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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30.Oct.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (bis 29.10.2001)
Thanks to WHDLoad games you normally only play from disk can be installed on HD.
The following packages are added or updated:
- 29.10.01 new: Amazing SpiderMan () done by JOTD
- 29.10.01 fixed: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) install script corrected
- 29.10.01 new: Carthage (Psygnosis) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Wanted (Infogrames) done by Codetapper
- 28.10.01 new: Vector-Balls Demo (Tom Soft) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 28.10.01 new: Major Motion (Microdeal) done by Codetapper
- 28.10.01 new: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Pro Tennis Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
- 28.10.01 new: Obvious Disaster (Phenomena) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 28.10.01 new: Mystical (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Forgotten World (Arc Developments/Capcom) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Cosmic Relief (Grandslam) done by Bored Seal
- 26.10.01 new: Sex Vens () done by JOTD
- 26.10.01 new: Pub Trivia Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
- 26.10.01 new: Operation Wolf (Ocean) done by Codetapper
- 26.10.01 new: Murders in Space (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Rene Hatje (ANF)
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Chicago Tribune: Amiga is mentioned in issue about MacOS X
In the issue "Apple's best reason yet to pitch your Pentium" the Amiga is mentioned
in very positive way.
(ps)
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30.Oct.2001
Miguel Gonçalves (E-Mail)
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New Portuguese Amiga-Website
At the title link you will find a new website in Portuguese whic provides the reader
with news and informations about the amiga.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Betaversion of new FFE-Page
Michael Asse wrote:
From today the new reworked homepage of the AmigaFFE project is online (title link).
It is a beta version, so if there are broken links or anything else, just send a mail
to me.
In about two weeks the address of the domain will be adapted.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)
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DCE: GREX Soundcard drivers are available for download
Now drivers for soundcards with the chipsets ESS-SOLO-ONE and FM-801 are available for
download. For this highperformance AHI drivers we give you the equivalent soundmixer
(needs gtlayout.library).
Soundcards from Terratec like the 128iPCI (ESS-SOLO-ONE) and 512i Digital (Fortemedia
FM-801) use this chipset. The FM-801 chipset can only be used in the GRex 4000, the
ESS-ONE chipset can be used in all GRex systems.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Oct.2001
http://cloanto.com (ANF)
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Cloanto licences Picasso96 software (Update 3)
Press release: Cloanto is proud to announce that it licenced both the "Picasso96" software
from Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt, and Brian King's "UAEgfx" Monitor
implementation, for use in Amiga Forever.
A shareware version of Picasso96 has been providing RTG (Amiga retargetable
graphics) functionality to the emulation software which is part of Amiga
Forever since 1997. With the new license Cloanto would like to acknowledge
the precious contribution of the Picasso96 Team to the ease of use,
compatibility and speed which made Amiga Forever so successful, and
further contribute to the future development of the Picasso96 software.
The new license replaces the shareware status of the Picasso96 software
included in Amiga Forever. Support and upgrades will continue to be
provided by Cloanto as part of the Amiga Forever product.
Thanks to the Picasso96 implementation in the Amiga emulation, when an
Amiga program makes a function call to open an RTG screen, or to
otherwise read or change its contents, that functionality is in most
part executed as native and very fast x86 code. Furthermore, the Windows
versions of the emulation programs included with Amiga Forever (i.e.
WinUAE and WinFellow) fully exploit the latest versions of Microsoft
DirectX, which is normally used by games and multimedia applications
to provide maximum performance by providing low-level access to
specialized hardware features, without having to re-write hardware-specific
code. In practice this means that while other emulation programs only offer
proper support for a handful of display cards, Amiga Forever has been
running fine and will continue to run fine with hundreds of different
display cards, including most graphics card currently available, and those
which will be released with Windows drivers in the future.
The combination of Picasso96 and DirectX technologies provides palette-based,
hi-color, true-color and multi-monitor screen modes well beyond the
functionality and speed of the original Amiga hardware. Also, while other
emulation packages do not even support simple peripherals such as a USB
mouse, keyboard, joystick and speakers, DirectX includes DirectInput and
DirectSound, which allow the emulation as included in Amiga Forever to
support all popular input and sound devices.
The Picasso96 software is just one of the many components which have been
carefully selected, preinstalled and tested for compatibility in Amiga
Forever, to make Amiga emulation a simple one-click experience which works
on the widest possible range of different PCs. Hundreds of other items,
including for example GIF/LZW code used under license from Unisys Corporation
(and not available in the version of Personal Paint included on Aminet),
ColorFonts and AnimFonts by Kara Computer Graphics, and anything from
entire software packages to single icons are carefully listed in the
Copyright and Credits sections of the Amiga Forever documentation (which
includes 8 KB of text only to list the individual third-party contributions).
In spite of increasingly difficult times Cloanto keeps improving its own
software technology and licensing valued third-party contents to constantly
improve Amiga Forever and offer continued support and compatibility to the
Amiga community. Cloanto is grateful to all of its valued customers for
supporting these efforts.
LINKS:
Picasso96 Home Page
Amiga Forever Home Page
Cloanto Home Page
Update: (04.04.2018, 14:30, cg)
Mike Battilana (Cloanto) asked us to add the following clarification: The new license discussed in this press release only covers the 2001 version and minor updates - no upgrade privileges for future major versions.
Update 2: (31.12.2018, 15:30, cg)
As requested by Mike Battilana, we replaced "the 2.x version" in the first clarification (refer to previous paragraph) with "the 2001 version". Also, the following paragraph was added to the original press release on amigaforever.com:
"At the time of this writing in 2001, the Picasso96 project was owned by its original developers Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt. Updates released by a new Picasso96 ownership were neither envisioned nor intended to be included in Amiga Forever under this license."
Update 3: (18.02.2019, 23:00, cg)
To counter allegations made by Jens Schönfeld, Cloanto has added copies of their 2001 correspondence with Alexander Kneer and a scan of a cash transfer receipt. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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29.Oct.2001
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)
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Paintprogram: PerfectPaint V2.75b
A new version of PerfectPaint V2.75b is now available.
What's new:
- New TOOLTYPE: 'CLASSIC', by default, this tooltype is disable.
This Tooltype will change the WorkSpace of Perfectpaint.
Disable 'Classic' will show you only the zoom window (like other Processing software).
Enable 'Classic' will show you for each picture the main window
(always 100%) and optionally the Zoom window (like other version of PfPaint).
- PopUp menu can have transparency.
- Improve palette buffer: Add Icons / Allow Drag & Drop / Show the Current stencil /
See Doc for more info.
- New Arexx Commands.
- New Picture tool: Insert Picture.
- New Processing tool: linked freeHand.
- Redraw the anim control requester.
- New effect Blur, Horizontal Blur, Vertical Blur and the Arexx Command.
- New Wrap effect: Silver.
- New text effect: Candy.
- Redraw Font requester with a Bold option for CGfont, add a menu.
- A lot of small improvements and some small bug corrected.
- New tool under the boing icon: Alchemy: Here you can find all processing script with preview.
- New Alchemy script: FlowerPaint.
- Improve Density mapping requester with Load and Save Points.
- Add two new item in Stencil menu: Density mapping and clear Stencil.
- Improve 'Brush to Picture' and 'Picture to Brush': Stencil is respected.
Download: PfPaint-V275b.lha (1,9 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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29.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Virus Warning 'Harrier A'
A new virus is found. As far as we know, it has not been spread. But read more about is here .
Also, new virus translations added to the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
VIRUS HELP DENMARK
Hi All....
A new linkvirus has been found a few days ago, but not in the wild.
It was send to directly to Georg Hoermann (programmer of xvs.library)
by the virus-programmer. Georg received the whole source code. This new
virus, named "Harrier A" was able to disable the antivirus programs,
but with the new xvs.library v33.36, this in no longer possible, due
to the new security stuff in the xvs.library code. And maybe that is
the reason why the virus-programmer send the code to Georg Hoermann.
We do not know if this virus was released in any way, so if you get a
requester poping up, telling you that something is trying to disable
the xvs.library, please let us know.
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus name.... : Harrier A
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus size.... : 4.800 bytes (Uses polmorphic engine)
Infects....... : 020+ machines
In the decoded virus you can read:
.[ Harrier .A 1.02 virus,
(c) by xxxxxxxxxxx..xxx ]
.Markus! Come back!Hç..,z
(xxxxxxx = Programmers name, removed by Virus Help Denmark)
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Georg Hoermann' for sending the archive, and to
Zeeball for the first test.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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29.Oct.2001
AMI Sector One
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AMI Sector One wanting help for Perl/PHP/(My)SQL
'AMI Sectore One' is wanting help in enhancing theire website. Who
is Perl, PHP or (My)SQL literate and interested in supporting the website
might contact
Bernd Gmeineder.
There are many suggestions how to enhance 'AMI Sector One' which could
be realized using the mentioned languages.
'AMI Sectore One' among other things offers Amiga games for free download.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Tom Duin alias amigaharry (ANF)
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Tools: RealPlayerInfo V1.1, MiamiDX2Phonebill V1.0
Tom Duin released version 1.1 of 'RealPlayerInfo' and version 1.0
of 'MiamiDX2Phonebill'.
RealPlayerInfo displays information about
Real-Audio and Real-Video files.
MiamiDX2Phonebill converts the MiamiDX phone-log
to the Phonebill program format to operate the data within that program.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Mod3mski/Darkage (ANF)
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Demo party: Spoletium 4
On 24. and 25. November 2001 in Spoleto, Italy, the demo party
'Spoletium 4' will take place.
Like in the years before contributions for the competitions can
be sent by e-mail. The prizes will be sent by post.
Darkage and Trinity are oganizing the party.
More information are available by following the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III: Little error inside update
Unfortunately a little error happened to find it's way into the DA III update to
V4.2, which mercifully has no consequences. A file containing the Internet
links for planets is missing in the archive. That causes the program to always
ask for the CD-ROM.
This missing file can be downloaded:
http://members.tripod.de/achimste/download/url_planet.data and must
be copied to the 'User' directory of DA III.
The Aminet archive will be corrected and replaced at the next opportunity.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Robert Williams (ANF)
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Magazine: Clubbed #9
Clubbed Issue 9 Now Available
South Essex Amiga
Link are proud to announce that the latest issue of
Clubbed, our quarterly print Amiga magazine is now
available.
Subscription copies have been posted and
copies are available from stock. SEAL will be at the
World of Amiga South East show next weekend
selling the new issue.
The new issue has 44 A4 pages
packed with Amiga news, reviews and tutorials. For
issue 9 the main feature is on DTP with your Amiga,
we cover the basics of publishing, describe the
applications, old and new, that might suit your needs
and discuss getting your work printed.
We review
Metaview, the ArtEffect Plugins Collection, Epson's
Stylus Photo 790 printer and take a first look at the
PCI card drivers on the Elbox Mediator Multimedia
CD.
On the games front you will find an extensive
review of Shogo:MAD and a preview of Payback
PPC/Warp3D. To go with our DTP feature we have a
PageStream 4 tutorial on planning your pages and
setting up for long documents. Also in issue 9 are
tutorials on archiving and IRC. As usual there are
many more items there wasn't room to mention here
including news, comment, tips, and several other
reviews.
If you'd like to know more visit our website
at www.seal-amiga.co.uk for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues.
Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication.
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
CyberGFX
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CGX: Snapshots of CyberGraphX V4.3
Snapshot of RadioX on a CGX V4.3 screen [Friday 26-Oct-01] (585K)
Here is a snapshot of CyberGraphX V4.3 Workbench with most of the
Multimedia software running. RadioX (under AmigaAMP), Visionary,
TeleText software and the ForteMedia801 SoundMixer software. Click on
the thumbnail to the left for the 1280x1024x16bit full size grab.
CyberGraphX V4.3 driving 2 screens: G-Rex [Wednesday 24-Oct-01] (492K)
Here is a picture of CyberGraphX V4.3 (not out yet) driving 2 17" Monitors.
On the left is a Voodoo4 based card gfx with Workbench running Visionary
with TV/Video in the background. A quick peek at RadioX. Screen #2 is on
a ViRGE based card and has AmIRC and AmigaAMP running, with the
same TV/Video in the background. Both screens are 1024x768x16bit and
watching "The Arrival". Click on the thumbnail to the left to see the full
shot.
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Workbench: WBStartEmu V45.2b
On 25. October 2001 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 45.2b
of 'WBStartEmu' being an AmigaOS V3.9 version of the 'wbstart.library'.
The following has changed since version 45.2:
- Bugfix: Now all path problems (program not found, program cannot find own icon)
should be solved. Thanks to Andreas Kürzinger for testing.
- New: Spanish translation. Thanks to D.Dominguez.
- Changed. New version of the wbrun command with a better deficons support:
Note: This is the wbrun version from AmigaOS V3.9 which does not require
both, neither AmigaOS V3.9 nor 'wbstartemu'.
Download: WBStartEmu.lha (8K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
ANN
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Magazine: The Crypt #20
Issue 20 is our NEW edition of The Crypt,
and it's our Birthday! 4 whole disks worth of the best material for you to
enjoy. And our Online version as well.
So what do we have for you this
time? Well, it seems as though the world has gone mad since we brought
out our last issue So hopefully this one will bring some cheer back into your
lives. As we have been back for a year now (Find out more about this in the
"History" section. We thought it was time to have some fun, so this is what
we have for you:- Ever wondered where the Haggis came from? Well we
bring you the story. And find out why the Scots are thought of as miserly.
Then we preview a forthcomming part of the Crypt for all the Steam Train
enthusiasts out there.
Just before we released this issue, we heard of the
closure of Amiga Active who have given us their support for the last year,
so our esteemed Dungeon Master has written a few words and we thank
them for all the work they have done for the Amiga community, and we
wish them well for the future with their new venture of "Digital".
As usual
we have a strong line up of Readers bringing you all the best (and some of
the worse) jokes and articles for every taste, and the Riyan Production
team have been busy scouring the world to great effect, and have once
again done us proud with all their articles and pics.
Have you ever
wondered how safe it is to buy things online? Well we give you the best
advice on how to make sure you are as safe as you can be with some very
good tips about the world wide web.
Dr. Jekyll writes about the MAS
Player, and Craig gives us a review on MuLib. And did you know that
someone has made a robot from an Amiga? We have the pics and a review
from the man himself. Then there is our usual collection of jokes and pics,
which will brighten up any party. And in our Dungeons section we have
some real life accounts from people who have experienced our Haunted
World.
At the time of writing this, we are just a week away from the
WOA-se show, where we hope to see new things from Amiga, and I'm
hoping to get myself a very fast emulator for the PC so I can run all my
favourite programs on a fast machine. Ray Elf has submitted a load of
cartoons and art work for you to enjoy, and then we have a look at a NEW
CD called D.O.O.N. which is a great utilities CD for the Amiga which gives
you everything you could want for Opus including a whole host of themes,
there are also OS3.5 and OS3.9 icons and a REGISTERED version of
Class Act!
But thats enough from me for now, as we have a lot of work to
do, bringing you the Christmas edition, which is only a few weeks away
now. Zola
You will need the "CrM.library" to read the Crypt Disk mag.
Download the lib,unlha it,and pop it in your libs drawer.
Also this version is incompatible With Amiga's using RTG or
a graphics card. So please go to Online so
you can read the HTML version.
Download:
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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The amiNET.GUI has a forum again
The amiNET.GUI has a forum, again, available via the menu item
[interaktiv].
There you can ask or answer questions and discuss with people.
Unfortunately at this time there's only a German version.
At last the Spanish, Italian, and French versions of the amiNET.GUI
got the category descriptions and menu texts translated. The same
for the English version.
The Recent-Uploads are available so far, again, and the amiNET
full text search was implemented.
Any file now can be rated inside of the directories.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail)
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Tools: ClassAction V4.3, Choowin V1.11, StopMenu
Martin Elsner has released new versions of the filemanager
'ClassAction' and the tool 'Choowin'. A new version of
'StopMenu' is being worked on.
ClassAction V4.3 - Poppping Uppp
The new version of the filemanager carries the sub-title
'Poppping Uppp', because of the new popup-menus like known
from 'MagicMenu'. Those replace the old action-list, the main menu,
and the drop-down list.
Additionally the following has changed:
- Both lists of same functionality.
- New edit menu.
- Directory buffering.
- Updating on disk change.
- Path buttons.
- Cut'n paste.
- Search.
ClassAction is aware of more than 40 file formats (gif, jpeg, iff, mods, ...), what makes
possible to automatically start operations by just clicking on a file - view, start, edit,
translate. It is possible to define new file types and add operations.
Choowin V1.11
This little help tool can start programs, put windows to front and activate them -
similar too the Task-Manager. You click on one of the buttons in one corner of
the Workbench screen and chose the program or window title from the list displayed.
'ClassAction' and 'Choowin' both require AmigaOS V3.5+.
StopMenu
Development of the start menu 'StopMenu' progresses, but still needs more time.
A release date within next week wasn't determined, yet.
StopMenu is a small help tool to start programs and put windows to front and activate them,
similar to Windows' start menu.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Virtual Dimension: Video interview planned, Star Empire reservation possible
Virtual Dimension wrote:
On 17. and 18. November the
'AMIGA 2001'
will take place in Cologne, Germany, and of course we will be there for
you, again.
On this occation we are planning to make an interview with one of the
Amiga VIPs on the show. Who to interview? That's up to you.
Write your wishes to
interview@virtualdimension.de.
Who is it you allways wanted to see in front of the camera? What questions would you
like to ask him / her? We will collect all of the requests, chart them and then do what
ever possible to get this person on tape.
By the way: Who is interested in participating the next
StarEmpire round
can pencil in from now on, and will contact you as soon as the registration phase
has started.
Star Empire II is a round and text basined space strategy game by Christian Becker
for up to 32 players.
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: Graphics competition for Schlachtfeld
Horst Diebel wrote:
Since we are urgently needing new graphics for phase 2 of the Schlachtfeld
development and our own recources are quite limited, we decided to start
a graphics competition.
Since Eddy already eagerly designed units this competition is about creation
of background graphics. Those patterns should be of 256+ colours at the size of 16x16,
32x32 or 64x64 pixel.
Different scenarios are needed for the backgrounds, such like swamps,
grass or hill landscapes, craggy and rugged mountains, towns, deserts, ....
Partitipants are free to chose a subject - but we would be happy to get
informed in advance just to have the chance to discuss our ideas.
As first prices two new A1200s are at our disposal, also there are several
packages with Amiga software classics and Aminet CDs. Maybe the number
of prices will increase, but we ask you to take into account that this project still
is about creating free available software, which of course qualifys what we are able to
give as prices :-(
Anybody can participate, the graphics must be free from third-party rights, and in the
case of a price winning graphic we must get entitled to use it for comming versions of
Schlachtfeld.
Ok, as usual we would be happy to get feedback.... To determine the winners in a way
as neutral as possible we called up several representatives of the community to join the
jury - but just have a look at the website..... Also there are more information and even more
soon.
PS: As usual, of course we still are wanting people who would like to cooperate in this project;
conceptional, as programmer or graphics artist.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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