05.Jan.2002
ANN
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Payback Update 7 Released & Apex Website Redesigned
Apex Designs have released Payback
Update 7. Amongst
other things, the new update fixes several bugs and improves the appearance of
the water when running under hardware acceleration. The 680x0 version is also
significantly faster.
Secondly, Apex have extensively redesigned their website and are encouraging
people to drop by and take a look.
Finally, they've also posted an updated map on the
Extra Maps page. (ps)
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04.Jan.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.01.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use
with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or
updated:
- 03.01.02 new: Terry's Big Adventure (Grandslam) done by Codetapper & Galahad
- 03.01.02 new: Puffy's Saga (UBI-Soft) done by Codetapper
- 03.01.02 new: WWF Wrestlemania (Ocean) done by Codetapper
- 03.01.02 improved: Skweek (Loriciel) trainer added
- 03.01.02 new: Round the Bend (Zeppelin) done by Bored Seal
- 03.01.02 fixed: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) access fault removed
- 03.01.02 improved: Panza Kickboxing (Loriciel/Futura) supports another version, fastmem support
- 03.01.02 new: Off Shore Warrior (Titus) done by CFOU!
- 03.01.02 new: Ninja Spirit (Mediagenic) done by CFOU! & JOTD
- 03.01.02 new: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel) done by Abaddon
- 03.01.02 new: Monty Pythons Flying Circus (Core Design/Virgin) done by CFOU!
- 03.01.02 improved: Mega Phoenix (Dinamic) supports another version, trainer added
- 03.01.02 new: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
- 03.01.02 new: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) done by Abaddon & CFOU!
- 03.01.02 new: Horror Zombies from the Crypt () done by Abaddon
- 03.01.02 new: Hellraider (Atari) done by Bored Seal
(ps)
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04.Jan.2002
Stiftung Warentest
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Stiftung Warentest: Computer monitors: Flat, good, expensive
»Flat screen or ordinary monitor? Modern flat screens mostly are better.
The tested TFT displays provide pin sharp pictures. They are compact, eye friendly and
save energy. Disadvantage: Flat screens are expensive. Price starts at 445 Euro. A good
ordinary monitor can be obtained for a price of 255 Euro, already.
«
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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04.Jan.2002
SPIEGEL online
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SPIEGEL: Tops and flops of the year
In his article Jochen A. Siegle describes the tops and flops of the year
2001. Listed as a flop is Windows XP by Microsoft while the
new website Wayback Machine, which allows a journey through time
to websites from the beginning of the internet is highlighted as website of
the year.
German SPIEGEL article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Dennis Lohr (e-mail)
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Psyria: Defender of the Crown title song for mobile phones
Dennis Lohr of Psyria has received the permission of Jim Cuomo to
convert the title song of Defender of the Crown for mobile phones.
Everyone with a phone with note editor can now enter the melody of
Defender of the Crown:
4C5, 8C.5, 16D5, 2C5, 4G5, 8G.5, 16A5, 2G5, 4F5, 4E5, 4D5,
4C5, 4E5, 8B.4, 16B4, 2B4, 4C5, 8C.5, 16D5, 2C5, 4G5, 8G.5,
16A5, 4G.5, 16F5, 16E5, 8F5, 8E5, 8D5, 8C5, 8F5, 8E5, 8D5,
8C5, 4E5, 8B.4, 16B4, 2B4, 4F5, 8F5, 8F5, 8G5, 8G5, 8A5,
8G5, 4C6, 8C.5, 16C5, 4C5
The first number is the note type:
1= full
2= half
4= quarter
8= quaver
16= sixteenth
The letter stands for the note itself (long with a "." where necessary). The third
number stands for the note height (octave). You are usually in octave 5 after
starting the editor.
The user should choose the speed for the piece himself since every mobile phone
varies the speed differently. For a Siemens mobile phone for example the optimal
speed would be "03".
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Gigabyte counts on ATI graphics chips - NVidia is out
»Graphics cards with Rage 128 Pro, Radeon 7000E and Radeon
7500LE announced
The Taiwanese hardware manufacturer Gigabyte has removed his graphics cards
with NVidia chips - among them a GeForce2 Ti 200 and GeForce3 Ti 500 -
from their program in favor of graphics cards with ATIs Radeon graphics chips
of the 7000 series.«
Full German article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Expensive free domains
Who has registered a free second level domain of Trinidad and Tobago
(for example www.amiga-news.de.tt) at TopNic
should read their terms and conditions more closely. According to them,
in case of inactivity of 40 days a deactivation fee applies. If your
domain generates no traffic over a course of 40 consecutive days, a
deactivation fee of Euro 29,-- has to be paid immediately."
Heise article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Freedom For Links
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FFL: Tim Berners-Lee: What is a link?
»Tim Berners-Lee is regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
1990 he developed hyperlinks at the Swiss core research establishment CERN
in Geneva hyperlinks - fast connections between a variety of documents.
He wrote the first WWW client (a browser editor under NeXtStep) and the
first WWW server in connection with the communication software which
defined URLs, HTTP and HTML defined.«
Read at the title link his thoughts on the nature of hyperlinks. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Ralph Debusmann
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Music player: EasyPlayer version 1.12
Version 1.12 of the music player EasyPlayer (EYP) has been released. With
this program Ralph Debusmann offers a user-friendly graphical interface
for shell-based programs such as mpega, GMPlay or SIDPlay. The program
is universally usable for all shell-based music player software.
Requirements are AmigaOS 2.04 (V37) or higher, reqtools.library
version 38 or higher, amigaguide.library version 34 or higher and a
shell-based music player program.
Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin (107 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
dynAMIte
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Game: dynAMIte SouthPark style improved
Oliver Tacke has improved his SouthPark style for the network game dynAMIte,
a Bomberman clone, and made it available for download in the area "styl'o'rama".
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed with new tests
New speed tests have been added to the Amiga Speed. For the first time
there are tests with an A4000 equipped with a G-Rex PCI card and a Voodoo3.
So have a look at the items Heretic2, Q***e and Voodoo3 (2D GFX).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (e-mail)
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Individual Computers: website partly updated
Besides a new price list and payment conditions for customers from
foreign countries there have been some cosmetical changes in the
product descriptions (especially VarIO).
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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04.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future issue #34 released
Issue #34 of the German print magazine Amiga Future is shipping.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Jan.2002
Dreamolers-CAPS
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Tool: ReqAttack Version 1.96
This tool by Georg Steger to pretify system requesters is being further
developed by Jaca/Dreamoler-Caps and is available in version 1.96 under
the title link. This version comes with optimized code and a newly integrated
PatchControl replacing CyReg. Furthermore images for nlisttree in RAPrefsMUI
were added and a version for 68040 processors was compiled.
Download: ReqAttackUpd.lha
Dreamolers completely redesigned their website, the
´Group´ section is not available yet.
Jaca/D-CAPS moreover are working on a new MCPPrefs program, which currentliy has
alpha status.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Jan.2002
ANN
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Kerneltrap: Interview with Matthew Dillon
You can read an interesting interview with Matthew Dillon at Kerneltrap.
He has programmed a lot for FreeBSD an is very well known by the Amiga scene
from his C compiler 'Dice'.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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Instant-Messenger: StrICQ Version 0.2106
new:
- Released at The Party 2001 (MAJOR feature!)
- Fixed the no expire ignore impossible bug.
- Flowers are now selectable in the options-window
- (Hopefully) removed the possibility to exploit NList etc
by sending escape-codes in messages, no definet promises though.
(ps)
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03.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Foundation planned to revive the Atari/TOS software market
»xTOS-Team is about to establish "Atari/TOS Software Foundation"
Similar to the Amiga fans owners of Atari home computers have been fighting with
a continuously decreasing software market for the TOS operating system, during
the last years. For this reason some steadfast Atari users are about to establish
some kind of Atari/TOS Software Foundation to revive software development -
especially with view on the xTOS machine being under development.«
See title link for complete article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Jan.2002
Paul J. Beel (ANF)
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Pagan Games Interviewed by GetBoinged!
Pagan Games was kind enough to take time from their busy schedule to be
interviewed by GetBoinged! Go to title link to check out the interview! (ps)
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03.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: Poll about the Amiga's future
On the Amiga Future homepage a poll was started about: "Where do you see the
Amiga's future?". The results of the poll about the Amiga 2001 show
were published.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Kleinheinrich (AmiDraw)
With "AmiDraw" a new 2D vector basing GFX program is being developed by
Stefan Kleinheinrich. The software currently is at beta stage. The Amiga
Arena talked to Stefan Kleinheinrich about the future of "AmiDraw" and more.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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03.Jan.2002
Ingo Schmitz (amiga-forum.de) (ANF)
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UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS
With permission of Sam Jordan we are now offering UAE 0.8.12 for
WarpOS for download. An archive containing the source codes will follow later on.
Download: uae-0.8.12-R1WOS.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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