15.Sep.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS: OpenTTD 0.3.4 released
OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a popular game originally
written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely
as possible while extending it with new features.
The new version comes with several smaller and bigger changes.
New Features:
- Added more translations
- Add: Generalised A* Algorithm
- Add: Generalised queues (Fifo, Stack, InsSort, BinaryHeap)
- "None" as option for number of industries in difficulty settings
- Add many random industries and towns in scenario editor
- Added level land button to scenario editor (Chris Huebsch)
- Added never_expire_vehicles to patches GUI (Chris Huebsch)
- Added new icons for landscaping toolbar (drawn by sign_de)
- Align toolbar left/center/right patch (TrueLight)
- All TTDLX kind of savegames are supported (.SS1, .SV1, .SV2, .SV0, .SS0).
- Alpha version of a new AI (TrueLight)
- Autodetect server in LAN via udp (Sign)
- Build_date of station (viewable with Query tool)
- Company HQ can now be moved somewhere else (cost 1% of company value). Water floods HQ.
- Competitors menu under patches
- Copy/share orders now works from ship depot window for ships and hangar window for aircraft
- Difficulty settings window has been changed (Darkvater)
- Enable/disable all buttons in message settings
- Executable is now openttd(.exe) always
- Ingame console (sign_de)
- Invalid (void) orders in schedule are highlighted in red (Celestar)
- Invisible trees when in transparent mode (patch entry)
- Option to sort vehicles in vehicle-list window by different criteria.
- Proper crediting to graphics artists to about box.
- Removing town roads has been finetuned.
- Terraforming toolbar (in the plant tree menu)
- Working multiplayer gui (sign_de)
- etc.
Fixes:
- A lot of network fixing (sign_de)
- A lot of old AI fixed
- Autosave folder was not created on MorphOS
- Coast line near edge of map and near oilrigs (Dribbel)
- Delete canal under bridge wasn't possible
- Error message for 'game load failed' when no town is in a scenario
- Game not pausing when saveload dialog is clicked in main menu
- Load Scenario fix
- Memory leak in news system (blathijs)
- Monorail/maglev became available around 1927
- Move around sort-widgets a bit so it looks more natural
- Old scenarios have correct colour
- Placing/editing signs is possible in paused mode
- Playing new game with scenarios in windows works
- Problems around exclusive transport rights (Celestar)
- Railroad crossings on slopes are now possible
- Random crash when player-face was displayed in error-dialog
- Rare mousewheel scrolling with scrollbar crash
- Road vehicles don't get stuck any more at stations (Truelight + Celestar)
- Savegames are sorted with newest date first by default
- Scenario editor now asks before it generates a random landscape
- Slopes graphics fix (dominik)
- Starting a new game in DesertLandscape crashed the game
- Stupid bug in company league window if non-player is first
- Wrong building of road-slopes for a future AI/Town
- Wrong pathfinding when northern station tile is missing (blathijs)
- You cannot take ownership of an oilrig by building right next to it
- [SDL] Performance fix for palette animation and mouse jumping (jirif)
- [SDL] Same resolution was displayed more than once in game options
- [SDL] Smoother mouse and performance fix, like in Win32 (jirif)
- etc.
For a full list of changes, new features and fixes have a look to the Changelog inside the archive.
Before you can run OpenTTD, you need the following files from the original Windows version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe as OpenTTD makes use of the original TTD artwork: sample.cat, trg1r.grf, trgcr.grf, trghr.grf, trgir.grf, trgtr.grf.
The archive for MorphOS and other systems can be downloaded from the title link. (snx)
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14.Sep.2004
Elbox Computer (ANF)
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Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD update 1.26 supports further TV cards
Elbox Computer is pleased to have completed development of drivers for a series of new TV card models, these drivers being released today. See the Mediator Driver Guide for the current list of PCI TV cards supported in MEDIATOR busboards. The MM CD 1.26 update is free for all registered Mediator Multimedia CD users.
Additionally, the new tv.library ver. 4.0 has added Stereo-NICAM TV sound processing for TV cards fitted with a single-chip Digital TV Sound Demodulator-Decoder TDA9874A by Philips.
The new library has added processing of the new Front End by YMEC: TVision 5V TVF-8533B/DF. These Front Ends are installed in the latest Prolink TV cards, e.g. in the now-supported PixelView PlayTV Pro MPEG (model M4800). New Front Ends are much more sensitive than those fitted in older TV card models. Quality of the broadcast is now excellent, even when the antenna signal is relatively weak.
The new library has added processing of the new radio sets installed in the latest TV cards. These are single-chip, digitally tuned FM stereo radio sets TEA5767 by Philips.
To ensure handling new radio sets, the API of tv.library was expanded. The current developer's documentation (ver. 4.0) is available from the Mediator Multimedia CD 1.26. The new tv.library is compatible backwards with all the previous tv.library functions maintained. As a result, the current versions of TV card control GUI -- like TvR and SuperTV -- work with the new tv.library without any modifications.
The MM CD 1.26 update includes also the new driver for Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps cards. The FastEthernet.device ver. 1.15 driver has been reworked for AmigaOS4 compatibility.
Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section. The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide. The info about Mediator-related sources you will find in the COMMUNITY section. (snx)
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11.Sep.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Atari: New old game console
Atari will produce the game console 7800 again. But probably only for the
US-market. There the console
Flashback
(picture)
will be available for about 45 US-Dollar from November on.
The console will be delivered with two joysticks and cable for connecting it with
a television set. 20 games are preinstalled. Additionally to the known ones "Saboteur"
is a formerly not published game. Here is a list with the games:
- Adventure
- Air Sea Battle
- Asteroids
- Battlezone
- Breakout
- Canyon Bomber
- Centipede
- Crystal Castles
- Desert Falcon
- Food Fight
- Gravitar
- Haunted House
- Millipede
- Planet Smashers
- Saboteur
- Sky Diver
- Solaris
- Sprintmaster
- Warlords
- Yar\s Revenge
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2004
amiga-fan (ANF)
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Hyperion: Betatesting of the update of OS4-developer preversion started (Update)
According to Ben Hermans on Amigaworld.net yesterday the beta testing of the first update
of the developer preversion of AmigaOS4 was started.
The update for registered OS4-users will have about 30 MB. Should this size of the archive for anybody means a problem this can be solved.
Update: (20:04, 11.09.04, snx)
As Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) notifies us, the betatest that started yesterday night actually already concerns the installation CD. The individual components of the update are being tested a much longer time already. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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11.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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MorphOS: Bugfix-release 0.6a of picture viewer Showgirls published
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak has published a minor update which fixes bugs of the
version 0.6 of the picture viewer Showgirls
(amiga-news.de reported).
Bugs have been fixed in relation with:
- List/Thumbnails-mark in menu
- loading of files which are too big for the memory (caused a crash)
- the tolerance for damaged JPEG-files (was increased)
- change of the screen in full screen modus when choosing the drive (workaround for the causing bug in MorphOS 1.4 added)
Download: ShowGirls-0.6a.lha (270 KB)
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Sep.2004
Amiforce (ANF)
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AmiBlitz2-Distribution not complete: English PED-version now added
In the distribution there is the German version of PED (programming editor) two times.
Because of that Amiblitz use always the German language in each version.
Therefore there is a new version ready for download. All those who have already downloaded
the archive can also seperately download the PED in the AmiBlitz section.
Thank you Fulvio Peruggi who noticed the mistake.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Sep.2004
Christian Geier (E-Mail)
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Image_Installer: First pictures of Mandrake 10.1 on the Pegasos
On the website of the Image_Installer-Team first pictures of Mandrake 10.1 Alpha
PPC have been published. Currently this Linux distribution works with kernel 2.6.8, xorg,
KDE 3.2.3 and other programs on the Pegasos I from Christian Geier.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Sep.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv V1.65 published/DKG-Highscore-List updated
The version v1.65 of SN-EuroArchiv is available on my homepage. Some features have been added
and you can now save the information of the project as a text file or directly send it
to the printer.
Besides this a new highscore list for "Die Kleine Gilde II" is available which can everybody
take as a standard or a little aim. The list is not half full and it was played only
until 1460. In order to enter further figures please send your personal highscore list
to Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de.
New campaign: Tomorrow I will celebrate my 28th birthday and because of that I will
give keyfiles for "Die Kleine Gilde II" or the SN-archive packet to those persons who will
send me the most friendly wishes. The campaign will start on September 11th at 12 o`clock and will
last 24 hours.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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10.Sep.2004
Pegasosforum (Website)
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MorphOS: Updates of Webserver Apache and thttpd
Matthias Münch has compiled updates of the webserver Apache and thttpd
for MorphOS.
The last one is a fast and little webserver for simple websites which is now available
in version 2.25b. Before you start it you have to adapt the file thttpd.conf.
The current version 1.3.31 of Apache is only the main program. Therefore an existing installation
is required.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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09.Sep.2004
Silke Block (ANF)
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Amiga Party in Braunschweig Rescheduled for an Hour Later
Silke Block writes: Unfortunately we're getting the meeting space two hours later than previously announced. This means that the party now will begin at 2 pm (instead of 1 pm) on the 25th of September, 2004. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
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Windows: IFF Displayer "IFF Loader"
"IFF Loader" is an IFF picture displayer for Windows. According to its author it can display almost any IFF picture (HAM, HAM8, EHB, 24 Bit etc.). Also you can zoom in in the pictures.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
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Another Producer Recognizes JPEG Patents
Macromedia follows Adobe as the second large software producer to yield to the license of the alleged patent holder Forgent.
Forgent claims to hold a patent that is infringed by the compression methods in JPEG data. A few months ago Forgent accused 31 companies of not making license payments (we reported). Complete article under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
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Amiga Merchant: KDH Moves
We're moving... After fifteen years we're leaving the Black Forest and settling in the north of Germany, at the shore of the Baltic Sea. You can reach us after the move at the following address and telephone number:
KDH Datentechnik
Ostseering 17 a
23946 Ostseebad Boltenhagen
Tel 038825 26271/26272
Fax 038825 26350
Nothing is changing as regards our e-mail addresses and our product offerings. Our answers to e-mail and telephone messages could take a little longer than usual in the next few days. After the 13th of September 2004 everything should be back to normal. We ask for your understanding, and look forward to greeting you from our new location. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
VCDGear-Website (ANF)
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AmigaOS4 Native Version of VCDGear Released
There's a native AmigaOS4 port of the current CLI version (1.76 build 040415) of VCDGear available under the title link. This is a program for the conversion, repair, and extraction of mpeg video data. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Update of eDonkey Client Bourriquet to Version 0.2.5
Bourriquet, the filesharing client for the eDonkey network from SixK (reverse engineering of the protocols and kernel development) and Rusback (mainly development of the GUI by way of MUI), has reached beta version 0.2.5.
This version is mostly considered for test use (in which debug output is generated) but it also allows one to contact a server, search for data, download small amounts of data, and upload data.
Interested developers may contact either co-author if they would like to take part in this project. There's still a lot to do and we're looking for support, as in the related case of Morgoth, the source of which is available at Castor CVS.
Download: Bourriquet20040907.lha (284 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
#amigazeux (ANF)
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MorphOS: ClockToy Released
UltraGelb released "ClockToy," a digital clock for MorphOS.
Direct download: ClockToy.lha (35 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
naTmeg (#morphos) (ANF)
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MorphOS: URD Universal Raid Device Released
Rupert Hausberger's RAID software solution "URD" is now also available for MorphOS. More information may be found in the online documentation.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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09.Sep.2004
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Directory Opus 4: Status Update
Jacek Rzeuski, until now responsible for the continuing development of the well-known file manager "Directory Opus 4," must shelve his work because of competing demands on his time.
Programmers interested in further developing the program or in compiling it for Amiga OS4 or MorphOS etc. will find more info about this under the title link. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Sep.2004
ANN (Website)
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Demo party: fYaNICA #11, Budapest
Next week the "fYaNICA #11", which is advertised as "Demo party for the C64, Amiga, Pegasos, Mac and others - but not for PC", will be held in Budapest, Hungary. Among the AmigaOne and Pegasos presentations there will be the following competitions:
- Graphics (8 Bit)
- Bit graphics (24 Bit)
- Music (4 Channel)
- Music (multi channel/MP3)
- Amiga 4K intro
- Amiga 64K intro
- Amiga demo
- Pegasos / Macintosh demo
- C64/+4 demo
- "Wild" demo
- Lamer demo (Scala or IFF animation)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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07.Sep.2004
Genesi (E-Mail)
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Genesi named MySQL Business Partner
MySQL AB has named Genesi a Business Partner and Authorized Reseller. Genesi will be offering MySQL with the new Pegasos Server that will begin to be sold this month online through Freescale DevToolDirect.
The Pegasos Server will be demonstrated by Genesi at the Smart
Networks Developer Forum (SNDF) 2004 Europe, September 27th-30th,
at the Sheraton Towers in Frankfurt. (snx)
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07.Sep.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Minipeg: Germany's smallest Pegasos computer/GPS support included
The Minipeg is a Pegasos I/G3 board built into a custom small case of stable V2A stainless steel. The case measures 34 x 9 x 19 cm, the steel has a thickness of 1 mm. The second component is a 7" TFT monitor which power is supplied by the Minipeg. The monitor has VGA input and a remote control. Keyboard and mouse are wireless. Furthermore, a fanless Radeon 7000 graphics card and a 2.5" hard disk are used.
The Minipeg is powered either by a small power supply, a car battery or some nickel-cadmium accumulator batteries. The power consumption is 24 Watt at 12 Volt. Instead of a normal ATX power supply, a fanless DC/DC converter with an ATX mainboard cable is used. The converter works with 10-30 Volt direct voltage.
Also integrated into the Minipeg is a GPS receiver, for which a custom navigation software has been written. Thus, the Minipeg can be used in a car or possibly even at hiking.
The software currently uses a map of Germany scaled 1:600,000 and operates in two modi: as a viewer for road maps and for GPS navigation. The first modus allows to scroll or zoom the map. In the second modus, the map display is directly linked with the data coming from the GPS receiver. After switching into the GPS modus, the map is centered to the current GPS position once the first data are received from the GPS module.
Alternatively and independent of the chosen modus, it's possible at any time to display the GPS information in a transparent window.
The projection of the reticule of longitude and latitude degrees on the current map unfortunately doesn't deliver an exact positioning. The aberration on this map may be up to 10 km depending on the direction. The work needed for a correct calculation of the position on this map would not be justified by the cost-value ratio. But the inaccuracy gets moderated by using a GNS database.
A GNS database contains coordinates linked to the corresponding places. These GNS databases do exist for all countries and can be downloaded from Internet. The accuracy of this database for Germany is about one square kilometer. These places are displayed also by the software when the map gets centered to the current position of when these data are displayed in a separate window. This way, the user always knows where on the map he's currently located. (snx)
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