17.Feb.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Status and interviews with N. Blachford and D. Westerberg (Update)
Amiga Arena - status report
In his status report
Olaf Köbnik makes a personal statement about the current situation of
Amiga Arena. It seems that he doesn't want to give up his activities
completely, he just wants to cut them down a little.
Amiga Arena - interview with Nicholas Blachford
Recently Amiga Arena has drawn attention to the sources of the sampler
software Aural Illusion.
Its further development has been authorized by the author Nicholas
Blachford. Amiga Arena's interview with the ex-Amiga developer
is by far the most comprehensive interview in the history of Amiga Arena
and full of really interesting statements. At the moment the interview is
available online in
English.
Amiga Arena - interview with Daniel Westerberg
Apart from Stefan Blixth also Daniel Westerberg belongs to
OnyxSoft. Programs such as
MultiRen, Detris or DRemind are very popular. The interview with
Daniel Westerberg is available under
German and
English.
Update 18.02.2002:
The interview with Nicholas Blachford there is now available also in
German.
(ps) (Translation: sr)
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16.Feb.2002
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tools: PNGTool v1.1 - CopyIcon v44.4a - SGrab v1.19a
Stephan Rupprecht has updated some of his tools:
- PGNTool for converting every picture format to PNG is now available in
version 1.1. The program needs from this version on the asyncio.library v40
improving the speed by 3%.
Download: PNGTool.lha
- The CopyNewIcon clone for OS 3.5 has been released in version 44.4a.
New is here the Spanish documentation by D. Dominguez.
Download: CopyIcon44.lha
- The screen grabber SGrab is available in version 1.19a. A module problem in
the PPC version has been fixed.
Download: sgrab.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Feb.2002
SPIEGEL
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SPIEGEL: "TRONLAND.NET" - Murdered because of a telephone?
»The Berlin public prosecutor's office has ceased the investigations in the
"death case Tron". But his friends believe less than ever in suicide of the
hacker after having done own investigations.
The file is closed, Tron's CCC friends open it again -
in the web.«
Full (German) article see title link.
As already reported are friends
of Boris just building up a website named Tronland.
Documents, media reports and memories of Tron will be published on this website.
In the view of the friends shall the documents proof that the public prosecutor's office is wrong in
closing the file.
The website shall on the one hand help to bring under circumstances some light
in the dark around the death of the encryption expert and on the other hand give
a portrait of the human behind the hacker. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Feb.2002
Heise [newsticker]
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Heise: illegal copying ruins US games developers
Refering to a report
of the Interactive Digital Software Association
(IDSA) loses the American video industry 1.9 billion US dollars per annual
because of illegal copies.
(German) Heise article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Feb.2002
Aaron Lewis (ANF)
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Windows: iLOVE for Winamp
How if Amiga visual artist does Windows? The author of AmiganFX plugin
for Winamp has released another plugin called iLOVE. Original styles...
If you have a Windows machine it's worth checking the title link. (ps)
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16.Feb.2002
David Brunet (email)
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AGC Award 2001
AGC (Amiga Games Classifying) will award the best Amiga game with the AGC
Award 2001. Following the title link you can participate in the vote. The
results will be released on 25. February 2002.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Feb.2002
Stéphane Campan (email)
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Amiga Impact online again
After quite some time being offline because of several reasons and several problems is our French partner site Amiga Impact now online
again and will supply the French speaking Amiga users regularly with Amiga news
in their native language.
»Après quelques longues semaines d'absence, votre site Amiga Impact est
(enfin) de retour.
Diverses raisons et divers problèmes (la plupart d'ordre privé), ont été à
l'origine de cette suspension de la maintenance du site. La situation s'étant
aujourd'hui arrangée, il ne devrait donc plus y avoir de gros problèmes à
l'avenir.
Amiga Impact va donc pleinement retrouver son allure de croisière dans les
jours à venir, avec l'arrivée de nouvelles rubriques.
Si vous rencontrez un problème lors de l'utilisation des services
d'Amiga Impact, n'hésitez pas à écrire à
webmaster@amigaimpact.com.« (ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Feb.2002
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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Tool: MCP version 1.37
After the problems of Tripod have been resolved, version 1.37 of MCP
(MasterControlProgram) can now be publically accessed from my homepage.
MCP is a program which replaces many tools and patches.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Feb.2002
Ascaron
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Games developer Ascaron: Successful recovery plan after insolvency
In September 2001 the games developer Ascaron from Gütersloh, Germany, was forced to file application for insolvency
(we reported).
A successful recovery plan Ascaron made it possible to save 80 jobs and they can restart as Ascaron Entertainment GmbH.
After the creditor congregation last week in unison agreed to accept the recovery plan of the insolvent old company the newly founded Ascaron Entertainment GmbH can touch-and-go. It has taken over all the rights including the Ascaron brand and also is employer of the present staffers.
In the early 90th Ascaron has developed also and just for the Amiga many popular games like ´Hanse - Die Expedition´, ´Anstoß´,
´Anstoß World Cup´, and ´Der Patrizier´, and later relocated developments to the PC. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Feb.2002
Marco Lovera (e-mail)
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AmigaPage: "Amiga Passion" contest - winner decided
As already reported,
Marco Lovera of AmigaPage held a contest to find the most beautiful
Amiga Workbenches. The winner has now been decided and the prizes
were handed out.
und die Preise wurden vergeben.
You can have a look at the screenshots of the winners
here.
The winners:
- 1st prize: Roman Sudlitz (Prizes: Extreme, PuzzleBobs, Mousepad donated by AmigaPage)
- 2nd prize: Jean Yves Auger (Prizes: Extreme, Mousepad donated by AmigaPage)
- 3rd prize: Peter Balogh (Prizes: Extreme, Poster)
- 4th prize: Michael Goken (Prizes: Extreme)
Marco Lovera thanks all contributors and hopes that the contest can be
repeated soon.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Feb.2002
Sylvio K. (ANF)
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Windows C programmer for GameBoyAdvance Soms port wanted
The SOMS-Team is looking for a Windows C programmer who would like
to port our game to Windows to make a port of the Amiga action
role-playing game to the GameBoyAdvance console possible. If you
have further questions, write to sylvio.k@gmx.de.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Feb.2002
Patbest (ANF)
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Amigabest: Amithlon Workbench gallery
Amigabest has created a Workbench gallery for Amithlon workbenches.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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15.Feb.2002
Jim Steichen (ANF)
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Jim Steichen: G.O.O.S.A. V2.0 and AmigaTalk V1.9a
Due to some problems with Aminet, you can obtain
G.O.O.S.A.
(General Object-Oriented Systems Analysis) version 2.0 directly
from the home page of the author (Jim Steichen). Same for
AmigaTalk
version 1.9a.
(ps)
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14.Feb.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 10.02.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were formerly
meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or
updated:
- 10.02.02 new: The Punisher (Digital) done by Psygore
- 10.02.02 new: Wacky Darts (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal & Codetapper
- 10.02.02 new: Spy Vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics (Wicked Software/First Star Software) done by Codetapper
- 10.02.02 new: Spy Vs Spy 2: The Island Caper (Wicked Software/First Star Software) done by Codetapper
- 10.02.02 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) supports two more versions
- 10.02.02 new: Galactic Conqueror (Titus) done by CFOU!
- 10.02.02 updated: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) misc changes
- 10.02.02 new: Escape from Colditz (Digital Magic Software) done by Bored Seal
- 10.02.02 fixed: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) keyboard access in highscores corrected
- 10.02.02 new: Magnetic Dreams (Digital) done by Psygore
- 10.02.02 new: Battle Valley (Hewson) done by Bored Seal
- 08.02.02 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) supports German version too, misc other changes
- 08.02.02 new: Carcharodon - White Sharks (Demonware) done by Galahad
- 06.02.02 improved: Rotor (Arcane) blitter waits added, snoop mode fix
- 06.02.02 new: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) done by Bored Seal
- 06.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) music/sound fixed, blitter waits added and more
(ps)
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14.Feb.2002
Etienne Vogt
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Tools: VDisk.device V3.1 BETA and ErrorLog V1.5
Etienne Vogt has updated two of his tools. First there is a new beta version of VDisk.device v3.1 being a virtual RAM Disk. Second there was Error.Log v1.5 released with which you watch your devices and create error logs.
Download:
vdisk31beta.lha -
Readme
ErrorLog15.lha -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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14.Feb.2002
distributed.amiga.org
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The Amiga RC5 Team - distributed.amiga.org back online
The website of distributed.amiga.org was offline for some time. Thanks to John Klos it now his hosted at
sixgirls.org. The server is being an Amiga 4000/060 running BSD. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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14.Feb.2002
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM: S-File #16 announces new game
Sofia: "For quite some time now we've been working on our next original game.
I can't tell you much about it, because it's very far from being finished.
As you can imagine, being a clickBOOM game, it is going to be something
special. It will be available for Amiga/PC/Mac and possibly consoles.
Please don't ask for screenshots or more information -- as soon as I can
reveal more, I will. I promise! :)".
(ps)
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14.Feb.2002
Michael Heider (ANF)
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Update for apus_start for SuSE Linux PPC
As already announced here the program apus_start with some more functions is availabel for download, now. New are the English user guide and that
this program now can be used with SuSE Linux PPC v7.0 - v7.3.
Furthermore this program will get an update function implemented.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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14.Feb.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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GFX-BASE: Relaunch
In recent times the GFX-BASE team has been working on a relaunch. With the new design completed now, better functionality will follow, e.g. a comment system allowing settings and graphical smileys.
Our vote ('Do you use a WB replacement or not?') also expiered. Learn about the interesting result from our vote section. But we also aim to suprise with more changes on occation of our (future) 1 year anniversary. Among other things a forum will be established, and a PuzzleBOBs test is to follow, soon.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Feb.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: ArtPRO 1.20b - Interview with Frank Pagels
Amiga Arena - Full Version ArtPRO 1.20b
In cooperation with Frank Pagels the Amiga Arena makes possible the
ArtPRO full version download.
About the image converter ArtPRO
ArtPRO supports a variety of file formats like
ILBM, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and PCX. It can even load more using datatypes.
ArtPRO also supports some raw formats like chunky.
Images can be saved as bitplane, chunky or truecolor, as binary or source.
ArtPRO's source generator is capable of creating copper lists and sprites.
The program offers very fast down calculation of images of very good quality, has a palette optimizer and real time colour bias also working with true colour pictures.
Development to be continued?
ArtPRO was written in 100% assembler. Who seriously would like to continue development might contact
Frank Pagels.
It really would be a pleasure if someone would do so.
Amiga Arena - Interview
The Amiga Arena talked to Frank Pagels, developer of "ArtPro", about development history and how this all begun. This
interview is available in German.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Feb.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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CD32-Emulator for Windows: Akiko v1.3 with extended ROM support
Akiko 1.3 was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage
(title link). This
new version features now support for the so called extended ROMs of
the CD32 and the CDTV. This means that Akiko is now able to show the
cool boot animations of both consoles as well as launch the funky
applications stored in those ROMs, for example the CD32 and CDTV's
audio CD player, CD32's NV RAM editor and language selector and the
CDTV preferences program.
Some screenshots of these ROM specific
features are available in the Akiko section
of the Airsoft Softwair
homepage. If you haven't got a ROM image but a CD32 or CDTV, you can
use the freshly released RipROM tool which is now also available.
RipROM saves the extended ROMs from the CD32 & CDTV to a file which
you can use with Akiko then. Additionally the emulation was improved
in Akiko 1.3. (ps)
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