02.Jun.2002
Ben Hermans (E-Mail)
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AmiDock for AmigaOS 4 - New informations
A lot of users have questions about the new version of AmiDock that will be
included with OS 4, especially regarding the differences between the OS 3.9 and
the OS 4.0 version.
Here are the answers by Stefan Robl, the author of AmiDock.
The OS4.0 version of AmiDock is an almost completely rewrite of the version
included with OS3.9 and a lot of outstanding issues were fixed.
The new design comes with a much improved layouter which arranges all types of
icons very well (from very tiny to really big ones).
A very nice new feature is the interactive mode of AmiDock which allows the user
to arrange, add, remove icons, categories and even docks directly using the
mouse without the need to open the configuration dialog.
AmiDock now also supports button type docks allowing for numerous objects
(programs, files) to be available at once as this mode consumes very little
"desktop real-estate".
With OS4.0's AmiDock, docks can now have their drag bar on all four possible
sides of a dock; each dock is now also minimizeable to conserve space.
The new AmiDock is now up to ten times faster than the old version (depending on
the number of icons visible at load time).
The most interesting new feature is the possibility to have active content
within a dock through plug-ins.
A plug-in of AmiDock is called a "docky". Each docky has full access to all of
AmiDock's functionality and can provide for a virtually endless number of
features. The usage of dockies is very transparent - throw in a docky and it
will work (and vice versa).
A number of dockies will already be included with OS4.0; one of the most
requested features - subdocks - was made possible using a docky. There is also a
docky which minimizes a dock automatically if the mouse pointer is no longer
over the dock. Other included dockies allow you to have clock, a lens,
animations and other active content within a dock.
The most thrilling stuff will surely come from third party programmers in the
form of third-party dockies (the API will be released with OS4.0) - just imagine
having the current network traffic, the printer status, the current rendering
process of your raytracer and other similarly useful things in the form of a
small and corresponding picture within your dock.
This is just the beginning, we are planning a lot more useful features for
AmiDock which may or may not be ready in time for OS 4.0.
(ps)
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02.Jun.2002
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Internet: FakeUUCP V0.41 (POP3/SMTP/NNTP for Microdot)
Rudolph Riedel writes:
Stefan Huelswitt just mailed me that FakeUUCP 0.41
is now available for download on his homepage.
In fact with source code in C under GPL V2.
FakeUUCP is a program for teaching Microdot1 to use
POP3/SMTP/NNTP.
As Stefan gave up the Amiga some time ago, this should be the last version done by him.
Download: FakeUUCP0.41.lha (167K),
History
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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02.Jun.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: New survey - Amiga as main computer?
Today the new survey "Do you want to use the Amiga as your main
computer in the future?" on the Amiga Future homepage was
started. Furthermore the result of the previous survey
"Are Amiga Inc. going the right way into the future?" has been
published in the homepage's
Interactive area.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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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
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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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