28.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Apple: 1-GHz-PowerMac G4 with two CPUs and GeForce4 MX
»Three new PowerMacs avialable in the USA
Apple started shipping new desktop machines in the USA. The new top-model
is equipped with two 1-GHz-PowerPC-G4 CPUs and NVidia's not yet officiall
announce GeForce4 MX graphics board.
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See title link for complete article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)
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28.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Richard Smedley (UltraAccounts)
Amiga Arena - Interview
Richard Smedley, developer of the homebanking software UltraAccounts, just released an update
that enables the usage of the Euro with UltraAccounts. UltraAccounts is shareware, the first version was available 9 years ago. The English version of the interview
is available here.
Olaf Köbnik: "This interview once again turns out how much important feedback is for the developers. Whether or not development of "UltraAccounts" will be continued in the future depends on if there are users interested in this. It would be more than a pitty, if another developer would stop development due to lack of feedback!"
Note of own concern:
Dear Amiga friends! "Amiga Arena" might stop its service in the foreseeable future. The first measures will not be taken before easter.
Olaf Köbnik - Amiga Arena
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jan.2002
Maxime Doyen (ANF)
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Software: HomeBank Version 2.0
The new public release of your amiga favourite financial tool!!
This is only a minor update to fix some little (but annoying) problems.
As usual see the Changes file for a complete description of changes.
Download: HomeBank.lha (289 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jan.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Question for Digital Dreams Entertainment
Amiga Arena asked Digital Dreams Entertainment if they are still developing for the Amiga.
Digital Dreams Entertainment released "Wasted Dreams" (1999) one of the best action adventure games of the last years.
The original answer:
Unfortunately we had to cancel all our Amiga only projects.
We are now working on several new projects, from support parts for 3D
animators (in 3dsMax, Lightwave or Maya) to children games for PC and
Console.
Kind Regards,
Thomas
Digital Dreams Entertainment
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Messenger: StrcICQ first V2 BETA released
The first beta-version of the new client V2 is now available at the titlelink.
Download: STRICQv2.lha
Important information:
- Unarchive to its own directory. STRICQ and STRICQ v2 are incompatible.
- Only run STRICQ v2 from a shell prompt (I have not tested it with an icon, are you brave?)
- There is a lot of debug output to the shell window, you may need to send me a copy of it.
- Run the program, it will not be able to get online right away.
- Enter your Nick (whatever), 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.
Know Problems and Caveats: IMPORTANT!
- You can not 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.
- You can't close the prefs window, so don't try. :-)
- If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it/them to me on the mailing list.
- You will need the latest versions of NList, NListtree, and TextInput.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Game: ScummVM AGA version 0.38.2
Scumm interprets the datafiles of old LucasArts classic-adventures and makes them available for the Amiga. Version 0.38.2 by NoGFX
contains the following changes:
- Fixed the Bottom-Line bug: should prevent crashes on some machines
- Fixed a bug in scummvm: Monkey1 now works with the non-ixemul version
- At least the color cycles are as fast as they should be (even FASTER !)
- Removed Ixemul version from the archive
Download:
ScummVM_AGA_0382.lha (251 KB)
Readme
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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28.Jan.2002
ANN
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #55
Issue no. 55 of the English "Amiga Information Online (AIO)" magazine was published.
The current issue contains an interview with Steffen Häuser and the announcement of the new AIO-CD.
Download: AIOV55.LHA
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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27.Jan.2002
ANN
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Boing Attitude: Interview with Ben Hermans about AmigaOS 4.0
On 26 January 2002 an interview with Ben Hermans
from Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0 was published on Boing Attitude.
The interview is available in
French
and
English.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Game: Graphic designers wanted for Ermentrud
The website of the game Ermentrud
has been updated . It now shows first images of the adventures as they
appear in the game. At the same time it becomes obvious that the game
is in the process of being developed since the Inga engine has finally reached
the beta version 1.0 (not yet published).
Ermentrud requires a lot of graphic design and some graphic designers are
still needed for the background images.
These images are supposed to be scanned pencil drawings which are coloured in
by the computer. The following skills are required:
- Being able to draw very well, according to the style of the
example image.
- Opportunity to scan (with good quality).
- Not necessary but desirable: being able to colour in images, according to the
style of the second
example image.
The payment is based on profit share after the game has been published.
Unfortunately Inutilis can't afford a pre-payment since the whole project
is more or less a spare time activity.
Please mail your applications including drawings to
Timo@inutilis.de.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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FreeCD: Pinball Nights
The FreeCD "Pinball Nights" has been published on the "The Faces of
Mars" website. It contains the full versions of Pinball Dreams,
Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Illusions, Pinball Hazard and Obsession
Pinball.
The CD can be ordered via the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: WatchDog 2.5
On 25 January 2002 Zbigniew Trzcionkowski released with version 2.5 the
latest snapshot of his memory surveillance tool 'Watchdog'. In this
version further tests have been added amongst other things.
Compared to version 2.1 the following details have changed:
- added ToolType 'IgnoreSnoopDos' - currently this is the only patcher
I have decided to include since in future I want to use heuristics
to analyse ANY patches...
- added 'WatchDog' position in WB/Tools menu. After watching this
requester memory test is performed too...
- added new memory installation and new timing routines...
a. read: memory deprotection of WatchDog together with xvs should
be more difficult for virus now...
b. time between memory checks is adjusted using AI features and
varies somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds (depending on system
and user activity)...
c. fixed little bit my unfreezing toy...
- added few more vital Exec vectors to memcheck...
- added checker for some important dos vectors (with $4ef9 opcode
generic restorer)
- added some debug tooltypes - no need to mention them here...
- added S:startup-sequence and S:user-startup notification so that
any change (or deletion) of these important files is reported to the
user. If You don't know what that notification is You'd better
believe me that it slows no machine and causes no accesses to the
watched files...
- added ToolType 'NoNotify' to switch off ability mentioned above :)
The tool uses the xvs.library in order to check every three seconds
if the memory contains any known virus. All further features of the
program are explained in the documentation.
Watchdog runs from AmigaOS 2.04 and needs the xvs.library.
Download: WatchDog.lha (19K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
ANN
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Amiga Flame: Amiga and AmigaDE - the 'game of the year' election
Amiga Flame
runs also this year an election to award the
Amiga-game of the year.
There is now also a
'game of the year' election for
AmigaDE.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
ANN
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AROS: latest snapshots
With regard to AROS the latest snapshots of the sources and binaries
were published on
Sourceforge.
AROS is an open source project for the implementation of a portable OS which is
compatible with AmigaOS 3.1.
Release Name: 20020126
The following files are available:
- AROS-20020126-source.tar.gz
The main AROS sources.
- AROS-20020126-contrib-source.tar.gz
contrib sources.
- AROS-20020126-i386-linux.tar.gz
The hosted version for Linux/i386. This is the most complete and
mature port, which means that you can run almost all included
programs and demos with it. This archive contains all AROS and
contrib binaries compiled from the CVS tree.
- AROS-20020126-i386-freebsd.tar.gz
The hosted version for FreeBSD/i386. This is a fairly new port for
which binary snapshots haven't been available until now, so it might
not be as mature as the Linux/i386 port. For example, this archive
does not contain contrib binaries.
- AROS-20020126-i386-pc.tar.gz
The native version for i386-based PC AT computers and compatibles.
It works quite well, but the driver support is very limited at the
moment. This archive contains all AROS and contrib binaries compiled
from the CVS tree, but not boot floppy or cdrom images which are
available separately.
- AROS-20020126-i386-pc-floppies.tar.gz
The native version for i386-based PC AT computers and compatibles.
This archive contains the boot and contrib disk floppies which you
can quickly write to a disk and boot AROS with.
- AROS-20020126-i386-pc-cdrom.iso.gz
The native version for i386-based PC AT computers and compatibles.
This is the bootable CDROM ISO image, which contains all programs in
AROS-20020126-i386-pc.tar.gz.
The image is a bit experimental, which means that eg. the
Startup-Sequence hasn't been adapted properly yet
(although you can boot into AROS). Also, this version WILL NOT work
with computers that have more than one CD-ROM drive.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Game: ScummVM AGA v0.38 with sound support
Today the new version of ScummVM AGA has been released on the ScummVM website.
Features:
- Changed delay routines: the game is *A LOT* faster !
(Try the FASTMODE at least once: press RightShift+f !!!)
- Sound support (AHI required)
- F1 will now grab the scummaga screen (requires iff.library)
- Adjustable talk delay (use '+' and '-' on keypad)
- Screen mode is now saved to disk
- Put back color cycles (SLOW under AGA...)
- Changed keys: 'ESC' will now skip cut scenes and 'F10' will exit
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
SLF-Team (ANF)
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Game: Battlefield competition
On 21 January the battlefield graphic competition finished.
Unfortunately there were only two participants so that finding the winner will
be very easy. The winner will be announced very soon and the prize
will be presented. Further information is available under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Incompatible Euro keymaps and fonts
For the attention of everybody who produces fonts and keymaps:
Because of the introduction of the Euro some people have unfortunately
got on the wrong track. The Amiga uses the Latin-8858-1 code table that
allocates the Euro sign to the ASCII code 164.
This allocation is binding. All the keymaps and texts which have
recently been checked in Aminet showed faults. Often the sign is allocated
to code 128 as it is common in the PC world. This might be based on the
assumption that a text transfer is easier in this way. Unfortunately
this is not the case because special signs specific to a country must
be converted anyway. Therefore it's up to the manufacturers of the
conversion programs to implement the Euro sign.
This false code leads to the unwanted effect that texts on other Amiga
systems cannot be read correctly and that the Amiga becomes
incompatible to itself. Besides such a text is not convertible automatically.
Moreover the key combination "Alt E" should be agreed on.
The symbol (@) is on the bottom right hand side of the keyboard
and it is activated by pressing the "Alt" key. If you have a Win keyboard,
which are the only Amiga keyboards with the Euro sign, the Euro sign is
also on the bottom right hand side of the keyboard. The combination
"Alt E" seems to be more logical than "Alt Shift E".
Creating texts with the Euro sign in both code positions is not
desirable due to the loss of a sign on the one hand and due to the
loss of transparency on the other hand since the user
will not know if the used sign is really compatible.
Here are some correct programs, texts and keymaps from Aminet:
EuroHack.lha: Patches the Euro sign in the topaz 8 font on 164!
EuroConv.lha: Converts the Euro sign from the PC on the Amiga.
According to the author the font set EuroFonts.lha has already been changed
to 164 although the wrong Euro is still implemented. The new archive with
approximately 900 Kb is supposed to be released over the next few days.
The small archive (300 Kb) isn't compatible.
Last but not least try the test which checks the compatibility of the
created Euro sign:
Open a shell and enter the following lines.
"EEEE" stands for one or more Euro signs.
Echo "EEEE" to t:Test
type t:test hex
As a result the value "A4" should appear for each of the Euro signs!
The value "0A" should be ignored.
0000: A4A4A4A4 0A
If another value other than "A4" comes up, the keymap is incompatible.
Guido Mersmann
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower: New comics by Karl Bihlmeier
gene writes:
Check out Kultpower.de for some new comics of the popular "Ninja Turkeys"
from the magazine Videogames.
While the Modul series was finished, the prologue is now available
as well as the first three parts of the continuation "Return to Modul"
by Karl Bihlmeier (who is also the graphic artist of "Hermann the User").
Have fun!!
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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27.Jan.2002
Matthias Jaap (ANF)
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New Emulator-CD-ROM
Emulator compilers for the Amiga - from ABC80 to VC20 and PC.
Apart from the emulators there are matching tools available as
well as images of the emulated systems. To enjoy the games legally
the CD (ISO9660-format) contains various PD games.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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26.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: news regarding the case between Obelix and MobiliX
»Reply to suit released on the Internet
On November 2001 had Werner Heuser, provider of the Open Source project
MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Computers received a
suit from "Lés Editions Albert René", owner of the trademark rights
"Obelix". Heuser didn't want to simply abandon the mark and therefore went to
court. The reply to the suit by the Berlin law firm Jaschinski Biere Brexl
(JBB) was made available by him on his pages.«
Full (German) article see title link.
Interesting here is the release of the full reply to the suit,
where among other things websites as well as subsites with similar names like
for example Idefix are mentioned. Affected by this are among
others the Aminet and Jens Schönfeld. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org tests Mambo Site Server
After having made bad experiences with PHP-Nuke as
web interface and suffering several hacker attacks Wayne Hunt
has now installed partially Mambo Site Server
as new web interface at amiga.org.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
Virtual Dimension
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Virtual Dimension news about exhibition video and Star Empire II
After a short time out during Christmas is Virtual Dimension busy again: the
text of the exhibition
video has been translated to English so that VD can go next week into the
studio for the audio recordings.
VD additionally points out that the
registration
phase for the new round of the Internet space strategy game
Star Empire II
ends soon - the game starts on 1.2.2002! Everybody who wants to
take part
should now hurry...
By the way: the evaluation is now also available as
HTML guide
with better layout, additional information and easier navigation through direct
links.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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