18.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Test Deathbed DVD
On the Amiga Future website today was released an English review from the
DVD "The Deathbed Vigil and other Tales of Digital Angst".
(ps)
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17.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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News from Merlancia (Update)
Update 22.12.2002:
I have completely removed the text and corresponding links of this report,
because it became clear through telephone calls and emails that it was not
[fully] about a news matter, but about a private conflict that has no
business being publically aired.
(ps)
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17.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus
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GoldED Studio AIX: Service Pack 6 with PGP function
Dietmar Eilert has released Service Pack 6 for GoldED for registered users. Also Phil Zimmermanns "Pretty Good Privacy 5.0
International" has been integrated as Add-On in GoldED.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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17.Dec.2002
Patrick Jung (ANF)
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All of Amithlon
New zone of downloading for Amithlon. The whole of the utilities
concerning Amiga x86 on the site of Amigabest.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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17.Dec.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomie: Digital Almanac III V5.0 available
After months of development the new version of the astronomy program Digital Almanac III has been finished.
In the moment only the German version is available. Because of the enormous amount of data the new version is only on CD-ROM available.
About 30 MB of new data has been added. The sidegrade price for registered users will be 10 EUR.
Some CD-ROMs of V5.0 have been delivered, but without German documentation. This can be downloaded from the homepage.
The English version will be delivered later, because the documentation will be finished soon.
New features:
- Leaner program
- New clear GUI layout
- Integration of Tyco-2 and GSC-2 star catalogue via Internet
- "Digitized Sky Survey"
- More online information from different object classes available
- Integration of Hertzsprung-Russell-diagram for spectralanalysis of stars
- Integration of the Hipparchos star catalogue as cross index
- Integration of the "Virtual Moon Atlas" (25 MB data)
- Integration of the Jupiter satellites J6-J13
- and many more...
This is the last version of DA III. It is based upon OS3.9 and needs a gfx-board and a lot of RAM. AGA will not be supported any more.
The last version for smaller Amigas and AGA users is V4.8.
All Amiga CPUs from 68020/FPU up to 68060 and PPC are supported. It also runs with WinUAE, AmigaXL and Amithlon.
Have fun with the new version
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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16.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel Software Updates
The Windows drivers for the PC-versions of the Catweasel controller
(ISA and the new MK3 PCI/Flipper versions) have been updated. The
most important change is the support for C64-disks, minor bugs have
been fixed in the diskimage-tool. The new combination of programs
also breaks a small record: A C64-disk is read completely in slightly
more than 9 seconds. The archive also contains some textfiles for
programmers who want to take advantage of the interfaces or the
SID of the controller.
Download: cw_win_pci.zip (115 KB)
The Linux drivers have also been adapted to the MK3 PCI/Flipper version.
Closer information about this can be found on
Michael 'Rawstyle' Krause's website.
Tim Mann has also adapted his cw2dmk tool to the new controller.
DMK is a file format used by TRS-80 emulator programs. Find out
more here.
(ps)
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16.Dec.2002
Timo Kloss (ANF)
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New audio tool: RecRepair
RecRepair is a hd-based audio processing program, which was developed
to remove interferences manually from recordings. It is probably the fastest and simplest program for this
purpose. RecRepair is Freeware.
Prerequisites:
- AmigaOS 2.0
- AHI 4
- 2 MB RAM
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Games Edition 2002 available
Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002 available
After the CD "Amiga Arena - Games Edition 2002" was presented for the
first time at the "AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002", it is now available.
The game will be distributed by "Fun Time World" for only 10,- EUR +
shipment.
Selling and sales:
Fun Time World c/o Sebastian Brylka
Belforter Str. 75
45884 Gelsenkirchen
Tel.: 0172/828893
E-Mail - WWW
Additional information is available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Test "Der Reeder"
Today a test report of "Der Reeder" was published on the Amiga Future homepage in the article area (see title link). Thanks to
Stefan Juhas for the article.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Dec.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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VHI Studio 6.0 available
While VHI Studio 6.0 already was available at the Amiga+Retro Computing 2002, it is now also regularly available as download- and package-version. Furthermore, you can now order an update from version 4.x/5.x and VLRec (NG).
New features since the last version include support for AmithlonTV by Guido Mersmann and a filesystem-driver specialised in USB-cardreaders (under Poseidon).
Customers buying version 6.0 will get free access to all future 6.x versions via Internet.
(ps)
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15.Dec.2002
Martin Kuchinka's home page
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PowerD: XVS module
On 15th December 2002, Michel Bagmeijer has released the developers kit for the
xvs.library for the programming language 'PowerD'.
Furthermore, the 'dmod_ahi.readme' has been corrected. Michel Bagmeijer had
been forgotten in the credits.
Download: dmod_xvs.lzx (3K),
Readme (sd) (Translation: cb)
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15.Dec.2002
Heise (ANF)
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CT: AmigaOne, Pegasos and C-One in C't processor whisperings
In the C't prozessor whisperings of the current C't issue 26/2002 there are a
couple of lines each about the
AmigaOne, Pegasos and C-One.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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15.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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ARC2002: Thank you to all visitors and exhibitors
Jens Schönfeld writes:
"The show is over, but the work continues, which proves the success of
the event. The fair team of individual Computers says thank you to all
visitors and exhibitors who made the last weekend so successful.
Many pictures have already been published on the Amiga news sites, a
complete coverage of the fair will be
published in the next issue of the German
Amiga-Magazin.
Our congratulations go to bplan GmbH and Chris Hodges, who received
the Amiga Award 2002 for their Pegasos mainboard, and the Poseidon USB stack,
respectively. We're looking forward to seeing everyone again at the next event of
this kind!"
(sd)
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15.Dec.2002
MorphOS-News.de
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WWW: Privoxy V3.0.0 for MorphOS
Jörg Strohmayer has released version 3.0.0 of his MorphOS port of the WWW proxy
'Privoxy'.
This is a multiuser proxy with extended filter features to protect your own
private sphere, filter Web contents, manage cookies, control access and
filter out adverts, banners, pop-ups and other unwanted contents.
As this is Jörg Strohmayer's first program for MorphOS/PPC, and he has no
developers documentation about MorphOS, and the public MorphOS GCC archives are
incomplete (parts of libnix are missing), he is asking to send bug reports directly to him by eMail
(joergs+mn@expires-2002-12-31.nexgo.de)
and not use the bug tracker at Sourceforge, except if the bug is also present in
the AmigaOS/m68k port.
Download: privoxy-3.0.0-mos.lha (497K)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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15.Dec.2002
GFX-BASE
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Game: Payback for Windows/Linux - Status report #2
On 15th December 2002, James Daniels (Apex Design) has published the second
status report about the Windows/Linux versions of his GTA like game 'Payback',
which had first appeared for Amiga computers.
Work on the software and hardware renderers has been completed -
including full scene antialiasing and support for higher resolutions in hardware mode. Screenshots have been published on above Web site.
Next up in development are refinements as well as new features like LAN
support.
The full report is accessible through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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15.Dec.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Full version - Scorched Tanks V1.90
With permission from the artillery game Scorched Tanks' developer Michael Welch
(Ex Dark Unicorn Productions member), Amiga Arena releases the full version of
'Scorched Tanks V1.90' for free download.
Olaf Köbnik writes:
'Special thanks go to Markus "Commonaut" Rink, who made this full version
possible and provided it to Amiga Arena.'
The game can be found on the Amiga Arena-Website under 'Vollversionen/Amiga Arena Games'.
Download: STanks.lha (490K)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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15.Dec.2002
(ANF)
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Hardware: IBMs PowerPC 970 & Mai Logic Northbridges
In the December PowerPC newsletter, IBM has announced some news about the PowerPC 970.
According to it, the 'Power4' Server CPU's desktop descendant is to come with a vector unit which is compatible to Motorola's PowerPC 74xx's (PowerPC G4) AltiVec unit.
Among further features of the up to 1.8 GHz clockable Power PC 970 is the up to 900MHz fast processor interface which facilitates transfer rates of up to 6.4 GByte to the Northbridge.
Furthermore, the 64bit PowerPC 970 is said to also execute 32bit applications on the same performance level and in native mode.
32bit operating systems should be able to utilise the full performance of the PowerPC 970 CPU's 32bit mode with only small updates.
The first samples should be shipped to developers in the 2nd quarter of 2003.
Articia Northbridges:
The Articia-Northbridge's next generations are to be shipped to developers in the 1st quarter of 2003 (the 'Articia S' used in AmigaOne and Pegasos has been listed for comparison):
Articia S : 133 MHz Prozessorbus, 133 MHz SDRam, 2xAGP, 32-Bit PCI
Articia Sa: 166 MHz Prozessorbus, 333 MHz DDR-SDRam, 2xAGP, 64-Bit PCIX
Articia P: 166 MHz Prozessorbus, 333 MHz DDR-SDRam, 4xAGP, 64-Bit PCIX
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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15.Dec.2002
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)
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Paint program: PerfectPaint V2.9
On 15th December 2002, Halvadjian Georges has released version 2.9 of the paint
program 'PerfectPaint'. Changes compared to the previous version as follows:
- New paint effect: TV-Lace including ARexx command.
- Improved text functions:
- PerfectPaint now supports TrueType character sets with the help of ttengine.library.
- Two new buttons:
- 'Select Character': Useful for Dingbats character sets (symbols).
- 'Font-Path-History'
- The Requester menu has two additional entries: 'Upper text' and 'Lower text'
- Small update of 'Lensflare' script.
- New, asynchroneous window: Undo/Redo. With this you can jump from one step of a picture to another.
- Some bug fixes.
- 'Size Presets' have been added to 'New' and 'Scale page' requesters.
- AutoCrop (including 'crop' requester).
- PerfectPaint automatically recognises:
- PGM pictures and loads these.
- Postscript (PS) and PDF files and tries to load them with the help of GhostScript (Postscript/PDF viewer).
- Improved text effect 'Azzaro'.
- Two new text effects: 'Water' and 'River'.
- Imporved window history.
- Bug fix in connection with the Picbrush tool and very large pictures.
- 5 new tooltypes:
- SCREEN_ID
- SCREEN_WIDTH
- SCREEN_HEIGHT
- SCREEN_DEPTH
On some computers the startup or screenmode requesters isn't opened for unknown reasons.
With this you can still apply your settings.
- CYBERGRAPHX: Forces PerfectPaint to recognise CybergraphX.
- Border&Edge limited to 24bit pictures.
- Improved 'Compose' requester.
- New entry in Picture menu: 'Crop & Paste'.
- Improved 'Adjust levels', now with adjustable tolerance.
PerfectPaint runs from 68030 + FPU, AmigaOS V3.0, Gfx card (Cybergraphx from V41 R71 or Picasso96)
and requires the following libraries: Render.library, Jpeg.library, XPKmaster.library,
AsyncIO.library as well as ttengine.library.
Download links for these libraries are available through the title link on the program's home page.
Download: PfPaint_V29.lha
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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14.Dec.2002
VHT / Jan & Charlene
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Antivirus program: Mill version 0.81
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski has just released a new update of his new
antivirus program "Mill". Here is some info about the new update:
- Name: Mill
- Version: 0.81
- Archive name: Mill.lha
- Archive size: 203.004 bytes (lha packed)
- Release date: 15. December 2002
- Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - zeeball@interia.pl
- Requires: OS37+, asl38+, locale, xvs, xfd, xad etc.
You can find the new update at Virus Help Team's websites:
Canada: http://vht-can.shadow-realm.org/
Denmark: http://www.vht-dk.dk (ps)
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14.Dec.2002
Maxworld
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Financial tool: HomeBank version 2.1 (beta)
The financial tool HomeBank has been released on December, 2nd 2002 in version 2.1.
The new public release of your Amiga favourite financial tool!! This is a
minor update to fix some little (but annoying) problems and with adding
of little features. As usual see the changes file for a complete
description of changes.
Download: HomeBank21beta.lha
(ps)
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14.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: new poll & poll results
On the homepage of the Amiga Future have today the results of the latest poll been released (Will you visit the fair?). Right now there's a poll running asking for your favourite browser. The poll will be closed soon. It would be great if as many users as possible would participate.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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