01.Nov.2001
Stefan Robl (ANF)
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Amiga definition in dictionary?! ;-)
By searching about the English online dictionary dict.org of course I tried our
favourit word "Amiga". And what a surprise, one will find an extended definition
(see title link)! Also interesting is, that we seem to suffer by one disease that is to
say the Amiga Persecution Complex.
Get well soon and accordingly take it a bit more easy! :-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Amiga Page
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Event: More pictures by Marco Lovera from the Pianeta 200
Under the title link you will find more pictures from the Italian Amiga show Pianeta 2001,
which took place in October 2001. These pictures were taken by Marco Lovera.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Special price - VisualPrefs and interview with Massimo Tantignone
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project for VisualPrefs
In cooperation with Massimo Tantignone the Amiga Arena make possible a
special price for VisualPrefs. VisualPrefs enables you to indivually configure
the GUI look of every application screen and the global GUI look as well.
Amiga Arena - personal concern.
The shareware fee is that cheap that I hope that users using VisualPrefs without
being registered will register now by this project. VPresf gives us the most powerful
tool to configure our Workbench as individual as possible.
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
After having available VisualPrefs version 41.29 the Amiga Arena talked to
Massimo Tantignone, the author, about his work for the AmigaOS 3.9 and the future OS 4.0.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Paul Cardwell (ANF)
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GetBoinged reviews the Amiga DE Player 1.0
GetBoinged! reviews the recently released Amiga DE Player for Windows.
Check out the "GB Site News" section of GetBoinged for the review.
(ps)
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01.Nov.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)
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GRex IRC chanel not available ?
Michael Göken wrote:
There have been requests if the GRex server was not available or if something was
wrong with the IP address. That's why again I post the server address here to
support those having problems to log in (from foreign countries as well).
Server: irc.phat-net.de Port: 6667 Chanel: #grex
I hope to have helped the users by this. This actually should allow anybody
to access the chanel.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Survey: What features shall MorphOS have ?
Thorsten Schölzel started a survey on his MorphOS news site asking
what features MorphOS should have in your opinion. The survey takes place in
his forum. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
VWD
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VWD: Met@box achieves first license contract
»Met@box achieves first license contract
As from the pridian general meeting the Met@box AG stopped manufacturing and
distribution of set-top boxes in support of a license contract. Today, the company
signed an initial technology license contract.« (ps) (Translation: mj)
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31.Oct.2001
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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Movieplayer: SoftCinema version 0.15 (full release)
Version 0.15 of the shareware-movie- and animplayer for Amiga with PPC-support
(PowerUP, WarpUP and MorphOS) called 'SoftCinema´ has been published. You can download the program under the title link or under the alternative address.
Changes:
V0.15 beta 1
- WOS and MOS versions added.
- 30% faster divx;)/opendivx/3iv/h263/i263/intel indeo decoding
- lot of bugs fixed
V0.15
- added audio.device support, via directaudio.library
- added NOAHI and AHIUNIT options
- Bugfixes in AVI parser, QT parser and mpeg audio decoder.
- Much faster AVI indexx loading, up to 1000%.
- Bugfixed timing routines.
- Fixed GRAY display on fullscreen.
- Fixed RGB15PC and RGB16PC display routines.
- Fixed mpeg audio decoder, should not crash anymore.
- 10% faster mpeg audio decoding.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.0.0 final
SRename is a program which has some more functions as the common 'rename'. Here are some features:
- Can use wildcards.
- Total control over recursion, the user can set the level of recursion, starting level of recursion and
can even specify a different pattern for entering directories.
- Can renumber filename sequences without the user having to care for the renumber order or filename
clashes because these are taken care of automatically.
- Can perform numbering of filename sequences.
- Can modify the filename's comment and transfer the filename to the comment or the reverse.
- Allows the user to build his/her own functions by providing a command set of selectors and actions
that can be combined in many ways.
- The number of actions that can be executed in one go is only limited by the command line length.
- It is interface compatible with the OS Rename command.
- Efficient memory usage.
Download: SRename3.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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Event: Provisional list of exhibitors for AMIGA 2001 available
From now on there is a provisional list of exhibitors on the website of AMIGA 2001 (17.-18. November 2001, Cologne). Additionally you can of course find important information about the fair, updated news around Pegasos, AmigaOS 4 and AmigaDE.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)
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Emulation: Playstation emulator FPSE for Amiga published
Mathias Roslund has published a new version of the Playstation-emulator FPSE. It is the first Amiga version which is based on version 0.09. You need a Playstation Bios-Rom for the emulation. There are some screenshots for the Amiga version.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Solar (BAUD) (ANF)
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Alan Redhouse corrects some rumours on ANN.lu
Of course there were some confusion after the message of Eyetech and it was discussed here as well as on ANN.lu. The opinions ranged from "It is OK" to "Cheat!". I think in this context the clearing statement of Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) in the corresponding thread on ANN.lu is important.
Quintessence: He has absoluely no problem with any decisions of Amiga Inc. and in their place he would have decided in the same way - and there was no reason to evoke a crises if there would be very real progresses made to a solution.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
H&P and Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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Freespace supports virtual memory
The 68k-version of Freespace also runs on systems with 32 MB memory and virtual memory (you can use a freely available VMM-program for it) if there is at least 24.5 MB of free physical memory. In this case the reduction of speed is under 2%. The corresponding hints for the installation will be added to Freespace. With the help of it also users which have only 32 MB of memory can play Descent Freespace: The Great War.
Future games of Hyperion Entertainment will also support the Virtual Memory System of OS 4.0 to give users of PowerPC the opportunity to get along with a lower amount of memory. (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Homepage Update
Today the homepage of Amiga Future has been extensivly updated:
A completely reworked download section has been uploaded which is edited by Jörg Wernicke and which will be regularly updated.
Additionally the sites of "AGB", "Kontakt" and "Werbebanner" have been updated. Besides this new advertisement prices are online which run from issue 34.
In the forum
the new fair information have been updated. Amiga Future asks the readers to write what is being expected of the fair. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9435
Richard H. Poser has published betaversion 0.9435 of the AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with America Online Instant-Messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history where you can get the changes which have been made:
- Hopefully repaired a problem with the single window mode. It doesn't exhibit
the problem here anymore, anyway.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio's (realtime nl-editing for AmigaOS) new architecture for 2002
The ProStationAudio architecture has been enhanced to make this non-linear
editing software solution for AmigaOS even more powerful. And faster. The
new version based on this design, ProStationAudio Titanium, is ready and
will be on sale in a few days.
While Amigas are wonderful systems, their main problem is lack of raw hardware
horse-power: Titanium addresses this problem at design level, using
optimizations independent on the host CPU, so that 68K (060 recommended), PPC,
and emulated 68K hardware benefit.
Major new features include:
Signal path layout: stereo sends/returns
- multiple sends per track, stereo.
- multiple aux busses, stereo.
- multiple DSP inserts for each return bus, stereo.
- returns can be muted and/or soloed.
- plugin sharing among multiple tracks reduces CPU load, with peak acceleration
up to 1500% (when using 15 sends to the same aux bus).
Mixig console layout: 6 master inserts, stereo.
- master DSP inserts have been extended to 6, for increased flexibility.
- using track inserts, multiple sends/returns, and master inserts, now each
track's signal can pass through up to 18 DSP processors.
Faast dsp, the new quick-preview mode
- sustained 200% acceleration on mixing and effects processing, using bitrate
reduction
- modifies the bitrate of multiple streams in realtime during disk-streaming,
no need to save audio files at lower bitrates for fast previewing..
- fully transparent, original bitrate restored just before the signals reach
the audio output hardware, providing full compatibility with fixed-rate
devices such as external D/A converters over S/P-DIF.
- quality drop is acceptable for most material.
- any previously saved project benefits, no updates needed
- automatically disabled when mastering and/or bouncing tracks, to preserve
always perfect quality on the final work.
- can be toggled on/off in realtime for comparisons
GUI
- the channel bars layout has been optimized to display more tracks at once on
screen.
- the screen is public and palette-sharing friendly: use tools like calculators,
notepads, or web browsers to view tutorials, directly on the
ProStationAudio screen.
Titanium preserves the tons of features present in current versions: support
for dual graphic cards, dual monitors, two CPU's, realtime operations, mixing
automation, 30 DSP plugins, 24bit and MP3 import, read/write access to Amiga,
Windows, Mac and Unix files, more...
Informations on pricing and upgrade options for current users will follow this
week. As usual part of the service, buyers of the previous top version,
Millennium, will upgrade free of charge.
All the best,
dr. Maurizio Ciccione
AudioLabs, Digital Audio Engineering
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Golem.de
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Golem: AmigaOne does not start in 2001
»Development of AmigaOS 4.0 and of AmigaOne were momentarily stopped
According to Eyetech the AmigaOne will be not introduced this year because Amiga Inc. could not set on the development of the belonging AmigaOS 4.0 and could not pay its partners because of financial problems. But it seems that there is still some hope and the new Amiga computer based on a PowerPC-architecture is supposed to be marketed at the beginning of 2002.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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MCP with new version
From 21. October I've taken over further development of MCP (MasterControlProgram).
Since there was no development for more than two years and I must become acquainted
with the code, at first, the first update isn't perfect, yet.
But many of the 'surrounding' things, like installer script, German Guide and
catalog, icons, history, and of course MCP and MCP commodity have been
updated and should work now.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Oct.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland having server problems
Amigaland.de currently has problems to really offer every game for download.
The reason why is that two servers canceled their service. The Amigaland team
now is searching for replacement servers.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Oct.2001
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan: Pegasos-System: Official presentation at Amiga 2001
The Pegasos system will be presented to the public at the Cologne based Amiga 2001 event. Beside the presentation of the
innovating hardware, our main show efforts will concentrate on software and system expansibility.
In the software field, the user gets an extensive overview on capacity and
efficiency of the MorphOS environment. The perfectly smooth integration of
present Motorola® 680xx applications and native PowerPC® programms with absolute
transparency for the user is only one among many outstanding features of MorphOS.
In combination with the extraordinary capability of extension of the Pegasos
system with standard PCI cards, users will already be able to take a look at the
wide spectrum of supported hardware by the upcoming fair. Besides a variety
of graphic cards of the manufacturers S3®,SIS®,3DLabs® and 3Dfx®, tv and network
cards will round up the so far available spectrum.
The bplan gmbh would like to invite you to visit the Amiga 2001 in cologne. Our team
is looking forward to your vivid interest and proud to be able to present you the
Pegasos system, an innovation in the fields of personal computing.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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File manager: DiskMaster 2.5RC1
Rudolph Riedel wrote:
I have uploaded DiskMaster2.5RC1, DM2.guide and DM2_deutsch.guide on my homepage.
News in short:
- 2.5RC1 (01-10-30) 71932 bytes
- DM2 is now localised! German, french and dutch DM2.catalogs are included (english
build in)
- Translators wanted (DM2.cd also included)
- COPY and MOVE have a WARN option, so DM2 ask before overwriting files.
- SELECT knows a new option: COMMENT
- OPENWINDOW has now a ZOOM option for alternative windowsize and -position
- Many small improvements
- Several bugfixes
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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