29.Sep.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page
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Tool: giFT V0.9.6
giFT V0.9.6 is a generic interface to FastTrack, the Peer-to-Peer
network that is used by Morpheus, KaZaA and Grokster for shared use of files.
Available for download are versions for 020, 040 and 060 CPUs as well as a
MorphOS version.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
programmed-excellence.de
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Genealogy program for Amiga in the works
Sven Dröge is working on a genealogy program for the Amiga.
The idea for this program came him when Sven looked at his father-in-law who
was doing some investigation about his family. That man entered personal data
into some software on the PC. The PC software owns an export function into the
GEDCOM format, the default data exchange format for family tree data. Sven
Dröge asked his father-in-law to open such a file for him, and he got
information about this format from the Internet.
As further investigation showed that such software doesn't exist for the Amiga,
the decision was made to program a genealogy program himself.
´Dynasty´ was born and the plan is to make Dynasty that
genealogy program for the AMIGA. You can read about already realized resp.
planned features under the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Volker Grabbe (email)
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Scanner calibration software ICS for AmigaOS 4?
Volker Grabbe has asked Wolf Faust, the programmer of the scanner calibration
software ICS, about the future development of this software.
With permission by Wolf Faust we release the questions and answers:
Volker Grabbe:
Good day, Mr. Faust, as I use on my A4K Scanquix 5, I'd like to ask you a
question. What about coming support of the AmigaOS 4.x from your side? May Amiga
Inc. possibly have approached you because of your product to be integrated into
the OS?
Wolf Faust:
No. AmigaOS 4 is at least for me rather far away. Neither was I asked about it.
And even if so, right now there's simply a lack of time for something like this.
And even if there would be time there had to be something happening financially
to view OS 4 as development platform. In the end the investments into OS 4
have to pay back sometime. Many of the developments here in the last time are
extremly expensive and would almost be not financeable even in the best of Amiga
times.
Volker Grabbe:
I didn't want to embarrass you with my questions yet I am curious about the
future.
Wolf Faust:
Quite clear: there'll be only developments that aren't Amiga specific. But Amiga
users make profit of the expensive developments for PC/Mac. It would be
inconceivable for example to realize the coming offer for transparency units only
for Amiga users. The investments alone for the machine/working time are
running into the hundreds of thousands.
But when I look at the little number of accesses by Amiga users to my website etc. I'm beginning to doubt that even this makes still sense in the long
run.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Stefan Blixth (email)
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OnyxSoft: Cathedral v1.1 and updates
New Program : Cathedral (version 1.1)
Information : - This is a program made to create
really *phat* reverb effects on
audio samples.
- Included engines :
* 68020 (w/o FPU)
* 68040 (FPU)
* PPC-WarpOS
* PPC-PowerUP
Use your PPC to create "phat"
echo-effects very quikcly :-)
----
New version : DECH (version 1.4)
Information : - It can now be used for other
compilers than AmigaE!
- It's possible to save 5 different
pre-defined command-lines for
your five favourite compilers.
- Plus other useful changes.
---
New version : TheMPegEncGUI (version 2.08)
Information : - Added a settable delay between
the encoding of files in the list
to let the filesystem save it's
directory structure to prevent
eventual loss of finished mp3's
in case of a crash.
- Added some modes for Lame.
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And if you have some minutes over, please fill
in our little survey at:
http://www.onyxsoft.nu/survey.html (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Werner Lange (email)
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HCS Lange: no calls possible until 1.10.2001 (Update)
As the Amiga repair company HCS Lange has moved recently it cannot be contacted via
phone because of the switching of the telephone number. From 02.10.2001 on
should the line work again.
HCS Lange
AMIGA & COMMODORE SERVICE
32756 Detmold
Phone and Fax 05231 - 34530
Update 30.09.2001:
HCS Lange is available via email. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Florian Rehnisch (ANF)
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Discussion about deleting of news:de.comp.sys.amiga.archive
On news:de.admin.news.groups they are discussing at the moment the deleting of
the newsgroup de.comp.sys.amiga.archive.
The newsgroup was used for releasing announcements and archive lists of
mailboxes and FTP sites, but is for some time now only used for daily upload
statistics of the Aminet. The proponent of the process (Simon Paqet) is thinking
that this can't be the meaning of a newsgroup that is distributed worldwide via
many news servers.
(Title link: 1.RfD via Google-Groups)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)
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Event: pictures of and report about the Amclust meeting
Michael 'MCP' Göken wrote:
The second Amclust meeting 2001 was again a full success.
The Amclust and the AC Osnabrück met last weekend.
On this occasion were many interesting views exchanged regarding the present situation of
the Amiga market and its loyal users.
As highlight Thomas Dellert presented his PCI-Board 'GREX'.
All were very impressed by the new hardware, only the price is set a little bit
too high in many users' opinion.
In addition has our Guido Mersmann introduced his keyboard adapter which
offers really many features, for example hardware password protection,
multimedia keys, computer on/off, etc..
For this exists a superb software that is also already available on Aminet. On
interest email to Geit@gmx.de.
Apart from that people had been working for three days with the Amigas.
We've taken some snapshots of this event (see title link).
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - news
Good news for all users of and people interested in Digital Almanac III. After
the sales of the astronomy software had to be stopped because of defective
hardware it can go on again. There's hardware again, so the development and the sales of the CD-ROMs can restart.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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29.Sep.2001
Tao Group
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Tao Group: Tao Strengthens Wireless Java
Reading, England, September 27, 2001 -- Tao Group today announces it has acquired additional intellectual property software rights from ASCII Corporation in Japan to further strengthen its 'intent JavaTM Technology Edition' software suite.
The Tao Java product, compliant with industry standards and Sun Microsystems-branded, has been developed over five years and is already being installed into an array of products including digital cameras, phones, pda's, digital televisions, set top boxes, personal computers and web tablets. The various specifications supported by the intent JTE are compact and robust, and run real world content many times faster than any alternative.
Dr. Paddy Byers, Chief Technology Officer of Tao said: "Emphasis on the development of Tao's product has always been on enabling Java technology-based services that the operators and manufacturers must be able to deliver to the consumer to support their economic models. The agreement with ASCII makes our story stronger than ever."
Francis Charig, Tao's Chairman, commented: "This is an excellent acquisition for Tao as we consolidate the technology on the intent media stack for both wireless and wired devices. Our Java product is part of a comprehensive multimedia, language independent solution which is uniquely helping companies take compelling and differentiated products to market both quickly and at low cost."
The conclusion of the ASCII Agreement is the first of several key announcements by Tao in the wireless space over the coming months.
The complete press release can be found following the title link.
(ps)
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28.Sep.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)
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New role-playing game for Classic Amigas in the works
Project Crashsite - that'll be the name of the new role-playing game for
Classic Amigas which is currently still under development. The role-playing
game in the science fiction genre will require a CD-ROM, 68040 (minimum)
and a graphics card.
Here an excerpt from the description:
»Mankind has reached for the stars and colonized a planet system.
Far away from Sol, Future II develops into a self-sufficient economy system with
own government. Not only has this government plans for Future II but the
Sol government also. The third in the trio is McJevl, the space flight company
who made the settling and terraforming possible. McJevl has plans too, and
gets a big chance to make them reality.
Here enters the player as member of the Future Security Corps, the system-internal
police. With a team consisting of up to six characters, law and order must be
preserved in Future II. A difficult task which gets even harder as a meteor
hits one of the planets and an eye-witness of the event is being murdered before
the eyes of the Future Security Corps.
Investigations lead to the fact that this is not the only death ...«
Up-to-date information on the game development are now available at
projektcrashsite.de.
If you want to get a first impression of what the Classic Amiga is in for
you should surf by.
Comments, suggestions and critics are welcome. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
AudioLabs
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Audiosoftware: ProStationAudio compatible with G-Rex PCI bus boards
ProStationAudio is compatible with G-Rex PCI busboards by DCE and Terratec
PCI audio boards. Frank Mariak, DCE's software designer of drivers for
the G-Rex, confirms that drivers they just made for the 128i and 512i
Terratec models have passed preliminary tests for analog I/O with
ProStationAudio. Drivers for the 512i are being extended with S/P-DIF
support.
G-Rex makers and AudioLabs are actively cooperating to provide the best
compatibility between this new PCI busboard and ProStationAudio (a big
thank you to Frank for his continued and accurate work).
The G-Rex PCI busboard, available in two models for the A4000 and A1200
is a solution developed specifically for owners of P5/DCE CyberStorm and
Blizzard PPC and/or 68K CPU cards. The G-Rex 4000D replaces the stock
A4000 backplane, offering slots for PCI and Zorro cards. ProStationAudio
takes advantage as well of PCI graphic cards installed on the G-Rex.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
dynAMIteXXL
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Game: dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a
dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a, a Bomberman clone, is available for download.
dynAMIte requires from this version on the identify.library V13.
This update contains many changes which are listed in the
changes text.
Download: dynAMIte.lha -
dynAMIte.readme
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)
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Software update for Prometheus
Matay has released small software upgrade for Prometheus - Zorro III to
PCI bridge. It consists of new version of SANA-II driver for Ethernet
cards based on RTL8029 chip, and small graphical network traffic monitor
called NetMeter. These can be downloaded from
Prometheus support page.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF)
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Datatype: DocDatatypes V40.22
Amarpreet Singh Munde has released an update of DocDatatypes.
DocDatatypes is a set of datatype classes for documents. The list of
supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect,
Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill,
XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First
Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.
New for this version (40.22) is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs
and the fixing of the Mac Write, Mac Text, Mac TeachText and WordPerfect 4
descriptors. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory
optimisations.
There is also the latest version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast,
easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date,
and even file type.
Also, in association with Amiga Arena, DocDatatypes Lite is available for
registration at a reduced fee for those who do not require support of all
the exotic formats.
Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench celebrates 4th birthday
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international
and free ads, celebrates the fourth birthday of the website with a quiz.
Happy birthday.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
AmiDog
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AmiDog: AMP PPC-Movieplayer V2.04
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has made available version 2.04 of his movie player
'AMP' for PPC for download. AMP is a shareware program which can currently
play the following multimedia formats:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audio streams
- FLI/FLC
- AC3 streams
Changes since AMP v2.03:
- Optimized the AC3 decoder, it's about 50% faster now.
- Added LORES option that will decode the MPEG at 1/4 of the original size (i.e. half width and half height). This is about twice as fast depending on bitrate and resolution.
- Fixed some bad init in the MPEGV decoder, should remove the jerky playback at startup.
- Fixed AC3 sync bug causing it to not work at all. Also, pausing may have caused any kind of strange effects.
- Made the subtitle decoder handle LORES as well.
- Fixed the "PPC Alignment Exception" problem.
- GUI: Replaced Gray with Mode and added options for Gray/Color with/without Lores.
Download: AMP204.lha
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Golem (M. Lunk by e-mail)
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Golem: Vim 6.0 - new version of the free Vi editor clone
»New version offers many new functions
More than one year after the first alpha release, the finished version of the editor
Vim 6.0 (Vi Improved) sees the light of day. The free
Vi clone is still almost 100% compatible with the almost legendary Unix editor "Vi"
but offers many extensions and is tailor-made for the needs of programmers.«
Full German article at the title link.
Update:
Download Amiga version: Mirror Oldenburg (ps) (Translation: rh)
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28.Sep.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.17r2
WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP, has been
released in version 0.8.17 Release 2 (JIT version). At the title link you'll
find a detailed listing of the improvements and changes.
Download: WinUAE0817R2.exe
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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27.Sep.2001
Golem
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Golem: Corel still with profits
»Profit and sales declining
In 3Q01 Corel gained sales of 34.2 millions USD which is slightly less than
the 36.4 millions USD of last year and the 36 millions USD of 2Q01.
Profit was at 500,000 USD or 0.01 USD per share.«
Complete article see title link (German).
Another message about this subject:
The Register: Corel makes money shock!
(cm) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF)
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Hardware: Water cooling for Cyberstorm-PPC
A do-it-yourself project which might be of special interest for overclockers,
since water is known to cool better than air does. This is said to run
trouble-free up to know - at this time the author has in mind to utilize
a peltier element together with the water cooling.
Even if one would not try this himself, it is vital to take a look at
the picture of this reconstructed CSPPC on the page - somehow fascinating :-).
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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27.Sep.2001
CyberGraphX Homepage
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CyberGraphX Homepage: Visionary site established
Since early September the official
CyberGraphX homepage is being regularly
update again, after a small time-out, and the readers are provided with
interesting information all about CyberGrahpX. At the title link you will
find the newly established sub-site 'Visionary' with many screenshots
of Workbenches running Visionary.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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