01.Dec.2002
Amiga Future
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TV: AmithlonTV Beta 177
On 1st December 2002, the beta version 177 of 'AmithlonTV' has been released.
This is a driver package which allows the use of TV cards under Amithlon.
TVWatch is a small and easy to use example of a TV application which offers all
features needed for the setup of TV and radio. Compared to version 166, the
following changes have been made:
AmithlonTV Beta 177:
This is a special test version for users experiencing audio problems with TV
cards with the msp3xxx audio chip.
Test results about the function of all audio sources (SVHS, FBAS, Tuner) may be
sent to the AmithlonTV developers.
AmithlonTV Beta 170:
New VHI-Studio driver offering Multi-Channel support and also supporting all
other features of AmithlonTV and VHI-Studio.
Some small bug fixes.
New audio_msptest.lib which is automatically loaded for bug hunting. All users
with audio problems are kindly asked to establish and activate all external and
internal audio connections and carry out the following test.
- CD player/Audio source as input.
- Start TVWatch, open channel settings
- Switch Audio input to all available types.
- Report each working Audio output.
Download: AmithlonTV_Beta177.lha
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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USB: 'Thankyou' to all USB HIGHWAY owners
KDH Datentechnik writes:
"On the occasion of the Amiga und Retro Messe in Aachen, E3B and KDH
would like to thank the owners of the USB card HIGHWAY. With your
purchase you have been supporting an innovative product on the Amiga Classic.
As a small thankyou we are offering the owners of the HIGHWAY card the chance
to win a NORWAY Ethernet card. At the Amiga und Retro Messe on 07/08
December in Aachen we will draw a winner on both show days.
Prerequisite for the participation in the prize drawing is that the
registration card for the USB HIGWAY card has been filled out, sent in and has
been received by us. All registration cards received by us until 6th December
2002 are eligible.
All decisions are final. The draw will be carried out by KDH Datentechnik and E3B." (sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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ARC 2002 News: KDH Datentechnik show news
KDH Datentechnik write:
"KDH Datentechnik will be present at this year's Amiga und Retro Messe
in Aachen with a sales and demo booth.
E3B will be presenting the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY, as well
as the Ethernet module NORWAY live at our booth, and give you a survey
over which USB devices you are able to use on your Classic Amiga. The newest
POSEIDON Software (THE Amiga USB software standard by Chris Hodges)
will naturally also be present, and will be included as a full version with the
products HIGHWAY and SUBWAY.
Experience how the USB cards SUBWAY and HIGHWAY connect your Classic Amiga with
the newest developments on the computer market. Furthermore we are offering you
to try out your USB devices directly on our USB boards and have all open
questions answered by the USB cards' developer, Michael Böhmer.
Of course we will be offering attractive bundles of all USB boards with other
USB products for purchase at our booth.
Further Demo and sales highlights at the KDH booth:
The Amiga One will be presented by our Austrian partner 'Point Design'
Jürgen Schober, who will also gladly answer all questions regarding the AmigaOne.
Pegasos boards will be available in sufficient quantities for sale (this
joyous piece of news was received from Bill Buck of Thendic France
just in time for the show). All Pegasos boards will be delivered and sold by
KDH with the SE version of the new game 'Tales of Tamar'. The full
version of 'Tales of Tamar' will also be offered at our sales booth, and can be
viewed in full action at Eternity's booth.
All products by individual Computers will be available from us.
Especially noteworthy are above all the new 'Catweasel Flipper' and the
new 'X-Surf-2' Ethernet card.
Apart from all that we are offering the complete Amiga product pallette at
attractive show prices, including an antiquarian department.
As we also have MAC products in our product line, we will also offer a
wide range of MAC software at fantastic show prices.
Come to Aachen for the meeting of all friends of the Amiga, show your support
for the Amiga. Get to know likeminded Amiga friends, or meet old acquaintances
and talk shop about your favourite hobby, the Amiga. We will do our best to
make the event a success for the Amiga. Please help with your visit.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Yours
Horbach family
KDH Datentechnik"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Vector tracer: GUI for autotrace completed
Carsten Siegner writes:
"Today I have completed the 'Final GUI' for autotracer.
Autotracer is a very fast vector tracer for 68k (faster than XTrace!!) and
knows lots of different input and output formats:"
Input formats (a.o.):
AVI Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap image
EPDF Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript
GIF CompuServe graphics interchange format
HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (http://)
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
MPEG MPEG Video Stream
PCL Page Control Language
PDF Portable Document Format
PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNM Portable anymap
PPM Portable pixmap format (color)
PS3 Adobe Level III PostScript
RLA Alias/Wavefront image
SGI Irix RGB image
SHTML Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
SVG Scalable Vector Gaphics
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
YUV CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2
Output formats (a.o.):
eps Encapsulated PostScript
ai Adobe Illustrator
svg Scalable Vector Graphics
fig XFIG 3.2
swf Shockwave Flash 3
mif FrameMaker MIF format
pdf PDF format
dr2d IFF DR2D format
"As autotrace can do pdf, ai or dr2d, it's excellently usable for Pagestream,
Drawstudio or Apdf.
However, you need a certain degree of understanding of tracing settings for the
use of 'Vectormaker', as there are loads of options.
I have made it available for download on my home page."
Download: Vectormaker.lzx
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01.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC 2002: DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen sponsored by Thendic&BPlan
Press announcement re ARC 2002:
"The DJK/VFL Giesenkirchen's football team, which is sponsored by Thendic
and BPlan, will attend the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING on Sunday, 8th December
2002. We are wishing the team the best of luck for the match against the TuS
Wickrath, which will take place on 7th December."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New prize draw
Andreas Magerl writes:
"As of today, a new prize draw is online on the Amiga Future home page.
In order to win the full version of EaSys, you only have to send in your charts
to the editors.
http://www.amigafuture.de/interactive/verlosung.php"
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
freecd (E-Mail)
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freeCD: Almost Real, Digital Postcard System, Racer
With 'Almost Real - The Directors Cut' (Amiga), a new CD has been released in
the freeCD series. The 'Digital Postcard System' (WWW) allows deferred sending
of holiday cards, and the CD 'Racer' (Linux, Mac, Windows) is announced for
February 2003. In case of enough interest, a port of this car simulation to
Amiga systems is possible.
Almost Real - The Directors Cut (Amiga)
This CD contains flight simulations and further material on the theme of
flying. In this version, the flight simulation 'flightcontrol' has been added.
Additionally there are now paper models of various military aircraft as well as
photos of the Airbus A320 and the Ju52.
Digital Postcard System (WWW)
This system allows to write the holiday cards already before leaving and later
have them sent automatically by the computer.
Photos of Argentine, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, animals, general
places as well as greeting cards are included.
Furthermore, own photos may be uploaded.
Racer (Linux, Mac, Windows)
'Racer' is a simulation for cars, which very accurately simulates different
cars from the domains classics, race cars and street cars. The cars can be
tested on tracks like Indianapolis and Le Mans.
Expected release date for this CD is February 2003 for Linux, Mac and Windows.
AmigaOS and MorphOS developers interested in a conversion are welcome and may
contact freeCD.
Further information on the products as well as supply sources are accessible
through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Dec.2002
AmiATLAS Development Team (E-Mail)
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Route planner: AmiATLAS 6 - new version for ARC 2002
The AmiATLAS Development Team writes:
"A new version of AmiATLAS 6 will be released for the Aachen show!
Although over the last months most of the remaining Amiga users have been very
reserved in their purchase behaviour, probably not least of all hoping for new
hardware, work on AmiATLAS 6 has been going on continuously...
For the show, a new edition will be released with fully updated (as per 4th
quarter 2002) and expanded data stock. Now, among other things, with the most
current touristic information and some more, like infos about number plates of
all supported countries.
That's an increase of about 200%, compared to the old version!
Not forgetting the updated map material, e.g. Germany now with the complete
Autobahn network with all clearances until end of 2002!
In the program itself, lots of reported bugs have been fixed and some
optimisations implemented, and of course, as far as possible, some users'
wishes realised. Supported languages now are German, English, French and
Italian.
The new version of AmiATLAS 6 including new improved cover design has already
been shipped in sufficient quantities to KDH Datentechnik and IOSPIRIT for sale
at the show. APC & TCP will also have some copies.
Due to organisational reasons, updates can only be shipped shortly after the
show. And of course, as always, only to registered users of AmiATLAS 6.
Please mail requests or wishes to:
AmiATLAS@gmx.net"
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30.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark is finally back ...
Good news all. The VHT-DK website is ready and will be up in about 3 hours.
All the pages has been updated, and are ready to be used. Nice to be back and
do some antivirus work. Please all send me any new viruses or trojan that you
might fall over. Thanks for your great support in the last few months!!!!
And another great thing has happend to VHT. After almost 15 years of fighting and
hunting virus the Virus Help Team has finally been nominated for our work at the
"Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees". Please all go and vote for VHT, it would
be nice if VHT could get this award.
The link is: amiga-award.org
Thanks all....
(ps)
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30.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Hollywood Screenshots - JP Credits & Senso
Today I have published screenshots that show a remake of the Jurassic Park
credits done with Hollywood and a game called Senso (a software version of the
popular board game Senso). The screenshots show again the extremely wide
ranged functionality of Hollywood: You can do everything from the simple
credits roll to the complete game. The only limit is your creativity. (ps)
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30.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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RiscPC: New computers for the Acorn fans
The one or the other perhaps remembers the RiscPCs based on ARM/StrongARM processors built by the Acorn company.
The manufacturer changed some years ago its name to Element 14 and abandonned the further develoment of its desktop computers. The rights for the operating system "RiscOS" now belong to the company
RiscOS Ltd.
RiscOS compatible computers are produced by smaller independant British manufacturers like Castle or MicroDigital.
As OSNews
report, is on the "Midlands RISC OS Show" the iyonix PC sold for the first time; priced at 1299,- UKP it offers the following features:
- Totally new motherboard design
- 80321 XScale 32-bit ARM processor. This processor runs at 600MHz and is a system-on-a-chip, containing all the necessary interface electronics for things like PCI under the hood.
- RISC OS 5 in FlashROM (Rewritten for 32 bit, equivalent to RISC OS 4.02 with added fun including updated font manager with unicode support and new icon set too)
- 128MB 64-bit DDR RAM for high speed access at 200MHz
- UDMA 80GB Hard Drive
- Support for industry standard interfaces:
- 2 64-bit PCI slots, 2 32-bit PCI slots
- 4 USB 1.1 sockets
- 2 RS232 serial ports
- 10/10/1000baseT networking port
- Dedicated high performance graphics card, nVidia GeForce2 MX400 (up to 2048x1536 in 16 million colours)
- CD quality 16-bit Soundblaster support
- CD-ReWriter (48x speed)
- 240 Watt PSU with two near-silent fans
- Wide range of bundled 32-bit software: Writer+ (word processor with enhanced Word import and export), Fireworkz (spreadsheet with Excel import and export), Oregano 2 (web browser), Messenger Lite (email client), PDF (for reading PDF files), Zool (game), CDBurn (CD writer). Also, USB printing support.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
JTs Homepage
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Spiel: ADOM version 1.1.1 for Amiga and Windows
On the website of Jochen Terstiege you can find Amiga ports
of the game ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) for the different
68k processor types, for PPC and also for Windows (beta) in version 1.1.1.
The game has been developed by Thomas Biskup. Further information can be found following the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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ARC 2002 News: Amiga Award 2002
Large acts must be celebrated on a grand scale. As of December 2002 the
German print magazin AMIGAplus and varyingly partners are assigning the
annual Amiga Award. With this price elected representatives of the
Amiga-community are awarded for special achievements during the last
12 months at a time.
The laureates of the Amiga Award 2002 will be honored at the AMIGA +
Retro Computing in Aachen, Germany, on 7 December 2002.
Take part in the elections!
Express your Thanks with us to all Amiga developers out there once in a year!
The elections will be put together by one third of these parties: Firstly you as an active or inactive Amiga user, secondly selected representatives of the community and thirdly the editorial staff of AMIGAplus. So you have the opportunity to take part in the appointment of the Amiga Award 2002 laureates!
Among all participants of the election we draw prices in the value of over 1000 Euro, among them one Amiga 1200/060 sponsored by eXpreSystems as well as various games and applications. The winners among the users will be announced on December 20th, 2002.
Participation conclusion is December 6th, 2002, at 15:00 CET. The course of law is excluded as always.
Amiga Award 2002 - Nominees
Please specify a candidate, who (from your point of view) distinguished himself by an innovative product or another special achievement in the year 2002 and who pushed the Amiga one step forward by this action.
The award in this category is sponsored by falkemedia.
AudioLabs (ProStationAudio)
- bplan GmbH (Pegasos)
- Bernd Meyer & Harald Frank (Amithlon)
- E3B - Michael Böhmer (Highway)
- Eternity Computer (Tales of Tamar)
- Eyetech (AmigaOne)
- Grasshopper LLC (PageStream)
- Hyperion Entertainment (Freespace u.a.)
- IOSPIRIT (fxSCAN u.a.)
- ZeoNeo (Planet Zed)
Amiga Award 2002 Extra - Nominees
Additionally to the main category Amiga Award we are assigning the alternating Amiga Award Extra. This year a person or group representing the software developer community (shareware/freeware) shall be honored.
The award in this category is endowed by 250,- Euro and realized in this year by the financial support of Genesi, a fusion of Thendic-France S.A.R.L. and bPlan GmbH.
- AmiATLAS-Team (AmiATLAS)
- AWeb-Team (AWeb)
- Chris Hodges (Poseidon)
- Gabriele Greco (SDL)
- ScummVM-Team (ScummVM)
- SixK (diverse Portierungen)
- VHT-DK-Team (Anti-Viren-Software)
- WHDLoad-Team (WHDLoad)
- WinUAE-Team (WinUAE)
- YAM-Team (YAM)
Amiga Award 2002 - Free elections
- Best Amiga hardware 2002
- Best Amiga software 2002
- Best Amiga game 2002
(ps)
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30.Nov.2002
ANN
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TTEngine 5.2 released
TTEngine is a text rendering environment basing on TrueType Font for
AmigaOS. The version 5.2 can be downloaded from the homepage of TTEngine. The new version has the following new features:
- Fixed UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE encodings, now byte order mark ($0000FEFF) is skipped properly.
- Added low endian (UTF-16LE and UTF-32LE) and auto detect (UTF-16 and UTF-32) Unicode encodings.
- Added UTF-8 encoding (conforming to RFC 2279).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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30.Nov.2002
Petra Struck
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ARC 2002 News: AmigaOne will be shown
After it was clear that neither Amiga Inc., nor Eyetech and Hyperion
Entertainment will present the new AmigaOne at the AMIGA + RETRO
COMPUTING 2002, we started thinking about how to get an AmigaOne to
the show anyway.
The solution is an offer from Computer City.
Owner Ron van Herk provides his own AmigaOne, and the members of the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet
will do the presentation.
The computer on display is an AmigaOneSE-G3 with 750CXe 600 MHz CPU,
equipped with 128 MB SDRAM PC133 and an ATI Radeion 7000 64 MB SDR
VGA graphics card with TV-Out, and of course the Cherry
Cybo@rd-keyboard that's being sold by Computer City. The operating
system installed is only a Suse LinuxPPC 7.3, but it'll give an
impression of the hardware. (ps)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Unofficial G-REX PCI homepage
There is a new website to the topic "G-REX PCI" which you can access under the title link.
You will be informed about products and software and there is also a
discussion board and a mailing list.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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First picture of ColdFire V4 CPU-card for Amiga
There is a picture of a very early prototype of a ColdFire V4 turbo card for the Amiga 4000
in the news section of amiga-coldfire.de (title link).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
KDH News (ANF)
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KDH Advent calendar 2002
This year there is the annual Advent calendar at "KDH Datentechnik" again. We will offer you each day
until 24th December 2002 a very special Advent offer. You can daily expect a special Amiga highlight.
All offers will be valid for three days.
We wish you a good Advent time and hope many visitors will come to the Amiga fair in Aachen to our
stand.
Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
(ANF)
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Homepage for demofreaks
For those ones who like current demos, intros, diskmags, slideshows and packs there is a new homepage
where you can easily look for current releases. The site has been created in the Amiga BBS-software Fame
design but novices will also get on well with it after a short time.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: fxPAINT V2.0 demo galleries
Due to numerous requests, we have decided to put online two
demo galleries created with fxPAINT 2.0. The
first gallery
uses the dropshadow-skin and slideshow- and fxCARD-options were
activated. A second gallery
has been created without the use of skins. We hope you enjoy the two demos!
fxPAINT 2.0 can only be preordered until 9th of December 2002 at a reduced
price of only 79,00 EUR (89,99 EUR previously).
(ps)
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29.Nov.2002
Patrick Jung (ANF)
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Amigabest Updated
Amigabest, the website on which Patrick Jung kept busy with Amithlon, has
been updated and refurbished with new graphics and Amiga news. The
website is available in French and in English. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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