11.Dec.2002
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan GmbH thanks for the Amiga Award 2002
At the ARC 2002 the price for the most innovative product and for special effords during the year 2002 was awarded to the bplan GmbH by Nico Barbat from Falke Media Verlag,
publisher of the AMIGAplus. We would like to thank all participants and are georgeously proud of this award.
As a Christmas present you may get the film "Making April" by the following link
http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/gfx/movie/april.mov.
It's 12 MB Qicktime format.
We wish all visitors of our website a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2002
AMIGAplus
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Amiga Award 2002 for the bplan GmbH and Chris Hodges
Important and eventful twelve months have passed the Amiga community. Several new products which will smooth the way for the Amiga saw the light of the world in the year 2002. With the Amiga Award 2002 the Amiga community says, together with the AMIGAplus, "thank you" for these effords!
Amiga Award 2002
During thre AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002 at the 8th of December 2002 the Amiga Award 2002 for the most innovative product of the year 2002 was awarded to the bplan GmbH . The company, situated in Frankfurt/Main, has developed during the last two years the new µATX sized PowerPC mainboard "Pegasos" ready to introduce to the marked.
The Amiga Award 2002 was presented to Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda as deputies for the bplan GmbH by Nico Barbat, editor of the AMIGAplus.
"We would like to thank all participants and are georgeously proud of this award." said Thomas Knäbel, managing director of the bplan GmbH.
Amiga Award 2002 Extra
Beside the main category the 2200 participants voted for the Amiga Award 2002 Extra also.
As a representative for the shareware programmers
Chris Hodges was honoured for the development of his USB stack "Poseidon". This award was remunerated with EUR 250,- and was made possible by the financial encouragement of Genesi.
Amiga Award 2002 - Free votes
The free votes were won by the Pegasos for "Best Amiga hardware 2002", Amithlon for "Best Amiga software 2002" and Tales of Tamar for "Best Amiga game 2002".
Statistics and winnings
All particiapants have the chance to win one of the winnings of a totally worth more than EUR 1000 including an Amiga 1200/060 sponsored by eXpreSystems and some games and applications. The winners will be announced on December the 20th 2002.
The Amiga-Award-Team of falkemedia and the AMIGAplus
is looking forward to the Amiga Award 2003 already and thanks for the good participation and gratulates all winners and nominees for their Amiga encouragement once again!
P.S.: At the website of the Amiga Award 2002 there are photos of the ceremony and the Amiga Award 2002 and additional statistics.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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11.Dec.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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More screen shots of Crossfire II
At the APC&TCP page there were more screen shots from the game Crossfire II published.
With the new screen shots it's even better to see that Crossfire is not a simple
shooter but a game with comlexe missions, much variations and a big
factor of addiction. The game is available at APC&TCP directly. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Dec.2002
Thomas Schulze (ANF)
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Solution of the bug in the CrossfireII version sold on the fair
Even returned from the fair, the first e-mails reached us. Unfortunately in haste to finish the work on Crossfire II still
before the fair an error occured. If you trie to start the program, bought on the fair, after the
installation the error message "... File not executable" appears. In order to solve
this problem, one has to select the menu option "instruction executes" from
the Workbench menu and input in each case one of the following two
lines:
protect <Ihr Crossfire2-Verzeichnis>/CF2 ADD RWED
protect <Ihr Crossfire2-Verzeichnis>/CF2_PPC ADD RWED
We would like to apologize for this error and hope for your
understanding. The update that will probably appear this week will contain this correction as well as MorphOS support
and German translation.
Thanks to all involved and supervisors of the
fair, particularly to Eternity, which exhibited "valley of
Tamar". Next year we will place the coffee. Promised.
Thomas Schulze (Dreamworlds Development)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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08.Dec.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Printer: Epson Stylus Color (24bit) driver V44.02 by Peter Hutchison
On 7th December 2002, Peter Hutchison has updated his home page. The Epson
Stylus Color 24bit driver now has an install script, and the Epson Stylus
Color 200 has been added to the list of printers.
The driver runs on AmigaOS V3.5 and V3.9 from a 68020 and 6MB RAM.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Verschiedene
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ARC 2002: German Reports
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
LouiSe's home
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LouiSe: PHP V4.2.3 (Standalone), CircleMUD V3.1
Already at the beginning of December, LouiSe had released ports of PHP V4.2.3
and CircleMUD V3.1 for 68k Amigas.
PHP V4.2.3:
This is a standalone (without WWW server) version of the script language PHP,
which is used in particular for generating dynamic Web pages.
CircleMUD V3.1:
CircleMUD is a multi user dungeon game
system (MUD) by Jeremy Elson which had originally been developed at the John
Hopkins University's Department of Computer Science and represents a derivative of
DikuMUD Gamma 0.0, which had been developed in 1990 by Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen,
Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Michael Seifert and Sebastian Hammer at the University
of Copenhagen.
MUDs are text based worlds, into which users log in through the Internet to
explore the worlds with an own character and interact with other characters.
More about this on the home page of CircleMUD.
The Amiga archive contains only the binaries - no lib, doc or other files. The
complete archive is available on
ftp://ftp.circlemud.org/.
There are binaries for 68020, 68040 and 68060.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Verschiedene
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ARC 2002: English reports
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
amiga.org
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GUI: MUI-MIAMI panels by Alfonso Ranieri
Alfonso Ranieri has released two new MUI-MIAMI panels for MiamiDX on his home
page.
MUINList.MiamiPanel uses NList and MUI.MiamiPanel uses a Virtgroup for panel
display.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
amiga.org
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GoldED Studio AIX: Service Pack 5, FACE/ON V0.9
Already on 6th December 2002, Dietmar Eilert had released service pack 5 for
his editor package 'GoldED Studio AIX' as well as version 0.9 of the theme
installer 'FACE/ON'.
Service Pack 5:
Service Pack 5
is available to registered users for free download. It is mainly a maintanance
upgrade, yet it also contains some fine tuning of the optics.
Prerequisite for this upgrade is GoldED Studio AIX SP3 or GoldED Barebones SP3.
Older installations can only be updated with the Service Pack CD.
Free versions:
The GoldED demo version available for free
download
has also been updated to Service Pack 5. These versions are restricted to a
text length of 1000 lines - yet the editor itself has no other functional
restrictions. The only things missing are some add-ons such as the gcc compiler
and the spell checker to keep the download size within limits.
FACE/ON V0.9
FACE/ON
is a theme installer for GoldED. With FACE/ON theme previews can be viewed and
the themes as well as alternative menus can be installed
(screenshot).
System requirements contain a gfx card and GoldED Studio AIX SP5 or GoldED
Barebones SP5.
Download: faceon.lzx (30K)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Sylvio k. (ANF)
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Game: DeepSilence Team with new team name and new Soms3d Web site
Because of legal problems, the software development team DeepSilence has
decided to change the team name into 'Anime Development for Amiga', in short
'ADA'.
Additionally, a new team page has been added on which new screenshots of 'Secret of
my soul 3d' have been published. It can be accessed under
http://galileo.spaceports.com/~dssoms.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Heise Newsticker (ANF)
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ARC 2002: Heise announcement re. Amiga show
An announcement of the Heise newsticker re. the ARC 2002 can be found
under the title link. The emphasis of this announcement lies with the Pegasos.
Additionally, the AmigaOne and C-One are mentioned.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Verschiedene
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ARC 2002: More pictures of the show
Pictures by Jens Neubauer (ANF):
Show, T.o.T. knight, Pegasos, Walker, MorphOS plasma.
Pictures by Caghan 'Muaddib' Demirci (AmigaArt):
AmigaOne, Pegasos, MorphOS.
(sd)
Oliver "Bladerunner" Hummel (ANF):
Just now I have uploaded a couple of pictures of the Amiga und Retro Computer
Messe on my site. In case somebody is interested in the fxPaint Web Catalogue
Skin "ARC" to use them for his/her own pictures, please send me a short mail.
P.S.: Oliver has also posted a fairly extensive show report in our Amiga forum
under the thread
"Heute ist es soweit". (ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Petra Struck
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ARC 2002: Pictures of the first day by amiga-news.de
Hilke made a bunch of photos at the ARC 2002. As you can see from the pictures and subtitles, the Pegasos was the
highlight of the show. However, until noon Thendic were busy setting up and
installing all in all 30 computers. After that the users were able to get a
picture of the Pegasos in conjunction with MorphOS.
The AmigaOne, however, was presented as well. Once at the stand of Amiga-Club and
at Vesalia's. In both cases the operationg system running was Linux. There were
no news to be gathered about AmigaOS. Yet I have clearly sounded out a tendency
with the users: Many look upon a Pegasos with AmigaOS as the optimal solution.
Thendic France is working hard to setup the demo machines |
A pegasos in a micro wave oven |
The door acts as the monitor |
Sebastien Lokhamkhouak build the crazy micro wave oven Pegasos :) |
Martin Merz (Mason Icons) |
Christian Kemp (ANN) |
Ron van Herk (Computer City, NL) |
Guido Mersmann (right) presenting Amithlon ... |
... together with Timo Hegemann (right) |
Amithlon |
Jeri Ellsworth presents the CommodoreOne |
Daniel Bindel as ´Lord Fox´ von Tamar |
Otis from the club "User der Nordseeküste" |
the fair |
Pegasos inside |
Martin Heine, one of the Pegasos/MorphOS betatesters |
McGreg, an enthusiastic Pegasos/MorphOS betatester |
Thomas Schulze showing his game Crossfire |
Dennis Lohr presenting Digibooster Pro |
The Thendic booth |
Sebastian Brylka and Olaf Köbnik (Fun Time World and Amiga Arena) |
Ebay explaining irritated Amiga users, why Java can't be avoided for certain things |
A total of 30 Pegasos computers available for testing |
Christian Kemp (ANN) and Petra Struck (amiga-news.de) discussing with visitors |
Bill Buck and Gerald Carda answering questions about the Pegasos |
Timothy de Groote and Steffen Häuser (far left) showing games in the AmigaOne ... |
... like Majesty |
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08.Dec.2002
Andre Dörffler (ANF)
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Context menus for OS3.5+
The program ContextSAS allows creation and use of context sensitive menus for
AmigaOS3.5+. It supports the DefIcons system. With the help of a few additional
tools you can even iconify Workbench windows and create links. The author is
always thankful for remarks and suggestions.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Falcon (ANF)
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Falcon: Pictures from the Aachen show
As of now all interested people can gaze at some pictures from the Aachen show
under the title link. Featured are a.o. the Walker (which was actually
running!), Pegasos' by the cartload, and much more...
Furthermore a video of the show including an interview with Petra Struck will
be released shortly on CD-ROM. However, a date has not been set.
Have fun,
Falcon
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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08.Dec.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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First winner of HIGHWAY raffle
As the winner of KDH Datentechnik's und E3B's "thank you" raffle, at which a
NORWAY networking module is raffled on each show day among all registered
HIGHWAY users, today ... fanfare ...
Mr. Michael Narramore from Swindon, England
has been drawn by our lucky fairy. Congratulations!
Michael Böhmer / E3B
Günther Horbach / KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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07.Dec.2002
Chris Hodges (email)
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Chris Hodges: Time to say goodbye!
In his known humorous way Chris Hodges tells us that he'll be on vacation for the next seven weeks. He'll be in New Zealand till 2003, 24th January and has today uploaded an update for Poseidon with some bug fixes. Here's the original message:
Dear Poseidon users,
I'm leaving the Amiga. Yes, I've had enough of all that fighting and
bitching. Instead, I'll try to live on a green island with lots of sheep.
Good bye and farewell!
Now get up from the floor, stop crying, I'm only off to New Zealand for
about seven weeks of vacation and I will return to my one and only true
love (currently, just my Amiga :( ) on 24th January 2003. But before I'm
leaving on a jet plane, I've uploaded a small update of Poseidon for your
benefit. Not much has changed, however, a few bugfixes reported by some of
you have been incooperated. See changelog for details.
As I'm away from my machine, don't write private emails, if you have any
problems. Please use the Yahoo Mailing List instead, there are a lot of
people who could give a hand.
So, please enjoy the time off, I will certainly do so. And don't forget to
use Trident regularily >>>;-) (ps) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
several (ANF)
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ARC 2002: pictures of the fair
Pictures of the AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002 that is taking place on December, 7th and 8th in Aachen:
Jochen Abitz (ANF):
Pegasos, Pegasos micro oven, AmigaOne, Amiga Future, KDH, fair
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF):
AmigaOne, Pegasos micro oven, fair
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Gamel: ScummVM 0.3.0 released
Version 0.3.0 of the popular interpreter for Lucasarts games has been released today. On the download page are executables for several operating systems available including the MorphOS binary. A complete distribution with PDF manual and Ambient PNGIcons will be released probably tomorrow by me.
ScummVM MorphOS supports now also MIDI music that is qualitywise much better than the Adlib sound used until now. What is needed for this is the Etude MIDI device that I unfortunately can't make available for download yet. People who should see me today in Aachen at the beta tester conference may ask me for a version.
Regarding the legal issues with Lucasarts there's still no solution. A comprehensive description of the situation as it is right now can be found on the ScummVM site.
The improvements in detail:
0.3.0b (2002-12-06)
- fix major race condition resulting in extremely frequent crashes on MorphOS/PocketPC (supercedes unreleased 0.3.0 version)
0.3.0 (2002-12-01)
- massive cleanup work for iMUSE. Sam and Max music now plays correctly
- many bugfixes for Zak256, + sound and music support
- music support for Simon the Sorcerer on any platform with real MIDI
- experimental support for Indy3 (VGA) - Indiana Jones + Last Crusade
- completed support for Monkey1 VGA Floppy, The Dig
- added akos16 implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle costumes
- added digital iMUSE implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle music.
- Loom CD speech+music syncronisation improved greatly
- added midi-emulation via adlib, for platforms without sequencer support
- code seperation of various engine parts into several libraries
- several fixes to prevent Simon the Sorcerer crashing and hanging
- hundreds of bugfixes for many other games
- new SMUSH video engine, for Full Throttle and The Dig
- new in-game GUI
- launcher dialog
(cd) (Translation: wk)
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07.Dec.2002
Jens Schönfeld tel.
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ARC 2002 News: Massimo Mancini unfortunately not there
As we just now heard from Jens Schönfeld via telephone is Massimo Mancini
not at the fair because of a sports accident and is therefore not able to introduce his new USB card by himself. The card itself will be presented, though.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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