30.Dec.2001
Amiga Flame
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AmigaDE: Bubble Heroes and Payback
Virtual Programming,
who recently took over Blittersoft, announce "Bubble Heroes" and
"Payback" to be ported to AmigaDE.
"Bubble Heroes" by the Italian developer Arcadia Developments is
a puzzle / adventure game in the style of "Puzzle Bobble" or the "Bust A Move"
series.
Payback by James Daniels is a game in the style of Grand Theft Auto (GTA)
available as 68k and PPC versions with Warp3D support for Amigas, so far.
Beside of the AmigaDE version a Macintosh port was already announced.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #54
On 29. December 2001 issue #54 of the English online magazine "Amiga Information Online" (AIO)
was published. This issue contains an interview with Zeneo and more.
The magazine uses its own display program running on AmigaOS.
Download: AIOV54.LHA (459K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaDE: Interview with Matthew Kille ("Planet Zed")
On 28. December 2001 Jérôme Senay published an interview
with Matthew Kille, author of the AmigaDE game "Planet Zed", on his homepage.
"Planet Zed" is about a vertical scrolling shoot'em-up game.
Matthew Kille has been using the Amiga since 1989 and in the interview talks about
his company, the game "Planet Zed", and his working methods.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Aminet: Aminet CD 46 - 12/2001
On 19. December 2001 Schatztruhe released
Aminet CD 46 containing almost 600 MB (uncompressed) of software in more than 600
archives. More than 450 MB of new stuff have been added since Aminet CD 45.
This CD also contains the full version of the game "Virtual Karting 2".
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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30.Dec.2001
Ingmar Poerner (ANF)
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Quake Movie on the Amiga
"Quake redone Quick" has been released as a seperate Amiga version
yesterday. This is a slick movie build upon the Quake-engine, and which
shows an amazing run through the game on the highest skill-setting,
additionally refilmed and polished with gags and some music.
You will require a registered version of Quake and 40/64 Mb
harddisk-space to watch it. For more info visit
planetquake.com.
Aminet-mirror will be available within a few days. (ps)
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30.Dec.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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Tool: MCP V1.36 (Update II)
Version 1.36 of the MasterControl program (MCP) was released on
29. December 2001.
Along with numerous bugfixes performance was enhanced a little, too.
The update archive only contains the changed files. The v1.35 data are
required in addition.
Download:
(sd)
Update 30. December 2001:
To download the files press and hold the left shift key (LSHIFT) before clicking the links.
Update 31. December 2001:
Dieter Groppé apologizes for the download problems, which are due to server overload.
He is asking if someone knows about an efficient server to maybe mirror his files free of charge. Who can help with this, please send an email to dgroppe@web.de.
(mj) (Translation: mj)
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30.Dec.2001
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: First results according compatibility of the HIGHWAY
First results according compatibility of the HIGHWAY USB
controller card are available (busboards, CPU cards, other
Zorro cards). Results for further systems (especially A1200
busboards) are to follow the next week. (sd)
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29.Dec.2001
Telepolis
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Telepolis: Lifelong imprisonment becaus of distribution of unused machine time?
In this article Birgitte Zarzer reports about the system administrator David McOwen,
who provided unused machine time of several computers of the University of Georgia to
distributed.net, and thereby catched harshly
trouble in return. He will face court in January and possibly will catch very long
lasting imprisonment.
There are also many Amiga users helping distributed.amiga.org
to crack the RC5 key. This worldwide competition is about to crack a 64bit key by calculating all of the
18.4 trillons of possibilities. One can provide unused computing capabilities of the own machine for this
matter by using some specified software.
In case you are utilizing "foreign" machines for this, after reading this article you appear to be adviced
to raise a written permission.
See title link for the Telepolis article (German).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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29.Dec.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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clickBOOM: Defender of the Crown - S-File 15
Defender of the Crown (for Windows and MAC) is basically finished. It is currently being tested
against bugs. In the last few weeks we added a whole new type of game
play to it -- missions. Basically, if you accept, and fulfill a mission,
you get a reward during the game. Missions range from defeating a certain
lord, to rescuing damsels, etc. Rewards can be additional gold, soldiers,
and more. It plays very nice and adds a whole new dimension to the tried
and tested original Defender game play.
(ps)
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29.Dec.2001
Da SixK Port Page
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Database: MySQL for Amiga (040) Version 4.0.1
Version 4.0.1 of MySqld archive for 040.
Note that changes made for amiga are now commited in the official source
archive. Some modifications to configure and makefiles are still missing
in the official archive, so if you need to compile MySql, contact me at
sixk@ifrance.com. For those who
wants to use special character set, just have a look at the startmysqld
script and mysql:language/charsets/ directory.
Downlaod: MySqld-4.0.1-Alpha.lzx
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29.Dec.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register December 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana
Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information regarding
Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry.
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29.Dec.2001
(ANF)
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AmiGathering 4: The Flickering Party
For the fourth time since 1997, the most prominent Amiga user
meeting in Greece will take place, this time in Thessaloniki
(Perseos 2 str, Ano Poli), on January 4, 5 and 6 2002.
Attendance is free and everybody is encouraged to bring his
computer along (anyone wishing to do so should contact
kaliviotis@mac.com to reserve desk space).
Attendees have the chance to win keyboard and mouse adaptors
in the Shogo, Heretic 2 and Sensible Soccer tournaments.
Presentations include the G-Rex, MorphOS, Mediator and
Hyperion's latest game, Freespace: The great war.
Crash courses include Amiga to PC/Amiga networking (Samba,
VNC, Envoy).
Anyone wishing to sell his used hardware of software is
welcome to do so. For hotel reservations please visit
www.031.gr. For more
information please email kaliviotis@mac.com.
(ps)
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28.Dec.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Audio: AHI 5.20 beta including alpha version for Amithlon
On 21st December 2001 beta version 5.20 of the popular soundcard driver system
AHI has been released. Besides a version for 68k Amigas and MorphOS there is now
a first alpha version for Amithlon.
Attention: before using the Amithlon version you should make a backup of the old
version.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Dec.2001
APC&TCP
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Computer club: APC&TCP dissolved (Update)
On 23rd December 2001 APC&TCP announced officially that the computer club APC&TCP
was dissolved. The APC&TCP distribution continues to exist.
(ps)
(Translation: rh)
Update 31. December 2001:
Kilian Servais, issuer of the APC&TPC disk magazine NoCover (German) wrote to the German comments on this article:
Hi!
Dissolving of the club in deed is not that tragical, because the only service, which alwas has been taken consequently, was the NoCover. Meantime this became freeware and everybody, who would like to, can registert to the email distribution list free of charge - just send an email to kilian@apc-tcp.de!
In the times of Internet and email a club, like the APC&TCP has been, only makes sense in a very limited way, anyway, cause the Community will stay alive in any case. All users without Internet account can get the NoCover on floppy disk, as well. Due to the club dissolving the yearly charge slipps, but though we will try to offer as much services as possible.
So, at heart dissolving of the club is no step back but a step forward. The NoCover can get well as freeware, Andreas can concentrate on the Future (German Amiga games magazine), etc., etc.. So people: We'll keep at it!! What ever may come!!
Kilian Servais / Hersg. der NoCover
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28.Dec.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Audio: RAPlay update (support of Realmedia streams)
The well-known audiostream player RAPlay has been released in the final version 3.0
and is available for download at the title link. Also, the player will appear soon
on Aminet.
What's interesting about this player is not only the support of RealAudio 1-2 streams
but now also the support of RealMedia in the codec versions 1, 2 and 3.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Dec.2001
Quantum Leap / Luca Diana
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Quantum Leap: Pictures from a visit at Amiga Inc.
Luca Diana from the Italian online magazine 'Quantum Leap' has visited
Bill McEwen last month in the bureaus of Amiga Inc. in Snoqualmie and
put some pictures of his journey online. He came back with the impression
that Amiga has chosen the right path.
At the title link you'll find the pictures with English and Italian subtitles.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Dec.2001
Techno
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Phone costs: TTimeDeluxe version 3.19
With TTimeDeluxe you can keep track of your online costs. This update
of version 3.18 to 3.19 makes TTimeDeluxe ready for the Euro. The
switch to Euro should not be made before 01.01.2001 or there may be
rounding errors otherwise. TTime is now Freeware.
IMPORTANT: TTime just changes the currency name and updates
the TTime logfile. You'll have to change the prices in the preferences and
the saved projects yourself.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Dec.2001
Titan Computer (ANF)
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BurnIT: New master driver for CDR writer
There are new master drivers for current CDR writers available for
download for the CDR recording software 'BurnIT' by Titan Computer.
The following models are supported:
- Yamaha2100
- Plextor1210S
- Ricoh7200A+S
- Traxdata2410
- Yahama8824S
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28.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)
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Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBS update
An update for the demo version of "PuzzleBOBS" is online.
The update contains some new features as well as bug fixes.
Also, an FAQ is contained in the archive of "PuzzleBOBS".
The update for the full version follows.
Distribution: Fun Time World
Contact: Sebastian Brylka - FunTime@t-online.de
Support: Amiga Arena
Contact: Olaf Köbnik - olaf.koebnik@online-club.de
Developer: Nexus Development
Contact: Emanuele C. - emacesa@tin.it
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28.Dec.2001
Vlad Vinogradov (E-Mail)
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Amiga Information Center: Russian Amiga News Site celebrate 2nd birthday
The most famous Russian language news site for amigans - Amiga Information
Center (title link) celebrate the 2nd birthday. Please review this event
by yourself. Congratulations! (ps)
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28.Dec.2001
Telepolis
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Telepolis: Mail for you!
An initiative wants to retaliate upon AOL - they return one million CDs
to sender.
In his article Torsten Kleins talks about the return of one million AOL CDs
planned by Nomoreaolcds from a
completely different point of view.
»Christmas is the time for giving. Our cupids get extensively packed
presents from indoctrinated salespersons, donation collectors leave houses
with filled collecting boxes, even postmen and garbagemen - sorry: post deliverers
and garbage technicians become the target of our lordliness.
But there are only a few companies as involved with the latter two professional guilds
as AOL is. What the fist one puts into our postpoxes in exhausting legwork the second one
comes to pick it up shortly after: AOL CDs. It is the time to say thank you to the
friendly provider from America. Let us send a parcel to AOL.«
See title link for the complete Telepolis article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)
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