05.Sep.2001
Stiftung Warentest
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Stiftung Warentest: Internet-searchengines: Google hits best
»Currently Google is the best searchengine in the Net. Google found ten times the suitable answer to ten questions. It follows Altavista, Lycos and Metager with nine hits. STIFTUNG WARENTEST tested 20 searchengines and catalogs. 13 are only sufficient and one is inadequate. The weak point of most of the searchengines: The results are falsely weighted. More than a half of the founded hits had nothing to do with the searched topic. test-online gives hints how you search and find.«
Look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Golem - IT-News für Profis
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Golem: Novum: Motorola connects silicon with group semiconductors
»Light-issueing semiconductors and silicon circuits on one chip
Motorola has announced an important breakthrough at developing of semiconductor-materials: The producer succeeded in putting gallium-arsenid-transistors in a narrow gallium-arsenid-layer which grows on a silicon-wafer. This breakthrough is supposed to enable new chip generations with combined silicon- and light-issueing transistors - with it cheap optical fiber-network-solutions are supposed to be enabled.«
Look at the title link for the full Golem-article.
Further links to this topic:
Spiegel: Motorola will clear up the market
Heise: Motorola reports breakthrough at producing chips
ZDNet: Motorola presents new chip-technology
Wired: Motorola's Blazing-Fast New Chip
Motorola PR: Motorola Creates Revolutionary Semiconductor Materials
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Atroxis
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Music: Markus Holler - New pictures of his studio
Markus Holler which is known to many Amiga-users by his music titles of Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity gives his fans an insight to his studio and introduces his equipment. Currently he works on project called 'Dreamwalker' which is a cinema advertisement.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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05.Sep.2001
Darkpage
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DeTeMedien retracts dissuasiveness against darkpage.de
Darkpage.de reports on its newssite that yesterday DeTeMedien written confirmed that DeTeMedien has retracted its dissuasiveness of 20.08.2001 concerning of the danger of confusion "yellow pages" and "the black pages".
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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04.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.33
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. There was
another big bug in the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus removal.
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.33
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.782 bytes
Release date: 4 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
News is v33.33:Short:
- Fixed 2 bugs in Hitch-Hiker 5.00 removal + improved checking.
Thanks to Thomas Klein for reporting the bugs.
- Removed Sinister Syndicate 1/2 and French from the
bootblock recog. They were harmless.
Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for telling me.
Download shortcut:
http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Repulse Soundcard does not support Movieshop so far (update)
Carsten Siegner writes:
As you can read in the amiga-news.de news from 30.08.01 a new Toccata-emulation was
announced as the only emulation to work together with Movieshop of the VLab-Motion.
Unfortunately I have heard from Alien Design today that the 'Repulse' does not work
with the program Movieshop. Because the developers do not have a VLabMotion you need
to test the functionality.
I have offered help to test the software so it could be done in some time.
Update 06. September 2001:
Stefan Sommerfeld,
programmer of the Repulse Toccata emulation, posted in a comment to this message:
This message is wrong in some sense. The MovieShop support was almost finished and
will be available on our homepage
this very day. Since a couple of weeks tests with MovieShop have been done and
except for some little features every thing works quite good, already.
Anybody wanting to test the new Toccata emulation now, should download the new
drivers. Of course bugreports are very much welcome.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Etienne Alaurent (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: REBOL-Site for
Etienne Alaurant has set his REBOL-Site for his 'VIRTUAL Office' online. You can
reach it via 'REBOL.com > Sites > Etienne'. There you will find inside the
'V.O.'drawer a presentation of te project.
'VIRTUAL Office' is a personal, virtual office everyone has access to from around the
world via Internet. In this office you share rooms and areas together and can share
information and data.
(sd) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert
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Datatype: akPNG V44.123
Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.123 of his akPNG datatype. As usual
different processor based versions are available (title link).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Warp Emulation Suite: WES Version 1.0
Hitman/Code HQ is pleased to announce the release of
WES v1.0.
WES (Warp Emulation Suite) consists of a master controlling program,
WarpKickstart, and a suite of emulation engines, which allow you to
emulate a large number of machines. As time goes by, more and more
engines will be added to the suite. It currently supports six, most of
which are currently related to MAME, as follows:
WarpMAME - Based on v0.37 Beta 16 of the PC sources
WarpMAME Classic - Based on v0.37 Beta 5 of the PC sources
WarpNeoMAME - Based on v0.37 Beta 16 of the PC sources
WarpNeoMAMEClassic - Based on v0.37 Beta 5 of the PC sources
WarpMESS
WarpNeoPocott
The reason for there being two versions of MAME in the Suite (WarpMAME
and WarpMAME Classic) is that MAME is getting bigger and slower all the
time, and is moving to a 16 bit only screen mode system. This will make
it too slow for our old Amigas. So WarpMAME Classic was born. Play your
old favourite games using WarpMAME classic and the latest MAME games
using WarpMAME - probably quite slowly until the AmigaOne comes along! :-)
WarpNeoPocott is an early and quick port of a Neo Geo Pocket emulator.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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04.Sep.2001
Amiga Active
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Print Magazine: Amiga Active 2. Anniversary
The english print magazine celebrates it's second anniversary and for this reason has
started a survey to fit for it's readers' wishes (title link).
Congratulations to your 2nd Anniversary from the amiga-news.de team!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Sep.2001
Jörg Strohmayer
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Filesystem: Smart Filesystem 1.192 BETA
Jörg Strohmayer released version 1.192 (Beta) of the Smart Filesystem. The following changes were made:
- "findextentbnode: findbnode() can't find key 4711!" bug in
defragmenter fixed.
- Added timeout to some requesters.
- Check for correct number of free blocks is now only done
in about 1 out of 25 initdisk()s instead of each one.
This is a beta version! Please report bugs and success-stories to Jörg Strohmayer.
Download: SFS.lha (40 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mailprogram: SimpleMail Alpha 0.9
Release of verison 0.9 alpha of SimpleMail. Changes:
- improved addressbook
- periodical maildownload
- needs the Popplaceholder Mui Custom Class
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new releases (until 02. Sept. 01)
Thanks to WHDLoad, you are able to install floppydisc based games onto your harddisc. The following packages were added:
- 02.09.01 new: Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal
- 02.09.01 new: Trivial Pursuit (Domark) done by CFOU!
- 02.09.01 new: Castle Warrior (Delphine Software) done by CFOU!
- 02.09.01 improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) supports CD³² version too, automatically load/save highscore
- 02.09.01 improved: RanX (UBI-Soft) supports french version too
- 02.09.01 new: New York Warriors (Arcania Systems) done by Wepl
- 02.09.01 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) program to display/merge highscores added
- 31.08.01 new: Victory Road (SNK/Imagine) done by Bored Seal
- 31.08.01 new: Paramax (KingSoft) done by CFOU!
- 31.08.01 new: La quête de l'oiseau du temps (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 31.08.01 new: Extase (Cryo/Virgin Losirs) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)
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AmigaShell for Unix
"AmigaSHELL makes your boring gray on black colored
bash shell revive like in the old days. Just like on
Amiga(tm), blue, white, orange, black at its finest.
With a nice informational bar at the top."
Annotation by Jazz_Rabbit: HOT!
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Amiga FFE-homepage back online
Michael Asse wrote:
The AmigaFFE-homepage is online.
I'll try to improve the side in the next days and integrate a joblist.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)
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Article: CNN ... Amiga isn't dead
CNN: "Surprise: The Amiga isn't dead... technically. Although Commodore
is defunct, an Australian company called Amiga Inc. is still updating the
Amiga operating system and has created specs in hopes of finding friendly
manufacturers to release the first new Amiga hardware in six years. A
small but loyal fan base of Amiga nuts is holding its breath."
An Austrialian Company?
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
Robert Sterff (ANF)
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Event: Party: XzentriX 2001 - 7. - 9. September
Hello computer users,
There are only some days left until the 4th Xzentrix computer-party for
alternative computer systems in Seeshaupt.
Additional information is available at the title link.
Ciao
Robert Sterff
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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03.Sep.2001
amiga.org
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MPEG: Frogger V1.66
Frogger can be downloaded from http://frogger.rules.pl or http://highantdev.de/frogger/.
Please note, that audio is disabled in 68k version, due
to bug I could not find. As soon as I've fixed it, version
with audio enabled will be released. MorphOS
version is also almost finished.
- Video layer 1/2 decoding.
- Audio layer I, II and III decoding. Now also with very fast decoder in 68k version (through mpega.library)
- AC3 Audio decoder.
- Fast video & audio playback.
- Intelligent frame skipping.
- Overlay support.
- Fast C2P for AGA.
- Direct CGFX video memory access routines.
- Asynchronous disk reading.
- Video scaling on both CGFX and AGA.
- Support for reading VideoCD disks.
- Support for PSX movies and audio.
Look here for all current known bugs and on the future-page for features to come up.
1.66 pre 1
- fixed deadlocks after seeking. (damn, seems like this bug is still there)
- optimized video decoder (up to 10%). on the other hand, there was some changes in demuxer,
which causes slowdown. overall result: 0%.
- added TRACKSELECTION option (shows gui to vcd track selection, default no gui - start
playing first track immediately).
- changed minimal window size. it is now calculated based on system gadget size.
- fixed bug in vcd code, which caused crash if specified device could not be opened.
- fixed problems with slider (small know size at beginning, and slider movement).
- changed mpeg-audio decoder. completly new routines, layerII is as fast as before, layerIII is 2x
faster. there is no FREQDIV 4 (if specified, 1:2 division is used, ie. FREQDIV=2).
- AUDIOQUALITY works with this decoder (previous versions supported AQ only in 68k
version). default is HIGH. LOW and MIDDLE are the same. This decoder fixes also some
problems with LayerIII decoding.
- new ac3 decoder. faster, more reliable.
- fixed problems with multiple tracks vcds (lost of synch when starting new track). the same bug
appears on movies joined with join or mpegjoin, seems to be cured also).
- If user tried to play finished movie from beginning (SPACE key) deadlock occured if audio was
enabled). fixed. Hoppefully this also fixed deadlock with LOOP when audio is enabled.
- Slider size/position was wrong, when movie was on VCD/CDI media. fixed.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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02.Sep.2001
CyberGFX
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PCI: Grzegorz Kraszewski about the Prometheus bus
Grzegorz Kraszewski, Matay, talked about the status of the Prometheus bus on
the Prometheus mailing list. The current firmware is unidirectional, meaning
that the Prometheus can act as PCI master and Zorro-III slave, only.
After a firmware update the bus can be bidirectional. Then the master PCI board
can access the Amiga hardware. That means that the Amiga hardware acts like
a PCI board for a G4 PPC card.
Follow the title link for the original text.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: The Crypt #19
Issue #19 of The Crypt magazine contains topical news about Amiga Inc. including
an interview with Gary Peake, Amiga. Craig Daines deals with the subject
'port attacks and online protection' in his article. Dr. Greg Perry was asked
about Directory Opus and more in an interview. There are articles about
'how to back-up your PC' and 'how to properly re-install Windows OS' at the
IBM compatibles section of the magazine. Moreover there are many more articles
and graphics about fun and stories and more.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Newsletter: Amiga Update #010831 by Brad Webb
Monthly Brad Webb releases his English newsletter 'Amiga Update' reporting
about the most important ongoings all about the Amiga. Read the current
newsletter under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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