01.Jun.2002
CyberGFX
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Mediator: 2nd version of PatchInt
PatchInt is to solve a lockup problem with the Mediator board
in connection with a SoundBlaster and FastEthernet card.
The corresponding text from the CyberGFX site:
'Mr. Matthew Allatt
has released a new (2nd release) PatchInt. He writes: "Just a quick email to
let you know that I've made a small alteration to PatchInt. I was getting
some distortion when playing MP3's through SoundBlaster, which I've never
heard before, and wasn't because of my speakers being crap. I don't know
if anyone else has had that problem, but I'm hoping that this version
should clear that up".
You can find information on PatchInt and all other Mediator programs
on the 3rd
Party Mediator Software Page.'
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
David Zaroski (gg-ML)
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Geek Gadgets: Server upgrade on 6th June
Presumably on 6th June 2002, geekgadgets.org's Server
will be upgraded and not be available for at least 6-12 hours. Date and duration of downtime is still subject to change. Geek Gadgets apologizes for any possible inconvenience this may cause.
Geek Gadgets provides a.o. Amiga versions of gcc,
ixemul.library and many GNU and Unix packages for download.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
AMIGA Freunde Pfalz, Mario Schröder (ANF)
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Event: AMIGA Freunde Pfalz Party starts in a few days
Mario Schröder writes:
Soon it's the time of year again. In only a few days the three days long mega party of AMIGA Freunde Pfalz will start.
The event will take place from 7th to 9th June 2002 in Mutterstadt.
As always our party is a popular meeting place for all Amiga friends with and without hardware. Questions,
problems and help for everyone, as well as presentation of own projects.
Guests and visitors are very welcome. Further information as well as an itinerary etc. can be gathered from our homepage.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Gamasutra
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Gamasutra: Technology Inspires Creativity: Indie Game Jam Inverts Dogma 2001
Developing games today is very time consuming and costly. Furthermore,
developers tend to first concentrate on familiarizing with new hardware
to technically make the best use of it. Both go at the expense of new
game ideas. In above article Ernest Adams describes the "Indie Game Jam"
as antipole to currently adopted game development practice.
The basis for this jam was the question of how many sprites you can display
on screen nowadays. After a bit of research, the answer was "round about
100,000". This served as the basis for the development of a simple games engine.
A small group of games developers was then invited to the "Indie Game Jam",
who then went on to develop 12 news games within 4 days.
The article describes the surroundings and the games, and offers concluding
information in an interview with Chris Hecker, one of this meeting's organisators.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Kultpower.de
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Kultpower.de: 10 new Powerplay covers
Already on 29th May 2002 the website Kultpower.de
has been extended with 10 Powerplay covers. These were sent in by Gisbert. The issues
in question are:
- 1988: Happy Computer Special 3, Happy Computer Special 4
- 1991: Power Play PC
- 1994: Tips & Tricks
- 1995: PowerPlay Online, Weihnachts-Special, Tips & Tricks
- 1998: Strategie-Special, Tips & Lösungen, Fußball-WM-Special (how fitting ;-)
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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FreeCD: Paranoia 2 and Digital Maps
Patrick Henz has published two new CDs in his FreeCD series under the names
of "Paranoia 2" (Amiga games) and "Digital Maps" (maps, HTML/JPEG).
Paranoia 2
contains Boogie Nights, Cybernetix, Dope Wars, Rage Hard Video, Rattlesnake,
Roadkill AGA, Seek and Destroy, Woodys World, Woodys World, Zombie Massacre
and Zombie Massacre 2 for Amiga computers.
Digital Maps
contains maps from all over the world. Among these are maps of cities as well as
historical and geographical maps. Also included is a map of the world's youngest
country: East Timor.
All maps are available in JPG format. A search is possible through the HTML menu
and the personal WWW browser's search function. The CD is thus system indepentent.
The CDs can be ordered under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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PowerD: AmiTCP Modules, AmiTCP Examples
On 31st May 2002, the AmiTCP developer kit "AmiTCP Modules" as well as
the archive "AmiTCP Examples" with two examples for TCP/IP programming
have been published for Martin Kuchinka's PowerD programming language.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Datatype: ilbmdtPPC V45.9 by Stephan Rupprecht
On 1st June 2002, Stephan Rupprecht has published version 45.9 of his
ILBM PPC Datatype for displaying IFF ILBM pictures.
Compared to the previous version, the following changes have been made:
- Bug fix: Because of the change in version 45.7 b/w and greyscale pictures
couldn't be loaded anymore (greyscale pictures already didn't work before that).
- Bug fix: As the OS picture.datatype doesn't pass on HAM and EHB pictures
in Chunky format correctly, a workaround for this has been incorporated.
The Datatype runs with AmigaOS 3, CPU 020+, PPC 603+ as well as picture Datatype V43+.
Download: ilbmdtPPC.lha (17K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
ANN
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ANN: More than 3 million visitors
The imprecise graphical counter of English language Amiga news service
Amiga Network News (ANN) by Christian Kemp
has exceeded the 3 million mark.
According to the ANN server logs, currently about 12,500 pages are accessed
every day. Thereby ANN is accessed from more than 40,000 different hosts.
Since ANN introduced dynamic web pages in 1998, more than 4,500 news items and
more than 58,000 comments have been published.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Patbest (ANF)
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Amithlon: Amigabest.com updated
The Amigabest.com website with much
information about Amiga emulator "Amithlon" has been updated. The site
now also works smoothly with IBrowse and AWeb.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Rudi (ANF)
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Emulators: New website - AMI.lator
Rudi writes:
In the meantime, I have completed my Amiga emulator page to the extent
that I feel I can present it to the broad Amiga public.
AmiLator.de is not yet finished by far!, e.g. my "News" system
has to be reworked completely...
Maybe someone from the Amiga community would like to write for
AmiLator.de: re.
-Emulators & Co...
Please take a look.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Amiga Future
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with strips 199-203
Already on 27th and 29th May 2002, strips 199-203 have been added to the German
language version of Eric W. Schwartz's comic strip series "Sabrina Online".
The added strips are:
- 199 - Kindermund tut Wahrheit kund
- 200 - Das sind dann etwa vierzig Strips pro Jahr (dieser Strip in Farbe)
- 201 - Kein allzu schlechtes Angebot
- 202 - Intuition
- 203 - Abschiedsgeschenk
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Tristan "TriMa" Mangold (ANF)
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IRC: New #AmigaFun homepage
Tristan Mangold writes:
Today the new #AmigaFun homepage has gone online.
Despite some display errors with AWeb and some unsupported
HTML tags with IBrowse, the page is displayed nearly identical everywhere.
#AmigaFun is an IRC channel which is at home on the Phat Net servers.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Extreme Computing Festival 2002 on 9th June
On 9th June 2002 the "Extreme Computing Festival 2002" will be held
in London. This event offers a wide variety of themes from self-constructed
robots over retro video games and Community Wireless Networking up to
Japanese junk food. The Amiga sector will be represented by
CAPS (The Classic Amiga Preservation Society).
CAPS is an organisation which has made it its objective to collect and
preserve Amiga originals, especially games.
CAPS will present itself and hand out a limited number of free copies of
"Abandoned Places 2". Furthermore there will be a couple of Amiga games
for playing on location.
Further information about this event and the list of exhibitors (a.o. also
from the C64 sector) are available through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2002
Martin Blom (Amithlon-ML)
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Amithlon: Enforcer clone
Martin Blom (AHI) has developed an Enforcer clone for Amithlon.
The tool can generate 680x0 as well as x86 hits. Amongst its
features are:
- 680x0 and x86 hits.
- Reporting of read access to page 0 (with the natural exception of Exec Base address 4).
- Support for SegTracker.
Enforcer is a debugging tool for Amiga computers for recognising illegal or unwanted
memory access.
Download: run_elf-1.6.lha
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01.Jun.2002
Ruben Monteiro (Amiga Open-ML)
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AmigaDE: Ogg Vorbis decoder "jorbis" (Java)
According to Ruben Monteiro in the Amiga Open mailing list, the Ogg
Vorbis decoder "jorbis",
which has been programmed in Java, runs under AmigaDE.
This decoder decodes the Ogg Vorbis audio stream into a file. For
replay, an additional sound player is needed. Note: The player
on the Jorbis site needs JavaSound and doesn't run under AmigaDE
at the moment.
The Ogg Vorbis format is an
Open Source audio format which is an alternative to MP3.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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31.May.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Workshop: Building in Busboard Mediator PCI 3/4000T (shortened)
Author: Mirko Naumann
With the Mediator PCI 3/4000T busboard Elbox offers a very good solution for owners of a A4000-T or A3000-T who wants to extend their Amiga with modern PCI-interfaces. The technical equipment is more than sufficient - the only disadvantage is the lack of an AGP-slot but which has none of the up to now available PCI-extensions.
Building in the board is much more difficult than Elbox writes it in its documentation. First you have to fix the board on the mainboard. For that Elbox delivers ten brass-coloured bolts with thread of which you need five for fixing the board. Unfortunately the gradient of the screws in my A4000-T did not fit with the one of the bolts.
Well, what is to do? I could not find matching screws at the PC-dealers and I did not want to cut the threads. So you have to remove the screws and to fix the bolts with matching nuts on the main board. It is also annoying that the board hides the connection of the clock-battery and of the internal speakers. By bending the contacts it works but thats not a professional solution which you can expect.
Here there are some useful links to this topic:
Remark of the editing stuff:
In this connection please read the paragraph ´Exclusion of liability´ in our Legal Infos.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
InstallerNG Website
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InstallerNG possibly becomes part of AmigaOS 4 (update)
The installing-tool InstallerNG of Jens Tröger possibly becomes part of AmigaOS 4.
Update: The word "possibly" has been added.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: EU-parliament said yes to data retention
Despite of many protests the EU-parliament has agreed to loosen the data protection in the EU.
»The passed order "about the processing of personal data and the protection of the private sphere in the electronic communication" enables the memebership states to loosen the regulation of protection for data of connections to "carry out penal persecution and to save the national and public safety. Thus the way is free for the so called data retention.
Data retention means that the data of connections of the participant of the telecommunication are not only individually saved and kept after an official order but for all participants in advance and without a starting suspicion. Because of that the authorities can use also data which are far away in the past. Up to now the data of connections had to be deleted after 80 days after making the calculation.
Data protectors and people of the human rights warn before such a general data saving because thereby they say the fundamental rights for private sphere and freedom of opinion are endangered. Besides this such actions mean a turn away from the assumption of innocence because the data retention above all disadvantage the innocent poeple. Even the committee of the civil rights of the EU voted against it. The 16206 signers of a summons to the parliament refer to it.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Version 1.25 of RunTime uploaded on Aminet
Steffen Nitz wrote:
I have just uploaded a new version of RunTime on Aminet. It could be take
some days until the version will be published.
RunTime is a Computer-runtime-monitor which saves all possible data and
shows them as beam-diagramms.
New in version 1.25:
- Daily calculation of the average runtime of the computer but also of
the annual and complete statistics.
Users who do not want to wait a day until the new version will be
published on Aminet can contact Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de
to get the version via email.
Download: RunTime.lha (can still take some days until the file is available on Aminet).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.May.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Felix Schwarz (IOSPIRIT)
After we have not heard much of the software publisher "Innovative" we
were surprised that on April the chief developer Felix Schwarz has come
back with his newly founded company "IOSPIRIT" and new software-products!
Should this be a first sign of a change at the weakened Amiga market?
In this interview Amiga Arena talks with Felix Schwarz about his reasons
to go on developing for the Amiga market, about his new software products
as well as further new developments.
Felix Schwarz explains how he has found a solution for himself to
simultaneously support AmigaOS, MorphOS and emulators and how he is
able to do something against not permitted copying.
I completely agree with Felix Schwarz when he says: "Negative signs, negative effect - postive thinking and good products, positive feedback. Let's tackle!"
Finally it is in the hands of the users if they want to set a sign by buying Amiga products and thus make further developments possible.
Direct link: Interview in German
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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