14.Nov.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Mailbox: Stardate-bbs accessable again via Internet
After a month of hard problems with DSL in Muenster you can access again the Stardate-mailbox via Internet under (http://stardate.2y.net). The very popular Dynamite-server is also accessable under the same url.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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13.Nov.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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First routines of Project Crashsite on the Amiga 2001
Here are two news on the Project Crashsite status:
On the Amiga 2001 there will be the first routines of Project Crashsite to
look at. There will be the rudimentary playable combat and the space flight
will invite to fly along the planets of Future II. I hope for many visitors and would
be happy about numerous suggestions and comments.
The poll on www.projektcrash.de (title link) turned out that five of six
votees prefer a PPC version.
As a first answer to this I would like to announce the following:
- The interlude animations in the game will be MPEG animations.
- Mathias Roslund gave permission to use AMP for playing the animations
in Project Crashsite, which makes an effective animation player for PPC and
CGFX available for the game!
Greetings,
Markus Pohlmann
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBs
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni, Nexus Development, the Amiga Arena and
Fun Tim World present the game PuzzleBOBS, which is about a "Bust'n Move" clone
to be available on the "AMIGA 2001" show.
From now on the demo version is available on
http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html,
and on the support page of the Amiga Arena.
About PuzzleBOBS
The game was developed by the Italian software company Nexus Development which
was founded by Emanuele Cesaroni. Worldwide distribution will be done by
Fun Time World in cooperation with the Amiga Arena.
Previews of "PuzzleBOBS" can be found in the current issue of the "Amiga Future" #33 (German Amiga Game print magazine), and in "No Cover" issue #88 (German Amiga disk magazine).
Technical background and more:
PuzzleBOBS is completely configuralbe:
- Screen mode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX comaptible graphic boards).
- Bitplanes (up to 16 and 24bit screens).
- Playable in three languages (German, Itatlian, English).
- Playable from HD, full or partial installation (min. 14 MB).
- Written in 100% assembler.
- Level and sound import.
Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of
other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.
The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are
bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full
multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.
When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is
a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released - pure culture multitasking. Further and detailed informaiton can be found in the demo version's guide.
Ditribution / contact / developer
Distribution:
Fun Time World www.funtime-world.de
c/o Sebastian Brylka
Tel.: +49 209 / 1485620 (after 17:00 h)
Fax: +49 209 / 1485720
E-mail: funtime@t-online.de
Support:
Amiga Arena http://www.online-club.de/~ARENA/
Olaf Köbnik olaf.koebnik@online-club.de
Developer:
Nexus Development http://space.tin.it/computer/emacesar
Emanuele Cesaroni emacesa@tin.it
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Nov.2001
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amiga-news.de: Server Move finished
After the first try did not work, last week, we finally completed our server move, now. :-)
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
NewsCoaster
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Newsreader: New documentation for NewsCoaster
Mark Harman put online a new documentation for his shareware newsreader
NewsCoaster. This is automatically converted to HTML from the AmigaGuide
documentation, so don't expect anything too pretty ;)
Version 1.44 put online in the download area; this version fixes the
security hole.
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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StormC: New documentation
We just released a completely revised manual for StormC 4.
It's 3,8 MB of Guide files and the archive is about 1,1 MB of size. There
is an English and a German version available.
Download: ftp://ftp.haage-partner.com/Storm
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)
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Elbox: Mediator Pages Updated
Mediator PCI 1200,
Mediator PCI ZIV,
Mediator PCI 4000
and Mediator PCI ZIII
pages were updated today.
Wojtek Kozlowski
ELBOX COMPUTER Webmaster
e-mail: webmaster@elbox.com
(ps)
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13.Nov.2001
Computer City (E-Mail)
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Video titling: MediaPoint News
MediaPoint, the video titling & presentation package for Amiga computers, will
be for sale for the first time on an international Amiga event, following its
re-release in its current MP2000 form. German-based distributor Schatztruhe /
GTI will sell MediaPoint at their booth on the Amiga Show in Cologne on
november 17th and 18th.
More information on MediaPoint can be found at: http://www.compcity.nl/mediapoint/ (ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Markus Bonet (ANF)
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MUI under Windows XP?
Markus Bonet wrote:
To find out about why Windows XP should be so great I looked around a little
on the Microsoft website. I really was not aware, that MUI was released for
Windows, too ;-))
"Multi-Lingual User Interface - MUI -
allows to change the interface's language to display menus, help files, dictionaries, spell checking tools, ect. in the desired language."
But this sure would mean something different, somehow. ;-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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VarIO archive extended
The new VarIO software archive now also contains Parallelport drivers
for the Goldsurfer (Hypercom 3 module). Please mind that the ZIP driver
can only be used with Goldsurfer models not older than 15 months.
For use with older models, a hardware patch is necessary that is
also described in the support-area of our website.
(ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Wouter Derdeyn (ANF)
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Amiga Demoscene Archive - Database of the best Amiga demos ever released
I'm working on a site about amiga demos. Basically, I'm trying to create
an archive for the best demos/intros ever released on the most stunning
scene machine ever (the amiga ofcourse). It's still early days yet but
I've got 123 demos and 900 screenshots online. Feedback is welcome!
(ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Jörg Strohmayer (ANF)
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MUI Security Bug-Fix (Update)
Jörg Strohmayer wrote:
PINT (mailtext and nlist) is affected by this Bug too. A bug-fix is available at the titlelink.
Instead of just fixing this problem for PINT I patched the muilowlevel.library.
Download: muilowlevel.library
Addition:
This patch protects all MUI-programs but not all other programs that use APIPE or AwnPIPE.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
HCS Lange
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Absolute rarity to auction (CMB 8296)
HCS Lange on their website (title link, see hardware rubric) auctions
an CBM 8296 machine from 1984. Here are the data of this collectible:
- CBM 8296
- Release date: 1984
- Processor: MOS 6502, 1 MHz
- RAM: 128 KByte
- ROM: 18 KByte with Basic V4.0
- Operating system: own, LOS-96
- Graphic chip: ---
- Text mode: 80 x 25 (monochrom)
- Graphic mode: ---
- Sound chip: ---
- Sound: piper
- Keyboard: typewriter, QWERTZ, 73 keys, seperate num-block, removable keyboard.
- Drive: none internal, (for 8296-D: CBM 8250), external any Commodore drive with IEEE488 bus can be connected directly.
- I/O: 1 x IEEE488, 2 x datasette
- Special: built-in monitor (12", green)
This machine optical is as good as new and it's an absolute rarity.
The lowest bid is at DM 100,-. Bids are accepted till 17. November 2001.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computers has licensed appp.device from Haage & Partner
In the course of development of the ADSL-driver for the X-Surf ethernet
card, we have licensed the appp.device from Haage & Partner GmbH. Our
goal is to speed up the interface between our xsurfadsl.device and the
appp.device, so the CPU load will be reduced dramatically. New versions
of the device for AmigaOS 68K will be available for free. (ps)
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12.Nov.2001
Bernd Rösch (ANF)
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New Blitzbasic2 (now AmiBlitz 2)
I got the permision from Acid Soft to publish the sources and binaries of Blitzbasic 2 (due to the PC-version it is now called AmiBlitz 2) into the Aminet (dev/basic).
The sources will be available one week from now.
I just uploaded a binary-update of AmiBlitz 2 V2.2 that introduces many new features.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
Scalos
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Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.14 / Homepage with new layout
Betaversion 40.14 of 'scalos', an alternative workbench, was released on the 11th November 2001. This new release fixes some bugs.
Additional information is available here.
The modules Persistent Windows, WB3.9, Volume Gauge and the WBRexx Plugins were updated too.
Furthermore the layout of the homepage has changed and the webmaster requests your Feedback.
Download
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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12.Nov.2001
Thomas Zahren (ANF)
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Nostalgica: Amiga Graphics artist + programmer Jim Sachs
While looking around the news pages of CHIP.DE
I found a link to the aquarium screensaver in the news on the new Windows XP and
it's "self-made plus package". This screensaver was programmed by Jim Sachs.
Until then I had no idea of this name, but as I then looked at "About the Author" (title link)
on the serenescreen.com website, some
known pictures of the author from Amiga days turned up. A link on this page shows
many pictures of his
work history, too.
With another link on the same site the Amiga is mentioned again in an
interview.
To smile:
To the surprised interviewer's questions, how it comes that the download of this
emotive Windows screensaver is just about 600k in size:
RADEONIC: Probably one of the things that surprised me most was the size of
the download. Did you spend a lot of time optimising the code, and did you
have any special tricks for compressing textures?
JS: No, I haven't really started to optimize the code yet. Coming from
the Amiga, where everything had to fit on a 770k floppy, I am utterly
amazed at how huge PC apps have become. What could these programmers
possibly be filling up all those megabytes with? The whole ascii source
code for the program? The phone book for their area code?
It was a pleasure to me to accidently stumble upon this programmer and those Internet sites and
thereby to learn, that he still likes the Amiga, allthough he changed the system.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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12.Nov.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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YAM 2.3p1 Bugfixing Release
The YAM Open Source Team released today a bugfix for the reported security hole and other well known bugs of the 2.3 release.
The fix can be downloaded from the following URL
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yamos/YAM23p1.lha.
There will be a major release in the weeks to come that will introduce missed features and will fix bugs.
(ps)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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FreeCD: Toons, Genetic Species, and Racing
For the FreeCD series Patrick Henz has released three new
CD-ROMs about the subjects 'Toons', 'Genetic Species', and
'Racing'.
They toon it again
Part two of this Amiga Toons series contains more than 100 issues of
Sabrina Online, the adventures of Space Rat, caricatures by Thorsten Dudai,
MPG cartoons, photos and games by Black Legend and Mutation Software, as
well.
Genetic Species
Thanks to Marble Eyes now the 3D shooter 'Genetic Species' is available
as a already installed FreeCD.
Racing
This CD contains the full versions of 'Wheelspin AGA' and
'Aerial Racers', many photos from Monaco, the Nürburgring and
Zolder, many paper models, a Formula 1 database, as well as a Rocking-Tune.
To order the CDs follow the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Payback: textures by Philipp Bödeker
On the
German website Philipp Bödeker
released textures for free use with the Payback map-editor. You can find them at the
texture section. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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11.Nov.2001
Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail)
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Tool: Martin R. Elsner on 'StopMenu'
Martin R. Elsner wrote:
«Hello,
just now on St.Martin's day I have some bad and good news for you.
The bad: I will stop development of StopMenu.
In the last weeks I worked with full power on StopMenu - only to rename the
variables and functions (some still polish or whatever), to add some
commentaries (there were quiet none) and to try to change some parts. As
final surprise one of many tests made my Amiga crash and thereby destroyed
the source code, the work of many days. This and the belief that
changing StopMenu is harder and needs more time than writing an own program
caused my decision. StopMenu was not only bad written and commented (well,
it has grown piecewise and has got the errors from both programmers ;) -
no, it also has some very restricting, old fashioned program parts that
should be replaced by a modern method.
Before you get the possibility to jump out of the window, here's the good
news:
One learns from each error. I've seen so many errors ;) that I now want to
make Choowin replace StopMenu !! It is written in best C++, uses Reaction,
and last but not least I know what I have programmed. And that's not all -
the prefs part of StopMenu is not forgotten, but replaced by a connection
to MainPrefs !! So both programs will form the beginning of the new
environment, where also ClassAction can join. The new project will consist
of the taskbar with start menu that allows to open the prefs and later the
file manager. Other programs will have the possibility to get an icon in
the taskbar.
That's a lot - but the three programs exist, Choowin will grow to StopMenu's
functionality (well, not exactly the same) and all of them will be joined to
the new MRE ("mainmenu with Reaction enhancements").
You can find a first screenshot of the startmenu on my homepage, the
first version will be available soon.
Regards,
Martin»
(sd)
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