02.Jun.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena - Full version of "Samba Partie AGA/ECS" and redesign
With the approval of Jo Seitz (Sayonara Software), Amiga Arena
enabled the release of the full version of the football manager
"Samba Partie AGA/ECS".
This is the first part of the "Samba" series.
Besides lots of other features, the football manager also has an action part
where you can actively play with your team.
Amiga Arena has been allowed to release further games by "Sayonara Software"
in the future. Yet, for this we need your help, as we don't have all games
at our disposal!
We are looking for the following software items:
- Diego - Football manager
- WHLM - Ice Hockey manager
- Samba Partie prof. - Football manager with action part
- Travel-Manager - Travel simulation
- Hollywood Pictures - Manager
- Samba World Cup - Football manager with action part
Please contact: Olaf Köbnik.
Amiga Arena - "Full version" redesign
The Amiga Arena Full versions have been divided into new areas.
Besides the familiar download facilities for commercial software and
shareware programs, the areas have been restructured, and with
"Applaud Software", "Sayonara Software" and "Vulcan Software"
three new areas have been added.
Here you will be able to find - apart from the well-known games of the software houses - level codes, cheats, screenshots as well as reviews of the products.
Furthermore, we are looking for the game "DNA" by "Applaud Software"!
Have fun with our offerings! Amiga Arena. (ps) (Translation: cb)
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02.Jun.2002
Marcel Rohles (ANF)
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Survey about Tukult, the Space-Rat adventure
A poll about the systems to be supported has been started on the new
homepage of Tukult, an adventure game in development about Space-Rat.
As the first drafts had been made on an Amiga, and the author
used to be an Amiga user then, in the case of an adequate turnout there
should be a very realistic chance of an Amiga port.
Direct links to the poll: German see title link, English
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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02.Jun.2002
Suite101.com
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John Chandler: Turn The Page
At Suite101.com, John Chandler writes an article about Amiga in
regular intervals. In the new article, Chandler is dealing with
the fact that there aren't any books to buy about the Amiga
anymore, and makes proposals how this situation might be changed.
(ps) (Translation: cb)
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02.Jun.2002
Matthias M. (ANF)
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Jabberwocky Homepage moved
The homepage from Jabberwocky, the Jabber client for Amiga, has moved to
http://jabberwocky.amigaworld.de/.
Please update all your bookmarks/links. Thanks. (ps)
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02.Jun.2002
Mikey C (ANF)
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Total Amiga Magazine Scores a Hat Trick!
It's World Cup time and to celebrate we too have a hat trick of good news
to tell you about. Issue 11 of Total Amiga Magazine has sold out at our HQ.
There are no copies left! So we are sending on the substitute and going
for a second print run of this month's 48 page packed issue.
We are over the moon to announce that like other previous Amiga
Magazines in the past, Total Amiga Magazine has now got its own open
mailing list on yahoo groups. To subscribe send an email to
totalamiga-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Full details and more on our website (title link).
(ps)
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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
(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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