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.
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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
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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
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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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26.Jan.2002
AmigAIM
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9439
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9439 of the AIM compatible
messenger software AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client to connect with the America
Online Instant Messenger (AIM service). Here's an excerpt taken from the history
where you can find the changes made:
- Repaired a problem with the line graphics in the setup portion of
the Buddy list that occurred when I removed the memory leak in the
previous release.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
XBaze Site
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Data base: XBaze version 7.1
Rafal Kaczmarczyk has released version 7.1 of his data base 'XBaze'. The program
offers an easy-to-use editor for the fields of the data records and the layout
(drag'n drop). It runs from AmigaOS V3.0 on.
Bug reports and suggestions can be sent to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl
This version contains the following changes:
- Added new tooltypes:
- NOSIZEABLE - main window can't be resized.
- NONAVBUTTS - window without navigation buttons.
- 3DLOOK - navigation buttons will have 3D-look.
- Added possibility to assign ARexx programs to TEXT fields. Programs will be called during every record refresh.
- Added new option: "Project|Define..." used to define fields.
- Menu "Edit|Markers|" was divided to : "Edit|Mark|" and "Edit|Unmark|".
- Added following menu items:
- "?|Help..." - calls on-line help
- "?|Shortcuts..." - calls on-line help
- "?|e-mail..." - opens mail program
- "Navigation|Next|Marked" - goes to next marked record
- "Navigation|Next|Unmarked" - goes to next unmarked record
- "Navigation|Prev|Marked" - goes to previous marked record
- "Navigation|Prev|Unmarked" - goes to previous unmarked record
- "Navigation|First|Marked" - goes to the first marked record
- "Navigation|First|Unmarked" - goes to the first unmarked record
- "Navigation|Last|Marked" - goes to the last marked record
- "Navigation|Last|Unmarked" - goes to the last unmarked record
- Added on-;ine help available under [Help] key.
- New popupmenu for navigation gadgets in window border.
- Gadgets "Reset to default" and "Last saved" in program settings window was moved to popup menu.
- Added posibility to change placement of toolbar, you can change it using settings or tooltypes.
- New options in program settings window, suitable to tooltypes: NOSIZEABLE, NONAVBUTTS.
Download: XB-7.1.lha (561 KB)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
Bernhard Wörner Homepage
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Audio: Amplify version 1.2 (Update)
Bernhard Wörner has today released version 1.2 of his audio tool 'Amplify'.
Amplify offers the following features:
- Modulation on 0 dB
- Removing of empty space at beginning and end
- Removing of specific time ranges at beginning and end
- Mixing left and right channel together
- Fade in and out
- Inserting of breaks at beginning and end
- Removing of knacking at beginning and end
Minimal system configuration: AmigaOS 3.1, 68020+, 1,5 MB free memory
The tool is available for download for different 68k and PPC CPUs via the title
link.
Update 28.01.2002:
Bernhard Wörner:
The program now needs only AmigaOS 3.0!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
SPIEGEL
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SPIEGEL: new IBM strategy - Linux for mainframes
»IBM goes Linux: The American computer giant presents its first mainframe
computers that are developed exlusively for the Open Source operating system.«
Full (German) article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: interview with Ralph Torchia (Spitfire²)
With Spitfire² exists a very good shareware software for all Amiga and PalmOS
users. Spitfire² allows a connection between a Palm computer and an Amiga
computer. Amiga Arena talked to Ralph Torchia, the developer of Spitfire², about
the past and the future of the program. The interview can be found following the
title link while the English version is available here.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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ScummVM - Amiga ports website goes online!
Since today is the ScummVM Amiga port website online. It contains actual
information about ScummVM_AGA by NoGFX or about the MorphOS version by Rüdiger
Hanke, screenshots, downloads and much more. In a few days there'll be the new
version of ScummVM_AGA released!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future: log file of the bplan chat translated to German
On 21.01.2002 at 19.00 o'clock took on the IRC channel
#AmigaFun a chat with
Salvador Fernandez Gomez from bplan
place. Via the title link you'll find the translation by
Amiga Future of the
original log file.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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