09.Oct.2002
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig
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Window organisation: DepthMenu version 2.38
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has released version 2.38 of his
program 'DepthMenu'. With this program you may manage, minimize, maximize etc. all opened windows at your Workbench. New in this version is a completely reworked API, the AmIRC modul and a new ScreenType modul.
Donwload: DepthMenu.lha
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
OSNews
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OSNews: A Closer Look at MorphOS on the PEGASOS
Mike Bourma has edited for the online magazine 'OSNews' an article in English which deals with the advantages/disadvantages of the new PowerPC computer 'Pegasos'.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
Matay
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Matay: New software for Prometheus - PromUpdate 2.3
For the PCI busboard Prometheus there has been published the software PromUpdate
version 2.3. The update contains the following elements:
- prm-rtl8029.device V1.2 (fixed bug - it will just fail with prometheus.library 1.x instead of hanging up the system)
- prometheus.library V2.3 - prepared for firmware upgrade and DMA handling, can be used on old firmware however with all the drivers not using DMA (10 Mbit ethernet, S3Virge, Voodoo3, 4, 5)
- PrmScan V1.5
- DMAList V1.2 - a tool displaying allocated DMA buffers (requires Prometheus firmware upgrade)
- prometheus.card V6.506
- 3dfxvoodoo.chip V6.412
- emulation.library V40.893
- fastlayers.library V40.48
- rtg.library V40.3992
- Newer "vendors.txt" file used by PrmScan for identifying of PCI cards.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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09.Oct.2002
aseq (ANF)
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Aseq not delayed anymore
I managed to revive the bppc and bvision by flashing the rom.
So I can continue development normally (keeps fingers crossed ;)
Thanks for the response. (ps)
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09.Oct.2002
Ben Hermans (ANF)
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Hyperion completes Quake 2 Amiga port
Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the completion of its highly optimised Quake 2 port for the Amiga.
A bundle containing the full PC version and a separate CD with the Amiga executable, the Quake 2 installer, GUI and over 600 MB of (compressed) extras such as (nearly 40!) Quake 2 mods , levels and models, will be available shortly from your local dealer. Pricing may vary.
The game complies with all the usual quality standards for which Hyperion has become known in the Amiga market.
Users can register their copy of Quake 2 on the Hyperion website (www.hyperion-entertainment.com) to obtain support and download further mods and updates as they become available.
System requirements are as follows:
- PPC equipped Amiga (WarpOS)
- 64 MB of memory (more recommended for certain mods)
- Graphics-card (3D acceleration supported but not required)
Dealers interested in distributing this product may contact
Timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com.
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08.Oct.2002
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Version 2.0 of Videokonverter-GUI for ffmpeg + VideoCD-Authoring
Carsten Siegner wrote:
The GUI "Videokonverter" in version 2.0 is finished. I have build in all features of ffmpeg not suspending each other. New is the port for plugin's of other GUIs. A plugin named "VideoCD Authorung" is added. With this plugin you are able to create VideoCD for DVD-Players. This means only the Mode-2-Images are created.
You have to use a compatible Burning Software. A created sample from the plugin I burned with MakeCD and tested on a Panasonic DVD-RV41 and it runs without problems, but the burner has mentioned an error and stopped burning. The first few seconds were played. I have to fix this error and then it will be free for download.
Now you can burn nearly every video format to a VideoCD, usable on a DVD-Player. If you want to get the program now send an email to me.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Oct.2002
Computer City (E-Mail)
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Event: Pictures from the Computer City Pegasos Presentation
On October, 5th'2002 in Rotterdam (NL) at Computer City a presentation of
Pegasos took part. Under the title link you will find some pictures of it. The configuration of the computer you will find here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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08.Oct.2002
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Tool: Normalize Version 0.7.6
On October, 7th 2002 Fr3dY has released version 0.7.6 of the tool 'Normalize'. With this program you can regulate the volume of sound files (WAV, MP3, AIFF, NeXT/Sun, IRCAM).
Songs from different sources have different volumes you can now adjust onto the same level.
'Normalize' is available for the Amiga processors 68000, 68020, 68040, and 68060.
Download: normalize.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Oct.2002
Marco Neubauer (ANF)
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Installer: WHDLoad Version 15.1
On the WHDLoad website you can download the new version 15.1.
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:
- 07.10.02 New WHDLoad V15.1, minor fixes, manual translated to cz/de/fr, some changes on developer files
- 06.10.02 improved: Wild West World (Software 2000) supports another version
- 06.10.02 improved: Nebulus (Hewson) supports another version, new icons
- 06.10.02 fixed: Moonstone (Mindscape) intro sound fixed
- 06.10.02 improved: Maximum Overdrive 2 (Rage) interrupts fixed for 040/060, new icons
- 05.10.02 fixed: Hero Quest 2 (Gremlin) slave was missing
- 05.10.02 improved: A10 Tank Killer (Dynamix) another version supported
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Showed AmigaOne and Pegasos
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Showed AmigaOne and Pegasos
OULU, FINLAND - October 7th, 2002 - Finnish Amiga Users Group's annual
meeting was held in Oulu, Finland on September 28th, 2002. The meeting was
visited by some 60 people and this well exceeded last years visitor count.
This didn't come as a surprise, even though the location was a bit remote
for people living in the more populated south of Finland. After all, the
users group had a lot more to show this year.
Travelling all the way from Holland, Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal of
Coyote Flux/Thendic France, were there to demonstrate MorphOS on the
Pegasos. This was the first public demonstration of Pegasos in Finland.
Sharwin and Rakesh spent the entire afternoon showing off the speed and
capabilities of their machine. Impressive demonstrations included J Miner,
a photogrammetry software that created 3D images out of 2D photographs,
and various features of MorphOS and emulation software.
Also on hand to discuss their work on MorphOS were the Finnish developers
and long-time Amiga enthusiasts Teemu Suikki and Harry Sintonen. They
travelled quite a distance as well, paid by Thendic France. Tomi Ollila
of the original AmiTCP group was also present at the venue. Discussions
about computer technology, operating systems and life in general were
rampant throughout the day. Finnish Amiga Users Group offered free
refreshments to all visitors, and some of the people went on to continue
the discussions at a dinner later that night.
Gentle Eye Ky, the only active Amiga dealer in Finland, was also present
with some of their inventory and two interesting pieces of new technology.
The AmigaOneG3-SE and a prototype AmigaOne-XE motherboards were on display.
Unfortunately the AmigaOneG3-SE had no working BIOS and the AmigaOne-XE,
which was all ready to go and hooked up, didn't boot Linux all the way.
This may be due to a configuration error or the fact that it was only a
prototype. It was interesting to see AmigaOne there anyway.
Finnish Amiga Users Group also held their official annual meeting and the
club is moving ahead with the help of new people and new ideas - although
more input and involvement is always welcome. The event was covered on the
Internet via IRC, a Shoutcast audio connection, digital photography and a
webcam. Unfortunately technical problems delayed these services quite a bit.
More photographs and notes from the meeting will be made available via the
users group website (http://saku.amigafin.org) and the Saku e-zine.
Finnish Amiga Users Group is interested in showcasing all progress made in
the extended Amiga community. In addition to the above-mentioned people,
Amiga Inc. was also invited to participate. We were frequently asked about
this by our members and visitors, but unfortunately Amiga Inc. did not
respond to emails from group officials this time. We hope to display
AmigaDE and other products from Amiga in the future, like we did last year
with our demonstartions of the Party Pack and the AmigaDE Player.
If you or your company are interested in getting in touch with Finnish
Amiga users, please contact the chairman of the Finnish Amiga Users Group,
Anu Seilonen, at thoriel@sci.fi to organize something. You do not have to
come here in person, we are happy to demonstrate products for you at our
meetings. Finnish Amiga Users Group is operated by volunteers interested
in supporting a common hobby, so our services are usually free of charge.
The Finnish Amiga Users Group would like to extend its warmest thank you
to those who supported our meeting and made it a truly memorable event. We
look forward to bringing together like-minded computer hobbyists in the
future as well.
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (officially Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a
registered, non-profit organization dedicated to helping Finnish Amiga
computer users by preserving and advancing the Amiga hobby and knowledge
of the Amiga computing platform in Finland. The group aims to reach its
goals through volunteer efforts such as organizing events and publishing
an e-zine called Saku. (ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Martin Merz (ANF)
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New Themes for VisualPrefs
A new version of VisualMI is available on the MasonIcons homepage.
The following new themes were added: AmberMI, MirrorMI, WinMI and XenMI.
Please visit MasonIcons.de (title link) for further information.
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Official Amiga and Retro Computing 2002 Website on-line
Today the official website for the German Amiga exhibition of this year
is on-line. Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computer organizes this fair,
which will take place on 7th and 8th December 2002 in the Eurogress
Aachen. Thus Schönfeld breaks the good old tradition to let the
exhibition take place in Cologne but Aachen is a city worth seeing, and
the proximity to the Benelux countries is reliably a large advantage.
Refrained from it the organizer gets ready to break with another
tradition since he would like to turn around the trend of the last
years after, and attract more visitor than before.
The current website is only a preversion of the final one. It will be filled up with contnent bit by bit.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Oct.2002
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New Product Reviews Section in the Elbox website
You are welcome to visit the updated website of Elbox Computer.
A new section --Product Reviews--
has been added in the NEWS area.
The new Product Reviews section offers tests and comparisons made in the
Elbox laboratory as well as links to reviews of Elbox products published
in the Internet. If you know other reviews of Elbox products in the
Internet please inform us at webmaster@elbox.com.
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
Michael Mann (ANF)
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TV-ads
At the title link there are two TV-spots advertising for Amiga available for viewing and downloading.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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The music group Moods publishes the two-hundredth song
The music group Moods working on the Amiga published recently their
two-hundredth song in the Internet. This Goatrack by the German musician
Psycho is called "Schmerz_Verschmelzumg". All 200 songs are available as
med, mod and mp3 file and can be downloaded free of charge from the
MOODS-side. On further publications and contributions to various
scene parties must be counted - Keep the trackers rolling! (ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Oct.2002
Michael Carillo (ANF)
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WOASE - Quake 2 Announcement
World of Amiga Southeast 2002 is proud to announce that the Amiga
area will be demonstrating the soon to be released
Quake2 for AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4 by hosting a 4-player
deathmatch using the Roadshow TCP/IP service on a custom designed
Amiga level.
Come and marvel at one of the best games ever, now on the
Amiga platform, and look forwards to it appearing on the newest
incarnation of the Amiga platform.
All this and even more hot news to follow shortly. Buy your ticket now
from Fore-Matt Home Computing or
Kicksoft.
Tickets are only £3.50 (buy 5 or more you pay only £3.00 each).
World of Amiga Southeast 2002, Happens on the 2nd of November, Don't
miss it.
(ps)
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07.Oct.2002
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Classifying: Results for Sept./Oct. 2002
Here the results of the elections by September/October 2002 by Amiga Games Classifying:
- (1) Napalm - 140 pts
- (4) Quake - 124 pts
- (2) Payback - 118 pts
- (3) Earth 2140 - 108 pts
- (5) The Settlers - 103 pts
- (7) Slam Tilt - 99 pts
- (6) Heretic 2 - 77 pts
- (8) Worms / Worms DC - 73 pts
- (9) SWOS - 64 pts
- (10) WipEout 2097 - 57 pts
- (11) Foundation - 55 pts
- (21) Fields Of Battle - 50 pts
- (18) Xtreme Racing - 50 pts
- (15) Colonization - 47 pts
- (33) Simon The Sorceror 2 - 47 pts
- (13) Civilization - 47 pts
- (17) Exodus : The Last War - 46 pts
- (12) Shogo - 43 pts
- (28) Speedball 2 - 37 pts
- (25) Nightlong - 35 pts
The next on-line election of Amiga Games Classifying for Nov./December 2002 for the most popular plays will start in the middle of November.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Oct.2002
ANN
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A.D.A.: 9 new productions
On 5th October 2002, 9 productions have been added to the Amiga Demoscene
Archive (A.D.A.). The additions are:
- Big!/Ephidrena
- Toxik/Amnesty
- Elektroboy Inside/Smoke
- Multica/ Andromeda
- Prism/Melon Dezign
- Roots 2.0/ Sanity
- Television/Bizarre Arts
- Guardian Dragon/ Kefrens
- Groovy/Lemon
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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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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