03.Feb.2003
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: SGrab Version 1.23
Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.23 of his screen grabber SGrab.
With this program you can create screen grabs and save them in different
formats. You can also grab single windows and parts of pictures.
Download: sgrab.lha - 182 KB (ps)
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03.Feb.2003
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo scene: Scenery 1.41 released
Version 1.41 of the English language scene book Scenery was published today.
This book is an overview of all current and erstwhile groups, which are or has been active in the Amiga and C64 demo scene.
This encyclopedia contains also various reviews and an overview,
which good productions were published in which years. Scenery can be
read on-line or downloaded as text files. Amiga fans with English
knowledge will get a good first glance into the demo scene.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Feb.2003
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Amiga-news.de and Amiga plus announce co-operation
Cologne, Erkrath, Germany, 03 February 2003 -- Amiga news.de, the
internationally visitor-strongest Amiga portal, and Amiga plus, the
world-wide strongest independent Amiga print magazine,
announced on 3 February 2003 their comprehensive co-operation.
The partnership between Amiga news.de, Erkrath, and AMIGAPlus,
Cologne, leads to a bundling of the know-how, to garanty and
expand a daily competent reporting about the Amiga market and the adjacent surrounding field. In
the context of the partner contract laid out on a long-term basis the
team of amiga-news.de, wich is highly recognized in the industry, will be supported by the AMIGAPlus editorship in terms of creating
content and write reports. Furthermore the four exisiting amiga-news.de pages will be incorporated into the AMIGAPlus.
Current short messages are published on-line on Amiga news.de
with the well known authority and regularity, while the AMIGAPLus homepage will concentrate
on deep-going reports and service sides for the print version of the magazine..
"This could be the beginning of a developable partnership." Petra
Struck says, editor-in-chief of amiga-news.de.
"We understand this co-operation also as an encouraging call for a closer
co-operation between the numerous enterprises in the Amiga market."
explains Nico Barbat, editor-in-chief of the AMIGAPlus.
About AMIGAplus
The print magazine AMIGAPlus was published for the first time in
November 1991 by the ICP publishing house. In January 2000 the Amiga
pluses fused with "Amiga OS" and published by the Kieler publishing house Falkemedia from then on.
Today the AMIGAPlus is the strongest independent Amiga specialized magazine world-wide. Parallel the
editorship is active in the on-line range, with the meeting of fairs
and at the organization of the Amiga Awards.
About amiga-news.de
The on-line EMS magazine Amiga news.de was created in August 1998 by
Petra Struck and is today, with 100.000 hits daily, the prominent
german-language web project for Amiga related reporting. The
contentwise emphasis lies on News, which are supplied by different
Backends. Apart from the Web version also by WAP, E-Mail, KDE and PDA.
The subregions of the Website cared for by 17
active volunteers cover the Amiga link directory, the Free Amiga job, a
well visited forum, meeting calendar, search archives and other
interactive elements.
Contact:
AMIGAplus / falkemedia
Dürener Str. 387, D-50935 Köln
Tel: 02 21 - 430 82 933
E-Mail: info@amigaplus.de
www.amigaplus.de
amiga-news.de
Petra Struck
Trills 9, D-40699 Erkrath
Tel: 0 21 04 - 17 16 97
e-Mail: team@amiga-news.de
www.amiga-news.de
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03.Feb.2003
Alexander Greye (ANF)
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C-One is not delivered yet
Alexander Greye wrote:
Against the statements of some persons the C-One is not delivered yet.
According to Jens Schönefeld the board was not yet sufficiently and completely tested and therefore it will not
be delivered before these tests will be finished. An exact date for the release date
is not certain.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Feb.2003
Jim Steichen; Author of AmigaTalk (ANF)
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AmigaTalk V2.3 uploaded to Aminet
The latest and greatest version of AmigaTalk (V2.3) has been uploaded to Aminet.
The most significant change is the addition of catalogued language support
to the main program. Please send me any translations that you develop for
inclusion into later versions of the program, thanx, Jim Steichen, author of
AmigaTalk.
For version 2.3 the following enhancements/bug fixes were made:
- Added catalog support for the program (now, send me your
translation files!)
- Added Layers.st to the Intuition/ directory to support
using layers.library (why anyone would want to put themselves
through the torture of using layers is beyond me).
- Fixed some bugs in GadTools.st so that the test files now run
correctly.
- Added ARexx.st to the System/ directory.
- Added MsgPort.st to the System/ directory.
Download: amigatalk.lha
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02.Feb.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: First issue of Amiga Club Magazine published
Amiga Inc. have published their first Amiga Club Magazine. This issue is currently only accessible at Amiga Inc. by logging in with a password, i.e. only for club members and developers. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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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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