19.Dec.2003
ann.lu (Website)
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Turbo-Patch: New version of SystemPatch
A new version of "Systempatch" has been published which is a patch that patches
diverse system routines to get a better performance on classic Amiga computers.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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19.Dec.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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MorphOS port of "Njam" released
"Njam" is a full-featured cross-platform pacman-like game written in C++
using SDL library.
Features:
- Single and multiplayer mode (local or network)
- Duel games (players compete against each other to get more points)
- Cooperative games (players cooperate to finish as many levels as they can)
- Great music and sound effects
- Runs on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS X, MorphOS
- Customizable level skins
- Many different levels
- Integrated level editor
- Open Source (GPL Licence)
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent: New version 0.32 (Update)
Version 0.32 of "HardwareAssistent" has completed.
In the previous version 0.31 of the archive the directory Installed was unfortunately
not packed. Therefore the program HardwareAssistent could not remember which cards
have been already installed. This bug has been cleared.
The launcher was also updated. It now uses the assign HardwareAssistent: to start the
HardwareAssistent.
Please consider that there can be still bugs in this early version. If you find bugs
then please write a mail to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
DJBase will take care of the Driver Descriptors. The official support page where you
can download the current Driver Descriptors is http://hwa.amigaworld.de.
Download of HardwareAssistent v0.32 (228 KB).
If you have a card that the list
do not contain please use the program DriverDescriptor Creator
to create a DriverDescriptor for this hardware.
Then please send this file (with .info file) via email to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
Update: (19.12.03, 13:25, snx)
Norman Walter wrote the following lines:
I got the messages that the install script would not work. But this is only the case
if you unpack the archive with the bugy version of Unarc which AmigaOS 3.9 contains.
Unarc replaces blank characters by underscores.
Therefore please use a different program or unpack the archive via lha x..
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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19.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website)
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AmigaOne: "EasterEgg" in U-Boot
In a thread on amigaworld.net Thomas and
Hans-Jörg Frieden explained a first "Easteregg" which has been hidden in U-Boot.
Those ones who do not want to know something of PPC, multitasking and graphical user
surfaces can activate the second modus of its AmigaOne by entering the following
command lines in the U-Boot command line:
setenv easteregg 1
saveenv
reset
Deactivate:
setenv x86_mode
setenv vga_fg_color 'n'
setenv vga_bg_color 'n'
'n' stands for standard ANSI colour values where you have to enter e.g. "0" for black
or "7" for white.
The variables "vga_fg_color" and "vga_bg_color" can be used to modify the optical surface
of the BIOS screen.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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18.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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Emulation: "SheepShaver" Emulates a MacIntosh PPC on x86
"Sheepshaver" is the first Mac emulator for x86 PCs capable of emulating PPC-based Macintoshes. The software currently emulates a 604 CPU, requires a ROM image from a PCI-based "Old World" Macintosh, and works with MacOS up to version 8.6. Sheepshaver is Open Source, and right now only a Linux version is available.
The program's homepage
is currently just a clean building space, with a files section in which you can get the sources for the current version.
On emaculation.com there's a support forum for the emulator. Those interested will find there a few hints for the use of the software, and there are also ready-compiled binaries there for download. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Heise Newsticker
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Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Officially Released
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton have released the final version of the new Linux kernel 2.6.0. Under the title link, near sections on characteristics and improvements, may be viewed the article from the Heise news-ticker. (cs) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)
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Amizilla Project: Prize Markedly Raised
As Bill Panagouleas shared on ANN, a previous high-ranking executive of Netscape who wishes to remain unnamed has contributed $2000 to the pot for the Amizilla project.
The executive is a longtime Amiga user, who still makes frequent use of WinUAE and the Video-Toaster-Flyer. Altogether there is now the sum of $6200 as a reward to the person or team who ports Mozilla or Firebird and thereby helps the Amiga with a modern browser. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)
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MorphOS: TranspoClock Released (Update)
Jacek Piszczek released as freeware a transparent digital clock for MorphOS .
Transpoclock (23 KB) makes use of the transparency function of MorphOS' intuition.library.
Update: (7:30 PM, 20th of December 19:30, snx)
Today Version 0.70 (67 KB) was released.
Changes since 0.30:
- Commodity support has been added
- WBStart support has been added
- MUI-Prefs have been added
- Gfxpath support for different graphics sets has been added
- Optimized transparency routine
- Icons and graphics sets from Jobbo have been added
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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MoJoMeter: Analog Indicator for Hard-Drive Activity
MoJoMeter from Joe Torre and Kermit Woodall may now be ordered from Retrosystem.com.
MoJoMeter is an illuminated analog indicator for computer cases which measures the amount of hard-drive activity.
Interested dealers may inquire directly of Kermit Woodall. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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Shareware Package SiteWay Released for Free
Christian Effenberger decided to release freely all his Siteway programs, in order to give the Amiga community a little present before Christmas.
All restrictions have been lifted and there is no longer any requirement that the programs ImageEditor and PicBase be installed in Siteway.
All keyfile resources have been removed from the programs and the opportunity has been taken to offer for download the latest versions of ImageEditor and PicBase.
Effenberger wishes all Amiga users a nice Christmas and a successful new year! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Website)
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Show Report: OS4/MorphOS Show in Saragossa (Spain)
There's a report on ann.lu about the OS4/MorphOS convention that took place last weekend in Saragossa.
Update, (ps): Corrected the title link thanks to a tip-off from the comments section.
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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17.Dec.2003
djnick deetronic (ANF)
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New multimedia CD ROM by DJNick/deetronic
Nikola Tomic (DJNick/deetronic) known for example for his soundtrack for the
beat'em'up game "Capital Punishment" has published his first multimedia CD:
"Aural Respiration" includes masses of
music modules, videos, graphics and photos and is optimized for use with
Amiga webbrowser. The CD is purchaseable directly from the author
for EUR 22.22 (incl. pp) following the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 17. Dec. 2003, 20:41] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2003
Richard Drummond (ANF)
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New Linux UAE version by Richard Drummond
Richard Drummond has released a new version of his experimental Linux-UAE
which should enable many of the improvements from the latest WinUAE version for
Linux user as well.
The version 0.8.22-20031215 suppoarts now hardfiles up to 2 GB.
Further there were many bugfixes, for the x86 useres the JIT problems were removed
and MacOS x user will be happy to use the mouse properly in full screen mode now.
The sources are available now, compiled versions for several platforms will follow soonly.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 17. Dec. 2003, 17:38] [Comments: 0]
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17.Dec.2003
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet uploads until the 17th of December 2003
Here is the list of all recent Aminet uploads since our last report:
StarAm_Plan.lha biz/misc 752K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha biz/misc 747K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
amiycoders.lha comm/mail 29K+V0.6 yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the Amig
DVBFontUpload.lha comm/misc 40K+Font upload for Nokia D-Box via SCSI. 68
gng_SP.lha comm/www 9K+GNetGrabber 1.x spanish catalogs v1.0.0
vbcc_PosixLib.lha dev/c 108K+POSIX compatibility library for vbcc
Amitekst_E.lha dev/e 6K+AREXX scripts for use with AmiTekst Pro
amiycoders_src.lha dev/e 20K+E Source Code to AmiyCoders! V0.6
objectbrowser.lha dev/e 11K+Object Browser / System Debugger 0.8
AmigaTalk.lha dev/lang 1.4M+V2.5 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
SFS.lha disk/misc 268K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen
ThePolice.lha docs/hyper 52K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
saku44.lha docs/mags 8.4M+Saku #44 (3/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Labyrinth2Chts.lha game/hint 12K+Cheats for the game Labyrinth 2.
WormWars.lha game/misc 539K+Worm Wars 7.72: Advanced snake game
MicroWorld.lha game/think 6.2M+Simple logical game (CGX Friendly)
kray.lha gfx/3d 830K+Freeware raytracer v1.4
ambot.lha hard/drivr 62K+Cybot/Real Robots programmer w/ C source
PoseidonMain.lha hard/drivr 420K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.2
TestGear-Extra.lha hard/hack 223K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 358K+GUI 4 Lame,Ogg,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,Mus
MrCarlitoWb-06.jpg pix/icon 314K+First full FREWARE PNG-Icon replacement
Dale_font.lha text/bfont 14K+Fixed topaz rep. in sizes 5,6,8,10,11,12
AddLF.lha text/misc 2K+Add LineFeed to textfile at column ~80
OnyxPrelude.lha util/cdity 34K+Comprehensive mixer for Prelude. MUI.
DegasDT.lha util/dtype 30K+Datatype for Degas pictures
MathLibs881.lha util/libs 12K+Free 68881/2 math-libraries with source,
AObjView.lzh util/misc 31K+Displays the Hunk structure of Amiga Obj
DigiConverter.lha util/misc 13K+Handy dec/hex/bin/float/ASCII-converter
xPackBest.lha util/pack 18K+Pack using XPK, adaptive, recursive
ARxShellV1.2b.lha util/rexx 99K+A shell for ARexx V1.2b
parename.lha util/rexx 11K+AREXX script to rename images within Pho
popsearch.lha util/rexx 15K+Quick searching from IBrowse, AWeb and V
DRemind.lha util/time 308K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.67!
VE_SP.lha util/virus 11K+VirusExecutor 2.3x spanish catalog v2.33
windowbar.lha util/wb 272K+Window mimizer and program launcher
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)
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eTeacher 6.20 distributed by Fun Time World
Fun Time World is pleased to announce that they are doing the distribution of the multimedial course
eTeacher 6.20. This package is unique on for the Amiga. You can learn English or
German with the aid by pictures, little animations and perfect spoken 16 bit output.
With the help of the multimedial exercises and tests the learning will become a real pleasure.
The program fits the demand of both, adults and children. The usage is easy and partly customizeable.
There is support for gfx cards and sound cards.
The program offers the following features:
- More than 200 exercises
- 3 hours 16 bit spoken language output
- 1000 illustrations
- Context sensitive grammar help
- Customizeable
- Support for gfx and sound cards
Information about the program and screen shots is to get from
www.funtime-world.de/eteacher.shtml.
Introducing prices til/from 5th of January 2004:
- Englisch - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
- German - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
- Both versions - 50 Euro / 59.90 Euro
Order by email (mail@funtime-world.de),
fax (+49 209 - 95 717 865) or telephone (+49 209 - 95 717 884) or directly at the
online shop of Fun Time World.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF)
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Amiga, Inc.: Calling All User Groups!
Community has always been the backbone of the Amiga platform; indeed,
without it, the platform would have folded long ago. With AmigaOS4.0
approaching release, the community has taken a lead once again, with
dedicated individuals and user groups throughout the world working to show
AmigaOS4.0 running on AmigaOnes.
We are now at a stage where we are looking to bring the user groups
together into a more formal forum, providing feedback to Amiga, Inc. on
how best it can support the user groups whilst also allowing the user
groups to be able to bind themselves together in a mutual organization for
self help and support.
This new organization will be a crucial element in the growth of the Amiga
platform as AmigaOS4.0 is released and the community begins to expand. We
are thus making a call to all user groups to submit their details via this
form
so that we can begin the construction of this organisation and get
the resources in place to service it. (nba)
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17.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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New website about hardware do it yourself projects for Amiga, Amithlon and Pegas
Carsten Siegner has opened a new website with the URL "www.Pegasossoft.de" which covers
information about his all of his hardware projects.
Now there is not only the known analog data capture system for the serial RS 232 port
but also a hardware for the same port for a multi purpose controler device. This hardware is called
"Multiprogrammer" and is a board with three decoded 8 pin
universal ports. These ports can be programmed independently.
Furthermore the board has a data in port which can read serial data directly.
Further information about this project as well as the circuit design is available from the website.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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17.Dec.2003
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Season Greetings from Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc. would like to, on behalf of our staff and associates,
wish the Amiga Commmunity and their families a safe and happy holiday. Be
safe, don't drink and drive! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! (nba)
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16.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent-Update
The version 0.31 of the programm
HardwareAssistent, which reconizes and installes new hardware components by starting the system is now finished.
After the last version the install script was processed and the bugs in the DriverDescription were deleted, also the
documentation was extended.
But look in the old version there could be still bugs, if you find a bug please send an e-mail to:
walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)
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WHDLoad: Version 16.1 published
From WHDLoad, which makes the hard disk install of the not therefore floppy possible
the version 16.1 was published (Download, 1.17 MB).
New games which could now be installed or were updated:
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Hellfire Attack (Martech)
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Twintris (Digital Marketing)
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Waxworks (Accolade)
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History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
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Super Street Fighter 2 (US Gold)
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Jupiter's Masterdrive (Ubi Soft)
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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PDF-Magazine: Amiga Point of View, edition 1
The retro-gaming community of abime.net,
which operate the Amiga gaming database Hall of Light
has puplished the first edition of their retro-gaming.magazine "Amiga Point of View".
The magazine should reincarnate the old spirit of old gaming magazines with test reports, letter
to the editor corner, gaming tips and complete solutions. You can find the first edition (19.5 MB)
under the tiltle link.
Update: (16.12.2003, 15:30, cg)
The contacts of the homepage are not valid. You can find the APoV-Team under following e-mail addresses:
Editor: apov.editor@abime.net
Letter to the editor: apov.letters@abime.net
Competitions: apov.competitions@abime.net
Gaming tips: apov.wham@abime.net
Gaming tests: apov.pdgames@abime.net
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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