19.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Study - MP3s do not affect the selling of CDs reasonable
Nearly weekly there are new studies made about the effects of MP3 exchange sites to the selling of CDs and the result is - often probably depending of the initiator - mostly a different one. The marked research institute TNS Emnid claims to have found out that most Internet surfers still buy CDs not reasonably changed by the free alternatives from the net.
Read the full article (German) at Golem IT-News by the title link.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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19.Feb.2003
Telepolis
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Good Old Adventures: Online revival of Larry and Guybrush
Who of the older gamers does not get a smile on the lips a dreamy, nostalgic disturbed view when thinking of the adventure heroes Larry and Guybrush. Now the past can get a game revival because the Dutch company Q42 revitalizes the old Sierra and LucasArts adventures. Read a brief (German) article about the "Good Old Adventures" at Telepolis.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2003
Sylvio Kurze (ANF)
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Soms3D Website reworked and Open Archive online
The ADA-Team has decided to publish parts from the old SOMS2d development. The
decision of publising storyboard and source code will be done later.
The developer files are available on the main page under "Stuff". Also the Soms3D
corner will be updated to the new genre and the official prologue is now online.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Feb.2003
Thomas Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment Press Release
CHICO, CA, USA - February 11, 2003
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to
announce they have entered into a strategic partnership which will
see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is
currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
SciTech SNAP, SciTech's leading edge graphics device support, allows
for the rapid development and deployment of embedded solutions across
multiple platforms and currently already supports well over 170
different graphics chipsets including all the latest offerings from
industry leaders ATI, nVidia and Matrox.
A full list of supported chipsets can be found
here.
"We are very excited about SNAP as it offers us out of the box support
for a huge and ever growing number of graphics cards and effectively
allows us to redirect resources away from device driver development
and cut down on time to market", said Ben Hermans, managing partner of
Hyperion. "We are convinced that prospective customers of AmigaOS 4.x
will appreciate the high-performance, low footprint graphics card
technology that SciTech has developed over many years."
"SciTech shares in the vision of the Amiga platform and is excited to
play a key roll in the further development of the original multi-media
OS." said Andrew Bloo, Director of Marketing, SciTech Software
Inc. "By adopting SciTech SNAP Graphics as the core graphics
architecture for the Amiga OS, Amiga can now offer a level of
performance and compatibility equal to that of any mainstream OS".
SciTech and Hyperion are set to broaden their cooperation to encompass
3D graphics support and support for other PPC based operating systems.
About SciTech Software Inc.
SciTech Software Inc. is a leading developer of next generation
multi-OS device driver development tools for embedded, industrial and
enterprise systems. SciTech Flagship product, SciTech SNAP Graphics,
is a robust display driver solution, with full 2D acceleration on more
than 170 graphic chipsets. SciTech SNAP Technology enables hardware
manufactures to cut costs, speed time to market and reduce long-term
support issues. Additionally SciTech SNAP provides hardware venders
with the ability to explore the emerging embedded markets through a
powerful, OS agnostic device driver abstraction layer. Enterprise
customers benefit from the SciTech SNAP technology through the unified
chip drivers, which allow IT managers to roll out a single display
driver across an entire enterprise, drastically reducing associated
test matrices and long-term support costs. SciTech also provides
leading edge development tools for the embedded and industrial
markets. These tools allow developers to quickly add support for new
and or emerging OS'es and with the SciTech SNAP architecture instantly
gain access to more than 170 supported graphic chip sets. Founded in
1994, SciTech Software Inc. is a privately held company, backed by the
original investment of its founders and the ongoing sales of its
leading edge solutions. SciTech Corporate offices are located in
Chico, California.
For more information please visit: http://www.scitechsoft.com.
About Hyperion Entertainment VOF
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German company,
founded in March of 1999. The company specialises in 3D graphics and
the conversion of top-quality entertainment software from Windows to
niche-platforms including Amiga, Linux (x86, PPC) and MacOS (OS 9/X).
Hyperion Entertainment has undertaken contract-work in the field of 3D
graphics for companies such as Monolith (www.lith.com) and has
developed a mature, fast, small foot-print technology to bring 3D
graphics to low power digital devices such as PDA's and STB's.
Hyperion is currently working on AmigaOS 4.0, a vastly enhanced PPC
native incarnation of the groundbreaking OS introduced by Commodore in
1985.
Update:
Here also the link to the press release from SciTech Software, Inc.
(ps)
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18.Feb.2003
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM: S-Files 21 - No Winter Sleep
The Canadian software-developer clickBOOM writes in its new S-Files 21:
"Sorry about the lack of updates recently -- we have
been very, very busy. So, without further ado let me
debrief you on the latest developments here at
clickBOOMville.
Firstly, the interesting thing about our recent work is
that it's mostly not game-related! Interested?
Our first and most important project is for a new cell
phone web solution that will blow you away. We will be
showcasing it to the world by the end of March.
The second project is for a next-generation wireless
communications software for a major company, and it's part
of a suite of utilities which you might be using in near
future if you are going to be surfing the web wirelessly.
We are currently under NDA for this project, so there is
nothing more we can say until the project is finished and
on the market.
"Hey, but what about games?", I hear you asking. Well, as you
probably noticed over 3 months ago we had removed links to new
Cinemaware games which we were developing at the time. Sadly,
due to circumstances beyond our control, back then we had to
put on hold development of all Cinemaware games. Unfortunately,
as of today the development still hasn't resumed. I will have
all the info for you within 48h, I promise.
Development of all our other games is proceeding according to plan." (nba)
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18.Feb.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-Track from Bjorn Lynne for free
From February, 18th to March, 4th on the website of LynneMusic the audio track
"Kyrania" will be free for download (title link) because of the 2000th sold CD
"Wolves of the Gods". Also the CD is available for the special price of $12.99 within
the next fortnight.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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18.Feb.2003
morphos-news.de
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Photos of the Genesi Management Meeting
Under the title link you will see the first pictures from the Genesi
Management Meeting (17 February 2003 at Cercle de l'Union Interalliée in Paris,
France).
Taking part in this event have Gerald Carda, Ralph Schmidt,
Thomas Knaebel, Dona Dworak, Stephane Donders, Emmanuel Benoit, Bernard Hautbergue,
Thierry Velasco, Helmut Jost, Takis Tsiricos, Raquel Velasco, and Bill Buck.
(nba)
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18.Feb.2003
Perfect Paint Website
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GFX program: PerfectPaint V2.95
PerfectPaint of Halvadjian Georges is now available in version 2.95. Changes and adds:
- Improve TrueType text.
- New format: TVPaint Deep, Load and Save (option: compression, alphachanel and
preview), with the ARexx command: pp_SaveTvpDeep (picture) and pp_BsaveTvpDeep
(brush)
- Fix a bug with the pp_ScreentoFront command.
- New processing tool: Chalk
- Improve Bridge tool, TVPaint, TVPaint_Layer script.
- Improve Memory with liquid and glass effect.
- Two new spare tools can be found under the Spare menu: Merge in Front and Merge
in Back, these tools lets you compose the spare page with the current picture or
animation, using the current background color for transparency color.
- Fix a bug when you switch between buffer with not enough memory.
- Improve spare allocation with not enough memory.
- Improve Crop tool.
- New Tooltype:MAX_ANIM_FRAME, this tooltype lets you select at startup the maximum
number of frames in one animation. By default it's 1000.
- Improve History requester: New button.
Download: PfPaint_V2915.lha
It is only the update archive, you need the installed version 2.91.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Announcement: Voltmeter hardware for parallel port
Carsten Siegner is currently finishing the hardware test of his new
voltmeter hardware for the parallel port. This includes a
12-bit-ADC-Microchip, with which one can accomplish theoretically
250,000 voltage measurements per second.
This chip is propelled of a 4.19 MHz quartz. The product will soon contain
a universal voltmeter commodity and possibly, if I am able to program it, a storage oscilloscope commodity.
A test software for Siegners hardware is already available. This program
to display the amount of a voltage supply up to four places
exactly. The new hardware is meant for each original Amiga, which
possesses a 32Bit-Bus (A1200 and A4000). Unfortunately the software
exclusively runs on the original parallel port of the Amiga (no
interface map).
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
AmiGOD Homepage
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 Beta 16.02.2003
On 16 February 2003 Lukas Stehlik published a new beta version of '
AmiGOD 2 '. Which is a modular Amiga OS bench mark. In
comparison to the previous version the following has changed:
- 2D graphics tests now FULL SCREEN!
- new HDD & MEM section (write - MB/s) - EARLY BETA!!
- new math 68k test (Mandelbrot)
- reworked system of Math 68k results (stable results on high-end Amigas)
- Amithlon test: new internal module Pentium IV 2.4GHz + GeForce2 MX
- UAE test: new internal module Athlon XP1800 + ATI Radeon 8500 VIVO
- new Make module window (Nick, Name, E-Mail, Computer, Gfx, etc.)
- recompiled in PowerD v0.20 aplha4
- new AmiGOD2 homepage -> http://amigod.zde.cz
- SOON: support of external *.amg modules (95% completed)
- abort 2D gfx, full screen intuition test, more hdd/mem tests
Download: AmiGOD2.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Interview with Sylvio Kurze
Anton Preinsack led an interview with Sylvio Kurze, the project
manager of SOMS3D for Amiga Future. At the title link you find the
German version, the English one is available
here.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV-board-software: AmithlonTV Beta 270
Guido Mersmann published the beta version 270 of the TV board
software AmithlonTV with minor updates and improvements.
What's new:
- BUGFIX: Fixed Hauppauge MSP3xxx audio chip support.
- BUGFIX: Fixed TVCardSetup Hauppauge card auto detect function.
- FEATURE: TVCardDump is now activating a "deep i2c scan" mode
if required. This new mode provides much more additional
hardware information for trouble shooting.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
A.D.A.
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A.D.A: Three new demos - Shaft 7, Efrara and ISO
The Amiga Demoscene Archives (A.D.A.) now includes the demos Shaft 7
by Bomb, Efrara by Artwork and ISO by Scoopex. Read the original messages:
Shaft 7/Bomb. This has always been a mystery demo. Ben, the coder,
released this demo for Bomb, won The Party 1996, and dissapeared after
that. Still, a nice demo, with cool music by Yolk and Legend, good gfx by
the talented Bomb members and nice effects and 3D (for that time).
Efrara/Artwork. Nice slideshow by Fiver, coded by Tron and music by
Virgill. Released sometime in 1996 for Artwork.
Iso/Scoopex. This famous demo came 3rd at Remedy 1995. Featuring
wonderful graphics by Made, good music by Oxbow, great code by Ninja and
raytrace by Fender, this demo is very good looking.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
GoldED Support
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GoldED: Programmer-Addon C/C++ IDE and Service-Pack 10
The C/C++ developer environment contained in the editor "GoldED AIX"
was updated and now containes clickable expenditures for GCC, vbcc and
other compilers see screenshot.
Furthermore Dietmar Eilert, the programmer of GoldED, made service pack 10
for "GoldED AIX" available for download.
Downlaod: envCPP31.lzx
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
WinUAE
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 5 work in progress
On 15th February it was admitted what will be changed in the upcoming 0.8.22 release 5 of "WinUAE" for Windows. It will be
available by the end of February.
Bugs fixed:
- CD32-mode media change detection
- SlowRAM detection fixes (Commando and more)
- more compatible CIA keyboard emulation (Back to the Future 2 and more)
- another bsdsocket.library emulation update
- another state restore fix
- fixed mouse problems in Space Crusade, Billy the Kid etc.
- writing to custom floppy images was unstable
- primary sound buffer-checkbox removed and disabled. It is useless and usually
only caused huge slowdown problems. NOTE: Users of R3 or R4: Make sure primary
sound buffer-checkbox is disabled.
- PC Competitor interface's second joystick works properly
- improved compatibility (USGold Murder, Crack Down, Liverpool, Pinball Hazard etc. works)
New features:
- configurable boot priority and device name for regular (non-RDB) hardfiles
and virtual directory filesystems
- FPU state file support
- more compatible Action Replay 1 support
- "Middle-Mouse-Button -> ALT-TAB" works now in fullscreen mode
- configurable keyboard LEDs (DF0,DF1,DF2,DF3,POWER,HD,CD)
- floppy write-protect state added to floppies-tab
- implemented write-support for images that don't support writing
natively (compressed images, CAPS-images)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
Alexander Weber
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WWW-Browser: Path Version 1.0.1
Path Amiga is the attempt of Alexander Weber to write an Internet
browser from scratch. He began the project in the second half of
the year 2001 (we reported) and slowly
the browser begins to take concrete shape. Version 1.0 supports HTML, that is also the reason for the version jump. The support is still
rudimentarily, so that a reasonable browsing is still
hardly possible. This situation will improve with each following
version.
In the new version 1.0.1 the following error was removed: The Browser
announcement should behave now many system-friendlier. Possibly this
update repairs a freezing of the system, which was reported.
Download: path.lha
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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17.Feb.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 17th February 2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:
GGSearch.lha comm/irc 2K+Search GOOGLE with AmIRC or Shell
MiamiDXcat.lha comm/net 8K+Catalonian catalog for Miami Deluxe
MiamiMonitorCT.lha comm/net 1K+Catalonian catalog for MiamiMonitor 1.2
MiamiMonitorSP.lha comm/net 1K+Spanish catalog for MiamiMonitor 1.2
CIT.lha dev/gui 120K+A C++ GUI dev system
BetaScanSrc.lha hard/drivr 123K+Complete Source for BetaScan.v3
BetaScan_v3.lha hard/drivr 127K+BetaScan v.3 with Raction based GUI
MLs.lha misc/edu 36K+PL/ENG stuff for MyLang by Zeeball
mamevg065.lha misc/emu 2.1M+MAME Visual Guide 0.65 Addendum - PDF In
imdbDiff030207.lha misc/imdb 2.9M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
JD-Sliders.mpg mods/mpg 2.3M+Sliders by JaDe
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 302K+GUI 4 Lame,OggEnc,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,
obligement-37.jpg pix/misc 86K+Obligement's cover n 37
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 309K+Report+ 5.65: Multipurpose utility
MILL.lha util/virus 198K+New polish antivirus
(ps)
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17.Feb.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 16th February 2003)
With WHDLOad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 16.02.03 new: Super Loopz (Audiogenic) [done by Codetapper]
- 16.02.03 new: Hole In One (Digitek) [done by Psygore]
- 15.02.03 new: Brian Lara's Cricket (Audiogenic) [done by Codetapper]
- 15.02.03 fixed: Bane of Cosmic Forge / Wizardry 6 (Sir-Tech)
[save game bug fixed, uses fast memory]
- 15.02.03 new: Allan Border's Cricket (Audiogenic) [done by Codetapper]
(nba)
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16.Feb.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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TV card software AmithlonTV Beta 268 and new Tech Section area
Guido Mersmann has released beta version 268 of the TV card driver software AmithlonTV with minor updates and improvements.
These are the changes since the previous version:
- FEATURE:
TVCardDump can now started from within TVWatch's debug menu.
- BUGFIX:
Fixed the automatic include creating tool. Now the c includes should be correct.
- WEBSITE:
Added new section with information about the various TV-channel frequencies that are used on different interfaces like TV-tuners
and TV-cable.
Download: AmithlonTV Beta 268. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
CIE (E-Mail)
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The Deep Side EP 12" Vinyl
On 24th February 2003, the first 12" record by Cologne demo scene and techno musician "CIE" will be released on the Frankfurt label Deep and Dark Recordings.
The name of the record is "The Deep Side EP", and it contains three tracks, a preliminary version of which can be heard on CIE's Web site. There, interested people can also find further information and some reviews. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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16.Feb.2003
Jabberwocky
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Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 1st preview
Tom Parker and
Matthias Münch have released
Preview 1 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' Version 1.4 for Amiga
computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol
for the direct exchange of messages.
Connection to other instant messengers such as AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is
possible via gateways.
Beta version download: Jabberwocky030216.lha
Alongside this, the final version 1.3 has been released.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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