14.Dec.2001
ANN
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Hyperion: Ben Yoris no longer PR manager
PR manager Ben Yoris is leaving the software company Hyperion Entertainment for
personal reasons. The PR will be managed in future by the owner
Ben Hermans.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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13.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Emanuele Cesaroni (PuzzleBOBS)
The Amiga Arena talked to Emanuele Cesaroni,
Nexus Development, about
his current game "PuzzleBOBS".
"PuzzleBOBS" is a puzzle Bobble clone being completely configurabel and having
a very funny game mode and more. One game mode of cooperative style, where two
players stay in the same level and shoot at the same bobbles.
The interview.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Amiga.org
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NAG: AmigaOS XL Review
Rick Ruge of the user group 'Northwest Amiga Group' from Oregon, U.S.A., has written
a review of AmigaOS XL, which you can find in the "December 2001" rubric.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Michael 'Das MCP' Göken (ANF)
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GRex IRC Channel closed for the time being
Michael Göken, who presented DCE's PCI board GRex on the Amiga 2001 show,
has established a support channel for GRex users on 27. October 2001
(we reported about). Now, after
about six weeks this channel was put on hold until further notice.
Michael Göken: "I neither have the time nor the money to perform support
while DCE does not support me in doing this. After hundreds of miles and masses of
sparetime spend on it, I still haven't got a run capable A4000T beta board from DCE.
Thus for the time being I will not answer any questions regarding the GRex PCI board, any
more. Please, if you have questions contact T. Dellert in person." (ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Chaos Computer Club
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CCC: 18. Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin - 27./29. December 2001
From 27. to 29. December the 18. Chaos Communication Congress will take place
in the 'Haus Am Köllnischen Park' (HAKP) in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos
Communication Congress is the annual symposium of the Chaos Computer Club e.V.
(CCC). This three-days congress will be about technology, community, and
utopias. The congress will offer lectures and workshops about a variety of
subjects all around information technologies, computer security, Internet,
cryptography, the discerning and inventive use of technogies, and
discussions about how technological progress effects society.
The congress can be attended as permanent or one-day guest.
The
admission charges
are staggert. A standard one-day ticket will cost 30DM. More details under the
title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
Blitz 2000
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Programming language: AmiBlitz Version 2.21
Blitz2 has been updated and is now released under GPL. It's now called
AmiBlitz2 and has lots of new features including optimisations, faster
compiler, PPC and FPU assembly and many bugfixes. A full distribution
will be worked out soon, but for now you will need to get this and use
some files from a previous Blitz installation (the demo might work).
Please, send bugreports for the program to the Blitz mailing list,
rather than to the uploader, to prevent double reports.
To subscribe to the mailing list send an e-mail to
blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
To unsubscribe send an e-mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Dec.2001
SonicPulse
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Sample Editor: SoundFX - Status of V4.2
SoundFX is an editor for digitized audio data (samples). SoundFX
was built modular and has a comfortable GUI. You can add digital effects
(which are unique on the Amiga) to samples and edit them. Currently the
programmer is working on version 4.2 and gives the following status report:
Stefan Kost: "The changes of the saving API were finished, so one now also
can save to areas. Now I will adjust the savers. Furthermore I have added some
new menu items (help menu). Of course some bugs had to bite the dust, too, and
the documentation is progressing as well (FAQ almost finished)."
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Dec.2001
Vapor-ML
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AmTALK II Version 2.3
AmTALK is a combined server/client for the TALK-protocol of the Internet which allows chatting between two users. It follows the full message to the new published version 2.3:
AmTALK II is a combined server/client for the Internet TALK
protocol for point-to-point online chatting.
AmTALK II has the following features:
- fully multithreaded for several talk sessions at once.
- auto answer facility to accept talk requests and store
incoming messages. Can be triggered manually or by
a user-definable timeout. Optional auto answer
information icon on workbench displaying number
of new and unread messages.
- "Locate" function to locate an AmTALK II user on a dynamic
IP address even if you don't know the exact IP number
he is using right now.
- history of last used talk addresses for easy access.
- user configurable sounds for notification of incoming talk
requests and successfully established talk links and more...
- userlist to store frequently used talk partners,
with aliasing for easy talk start and specificable
access privilleges (override auto answer,
refuse/ignore always, locate always etc.)
- can be started from inetd, or reside resident in
the background, activated by hotkey.
- supports clipboard Copy & Paste from talk windows.
- keeps a full log of incoming talk requests.
- supports session log save in ANSI or plain text mode
- nice and friendly GUI to start talks, control
operation and configuration
- handles incoming talk requests with "wrong" usernames
gracefully.
- keyboard resethandler to gracefully close active talk
requests upon a soft reset.
- works with Genesis, AmiTCP, Miami and as225r2-derived TCP/IP stacks.
NOTE: the provided Installer script doesn't work with the old OS 1.3
1.24/1.25 versions of Installer. Please get Installer-43_3.lha from AmiNet
(/util/misc) or from ftp.vapor.com, /pub/misc/Installer-43_3.lha.
AmTALK 2.x uses different keyfiles than AmTALK 1.x; however, the
upgrade is totally free. New keyfiles have already been mailed out
to everyone who registered AmTALK 1.x, if you didn't receive yours,
please mail to
keyfile-update@vapor.com,
stating when and where you originally registered. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2001
Da SixK Port Page
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Game ports by SixK basing on the SDL Library
During last week it was often reported about the SDL library port for
AmigaOS and MorphOS. The SDL library allows platform comprehensive
programming of games and other multimedia products. SixK now published
five game ports on their website (title link), which base on this
library.
Note: These is about a beta versions, which in part were not tested
for run capability, yet.
Details:
- Xrick - A Rick Dangerous game using SDL. Work for 68k and Mos
(Except if you have a Mediator + P96 like me for Mos).
- Supertux - A platform game using SDL. Don't remember if it works,
but it should.
- Sdlroids - An asteroid clone game using SDL.
- Mangoquest - A GL game using SDL - not fully tested.
- Glaxium - An openGL game using SDL.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Dec.2001
Amiga Information Online
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Magazine: AIO collecting Christmas greetings for next issue
The English online magazine AIO (Amiga Information Online) accept
Chritsmas greetings to be published on their website in the coming
issue #54.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Dec.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 10.12.2001)
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:
- 10.12.01 improved: Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin) requires less memory
- 10.12.01 new: Raffles (The Edge/Softek) done by Bored Seal
- 10.12.01 improved: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) support for another version added
- 08.12.01 new: Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
- 08.12.01 improved: Total Football (Domark/Acclaim) minor changes
- 08.12.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) more compatibility
- 08.12.01 improved: Operation Thunderbolt (Ocean) highscore saving, trainer added, several other changes
- 08.12.01 new: Joe Blade (Players Software) done by Codetapper
- 08.12.01 fixed: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) stuck in students class
- 08.12.01 improved: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small fixes
- 08.12.01 new: Abandoned Places 2 (ICE) done by JOTD
- 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
- 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
- 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
- 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
- 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
(ps)
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12.Dec.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)
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MPEG-Player: Frogger Version 1.67
Today the new version 1.67 of the MPEG-video-player called Frogger has been published and fixes many bugs of the previous version. You can download Frogger as WarpOS-, PowerUp- and 68k-version under the title link. But you can also try the following mirror: http://highantdev.de/frogger/.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)
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Emulator: Bochs version 1.3 for AmigaOS / MorphOS
Version 1.3 of the PC-emulator called Bochs has been published. As you can read on the homepage Bochs now also support AmigaOS / MorphOS.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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12.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Interface card SER/PAR: Delivery date for VarIO
The last acknowledgments of orders from all suppliers arrived today,
now it's only a matter of parcel services if pre-ordered boards arrive
on december 24th or 27th. Our international partners shall most probably
not receive the boards until next year.
(ps)
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11.Dec.2001
ANN
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Event: Amiga Expo call for exhibitors and usergroups
Amiga Expo's currently discounted booth and table rates will be going up
at the end of December, 2001 - if you're a developer, reseller, or user
group planning on exhibiting at Amiga Expo please get your reservation
in before the end of this month in order to take advantage of these
low-low rates!
If you're planning on attending Amiga Expo the advance-ticket prices for
the show will be going up as well! Please call and order your tickets
soon. Buy 'em Christmas gifts for all your Amiga friends too! While
you're at it - be sure to book your hotel room reservation before they
run out!!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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11.Dec.2001
ANN
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Amiga Inc.: AmigaDE Shop - Christmas Special
Now through December 24, 2001, our existing AmigaDE Player Customers will
receive a discount on participating applications purchased through the
AmigaDE Shop. Customers who have not purchased the AmigaDE Player will
receive a free AmigaDE Player for the platform of their choice with the
purchase of regularly priced applications through the AmigaDE Shop.
(ps)
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11.Dec.2001
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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AmigaOS XL/Amithlon Poll about Graphic and Network Cards
We apeal every AmigaOS XL/Amithlon user to participate in our poll.
We hope that the results will enable us to faster realize what cards
raise problems, and then will try to enhance the respective product /driver support.
The results play a certain role in deciding driver priorities and
therefor are very important for us.
Thank you in advance to all who will participate and with this will help
us to further enhance our products.
Best regards,
VMC Harald Frank
Direct link to this poll
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Dec.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)
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Financial Software: Bonds Version 1.84 - corrected version available
Sven Dröge: "After I've checked the last version once more, it now should run stable, meaning the share price update works again. Now a backup (optional) is done on import to have your old data available in case of an error. There also were problems with the date. I released the archive on the site, again."
Bonds is a financial software for bonds management of any kind, but mainly focuses on shares. This software is specialized for the financial center of Germany and best handles German bonds, since it uses the bond ident number system of the German stock exchange.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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11.Dec.2001
The Legacy
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The Legacy: Games museum updated about 800 game infos
"The Legacy" contains screenshots, cover-scans, and informations about the developers of older games for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC. Now the latest news about 800 game infos and new search features are added.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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11.Dec.2001
Grabriele Greco
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Library: SDL V1.2.3 Beta for StormC 4 and SDL Mixer V1.2.0
On December, 9th Gabriele Greco has released the beta version 1.2.3 of the multimedia-Library "SDL" for StormC 4 (68k, PPC/WOS). New added is the SDL Mixer Version 1.2.0 for 68k and MorphOS. With this program different sample formats, MIDI-songs and several MOD formats can be played.
Download:
SDL_123_beta_sc4.lha
SDL_Mixer-Amiga-1.2.0.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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11.Dec.2001
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neo Award: Countdown running - currently position #18
As already reported
amiga-news.de is nominated for the Internet award neo, category "favourit
webiste". Currently we are on position #18 of 636 nominated websites in this category, which already is a very good result! Tank you very much to our readers!
The countdown has stared, cause there are only two days left to vote (thru 13. December). Everybody has another vote this week and can participate and support us again. Will we make it a bit closer to the top?
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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