25.Jan.2003
Linux Games (ANF)
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WaterRace Source Released
Jonathan Gray wrote in to announce that the source code to WaterRace
(screenshots)
has been released under the terms of the GPL. WaterRace is an OpenGL
offshore racing game originally written for the classic Mac OS. The
source is available only as a Stuff-it Expander file. (ps)
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25.Jan.2003
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: New cover scans and Powerplay reviews
On Kultpower.de are some new cover scans as well as six
new PowerPlay reviews taken from the Powerplay 1/1999 online:
- Baldur's Gate (PC CD-ROM)
- Die Siedler 3 (PC CD-ROM)
- Fifa 99 (PC CD-ROM)
- Grim Fandango (PC CD-ROM)
- Kings Quest 8 (PC CD-ROM)
- Tomb Raider 3 (PC CD-ROM)
Because of the smaller print of the later Powerplay issues are these reviews quite big (200 - 500 KBytes), so I wish you a "Happy Download" :)
New magazines under "Mehr Mags":
- Next Level with seven cover scans
- Sega Magazin with 25 cover scans
- PC Joker with ten new cover scans
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Jan.2003
Elbox Computer (E-Mail)
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Elbox MIRAGE for A1200
Elbox announces availability of a new tower system for Amiga 1200
computers. Mirage 1200 is a modern functional and spacious tower case.
It is designed targeted for these Amiga 1200 users who have upgraded
or want to upgrade their computers with the Mediator PCI 1200 SX
busboards. Mirage 1200 allows also using other busboards like
Mediator PCI 1200, Zorro IV, Zorrro IV with Mediator PCI ZIV and Zorro II.
Mirage 1200 tower system with 5 bays for 5.25" drives, 6 bays for 3.5"
drives and a powerful 300W ATX PSU is ready for massive expandability of
your A1200 hardware.
Mirage 1200 replaces the discontinued E/BOX 1200 (also known as A1200
Power Tower and A1200 Winner Tower), the award-winning Amiga tower system.
With the new design, we are offering you even more Amiga expandability,
right at your fingertips.
For more information see the complete press release under the title link
and the Mirage 1200 website.
(ps)
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25.Jan.2003
Christian Krenner (ANF)
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'Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading' website updated
The, for now only in English available, website
Extreme Amiga 600 Upgrading has been updated in the area "Modifying the Apollo". The website documents an upgrading project for the Amiga 600 and delivers comprehensive information
around the small Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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24.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga.org: First AmigaOne review
On Amiga.org there is a first review of the AmigaOne. An "Earlybird" customer describes
his experiences made of the system and of the installation of Linux.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
Norman Thiel von Heise News (ANF)
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PCI Vendors list available again...
The PCI Vendors list is available again after a threat of a lawyer because of an inadmissable
use of protected trademarks.
Have a look at the title link for the full article.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Statement of Genesi concerning trouble of delivery
On MorphOS-News.de Genesi has given its opinion on the current trouble of delivery of
the Pegasos. It is said that Genesi is waiting for more Articia-chips of Mai. Until Genesi
will get and afterwards test it a delivery of the present chip version is expected which
works without any errors thanks to the April chips in the Pegasos.
Besides this Genesi tests an alternative but something more expensive chip so in future
it may be possible to work together with a different seller.
At the end of 2003 MorphOS may also be published for Macintosh computers but probably
only as an executing second unit for applications which should be also offered for the
Mac. In this connection it is asked if there is anybody who is interested in porting
"wxwindows" on MorphOS.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
M. Lück (ANF)
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End of GRex petition
M. Lück wrote:
Today is the end of the GRex-petition. Until today 296 users have subscribed.
TriMa and me want to thank you for your support. Unfortunately this petition has failed.
I want to explain in the following lines why it is so.
Two weeks after the start of the petition I have sent the first list with all signatures
(without email addresses) to DCE per email. I got an answer of DCE at once. DCE wrote
that they would be glad about a support of OS4 and that they are interested in the current
discussion.
We got the information of Steffen Häuser that the cybpci.library written by Ralph 'Laire' Schmidt
will not work in the 68k emulation because of the 68k MMU setup. So the petition still
became more important because presently GRex users have no chance of getting AmigaOS 4.0
started.
We got all information per email which Hyperion needs to support the GRex. Four addresses
are needed:
- The base of GRex I/O address
- The interrupt acknowledge address
- The base address of config space mappings or
- the PCI-config and PCI-data address
No circuit diagramm, hardware or software documents are needed. These information I
sent DCE per email. I have not got any response until today.
Then we got the information that bplan has the hardware rights. This means DCE has only
a licence for the GRex. If this is true or not we do not know. One week ago I contacted
Mr. Carda per email for getting clearness. But I also have not got any response until now.
That is a pity.
Now we hope that we can attract attention by posting this article.
Thank you very much again to all participants...
The attempt of moving something forward means so much to us - also if it may fail.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 24.01.2003
Since our last message there have been the following updated on Aminet:
TinyGL.lha dev/c 188K+Subset of the OpenGL API for AGA/CGFX/P9
AMIthlon_CD.lha docs/help 2K+How to make an updated bootable AMIthlon
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 42K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 45K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
ShFGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 25K+Shadow Fighter glow icons by Ponos
littlejedi.mpg pix/mpg 13M+Science fiction made on Amiga/Draco
Milk.lha pix/wb 139K+Creamy white 1024x768 desktop snapshot b
XenoMorph_Icon.jpg pix/wb 228K+XenoMorph's MMX Icons conversion PREVIEW
IBGold.lha util/wb 17K+Gold appearance for IBrowse 1+
IBSilver.lha util/wb 28K+Silver appearance for IBrowse 1+
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jan.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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First working beta of Powerkonverter
Today I have published a working version of my program called "Powerkonverter".
Currently it supports all important basic functions of ffmpeg and additionally the
"Motion Estimation" preference. Videos can be splitted or changed. Besides this all
formats are supported which has been newly added.
But in this version pictures series will not be recognized. This will be the next step.
Installation:
Unpack the archive, copy the corresponding libs to your Workbench/libs directory.
For starting the program you need to be installed the PNG datatype.
ffmpeg must be in the system path (c:, s: or something like that). I have copied ffmpeg
to c:.
I have programmed a PNG-GUI because then the program itself has only the half size compared
with an IFF version. Additionally PNG datatypes are also available in PPC versions which
accelerates the program.
Shortcuts:
ESC: Quitting the program
Return: Starting ffmpeg
Control + C: Aborting ffmpeg
Space: Stopping the console output of ffmpeg
Backspace: Continuing console output of ffmpeg
I have not implemented a seperate button for starting ffmpeg because it is simply unpractical.
You can confirm the shortcuts on each place in the GUI like e.g. the Return key.
If you want to test a newly preferenced figure only push the Return key for starting ffmpeg
with the new figure.
If you want to program yourself new figures in the cycle buttons it is quite simple.
The program directory contains several text files ".txt". These ones you can rewrite
up to a certain level. The only thing which can be not changed is the amount of the
entries. In the same way it works with the format lister. You can write your own formats
if they are not there yet.
Later I will also add the automatic picture identification and the VideoCD option.
Download: Powerkon_beta.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.Jan.2003
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New Survey and More
Two new surveys have been started on the Amiga Future Homepage. Additionally the results appear from the last survey, which was "What browser do you use?"
Until 25th January there's a raffle in which you could win a Shogo and a Wendetta 2175. With this raffle we want to support Thomas in creating the FAQs. Also, the links and the cheats collection have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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23.Jan.2003
ExtremeTech
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ExtremeTech: Amiga: Live Another Day
Olin Wread, a reader of Extremetech, has written a multipage, English-language article about the history of the Amiga.
Click on the title link to go to it. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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22.Jan.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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News-flash: IBM Introduces Their Own PDA Concept
Yesterday in New York at the LinuxWorld convention IBM introduced their own concept of a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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22.Jan.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Freeciv Amiga native 1.18
The new Freeciv Amiga native version is available from now on for
download at Sebastian Bauer's homepage. It covers exactly the
version 1.14.10 which has been published at www.freeciv.org two days ago.
Freeciv is a free Civilisation clone which is playable via
Internet versus several players or offline versus the computer.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
EdWord
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Editor: EdWord Professional V6.0 - source code
After Martin Reddy published the full version of his editor EdWord Version 6.01 for Amiga computer as
freeware in September 2001 he has now released the source code under GPL (GNU Public License) also.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Nova Design
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Nova Design PR: Giant Nova Design Software Sale
By the title link there is a press release by Nova Design which covers offers for several software e.g. ImageFX or Alladin 4D.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Onyxsoft
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Onyxsoft: QuickSketch and several updates
With QuickSketch
a new freeware program by Daniel Westerburg is introduced to the product portfolio of Onyxsoft. The program is similar to 'QuickNote', it might to be used for text notes, but QuickSketch can additionally handle graphic (sketched) notes.
Furthermore the following updates were made available:
- DagensTV (version 1.2)
The program processes information of the TV pogram which are sent by
dagenstv.com via email.
- MultiRen (Version 1.53)
MultiRen is a tool for renaming files comfortably.
- TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.23)
TheMPegEncGUI is a graphical interface for MPEG audio encoder.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld - 32x32 patterns in raw format
The 32x32 patterns for the action strategy game 'Schlachtfeld' (graphics phase I) are in a raw format online now. The patterns do not fit exacty together. This is mostly because of the rendering which shifted the patterns a little bit.
This requires a massively post production work for some patterns.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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22.Jan.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Diskmag: Eurochart needs support!
One of the last diskmags of the Amiga demo scene, "The official Eurochart",
will be published by middle or end next month. The editors ask for a vote for volume 48 and to participate the poll (Scene Survey)
or to contribute something else e. g. English articles, graphics or musics.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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21.Jan.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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News from Eyetech: State of AmigaOneXE
After moving the website of Eyetech onto another server the site is now up to date.
Beside some changes in prices for the Eyetech complete systems a change for the
AmigaOne interested persons is interesting: The AmigaOneXE-G3 will be delivered with
a G3 CPU (750FX) with 800 MHz instead of the announced 700 MHz.
On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse is talking about the latest
stateof the
delivery of the AmigaOneXE:
It seems the first 25 boards are delivered to Eyetech and are taken under another
quality control by 25 chosen testers. The other motherboards will be delivered to
Eyetech in the next week. Because of the high inquiry and the fact of the quality
check by Eyetech the delivery will take a longer time than expected so the boards
will be delivered to dealers and customers in February.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Jan.2003
Amiga.sf
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Amiga.Sourceforge: New ports from 21st January 2003
The following software-ports have been updated or added:
(ps)
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