24.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Events: AmiGBG presents the "Amiga Developer's Pavilon"
AmiGBG in cooperation with UniversalSpace.NET are proud to present the Amiga Developers' Pavilion. A.D.P. will be a meeting place for developers, ranging from beginners to professional game and application designers. The list of participants in the A.D.P. is growing continuously. (cg)
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24.Feb.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)
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Liquid Skies records #066
The scene group Liquid Skies has released its 66th music pack. It contains a nearly 10 min long track of the
Finnish musicians Tripper and I-Oxo. The track is a mix of different styles but mainly Trance.
- Title: Nutmeg
- Musicians: Tripper feat. I-Oxo
- Style: Trance
- Lenght: 9:43
- Format: mp3
- Size: 8.5 MB
The zipped file is available for free download.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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24.Feb.2004
falkemedia
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AMIGAplus 02/2004 (#144) - peggy's on the fly again...
Issue 144 of AMIGAplus was released on February 20th, 2004, including a
review of Pegasos II, the new series "New jobs for old Amigas" (part 1:
Amiga as a faxmachine), the full version of Epic Multimedia Lexikon
(German version) on the A+ CD 26 and much more articles. Details:
- Reviewed: Pegasos II
- A+ CD 26: Epic Multimedia Lexikon
- New jobs for old Amigas, part 1: Faxmachine
- SVCD-Workshop, part 1
- What works: MorphOS-Compatibility
- Preview: Gorky 17
- Amiga Status Report: When it's done...
- Top 10 Shareware-Tools
- Review: Homebank 3
- Consumer protection: Buying via Internet
- UAE 0.8.22 Configuration for Compiler-freaks
- Workshop: AmigaOS 3.9 under WinUAE
- Demoscene: Behind the scene
- and much more
German monthly print magazine AMIGAplus (68 pages) may be ordered from
publisher falkemedia for 5 Euro
per issue including shipping costs or via
subscription. (nba)
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24.Feb.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Amiga-Team for SETI@Home founded
Now an Amiga-Team takes part at the
SETI@Home, the project "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence".
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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23.Feb.2004
Sylvio Kurze (E-Mail)
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ADA-Team: New homepage, new tool
The Anime Development for Amiga Team has just uploaded a new design
of their homepage (title link). They also relased a new tool for the Amiga
names "unzens", which uncensors Matrix-censored pictures. (nba)
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23.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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MorphOS: New version of the distributed.net client available
There is a new MorphOS prerelease client available (489), it contains a bugfix for the upcoming MorphOS 1.4.2 release.
Direct download (291 KB)
(cg)
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23.Feb.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: AMIGA special promotion prolonged and new account functions
IOSPIRIT - on numerous requests - prolongs the special price
promotion, within which many products are available at significantly
reduced prices, until the end of March.
Furthermore, there's now functionality in the customer account that
allows order tracking for many different sending types.
(cg)
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23.Feb.2004
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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Game publisher: "DiscreetFX GameShop"
Software developers "DiscreetFX", known for recently initiating the "Amizilla" campaign, are going to support game developers in the future:
"DiscreetFX GameShop allows Amiga/AmigaOS 4.0/MorphOS & AROS game developers to focus on what their good at, developing a great game. Game Shop takes care of everything else, free web hosting, marketing, promotion, packaging and shipping. Free toll free number for sales and support, free downloads of demo versions of the game and works in progress from the GameShop web site.
In these sometimes troubled economic times GameShop fulfills a much needed requirement in this small but regrowing community. It gives new, small, resource hungry game developers a place to publish and host their games. Not all games that are submitted will make the cut but the ones that make it will have a lot less to worry about and can focus on making the best game possible. In the past the Amiga launched the careers of many great game developers. Bullfrog, Core Design & EA just to name a few. With GameShop we hope to spark some new careers for new game developers.
Today's game industry is rift with old worn out ideas that have be rehashed time and time again, have you played to many FPS or RTS games? With GameShop we are hoping to nurture new game developers with fresh ideas for the gaming industry. Now being broke does not mean your great game idea will not be published.
2004 should be a banner year for Amiga & Amiga compatible systems. All those new customers will need relaxing and entertaining games on their systems. And new game authors need free web hosting and low cost no nonsense publishing terms to get their titles available to that user base.
Would you like your game published through the Game Shop? Here are the steps you need to take.
- Contact us at gameshop AT discreetfx DOT com
- Be ready to provided details about your game including screen shots, demo versions, development track record and or story boards
- Sign the easy to read, legalize free DiscreetFX contract
- Submit all graphics, HTML, demos Etc. that you want published on GameShop to DiscreetFX
- Get back to what counts the most, finishing the development of your new game
Please contact me if you have any further questions.
Best regards
Bill Panagouleas
DiscreetFX
Founder/CEO
bill@discreetfx.com
www.discreetfx.com
About DiscreetFX
DiscreetFX has been creating software products for the Amiga, video editing, computer generated graphics (CGI) industry since 1995. The Amiga computer defined and created the video editing, computer graphics market when it went on sale in 1985." (cg) (Translation: cg)
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22.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Hyperion: Official statement regarding the recent Genesi Amiga litigation
Hyperion released an official statement regarding the recent Genesi-Amiga litigation on amigaworld.net.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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21.Feb.2004
Aminet (website)
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Aminet uploads until 21-Feb-2004
Here the new Aminet uploads since our last posting:
AmigaBase26.lha biz/dbase 447K+Powerful programmable database with GUI
SpamFryer.lha comm/mail 27K+Deletes unwanted mail from server unread
DDaemonKey.lha comm/misc 25K+Freely distributable Keyfile for DragonD
DVBFontUpload.lha comm/misc 40K+Font upload for Nokia D-Box via SCSI.68k
MiamiMustOnlin.lha comm/misc 2K+Arexx script for Miami
PtpDigCam-AOS.lha comm/misc 136K+Download images, videos and sounds from
PtpDigCam-MOS.lha comm/misc 216K+Download images, videos and sounds from
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 31K+Online Dictionary
smbfs.lha comm/tcp 126K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
IBTransferAnim.lha comm/www 189K+TransferAnim for IBrowse (Rotating earth
dasm212.lha dev/cross 83K+Assembler for 6502, 68705, 6803
ec33a.lha dev/e 51K+The Amiga E v3.3a compiler (ec)
ec33a_src.lha dev/e 144K+The Amiga E v3.3a compiler source
q-device_src.lha dev/e 37K+E Source Code to Q-Device! V0.4
RoboDocBuilder.lha dev/misc 151K+V2.0 Update of RoboDocBuilder (Source in
q-device.lha disk/misc 39K+V0.4 SCSI/IDE Query, Command & Diagnosti
swosligapl.lha game/data 34K+Polish league data for SWOS (2003/04)
BH.lha game/shoot 284K+Beach Head C64 style game
2p2f.lha game/think 5.4M+Full version of 2 pairs 2 furious 2
FlashMandelWOS.lha gfx/fract 3.5M+The best Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ren
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 3K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
ArakAttack.lha hard/drivr 281K+V0.96 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
imdbDiff040206.lha misc/imdb 4.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
BangkokKnights.lha mods/cust 360K+Custom module from "Bangkok Knights"
Darius+.lha mods/cust 115K+Custom module from "Darius +"
Galactic.lha mods/cust 140K+Custom module(s) from "Galactic"
SpeedboatAss.lha mods/cust 60K+Custom module from "Speedboat Assassin"
SteveDavis.lha mods/cust 219K+Custom module from "Steve Davis Snooker"
JD-Sliders.mpg mods/mpg 3.2M+Sliders by JaDe
AW-5D.lha mods/pro 58K+PT-MOD: 5th Dynasty - Author: aIRwORX
aw-cwcanyon.lha mods/pro 156K+PT-MOD: Coldwater Canyon - Author: aIRwO
aw-doom.lha mods/pro 145K+PT-MOD: DOOM - Author: aIRwORX
aw-dtio.lha mods/pro 145K+PT-MOD: Don`t think it`s over - Author:
aw-gitm.lha mods/pro 98K+PT-MOD: Give it to me - Author: aIRwORX
aw-gnl.lha mods/pro 179K+PT-MOD: Girls need love - Author: aIRwOR
aw-nobodyhears.lha mods/pro 45K+PT-MOD: Nobody Hears
aw-razorblazer.lha mods/pro 139K+PT-MOD: Razorblazer - Author: aIRwORX
aw-revolution.lha mods/pro 74K+PT-MOD: Revolution - Author: aIRwORX
aw-sleeping.lha mods/pro 53K+PT-MOD: SLEEPING - Author: aIRwORX
aw-sweetdreams.lha mods/pro 348K+PT-MOD: Sweet Dreams
aw-techdreams.lha mods/pro 62K+PT-MOD: Technological Dreams
aw-terrorbomb.lha mods/pro 282K+PT-MOD: Terrorbomb - Author: aIRwORX
Devious_Tunes.lha mods/pro 1.0M+Ripped tunes from Devious Tools
tracks.lha mus/edit 116K+Tracks & Fields Miditracker 1.05 Fullver
EP_CoreDesign.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer 'Core Design' external repla
goregfx.lha pix/illu 248K+Screenshots of new 256col rpg game proje
WinUAEcustWB1.jpg pix/wb 352K+OS4 inspired customization for OS 3.9 un
WinUAEcustWB2.jpg pix/wb 350K+OS4 inspired customization for OS 3.9 un
MakeGuide2.lha text/hyper 25K+Create a guide from several small files
EvenMore.lha text/show 525K+V0.61: Proportional font textviewer
MUIUnArc.lha util/arc 15K+MUI UnArc
deepdt.lha util/dtype 26K+Loads IFF DEEP and TVPP files (TVPaint p
AmiMSN.lha util/rexx 8K+(0.3) MSN Messenger client
envhandler.lha util/sys 15K+A happyenv replacement (1.13a)
VirusZ.lha util/virus 100K+VirusZ III 1.00 - Antivirus Software
PosTitMUI.lha util/wb 21K+Reminder note for your WB
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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21.Feb.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT with online-pricelists and new price-scheme for dealers
IOSPIRIT is proud to announce the availability of always up-to-date
online pricelists for dealers and the introduction of an all-new
price-scheme.
To take advantage of this, dealers just need to open an account at
IOSPIRIT's website and write an email asking for dealer status. After
authorization through IOSPIRIT, dealers will then be able to look up
the latest prices within their accounts.
All dealers, whether they have an order history with IOSPIRIT in the
past or not, are encouraged to get in touch with IOSPIRIT to benefit
of this new service. (snx)
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21.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (website)
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AmigaWorld.org: focus also on MorphOS
As Michal Bergseth, editor of the news site AmigaWorld.org, informs will the news coverage from March, 1st on also pay attention to MorphOS and its friends next to reporting about AmigaOS 4.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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21.Feb.2004
ANN (website)
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DiscreetFX: Amizilla shop set up
Bill Panagouleas from DiscreetFX has set up an online shop with PR articles for supporting the Amizilla project. It offers for example T-shirts and stickers, a calendar and a clock but also an Amizilla tanga.
The Amizilla project's aim is to port Mozilla respectively FireFox to AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. The money made with the sale of the PR articles goes fully into the reward that is provided for the porting work. Already almost 100 persons including a former Netscape employee with the high significiance have spent for the Amizilla project.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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21.Feb.2004
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM project looking for web designer for future community site
The known project (email program) is looking for one or more motivated web respectively graphics designer(s) who'd be preparded to build in cooperation with the developers of YAM a completely new support site for the future community site on the basis of the PHP framework XOOPS.
The support site that is accessible under http://www.yam.ch/ has come to an age that makes it necessary to create a completely new and usable support site to be prepared for the future work on YAM.
Interested ones should already know PHP and the XOOPS framework and they should also already have some graphical abilities in designing new signs and know complete web design. It's of course possible to install a team to share design and administration with several persons.
A powerful server with an installed test version of XOOPS is available waiting for adaption and web design to become the new YAM site.
The new community site will then come next to features like latest YAM news and a comprehensive online FAQ with online forums and direct downloads of daily updated compilations.
If interested write to Jens Langner@light-speed.de.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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21.Feb.2004
Elbox (e-mail)
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Elbox: Winter promotion with temperature-dependent discounts
The last month of calendar winter has just begun in Krakow. You are
welcome to take part in our Winter Promotion on this occasion. From
20 February 2004 to 20 March 2004 every customer purchasing in Elbox
Online Store can enjoy our winter discount on all the items. The discount is calculated automatically and deducted from the value of goods purchased.
The discount corresponds with the current temperature in Krakow:
The colder, the higher discount!
For every degree below zero Centigrade you get 1% discount!
- Offer valid from 20 February 2004 to 20 March 2004.
- Offer valid for orders from all countries of the world.
- Discount does not apply to shipment costs.
You can check the current weather in Krakow using on-line camera.
For details, see the Special Offer page.
Today's minimum temperature in Krakow is - 8.1 °C. So you can possibly
have 8% discount!
Best regards,
Elbox Computer Team (snx)
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20.Feb.2004
fiath (ANF)
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Big CAPS-Project Update
The website of the CAPS-project which wants to conserve old Amiga games for the next
generations has got the biggest update in its history. A very extensive "Knowledge Base"
(which replaces the FAQ), a new status report (work in progress) and several new games
have been added.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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Genesi: AMIGA, Inc. loose lawsuit against Genesi
Genesi announce on morphos-news.de that the company won the lawsuit against Amiga, Inc. (as reported earlier).
According to Genesi, the verdict grants "full relief to Genesi, including source code access to the licensed Amiga operating system and the full use of the Amiga trademarks".
Approached by amiga-news.de, Hyperion's management confirmed the result of the lawsuit, adding that "Hyperion have an exclusive trademark license for the desktop" and that "the verdict has no bearing on Hyperion or AmigaOS 4".
(cg)
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19.Feb.2004
Jan Andersen / VHT-DK (E-Mail)
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Anti-Virus-Software: New Version 1.00 of VirusZ III
After six years Georg Hoermann has had the development time to release the final version of VirusZ III and thereby throw off the designation of "beta status." You'll find the new version 1.00 of VirusZ III on the VHT website under the title link, and in a few days it will be on Aminet.
Program name: VirusZ III v1.00
Programmer: Georg Hoermann
Date: 19th February, 2004
Archiv name: VirusZ.lha
Archiv size: 102,556 Bytes
Requirements: AmigaOS 2.04 or higher, util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha,
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha, util/pack/xfdmaster.lha, util/arc/xadmaster.lha
(recommended), util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)
News in VirusZ III v1.00:
- Improved 'Snapshot' function of the vectorcheck, it now saves the
information supplied by SegTracker. So please install SegTracker
before doing snapshots, it helps me a lot!
- Finally fixed VirusZ 100% for MorphOS/Pegasos systems:
- a) The vector check now handles function calls using EmulLibEntry
correctly and calculates "ROM" locations and sizes in the most
compatible way by scanning system romtags and afterwards calling
NewGetSystemAttrsA().
- The memory monitor has been fixed for fake chipmem on Pegasos
and supports MorphOS "ROM" areas too. There's just one problem
left with pre-50.58 exec.library: size of A-Box modules cannot be
calculated perfectly here and will simply be set to 0x700000. This
means that you might be able to access non-existing memory areas at
addresses near 0x10800000! This is on your own risk...
- The internal
doslist scanner (for sector check/bootblock lab) works without
MEMF_24BITDMA memory now which was never available on MorphOS systems.
The code for 64-bit access (>4GB) has been bug fixed and enhanced to
support TD_READ64/TD_WRITE64 too.
- Rewritten startup code to use
EasyRequestArgs() in case of an error instead of DisplayAlert() which
is not available in current MorphOS versions. Thanks to Harry Sintonen
for all his help with MorphOS topics and for beta-testing! And thanks
to Alexey Ivanov, Ilkka Lehtoranta and 'Vinny' for beta-testing too.
- Fixed problems in sector check concerning 4GB-border. Added some
recalculation routines for strange values in de_BlocksPerTrack.
Additionally de_MaxTransfer is supported now for older HDs.
- Removed the 'Use/Ignore External Xad-Slaves' selection from the
file check prefs. This was obsolete as xadmaster.library always
requires external clients to do a good job.
- Finally added support for disk archives and disk images to the
file check. Please note that xadmaster.library v8+ is required!
Now you can extract all types of archives that XAD supports, and
if they contain disk images with valid files inside, these files
will be checked too. Two new options therefore have been added to
the file check prefs: "Extract Disk Archives" and "Check Files
Inside Disk Images". Please read the docs for more information!
Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for beta-testing and his helping hand
concerning tricky XAD stuff.
- Added extra check for bootblock viruses to sector and file check
(for files larger than 2048 bytes, usually diskimages).
- Added sector checking for files! You can select 3 different modes
in the filecheck prefs, please read the docs carefully for further
information...
- Added 'Scan Files For Bootblocks' to the file check prefs. With
this option enabled, VirusZ scans for bootblock viruses inside
files. Useful to detect unknown bb-virus installers.
- Changed/enhanced functionality of the 'Job Monitor':
- 'Pause'/'Continue' gadgets have been replaced by a single cycle
gadget to stop/run the current job. b) 'Quit' gadget is always active
now (requested by many users).
- All running/waiting jobs will be
displayed in the report list now so you get a better overview. You can
select any of them and kill them with the 'Kill Job' gadget. Useful if
you accidentally have selected some wrong files/disks.
- Added 'Check
Files...' gadget. It obviously does the same as the equally named menu
item of VirusZ's main window, but you won't have to switch windows any
more.
- Added 'One/All' cycle gadget between 'Disinfect' and 'Delete'
as it determines the behaviour of both functions. If 'One' is selected,
everything works like in previous versions. By selecting 'All', the
delete function will delete all malicious files that have been found so
far. 'Disinfect' first determines the type of the selected item
(infected file or sector?) and will then start disinfecting either all
files or all sectors of the selected disk. Requested by 'Underground
God', hope you are happy now :)
- Bumped version of VirusZ III to 1.00 !!! After 6(!) years of often
little development and much more lack of time VirusZ III finally
has reached full functionality...
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio: Bjorn Lynne Announces "Statement" Music CD
Bjorn Lynne, who became known in Amiga circles as the composer of the music for the game Alien Breed among others, and as a musician of the demo-scene group Crusaders, has released details about his announced audio CD "Statement." One of the tracks, "Kikki," has been put online for listening on the Internet under the URL http://www.artistlaunch.com/bjornlynne. Comments and feedback are desired.
All of the music for the CD has been composed and produced. A few small changes are still being undertaken. The CD contains 12 or 13 tracks, four featuring the guest singer Eco-Mcz. The enterprise is achieved through ArtistLaunch, a page for independent musicians. The cover was done by Snjezana Suznjevic Vago of Croatia. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
disc4you.de (ANF)
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WMV Movies in Brazilian Movie Theaters
Microsoft wants to usher the age of digital theater with WMV (Windows Media Format). The initial and repeat units for WMV-composed films based on Microsoft's ".net" platform are to be installed in about 100 Brazilian movie houses. Most of all, the film producers from north of the continent in distant Hollywood may rejoice over the cost savings. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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SoftRAID for AmigaOS: URD 0.2 beta
"URD" is a SoftRAID for AmigaOS. A new version, v0.2 beta, has been released today. Changes since the last version:
ADD - added
REM - removed
IMP - improved
CHG - changed
FIX - fixed
BMP - bump
- ADD: Beside from the normal array operation, it's now possible to
directly mount into a level. This can be helpfull if a mirror
seems defect.
- ADD: Now each device in an array has a superblock. Will be used
for recovery-tools later.
- IMP: Functionality for handling possible errors improved.
- IMP: Logging-functions now faster and smaller.
- ADD: The logging- and errorfeedback-options can be modified on the
fly without the need of dismounting the array to make the new
options working.
- ADD: The URD-own command-set for reading, writing and updating the
array is now basicly implemented. More details on this API later.
- CHG: Of course many small changes and improvements done not listed
here.
- BMP: revision to 2
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