06.Feb.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 252
Guido Mersmann released Beta-Version 251 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV. New in this version:
What's new:
- BUGFIX:
Again some small MSP audio fixes!
- BUGFIX:
Fixed subvendor setup within the TVCardSetup.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Manager Magazin
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Manager Magazine: Will UMTS Flop?
»The adventure UMTS costs millions and the new technology won't bring in a profit until 2014. A mistaken investment? Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, Siemens and Nortel Networks still claim to be optimistic that UMTS will be a success.«
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Filesharing: DirectConnect Client for AmigaOS
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has ported DCTC ("DirectConnect Text Client") to the Amiga (see also today's report).
DCTC is a text-based client for the file-sharing network "Direct
Connect". An early beta version of Amiga-DCTC is ready for download.
Diego needs beta testers to support him in debugging the program.
More information about DC (DirectConnect) may be found on the website of the manufacturer publisher's website for the Windows version. Diego shows how one may get the initial results with DCTC. First you need a list of all usable HUBs:
run: hublist >ram:HubList
Each line of the list looks like this:
[DK]Moviezone©|moviezone.dyndns.dk|Min 60 GB. [MZ-Group]|507|||||
Next you pick out a HUB (in the above example "moviezone.dyndns.dk"),
additionally you must select a pseudonym and put in your IP Address (it should work with these minimal entries):
dctc --nick=YOURNICK -a=YourHost/IP --hubip=moviezone.dyndns.dk
If everything works, you'll now be connected to the HUB and the HUB will show a few bits of information (read it!) and now you may begin to send orders to the hub.
HINT: You might be banned for the HUB, when your combination of "Connection" and "Shared Bytes" is not meeting the standard. In such a case you should use the command "/CNX T3" to set the server to a higher connection speed ("Connection") or "/OFFSET 1234567890" to raise the "Shared Bytes" (the amount of the data you are offering).
Please BE SURE to read the supplementary documentation, and let us know your experiences with it.
Direct download: dctc-0.84.1.lha
[HINT: DCTC was unavailable on the master server (title link). The link for the direct download may in that case be accessed via a mirror]. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Hewlett-Packard Decides Against Package Fee on PCs
»HP: "12 Euros Just for the Designation 'VG' - Requirements of the GEMA stand out"
Sharp criticism is directed by Hewlett-Packard at the ruling of the German Patent
and Trademark Office because of the fee on PCs in the amount of 12 Euros for
every purchased machine. The regulatory officials of the Evaluation Society (VG)
placed this fee for carrying the VG designation on the 31st of January. Originally it was to be
30 Euros.«
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: GNOME 2.2 - New Version of Linux Desktop Appears
"New Features, Better Performance and Increased Stability"
Five months after GNOME 2.0 and so a month earlier than planned, the
GNOME-Team has released version 2.2 of their Unix/Linux Desktops for all of their
development platforms. The new version is expected to have raised performance and higher
stability, as well as numerous new features and tools.
Click on the title link for the complete article.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Amiga.SourceForge
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DCR8520 Amiga Ports: Updates from 04.02.2003 (Update)
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has put some programs up for download on his SourceForge website. The day before yesterday the following programs were updated or added:
04. Feb. 2003 Download dctc v0.84.1
04. Feb. 2003 Download HyperMail v2.1.6
Followup:
January updates resolved, as earlier reported.
If the above links don't function all the time, you may give this download link a try.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Kultboy.com
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Kultboy.com: Interview with Richard Löwenstein (PC Joker)
Under the title link you'll find an interview with Richard Löwenstein that was conducted by the fan site of the game magazine 'Kultboy.com.' In this interview Löwenstein talks about the Amiga situation. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Amiga.org
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OS4 Team seeking Translators
As you can see in the title, translators for German and other languages are being sought for OS4, because the translation service ATO can't help in all areas. Other needed translations include: Bosnian, Croatian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Persian, Portugese and Swedish.
Whoever wants to help must sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement =
silence stipulation) at Amiga Inc. Other requirements are an Amiga with AmigaOS 3.9 and Boing Bag #2 installed, and a PGP key of at least version 2.6.3 (or compatible).
Interested people should send an email to the coordinator,
David Rey. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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06.Feb.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Thomas Richter in c.s.a.p.: Further Developers Needed
Thomas Richter writes in the newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.programmer:
As you may or may not know, my Amiga "died" a few months ago and I decided to shelve all support for my Amiga software, starting with DiskSafe and ending with MuLib Packet. A new Maintainer must also be found, one who is interested in further developing all or part of my software. The terms are that the software must continue to be publicly available on terms simlar to the ones that I've established.
I will NOT agree, to release this stuff under GPL or LGPL.
The skills needed are C (ANSI-C) Programming for one half of the projects and advanced Motorola 68k Assembler for the other.
Additionally needed (naturally) an Amiga and a C-Compiler, possibly SAS/C, because the projects are based on this. And Motorola-Assembler, possibly the DevPac, because I used a lot of notes with the macro-functions. The
PhxAss is not sufficient for most Assembler-based projects.
The "earliest works" (not the MuLib Packet of course) are documented in German (...).
The sources are completely backed up and available and usable, because I was always a bit concerned about backups, and rightly so. Please send inquiries to my normal email address:
thor@math.tu-berlin.de.
So long and see you later!
Cordially,
Thomas
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05.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Demo scene: Genesi sponsors Equinoxe
For the Demo-Contest by Equinoxe
Genesi donates Pegasos mainboards as prizes. Furthermore all contributors for Pegasos/MorphOS will get polo shirts with the slogan "MorphOS Demo Team".
At the comments
regarding this news item at MorphOS-News.de
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco by Genesi explain which meaning they apportion the demo scene and their contribution for making the Amiga that which it is known for. Genesi's goal is to bring the demo scene back along with their creative and technical skills which were characteristically for them.
In the end the remained teams are invited to ask Genesi if they are looking for a sponsor.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
Jabberwocky
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.3 - 8. Preview
Tom Parker and
Matthias Münch have
released preview 8 of the Instant Messengers 'JabberWocky' version 1.3 for
Amiga computers. Jabber
is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages.
Connections to other Instant Messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is
possible via gateways.
Download: Jabberwocky030205.lha (ps)
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05.Feb.2003
YAM
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Mail program: new YAM developer version dated 05.02.2003
Since today there's a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA of the mail program YAM available which is Open Source for some time now. This version is a pure developer version that may still contain bugs and for that the developers team doesn't give any warranty and support. Request regarding the developer versions via email aren't answered, either. Usage at your own risk!
The made changes can be taken from this list.
Further information can be found on the
Yamos SourceForge page.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps)
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05.Feb.2003
David "Daff" Brunet
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Amiga Games Hit Parade - Results from Jan./Febr. 2003
Because the website of 'Amiga Games Hit Parade' is down actually
David 'Daff' Brunet sent the results of the poll from January/February 2003
via email:
1. (2) Payback - 150 points
2. (3) Quake - 135 points
3. (88) Tales Of Tamar - 114 points
4. (1) Napalm - 109 points
5. (6) Slam Tilt - 99 points
6. (5) The Settlers - 94 points
7. (4) Sensible World Of Soccer - 73 points
8. (16) Foundation - 70 points
9. (7) Earth 2140 - 67 points
10. (14) Heretic 2 - 61 points
11. (23) Wipeout 2097 - 61 points
12. (60) Quake 2 - 57 points
13. (18) Freespace - 55 points
14. (9) Exodus The Last War - 54 points
15. (13) Fields Of Battle - 51 points
16. (11) Colonization - 50 points
17. (8) Civilization - 49 points
18. (10) Worms / Worms DC - 45 points
19. (15) Moonstone - 44 points
20. (21) Nightlong - 43 points
The problems regarding the website will be solved within some days.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
The Amiga RC5 Team effort (ANF)
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Amiga RC5 Team Effort: RC5-72 status
The "Amiga RC5 Team Effort" reached in the meanwhile position 15 of the team charts at RC5-72-Contest. In January the team got position 18/19 avaragely. More participants are allways much appreciated!
Within 64 days only 0,006% of the RC5-72 key space were determined. There is still enough time to show which kind of power is among the Amiga community!
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
Etienne Vogt
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Filesystem: muFS- and FFS-Patch (both V45.14 Beta)
By the title link there is a patch (beta version 45.14) by
Etienne Vogt for the multi user filesystem 'muFS' for AmigaOS 3.5
and better available. Please read the
Readme for more details.
Furtherore the author provides a patch (beta version 45.14) for the
filesystem FFS for OS3.9-BB2. Like above the
Readme will offer more information regarding this release.
Download:
muFS4514p.lha
FFS4514p.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Genesi sues Amiga Inc.
According to a posting
by Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco at ANN
Amiga Inc. has been sued by Genesi already because of breaking a contract. This is to obtain from the following
document,
found at the 'U.S. District Court Western District of Washington'. The
assigned Judge is Robert S. Lasnik.
Details about the actual content of that charge were not given by Bill Buck.
Ben "HyperionMP" Hermans (managing partner of Hyperion) says the
following at the according thread at Amiga.org regarding this issue and tells the charge would be about the AmigaDE license for the
WinCE based handheld "Smartboy". According Hermans Genesi means this license would be valid for the Pegasos as well - therfore the action
Within the comments
of Morphos-News.de Bill Buck says that it might be possible to get a verdict still this week.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
Martin Wollert (ANF)
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the inquirer: Playstation3 architecture revealed
Like from the article above by 'the inquirer' is to hear the
new Playstation3 will be powerd by a PowerPC-CPU.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
GFX-Base
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GFX-Base: Interview with Gregory Donner
The English online magazine has interviewed Gregory Donner known from his huge and helpful website. The detailed and informative interview is available by the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Game: Mac version of Payback published
On January the 15th 2003 the Mac version of 'Payback' has been published. You can order it at the
Virtual Programming Website.
With 'Payback' you jump into the role of a young driver who is on escape and tries to become an important gangster boss.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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05.Feb.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV card software: AmithlonTV Beta 251
Guido Mersmann has released beta version 251 of the TV-Card driver
software AmithlonTV. New in this version:
- BUGFIX:
Many small changes. Nothing realy important.
- FEATURE:
Well, not realy a feature. There is a new debug setup window for the msp sound chip.
You are only able to open it, if your card is using such chip.
The usage is very simple! Start AmithlonTV and select a TV picture. Make sure that
your audio mixer is not muted and the volume is at maximum. Now use the debug menu
and open the msp debug window. There are three cycle gadgets. Start with first one.
Cycle it. If you hear any sound, than report the gadget status and make a TVCardDump.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
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05.Feb.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailer: SimpleMail 0.19 / NListtree 18.6
The new version 0.19 of the mailer 'SimpleMail' is available from today.
The following changes have been made since the last version:
- PGP works again like before the version 0.18 (de- and encode)
- By scrolling through the mails within the read window the status is updated correctly (Bernd Gollesch)
- Secondary sorting mode is implemented correctly now (Bernd Gollesch)
- Signed S/MIME messages are shown in the right manner (AmiSSL is needed)
- The import of the addressbook of newer YAM versions works now
- Some more bugfixes
The new NListtree version is available at
http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/
and solves the problems which were reported from the recent version.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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