15.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Participants for games user charts wanted
The German print magazine Amiga Future publishes sales and user charts
of games in every issue. Amiga users are wanted to send what their top 5 games
are via email. Even though there is
nothing to win this time, the editors board hopes that a lot of users will
participate.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Jan.2002
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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New games at Amigaland (Update: Danger, virus)
New games for download at Amigaland
The first update in the new year! So there are some new games ready for download: Crack does Pay, Deluxe Galaga ECS +AGA, Deluxe Pacman, Ports of Call (English), The Patricien, Pinball Fantasies (HD-Version), Fußball Total. Have fun with it...
Next you can reach the English version of amigaland.de at www.amigaland.org.
Attention:
The game "Fussball total"(one of the latest uploads) contains two Ebola viruses! You have to check it with VirusChecker! The maintainer of this page is informed.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Jan.2002
Spitfire²
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Palm Desktop for Amiga: Spitfire² Version 1.9
Spitfire² has just been updated to version 1.9. Spitfire² by Ralph
Torchia is a Palm-Desktop for AmigaOS. This shareware-software allows
connection to a Palm computer by 3Com or compatibles. The program among
other things offers HotSync functions between the Amiga and Palm.
More information on the program's features can be located at the
homepage. For registered user there is available the ClockSync Plugin
(V1.2) and the YAMSync Plugin (V1.0)
Download: Spitfire2.lha (854 KB) (ps)
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14.Jan.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 14.01.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were originally
made for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 14.01.02 improved: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) misc changes
- 14.01.02 new: Kick Off (ANCO) done by Psygore
- 14.01.02 new: Base Jumpers CD³² (Rasputin) done by JOTD
- 13.01.02 improved: Transartica (Silmarils) supports another version
- 13.01.02 new: Death Mask (Alternative) done by Abaddon
- 13.01.02 new: D/Generation (Mindscape) done by JOTD
(ps)
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14.Jan.2002
Pagan Games
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Game: Earth 2140 Mission Pack Update for PPC
For people experiencing problems with the mission pack and a PPC
processor download this patch
now or visit our Product Support
page. Should only be downloaded if you experience problems with the
original executable!
(ps)
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14.Jan.2002
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)
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Lightwave-extension: New LWToy
Ray of Therapy released a new version of LWToy (just visit the title link).
LWToy is a viewer for Lightwave objects. The astonishing point about it is the speed when moving objects even with a 68k CPU. Lust but not least: Ray disabled the demo-limitation in this version.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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14.Jan.2002
Andre Beer (ANF)
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Geographic: GeoWorld Update 13
GeoWorld V1.13 is a geographic-program for Amiga, sold as shareware. After five years of constant development the new version (1.13) offers the follwing features:
- Extensive information about 192 countries (misc, economical, political, sociological, historical and environmental data, maps and flags and much more)
- NEW: The full version contains about 440KB of historical textbased information.
- Worldmap, continents, and more than 200 maps can be displayed in a fullscreenmode (nearly 5MB of pictures)
- You can display one country on the worldmap and on the map of the continent
- Information about the biggest cities of the earth (alltogether 6119 cities), among the others there are 1850 cities in Germany and 1100 in the USA; 99% of the included cities can be displayed on the map.
- Information about international organizations and about the members of these organizations.
- Very userfriendly
- Export of maps (including the displayed cities)
- Extensive search and sort functions
- Print (print into a file or into the clipboard)
- Online-help (explenations about windows, buttons and so on)
- A quiz (there are about 20 different kind of questions for example about misc data about cities or countries) with a highscore function
- Convert between nearly 170 currencies (including the EURO) and information about each of them
- Highly customizeable (screenmode, font, search-functionality and much more
- The floppy version includes a printed documentation (21 pages)
- Other languages will soon be available (a english version is still in progress)
At last, after a long time an update of GeoWorld (to version 1.13) is now available. More information and the download links can be found at the homepage of GeoWorld.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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JPEG: exif.library 1.1, pfDirectoryView V13.1
On 13 January 2002 updates were published on the web sites of Steeple
Software (Paul Huxham) for "exif.library" and for "pfDirectoryView".
The "exif.library" supports the selection of the EXIF-data of a
JFIF-(JPEG)-image file.
It was developed to gain useful information from image files as saved
by most digital cameras. Example programs and a single image with
EXID-data are included in the library.
In this version a bug in a language string has been fixed.
In the "pfDirectoryView V13.1" module for PhotoFolio 2.2 a bug has
been fixed in connection with loading locale catalogs.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Scalos: Updates for DefIcons, Persistent Windows und WB39-Plugins
On 13 January 2002 new versions of DefIcons, Persistend Windows
and WB39-Plugins for the Workbench alternative "Scalos" were
released.
DefIcons Plugin V45.6
This can be used as a replacement for the filetypes-plugin.
It can display a default icon for files without icon,
depending on the type of the file.
DefIcons requires AmigaOS V3.5+
Persistent Windows Plugin V39.16
This plugin records all the directory windows a user
opens and closes and keeps a record. Should a reboot
or a crash occur this data is used in order to open
the windows automatically so that the former condition
is restored.
Note: If you had previously the SnapDesktop beta installed,
it is necessary to delete the old files completely
before this new plugin is installed.
WB3.9 Plugin V45.21
This plugin is for AmigaOS 3.5/9 users only. It
provides Scalos with some missing functions that will
now allow some other software to work correctly, e.g.
AmiDock.
It also offers an integrated volumegauge for
AmigaOS 3.5+ users. It now loads in OS3.5+ volumegauge
preferences as set in the Workbench preferences.
There were also further system checks added so that this
plugin is now more stable.
Note: Users who use this plugin don't need the volumegauge.plugin.
If it was previously installed, it must me removed.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Gerd Frank (AmiATLAS)
Olaf Köbnik writes:
In November it finally happened. A new version of the travel planner
"AmiATLAS" was published for the first time since 1998. It was developed
by Andreas Regul and then Gerd Frank took over and developed it further.
Within a short period of time he created a piece of software of the
highest quality - AmiATLAS 6.
The Amiga Arena talked to Gerd Frank about the development and future of
AmiATLAS and about the question why some of the planned features were not
finished for the release.
Just a personal remark
I can only appeal to all of you. Whoever wants good software for the Amiga
will destroy its future by using pirate copies which are unfortunately
also available from AmiATLAS.
Many people don't seem to be aware of the fact that every registered
and sold unit counts!
Just now that we are about to have the chance to get an up-to-date software
it would be a shame to ruin ourselves and also the future of the platform
Amiga by using pirate copies.
I take this interview as an opportunity to once again draw attention to
this issue!
Olaf - Amiga Arena
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: WatchDog 2.1
On 13 January 2002 Zbigniew Trzcionkowski released with version 2.1
a current snapshot of his memory watch tool 'WatchDog'.
The tool uses the 'xvs.library' in order to check every three seconds
if there are any known bugs in the memory. There are further features
which are explained in the documentation.
'WatchDog' runs from AmigaOS 2.04 and uses the xvs.library.
Download: WatchDog.lha (16 834),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Audio: Amplify V1.0a
On 13 January 2002 version 1.0a of the audiotool 'Amplify' was
released. In addition,
benchmarking results
was put online on a 060-computer.
Amplify offers the following features:
- Modulates on 0dB.
- Removes empty spaces at beginning and end.
- Removes a particular time interval at beginning and end.
- Mixes together the left and the right channel.
- Dubs in and fades out.
- Inserts pauses at beginning and end.
- Removes crackling at beginning and end.
System prerequisite: AmigaOS 3.1, 68020+, 1,5 free memory.
The tool is available for download for various 68k-CPUs and PPC via the
title link.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
ANN
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File Manager: Translations for DiskMaster 2 needed
Rudolph Riedel is looking for further translators for the next
Aminet release of his file manager
'DiskMaster 2'.
At the moment there are translations available for English, German,
French and Dutch. The Italian version will soon be released, the
Hungarian has been announced.
Whoever is interested in doing translations
should contact Rudolph Riedel. (rudolph-riedel@t-online.de)
59 short sentences have to be translated.
If you haven't got a tool to convert the DM2.cd file, you can
use one of the empty .ct files or you can ask Rudolph Riedel for
an empty .ct file.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Czech Amiga News
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ProStationAudio: ALPS-Update and WinUAE-Benchmark
On 12 January 2002 an update of the plug-ins for 'ProStationAudio
Titanium' as well as early DSPSpeed benchmarking results for WinUAE-
JIT (0.8.17 R3) were released.
The ALPS update makes sure that the plug-ins APS-1 and APR-1
(Stereo Phase Rotator) are compatible with 'ProStationAudio
Titanium'.
The benchmark tool 'DSPSpeed' measures the performance of a computer system
with AmigaOS which runs 'ProStationAudio' in real time.
Here the reference system is AmigaOS/68 on a 68060 with 50MHz.
To this system the index value 100% was allocated.
The
result page
for this benchmark has now been extended with early results for
WinUAE-JIT (0.8.17 R3) on a Celeron Coppermine with 1000 MHz.
At this benchmark WinUAE runs at approximately half-speed than
Amithlon and still provides high acceleration for 'ProStationAudio'
compared to the reference system.
Download:
ALPSfix020112.lha
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
amiga-topcool.de (ANF)
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topcool: Interview-Steffen Häuser about Quake 2:68k-Version probably too slow
At the moment Quake2 is generated by Hyperion-Entertainment only for
the PPC since the 68k computer has turned out to be too slow. In the
interview with amiga-topcool Steffen Häuser gives away many more
interesting details about porting the game which is registered in Germany.
Steffen Häuser is working together with Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden
on a port of Quake2 for AmigaOS.
Update 13.01.2002:
Daniel Orth: "Steffen Häuser has asked me to change the heading of
the interview. He emphasized that the 68k version for QuakeII
hasn't died yet. He won't exclude it explicitly, since a decision
hasn't been made yet. In the interview he only said that a 68k version
might be too slow.
more...".
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Czech Amiga News
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MorphOS: csa.morphos appears on Usenet-Servers
Daniel Miller writes in the MorphOS mailing list that
the new Usenet group 'comp.sys.amiga.morphos' now appears
on Usenet-Servers. You can read and post to it.
Since it is a new group, it cannot be found
on all servers. However, you can find the group under
- 'news.freenet.de' Port 119
- 'infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de' Port 119
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
ANN
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Programming Language: PowerD V0.19 alpha4
On 12 January 2002 Martin Kuchinka released the alpha version 0.19
alpha4 of his compiler for the programming language 'PowerD'.
Amongst other things bugs were removed in this version, the compiled
executables can be launched directly from the Workbench and there
is also a German catalogue available. More detailed information can
be found under
Readme
The alpha.lzx archive contains as update those files which
have changed since the last version.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Marco Lovera (E-Mail)
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AmigaPage: "Amiga Passion"-Contest
The "Amiga Passion"
competition was born to let you share in the AmigaPage
life. The target of this competition is all the Amiga users
to participate by sending one or more of your Workbench screenshots (max 3) to kanuka@ciaoweb.it with "Concorso" for the subject.
Originally "Amiga Passion" expired on 31. December 2001, but a new
expiration date was decided to be 31. January 2001. So there is another chance for
everybody to win !!!
Prizes:
- Position 1: Full version of EXTREME plus full version of PuzzleBOBS plus mouse pad.
- Position 2: Full version of EXTREME plus a brooch
- Position 3: Full version of EXTREME plus a poster.
Games contributed by DKGStore.
Mouse pad, brooch, and poster contributed by AmigaPage.
The jury consists of Marco Lovera, Sandra Lovera, and Claudio Marro Filosa.
All of the screenshots sent in will be published on the following websites:
www.amigapage.it/concorso_eng.htm
www.amigapage.it
www.dkgstore.com
After the competion expired all shots will be moved to our "Computer Passion" section.
I invite you to participate in the "Amiga Passion" competition!
(Message text edited by mj)
(ps)
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13.Jan.2002
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)
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Graphic Adventure-Developer Kit: Inga-Engine Version 0.9/5
Timo Kloss writes:
Once again there is a version which is really almost totally finished!
Of course the Audio-CD-Support is still missing.
Compared to the last version the most outstanding difference is the
following: the plug-in system has been removed!!! What's all this about?
All the features offered by the plug-ins of late have now been
firmly integrated (sound-/ language and MED-music) and can be
activated by using normal script commands. Accordingly, Inga has been
prepared to be ported to other platforms. However, a complete compatibility of
all versions would be endangered by a plug-in system. Consequently,
it has been removed! Further information can be found in the compendium
under "LadeSound", "SpieleModule" etc. Besides the following improvements
have been made:
- You can now also talk to the characters even when you can't run to them
all the way (because of the run card). However, it's still not possible
to give them anything (that is to say "WennBenutzt" works but
"WennBenutzt-Mit" doesn't work!).
- The destination of the run towards the characters is now better calculated. So
far it has only been possible to run either on the left-hand or right-hand side
(only provisional).
- Small mistakes have been removed: If animated characters appeared for
example only from the left-hand side and if they bent forward,
it was impossible to find a suitable representation.
- Inga-pictogram information now enables the features "NOSOUND" and "NOPLAYER"
as a substitute for "DISABLE" at the plug-ins. You can find further
information in the game instructions.
- The speed of the characters can now be changed. (Consult the compendium
under "Laufschnelligkeit" (speed)).
InutilisGraphics Version 1.04
For this you can also find an update with two improvements:
- Even for small graphics a big screen now opens up so that it is
possible to control the characters from a point outside the graphic.
- 24-bit-pictures are now recognised and activate a warning message
while previously the program got stuck.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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13.Jan.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Miscellaneous news at Airsoft Softwair
Finally all prices for the Shareware programs on the Airsoft Softwair website,
which is http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/, were changed from
DM (Deutsche Mark) into EUR (Euro, the new European currency). Of course, all prices
are available in USD (US dollars) too. In near future there will also be new versions of
Akiko (including NV-Ram emulation and real Joypad emulation!), NewInstaller and Rainboot.
So stay tuned and check back on this homepage every once in a while. By the way,
there were also some small changes on this homepage.
(ps)
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13.Jan.2002
Pawel Filipczak (ANF)
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SMS-Tool: New TaskiSMS
New (2.60) version of TaskiSMS has been released.
News in this release:
- updated VLF plugin
- updated ICQ plugin
- updated GoldenTelecom plugin
- added Vizzavi plugin
- added MTNSMS plugin
- added folder filters (only for registered users)
Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones
to over 160 countries around the world. You can download demo version from
TaskiSMS homepage or from
AmiNet. (ps)
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