29.Aug.2001
Ina Sielaff (ANF)
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Mexikon: Cactuses-lexicon in Amiga-guide-format
Under the title link you can find software for Amiga. One is called 'Mexikon' which is a lexicon about cactuses with many hints and suggestions. It also contains maps of Mexico and pictures of over 650 cactuses. Besides this there is the program 'AMIGA Workbench - Tuning'.
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29.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Earth 2140 mailing list
Pagan Games has created an English-spoken mailing list for Earth 2140.
E2140-player can discuss about strategies, the game, updates and new
levels (mission packs) there. The developers of the Amiga version of
Earth 2140 are also on the list and will try to answer your questions.
Subscribe: pagan-e2140-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: pagan-e2140-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Post message: pagan-e2140@yahoogroups.com
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Hugi Online (PC Demo-Szene Magazin) (ANF)
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Max Payne developer are (active!) Amiga-freaks
Silvio Senger writes:
Maybe the following message does not really fit to the news but I think
that it is interesting for most of the Amiga-fans:
For some weeks there is a new action hero in the PC-world called MAX
PAYNE. It lasts nearly five years to develop the game and it certainly
is one of the hits of this year, at least in the PC-fan-community. It is
known that some Amiga-Fans developed this game.
On the this year's ASSEMBLY in Finland (with nearly 5000 visitors one of
the biggest demo/LAN-parties;
www.assembly.org) where the best
freaks also compete in a "demo-competition" PC- and Amiga-demos have been
shown together in one competition. It was amazing to see that a team which
made its demo on a Amiga was the winner.
(as amiga-news.de reported).
And that is remarkable: The members of the group ´MatureFurk´
behind this demo all work at Mad Onion (known by its benchmark program
3DMark2001). The graphic artist mainly participates on Max Payne.
And there is another curious thing: Exactly the same group won on the last ASSEMBLY the PC-demo competition. The demo has the same name as the AMIGA winner demo on the ASSEMBLY 2001.
The following links are interesting:
Detailed interview with the graphic artist of the DEMO, which participates on Max Payne
Download of AMIGA DEMOS (requires 68060 + AGA + 16 MB memory!)
Download of the Amiga-Demo in MPEG format (13.3 MB)
PC-DEMO of the ASSEMBLY 2000 (same team)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene: Darkage offers trip to the past!
Fans of old crackintros from the beginning of the 90ies might be delighted about Stingray's new 100% fix! In the download section of Scenet you can find two crackintro packs and the 100% fix of Equinox'
Musicdisk Sonial Fantasia! We wish you a good time journey!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demo group: 'Pic Saint Loop' publishes KissMyJazz Musicdisk
Last night the Polish demo group 'Pic Saint Loup' published the long
expected Musicdisk 'KISS MY JAZZ'. It has been advertised with an
intro on the MekkaSymposium for it. To this time the musican Jazzcat
was not sure if he would really ever publish his demo.
But now it is done. Have a look at the download section at Scenet.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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29.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scenet issue 37 released!
Issue 37 of the scene oriented database SCENET recently was released. There you can
nuzzle to the top of your bent for e-mail addresses, hotlinks, FTP servers, Telnet
mail boxes, ICQs, newsgroups, etc. in 522 KB of text!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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28.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Byte Magazin: He Who Controls the Bootloader
You can find an article from Scot Hacker about the license policy of Microsoft
in the American computer magazine Byte.
Hacker tries to explain with the examples BeOS and Linux why it is so hard to
establish an alternative operating system on the x86 market.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr (E-Mail)
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Music: Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr produced song for amiga-news.de
It is a great honour! The musician Dennis 'Psyria' Lohr has composed and produced
a very nice song for amiga-news.de in his spare time. You can find the song at the
download area (title link) at "Amiga-News Theme" (about 7 MB, saved in high quality) or right here:
AmigaNewsTheme2001.mp3
As I listened to the song I had the idea it would be nice if a demo coder could
create an intro for this. Really would be if someone has an idea for lyrics for this
song. If you are interested send an eMail to ps@amiga-news.de
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New Mediator Drivers 'MediatorUP 2.4'
We are happy to announce the first release of the shared
MMU & NO_MMU version of Mediator drivers.
The new pci.library 4.1 can currently work in both modes.
Along with the new pci.library we release new versions of all
the drivers released so far.
All the new drivers have been re-written to co-operate with our
newest software: drivers for PCI Sound and PCI TV cards released
in the Mediator Multimedia CD.
More details: http://www.elbox.com/news_16-08-01.html
The following files are included in MediatorUP2.4.lha:
pci.library ver. 4.1 NEW
The way how the pci.library and all the drivers are working
(MMU / NO_MMU) can be switched over by the contents of
the MMU file located in the Envarc:/Mediator drawer.
Manuals:
ReadMe
UserManual
VoodooGuide
VirgeGuide
MediatorNET
Copyright
Software:
Mediator_Install
PciInfo ver.1.2
Drivers:
Voodoo.card ver.2.5 NEW
Virge.card ver.1.3 NEW
MediatorNET.device ver.2.1 NEW
Prefs files:
MMU
VoodooMem
VodooInt
VirgeMem
VirgeInt
For the newest Vendors.txt file, see:
http://www.yourvote.com/pci/vendors.txt
Please copy appropriate files to drawers:
pci.library to Libs:
MediatorNET.device to Devs:Networks
Vendors.txt to S:
MMU to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooMem to Envarc:Mediator
VoodooInt to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeMem to Envarc:Mediator
VirgeInt to Envarc:Mediator
Voodoo.card to Libs:Picasso96
Virge.card to Libs:Picasso96
Please read VoodooGuide before installing your Voodoo card.
Please read VirgeGuide before installing your S3 Virge card.
Please check CGX pages:
http://www.vgr.com/mediator
for the newest version of CGX drivers.
Note: CyberGraphXV3 S3 ViRGE driver does not work with pci.library 4.1.
If you want to use it still you should use pci.library 2.2
(enclosed in Archive drawer).
More information about the latest drivers, see:
http://www.elbox.com/news_arch.html
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #50
Issue #50 of 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was released at August, 25th. This
issue contains e.g. an exclusive interview with Hyperion Entertainment.
AIO uses its own viewer that runs with AmigaOS.
At the AIO website you will find an additional picture, that shows a
two-paged article about the AmigaOne. This feature is taken from issue #660
(Aug, 23th 2001) of the british magazine 'MicroMart'.
Download: docs/mags/AIOV50.lha,
Readme
(sd) (Translation: gf)
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28.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Saku 2001 brochure available in PDF format
The four-page brochure on the Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2001 event
is now available for download in PDF format from the official web site at
http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001/ (see title link).
Visitors are also able to sell their second-hand Amiga goods at Saku 2001.
The service is free of charge and available for all private persons,
membership of the user group is not required. A couple of the latest
Amiga games are also available for testing at the venue: both Payback
and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division are demonstrated.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science Centre
Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and end at
18:00. Admission will be free of charge. For further information, visit
Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at http://saku.amigafin.org
or http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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27.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Realtime strategy "Voodoo Wars" announced
Melina Softworks, well known for some freeware and shareware programs so far,
announced the release of a new realtime strategy game for highend Amigas and the AmigaOne.
The development just started and they are still on the hunt for new developers.
Additional information is available at the "Projekte"-button at the homepage of Melina Softworks.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Game: Mahjongg Tiles v1.1
Release of version 1.1 of the MUI-based Solitaire-clone 'Mahjongg' by R.E.D. This release includes a graphic-bugfix. Further
improvements are still under development.
Download: MahjonggTiles_v1.1.lzx (425 KB)
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis (E-Mail)
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Repulse-driver for NetBSD/Amiga
A driver for the "repulse" board by Aliendesign was added to the
NetBSD-current yesterday.
Repulse is a Zorro II interface to an AC97 compliant Audio CODEC and
additional S/P-DIF circuitry. The NetBSD driver currently only supports
8-48 kHz mono or stereo 8 or 16 bit audio data from/to the analog part.
The missing features will be added later.
The driver was added to NetBSD-current, the development branch of NetBSD.
The NetBSD projects invites volunteers to test this code. Problems should
be reported on the NetBSD port-amiga mailing list or (preferred) through
the NetBSD bug tracking system.
The repulse driver is expected to be available in the NetBSD-1.6 formal
release.
Additional information:
The NetBSD operating system
NetBSD on classical Amiga and Macrosystem DraCo machines
How to test NetBSD-current
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Marc Gutzwiller (ANF)
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New swiss onlineshop offering Amigaproducts
Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems, a dealer from Switzerland, is proud to announce the opening of their onlineshop.
The shop offers mobile phones, digital cameras, as well as hardware and software for the Playstation2, PC and Amiga.
Later on there will be products for the Macintosh and for Audio and Video available, too.
Marc 'Gutzi' Gutzwiller of Gutzwiller+Dozic Systems: "I would like to mention that the Amiga-area is still beta.
We know that the Amiga market is very small and that it is not possible to earn money in this market. There are only
some but really good Amiga-dealers. Due to this facts we will offer Amiga products as long as we do not loose any money
by doing this. Because I am using Amigas since the good old Amiga 500 I hope that we can support Amiga as long as possible.
Feel free to mail what you think about our shop. We are pleased about any reaction."
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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Game-CD: Almost Real
Patrick Henz released the game CD 'Almost Real'. The CD contains the following programs:
- Airbus A320 Vol.2, including english handbook (185 pages), NTSC- and PAL-versions, Europe-,
US-North and US-West-sceneries, High Quality-Photos
- Approach Trainer, including a german handbook (98 pages)
- Aufschwung Ost, german version
- Aunt Artic Adventure
- Charon 5
- Hannibal, german version
- Ju52
- Ports of Call, german and english version
- SeaLance
- Space MAX, german version
- Tie Break
- Train Driver 1.6
- Wreckage
The cd can be ordered at the title link.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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27.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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MPEG: AMP V2.03
Version 2.03 of 'AMP', an MPEG-Video-Player, was released on the 26. August.
Changes in the new version:
- Added 24bit BGR/GRAY renderer, it's 27% faster than 32bit ARGB with the same quality!
- Added new CSS-key extraction code, made all DVDs I have work.
- Rewrote the motion compensation routines, made the MPEGV decoder 14% faster.
- Rewritten the audio.device routines, these are completely free from any context switches
what so ever.
- Wrote generic requester routines, just as ugly as the DVD ones, but now also used for VCD and CD-i
playback.
- Added OS9 (CD-i) and ISO9660 (VCD) filesystem parsers.
- Using the 56KHZAUDIO CGFX env-variable, one can now get 44100Hz playback through audio.device.
- Changed VCDDEVICE, VCDUNIT to DEVICE, UNIT. Removed VCDTRACK.
- Added pause (SPACE, ENTER to continue) and windowscreen switch (L-/RAmiga + ENTER).
- The window title now contain filename and video size.
- GUI: Updated to work with the new AMP executable.
AMP currently supports the following multimedia types:
MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional) and automatic frameskip.
MP2/MP3 audio streams.
AC3 streams, both standalone and embedded in MPEG2 streams.
(S)VCD, CD-i and DVD.
The features include:
Fast AGA support with 8 HAM modes and optional triple buffering,
CGFX support with optional triple buffering,
fast audio playback using audio.device or AHI,
CLI interface using ReadArgs or MUI GUI,
window support on any depth CGFX and AGA screens,
overlay support using cgxvideo.library.
Download: AMP203.lha
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26.Aug.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - Update V4.0 and V4.1 (Update)
As already announced last weekend the update of Digital Almanac III
is available for all registered customers, now.
Unfortunately this update has to be delivered in two parts. The initial
archive (v4.0, 4MB) still contained two bugs, but which have been fixed
in the second part (v4.1, 1,4MB).
The update to v4.1 strongly requires v4.0!
The new and automatic update function of the program works with v4.1 only.
The update archives should appear on Aminet during the following days.
Extra hasty people may download the files from the mailing list.
More information under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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clickBOOM: Lawsuit against CD manufacturer
On July 9, 2001, in the Ontario's Thornhill court, PXL computers Inc. filed a
lawsuit against Duplium Corp.. clickBOOM's long term partner had failed to
produce replacement CDs for the Nightlong video game over the past 9 month,
therefore clickBOOM had no other option but to go to court.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Volker Mohr (E-Mail)
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Event: Classic-Computing 2001 deferred indefinitely
Volker Mohr wrote:
«As it turned out today unfortunately I have to defer indefinitely the Classic Computing 2001 show,
which was announced to take place on 08. Sptember 2001.
I ask you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
Volker Mohr»
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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26.Aug.2001
Andreas Günther (ANF)
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Scanner: French catalogs for ScanQuix
From now on French catalog files for the scanning software 'ScanQuix 5'
are available. The translations were done by
Frédéric Nicolas.
The archive can be downloaded from
http://www.scanquix.de/.
Download: ScanQuix5_FR.lha (20K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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