01.Feb.2003
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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Soms3D voting results new shots and help wanted
The online poll regarding the future of the Soms3D engine has been finished.
The Silent Hill like engine was voted by 51 voters, role playing game got
41 votes and the GtA3 like engine got 31 votes.
So a game like Silent Hill got the most interest through the online and the mail vote.
Because of that we have already put two new screen shots online.
Furtheron we are looking for capable raytracers respectively 3D object creators who are willing to work with us. Pixler are welcome, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Feb.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene party Kindergarden will take place!
The Norwegian scene party Kindergarden, originally planned for last year, is now scheduled for February, 28th to March, 2nd 2003 in Haga near Oslo.
The organizers have recently released a very nice Flash animation, aiming at the classic "State of the Art" by the Norwegian group Spaceballs.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Feb.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem interview: why and when are computer games placed on the index?
»Interview with lawyer Thorsten Feldmann
Discussions about placing computer games on the index are quite often in the public but do often lack the legal base. To get knowledge when and by whom a computer or video game can be placed on the index and what this means to the distributors, buyers and to people publishing fan sites for such games we talked to the lawyer Thorsten Feldmann.«
Full article can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Feb.2003
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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AmiChess: bugfixes
There's an update for AmiChess on the home page (title link) that contains some bugfixes.
- Small fixes in the source code.
- The loading of PGN files (game files) and the creating of the openings book is now possible in the PPC mode, too! So there are now limitations of the WarpOS version compared to the 68k version anymore.
- The archive on the Lycos server was unfortunately defective. I have now corrected this and have uploaded an unpackable archive (has been successfully tested). Sorry to all who wanted to download the archive.
My thanks go especially to Georg Steger of the AROS team who has helped me very much. By the way, he has already managed to do an AROS port of AmiChess!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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RPG: eVe status update
In January 2003 announced Emerald Imaging, known through the adventure game
'Aqua', a new role playing game (RPG) called 'eVe'. The game will contain hand drawn scenarios and chosen music is said to improve the gaming fun.
Here a current status update:
Well, it's been a month since eVe was announced so it's time for a quick
status update. The programming is coming along great and already the main
play screen and character/collision detection etc. are working. The
graphics work is moving a bit slow right now but Darko Ponos has recently
signed on to help with some great graphics. Quite a bit has been done on
the game design too. Hopefully within another month some screenshots of
a nearly fully working version can be shown and maybe some concept artwork
etc. before then. The game will be targeted at OS4/MorphOS/Amithlon users.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Feb.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Linux on mobile cell phone
Invair Technologies from Stuttgart releases a Smartphone with Linux (Kernel v2.4.18) as operating system. The mobile cell phone can be used in contrary to other PDAs without a pen and can be controlled completely with one hand.
Full (German) article can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.Jan.2003
David "Daff" Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hitparade: Amiga Games Awards 2002
The most important vote for Amiga gamers has come.
It's time for the Amiga Games Awards 2002.
Vote for the best Amiga games of the year 2002.
Please go to our website and send us your
vote.
Final results will be published the 10th of February 2003.
(ps)
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31.Jan.2003
heise Newstiscker (ANF)
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heise: Suit against Gateway?
Gateway which is our previous mother company went back to minus in the fourth quarter.
Additionally a suit of the American stock supervision is imminent.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2003
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: Mediator AHI drivers for FM801-based sound cards
Elbox Computer is pleased to announce releasing Mediator AHI drivers
for the ForteMedia FM801-based sound cards. The ForteMedia AHI drivers
are prepared for all the currently produced MEDIATOR busboard models.
The Mediator ForteMedia AHI drivers support many various PCI sound
cards based on the ForteMedia FM801 chipset. As an excellent and
cost-effective FM801-based card we recommend the Terratec 512i Digital
sound card. This card has won many worldwide awards for its sound quality.
The comprehensive list of various supported sound cards will be available
in the Mediator Driver Guide.
The Mediator ForteMedia AHI drivers will be available free of charge for
all Mediator Multimedia CD registered users, who have any of the Mediator
busboards listed above.
Please find the complete press release under the title link.
(ps)
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31.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: Fans are to continue further space shooter
According to the Heise report the game Parsec
is supposed to continue further as open source at the beginning of May. Maybe there will
be a possibility of making an Amiga version?
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jan.2003
Maja (ANF)
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Network from the socket
At this Cebit the company devolo from Aachen
will introduce its new product "devolo MicroLink LAN" (title link) to the market.
With this device it should be possible to realize a DSL network over the mains supply
of the house - without boring holes or pulling cables. "Simply put it in the socket
and connect it with an Ethernet card on the PC."
According to the documentation a bit rate of up to 14Mbit in a circuit of 200 m
is possible. The data transfer is described as safe. The electric meter is supposed to work
as a firewall and a DES encoding with a 56 bit key will be used.
The device has a driver. All operating systems like Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and all TCP/IP
operating systems will work with it. Maybe the Amiga, too...?
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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PowerConverter Update
Carsten Siegner writes:
Today I uploaded an update to PowerConverter.
New:
- Production of stop-motion video
- Support of the variable bitrate (VBR) in ffmpeg
- Snipping (Crop) of videoframes with almost any amount of pixels
There is also an expanded Readme.pdf
on my homepage. All the fine points are there.
Download: Powerkon-2.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT 2.0 demo version completed
We are pleased to present you today a demo version of fxPAINT 2.0 -
immediately available through our
download section.
Limitations/specialities of the demo version:
- saving is disabled
- DEMO-text on every image
- the demo version is noticably slower than the full version
- a small refresh bug due to the DEMO-text-effect when zooming is lower than 100 percent. This bug ONLY exists in the demo version
- some features of the full version are missing completly or are disabled
The demo version comes with all native modules for 68K, PPC (WarpUP, PowerUP, MorphOS) and x86 (Amithlon) and gives you - except for the limitations of the demo - an impression and some insight of fxPAINT 2.0.
(ps)
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30.Jan.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF)
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AMIGAplus 01/2003 - Comeback 2003
2003 could be the year of the Amiga-comeback. In the new German print magazine
AMIGAplus 01/2003 you can read several reviews of upcoming and current software
and a forecast for 2003, just as Audio Evolution (Preview), fxPAINT 2, Hollywood,
Tales of Tamar, a.s.o. Read on.
Content of AMIGAplus 01/2003 in Detail:
- Preview: Audio Evolution 4
- Review: fxPAINT 2.0
- Review: Hollywood
- Review: Tales of Tamar
- Workshop: Simple DirectMedia Library, part 1
- Looking back on ARC 2002
- Amiga Award 2002: The winners
- Deathbed Vigil DVD - Endzeit-atmosphere on DVD
- New column: Flying visit... at Computer City
- Review: Amiga Arena CD Games Edition
- Amiga Status Report January 2003
- Demoscene anno 2003
- Review: Cherry-Keyboard with Boing-Keys
- News from the world of emulation
- Workshop: Pro Station Audio, part 4
- Workshop: Cooperative software-development, part 2
- and much more
AMIGAplus is available via subscription, single issue shipment and at your local
Amiga dealer for 5 Euro.
(ps)
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30.Jan.2003
Ponos Homepage
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GlowIcons for Beat-Em-Up Games
In the download area of the Ponos homepage you'll find an archive with GlowIcons for the following games:
- Samurai Shodown
- Shadow Fighter
- Real Bout
Simultaneously, different pictograms for the different characters in the games may be found in the archives.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
gW3S
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WWW-Server: gW3S Version 1.0 Final
Carl Svensson, the author of mp3Play, has released a small WWW-server written in ARexx. The current version 1.0 Final offers the
following functions:
- HTTP/1.0 200 OK
- HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
- Rudimentary request logging
- Built-in directory listing (for dirs without an index document)
- Embedded ARexx command execution
- Embedded Execution of external ARexx scripts (with QueryString as argument)
- Query String/URL unescaper
- Complete parsing of external ARexx CGI scripts (.xgi files)
- Fancy Files (Support for unsafe characters in file names)
- External config file
- Command line admin tool
Download: w3s_10sharp.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Workshop Collection Expanded
The workshop collection (title link) and the link list of the Amiga Future homepage
have been updated. If anyone knows of some German-language workshop not already in the list, please write an email to
the editor. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)
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New Screenshots from Robin Hood : Defender of the Crown
A few days ago, some new screenshots appeared of Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown. This game is a 3-D remake of Defender of
the Crown, which will appear in PC and PS2 versions. In contrast to the recently released remake for PC, few aspects of gameplay
have been altered here. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Fabio Trotta (E-Mail)
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C-One Report in Computer Bild Spiele
In the current issue of Computer Bild Spiele 2/2003, a two page article may be found about Jeri Elsworth and her C-One. This report goes a
bit into Jeri's history and the development of the C-One. So there is some information about the C-One and the original C64. Two pictures of
C-64 classics and two funny pictures of a Lara Croft-style Jeri complete the report. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Abyss: Extralife Demo from 1998 released as Mpeg!
The classic demo Extralife, by the mostly German group Abyss, has now been released as an mpeg for all interested fans who don't
have an Amiga.
On the homepage of the group many other different demos can be accessed,
as can a multitude of graphics such as Cyclone, Acryl, Jcs, etc. Abyss played a decisive role in the international demoscene a few years
ago, with their fresh designs and good ideas. Nowadays a few of them are developing for Gameboy Advanced and Gameboy Color.
Download: AYS-Extralife.mpg
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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30.Jan.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV-Card Software: AmithlonTV Beta 245
Guido Mersmann has released beta-version 245 of the TV-Card driver software
AmithlonTV.
New in this version:
- WARNING!
Due the latest changes I cleared the libs/tvcard_carddata/ drawer.
If you perform a fresh installation just drag and drop the required tv
card file(s) from the storage_carddata into the tvcard_carddata drawer.
This change was required, because several cards are using the same hardware
ids, but they also need a different setup.
- FEATURE:
Added the missing global setup which is required
for non card specific drivers like audio mixers.
- FEATURE:
Optional Volume_AmiMixer.lib allows to
modify the volume within applications (requires amimixer.library).
- BUGFIX:
TVFakeInterrupt() wasn't working correct in special cases.
- FEATURE:
The missing "Notify" interrupt feature implemented.
"Volume_AmiMixer.lib" enhanced to support this feature.
- BUGFIX:
Removed the ghost card which appeared with the bt8x8 audio
section and the Philips enhancement. Currently the section
will be suppressed by the library. Later this will be handled
by the configuration, but currently this is the best solution.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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