13.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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TTEngine 5.0 released
TTEngine is the TrueType font based text rendering engine for AmigaOS.
Version 5.0 can be downloaded from the home page
of TTEngine. New version has some interesting features.
- Two new functions: TT_GetPixmap() and TT_FreePixmap() for text pixelmap
extraction. Pixelmap is 8 bit per pixel, 256 gray levels. Then the pixmap
may be further processed. Useful for e.g. painting and image processing
software.
- Antialiasing is now based on pixel luminance and hue (RGB correction is
applied as well). Gives even better text quality especially on contrasting
background (e.g. red text on green).
- New text styles: underline, double underline, overstrike, double overstrike.
- Fixed bugs in JAM2, INVERSVID and COMPLEMENT draw modes.
- Colours of text can be now specified directly as RGB via TT_Foreground
and TT_Background tags.
As always some bugs have been fixed. Check "release_notes" file in the
distribution archive for the full list of changes.
(ps)
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13.Nov.2002
Steffen Häuser (ANF)
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Game: New settings for Bots Quake2-Mods
It's happend to be that the new "Battle of the Sexes" mod, which is at the Amiga
Quake2 site downloadable is incompatible if run with the default settings. At the Amiga Quake2 site I made a new QuakeII.info (Bots.info) downloadable which contains slightly modificated settings and works with Bots also.
The not yet released "Blastchamber" mod
and several other modules not yet released, might have this problem.
So better use the new icon file.
With the basic game Quake2 and most other mods the default settings will
work as well. Only some mods like Bots were hit by that problem and for these the new file solves the problem.
Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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13.Nov.2002
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Matay: Prometheus RTL8029 driver update
V1.3 of prm-rtl8029.device (a driver for Ethernet cards) is available for
download here.
It will also be available soon at Matay website. (ps)
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13.Nov.2002
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Sharp announces new Zaurus models
Like Infosync (see title link) reports, Sharp announces two new Zaurus
models. The SL 5600 (B500 in Japan) for the USA and Japan and the
C700 for Japan only. There is nothing said about an availability in Germany.
The model SL 5600 is a further developed SL5500. A comparisation of the technical dates is to obtain from
linux devices.
The SL5600 contains with the XScale 400 MHz a faster processor,
a stronger accu and an updated software suite (e. g.
newer Linux kernel, Opera6). Furthermore the SL 5600 has a lot more (64 MB instead of 16 MB) Flash memory than the SL 5500. This will be used now with the SL 5600 for installing additional programs and to save data. So programs and data won't be lost even the accu runs empty.
The original press announcement by Sharp about the SL 5600 is to get
here.
This even shows that the Jeode Java System by Insignia will be used and not the Java implementation of he Amiga partner TAO.
At Golem there is the article
reworked Linux-PDA Sharp Zaurus introduced in the USA to read.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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12.Nov.2002
AmiSpaTra
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Australia: Synapse Computer closes - many special offers
The Australian trader Synapse Computer closes after ten years at
30th November 2002 its shop and has created a list with Amiga software
offered at special prices.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Nov.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 11.11.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were
originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been
added or updated since our last message:
- 11.11.02 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) more stable, support for EZMouse
- 11.11.02 improved: Mig-29 Soviet Fighter (Code Masters/Rapier Design) small fixes, supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Midwinter 2 (Maelstrom Games) supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
- 11.11.02 improved: Campaign 2 (Empire) supports another version
- 11.11.02 new: Blazing Thunder (Hi-Tec Software) done by Galahad
- 07.11.02 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) supports another version
- 07.11.02 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) miscellaneous changes
- 07.11.02 improved: Midwinter 2 (Maelstrom Games) supports German version
- 07.11.02 improved: Campaign 2 (Empire) supports another version
- 05.11.02 improved: Monkey Island 2 (Lucasfilms Games) miscellaneous changes
(ps)
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12.Nov.2002
OSNews.com
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ExtremeTech: Interview with Bill McEwen
Under the ExtremeTech title "Amiga`s Grand Plans Revealed" you will find an interview with Bill McEwen, talking about the future plans of Amiga Inc.
In the interview Bill McEwen mentions that AmigaOS 4 for PPC will be finished in three weeks - the single components are ready have to be fit together.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Nov.2002
Steffen Haeuser (ANF)
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Amiga Quake2 Page with new design
The Amiga Quake2 page has a new design, thanks to Tristan Mangold. To consecrate the new page two new mods are released on it:
Annihilation Q2 - a deathmatch mod with many weapons
HolyWars Q" - chase the one with the halo!
Have fun!
Steffen Häuser
Hyperion Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Nov.2002
Faces of Mars (ANF)
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freeCD: Amiga Fonts
Amiga Fonts contains about 700 fonts in TrueType- and CompuGraphics format.
The fonts are sorted by name and a special drawer with SciFi fonts is integrated. The CD can be ordered on the FOM site and will cost 3 Euro.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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11.Nov.2002
Digital Almanac Homepage
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Astronomy: Modifications in Digital Almanac III
Achim Stegemann writes:
In order to keep the program slim, I decided to cut off some very old stuff. In this
case the support of the graphics format IFF-RGFX will be stopped. IFF-RGFX is an
alternative graphic format to IFF-ILBM, which was originaly developed by Andreas
Kleinert and carried by me.
While IFF-ILBM only archieves a weak image compression, IFF-RGFX offers by the use
of the XPK modular compression rates for the encoding. Unfortunately this format was
never assumed by the Amigans. I do not know any other program, which supports RGFX
except SuperView and Digital Almanac. Therefore I threw it now of the program. RGFX
was replaced by the portable PNG format, which is supported already for some time in
DA III.
Moreover I am developing a new concept for the program documentation. Instead of
using connected HTML files as before, which can be read then in an external Browser.
From now on a program assistance will appear within DA III. Each window therefore
possesses its own description, which in an extra assistance window is displayed.
Thus storage space is saved and an update of the documentation is likewise simpler
than so far. The release of the new DA III version 4.9 are to be expected in December
2002!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Antivirus software: xvs.library Version 33.39
Georg Hoermann has just released a new update of the xvs.library.
Remember this library is very important for all the major antivirus
programs, because they all use this library to get recog. for viruses.
Here is some info about the new update:
Name: External Virus Scanner Library
Version: v33.39
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 91.362 bytes (lha packed)
Release date: 11 November 2002
Programmer: Georg Hörmann - ghoermann@gmx.de
News: xvs.library 33.39 (size: 61.196 bytes)
- Added size check to bootblock virus recognition in xvsCheckFile().
Any files bigger than 2048 bytes will no longer be tested for
bootblock viruses to avoid fake recognitions inside disk-images.
- Finally fixed the last MuForce hit ($c0.w) in xvsSurveyMemory().
Thanks to Sensei again for the report and Zeeball for further
suggestions on this topic.
- Fixed severe bug in 'Illegal Access' recognition code that caused
crashes on any files with virus-like hunklengths. Thanks to
Zeeball for the report and the example files.
- Added 'NoName (196 Bytes)' linkvirus and 'XFD Infiltrator' virus.
Thanks to Zeeball for sending them.
- Fixed problems with native MorphOS applications that directly call
xvs.library functions. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the report and
for further help.
- Implemented custom Disable() function that prevents loss of data
on the serial port during xvsSurveyMemory() calls. Thanks to
Christian of CAPS (www.caps-project.org) for the report and the
excessive beta-testing!
- xvsSurveyMemory() now closes TCP ports opened by several viruses.
These currently are: 1666, 2000, 2001, 2227, 2333, 2421, 2551,
4097 and 9876. Please note that closing an open port doesn't cause
a virus report, it just happens!
- Once again improved the internal security stuff for less timing
problems with sensitive software (serial.device still has trouble
with 115200 baud on a MC68030, use 8n1.device instead!).
- Added 'Neurotic Death' viruses (6 versions) to xvsSurveyMemory()
and the installer files to xvsCheckFile().
- Added new developer files created by Dirk Stöcker. Thanks a lot
and sorry that I forgot to add them to the last release.
- Added installer script written by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks
a lot for this contribution.
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11.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Emulator: WinUAE v0.8.22r2 announced
Amiga plus writes:
The Windows based Amiga emulator WinUAE is to appear in the coming week
in the version 0.8.22r2. Additional information can be found at the
title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark online again
Jan Andersen writes:
Hi all.....
It has been some time now, I have been moving and I have had
no Internet connection. But just to inform you all that I'm alive and
still kicking....
I got an email from Charlene, that she had a hard disk crach. So I
have desided to make an emergency Virus Help page, where users
can get the latest antivirus programs. I'll do the uploading from my
work computer (my boss does not mind) :-)
Okay, so the Virus Help Denmark page in up and running at a small
size, but all the latest Antivirus programs are on it. And only Amiga
stuff is for download.
The complete Virus Help Denmark website will be up on the 1'th of
December 2002. Then I get my ADSL connection back.
I know that this has been as much a problem for you, as it has been
for me. But this was out of my hands !!!!
My new email is: vht-dk@mail.dk
VHT-Denmark: www.vht-dk.dk
I hope to hear from you all soon.....
Kind Regards
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
vht-dk@mail.dk
www.vht-dk.dk
(ps)
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11.Nov.2002
z5 (ANF)
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A.D.A. celebrates 1 year online with 10 new demos
One year ago, Amiga Demoscene Archive appeared online with 123 demos and
about 900 screenshots. One year later, we have updated the database to
234 demos and 2142 screenshots.
On the newest update, which was the biggest update we ever did, 10 high
quality Amiga demos were added:
9 fingers/Spaceballs, Authentik/Skarla, Crash test/Cryptoburners, Dust
addict/Fiction, Guardian Dragon 2/Kefrens, It can't be done/Ram Jam,
Mosaic/Exceed, System crime/Scoopex, Xpose/The Silents and
Omnirush/Mystic. Enjoy!
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11.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Flash: Swfplayer V1.2c (07-Nov-2002)
Alexandre Balaban published the version 1.2c of the independently running Shockwave Player 'Swfplayer' in the Aminet. The Player is based on libflash for Linux by Olivier Debon. In this version the PPC support (WarpOS) was added. In detail in relation to the previous version the following changed:
- New: Loop-Play-Option.
- New: PPC-version for WarpOS (WOS)
- Changed: improved Makefiles
The Player supports Flash files up to version 4 and some Flash 5 features. It runs on 68040+ or PPC and needs AGA (thus also on graphic cards). Further information can be found in the Readme of the program as well as notes about well-known problems.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with Strips 204-207
On 10th November 2002, the German edition of Eric W. Schwartz's cartoon series
'Sabrina Online' has been updated.
The additions are:
- 204 - Straßenraub als Pointe
- 205 - Das Stinktier-Einmaleins
- 206 - Taktvolles Mädchen
- 207 - Angst hat heute Verspätung
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Benchmark: AmiGOD 2 Beta 10.11.2002
On 10th November 2002, Lukas Stehlik has released a new beta version of
'AmiGOD 2'. This is a modular AmigaOS benchmark. Changes as compared to the
previous version:
- The previous archive (AG2 BETA 14.10.2002) was defective.
- Internal module for UAE + GeForce2 Ti.
- Load/Save module in development.
The benchmark runs from AmigaOS 3.0 (AmigaOS 2.0 has not been tested), CPU 68k,
PPC (or PC and UAE or Amithlon resp.), 0.2 MB RAM and the identify.library
(enclosed).
Download: AmiGOD2.lha
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Game: Payback for GBA - Status report #2
On 10th November 2002, James Daniels (Apex Designs) has published the second
status report on the Gameboy Advance version of Payback. Over the last month
the game has been speeded up by about 30% due to optimizations. The full
report, screenshots and further information about Payback are accessible
through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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UAE: Winuae.chm V1.7.1
On 9th November 2002, Peter Hutchison has released Version 1.7.1 of the
Winuae.chm file. This version contains some small updates and additional
information about the Amiga programs enclosed with WinUAE. (sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Martin Kuchinka's home page
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Programming language: PowerD V0.20 Alpha 3, AHI archive
On 10th November 2002, Martin Kuchinka has released version 0.20 alpha 3 of the
programming language 'PowerD'.
Additionally, Philippe van Calsteren has put the developer archive for AHI on the PowerD site. Changes compared to the previous PowerD version are:
- fixed (u)word/(u)byte shifts/rotates under PowerPC
- fixed an old bug in PowerPC support, that made executables about 5%-10% longer!
- added support for functions pointers in variables:
DEF a:() // define the variable as a function pointer (no args here)
a:=&func // assign a function address to the variable
a() // launch the function addressed in variable a
- fixed static lists containing doubles under PowerPC
- added some examples written by Philippe van Calsteren
- basic OOP again started to work :) (see oop.html)
- bugs reported/fixed by Marco Antoniazzi
- shared library support is now working better and safer!
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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10.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Game: Detris V3.2 Beta 6
On 8th November 2002, Daniel Westerberg of OnyxSoft
has released the beta version V3.2 Beta 6 of Tetris clone 'Detris'.
Changes as compared to the previous version:
- Bugfix: Now the highscore should let you enter stuff even if
it's full, given that you are better then the worst that is.
- The auto-resize of the window should work better now.
Detris works from AmigaOS V2.04 with MUI.
Download: detris.lha
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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