08.Jan.2002
Helmut Hoffmann (ANF)
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PhotoAlbum V6.6 und CyberShow V9.5a
Helmut Hoffmannrites:
After a longer break I have released new versions of my shareware programs "PhotoAlbum" and "CyberShow". The most important new features in both programs (PhotoAlbum 6.6 und CyberShow 9.5a) are functions to rotate pictures +/- 90° or 180°. For users of a Sony-CyberShot digital camera an automatical rotation detection is integrated.
Both programs are available in the Aminet (gfx/misc/photoalbum66.lha - gfx/board/cybershow95a.lha) and on my homepage (title link).
The shareware prices are adapted to EURO. For all internet users ordering online (order and delivery via email) a reduced price of EUR 20,- is valid. Ordering via mail and delivery on disks will cost you EUR 30,-.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Jan.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)
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News on Amiforce
On Amiforce you can find:
- At the download area you can find an Euro calculator and the gag program Speaker.
- The dynAMIte.styles Alienoid and PacMan are updated.
The poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz is still running.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Jan.2002
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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H&P: Freespace: at last available
Haage&Partner wrote:
At last we get the official permission to ship 'Freespace'. The advance orders are allready shipped.
Freespace was proted by Hyperion Entertainment and is surely the best the space-battle-simulation that was ever available for the Amiga. It offers a unique mixture of phantastic graphics, complex plot and an outstanding gameplay.
Freespace can be used with every Amiga with PPC-CPU and 64MB RAM or Amigas with 68060 and a 3D-accelerator-board (like Voodoo3, Permedia 2).
Additional information is available at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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07.Jan.2002
Marcel Rohles (ANF)
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Downloadmanager: Charon V1.98
Well, believe it or not, it's been released. Available from my
homepage or from Aminet in a couple of days.
Version 1.98 (6.1.2002)
- Introduced the concept of groups. Now each URL can belong to
a group and will take that group's settings as its default
settings. A new URL is by default placed in the group in
which the active entry indicator is currently found.
- Completely rewritten URL parsing routine which resulted in a
large speed up. This speed up would be even larger, but the
URL comparison routine was changed from simple string compare
to full-blown URL comparison routine which works properly.
- Rewritten detection of duplicates in the list. The code is now
much faster and works for any number of duplicates, unlike in
the last version.
- Charon now remembers the length of the file on server and
shows it all the time (if it is available).
- Many improvements and some fixes in the HTML parsing routine.
- Addressed some security issues.
- There's now a special treatment for %2F URL escape code (/)
because there are some filesystems that allow / in a filename.
- Added support for ftp://.../file;type=x URLs.
- When automatically creating filenames from the URL, %xx
sequences are now decoded.
- There's a new section in the documentation describing some
"hidden" features. Charon's tooltypes/arguments (LOG and
SETTINGS) are documented there.
- It is now possible to log all HTTP headers that were sent or
received through Charon for debugging purposes. More about
this in the advanced section of the manual.
- There's a new configuration option which tells Charon not to
read the size of the files on the disk during the startup thus
speeding it up. More about this in the advanced section of
the manual.
- DOS requesters are now blocked while the list of entries is
being loaded in order to prevent a bunch of the "Please
insert ..." requesters from a appearing if one of your drives
is dismounted.
- New gadget "Move & start" in HTML links and Internet search
windows.
- Changed the way Charon shortens the filenames when "Max
filename length" option comes into action.
- Changed the way the "Directory structure" option works. It now
also takes into consideration the name of the host.
- When a file is downloaded and Charon needs to check if there
are any queued files to be started, they are first searched
for in the same group in which the downloaded file was.
- Some changes in ARexx interface as a result of introduction
of groups.
- Updated some and removed some searches from Internet search
window. Ideas for possible additions are welcome.
- Fixed a bug in parsing dates in HTTP headers.
- Fixed a rare bug in display of percentage of the downloaded
file.
- Too long FTP paths would cause a crash while sending a
request. Fixed.
- Fixed a small memory leak during that occured only when Charon
was started from the shell.
- Charon would report that it couldn't resume a transfer when a
file had already been downloaded fully.
- SET Arexx command wasn't working properly for ages, fixed.
(ps)
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07.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: Old links re-activated, VarIO online manual
While analyzing our webserver-statistics, we have seen that there
are a couple of hundred accesses to pages that have been renamed
with the re-launch of the site in May 2000. These accesses are now
re-directed to the corresponding URLs of the new site.
The online-manual of the VarIO interface board is now available in
two languages, and the last missing part of the hardware
documentation is available in the insider-section of the support
area.
Users of Microsoft Internet-Explorer (Version 5.0 and higher) that
bookmark our site will see a fragment of our company logo as an
icon next to the URL in the favourites list.
(ps)
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07.Jan.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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Matay: New homepage
Matay, producer of the well-known PCI-bridge "Prometheus" from Poland, relaunched theire homepage with a new design. A new and easy to use navigationbar lets you faster find the information you are looking for.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Jan.2002
Vapor
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Library: vapor_toolkit V15.13
Version 15.13 of the "vapor_toolkit.library" was released for AmigaOS and MorphOS. This library offers support functions used by most Vapor applications to reduce code size. The library's functions include the procedure of registration and watching for new versions at vapor.com. Changes in this version:
- Changed: Every character of an URL greater than 127 are regocnized as end mark. This should solve the AmIRC URL problem with the French catalog.
- New: URLs without scheme within quotation marks now are recognized ["www.blah.com"].
- Changed: Default memory needs of URL recognition reduced.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.7, Integrity V1.2
Version 17.1 of the virus detector "Safe" by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski was released. "Safe" recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible.
Safe contains a bugfix and the packet was splitted into three parts:
"Safe", "Integrity" und "WatchDog".
Changes:
- Bugfix: Fixed "mislooks" in VECS, SAVEMEM and DIS
anyway, seems only I use these options...
"Safe" runs on AmigaOS 2.04+ and requires xvs.library.
"Integrity" is a disk tool displaying any file added, deleted or changed since the last time "Integrity" was launched.
This is helpful to discover viruses / trojans in the system, but information also can be used to remove recently installed but not desired files, such like fonts, libraries, etc..
"Integrity" runs on AmigaOS v2.04+, the MMU version requires mmu.library.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Unix: NetBSD-Port for Pegasos suggested
At the "Suggested Ports" section of the open source unix system
"NetBSD" a NetBSD port for the Pegasos PPC system (bplan) is listed.
Who is interested in such port might contact
Allen Briggs (briggs@netbsd.org).
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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FAQ Amiga Francophone
The current version of the "FAQ Amiga Francophone" is available under
the title link.
This French FAQ answers general questions about the Amiga, e.g. about
emulators, PCI, USB, and more.
Vincent Alloy
(scanx@wanadoo.fr) maintains it.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Audio: Ogg Vorbis-Libraries for AmigaOS
On the
Da SixK Port Page
quick done ports of the libOgg and libVorbis were released.
The Ogg Vorbis format
is an open source audio format being an alternative for MP3.
The release of this developer kit is to encourage people to program a new
player or an Ogg Vorbis plugin for AmigaAmp.
The libVorbis directory contains examples for the use of the Ogg Vrobis libraries.
There also is "decode_example", a Ogg Vrobis to PCM decoder, contained.
There is also an example for how to code files to Ogg Vorbis format, but this does not
seem to work properly.
Ogg Vorbis developer site:
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/.
Download: libOGG+libVorbis_dev.lzx
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)
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Magazine: CD32 Outside No.4 released
The CD32 Outside No.4, German CD32 magazine, is available for free download.
Download: CD32outside4.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Amiga: NDK V3.9 released
Since Friday the update of the native developer kit on AmigaOS 3.9
is available for download at the AmigaOS 3.9 area of amiga.com.
The NDK v3.9 bases on the NDK 3.5 released on "Amiga Developer CD 2.1" and
is in part identical with this.
The example programs are mostly the same, as well as the tutorials and tools.
C headers and assembler headers, linker libraries, autodocs, and ARexx interface
documentaions for the Workbench have been updated. New are the "release note files"
and the so called "sfd files".
amiga.lib stubs, clib prototyp header-, pragma header,
and .fd files are all generated by the sfd files.
As an example tool for processing sfd files "sfd" is included in the tools
directory - but, one can also use third-party tools like "fd2pragma" (by Dirk Stöcker).
Note: sfd files of this release have been "sanified", meaning protected and internal
data are left out.
C header files have been cleared and their syntax were verified again. They now compile
problemless with SAS/C and GCC, even if all compiler warnings are enabled.
This release contains no specific GGC header files, but this might change in future
updates.
As of this writing, the specific requirements for GCC on the
native 68k and on the PowerPC platforms are still somewhat
uncertain. To the best of our knowledge, the compiler specific
header files would have covered the ROM interface, that is, the
pragma header files only. As the "sfd" files are provided with this
distribution, you should be able to rebuild your platform specific
header files yourself, or obtain a set from your compiler vendor.
This NDK update also represents a milestone regarding the assembler
header files. With this release these are no longer guaranteed to by
synchron to their counterparts in C.
Questions, bugreports, and wishes regarding the NDK 3.9 should be send directly
to that person, who created this updated: Olaf Barthel.
Thanks to all who contributed to this update, including
Martin Blom, Don Cox, James Jacobs, Gunther
Nikl, Alastair M. Robinson, Matt Sealey, Steven Solie, Martin
Steigerwald, Dirk Stöcker, Neil William, and others!
(Other sources: Stefan Kleinheinrich und MichaelV on ANF)
Download: NDK_3.9.lha (2,9M)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: Poll about SUBWAY / HIGHWAY started
During preperations for the first line of SUBWAY or HIGHWAY cards unfortunately
we happend to have some delays. We cannot fix delivery problems on the
semiconductor market, but we would like to take the resulting delay to match our
product with users' wishes, again.
That's why a
poll was put online, today,
where you can enter your wishes and suggestions.
We hope for active participation from the Amiga community. We are interested in your
serious opinion.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Ingo Schmitz (amiga-forum.de) (ANF)
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Amiga-Emulator: Sources of UAE 0.8.12 (WarpOS)
Ingo Schmitz of amiga-forum.de writes:
From today we are offering the specific source codes of UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS
in addition to the binaries. But remember that you will need the original
source codes of UAE, too. More information can be found under the title link.
Download: uae-0.8.12-R1WOS_src.lha
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Comic: Sabrina Online.de with Strips 181-184
The German issue of Eric W. Schartz's comic series "Sabrina Online"
was updated. The following was added:
- 181: The porno stars are allways the first to know, somehow
- 182: mind games
- 183: Employees are to be attacted by taffy
- 184: Taffy continues
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future
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Magazine: Starmag stopped
The German disk and online magazine "Starmag" was stopped on 5. January 2002.
The website is reading the following note:
So, the magazine is offline now. If the "Starmag" would be revived some day
depends on the Amiga market getting well or not. But at the moment this is not
to be assumed :-(
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
ANN
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Amiga-Emulator: Amithlon explained by Bernie Meyer
In August 2001 Bernd Meyer has visited the Amiga User Group in
Australia and performed the third official presentation of the
Amiga emulator "Amithlon" there (the first one was done in St. Louis (Bill McEwen), the
second one with MAUG). He described the basics of the linux mini kernel and how AmigaOS was put on top.
Tony Mulvihill of the "Amiga User Group of Melbourne" has recorded this presentation with
his video8 camera. Craig Hutchinson then has digitized the video and splitted it into
18 MPEG files, which are available from Aminet under
/pix/mpg/Amithlon#?.mpg.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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amigapage.de: Amiga-History 2001
Marcus Neervoort has completed the
Amiga-History
of 2001 on his website.
Petro Tyschtschenko was disbanded on the Gateway 2001, the AmigaOne, AmigaOS 4.0,
as well as AmigaDE for Sharp Zaurus was announced.
In October the Amiga emulators AmigaOS XL and Amithlon were released.
In November the Pegasos board by bplan and the USB controller Subway by Michael
Böhme, and more were presented.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Markus Pohlmann about "Projekt Crashite"
"Projek Crashsite" is about a science fiction role game in which the player takes the part
of some kind of police force in a colonialized solar system. Beside of Markus Pohlmann there
are Daniel Hartlehnert (graphic rendering), Denis Comtesse (music), and Fredrike Schmitt (character drawing) working on development.
Markus Pohlmann answers questions about himself in person, the history of development of
the game, and the Amiga's situation.
Note: The editorial board
of the Amiga Future is urgently wanting users able to unsalaried translate texts for the
homepage from German to Englisch and vice versa.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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06.Jan.2002
Kultpower (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: Amiga-Magazin with Covers and more
There are additonal cover scans and editorials of the German print magazine Amiga-Magazin
online at Kultpower.de.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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