05.Feb.2002
ANN
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Older interview with Bill McEwen from Steve Folberg
Steve Folberg has published an older unreleased interview with Bill McEwen on his website. This interview was made at the Amiga2001 for the AmigaWorld #5, but was not released there. You will find the long and interesting interview here.
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05.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Games: Charts from AGC (Amiga Games Classifying)
AGC has released the Charts January/February 2002 of the most popular games. The first three places are Quake, Napalm, and Payback. In March 2002 starts the poll for March/April 2002.
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05.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Matay: P96-Drivers only on request
Matay has removed the archive with the P96-drivers V2.1a for Prometheus from the server and will send the archive only on request via email. It will be available again later on when a registration process will be implemented. Owners of a Prometheus board can get it sending an email to info@matay.pl. Matay has decided to do so because also users without a Prometheus board are using these drivers.
You find this text at the archive:
"This archive has been deleted from the page because of numerous downloads
by people who don't have Prometheus boards but are still using our page to
recieve a full archive of shareware program. In short future there will be
a questionary veryfing and writing down all necessary data of the one who
is downloading. Till then, please inquire to info@matay.pl, we will send you
this archive on your email account. Thank you, Matay team"
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Feb.2002
David McMinn (ANF)
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Programming Language: AmiBlitz2 Version 2.24
Version 2.24 of the programming language AmiBlitz has been published.
If you have bug reports please do not send them to the uploader but
to the mailinglist to avoid double bug reports.
In order to subscribe the mailinglist please send a mail to
blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
For unsubscribing please send a mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
Download:
amiblitz2_distro.lha
Original message:
The Blitz2000 site is dedicated to bringing you the best
information and resources about the programming language AmiBlitz2
(formerly Blitz Basic 2). It has been updated and a new version of
AmiBlitz2 has been released (v2.24 - both an update and a full
user-distribution). Loads of other smaller updates have been made
(mainly more documentation and source examples).
Check out the news page for a full list of changes.
(ps)
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04.Feb.2002
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Morpheus Security Bug at last public
Once more Amiga users are informed faster and better than the PC world.
As the Amiga Security Page
is already reading since 24. August 2001, Morpheus clients can be spied using a simple web browser and
avoid any file sharing settings of the client.
This concerns all P2P clients using the Morpheus protocoll. See also
description of Morpheus on the ASP.
BTW: Now there also is a topical virus / trojan list on the ASP sponsored by
Sophos Anitvirus.
See title link for the Heise article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Feb.2002
OSNews/ANN (ANF)
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Running AmigaOS on a PC: Review of Amiga XL
OSNews is running a review of AmigaXL, a system that allows you to boot
AmigaOS on your PC in a way that resembles a regular-booting x86
operating system. Screenshots accompany the article show the latest
version of AmigaOS 3.9 running on a Compaq laptop. With AmigaOS 4.0
coming out in March with lots of new features (antialias fonts, better
memory protection etc) is AmigaXL the one true future of Amiga, a future
that AmigaDE, QNX and Gateway failed to materialize through their
involvement with AmigaOS?
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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04.Feb.2002
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Andreas R. Kleinert: References to pirate copies of my programms wanted
Today, I read the article about
shareware and pirate copies on amiga-news.de. Very interesting. Well, it is that
from time to time people send me illegal keyfiles and/or key generators for my
programs - sometimes refering to the source where to find those.
This often enables me to deactivate the respective keys, which respond to a certain
pattern. So there are faithful users too - who nevertheless stumble upon such things
from time to time - and help program authors to embank pirate copying.
I would like to offer the following to those users:
Who will send me keyfiles for my programs (or the respective generators),
up to now not recognized as "pirate keys" by those, will receive an
original keyfile at a time. In especially fiddly cases I will charge even more.
For multi-transmittal applies: "The first to send in, will win".
Naturally data will be kept in confidence and anonymous if desired (the real
name is only required for the keyfile).
P.S.: Dubious software gets tested under UAE,
insofar transfecting virsues is useless.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Feb.2002
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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MMKeyboard Version 1.20
There is a new version of MMKeyboard available now. Besides many changes and improvements the archive now contains some Win95 keymaps compatible with the Euro.
Older hardware is, of course, still compatible,
Download: MMKeyboard.lha
A more detailed description of the funcionality of MMKeyboard can be found in the readme file included in the archive.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Feb.2002
GameDev.net
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Shareware: Bitwise Operator: The Plain Truth About Piracy
In the above mentioned English article by "Ambrosia Software", a company
that develops software for Apple computers, the company's experience
with shareware and privacy is described.
The change from a fully functional shareware to a more crippled version
didn't cause people to register 5 times more often as mentioned in
the article
"Why Do People
Register, Does Crippling Work, Does Anybody Really Know?" by Colin Messitt
but it triggered off an increase in sales figures.
A change of the registration procedure in the middle of last year showed
that more than 50% of the people who had installed the update for
the software "Snapz Pro X" were using a pirate code to activate the
software.
The article is available via the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Robert Reiswigh (G-Rex ML)
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G-Rex: SoloOne Mixer V1.2
On 3 February 2002 version 1.2 of the 'SoloOne' mixer was released on
vgr.com. It supports
sound cards with the SoloOne chip (e.g. Terratec 128iPCI).
The ESS Solo1 mixer will now run under CGX V3 & V4 and
contains a few other minor updates.
Download: SoloOneMixer1_2.lzh (12K)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
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Amithlon: Update 3-Patches (Update)
The text of this message was deleted. The Amithlon developers did not grant permit to release beta test drivers on the relevant website.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: PygmIconsGL Icons (Update)
On 2 February 2002 the gamesicon collection "PygmIconsGL Icons" was published
by Frank on the gamesicon.info website.
It contains more than 250 icons for all games for the Workbench V3.5.
Download: PygmIconsGL_G1.LHA
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Amiga and AmigaDE - game of the year election 2001
Amiga Flame has published the results of the game of the year election 2001
for Amiga and AmigaDE.
The first place for
Amiga goes to
Payback (Apex Designs), Shogo and Freespace: The Great War
(both portings from Hyperion Entertainment).
The first place for
AmigaDE goes
to Planet Zed (Zeoneo), Blobula (Pagan Games) und Boxikon (Zeoneo).
All further rankings and additional information about the games
are available via the links.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
AROS
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AROS: Downloads, JanoEditor, PCI.hidd, DOS
After the publication of AROS snapshots on SourceForge 475 downloads
measuring 4GB were registered.
Daniel Holmen published a Norwegian translation for JanoEditor.
Michael Schulz has added a new PCI.hidd. It scans the PCI bus and
enables the enquiry of application information via PCI tools.
Besides he has started to write something which he calls "nvidia.hidd".
Whatever this may be ;-). There isn't a lot of code available but it should
run on all boards such as Riva 128, GeForce2 and Quadro.
Georg Steger has removed a few problems in the DOS and Startup code which
shouldn't try to examine the command line if the program was started
from the workbench.library. He has also improved JanoEdit (catalogues
are now created. Some small bugfixes for AROS).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
ANN
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AmigaDE: mailing list for Technomages
Technomages develops games for
AmigaDE and has now installed a mailing list for their own news.
This list can be ordered by sending a blank e-mail to
announcements-subscribe@de.technomages.net
So far Technomages has released 5 memory games for AmigaDE
(Memory, Get To Work, Art Avenue Puzzles 1 und 2, Tikino).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Czech Amiga News
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Alt.WoA 2002: car sharing
On 23 February 2002 the Alt.WoA 2002 takes place in Huddersfield, England.
A notice board has been
added to the website of the fair in
order to organise car sharing.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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03.Feb.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: new and updated MasonIcons
Martin 'Mason' Merz has published in the
project category
of his homepage some new and updated 'MasonIcons'.
- AmiMCDMI - Reworked toolbar for AmiMDC
- AminetIdxMI - New toolbar set for AminetIdx
- AudioMI - Extended toolbar for AudioMaster
- AWebMI - Reworked navigation board for Aweb
- CharonMI - Redesigned toolbar for Charon
- GiambyMI - New toolbar for GiambyNetGrabber
- IBrowseMI - A navigation board for IBrowse with additional images by Kristóph Gruber
- MiamiPhoneMI - Glow icons toolbar set for MiamiPhone
- SimplePostMI - Reworked toolbar for SimplePost
- VideoMI - New toolbar for MUI Video
- VoyagerMI - Extended navigation board set for Voyager
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03.Feb.2002
Virus Help Denmark (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.8
On 3 February 2002 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.8 of
the virus detector 'Safe' developed by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski.
'Safe' recognises any viruses that are in the memory of the
computer and, if possible, removes them. Compared with the previous
version, the following features have changed:
- some at least imaginary MGA hits removed,
report if this new Safe causes any MF/MGA hits
Name: Safe v17.8
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 18 855
Date : 3 February 2002
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library
Download: Safe.lha (18K),
Readme
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03.Feb.2002
AudioLabs (ANF)
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AudioLabs: AHI driver for Sunrize AD516
Chris Brenner has released an AHI-driver for the Sunrize
audio board "AD516" (Zorro II), available on Aminet.
The Sunrize's AD516 has been one of the most interesting ZII audio boards. Unfortunately, until now, there haven't been any drivers of any kind for this card, leaving owners in need for realtime software with the only option to use Studio16, the application developed for this hardware by Sunrize and bundled with the product.
Lack of detailed documentation, and the fact that Sunrize left the market, prevented people from taking advantage of more modern non-linear editing software, developed years after Studio16. Until now.
Chris Brenner has just released his new excellent AHI driver, available on Aminet, that now allows AHI-compatible applications to access the AD516 A/D D/A converters (for SMPTE support, Studio16 is still the right tool). Several applications have already been tested and work fine.
Early reports about ProStationAudio and this new development say that the driver exhibits low-latency, extremely important to allow using mixing automation and the 30+ realtime DSP effects for ProStationAudio. More information soon, as soon as they arrive.
To download the driver, search for "AD516" on Aminet. Information about the developer is in the driver archive, don't forget to send him feedback.
In the Dev-archive the hardware of the board is described. This description
is incomplete but good enough to program drivers.
Download:
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03.Feb.2002
Suite101.com (ANF)
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John Chandler: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
On 31 January 2002 John Chandler published on suite101 a new English column
about the Amiga in which he talks about AmigaOS 4.0.
"One thing that anyone still using an Amiga has gained over the years is a sense of patience. No matter how tough things get, no matter how much the situation ups and downs, most Amiga users will remain fairly patient in the face of frustrations that would have owners of other platforms cursing and wailing. Yes we do get moments of despair, yes sometimes it does look bleak and you can be forgiven for losing the optimism and thick-skins built up in the post-Commodore years... but then things come along and suddenly everything looks bright again."
.....
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03.Feb.2002
Vim (ANF)
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Editor: Vim-6.0.160
VIM is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems.
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor: unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more.
VIM runs on many operating systems:
AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS,
MachTen, OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000)
In edition 1 vol. 1
of the Free Software Magazine there is an article which mentions
amongst other things how VIM came into being.
VIM was developed by Bram Moolenaar first for Amiga and was released
for the first time on Fish #591 (November 1991).
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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