06.Oct.2002
CyberGFX
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Mediator: PatchInt V1.2 (3rd release)
Already on 3rd October 2002, Matthew Allatt has released version 1.2 (3rd
release) of 'PatchInt' for the PCI board 'Mediator' from Elbox.
The tool gets rid of the lockups which occur with various sound, ethernet,
serial and other PCI boards.
This update should fix the sound distortion which occurred with the
SoundBlaster after some time of playback.
Matthew Allatt writes on this:
"I'd just like to let you all know that I've finished a new version of
PatchInt..." - "I found that when using PatchInt, and playing tunes
through the SoundBlaster card, the sound would become distored after a
while. Others have reported this to me as well, so, having found some
time, I've written a new version which should hopefully fix this."
Download: PatchInt1_2.lha,
Readme
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Schlachtfeld page updated and Status
From the Amiga Society site:
"The Schlachtfeld page has received a new design. The contents is not that far
yet, but the first graphics for a second level can already be seen.
Over the next weeks, some submenus etc. will be added to the page and some more
information will be provided.
Possibly the page will also get its own domain soon.
We still hope to have at least a beta of Phase I (with the old graphics) until
the show in December.
According to current estimation of the situation, Phase I will probably not
get over the beta stage.
The graphics of Phase II have advanced that much already that a parallel
development of code and graphics is beginning to make sense."
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Hard disk: Hard Drive Guide updated, UAEInstall disk
On 6th October 2002, Peter Hutchison updated his
Hard Drive Guide
and released a UAEInstall disk for hard disks.
Hard Drive Guide contents:
- Choosing a hard disk
- Installing a hard disk in your Amiga
- Partitioning a hard disk
- Changing or Upgrading the FileSystem
- Installing Workbench on your Hard disk
- Installing software on your Hard disk
- Looking after your hard disk
- Problems that may occur
- Using Large Hard Disks
- List of SCSI and IDE Devices
- About the author
The guide is available as an HTML version
for online reading and as an AmigaGuide version for download.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
GFX-BASE
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Emulator: Petunia - Web site update about 68k JIT emulator
Already on 3rd October 2002, the Web site about the 68k JIT emulator 'Petunia'
for AmigaOS 4.0 has been updated.
Some information has been added, as well as a benchmark test to compare your
own computer with Petunia's benchmark results.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
amiga.sourceforge.net
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amiga.sf: SWFTools V0.4.2, cURL V7.10
The Amiga directory of Sourceforge.net by DiegoCR contains the following
updates:
- SWFTools V0.4.2 (020/040)
- cURL V7.10
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
amiga.org
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Web catalog: AmigaSource online again
The Web catalog 'AmigaSource' has
been online again since 3rd October. It currently contains 804 links in 40
Amiga categories.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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06.Oct.2002
aseq (ANF)
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MIDI: Amiga version of 'Aseq' frozen
aseq writes:
"Part of my Amiga hardware died (bvision, perhaps more) so I have to freeze
development of the Amiga version of a midi and audio sequencer called
Aseq (www.aseq.de).
On a brighter side ;-) I can now spend more time on porting it to QNX,
Macintosh and Linux. A version for Pegasos-Morhpos has been planned, but
seeing as I can not yet even afford to replace Amiga hardware it will be a
while.
In case you care about dead Amiga hardware, I am using an A1200 with ppc
card and bvision, the system is not showing up any image through the gfx card
and I have no way of detecting if the ppc card is working, but I assume it
is as the system will boot normally from floppy. Not from hd though, a gfx
card related thing in the startup may very well screw up, or blizkick, which
could mean the ppc card IS dead (also) after all." (sd) (Translation: cb)
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05.Oct.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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Poseidon USB-Stack now available as online version from IOSPIRIT
Chris Hodges and
IOSPIRIT have signed a contract
on the online-distribution of the
Poseidon USB stack.
Thanks to the extensive distribution infrastructure of IOSPIRIT,
the worldwide availability of Poseidon and various payment options
are now guaranteed.
The Poseidon USB stack unleashes the power and possibilities of the
Universal Serial Bus (USB) to you. With Poseidon you can now use
modern and low-priced USB-devices such as mice, keyboards, tablets,
joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flashcard-readers,
ZIP- and floppy-drives, hard disks and many more!
(ps)
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05.Oct.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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USB-driver: New version of Poseidon version 1.31
Chris Hodges writes:
Dear Poseidon users,
during these gray autumn days, just when you seem lonely and sad, and all
seems dull and dark, waiting for new things to appear, there is this small
light on this virtual planet. This location for recovering happiness is
called
http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html
That's the place, where you can download the latest, mindboggingly cheerful
update of Poseidon. And no, it's not Christmas just yet. Therefore, the
only new things you will get are more GUI's to play with (and I know you
love to play with the settings ;) ) and the ability to finally mount RDB
Amiga partitions automatically! But the good news does not stop here, no,
you can even boot from RDB partitions now (and using boot95 from the
fat95 package, you probably also can boot from FAT formatted media, if you
prefer). Sounds good, eh?
For the people that cannot wait for the HID class to pop up, there is a new
experimental wheelmouse mode in the bootmouse which supports a horizontal
wheel on some mice. But be sure to have MUIWheelPatch installed! Don't be
disappointed, if it doesn't work with your mouse, it's just a quick hack
that works with one wheel mouse I've got here, but not with the other
(because it doesn't send wheel information in boot protocol).
There is also something new, but this will be published in a seperate press
statement.
So enjoy the new stuff, and wait what happens next.
Changelog
~~~
poseidon.library 1.31
- Added stack config support.
Trident 0.12
- Added stack config stuff.
- Misc changes.
hub.class 1.17
- Fixed a bug where the hub task wouldn't
neccessarily fail out from the outer
loop on hub removal.
bootmouse.class 1.11
- Added experimental quick & hacky wheelmouse support. Will probably only
work with a few mice (the ones that report wheel movement in byte 4
even with boot protocol enabled -- works with my Sigma mouse, doesn't
work with my Logitech wireless desktop (no wheelmouse data in boot
protocol). Be sure you have MUIWheelPatch installed.
- Added class (defaults) and binding GUI to enable wheelmouse support.
massstorage.class 1.15
- Booting from RDB implemented (added a flag for this in the GUI aswell).
Thanks to Ralph Schmidt for contributing the CreateSegment() code.
- Misc internal changes.
- RDB Mounting added. Now RDB formatted partitions will be mounted
automagically on media insertion aswell.
- Mounting is not done from the device task anymore (as this could cause
a deadlock, if the filesystem wanted to do device IO before returning
from the mount call), but from a tiny seperate task, living only for
the moment :)
- Changed implementation of FIX_INQUIRY to fake inquiry. Old fix inquiry
is still present for wrong inquiry requests. Fake Inquiry should fix
a lot of broken devices.
- Added option to disable the initial bulk reset, as some broken devices
seem to choke on it (and crash their firmware, stupid thing).
- Changed NakTimeout prefs value from ms to 1/10secs. This seems more
reasonable. Please check your configs.
- Added option to delay the device startup. This is needed for some
broken devices, which crash their firmware, if they receive commands
during their setup (Nikon Coolpix).
- Added possibility to change the DOSType. If the DOSType is NOT
0x464154xx (FATx), LowCyl will not be 0 and autodetection of FAT95
will be disabled. This should allow the use of CrossDOS, but this has
not been tested.
- Added saving of default prefs.
- Added default prefs GUI (class config).
printer.class 1.14
- Added implementation of CMD_START/CMD_STOP.
- Added class GUI with two options: one disables the sending of the init
sequence on Epson printers, the other one disables the SOFT_RESET
command which causes problems on some broken printers.
(ps)
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05.Oct.2002
Various
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Software news (up to 2002, 05th October)
On the Amiga Community page of SixK
is a port of the 2D SDL space shooter Starfighter for 68k computers available.
Download: starfighter.lzx
On the Prometheus support page of VGR
you can find version 1.1 of the prm-rtl8029.device by Grzegorz Juraszek. The
program fixes the problem with the DHCP protocol and some minor bugs.
Download: prm-rtl8029-1.1.lha
Update 06.10.2002:
Starcraft -> Starfighter. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Oct.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: full version Hollywood Pictures and Hilt II missions
Hollywood Pictures - full version
With the manager game "Hollywood Pictures" makes Amiga Arena one further full version by "Sayonara Software" available for download. This is the version "Starbyte Software" had released again at that time.
Hilt II - missions final
The last missions Retrieve, Starwreck and Skeleton had been translated. So now are all missions playable in the German version as well as the campaigns Tutorial, Terrorist and Holowar. "Hilt II" got a rating of 91% by the "CU AMIGA" magazine. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Oct.2002
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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Registration of MCP (MasterControlProgram)
After a hard data loss just before releasing version 1.40 of MACP I have lost all registrations. Therefore I ask you to registrate yourself again before downloading MCP version 1.40. Then you can download the file under dl.dgroppe.de as usual.
Many bugs have been fixed and additionally there are some new features. If you want to get more details then please read the newsletter or have a look at the history or the readme-file in the archive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Mailbox software: Fame is now freeware
The author of the mailbox software Amiexpress, FAME (= Final Amiga Mailbox Engine) has declared it as freeware. The archive which has a size of 25 MB contains all components which you need to run such a mailbox. If you are interested in you should have a look at the homepage of the author and download the archive of the "Uphold The Law BBS" (telnet://utl.dyndns.org). Important: Please write down your telephone number if you registrate! (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Shortly "Betatester" on the market
Thendic France has announced on Morph-OS-News.de that the
"Betatester II"-conference has been defered to 14th/15th December in
Frankfurt. Furthermore in the week of the 13th October the delivery of
the Pegasos boards to the market will start whereby they still always
are called "Betatester". (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Intro of announcement of the scenediskmag Jurassic Pack#11 published
The Amiga demoscene group [S]carab has published an intro of announcement of the forthcoming eleventh issue of its diskmag "Jurassic Pack". Contributions of nonmembers of the demoscene are very welcome - please contact the editorial staff under ghandy@vantage.ch or
zito@uni.de. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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RNO Records published music track number 80
The music group RNO Records recently has published the eightieth track on
its homepage which all visitors of the page may download. RNO means Rave
Network Overscan and is mainly a Finnish Amiga demo group which has
published some good publications in the past years. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
Diverse
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Software news (until 04.10.2002)
There are the following updates on the Amiga directory of Sourceforge.net:
Version 0.1 of MiniTV which is a graphical interface of the Mediator-tv driver of Mr. Gui has been uploaded to the 3rd Party Mediator Software Page of VGR.com.
This also applies to the Mediator-software PatchInt version 1.2. PatchInt is a patch of Matthew Allatt for the owners of the Mediator PCI-busboards which solves the problem of initializing of several PCI-cards.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
ANN
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Amiga University site updates and additions
Kevin Orme wrote:
We've got some cool new stuff online for you:
Site Mirrors:
- Amiga Source is now mirrored on our site, thanks Scott!
- We still maintain site mirrors of the excellent Blitz Basic,
Samplitude Opus (with software downloads) and Amiga
Interactive Guide sites, too.
Site Archives:
We have added two GREAT Amiga site archives from the somewhat recent past:
- National Amiga tech pages: these are full of great tech information,
including pinouts, motherboard configs and lots of accelerator
information - These were originally done by Greg Scott and used
to be on National Amiga's website - thanks to Larry S. and Joe at
Archtech in London, Ontario!
- Spock's Logical Amiga Pages: As many of you may remember, this was a great
site that has been offline for some time, unfortunately due to its author,
Eric Robertson, passing on last fall. Thanks to Donald Sowell for
providing this data as hopefully a little memorial to Eric's fondness for
the Amiga and his excellent site.
- Amiga Realm archive mirrors (12 of them) - Thanks to Paul Andrews for
providing data to mirror their site archives!
Additional stuff:
- 303 Tracker - this is a cool Roland TB303 emulator you can run on
your Amiga - software downloads included - thanks to Jeroen Schellekens
for his site archive and software
Events page:
- We have added an easy to find Events page for upcoming Amiga events & shows,
and we pledge to keep it current! :) If you have an event or show coming up
anywhere in the world, let us know so we can post it immediately.
- Thanks, keep on coming back and if you have additional Amiga sites for us
to help you mirror or archive (to preserve them), just let us know when/how.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Oct.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 04.10.2002) (Update II)
With WHDLoad you can install games you only can play on disks on your
hard disk. Since our last message the following games are added or
updated:
- 04.10.02 new: Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis Action (LucasArts) done by Galahad
- 04.10.02 new: Altered Destiny (Accolade) done by JOTD
- 04.10.02 new: Wicked Sensation (TRSI) done by Codetapper
- 03.10.02 improved: X-Out (Rainbow Arts) access faults fixed, new imager
- 03.10.02 improved: Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin) now uses KickDOS, new install script
- 02.10.02 new: Centrefold Squares (CDS) done by Psygore
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04.Oct.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel ISA: Public beta test of the Windows-drivers
The archive that was published on October 1st has been extended by the
Windows 2000 drivers today. These are still beta versions of the drivers.
We still don't know if they work under Windows XP, because we don't use
that operating system on our machines.
Download: CW_win.zip (247 KB)
(ps)
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04.Oct.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Video converter-GUI for FFMpeg
For all those who want to convert videos from one format to another I have now written a GUI for FFMpeg. FFMpeg is available in 68k-, MOS- and PUP-version. The video converter-GUI has almost all features of FFMpeg. You can convert the following formats:
- RealMedia V1.0
- Windows Media Audio/Video V.1-2
- AVI (DIVX-2-3),h263, h236plus
- MOV (DIVX)
- MPEG
- ASF
- MJPEG
- JPG
- PPM
- PGM
- YUV
- Rawvideo
- Shockwave Flash
- mpeg 1 layer 2
- mpeg 1 layer3
- ac3
- gif
- ffm
- wav
- au
- openDIVX
Additionally I have uploaded the archive to Aminet.
Download: Videokonverter.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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