20.Oct.2002
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: Top magazine charts and new reviews
The top charts of all games evaluations of the magazines Powerplay and
Videogames are now online on Kultpower.de. So now you can easily find the best
scoring Amiga games, or the C64 games with the best sound grades.
Kultpower.de write: "To commemorate old Powerplay times, this feature is called
Creme de la Creme :)"
Furthermore: New reviews from the very rare Happy Computer special issues of
1986:
Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Sega Master System), Delta (C64), Donkey Kong Jr.
(NES), Jinks (C64), Out Run (Sega Master System), Samantha Fox Strip Poker
(C64), Super Mario Bros. (NES), Superstar Ice Hockey (C64), The Bard's Tale
(C64), Wonderboy (Sega Master System).
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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20.Oct.2002
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Obligement N°35
Issue 35 of the French Amiga e-zine is now available. You can read in this
issue: latest Amiga news, report of the A-Expo/Alchimie2 show, interview of
Chris Hodges (by Amiga Arena), reviews of FxScan 4 and Aqua, tutorial about
Tornado 3D, all the news about the emulation and AmigaDE, and lot more.
Download: obligement35.lha (936K),
Readme
(sd)
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20.Oct.2002
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Event: Pictures of visit to "BeGeistert" in Düsseldorf
Here is a selection of the pictures that have been taken today by Petra Struck on the BeOS event BeGeistert. Mainly, of course, pictures of the Pegasos/MorphOS and Walker presentations, which btw may be repeated on Sunday morning if required. An extensive report will follow.
Ulrich 'Scholly' Scholz (left) "guards" the entrance ... |
... and collects the entrance fee of 10 Euro per visitor. |
Most people are currently attending a BeOS demonstration ... |
... thus the room looks nearly deserted. |
While waiting for Nicholas, I have already shot a picture of the MorphOS surface. The windows' design is variable and, thanks to MUI, customisable. |
Gert is having BeOS explained to him at length :-) |
T-Shirts of all sizes and all BeGeistert event vintages are waiting for buyers, three of the old vintages can be bought for 25 Euro, the current "BeGeistert 2002" is 13 Euro. |
Bertrand Presles and Sébastien Lokhamkhouak of Thendic France |
Here a glimpse of the Pegasos' inside |
The complete system |
Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France |
(This picture in 1280 x 960)
A further look at the Pegasos' inside |
The Walker! Nicholas has given it a try, and partly even managed to make it work! |
The Walker's backside really strongly resembles a vacuum cleaner, the connectors however reveal that there is a complete computer with all the bits and pieces hiding inside. |
Here two - to my knowledge never before published - drawings ... |
... of Walker prototypes in a tower (well, rather a giant tower). The original pictures will be submitted to us later. |
I have seldomly visited events where the empty pizza boxes were so neatly stacked for disposal! |
Here now a couple of pictures from the BeOSers' room ... |
Discussions here, object lesson there ... |
... naturally, the pizza order is also important! |
Gert is looking forward to dinner at a Chinese restaurant ... |
... and I, too, am in the best of moods, for I have seen much and, obviously, I am totally delighted. Till next time with "Petra on Tour" ;-) |
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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19.Oct.2002
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender ACH (ANF)
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Event: video of Amiga Meeting Bad Bramstedt (Update)
Following the title link you can download a 10 MB video in the Quicktime format showing several minutes of a walk round the meeting presenting all computers.
Update:
Alternative download link: meeting.mov (ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Oct.2002
Thomas "Gojira" Nosutta (BAU02/ACBB) (ANF)
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Event: first pictures of the Amiga Meeting
The BAU02 has the honour to present the first pictures of the Amiga Meeting. They can be found following the title link. Further pictures will follow. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Oct.2002
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender ACH (ANF)
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Event: status report from the Amiga Meeting Nord
Slowly it's getting full ;-). We have really reached the limit of our capacity. Right now there are 30 computers installed. Our network is still running flawlessly. Hopefully there won't be any problems with the electricity ;-).
Around 17 o'clock will the premiere of the film "Dünn2" take place. After this will
Andre begin with the demo presentations. The organizers are really excited about the event being so popular. The first sales via our stock market have already been done. People are busy in handicraft work and especially in helping each other with the soldering-iron or just with good advice. Here still lives the Amiga feeling!
Under http://www.amigameeting.de/Webcam/Cam.jpg
is the web cam still running delivering a new picture every 25 seconds.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Oct.2002
Jim Steichen (ANF)
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AmigaTalk V2.1 uploaded to Aminet
Version 2.1 of AmigaTalk today was uploaded to Aminet. A look at the .readme file
will show some significant additions since V2.0.
AmigaTalk V2.1 is a version of 'Little Smalltalk' (V1.0 by Tim Budd) that
has been re-written & enhanced for the Amiga line of computers.
James T. Steichen, Copyright (c) 1998-2002.
Be sure to have the sound turned on when you start the program!
(It's called AmigaTalk for a reason!)
WARNING:
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There are some things that I can no longer test due to the fact
that my system has a CyberVision 64/3D graphics card & is using
the cybergraphics.library (et al). I would appreciate some
feedback about problems that you might find, since I will not
always be able to find them.
The system is currently NOT fully documented (especially IFF & BOOPSI
Classes), so expect to see some holes in the documentation.
I did NOT go back & verify that all the test files still work as
shown.
REQUIREMENTS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
AmigaTalk uses DeckBrowser which is copyrighted (c) by InovaTronics.
I've included a copy of it with my distribution. It should be placed
in the command path where the Amiga OS can find it (example: 'C:')
68040 or better microprocessor. (68000 or 68020 available upon request).
20+ Mb of RAM (or you can edit the AmigaTalk:c/InitializeCommands
script & delete the instantiations for Intuition Tags,
DosSystem Tags & DataTypeSystem Tags & drop this
number down to 4 Mb of RAM).
AmigaDOS 3.5+
Hard disk (5MB of space). (os)
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19.Oct.2002
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: Hilt2 - HD version
Hilt2 as now available for download as HD version including manual and new missions (Spacelab, Bughunt1).
Hilt2 is a strategy game with RPG (role playing game) parts. You have to fulfill several operations with your team. You can set up your team where every unit has different abilities.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Oct.2002
Ulrich Scholz
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Event: additional information about the Pegasos presentation at the "BeGeistert"
As reported already yesterday is
the "BeGeistert" taking place today and tomorrow in Düsseldorf. Following the
title link you'll find information regarding the exact place and a plan showing
the way there. The admission is 10 Euros.
From our yesterday's update you can see that the alternative computer system
Pegasos with MorphOS and the Walker will be shown by Nicholas Blachford,
Bertrand Presles and Sébastien Lokhamkhouak, too. Here are some more details:
Saturday, from 14:00 to 17:00 o'clock will the following four parts take place though not neccessarily in this order:
- MorphOS running on a Pegasos and the legendary 'Walker' shown by Nicholas
Blachford, Bertrand Presles and Sébastien Lokhamkhouak.
- Comparison "BeOS R5" / "Zeta" by Bernd Korz (yellowtab.com)
- "BeOS Developer Edition" by Frank Scholl (beosonline.com)
- OpenBEOS (OBOS): team leaders explain what this is, what they do, how far they have come for now...
- If need is given the MorphOS guys will do another presentation on Sunday morning.
As I have already mentioned in yesterday's message I'll visit the event this evening, too. If anyone has suggestions for questions he/she can place these in the comments.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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19.Oct.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Video converter update 2.2 beta
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today I have finished a new beta of the program 'Video converter'. This version fixes a problem with Movieshop picture files. Until now ffmepg broke off when it met an unknown Jpg sub format (ffmpeg is very particular about Jpg sub formats). Now I have created a "work arround" by coding a dataype loader plugin for Video converter. This plugin can read all picture formats for which a datatype is installed, convert them to PPM and hand them over as a picture list to Video converter.
All you have to do is choosing a pictures directory in the lister as input, one for the output and then just pressing "convert".
Unfortunately it's only a beta version because it always crashes on my Amiga when using very big pictures lists and I could not fix the error entirely. This beta can be downloaded from my hompage.
Download: Videokonverter.lzx
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Oct.2002
Thorsten Mampel, 1.Vorsitzender Amiga-Club Hamburg e.V. (ANF)
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Meeting: Amiga Meeting North, Webcam Online
Our webcam is now online!
At http://www.amigameeting.de/Webcam/Cam.jpg you'll
find a new picture every 25 seconds.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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18.Oct.2002
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename Version 3.5.0 Final
Constantinos Nicolakakis has released the final version of the tool
'SRename'. You can easily rename files with this tool, which runs on
AmigaOS 3.0 and up.
Download: SRename350.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)
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18.Oct.2002
Mikey C (ANF)
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Event: WoA SE 2002 - It's FINAL!
World of Amiga Southeast 2002 is pleased to announce it's final
Exhibitors line up for this year's Show.
- 100% Amiga Magazine
- Amiga (OS4/Quake II Demo's)
- Cloanto (Amiga Forever)
- Eyetech (AmigaOne)
- Fore-Matt Home Computing
- Kicksoft
- Mediator Support Team
- The Crypt Magazine
- Thendic France (Pegasos/MorphOS)
- Total Amiga Magazine
- Weird Science
- ZeoNeo
The following Amiga User Groups will be in attendance:
- Amiga North Thames
- Amiga Support Association
- Blackpool Amiga Club
- Huddersfield Amiga User Group
Please visit http://www.worldofamiga.com or
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/woase
for more information, including an exhibitor layout plan for your convenience.
Advanced tickets, priced, £3.50 each, are available from: Fore-Matt Home
Computing, http://www.forematt.co.uk or
Kicksoft, http://www.kicksoft.co.uk.
World of Amiga Southeast 2002 takes place on Saturday 2nd of November
2002 at Poplars Hall, Shenfield, Brentwood, Essex, UK. More news will
follow soon. (ps)
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18.Oct.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets (until 20.10.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were originally made only for use with disks. The following pakets have been added or updated since our last message:
- 20.10.02 new: Shadow of the Beast Demo (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 20.10.02 improved: Citadel (Arakkis/VD) polish version supported
- 20.10.02 fixed: Crystal Symphonies (Phenomena) interrupts fixed for 040/060, delay added
- 20.10.02 fixed: Crystal Symphonies 2 (Phenomena) interrupts fixed for 040/060
- 20.10.02 improved: Mean Streets (U.S.Gold) French version supported, bug fixed
- 19.10.02 new: Operation Neptune (Infogrames) done by Psygore
- 17.10.02 improved: Z-Out (Advantec/Rainbow Arts) snoop bug fixed, new installer script
- 17.10.02 new: Wolfchild (Core Design) done by Galahad
- 17.10.02 fixed: Prehistorik (Titus) music fixed
- 17.10.02 new: Dragon Strike (Westwood/S.S.I) done by JOTD
- 16.10.02 new: Crazy Sue 2 (Hironymus Jumpshoe) done by DJ Mike
- 16.10.02 new: Crazy Sue (Hironymus Jumpshoe) done by DJ Mike
- 14.10.02 improved: Budokan (Electronic Arts) disk images shortened, new icons
- 14.10.02 improved: Emptyhead (Rednex) faster loading
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Oct.2002
EvenMore
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Text viewer: EvenMore version 0.60 (17.10.2002)
The freeware text viewer 'EvenMore' which was made by Chris Perver is available in version 0.60 (17.10.2002). Chris only changes the version number if an extensive update was made. With the help of plugins a high number of formats can be read and other ones will follow!
Download: EvenMore.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Oct.2002
Amiforce
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Amiforce: New IBrowse-toolbar and Euro calculator for Austria
Today Cj-Stroker has published a toolbar for IBrowse in Golded6 AIX design on his download area. All those who like colourful buttons they will love it.
The toolbar for A-Web and Voyager has also almost done and is available in next days, too.
Euro calculator Austria:
Cj-Stroker has published an Euro calculator for all Austrians some times ago. You can also find it in the download area.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Oct.2002
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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Mailprogram: YAM beta version 2.4 (developer version from 18.10.2002)
There is a new developer version 2.4 of the mailprogram YAM which in the meantime has become Open Source. This is a version which is still in progress and which therefore possibly contains bugs. The developer team offers no support and gives no guarantee! Any requests done by email will also not be answered. You use it on your own risk!
The changes which were made you can read in this list.
You can get further information on the Yamos SourgeForge-site.
Download: YAM24Dev.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Oct.2002
Paul ExiE Strejcek (E-Mail)
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Czech Amiga.News MOVED
Paul ExiE Strejcek writes:
First we would like to apologize that Czech Amiga.News was unavailable
for 12 days. For technical reasons we have moved to a new address
amiga.czex.com.
Now we ask for your help!
If you find a link referring to the old address, please notify the
webmaster about the change.
To contact us, please write to newsy@czex.com
or exie@czex.com.
We made the best of the change and improved the html code, which should
result in faster display in Amiga browsers, especially on slower machines,
and light-speed downloading :-).
BTW main page of Czech Amiga.News finally validates as HTML 4.01 Transitional!
During the transition we have also fixed the
forms for submitting news, so don't be afraid
to use them. Finally we have also started updating our vast collection of
links. We will keep you informed about the progress. After arrival of the
new version of operating system AmigaOS 4.0 we are going to add new services
for our readers. Let us surprise you! Additional ideas and comments are
welcome!
(ps)
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17.Oct.2002
Thomas Schulze (FAJ)
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Music/Sound Expert Sought for Crossfire II
Dreamworlds Development is looking urgently for a music/sound expert who can also
add music to animations, in order to prepare Crossfire II. The animations are in MPEG
format or if needed in single pictures on a CD. The result of adding the sound should
therefore be a timed sample in a common format
There is not going to be much monetary reward involved (because of the
overall market situation). The best case scenario would be approximately
100 Euros when the project is published. You can get further details by
expressing your interest in an email.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Oct.2002
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amiga-news.de: The Internal Search Machine Not Working
Unfortunately our internal search machine 'htDig' is not working right now. Sven brought it to our attention that the Google search and gives a very good result when one enters
site:www.amiga-news.de + key word
in the search field. You can enter the key word either in the upper right in the field where it says 'Google.com', or in the field on our separate
search page.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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17.Oct.2002
Nico Barbat (ML)
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Magazine: AMIGAplus for October, 2002
The AMIGAplus for October 2002 with the title theme "Audio with PSA"
will be out in the middle of next week. For two reasons the release
date was postponed, and so a new appointment was made with the
publishing company.
Read about the following topics in the latest AMIGAplus:
Mega-Workshop ProStationAudio
"Audio with the Amiga rocks!" Take a calm walk with us in the world
of a professional Audio-Sequencer, ProStationAudio. Add chimes to
your life!
Thylacine - Tasmanian USB Controller
For many long years it wasn't possible to use a USB gizmo with
your Amiga. Now, within the space of a year come not one but
two new USB cards on the market. After we introduced E3B's
HIGHWAY in the May and July/August 2002 issues, and its little
sister SUBWAY for the clock port of the Amiga 1200 is still
awaited, we're making a little trip to Australia for you. That's
where the Zorro II card Thylacine has been available for a little
while.
Software Tycoon - Learn as the game progresses...
When the digital entertainment industry was still in the
shoes of a little child, the pioneers of game history could
give free rein to their innovative ideas.
After the version for the PC was released about a year ago, the
Amigans and Mac-heads [and MorphOSians -dm] can also dive
into the world of a Software Tycoon and virtually manage the
development of a game.
PC Competitor - Twice-Enjoyed Retro Game Fun
To throw away something valuable, to give something the old heave ho
without a good reason, now that's a pity. So how can the old competitions, zip sticks,
Pythons and Hyperstars be regenerated for employment in Amiga
emulators? The rescue comes from the joystick interface PC
Competitor!
And in addition to all that:
- Workshop PGP, Part 1
- FroggerNG 2 CD Tested
- A+ on Tour: photokina 2002
- What's New in Emulator Land
- How to Do Better on eBay, Part 2
- Floppy Classics on Hard-drive: WHDLoad
- Amiga-Status-Report 10/02: Voter Rights
- Demoscene: Summertime is... Partytime
- Show Report O.A.S.E. 2: News from Austria
- and a whole lot more
AMIGAplus is available by subscription, by single issue at
5 Euros per (inc. postage and handling) and in your local
Amiga shop.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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