23.Oct.2001
Ottawa Amiga Show Team
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Event: Ottawa Amiga Show - Changes
Against other statements the Ottawa Amiga Show will not take place on two days, only
on 17.11.2001. Also changed has the location. Now it is the Routhier Centre, 172
Guigues Street, Main floor, Ottawa, Canada. More informations under the title link.
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23.Oct.2001
Kermit Woodall (ANF)
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Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Richmond, VA - Nova Design announced the immediate availability of the
latest upgrade to ImageFX 4.5. This release adds even more features to one
of the industries most powerful image editing and special effects package
and the top package for the Amiga.
Nova Design has been a long-time supporter of the Amiga platform. Their
software packages include ImageFX, Aladdin 4D - a 3D modeling, rendering
and animation package, Millennium - the ultimate upgrade for Newtek's
Toaster and Toaster/Flyer, and Cinematte - a blue-screening plugin for both
Photoshop and Aura.
New Painting Features
The painting tools have been improved with the addition of several new
Drawmodes. These Drawmodes allow a new range of compositing so you can
composite brushes into your images will all the same tools that the
composite tool offers you for full image compositing. When combined with
the Drawstyles, which control where your pixels come from when using
brushes, you have literally thousands of possible drawing options and
combinations!
New Animation Features
ImageFX 4.0 introduced the concept of being able to load an animation and
work on individual frames just like you would a layered still image
document. ImageFX 4.5 takes this much further with the all-new Keyframe
Manager.
The Keyframe Manager allows you to combine images, animations, or
animbrushes onto any animation you have loaded. You can completely control
the path of these images or animations by specifying precise positions at
individual keyframes at any point in the animation. You can do this with
single point keys, two point keys, or four point keys. You can scale during
single point animations, use two points to make easy 'squash and stretch'
cartoony effects, or use four points flip points around to make '3D' flying
logos and other simulated perspective tricks. With a little artistic talent
it's not hard to track something in an existing animation and add a new
effect on it or replace it with something new.
The Keyframe Manager can also process simple scripts without bothering with
compositing images or animations. You can track lightning into a scene or
have a wizard cast a glowing light with a lens flare. The possibilities are
enormous!
Ordering
Just call 1-800-IMAGE-69 or (804) 282-1157, fax (804) 282-3768 to order.
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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Exotica (ANF)
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Amiga Exotica Update
This section provides complete unmodified rips with full credits for all
Amiga game sound tracks regardless of format. Unlike other collections
available elsewhere on the internet, UnExoticA's archive hasn't been
defaced with rip credits, which often replace comments left by the
original composer.
Huge thanks to all the people who have worked hard to make this section.
Full credits for the area can be read on its Main Page. At the time of
writing the area contains 3440 files packed into 615 archives. That's
269 different composers! Uncompressed there is currently 212 Megabytes
of music!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New packages for WHDLoad
WHDLoad gives you the possibility to install floppy-based games onto your harddisc. The following new or
updated versions are available:
- 21.10.01 new: Night Breed (Ocean) done by Bored Seal
- 21.10.01 fixed: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) install script debugged
- 21.10.01 new: Barbarian (Psygnosis) done by CFOU!
- 20.10.01 improved: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) various changes
- 20.10.01 fixed: Doofus (Prestige Software) highscore fixed
- 20.10.01 fixed: Hudson Hawk (Ocean) no more problems on 68060
- 18.10.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version
- 17.10.01 new: Megatwins (US Gold/SEGA) done by JOTD
- 17.10.01 improved: Marble Madness () new icon (Info,Image)
- 17.10.01 new: Geisha (Coktail Vision) done by CFOU!
- 17.10.01 new: Space Ball (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
- 17.10.01 new: F1 Tornado (Zeppelin/Quex Development) done by Bored Seal
- 17.10.01 new: Dark Fusion (Esprit Software/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
- 17.10.01 new: Battle Storm (Titus) done by CFOU!
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22.Oct.2001
Suite101 / John Chandler
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John Chandler: AROS: Native AmigaOS For Your PC
John Chandler is dealing with AROS the native AmigaOS for PC in his current article, published at suite101.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
Apex Designs
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Game: Payback Update 5, new demo and map-update
Update 5, updated maps and a new demo of Payback are now available for download. Update 5 fixes all bugs
reported since the release of update 4. If you still have some problems, please have a look at the FAQ.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P won't leave the Amiga market
Markus Nerding (Manager of H&P) wrote:
"There was a rumour at amiga.org saying that we would leave the Amiga market. This is not only complete nonsens but even hard to believe with reagard to the recently released AmigaOS XL and Freespace. Due to the fact that amiga.org is currently down I think that it was probably hacked by
someone else." (ps) (Translation: sk)
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22.Oct.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)
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AmigaPage News - New pictures and fair movies
After a long time some new stuff, again. In the 'Amiga-Geschichte' (Amiga history)
section some pictures have been added. Also the 'Messe-Werbung' (fair advertising) and
'Amiga-Werbung' (Amiga advertising) sections have been updated.
A few weeks ago Marcus Neervoort has put the 45 minutes Fleecy Moss log from the WoA2000 in
Cologne in MP3 format at the download area. Have fun and so long until the next update.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Oct.2001
Salvador Fernandez (E-Mail)
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New pictures of the Pegasos mainboard with MorphOS v0.8
Under the title link you can see the latest pictures of the Pegasos mainboard taken at bplan's on last Thursday. Short after this the machine traveled to Italy to the Pianete 2001.
Michael Garlich, Titan Computer, picked it up in person last Friday.
Already now various Amiga applications and PCI hardware like graphic boards, network cards,
TV cards, etc. are working full featured.
Until WOA 2001 about 10 developer systems of second generation - the PEGASOS2 design -
will be available. This heralds the final lap to make the first fully working 'successor' of the
latest Amiga generation definite reality. The new multiprocessing sysem and MultiOS machine
will be available in different configurations and variations for endusers in 1Q02.
Soon we will make new announcements about this
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Oct.2001
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)
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Webcam with VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or VLab-Parallel
There is an ARexx script enabling to use a VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or
VLab-Parallel as a webcam available for download under the title link. Via Arexx a
picture get's taken within Movieshop which then will be exported. After that this
pictures will be loaded into ADPro where it get's scaled and date and time added
to it. If a VLab is used the VLab-ADPro loader will be utilized. The picutre get's uploaded
to the FTP server using "PutClient" (Aminet). The script is capable of setting MiamiDX
online and offline automatically, if desired. Moreover it is possible to save all of the
pictures taken.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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AMIGA 2001: Provisional exhibitors list
The editors board of the Amiga Future
is busy in creating a preliminary report about the
Amiga show in Cologne (17.-18. Nov.)
and published a provisional exhibitors list under the title link. Up to now about 20
companies or grous approved to attend the show.
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21.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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amiNET.GUI: 'Message of the day' via WAP cell phone
The Aminet's "Message of the day" now also can be read using a
WAP capable cell phone. The URL is:
http://www.aminet-gui.net/wap/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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HTML: Preprocessor HSC V0.919
After a longe period of time a new version of the HTML preprocessor
'HCS' (HTML Sucks Completely) was released. To make this development
of the tool previously programmed by Thomas Aglassinger is now being
done by Matthias Bethke.
This preliminary version fixes some bugs and comes with new featrues.
Among other things HSC supports macros, qualified requests and expressions.
The elder support page gives you
a closer overview.
This version was released as source-only which should compile on
all systems previously supported by HSC.
Download: hsc-source.tar.bz2 (376K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Mailer: Simplemail mailing list on new server
Due to intensive spams the mailing list regarding the e-mail client
'Simplemail'
has been moved to
freelist.org.
You can subscribe to this list by sending an e-mail to
simplemail-usr-request@freelists.org.
The archive is available via
http://www.freelists.org/archives/simplemail-usr/.
More information about this list are available under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Database: MySqld V4.0.0 (Alpha)
On 18. October 2001 version 4.0.0 of the MySqld archive for Amigas with
68040 CPU was released on the 'Da SixK Port Page'.
Version 4 is about a definite enhanced version of this databench allowing to
implement previously missing features like requests within requests.
This version was not entirely tested by the MySQL team yet, what makes it alpha status.
As a first new feature one can test union-queries, which work good.
With 'InnoDb' a new format was added, but which does not work in the Amiga version yet and
therefore is disabled in the startmysqld script. Who is able to find a way to use this feature
on the Amiga might contact
sixk@ifrance.com.
Who would like to use special fonts, just have a look at the startmysqld script and
the mysql:languages/charsets/ directory.
More information about the MySQL version 4.0.0 released on 15. October are to find
at www.mysql.com.
Download: MySqld-4.0.0-Alpha.lzx
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
CodePoet
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Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.17 R3 - private beta-test
Version 0.8.17 release 3 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' currently
is in private beta-tests. So this version is not yet available
for download. The following has changed since the prior version:
- FIXED: No longer crashes in windowed-mode on XP Themed-view.
- FIXED: 68020+ bitfield instruction fix (stuck doors in Dungeon Master AGA)
- FIXED: Fix garbage display on Venus the Flytrap and Nightbreed Interactive
Movie. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Trying to delete a non-empty directory will now properly return
ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Increased the range of addresses checked for memory-mapping, in
order to make JIT "direct" mode work on more systems.
- FIXED: Selecting a Picasso96 8-bit mode in windowed-mode would complain
about not matching your desktop's depth, and switch to full-screen.
(Reported by Michael at Cloanto)
- FIXED: Installer won't install when WinUAE is already running.
- ADDED: AHI driver support. (Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: Option to disable use of overlays completely.
- ADDED: Jose's modifications to the sound routines and GUI. (Jose Gil)
NOTE: Read doc called "SoundSyncro Readme.rtf"
- CHANGED: Floppy-disk emulation, including .FDI support. (Toni Wilen)
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21.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Aminet-CD #45
Aminet CD 45, dated October 2001, contains almost 1 Gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in over
800 archives. Since the release of Aminet 44 numerous new software has appeared. The current
edition includes the full Amiga Future Website. Read more
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21.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: Antivirus poll 2001
Under the title link Virus Help Denmark ask
"Who has done the most for the Amiga Antivirus scene in 2001 ?".
Until 31. December 2001 one can vote regarding this on the above page.
The winner of this poll will receive about 100 USD which VHT drawed
from antivirus disk sales (0.25 USD profit per disk). With your own
vote you are possible to decide who will win that money.
The nominees are:
- Alex van Viel - VirusChecker II
- Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor
- Zeeball - Safe
- Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ
- Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - Xvs.library
- VT-Schutz - Heiner Schneegold
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Tales of Tamar: Videos of the LARP I, the Ankou band
Around the 22nd of September the first
LARP
for 'Tales of Tamar' took place. Now, on the 19th of October a video of that meeting was
published showing the beautifull landscape of the LARP area, some battles, the live in
the tavern, and much more.
The video was done by Virtual Dimension, they
made it up from several tapes. From their server the video is available for download in MPEG format at three different sizes.
On the LARP evenings an medieval band called 'Ankou' made music plenteously and thus
cared for the proper ambience. Special was that the bard of the band made it to sing free-style for
seven minutes. This piece of music was ripped off the video and is available for download as
MP3 on the Tamar servers.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Page
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Event: Short report about the Pianeta 2001
There were some highlights to sight on the
Pianeta Amiga 2001.
Haage&Partner
presented AmigaOS XL running on an 1.4GHz Athlon. The Amiga software
compatibility is said to be very good. For example there were MooVID playing
two movies in two windows at the same time.
VirtualWorks showed both of the new
PCI solutions G-REX4000D and Mediator 4000 PCI in a show-case, but not working.
An absolute innovation was presented at the booth of
Titan Computer where one was able to gaze at
Candy Factory Pro running on the Pegasos system by
bplan GmbH with
MorphOS version 0.8.
Furthermore a new Italian print magazine called
Bitplane and done by Nicola Morcutti was presented.
This magazine is planned to be published bimonthly including a CD and will be available to
subscribers only.
Other exhibitors are Darkage Software, Digital Equipment, AGI, Il Piccolo Emporio, and Mirko Cipolla (CIP060) who presented an A1200 with MediatorPCI, Voodoo, SoundBlaster, and TV card.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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20.Oct.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register October 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana
Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information
regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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