13.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Full version update "Pferderennen 1.1b"
There is a new beta-version of the game "Pferderennen" ready for download. Pferderennen as the name says is match where you can back one from six horses.
Pferderennen offers:
- Entertainment for up to eight players
- Detailed "horsepowers" ;)
- Up to 30 stables with respective up to 50 horses
- A horses editor
- Possibility of saving game scores
A special thank to Markus Pohlmann who is the developer of "Pferderennen" for making this update possible despite the lack of time. Please send your feedback, ideas and bugs to Markus Pohlmann.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Update to Inga-developer packet version 1.0/6 beta
There is a new update of the Inga-developer packet. Inga is an engine for the classic graphic adventures like Monkey Island 3 which can be easily created with the help of this developer packet.
The update includes the following things:
- Inga-engine version 1.0/6 (beta)
- Audio-CDs can be played (via cdplay.library).
- New script commands: pre-loading, clearing, ilkabove, ilkdown, "LadeLaufkarte", "AusDieMaus", "Leistensperre", "LeistensperreAus" and menu.
- The two mouse colours were changed to be equal to the workbench-standard.
- Developer modus integrated. Thus it is possible to load old game scores with processed script versions. Besides this the inventar and the variables can be changed during the game.
ScriptShell version 1.1
In the new version the command list was put in an external file ("IngaCommands") from the program file. Thus you do not have to update the full program if there are new script commands.
There is also an English version of the "IngaCommand"-file so the script language can be also changed to English.
If you compile a log-file is created in the "Dats"-directory of the game ("ScriptShellLog") where all labels with their address pointers are listed. These will be required for the developer modus of the engine.
"OrtEditor" version 1.1
In a new menu you can select between German and English script-language. If you push the key <DEL> while positioning a graphic element the element will be invisible or visual again. This is very practical if you want to test if an element sits right on the background.
You can find the update as well as further information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Timo Kloss
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Graphic artists wanted for the adventure 'Ermentrud'
A graphic artist is searched for the graphic adventure "Ermentrud" for animating the persons. You have to paint the animation phases for already existing fixed-images. The graphics will be created with a
constant palette of 64 colours.
You can find further information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Foundation Gold update now available
Users of "Foundation: Gold Edition" will find an update which solves all of
the currently known problems with this edition of the game in the download
section of our homepage as well as on the Foundation Support page.
Users of
the Mission Pack CD "The Undiscovered Land" will find an about 2 Mbyte large
fix on the Foundation support site.
(ps)
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13.Mar.2002
Tom Duin (ANF)
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Tool: RealPlayerInfo 1.6 update
RealPlayerInfo 1.6 update. RealPlayerInfo shows the Title, Author and
Copyright text stored in Realmedia files. Included DefIcon for DefIcons
support. (ps)
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13.Mar.2002
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Sharp: New portal-site for Sharp Zaurus
Sharp has opened a German portal-site (title link) for the new Sharp PDA SL5500G to the Cebit. But you can see that this site is still under construction because many information sites are still empty.
The German homepage of Sharp was also completely new designed. In the section products you can now also find information to SL5500G. In the section Sharp Place / Office /PDA you can find an animated demo of the PDA.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)
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Now Amiga content is available - Anywhere and Everywhere
Amiga, Inc. announces the Amiga® Anywhere line of products
for PDAs, Cell Phones, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances, Desktops,
Digital TVs and more.
Now Amiga content is available - Anywhere and Everywhere
March 11th, 2002 - Snoqualmie, WA - Amiga, Inc. is pleased to introduce its new
line of products, a complete solution for the delivery of content to any type
of digital device with the express purpose of enriching the end user experience.
Amiga Anywhere, provides a revolutionary infrastructure for the production and
distribution of digital content emphasizing high performance, superb quality,
and minimal resource consumption.
With 3,000 developers already signed on, 67 titles available and hundreds more
in development, Amiga Anywhere brings developers and consumers together Anywhere
and everywhere on any and every digital device.
Through a long term partnership with the Tao Group, Amiga content and services
are now available for the vast majority of software platforms including the
various flavors of Microsoft Windows, Linux, Embedded Linux, Symbian OS and
VxWorks. The software runs unchanged on almost all of the mainstream
microprocessor families.
Bill McEwen, Amiga's President and CEO, said, "The Amiga community is renowned
world-wide for creating exciting applications. It has a heritage as one of the
leaders in the video game industry and film animation. Today, those skills are
being used in creating content that can run on almost any digital device and
will offer new levels of excitement as we move forward."
"In the two years since Tao and Amiga first began working together, our
relationship has progressively tightened," said Francis Charig, Chairman of
Tao. "Operators are seeking content that consumers will actually pay for,
portable content that runs across a broad range of appliances. Amiga is the
first company that has actually got content that fulfills this important
objective."
Amiga Anywhere capable devices have instant access to a rapidly growing
world of quality applications, exciting content and valuable services. Many
existing devices can become Amiga Anywhere capable while several new devices,
such as the Nokia MediaTerminal come with that capability as standard, offering
a compelling reason for customer purchase.
(ps)
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13.Mar.2002
Manfred Rauer (ANF)
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Bill McEwen to appear on TechTV
Amiga Inc. reports on its website that on 13.03.2002 Bill McEwen will present Amiga products in the show "Screen Savers" of the station TechTV.
TechTV has announced that McEwen will present AmigaDE on WindowsCE, Linux and on the media-terminal of Nokia.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Mar.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Mathias Roslund
Mathias Roslund is known to many users by his software "AMP". Besides "AMP", a multimedia player, he has ported many PPC emulators like FPSE, AmiGenerator, DarcNES and others.
Many thanks to Christian Busse for translation and follow the call of Mathias Roslund - send feedback, a feature request or simply a good joke!
You will find the interview here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Mar.2002
Onlinekosten.de
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Onlinekosten.de: Creative buys 3Dlabs for own gfxchips
3Dlabs, known as producer of
powerful 3D-gfxboards, was taken over by
Creative. More details you will find in the press release of 3Dlabs. Creative plans to produce its own gfxchips. Due to this transaction Creative will be a direct competitor with NVIDIA (Quadro4-Series).
Onlinekosten.de article (German): title link.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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12.Mar.2002
StrICQ (ANF)
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Instant-Messenger: StrICQ v2 Beta6
Douglas F. McLaughlin released beta 6 of the Instant-Messenger 'STRICQ'
(version 2). Compared to the previous version the following changes have
been made:
- Fixed the '*** NULL POINTER ***' text some people reported showing up
in the contact list. It was caused by sending or receiving a message
to/from a UIN in the 'Not in List' group.
- Now that the above bug is fixed, sending or receiving a message
to/from a UIN will cause that UIN to remain in the contact list
even after restarting STRICQ. However, there will be no status
changes for those UINs.
- When a UIN shows up in the 'Not in List' group, STRICQ will now
request that UIN's short info and display the Nick in the contact
list.
- Fixed a long-standing bug in the contact list display that would
cause a crash if the existing nick was changed after the UIN was
already inserted into the contact list.
Download: STRICQ v2 Beta 6 STRICQv2.lha
Installation tips:
STRICQ V2 is incompatible with STRICQ and must for this
reason be installed in its own directory.
At the moment STRICQ V2 can only be launched from a shell prompt.
There's a lot of debug output in the shell window, which can be
send to Douglas F. McLaughlin in case of occurring bugs.
Run the program. It won't get online right away. Enter your nickname,
your UIN and your password. Click 'Save'. Close the program by using
the close window button on the contact list window. Your prefs are
now saved. Restart the program and if all went well, you should now
be online. However, you should consider the following points:
- You cannot add contacts manually yet. If you have never used ICQ2001b,
don't bother using STRICQ V2 at this time.
- If you have used ICQ2001b before, STRICQ V2 will import your contact list
from the server
- If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it to Douglas F. McLaughlin
on the message base. You should use <pre></pre> tags.
- You will need the latest versions of NList, NListtree and TextInput.
Links for download are available at
STRICQ-Homepage
(ps)
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11.Mar.2002
H&P
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H&P: 1,000,000 visitors
H&P welcomed the 1,000,000. visitor of theire homepage at the last weekend. H&P: "We are proud of the interest for our webside
and we will do everything to offer an interesting page for you."
Congratulations! (ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Elbox (E-Mail)
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New Elbox-Tower: MIRAGE 4000
Elbox is offering a new Elbox A4000 tower that includes the Mediator 4000 PCI board and a 300w powersupply.
Features of the Mirage 4000 Pro:
- Mirage 4000 Tower-case with 300W powersupply
- Mirage A4000 Zorro III/PCI Busboard
- Mediator PCI 4000
- Mediator Multimedia CD
This case will be available from the 21. March 2002. Additional
information is available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Easter-events with individual Computers
Several events that are supported by individual Computers take place
around
Easter this year. Compuquick Media Center
will represent us at the Amiga Expo 2002 in Baltimore, MD.
Cloanto will make a very
good offer for the ISA version of the Catweasel controller at that show.
The Scene-event The Gathering
takes place in Norway, where our retail partner
Data Kompaniet will
hand over our contribution to the competition prices.
As in the past seven years, the scene-party
Mekka & Symposium takes place around Easter this
year as well in Fallingbostel, located between Hamburg and Hannover, Germany.
Just like in the past years, our biggest financial engagement is dedicated to
this party. In addition to prices worth more than 1000,- EUR alltogether for
the winners of the different multimedia competitions, we have arranged an
opening of a near LPG (autogas) filling station outside the usual shop hours
for party visitors. This will enable the drivers of enviroment-friendly and
cheap LPG-powered cars to refill for about 0,50 EUR/liter. We hope to attract
visitors from Belgium, the Netherlands and France with this, as LPG cars are
much more popular in those countries than in Germany. Closer informations
about this via E-Mail. (ps)
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11.Mar.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - AmigaXL Problem
Bug reports showed that the current version of DA III (v4.7) may cause problems with AmigaXL. For fixing this problem the next release will contain a NOJOYSTICK-tooltype.
Furthermore the upcoming update will contain:
- Online-access of GSC-2 catalogue of stars
- Improved zoom-function
The next update will already be available this week.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Tool: CVS 1.11.1p1 Amiga Port Bugfixupdate
There is a new update of the Amiga-port of CVS 1.11.1p1 by Olaf Barthel and Jens Langer available.
This update contains some minor bugfixes of a bug that is not fixed in the original unix version.
Download:
http://amcvs.light-speed.de/
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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11.Mar.2002
Urban Müller
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Aminet 47 problems
There were some problems during the production of the Aminet 47 CD's.
Unfortunately one CD was shipped. The new version of Aminet 47 will be
available in two weeks from now and will be shipped together with the
Aminet 48. Owner of the buggy version can execute the following command
to use the CD: "assign AMINET47: CD0:".
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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10.Mar.2002
osOpinion
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osOpinion: Microsoft - Apple's Enemy or Savior?
«Microsoft and Apple have enjoyed five years of symbiotic relations and are looking to make their ties span a decade. In an exclusive interview,
Kevin Browne, general manager of Microsoft's Mac business unit, told NewsFactor: "We felt that making the strongest possible statement of support
was vital to customer acceptance of OS X, so Office v.X runs only on OS X.
We're out of business if OS X does not succeed."»
Please read the complete article under the title link. (sd)
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10.Mar.2002
CyberGFX
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Mediator: Vendors.txt with ca. 85 updates
The vendors.txt for
the Mediator PCI board from Elbox was updated on Sat, 16 Feb 2002.
There are about 85 new cards added,
updated or changed. You can find a link on the Mediator Software Page page.
(sd)
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10.Mar.2002
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)
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Games: playamiga.de as developer portal
Jürgen A. Theiner writes:
I have a dream: Soon there'll be as many cool fun games (Moorhuhn, Sven Bomwollen)
on Amiga as on the PC. And: I have an idee how we can accomplish this:
if some coders, graphicers and musicians get in touch with me, we can actually
found our own developer team
Get in touch.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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10.Mar.2002
Amiga Future
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WWW: JunkBuster V2.9.11 Beta
On 4 March 2002 the beta version V2.9.11 of 'JunkBuster' was already
released. 'JunkBuster' is an open-source web proxy with filtering
capabilities to protect privacy, filter web page content, manage cookies,
control access and remove ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious
Internet junk.
This proxy can be used on your PC and in multi-user networks. It's
available for AmigaOS, MacOS X, OS/2, Unix and Windows.
Junkbuster was originally written by JunkBusters Corporation and was
released as free open-source software under the GPL. Stefan Waldherr made
many improvements and started the project
SourceForge to continue development.
Download: junkbuster_2_9_11.lha (211K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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