21.Feb.2003
Computer City (ANF)
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Computer City February News
FotoFoto
Work on FotoFoto is progressing, new pictures of the main
screen and prefs section can now be found at the FotoFoto website:
www.compcity.nl/fotofoto.
Inga!
Most of the work on the Inga! conversion is done. New screenshots of
the Inga-based demo-game Ermentrud running on AmigaDE 1.3 can be found
at the personal site of our programmer, Arend-Paul Spijkerman
(ap@compcity.nl):
http://www.apsdev.com.
Added to our internal 'to do list' is a MorphOS/PowerPC version.
Webshop
Work has started on our new webshop, which will be available in Dutch,
English and German. For the German market we have arranged a bank account
for payments and a German postal address in the event of RMA's.
For more information, please contact Computer City at +31-10-4517722
or email info@compcity.nl.
(ps)
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21.Feb.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Knights & Merchants for MorphOS starts shipping
Today e.p.i.c. interactive started shipping the Empire Builder Knights &
Merchants, which is now the first commercially available game for MorphOS.
Knights&Merchants retails at EUR 49,95 and requires a Pegasos with 600 Mhz, 64
MByte RAM and MorphOS 1.0 or better. More information on this Real Time
Strategy game can be found in the projects section of our homepage (title
link).
Knights and Merchants can be described as a strategic economy simulation. In
the main, the economics play a major role in this real-time action game. The
player can manufacture different products, making use of numerous buildings
and producer goods of the Middle Ages period. He can use his serfs to
construct and maintain buildings and roads. The economical structuring is
very specific. You manufacture finished products using various raw materials
which go through your production processes. All these manufacturing systems
are highly detailed and visually understandable, enabling fast and
dependable control of your economy. One result of all your productive labors
is the manufacture of weapons and armor. But the logistics, too, are really
worth a mention. You decide where and how merchandise will be transported on
the network of streets which you yourself have planned and constructed.
Your
serfs transport all wares between buildings, so your town planning plays a
major role in production time per building, and, resulting from that, just
how efficient your economy as a whole is going to be. Transported goods are
displayed graphically. Each figure in the game has his/her own mission area
and carries out individual tasks independently. They don't depend on your
commands or actions. You, the player, only give indirect commands for the
construction of buildings, streets, corn fields, etc. However, you do have
complete control of the military units.
Dealers please contact GTI/Schatztruhe. (ps)
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21.Feb.2003
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig
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Windows-arrangement: DepthMenu version 2.43
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has published version 2.43 of his program
'DepthMenu'. With this program you can manage, minimize or maximize open windows on
your Workbench.
New in this version: A bug has been cleared which occured if Shapeshifter was simultaneously
used with the screen menu function and another one has cleared in the about window.
From this version on DepthMenu will be no longer compiled with SAS/C but with GCC.
Download: DepthMenu.lha (53 kb)
Besides this the long expected new version 1.5 of the AmIRC.module has been published
where bugs have been cleared and the translation has been improved.
A new version of the Workbench.module and DOpus5.module with new functions has been announced.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV-card-driver: AmithlonTV beta 280 (Update)
Guido Mersmann has published beta version 280 of the TV card driver software called
AmithlonTV which has some minor updates and improvements.
Version 280
- BUGFIX:
The driver_hauppauge.lib is now detecting radio and the real card name if known.
- BUGFIX:
Again a small "video_bt8x8.lib" update! This should fix the last Pegasos problems.
Version 277
- FEATURE:
TVCardDump now allows to dump specific data items.
- FEATURE:
The video_bt8x8.lib driver now supports the pci interface structure.
This should fix (in theorie) the known problems with G-Rex/Pegasos
and other systems.
- CHANGED:
Modified the TVCardSetup window to be more intuitiv.
- BUGFIX:
Reworked some PCI routines.
- FEATURE:
Implemented CyberGraphics support. (currently TVWatch only)
- BUGFIX:
Fixed some card drivers.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed full screen support in combination with the pixel cut feature.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
(nba)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
Kaliko
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Kaliko online again
The website of the Swedish software development company Kaliko is now online again.
If you have sent an email to an @kaliko.net address during the last three weeks
you are asked to send it again. Kaliko continues placing confidence in AMIGA, Inc.
Most of the users in the world use a version of Windows and therefore it is right to
integrate these users to the Amiga world.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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21.Feb.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (E-Mail)
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Release of Wings for Game Boy Advance
Cinemaware announces the release of Wings GBA, which should be
hitting retail in the next few days! Wings GBA is a completely
new adaptation of the action-based flight-simulator Wings on Amiga,
with a new storyline, new missions and even the ability to fly on
the German side! There's nothing like it on GBA. (nba)
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20.Feb.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: EBay Warns Buyers Who Warn Other Bidders of Deception
It's known there are recurring instances of deception with eBay auctions. A bidder from Niedersachsen
wanted to warn fellow bidders about an alleged con artist and so he used the contact function on the
eBay website. EBay reacted to this negatively and warned the warner against "spamming."
Click on the title link for the complete article.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
(ANF)
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New open source archive format: 7-Zip
7z Format - 7z is the new archive format, providing high compression
ratio. The main features of 7z format:
- Open architecture.
- High compression ratio.
- Strong AES-256 encryption.
- Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method.
- Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB.
- Unicode file names.
- Solid compressing.
- Archive headers compressing.
7z has open architecture, so it can support any new compression methods.
For more information please visit the title link.
(ps)
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20.Feb.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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Napster's Inheritance: Rights Lawsuit Against Bertelsmann
Two composers and two music publishers accused the Bertelsmann business group
of knowingly assisting in the illegal copyright violations of Internet users, in that
Bertelsmann kept Napster going through financial infusion. Read the complete article
under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: ROMulus Module for HIGHWAY
After our poll about the new ROMulus module (FlashROM expansion for the HIGHWAY Zorro II USB controller)
the necessary prework and test on the prototype have finally been completed.
Next, the ROMulus module goes into production.
Expansive information about this particular expansion, among many long-awaited expansions, may be found under the
title link, respectively the English language information may be found
on the E3B pages.
E3B thanks all those who participated in our active poll, and hopes through this module to be able to offer another useful innovation for the
Amiga classic market. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
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Poll about AmigaOS 4.0 Started
There are as many opinions as there are people. Others don't ask, but amiga-news.de wants your opinion!
In response to the query from ´eliotmc´ in our
AN Discussion Forum we started a poll about Amiga OS 4.0. We are interested in finding out which hardware you would like to buy OS4 for. For possible answers (multiple answers are unfortunately not available with this script) you have the following selection possibilities:
- Classic Amiga with PPC
- Classic Amiga with Shark
- AmigaOne
- Pegasos (assuming OS4 runs on Pegasos)
- I will not buy OS4
You can read the current results here.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Darius Brewka im AN-Forum
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AmiStart Start Menu: Is There Still Interest in Further Development?
Darius Brewka released version 0.63 of AmiStart in September 2002, as we (reported).
AmiStart is a start menu similar to that found in Microsoft Windows, with a quick launchbar, drag&drop support and a reconfigurable
graphic overlay which allows transparency, rounded corners, background textures, a shape layer (with reconfigurable and programmable
skins controllable by external applications via ARexx). One example is the shape layer of Songplayer.
Because the author has some time, he is interested in knowing if there is interest in further development of AmiStart and, if so, how strong
this interest is. Would anyone like to make some suggestions or report some bugs? Give Darius some feedback, write him to say what could
be improved. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Execution of Many Programs Burns Out the iPAQ 5450
In a document from the Hewlett-Packard (HP) support databank the manufacturer of the iPAQ 5450 warns against running too many
programs at the same time. When many programs run in parallel, the speed of the gadget can be massively degraded. Also, Amiga
Anywhere runs on the iPAQ 5450. Read the complete report at Golem IT-News (click on the title link). (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Grasshopper LLC
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DTP: PageStream V4.1.5.6 for AmigaOS and Windows
On the 3rd of February 2003, Grasshopper LLC released version 4.1.5.6 of the DTP Program "PageStream" for Amiga and Windows
computers. This update is available to registered users at the Grasshopper LLC Website (title link), and includes new help data. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Interview with Ben Hermans in German and English
In light of a few currently circulating rumors about the status of AmigaOS 4, and the announcement of the partnership with
SciTech, we contacted Ben Hermans (AmigaOS 4 project leader and managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment) and conducted a
short interview with him.
The English language version may be read here and the
German language version may be read here.
We thank Ben Hermans for taking the time to answer our questions. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene: First Edition of Saxonia Disk-Mag Appears
Yesterday the demo scene group Void released the first edition of their completely new disk-mag "Saxonia #1."
Because neither the group nor the mag has a homepage, the online portal Diskmag.de is offering the download (click on title link). Saxonia functions on all classic Amigas, according to the chief editor; it can even run on an A500 with expanded RAM. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
C64 News (ANF)
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Music: SIDBoost your Amiga!
There is a new SID player for Amiga made by Glover/Samar called
SidBooster.
Forget about older players like PlaySid or Sid4Amiga.
This is the best SID emulation on Amiga and it can be compared
only with original C64! Recommended is at least 68040/40 and
full installed MUI (most plugins). Works perfectly on my
A4000/060/56Mhz, all BoingBags installed and Kick 3.9 (3.1
with ROM Patch from OS 3.9). "imagepool.library" was needed
for my miggy (can be found on AmiNet).
(ps)
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20.Feb.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 20th February 2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:
JabberwockySRC.lha comm/tcp 182K+Jabber client
MiamiSDK211.lha comm/tcp 134K+Miami SDK 2.11
libpng-bin.lha dev/gg 124K+AmigaOS GeekGadgets port of libpng-1.2.5
BetaScan_GER.lha hard/drivr 2K+German catalog for BetaScan (free!)
UFStory.lha pix/anim 269K+UltimateForce Story
trodas_icons2.lha pix/gicon 244K+Glow icons made by trodas
(ps)
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20.Feb.2003
Atroxis.de
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Music: Markus Holler's MP3 Download Site
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga users for his musical pieces for Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike and The Holy Trinity, is now working on his own music download site. Currently there are already a few previously unheard songs to be found there, which in part come from the latest VD* Convention Video! Have fun!
*Virtual Dimension [ ;) -DM]
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2003
Terry Fry (E-Mail)
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Techconnect: SciTech Software to Add Graphic Power to AmigaOS 4 and Beyond
The press release by Hyperion regarding the partnership with SciTech
(as reported) is recognized as well outside the Amiga world. You may read the English article by Techconnect following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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19.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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REBOL: Picture viewer ReViewer v1.3
On the 12th of February 2003 version 1.3 of ReViewer, a picture viewer for the open platform
REBOL, has been releasded. The software with its graphical interface is to call stable even with this early version and by the platform independence of REBOL useable with the Amiga too.
The free download is possible at the website linked by the title.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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