10.Nov.2002
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Developer tool: CVS V1.11.2 for AmigaOS and MorphOS
Today Jens Langner has released an update of the CVS (Concurrent Versions
System) port. Apart from some important bug fixes re. local repositories, now
there is also a MorphOS/PPC version contained within the archive. The complete
codebase of CVS has been adapted to gcc so there is nothing standing in the way
of a subsequent port to AmigaOS4.
As usual, all interested developers can download the newest version under the
address http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
Please find all changes in the attached ChangeLog.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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09.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: interview with Torsten Giebl (Turricane 4 Ever)
If there's any cult figure on the Amiga existing then it is "Turrican"!
A game that had set new standards at its time and had an ongoing influence on a whole genre.
In 1993 the "Turrican" series had ceased on the Amiga with the release of the third part but Turricane lives! With the project "Turricane 4 Ever" exists the possibility of the hero of old times returning to the Amiga.
The Amiga Arena spoke to Torsten Giebl who's working with his team on an unofficial successor and asked for details about the game's progress and how this project came to live.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Nov.2002
Andreas Günther (ANF)
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ScanQuix for USB scanners
The known scan software is now also available in a version for USB scanners. The software package "ScanQuix USB" is based on the proven software "ScanQuix 5" and works with the scanners "HP ScanJet 2200c" and "Epson Perfection 1250". Next to the drivers for these scanners is among other things software for saving, printing and post-processing of the scanned pictures as well as there is for easy creating photo copies.
"ScanQuix USB" needs an USB card with the Poseidon USB stack (e.g. HIGHWAY by E3B). Because of the teamwork with E3B and Chris Hodges (Poseidon) who have actively supported the project is a flawless use also via the USB connection guaranteed.
"ScanQuix USB" is available at Vesalia Computer.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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fxPAINT 2.0 in December
We are proud to announce the long awaited version 2.0 of fxPAINT today.
fxPAINT 2.0 includes many new features, that will open up new graphical horizons to you. Besides the generally improved working speed and many new effects, a lot has been done at the modules, too. The fxALBUM- and fxCONV(batch processing)-modules have been heavily extended, new modules like e.g. the "Navigation Builder" and the "Color variations"-wizard have been added.
One of the most important new features is the support for gradients that may consist of a theoretically unlimited number of colors and transparency-values. Together with the also brand-new gradient tool you can easily add gradients to pictures or use them as background.
Furthermore direct support for Truetype®-fonts, PNG-files (loading and saving, incl. all options like alpha-channel, etc.), the system clipboard and Turboprint has been added. The ARexx-port and its nearly 90 new commands as well as the numerous scripts contained offer additional functionality.
fxPAINT 2.0 will, besides the support for 68K-systems, also offer native support for MorphOS, Amithlon, PowerUP and WarpUP and thus, independant of which platform it runs on, allow you to work at full speed. An adaption for AmigaOS 4.0 is already being worked on and will be made available as a free download upon the time of completion.
An overview over all, including many more, new features as well as the possibility to purchase fxPAINT 2.0 at a time-limited special price can be found on the all-new fxPAINT 2.0 subpages. Delivery is scheduled for the first half of December 2002. (ps)
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09.Nov.2002
sylvio k. (ANF)
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Avcodec.Library for 68k and PPC released on Aminet
On the Aminet have the Amiga ports of the ffmpeg libs appeared:
Short: Audio and Video codec library for 68+PPC CPUs
Author: chip@amiga.rulez.org (Csaba Simon)
Uploader: chip@amiga.rulez.org (Csaba Simon)
Version: 1.45
Type: gfx/misc
Downlaod: avcodeclib.lha
This shared library is an Amiga port of the opensource ffmpeg project's
libavcodec static library. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg)
This archive contains:
avcodec.library - for 68020 and upper CPUs
avcodecwos.library - for PPC603e and upper CPUs
Installation:
Copy them to your Libs: directory
Features:
Decoder for the following video codecs:
MPEG1VIDEO, H263, RealVideo1.0, Motion JPEG,
MPEG4, OpenDivx, Divx3, Divx4, Dix5.xx, MP41, MP42,
WMV1, SVQ1 Sorenson, DV Video
Decoder for the following audio codecs:
MP2, MP3, DV Audio, WMV, PCM, ADPCM
Todo:
Compile the encoders too.
Autodoc Documentation
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Winner of the Messages-Remix contest
AMIGAplus wrote:
Some weeks ago had Bjorn Lynne started a remix contest for the title sound "Messages" of the latest Lynne album "Colony" for which 29 people had sent in music pieces. Today the lucky winner was announced:
"PROJECT 2020" took part with a fantastic mix of Dub, Hip-hop, Club, Dance and Tribal and put with this the competitors in their places. This one and seven more tracks will be played in a special radio show on The Mixdown, a FM and Internet radio station on November, 9th between 3 and 5 o'clock (Central US. time). Besides, the winner gets 100 US-Dollars and a copy of "Colony".
All eight remixes can still be downloaded at JavaMusic
(http://www.javamusic.com/bjornlynne.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Nov.2002
Amiga SourceForge
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DCR8520 Amiga ports: updates done on 08.11.2002
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has made some ports available for download on his web site. Yesterday were the following programs updated:
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Nov.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 11/2002 released
The November issue of the free magazine AMIGA aktuell has just now been released and can be read online on the website of the distributors as well as it can be downloaded in the HTML respectively in the AmigaGuide format.
It contains among other things
- a "small tools" special about the audio compression format "Ogg Vorbis",
- the sixth and last part of an introduction in the ReAction programming,
- a background article about data types and their recognition,
- a workshop about programming a note book in PHP with mySQL,
- a review of the German version of the graphics adventure "Aqua",
- the most important news and press releases regarding Pegasos & MorphOS, AmigaOne & AmigaOS 4.0 and Amithlon,
- a comment about the supposed quarrelsomeness of the Amiga community,
- reports from the Amiga events in Graz and Grebenstein,
- a note about the future proceeding with a lack of sent contributions,
- and much more.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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09.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: translation of the AmigaSource interview with Ben Hermans
Following the title link you'll find the German translation of the interview with Ben
Hermans that AmigaSource had made. The translation into German had been done by Markus Castro of Amiga Future. The original can be found
here.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: New screen shots from Hollywood
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
Many people e-mailed me because they wanted more
screenshots from Hollywood. Therefore I published 5 new
screenshots from a game done with Hollywood and a demo
done with Hollywood. More screenshots will be published
over the next weeks. All applications whose screenshots
are on the Airsoft Softwair homepage are of course included
on the Hollywood CD-ROM.
(ps)
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08.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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HTML-Tool: HSC and HSC-RPM v0.927
On 06th November 2002 version 0.927 of the HTML-preprocessor "HTML Sucks Completely" (HSC) written by Matthias
Bethke has been published. The delivered source code can be compiled on each supported platforms. It
has been tested under SuSE Linux 7.3 and HP/UX 10.20.
There is also a HTML-documentation available online.
Besides this the download archive contains the current preferences and macro files, too.
Version 0.927 contains several minor bugfixes.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Amiga Society
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Amiga Society: Update of Ian Chapmans BBoAH
From now on the last update of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware written by Ian Chapman is also available
on Amiga Society. Additionally there are minor upadates of the Little Book of Amiga Society.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
MorphOS-News.de
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Event: First pictures of Thendic of the ExpoProtection
Thendic France has published first pictures of its stand on the ExpoProtection (SecurityExpo).
For the first time Thendic France has officially introduced its Eyecam together with Pegasos/MorphOS on
this fair with the topic Safety.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
ScummVM at SourceForge.net
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Hardware of the SourceForge.net-server will be changed
On the page of ScummVM at SourceForge.net has been announced that between the 14th and 17th December
the hardware of the server will be changed. Therefore single offers will be temporarly not available.
Please read the following original message:
Downtime notice
Greetings fellow Adventurers!
SourceForge, our host, is moving hardware on the 14th and 17th of November.
During this time, there will be a number of outages:
- 14th: ScummVM Downloads and Mailing Lists will be unavailable between
approximatly 16:00 Pacific Time (GMT-8), till 19:00.
- 17th: The main ScummVM site, and CVS tree, will be unavailable from
10:00 Pacific. This may last up to 12 hours, but hopefully less!
Thank you, and please shop at Snuckeys again!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Ottawa Amiga Show
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Event: Ottawa Amiga Show with Randy Hughes of Amiga Inc.
As we have already reported the Ottawa Amiga Show 2002 in Ottawa will
take place on 09th November 2002. The
team of organization has announced that Randy Hughes of Amiga Inc. will take place on the dinner which
will follow after the show and will answer questions. This will take place from 3:30 p.m. on in the Royal
Oak.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Haage&Partner
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Haage&Partner: Offers
Additionally to the current version of the DTP program PageStream 4.1 (Amiga, Windows, Macintosh) H&P
now also offers the professional graphic program ImageFX 4.5 containing the German documentation for
a special price. There are also special prices for the OS 3.9 book (second edition), the bundle with OS 3.9 and ArtEffect4 together with
the AE Collection. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Cloanto (ANF)
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Event: WoASE 2002 - Pictures from Cloanto
More pictures, including panorama view, at
http://cloanto.com/news/20021102woa.html.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Nov.2002
Fun Time World
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Fun Time World: Situation of Frogger explained
Fun Time World which is the German distributor of the video player software Frogger announces
that the development of Frogger has been ensured. Few days ago the author Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz
has got uncertain if he offend against GPL and he was going to publish the program as Open Source.
Fun Time World wrote:
»Development of Frogger ensured
We are glad to inform you that the development of the unique video player called Frogger has been
ensured. After an exact examination of the licences there is no reason for publishing the program
as Open Source. Only two codecs will not be contained as components of Frogger. These ones will be
freely available on Internet. If we are allowed to deliver these codecs on our CDs have to be cleread
but we cannot see any problems there.
All orders which we have got we will handle during the next days. You may be looking forward to
your registered version of Frogger.
We would like to thank you for your confidence and the positive feedback we have got.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Nov.2002
Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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Amiga Quake2 Page Online
In cooperation with Daniel Schultz: an Amiga Quake 2 webpage has been started, on which additional material regarding Quake 2 for AmigaOS
will be published in the future - such as new mods and levels, whether created by users or downloaded from the server.
Originally there were 41 Quake 2 mods for AmigaOS. Since then there have been another 20 mods. These additional mods will be
downloadable from the Quake2 page. So there will be 2 or 3 mods offered for download weekly, just check the page and don't miss
them.
To start off, the following three mods are offered:
- ChaosDM - one of the best Deathmatch mods for Quake 2
- Star Trek - contains the entire Enterprise as a level (and new weapons)
- Bots - "Battle of the Sexes" - a CTF Mod, based on classes,
in which a male team and a female team go up against each other.
The requirements to be able to use these mods are that you must have Quake2 for Amiga installed. Quake2 is available from retailers now.
Hyperion Entertainment (ps) (Translation: dm)
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07.Nov.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Full Version of WBMenu`97
In cooperation with Manfred L. and with the approval of H. Röhricht Amiga Arena
is making possible a further classic full version of WBMenu`97. Here is a snip
from the handbook:
WBMenu`97 is a multifunctional high speed data bank system with an intuitive user
interface, with which you are placed in a position where you can have an overview
and manage and start all of your programs.
To this end WBMenu`97 offers functions, for which unless several programs must
be inserted, and is an offer to all who wish to get the most from their computers.
Thereby it doesn't matter what particular use you make of your computer. WBMenu`97 is
the first program of its type, that can take over full control of the system. Whether it is the
binding of hardware drivers or the loading of the Workbench, it's "no problem" for WBMenu '97.
You'll find more information in the handbook for WBMenu`97!
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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07.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Audio: AHI/PPC 6 only for MorphOS and AmigaOS 4
Martin Blom, the developer of the soundcard driver system AHI, has reiterated that there will be
neither PowerUp nor WarpUp versions. There is only the MorphOS version (available) and the
AmigaOS 4 version (planned).
Here is his original announcement:
"Yes, indeed, today is November 7th, not July
11th. Anyway, I've been asked to clarify one thing
regarding the PPC version of AHI. There will be no WarpUp version, nor
will there be any PowerUp version. The reason is that neither of these
two systems allow PPC code to be invoked from within an interrupt?,
which is an absolute requirement for AHI. The current PPC version is
for MorphOS only. In the future, I hope to have an AmigaOS 4 version
as well.
1) While it should have been obvious by reading the PowerUp documentation,
there is nothing in the WarpUp documentation or the actual design that
suggests that it will not work; in WarpUp, it could be possible
if the implementation had allowed it. In any case, the days when I could
be bothered to write for a mixed CPU system are since long gone..." (ps) (Translation: dm)
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