25.May.2002
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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New SimpleMail version (0.16)
The new version 0.16 of SimpleMail has been published.
Changes:
- Needs version 18.12 of NListtree
- Faster mail list
- Scroll bars in read window for Datatypes
- Drag and Drop from read window to Workbench (needs OS3.9)
- A couple of new config options on the receive mail page
- Two new filter actions
- Better cancel on send/fetch of mails
- Bug fixes
Download: simplemail.lha (373 KB)
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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25.May.2002
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: 15 new AmigaJoker reviews of 1992
Finally there is once again a purely Amiga update with reviews of 15
Amiga classics: Amberstar, Another World, Das schwarze Auge - Die
Schicksalsklinge, Double Dragon 3, Dynablasters, Elvira 2, Eye of the
Beholder 2, Fire and Ice, Jim Power, Larry 5, Pinball Dreams, Project-X,
Shadowlands, Wolfchild.
With this the number of AmigaJoker reviews has increased to 166.
Have fun!
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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24.May.2002
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DCE: New website online
DCE has completely reworked its website and created a new and very clear layout. After a first visit you can recognize that the website can be visited with Amiga browsers without any problems and that the download area with driver software is online again.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.May.2002
Paul Qureshi (ANF)
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Update to the AmiMPC In Car MP3 Player Web Site
I made some updates to my in-car MP3 player web site, with details of
a new head-unit I made. It looks much better than the old one, almost
'factory' (i.e. and original part of the car). It also has a new digital
potentiometer based volume control which is much better than the old one
(no more skipping). (ps)
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24.May.2002
Günther Klug Frh. v. Biedermann (E-Mail)
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Hint: Restoring of unreadable disks
Author: Günther Klug Frh. v. Biedermann
Preliminary remark:
I had some problems with the hd-floppy-drive in my A4000. Write errors were reported when copying/deleting on/of hd-disks. The attempts to format this disk also failed with the following message:
"DF0 unreadable" or "no valid disk in drive DF0" and so on.
I asked on the #AC-forum for help and I was said to clean the drive. I did it and the drive worked again.
But I could not format the "damaged" hd-disks.
But I did not want to give up and I therefore tryed to format them with "OFS" (488 bytes/block)...
...and it worked!
But because this does not work with WB3.1 and menu "pictprogram/format..." I did it over the SHELL with:
SYS:System/format DRIVE DF0: NAME Empty OFS NOINTL NODIRCACHE NOICONS
Yes and then I formatted it back to FFS - now also with the WB-menu or with
SYS:System/format DRIVE DF0: NAME Empty FFS NOINTL NODIRCACHE NOICONS
And look, I could format it with FFS!!
I guess that you could not restore every damaged disk but I think it is worth trying it!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.May.2002
Bitplane
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Print magazine: Bitplane issue #3
Issue #3 of the Italian print magazine Bitplane has been almost finished. Within the next days this issue will be sent to the subscribers and trader.
Content:
- Amiga Anywhere special
- Interview with Bjorn Lynne
- Review to Zorro II board Repulse Gold
- comparison of Mediator 4000 and Prometheus
- SoundFX
- AmiBlitz2
- Alt.OS zone
- Review to Descent: Freespace
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.May.2002
AMIGAplus
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Mediator: SuperTV V0.5 beta
SuperTV is a new Gui-front-end of Peter Gordon for watching TV with the help of the PCI-busboard Mediator which offers many features like frame-modus without a border, change of the channel with the numeric keypad etc. You can find the current version 0.5 beta on the 3rd Party Mediator Software page of VGR (title link).
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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24.May.2002
AmiDog's Movie Player
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AmiDog: AMP movieplayer beta version 020523
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has published a new beta version of his movieplayer for PPC ´AMP´. Currently with ´AMP´ you can play the following multimedia types:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audiostreams
- AC3 streams
- (S)VCD, CD-i and DVD
Download: AMP2-BETA-020523.lha (Beta)
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23.May.2002
ANN
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AmigaRulez: Interview with Martin Blom (AHI)
Johan 'Graak' Forsberg of AmigaRulez has interviewed Martin Blom who is the author of AHI.
You can find the English spoken interview under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2002
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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Introduction of Pegasos on 'neues' on 3Sat cancelled
The introduction of the Pegasos system with MorphOS on the TV show 'neues' on 3Sat has been cancelled.
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23.May.2002
Ron van Herk/Compcity Sjoerd de Vries/AGGF SalesDepartment/Eyetech
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AmigaOne G3 presentation in Leeuwarden uncertain
As reported on May 13th, 2002 it is planned to present a full working AmigaOne G3 at the AGGF-meeting on May 25th, 2002 in Leeuwarden. Unfortunately it can be not guaranteed that this presentation will take place because according to Eyetech the board can be only sent on Friday by UPS. Therefore it is uncertain if the board will arrive on Saturday in time.
Read the original message:
Originally Computer City (the 13-5 announcement) planned to show a working
AmigaONE in Leeuwarden on saturday the 25th. We now can not gaurantee that
this will happen. According to the Eyetech the board will be send on
Friday by UPS express and we hope it will arrive on Saturday. But we, AGGF
and Computer City, can't guarantee that we receive this board on Saturday.
For the people which are traveling from far, we let you now as soon as
possible if the AmigaONE is received by Computer City on Saturday so that
you won't travel for nothing. Offcourse our market with new and secondhand
Amiga stuff will normally be hold in Leeuwarden.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2002
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Kyocera and Tao Set New Standards for PDAs
Release of best-in-class `Pocket Cosmo'
E3, Los Angeles, Ca., May 22nd 2002 - Kyocera Corporation has announced 'Pocket Cosmo', its next generation PDA based on Tao's intent® universal multimedia platform. This will be sold from the end of July, initially targeted at the networks and at corporate users. The Pocket Cosmo device will be able to deliver a new level of richer contents to the user. Kyocera believes that it is these richer contents that will drive the rapid growth of the mobile data communication market.
Kyocera has used Tao Group's intent embedded application environment including its native operating system. Together they enable a very small memory footprint and hitherto unmatched performance levels. Due to the performance of intent, the new PDA runs Java(TM) programs many times faster than any other client device and it has levels of multimedia functionality never before seen on mobile handsets enabling the kind of content upon which consumers will place a very high premium.
The Pocket Cosmo Fast Java environment enhances the usability of the PDA. Its first iteration supports Tao's intent PersonalJava(TM) edition which is Sun Microsystems-branded and compatible with PersonalJava 1.2. intent is the first practical Java execution environment for these kinds of devices.
The user interface of the Pocket Cosmo is entirely original with rich menus supporting 3D movement and smooth scrolling and with instantaneous switching of applications.
Hirao Nishiguchi, President of Kyocera said, "We are aiming to deliver new services, ones which customers can easily utilize and derive real value. Combining the technologies at Kyocera with the Tao expertise has allowed us to develop this extremely exciting Pocket Cosmo PDA."
Francis Charig, Executive Chairman of Tao Group said at the E3 show in Los Angeles, "The work undertaken by Kyocera to develop a truly intuitive interface has been inspirational. Kyocera is sending out a signal to manufacturers and carriers that by using intent as the language independent, universal multimedia platform they can create their own brand recognition in a way that would be impossible with any other software technology. Kyocera has developed a product that proves that there is software technology existing already today that enables the running of content in an easy-to-use manner that really does meet the expectations of the consumer. Pocket Cosmo is a ground breaking product and Kyocera has set a new benchmark in the market place."
Kyocera was one of the founder members of the Open Contents Platform Association [OCPA] in October 2001 and its President, Yasuo Nishiguchi, is the OCPA's Chairman. The OCPA's objective is to deliver rich media contents across a common platform and it has adopted Tao's intent as the core software for the standardization. The launch of the OCPA was only 8 months ago, and this is the first Kyocera product to utilize intent.
Komplette Pressemeldung siehe Titellink.
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23.May.2002
bruZard's blitzbasic
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BlitzBasic: Update for Blitz2D/3D to version 1.75
Blitz3D has now a seperate model format. You can find the appendant specifications and a suitable Milkshape3D exporter on the "SDK and Specs"-site. The file format is Public Domain so everybody can write a importer/exporter for his favourite modelling-software (who the knowledge has). If you need help you can contact Marc Silby.
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23.May.2002
Digital Almanac Homepage
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III with DSS-support
Achim Stegemann has made it to build in DSS-images in DA III. It is still not the final state but it works!
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What is DSS (Digitized Sky Survey)?
The whole sky has been iinputted as digital picture information with the help of most modern telescopes. These information are on several servers of the world. You only have to input a coordinate or the name of the object as well as the size of the picture (in angle) and immedately the server sends back a pictute of the sky with the inputted area.
- How does it work in DA III?
Because of technical details the performance of DSS-pictures is only possible in the planetary mode and from an opening angle of 3 degree. Instead of it it is possible to fade in the names of the stars and the deep-sky as well as the size of the objects. The stars and DS-objects are not drawn.
Click here for an example picture. This shows the Andromeda-fog with its accompanists with DSS-integration.
Currently the picture size is limited to 300x300 pixles but I hope I can change it soon. Instead of it the picture is loaded rather fast.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2002
SDI
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Dirk Stöcker: Software updates
On May 20th, 2002 Dirk Stöcker has published new version of his programs and updated his website:
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23.May.2002
CyberGraphX Home Page
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Forefront Technologies, Inc. website ready (ATI-Radeon driver)
As we have already reported in the middle of January 2002 the company Forefront Technologies Inc. (formerly Progressive Data Systems) will create the ATI-Radeon-drivers.
Meanwhile its website has been completed with current technical information to the driver as well as to the AmigaOne.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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23.May.2002
Marco Miljak (E-Mail)
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StarGATE Newsletter 21/05/2002
Marco Miljak writes:
Dear Amiga users,
unfortunately I have bad news: The StarGATE website as well as the mail
distribution list will be closed down because of three basic reasons:
- I don't believe in an Amiga revival anymore.
- Developing Amiga software needs a lot of work and time. And due to
No. 1 I don't think it makes sense anymore.
- Because of my studies my sparetime is very rare and I don't want to
spend it on Amiga anymore.
However, I want to thank everyone who encouraged and supported me in the
past, in the first place Petra Struck from amiga-news.de!
The StarGATE site will remain online for about 4 or 5 months and will then
be shut down. The mail addresses in the distribution list will be deleted.
Sincerely,
Marco Miljak (ps)
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23.May.2002
Elbox (E-Mail)
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Elbox: NEW drivers for FastATA 4000 and FastATA ZIV controllers
ELBOX COMPUTER has released today the NEW drivers for FastATA 4000
(Power Flyer 4000, Winner 1200 High-Speed) and FastATA ZIV controllers:
- FastATA.driver ver. 2.5
- FastATAPrefs ver. 2.5
- AllegroCDFS ver. 3.3
The compatibility with AmigaOS3.9 with BB2 has been added. From
FastATA.driver ver. 2.5 on, there is no need to add the 'SKIPROMUPDATES
scsi.device' or 'NONSD' options in the Setpatch command.
For more info about FastATA 4000 controller see here.
For more info about FastATA ZIV controller see here. (ps)
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23.May.2002
Elbox (E-Mail)
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Elbox: NEW drivers for FastATA 1200 controller
ELBOX COMPUTER has released today the NEW drivers for FastATA 1200
(Power Flyer 1200, Winner 1200 High-Speed) controller:
- ATA3.driver ver. 6.1
- ATA3Prefs ver. 6.1
ATA3.driver:
- Corrected procedure of PIO mode changes on the fly
ATA3Prefs:
- Error made good in displaying the MASTER/SLAVE description in ATA3prefs
For more info about FastATA 1200 controller see
here.
(ps)
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23.May.2002
ANN
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AIO: Interview with Ed Bartlett of 'The Bitmap Brothers'
Chris Seward of AIO has interviewed Ed Bartlett of the The Bitmap Brothers. You can find the interview under the title link under "interviews" or follow the direct link.
'The Bitmap Brothers' are well-known to the Amiga users with games like 'Speedball I and II', Xenon, Cadaver and of course Chaos Engine. Meanwhile games will be developed for PC, PlayStation2 and the XBox.
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23.May.2002
ANN
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The OS Blues: Amiga still better than PC shock
Under the title link you can find an amusing English spoken article of Arron Rouse of 'The OS Blues' where the computer history is illustrated from 1971 up to today and where the AMIGA has a solid place as a good operating system.
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