06.Jan.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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Magazin: AMIGA aktuell 01/2002 published
Carsten Schröder writes:
The (German) January issue of the AMIGA aktuell magazine contains among other things:
- test report about the new version 6 of the route planner AmiATLAS
- test of the »Earth 2140 Mission Pack«
- review of the facturing software MT-Rechnung III
- background article about memory protection and virtual memory
- second part of the C++ workshop
AMIGA aktuell 01/2002 can be read online on our website or you can download it
in HTML or AmigaGuide format for offline reading.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Jan.2002
PCTip
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PCTip: new Amiga computers - a myth on the way to its comeback?
Christian Bütikofer wrote in his (German) article extensively about the Amiga scene.
»They still exist, the Amiga users. And soon they could start to become
some more again. If all goes as planned, the Amiga, next to Atari THE cult home
computer of the 80's and 90's, will celebrate a resurrection in the new year!«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena
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Amiga Arena: interview with Jürgen Reinert (TTime Deluxe)
With the version 3.19 the phone costs counter software "TTime-Deluxe"
became freeware. Amiga Arena talked to Jürgen Reinert about the new version of
"TTime-Deluxe" as well as about the future of the program "Dragon Tools" and
about the features he likes most on the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Amig@lien (ANF)
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Free-lance worker for Payback update CD wanted
Amig@lien has got the permission for a Payback update CD. Now we are looking for
some map designers who'd like to invest some time. Interested people may mail to payback@amigalien.de.
Thank you.
Ricco Clemens
Responsible at Amig@lien
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Nico Barbat (email)
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barbat media and falkemedia: employees wanted
For several commercial and non-commercial projects are
barbat media and falkemedia at the moment looking for the following staff:
- Translator English - German
- full time job with fixed salary
- very good English and German knowledge
- good knowledge of EDP and of the general games market
- Editors
- full time job or as free lance
- very good knowledge of the games and /or Amiga area
- good knowledge of language
- Web designer
- work on a voluntary basis on a new project in the demo scene area
For further information or if interested please contact directly Nico Barbat.
barbat media -
AMIGAplus
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Heise newsticker
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Heise: study is said to deliver ammunition against Linux
In the magazine The Register
has an internal email of the Microsoft vice president Brian Valentine been
released that caused a fuss as the mail reveals that the marketing strategy of
Microsoft are obviously directed against Open Source.
Heise article (German) see title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Kilian Servais (ANF)
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NoCover issue 94 released
Kilian Servais wrote:
Today has issue 94 of the freeware magazine NoCover been released. This is
available via Aminet (docs/mags), ACP&TCP homepage
or via email from me.
A free email subscription is possible any time. We're always pleased about
feedback etc. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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05.Jan.2002
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)
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XAD-System Version 11
After a long time again a new release of archive extractor system XAD.
This system supports 93 filearchive, diskarchive and filesystem formats
nowadays (LZX, LhA, DMS, CAB, Zip, Rar, Ace, Arj, Wrapster, HA, ADF,
...). The most important new formats may be StuffIt, MacBinary, BinHex,
C64 filesystems and the SmartFileSystem. Thanks a lot to my three most active
supporters. XAD is still (relatively cheap) shareware. And there is
still a special price for OS 3.9 users wanting to update.
(ps)
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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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