in Germany and Great Britain have tested the product to be bug-free
and absolutely outstanding. The fact that there's another card on the market which is an
exact copy of the Silversurfer from the outside is a compliment for me: there's nothing
to improve!
Of course, the EOF mode of Miami was supported from the beginning, but since
I consider this self-explanatory this feature was not advertised big-time. The next version
of Miami will auto-detect the Silversurfer, and use the EOF mode without the user having
to activate it manually.
There has been much positive feedback on the HEW '99. Only the length of the
supplied cable (25cm) was reason for criticism. Since this was known before, starting
November '99 the Silversurfer is shipped with an adapter cable which reaches the backside
of really every tower. Starting mid December '99, there will also be a slot back allowing
to attach the serial port alongside the A1200 mouse port - but there will be seperate
news available then.
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18.Nov.1999
amiga-news.de
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IWin... a neverending story
In a record time of under six weeks, Iwin has changed it's complete product line, has been sold
to Focke, but former employees have bought back the company. Well done, other companies take
months, if not years for this. To set this in the right light, Iwin-Corp. of course did not
forget to register well-sounding domains like iwin-amiga.de or iwin-mcc.de. At least that's
what's described on the web pages. As we already expected from IWin, big words raise hopes
that they would soon deliver THE ultimate Amiga system, soon...
more ...
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18.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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SoftCinema v0.7
On November 15th, version 0.7 of the animation player SoftCinema
has been released. The shareware program supports several codecs of AVI and QuickTime (QT/MOV).
This includes IntelIndeo (3.1, 3.2, 4, 5), SMC and RLE.
It rund on an Amiga with PPC (ppc.library), AGA or CGX, AHI and 8 MB free RAM.
The unregistered version is limited to 20 seconds playback. Download:
SoftCinema.lha
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18.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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3DRave Dev V1.0
On November 15th, version 1.0 of the developer archive of the 3DRave library for CyberGraphX V4.1+
has been released. It contains the cgx3drave.library, programming examples, includes and a game
demo. This version is only functional with BVisionPPC or CVisionPPC drivers. Support for
CyberVision64/3D and PicassoIV + VooDoo1 is planned. Download:
cgx3drave_10.lha.
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18.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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SecOS status report
SecOS by Trogladite Software is a software package
including diverse functionalities like login, user administration, logfile viewer etc. for
networking Amigas.
Invalidation Detection detects upon login if the harddrive is validated. If this
is not the case, the login is delayed until the harddrive has validated itself. This keeps
users from loging into the account of the predecessor. Additionally, user-defined scripts
can be executed upon login and logoff.
Users can now be organised in groups, and their access rights be set accordingly.
Among others, an editor for administrating group and user information is planned.
An information programm showing how many users are logged in etc. Work is being done on a
logfile viewer controlling three seperate logfiles (server, remote, security), offering
search and filter functionality as well as starting macros automatically when specific
entries appear in the logfiles.
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18.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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PhotogenicsNG ML at ONElist
There is now a mailing list
for PhotogenicsNG at ONElist.
The mailing list is intended for discussions and exchanging tips and hints. You can subscribe by
sending an e-mail to PhotogenicsNG-subscribe@onelist.com.
more ...
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17.Nov.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert
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New akMPEG version 3.03 (68k + PPC)
Download: akMPEG2.lha
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17.Nov.1999
Haage & Partner
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H&P News
STFax 4, NetConnect 3, Tornado3D 3, PageStream 4, ImageFX 4 and PowerStation are now
available. The delivery of pre-orders will be done within the week. Haage & Partner
begs your pardon for small delays.
more ...
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17.Nov.1999
Andre Beer in ANF
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New update for GeoWorld - geography for the Amiga
Today a new update for GeoWorld has been released. The update contains all
missing flags and a new start picture. More information and download under
the title link.
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17.Nov.1999
Jeppe Nielsen in ANF
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HomeLand - new real-time strategy game
Jeppe Nielsen writes:
A new demo called HomeLand, is online. It's a new real-time strategy game, with some
original features. You can create you own customizible units (with some limitations
of course). These units are created from tecnologies that you research. There are
currently only 14 different technologies, but it's due to expand. Any suggestions
and ideas are welcome, so please email me if you think of something cool to be added.
Screenshots and download are available from my homepage.
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17.Nov.1999
Daniel Bindel in ANF
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Lambda site update
The Lambda site has been updated again. Intensive work is being done on the
OpenGL implementation and other interfaces (3D, graphics and steering) are
under development.
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17.Nov.1999
Amigaland in ANF
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AmigaLand show report with pictures
The German show report from the Home Electronics World '99 describes the experience
from the perspective of the AMIGALAND team. Interesting because giving an impression
of the thoughts of an Amiga retailer, Mrs. Vokinger. (German only, however.)
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17.Nov.1999
Steve Crietzman by e-mail
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COSA Progress Update
Read the "Open Letter to the Amiga Community" by COSA, which summarizes all news
about the COSA project:
more ...
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17.Nov.1999
Alexander Lohmann in ANF
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New MAME version for PowerPC
Download: mameppc36b8.lha
- 4.2 MB
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17.Nov.1999
Jens Langner in ANF
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Picasso96 version 2.0 released
After months of development, the Picasso96 team has decided to release the *final*
version 2.0. Many changes and optimizations have been done since the last release
in February 1999, and now the new Picasso96 version has really earned the tilte *final*.
It should be installed on every system with gfx board. One of the new features, among
others, is support for the Draco Altais gfx board. More details at the title link.
Download: Picasso96.lzx
- 493 kB and the PGP signature
Picasso96.lzx.sig.
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17.Nov.1999
Carl Licke
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Upd8 Update Version 1.1
With this program, you can check websites you keep visiting for changes. The program
informs you which pages have changed.
For me, Upd8 is a program I couldn't live without :-). (ps)
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17.Nov.1999
The FMP in d.c.s.a.m
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Karsten Obarski Tribute Project
With Karsten Obarski, a man is standing behind track-based sound programs like
Soundtracker, Fasttracker, Impulsetracker, Screamtracker etc., who wrote the first
program of this kind, Soundtracker, and in the golden era of Amiga provided the
soundtrack for many games. But hardly anybody knows his name.
The Karsten
Obarski Tribute Project has three goals:
- make the name and person Karsten Obarski known for what he did and which
music he created
- collect as many greetings for him as possible
- make contact with him and deliver the greetings
To achieve this, FMP is looking for support. You can place one of three tribute
banners on your homepage, and send information and comments about Karsten Obarski.
A music contest is planned.
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17.Nov.1999
Apex Designs
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Payback Status Report #4
In part due to the soundtrack, in part to make the game as good as possible, the scheduled
release date of Payback has been moved from December '99 to end of February 2000. Because
of this, there will be more extras etc. in the game.
No matter what, development is making constant progress. The code for sound
mixing is now available in assembler, and has no impact on the game's framerate. A special
feature of the sound engine is that it can mix up to 100 sounds together to fit the 12
available channels by playing the loudest ones. This makes it possible to add sounds to
virtually every object (fire, phones, walking people etc.).
The special scripting language has been expanded by commands allowing non-linear
paths of action. Now, all the levels have to be created.
Four additional screenshots
are available.
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17.Nov.1999
Amiga.org
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TWOM2: Ghelae and the Death-Sword
F1 Software announced a new fantasy adventure, TWOM2.
Goal is to save the world (uh, really? ;-) (mb)) by leading Ghelae through the fantastic
world Kawamoon with its orcs, werewolves, dragons and goblins.
The game offers over 30 interactive characters, detailed graphics, numerous
puzzles and more. Scheduled release date is December 5th, 1999.
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17.Nov.1999
Amiga.org
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MMU.library v40.51 released
Version 40.51 of the MMU-library as well as several library-related tools have been released
on Aminet. The library enables ROM-mapping, memory-protecting parts of an application and more.
more ...
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17.Nov.1999
Amiga.org
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The Amiga Volunteer Project
The Amiga Volunteer Project (TAVP) is a non-profit organisation targeted at supporting
software development for the Amiga, so high-quality programs are released faster and
the software situation for the Amiga is improved.
To achieve this, the organisation is currently contacting Amiga developers
to ask them if they need help, and in which areas.
TAVP itself is looking for people interested in working for the organisation
for free. Wanted are programmers, musicians and more.
Additionally, TAVP is contacting several PC developers for porting their
programs to Amiga, and possibly earn some money for the organisation by selling them.
This money would be used for the organisation. The founders are not interested in making
money themselves with the organisation.
Whoever is interested in participating in TAVP, can send an e-mail to
official_tavp@hotmail.com. The e-mail
should state name, country and computer equipment as well as a description of how one
intends to help the project.
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17.Nov.1999
amiga-news.de
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www.irseesoft.de
A supplementary driver disk has been announced for mid December, offering the
following drivers for TurboPrint:
- Canon BJC 1000, 2000, 4400, 6100, 7100
- Epson Stylus Photo 750, 1200
- Epson Stylus Color 460, 660, 760, 860, 900
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17.Nov.1999
Falk Lücke by e-mail
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Eternity News - Tales of Tamar
It's cold outside... but the latest news offer the ultimate possibility to change
your system into a secondary heater, so get it running!
The German Tales of Tamar Demo 1 is ready, and will soon be released
on the AmigaFuture cover CD. Soon after the AmigaFuture release, the demo will be
given to the other magazines, too, not without being fully localized. A little bit
later the demo will be released to the general public, too.
The demo is not fully playable, it offers a first feeling of the world
Tamar. IRC-chat, FTP-download and online games are already functional, however, and
updates are planned, like a build-in Mastermind clone in ToT outfit...
The upcoming second Tales of Tamar demo will be able to play as stand-alone
version in connection with the server, but the round-based game will be time-limited...
As can easily be seen from these words, development has not stopped despite
the long absence of an update to the version number on the homepage http://www.tamar.net;
it is making big progress.
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17.Nov.1999
Steffen Haeuser in fidonet.AMIGA.GER
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Heretic II
Heretic II was presented on the show. One system had problems making Heretic run.
Steffen Haeuser writes about it:
On Saturday it turned out the problem was a bug of my chunkyppc.library (yes, it's
my fault :) I will fix the bug tonight). chunkyppc.library ran correctly when CGX
was installed. When Picasso96 was installed, too. But not if both are running parallel
(on two different gfx boards). And that was the problem with the second system, so
there is no specific problem by Heretic 2.
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17.Nov.1999
Martina Jacobs in ANF
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New 68060.library and FlashUpdate by Phase5
On the Phase5 FTP site, there are
new libs for MC68060 and a new FlashUpdate for PPC boards available.
68060.library version 46.7: Lib ID String corrected, Init for LC/EC060 disabled,
some switches for the utility.library path reenabled.
FlashUpdate: ppc.library version 46.28, new 68060/ppc.library for Blizzard (see
above) and new CDRive file system.
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16.Nov.1999
Stuart Walker by e-mail
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Wipeout 2097 troubles
There is a serious problem when installing the Warp3D archive which is located on the Wipeout2097 CD.
Some libraries don't have a larger version number than the Warp3D libraries of the Warp3D V2 archive,
so that the Warp3D installer doesn't copy the appropriate files. This results into a PPC exception
requester opening after the setup requester is confirmed, and after the screen resp. window becomes
black. This probably only happens, if a Warp3D V2 installation was already present and if the new
archive from the CD was installed afterwards.
more ...
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16.Nov.1999
Jörn Plewka by e-mail
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Twister1200 available again since HEW! High End, Low Cost...
Due to a misunderstanding, some cards have been sold on the show not including
documentation. Be careful during installation, the new card is now installed
head-down towards the keyboard of the A1200! Twister1200 Rev. 2 has been
modified mechanically by DCE. As reasons
cost saving and compatibility to other products is named. Support is still
provided by Katodev, by e-mail, WWW,
Fax and, if need be, phone after 6:00 PM.
more ...
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16.Nov.1999
Marko Seppänen by e-mail
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Image Engineer PlugIn - special offer
Read the press release from Image Engineer, which
offers certain PlugIns for a limited time for very special prices:
more ...
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16.Nov.1999
Robert Kon by e-mail
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Transmeta: Crusoe
January 19th, 2000, is scheduled to see the introduction of the new Crusoe
processor. The source code contains a "secret" message.
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16.Nov.1999
Andreas Magerl by e-mail
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APC & TCP - new products
Since the HEW, four new products for Amiga are available from APC & TCP. The
CD-ROM "The Best of Airsoft Softwair" contains a collection of the FULL versions
of the group that did CD32 Installer, NewInstaller, Rainboot and more.
The Scene Archives 9 is a sequel of the successful scene demo CD-ROM "The Best of
Scene Archives".
A strategy game for Amiga is finally available again: SeaSide. Currently, only the
German version is available. An English version will be released in some weeks. The
game requires AGA, 4 MB RAM and a CD-ROM drive.
With the Info/Beginner CD-ROM, the club offers a CD which is especially
targeted at Amiga newbies and club members. Readily installed tools everyone should
have are included on the CD-ROM as well as all demo versions of APC&TCP, all issues
of NoCover, the complete homepage (which is in itself 300 MByte in size), and various
material by different club members. The CD-ROM is only available directly from APC&TCP,
and is of course continuously expanded and updated.
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16.Nov.1999
Aaron Digulla in ANF
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DNS Server for AROS.ORG down
The DNS server for the AROS.ORG domain is down. The project continues nevertheless!
The FTP server is in the meantime available at ftp://sbb.hepe.com/pub/aros/;
the WWW server not, sadly.
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16.Nov.1999
Michael Lange in ANF
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CyberGraphX v4.2 update
This update, among other small issues, removes the incompabilities with AmigaOS 3.5.
This update requires the original CGX V4 CD. The archive only contains the patches for
cgxsystem.library. Download: cgxsysUpdate42.lha.
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16.Nov.1999
Alexander Kurtz by e-mail
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Update of Aminet GUI
The Aminet GUI now offers a chat. Right now this is sadly unavailable for the current
Amiga browsers! I hope the new versions of the NG browsers fix this shortcomming!
Additionally, there is a guestbook, where everyone is free to leave news, ideas or
criticism for me. For all who like discussing with other users, I added a forum. Here
you can discuss about the Amiga, and you are free for asking for and giving advice
about Amiga problems. Everyone who has a problem can ask, and everyone in the know
can answer. So get to your keyboards... A small change has been applied to the mirror
list. A small flag stands in front of each server, stating the host's country...
Finally, the GUI can now be downloaded as LHA or LZX archive, to make Aminet access
yet faster. The files can be found under Service/Downloads, and are about 880 kByte
in size.
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16.Nov.1999
Stefan Robl by e-mail
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CGXBlanker update
Version 1.20 of CGXBlanker is now configurable with a preferencer, offers some new
features compared to the last version, and a very nice new blanker ("Flower") has been
added. More details at the title link.
PS: In the old archive, I forgot the 020 version of the blanker, only a 040 version was
included... archive 1.21 now contains a 020+ and a 040+ version, and I have added an
Installer script for easy installation.
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15.Nov.1999
Alexander Kurtz by e-mail
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Aminet GUI
The Aminet GUI is available at the new URL www.aminet.de
starting immediately...
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15.Nov.1999
Oliver Wagner by e-mail
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AmigaNCP 2.1
AmigaNCP is an implementation of the Psion link protokoll, which is used in Psion S3/S3a/S3C,
Psion 55 Palmtop ROMs and others. Download: amigancp_21.lzx
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15.Nov.1999
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PowerOS news
Claus Herrmann writes in the news:
The HEW (Home Electronics World) is over now. I want to send a quick thanks to the
users who visited me and asked me all those questions! At the same time, I want to
make an announcement: PowerOS will also be implemented for the AmiJoe by Met@Box!
I cann tell you I am proud (and so far only) owner of an AmiJoe 1200 G3. A big thanks
to Met@Box for this! Details (specs and photos) soon on my homepage on a seperate page.
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15.Nov.1999
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More pictures from HEW '99
Dennis Pauler writes that there
are commented pictures of the Cologne show
available from Virtual Dimension.
more ...
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15.Nov.1999
Rene Koenig by e-mail
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Amiga Hard Hacks
Amiga Hard Hacks now has an own domain, www.hardhacks.de. On this page,
you find pinouts, hardhacks, and and and... everything about Amiga hardware.
Questions to: webmaster@hardhacks.de.
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15.Nov.1999
Oliver Tacke by e-mail
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GlowIcons CD-ROM
Oliver Tacke writes:
Dear Amiga community, in Cologne we (Heinz Andreolla and myself) have given away
CD-ROMs with numerous GlowIcons. Sadly we now have to say it is very bugged. I did
a bad mistake, so most of the icons are too small - only a little bit, but enough to
make a real clean-up with drawers containing lots of icons impossible.
Another problem is that during the stress during the last days before
the show, several binaries were copied to the CD-ROM. I consider it unfair to blame
Heinz as software pirate for this, like some people did. It was a mistake, really,
and if I hadn't delivered the icons only a few days before the show started, Heinz
would have had enough time to avoid this mistake.
Short: we beg your pardon. Consider the distributed CD-ROM as a demo
version. I will now sit down at my system to correct everything as fast as possible.
Moreover, I will do some improvements and expansions, like correctly adjusting the
drawer colors to OS3.5. Considering the number of icons, I beg your pardon for not
being able to do this in one week. I will hurry, anyways.
A first fixed archive with roughly 250 icons is finished and will be
available shortly. The final version will probably be included in the Aminet CD-ROM
Nr. 35, and, if wanted, on Aminet or the reader's CD of the amigaOS.
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