03.Mar.2003
A.D.A.
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Logo gallery in Amiga Demoscene Archive
Do you remember all those lovely
logos that used to be in Amiga productions? A lot of them
were beautiful, showing great skill and talent from pixellers,
pushing so much in so little colors and space. Well, today,
we started something new on A.D.A., a logo gallery of the
best logos ever painted. Just click on "logos" in the menu
and be amazed at the first 18 logos appearing on A.D.A. This
little gallery will be updated a lot in future, together with
a lot of cool demos that we still have to add. If you have any
comments on the new gallery, please mail them or write it in
the guestbook. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
C64doc (E-Mail)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2003 in September
The Classic-Computing takes place on 6th September in 74219 Möckmühl,
Germany. The opening times are from 8:00 to 18:00. The entrance fee
is 3.00 Euro per person, independently of whether exhibitors or guest.
The show organizers recommend you leave your x86 platforms at home.
Preferably bring something along that's more than ten years old.
Participating organizers have admission starting from 7:30 o'clock,
to make preparations. There are no reservations, thus be punctual.
Also there are limited tables available. To find out more visit the
title link.
(nba) (Translation: ps)
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02.Mar.2003
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Online-Game: New round of Star Empire 2
A new round of the Internet-space-strategy-game "Star Empire 2"
will start on the 3rd of April.
The goal of the game (which is unfortunately German only)
is to become ruler of the universe - but there are up to 32 human
players and computer-controlled pirated to stop you.
Diplomacy, alliances, but also well-armed space-ships will be needed.
"Star Empire 2" is a server-based game, i.e. the game itself
runs on the computers of Virtual Dimension and every player
gets a weekly report about what's going on. Based upon this
information commands are sent back to the server. There's no
need for a client, because standard-html- and ascii-files are used.
The subscription to the new round will be possible until 2003/03/29,
the first reports will be sent out on Thursday, 2003/04/03. On that
day the old round - which had to be suspended due to technical
problems - will continue as well.
As a little goodie it is now possible to download the
"Star Empire 2"-Trailer from Virtual Dimension's anniversary
video seperately (sorry Timothy, it's still German only ;-).
P.S: The server program runs on AmigaOS, of course... :-) (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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DiscreetFX Logo For Dollars Cash Giveaway Challenge
DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and Video Toaster [2] announces a new challenge for Amiga/Video Toaster artists worldwide.
Deep in the labs of DiscreetFX we are looking for a new logo but we can't find one and we are too lazy too design it ourselves. Also, we know there are some damn talented artists in the Amiga & Video Toaster community and wanted to give everyone a stab at doing it for us with cash and product incentives of course.
So here is the deal on our logo challenge. We will allow you the Amiga & Video Toaster community to design our new logo for us. Also we will post all submissions on our website and allow you the community vote on which logo we will use. So fire up those paint packages, animation packages and Flash creation tools fellow artists. We would not dare limit your creativity so we have very few limitations or rules for the challenge. Artwork/animations can be submitted as still images (IFF, JPEG, TIFF etc.), Flash animations, AVI files or whatever you wish. We only ask that whatever you submit is your original work and that it does not suck. What you submit must have the words "DiscreetFX" in some type of fancy pose or flash animation. Be creative and use your mind, we don't care if it is "Psygnosis" style or "New Age" style or "Retro" style. We leave the talent to you, all we offer is an open wallet for the winners. Don't forget that it will be voted on and judged by your peers so do a good job! Create your masterpieces with FlashMX, ImageFX 4.5, Zbrush, Photogenics 5, or even Deluxe Paint version 1 on the Amiga 1000, we don't care as long as the artwork is fantastic.
The Winner takes home a prize of $100 via Paypal and one of the products of his or her choice from our development team http://www.discreetfx.com/Products.html. Or if the Winner is especially greedy they can opt for just $200 via Paypal and skip the free software. There will be prizes for runner up contestants as well. You will have to hurry though because this contest ends on April 3rd, 2003.
Please send your contest entries to amigaart@discreetfx.com. All submitted artwork/animations become the property of DiscreetFX but will never be used without compensation to the artist that created them.
Also please don't forget that we still have a limited supply of the two CD set Amiga/Video Toaster version of Pyromania and it will be available for a short time at the sale price of $24.95. ScaryFX for the Amiga & Video Toaster is also still available for $19.95. Visit www.discreetfx.com for more information and the latest tools for your Amiga & Video Toaster. (nba)
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02.Mar.2003
Martin Knott (ANF)
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Pegasos photos from Kieler Amiga Hardwaretreffen 2003
On Saturday, 1st March this year's hardware meeting of the
Amiga-Club Schleswig Holstein
took place in the new plenar hall of the UAS Kiel. Apart from the usual 68k and
PPC based Amigas and a small exhibition of the Kieler Computermuseum
this time also three Pegasos systems were to be marvelled at.
Apart from the power also the systems' three different optical outfits could impress. People who could not attend the event can get a first impression based on the pictures. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
heise online
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Legal action against games indexing
A private initiative wants to start legal action against indexing of computer
games. Furthermore, a new media protection of minors treaty might become
effective as of 1st April. Please read the complete article at heise online
under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Amig@lien (ANF)
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MultiPlayer Pack 04 for Descent: Freespace released
The MultiPlayerPack 04 has been released. Once more it contains five new
Multiplayer maps for the game Descent: Freespace.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
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SView V v1.10 released - expiration of special offer
Version 1.1 of graphics viewer and converter SView V has been released and its
demo version can be downloaded from the Aminet (title link).
SView V reads and writes more than 40 file formats and has command of
about 50 graphics operators. You can read a review in the current AMIGAplus
02/2003.
If you send in your SView5 registration until 5th March 2003 (before Ash
Wednesday), you may deduct 5 EUR from the total amount. Please write your
SViewIV registration number on the form as the rebate cannot be granted
otherwise. For meeting the deadline, the date on the postmark resp. receipt of
payment is relevant.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Pixload v3.0 released
Version 3.0 of the Amidock like start menu Pixload has been released.
Icons in the Startbar can now be modified by simple drag & drop and their number is not restricted. Similiar to the Mac OS X Dock, active programs
are marked with a triangle in the Pixload Startbar. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
CUCUG
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CUCUG Status Register 02/2003
The February 2003 CUCUG Status Register has been published. In the Status
Register the Club reports regularly about its own meetings and the areas Amiga,
Linux, Macintosh and PC.
This issue contains the following articles about PPC as well as Amiga:
- Aminet CDs Reach End of the Line
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
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Circumventing fees for T-Online SMTP relay server
From 1st March 2003, T-Online customers will have to pay for sending emails
with free sender address via T-Online's SMTP relay server. To circumvent these
fees you can use the STMP service of your secondary provider by reverting to
the SMTP Auth function for authentification of your data.
You can find support e.g. on the YAM
Web site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Andreas Weyrauch / Dirk Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: Second issue of Club Amiga Monthly published
The second issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" magazine for registered members
has been published at AMIGA, Inc.
This issue features some articles on the AmigaOne as well as AmigaOS 4. The
magazine has a volume of 20 pages. It is only accessible for Club members after
logging into the Club Web site under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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02.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Website on Applaud Software online again
From 1996, Applaud Software Ltd. developed low-cost games for the Amiga which
used to be distributed through Isolona Entertainment and Epic Marketing. On the
Web site especially set up for Applaud Software, fans of puzzle games can find
"Blockead I / II" for legal download, and strategy fans are catered for with
"Mobile Warfare" as well as the space trading simulation "Cygnus 8".
Furthermore Amiga Arena is looking for the following software titles by Applaud
Software Ltd.: "Berties Animal Kingdom", "DNA: Variety of life" as well as
"Imperator: Master of Rome".
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Mar.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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Benchmark: AmigaMARK LPA 2003 version 0.924
Rupert Hausberger has released version 0.924 of his benchmark tool for
AmigaOS and MorphOS.
Download: am_lpa2003.924.lha - 1.3 MB
A benchmark program is determining your computer's performance. Depending on the software functionality it measures the speed (data transfer rate) of the different components of a computer. Measurable single components are among others the CPU (central processing unit),
the main memory, the GPU (graphical processing unit),
the graphics memory and data storage units like e.g. hard discs and CD-ROM drives.
Changes in detail:
- FIXED bogomips calculation on MorphOS/G3
- CHANGED scsi-regonization from ansi- to response-format
- CHANGED optimized timing routines
- ADDED own clock()-function
- FIXED some typo errors
- FIXED "system info" output in benchmark-report
- CHANGED multitasking is now enabled at datafiles-creation [requested]
- ADDING two blizzard boards [requested]
- BUMPED revision to .924
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Scenia/Acumen
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Assembly demos at the Tampere Film Festival
The Wild demo "World War II Memoires" by Milan "Acumen" Kolarovic, shown at the Finnish demo scene party Assembly 2001, and the animation "Project Kerosene" of the Assembly 2002 will be presented at the international Tampere Film Festival on March, 8th 2003 in Tampere, Finland. The videos have been chosen for the Micromovies competition where the winner is rewarded with 10,000 US-Dollars. Last year came 25,000 visitors to the Tampere Film Festival.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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AmigaOne-G3 and AmigaOne-XE benchmarks
Following the title link you can find first benchmarks for AmigaOne-G3 and AmigaOne-XE computers.
The author ("ksk") points out in a
thread on Amiga.org that these benchmarks had in no way been done under "scientific" conditions, but are supposed to give an impression of the performance of the motherboards.
Benchmark results for Pegasos computers are said to be released soon.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Matt Parsons
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New SVGA drivers for AROS
The developments on the alternative operating system project AROS had been driven hard in the last weeks by Matt Parsons.
The current beta release of AROS contains now new SVGA drivers. 16-bit and 32-bit screen resolutions (HiColor and TrueColor) are now possible. Problems are still caused by the graphics card family ATI-Radeon but these are said to be fixed soon.
Furthermore are a new CD-ROM and a new floppy version of AROS online that contain the new SVGA drivers. The usage of the CD-ROM version is explicitly recommended.
The developers point to the fact that the screenmode can be chosen at the beginning of the boot procedure. If in doubt you should choose 640*480*16. There's still an error occurring with the mouse pointer that is surrounded by a black box and that cannot reach all screen areas. The fixing of this error is also in the works.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: German version of the BBoAH updated
Horst Diebel Seit has integrated the latest updates by Ian Chapman into the German version of the Big Book of
Amiga Hardware (BBoAH).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Brad Webb (email)
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Amiga Update newsletter by Brad Webb #030228
Following the title link you will find the complete newsletter by
Amiga Update (Brad Webb) for February 2003. In his English newsletter does Brad Webb a monthly summary of all news regarding the topic Amiga.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
amiga.org
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Magazin: The Crypt - issue #28 (vampires and vodoo) finished
The English online magazine "The Crypt" has released issue #28 under the slogan "vampire and vodoo".
Download: online28.zip
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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01.Mar.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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heise: Bill Gates cursed in Japan against Open Source
On a Japan visit Bill Gates did what he could to recommend Microsoft products for building up E-Government systems and to warn of the use of Open Source software.
Read the full (German) article at heise following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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