22.Nov.2001
VaporWare
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Statement from Oliver Wagner about the "Security Issues in MUI Apps"
Under the title link you will find a detailed statement by Oliver Wagner
Vaporware) on the "security
issues in MUI applications" recently revieled. He describes and
clarifies that not only MUI applications are affected.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)
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SuperView: ImageFX Saver Version 1.4
A potential memory leak in the ImageFX saver for SView
was fixed in V1.4 (now on download page on my WWW site). (ps)
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22.Nov.2001
Telepolis
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Telepolis: Under the token of the Boing-Ball
Torsten Kleinz published a German article about the AMIGA 2001 at Telepolis
containig a good sumarize of the past years.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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21.Nov.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)
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Sequencer: BarsnPipes version 1.07 published
Version 1.07 of the improved sequencer BarsnPipes has been just published. Many bugs have been fixed and a lot of new functions have been added which were wishes of users from all over the world. You can read on the History which new things have been added.
This super multimedia sequencer for the classic Amiga is a must-have for all midi-musicans.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
amiga-topcool / Daniel Orth (ANF)
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amiga-topcool: Interview with Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding the manager of Haage&Partner has been interviewed of amiga-topcool. He speaks about Amithlon, AmigaOS XL, Amiga.Inc, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.9, iFusion, PageStream and the current situation of Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Graphic competition: Schlachtfeld
For one month there is the graphic competition to "Schlachtfeld". Today Horst Diebel gave some more details for the graphics to be made.
In contrary to the "old" Schlachtfeld units and background will stand in a relation 1 to 1 that means 64 pixels are ca. 20 m. The size of the pattern will be 64x64 pixels and you can use 256 colours or more. The developer would be very delighted if you took part.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)
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Pegasos-Boards will be produced on DCE SMD-line
Under the title link you can find some pictures of DCE which show how PEGASOS-boards are being placed on the SMD-line of DCE.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
CCC-ML
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Chaos Computer Club: Censorship is being done
A provider from Nordrhein-Westfalen (German county) starts to block Internet sites.
In some sort of hurrying obedience at least one Internet provider in Düsseldorf (Germany),
the ISIS company, has constricted access to several Internet sites
by changing the DNS entry on the ISIS name server. Yesterday, the Chaos Computer Club got aware
of this censorship effort.
On a hearing of the county government of Düsseldorf with diverse
Internet providers it was discussed by what means providers would be able to
block access to diverse outlandish websites,
[1].
This was in main about sites spreading radical right-wing content, but also
rotten.com, specialized to collect more
or less tastily picture material from the Internet, was condsidered to be dignified to
be censored. Rotten.com quote thier extreme photo collection, among other of
of casualties, as serious dealing with the manor of freedom of speech.
Philipp Schulte of CCC Düsseldorf in view of this faint-hearted censorship effort said:
"It is to assume that the still very short list of objectionable websites will increase very much in
the future and other providers will follow the example of censorship outrider ISIS".
To use a different name server appears to be a work-around for customers. eg.
194.246.96.49 (dns2.denic.de), 194.246.96.25 (dns3.denic.de), 194.25.2.131 (dns02.btx.dtag.de).
The Chaos Computer Club's considered opinion is that censorship by technical means
is not a suitable way to handle content supposed to be problematic. "The massive restriction
of the citizens in exercising their freedom of opinion is beyond the pale", added Jens Ohlig, CCC speaker.
Though the hearing of the county government in Düsseldorf on November 13 ended 'result open', according
to numerous particitpants, customers of those providers, who are in hurrying obedience complyed with the governments
suggestions, on access to several sites instead of the original notes receive an 'informer form'
[2]
to announce Internet sites thought to be problematic
to the county government NRW.
The county government's approach to filter the Internet offers and by this to attempt to
establish censorship is a critical step into the wrong direction in the opinion of the Chaos Computer Club .
"Instead of establishing technical filters, which reconcilableness with the constitutional law at least is
questionable and which technical implementation is easy to avoid anyway, the government authorities
rather should focus their efforts to sponsor the loom of media competences. More important than
technical methods would it be to emerge a social immunity for content thought to be problematic", added
Andy Müller-Maguhn, club speaker, to the club's statement. [3]
To what extent other companies in NRW followed the suggestions of the county government, without
being legally bound to, is being reviewed. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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21.Nov.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #011030 from Brad Webb
Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you
about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter
under the title link.
(ps)
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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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EARTH 2140 Missionpack: The Final Conflict shipping now
Missionpack THE FINAL CONFLICT for real-time strategy hit EARTH 2140 is now
shipping. The new missionpack brings 80 new single- and 30 new multiplayer
missions to the game. In addition there are 6 new units, 2 new buildings and
a new terrain.
(ps)
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21.Nov.2001
AmigART
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Burner software: MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8
There is a new beta version (MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8) of the burner software 'MakeCD'. In order to use it you have to install version 3.2c first.
Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_8.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Kees Witteveen on amiga.org
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Coding GUI programs in VP - Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow
This
is the first in this series of tutorials concerned with writing programs
for Tao's intent media environment. This series assumes that you have
read the
first series on VP coding
at this site
(even the tutorials I have not written yet!) or at least have a
basic knowledge of VP coding.
(ps)
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21.Nov.2001
amiga.org
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Installer: WHDLoad - New URL and packets (until 20.11.2001)
From now on the website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). 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:
- 20.11.01 new: Atome (Skarla) done by Psygore
- 20.11.01 new: Makaveli (Essence) done by Psygore
- 20.11.01 new: Bio Challenge (Delphine) done by CFOU!
- 19.11.01 new: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
- 17.11.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version, minor other changes
- 17.11.01 new: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) done by CFOU!
- 17.11.01 new: Loom (LucasFilm Games) done by JOTD
- 17.11.01 new: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) done by John Girvin
- 17.11.01 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) uses less memory
- 17.11.01 new: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) done by John Girvin
- 17.11.01 new: Espana The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) done by Bored Seal
- 17.11.01 new: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) done by CFOU!
- 06.11.01 improved: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) supports another version
- 06.11.01 new: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
- 06.11.01 improved: Barbarian 2/Axe of Rage (Palace SoftWare) supports more versions
- 05.11.01 new: Skweek (Loriciels) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Programming language: Beta of Amiblitz2 (formerly Blitz2) version 2.21b1 publis
The site for the programming language 'Blitz' www.blitz-2000.co.uk (title link) now is also the homepage for AB2 (have a look also under Archives/Blitz2). There you can also find the source codes and beta versions and much more information about Blitz2. Currently there is beta version AB2.21b1 ready for download. This version will be not uploaded to Aminet.
Please do not send your bug reports to the uploader but to the Blitz mailinglist in order to avoid double bug reports.
In order to subscribe to the mailinglist please send a mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. In order to unsubscribe please send a mail to
blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Nov.2001
VGR Newsseite (ANF)
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SharkPPC is not a development of ELBOX?!
On Sunday 18th of November in 2001 on the VGR-sites (title link) a very interesting news message has been published: The SharkPPC which was introduced by ELBOX at the fair is supposed to be nothing more than a relabeled Sonnet PPC-card.
If you will have a look at the Sonnet-product site it will confirm it.
Accordingly ELBOX has not developed "its" SharkPPC for itself. Therefore the introduction of the SharkPPC+ (which is supposed to have IDE-controller, AGP-slot and USB) can be doubted.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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20.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers: VarIO Updates
The support-area of our website contains two updates for our interface
board VarIO: The new driver archive contains a corrected version of the
SetupVarIO command (Enforcer hits removed), and a french catalog. The
new file Inside_VarIO.txt describes the final hardware for programmers
of other operating systems (Linux and NetBSD for example).
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Potos from the Amiga 2001 at Virtual Dimension
On weekend Virtual Dimensions was on the show for you and took pictures from the
Amiga 2001 for their new show video. To create the video will take some time. To shorten
your waiting time some pictures were put online, already.
Same pictures with English subtitles
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)
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Hyperion: Warp3D support for Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon
Hyperion Entertainment has entered into an agreement with third parties
to ensure Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon support for Warp3D, effectively
doubling the number of supported chipsets.
"We are thrilled to be able to open up ever more possibilities to users
of Amiga PCI busboards", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion
Entertainment. "The Permedia 3 is around 6 times faster than the
Permedia 2 and offers a lot more functionality including full OpenGL
compliance. The chipset is still frequently used in high-end 3D
workstations. The ATI Radeon family is undeniably state of the art with
well-rounded 2D performance and top-notch 3D performance that is on par
with anything out there in the Wintel world. Support for the Radeon
family will allow Amiga users to enjoy unrivalled performance and
functionality."
More details will be disclosed in the upcoming weeks.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment brings 3D graphics to PDA's
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that it has finalised
an initial version of its "Warp3D" technology, a mature, small foot-print,
feature-rich yet very fast 3D solution for ElateTM/ Amiga DETM based
devices.
Warp3D allows content-creators to effortlessly deploy 3D graphics on
low-end devices such as PDA's, web-tablets and 3G phones and is the
product of years of development in response to concrete performance
challenges and 3D technology.
Hyperion intends to showcase the Warp3D technology by producing several
PDA oriented games.
"A lot of the PDA content we are seeing now is a throw-back to the
earlier days of entertainment software and whilst this is not necessarily
a bad thing, we do believe that users would like to enjoy sophisticated
3D content on these devices as well. Our contract-work for LithTech Inc.
also means we were able to incorporate extensive research and expertise
in the field of software rendering which resulted in one of the fastest
software renderers in the industry - the only viable solution on a non
3D-accelerated PDA. Add to that a highly optimised subset of OpenGL which
is nonetheless capable of running industry-standard 3D engines like Quake
IITM and LithTechTM and you have a piece of very compelling technology
indeed."
Warp3D was already successfully field-tested on the SH3 powered version
of Sharp's Zaurus PDA and is due for imminent release.
The technology will remain in continuous development and will be
licensed to interested parties.
For the complete press release see title link.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c interactive entertainment announces THE FEEBLE FILES for Amiga
Our Mac cartoon adventure The Feeble Files will be ported to the
Pegasos/MorphOS as well as the Amiga. The Amiga version comes in fully
localised versions for english and german. Required is an Amiga with a 4
MByte gfx board (f.e. B/CVision), a 68060 or PPC and at least 32 MByte RAM.
Work on both the Amiga- and the MorphOS is under way and we hope to ship the
game before Xmas 2001.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2001
Frank Duessel (ANF)
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Event: Exchange for classic video and computer games of the 70th and 80th
The first exchange for classic video and computer games for the following systems is being organized in Germany:
- Konsolen: Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex,
Interton, Saba, Philips, Pong und vieles mehr.
- Computer: C64, Atari, Amiga, SVC etc.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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