04.Aug.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Stardate-BBS again out of business because of flash of lightning
Again is the Stardate during a strong storm affected by a flash of lightning.
In the exchange my port only works for two hours then the Telekom has to reset
the whole router. Again has expensive equipment to be exchanged. I was told that I shouldn't count on this until next week.
So the Stardate is again not accessible via the Internet. All Telnet
points/ boxes please use the access numbers instead (you can find them e.g. here
in the ALD). The http access of the mailbox isn't possible for now, either.
I should like to emphasize that this is (as was the last time) an act of God
(struck by lightning). On my site of the Telekom all pieces of equipment are
secured and there is backup equipment for the case of emergency.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (e-mail)
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Datatype: akPNG V44.110 released
Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.110 of his akPNG datatype.
As usual there are several processor versions available.
With help of datatypes you can view all kind of files in many programs.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)
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H&P: English PageStream manual released
The English manual for PageStream 4 for Amiga, Windows & Macintosh has
just been released as PDF file. The PageStream customers registered with
us for the online service get the download link by e-mail. If you haven't
signed up yet, you can do this at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New screenshot of AmigaDE/Sheep
Fleecy Moss has provided a new Screenshot of AmigaDE. An open window shows the sourcecode of a "Sheep" program:
"Sheep" is a scripting language (similar to ARexx) which is part of AmigaDE.
Update (06.12.2012, cg): integrated the screenshot into the news item.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)
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H&P: ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection available now
Haage&Partner write:
Update: we have now opened a special area which presents all effects. Also now the
improved ArtEffect 2.5 is shipped with it since there were problems with the border effects.
Here you will find all
details
on the ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection and
sample pictures for the border effects
(all in all more than 250 borders are contained!). Further an
overview of the effects
with samples was added.
The ArtEffect-Plugins-Collection brings for the first time a comprehensive collection
of sensational effects and postprocessing filters for the bestseller
ArtEffect. The collection is shipped with ArtEffect 2.5 so that you can start
right away.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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Software: RB2Exe v1.5 released
RB2Exe version 1.5 is available now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This
program converts Rainboot multimedia shows into executable programs.
Version 1.5 allows you to use all great features of Rainboot3+ in your
executable shows! Additionally the memory routines have been optimized and
the generated executables' memory usage was reduced by almost 60 percent (!).
Also, the GUI's functionality was improved and bugs were fixed. Online help
is available now too. This version is only available for owners of the
'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM'.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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epic interactive: last status update for 'The Feeble Files' on Amiga
So far we have received 328 preorders for a possible port of the cartoon
adventure 'The Feeble Files' to the Amiga. Required are 400 to make a port of
this great adventure possible. The preorder campaign will run until
12.8.2001. If we have received 400 preorders for this game by then, we will
port it to the Amiga and it should be available within 4-6 weeks.
In order to run The Feeble Files on your Amiga you will need either a 68060
or a PPC CPU, 32 MByte Ram and a 4 MByte gfx board.
You can place your preorder directly with us by sending an e-mail to
order@epic-interactive.com
or the following dealers who will accept preorders for it:
Germany: KDH Datentechnik
Italy: Virtual Works
England: Amiga Games and Eyetech
Netherlands: Computer City
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Bright Light Software (ANF)
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Development and bugfixing suspended
Frank Fenn writes:
Because of a defect motherboard, the development and bugfixing
is suspended for some time. If anybody should have a RAMSEY
(A3000) in revision 4 and doesn't need it anymore, please contact me.
Affected from this is software as for example Audiomaster,
WBStartup, TIDesigner, AmiMTI and many other small tools.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Aug.2001
Matthias Gietzelt (ANF)
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Programming language: Emperor V4.1
Emperor is an object oriented programming language enabling programming of applications
both for the new AmigaOS 3.9 and for AmigaOS 2.0 in the easiest way. Standard GUI elements,
windows, menus, requesters, ASL requesters, ReAction and GadTools gadgets are integrated just
by mouse-clicks and can be programmed using macro functions and the integrated text editor.
The gadgets can communicate with each other by the so called interconnection maps implemented,
without typing even one line of source code. Creating of locale catalogs and variables, implementing
libraries, etc. is likewise easy.
Emperor has an easy to see though and user friendly ReAction interface and comes with an extended
online manual in ".guide" format. Thus programming the new AmigaOS becomes child's play!
Emperor has the following features:
- Direct visualising available for every element.
- Generates C/C++- source code.
- Integrated text editor
- StormC connection via ARexx
- Generates source code for AmigaOS 2.0, AmigaOS 3.9 or in mixed mode
- Transparent layout
- GIFTWARE
Characteristics of Emperor v4.1:
- French catalog added (written by Olivier Martin - many thanks!).
- Translation for prepared menus and gadgets added.
- Attributes for text editor, speed-bar, and space-gadget added.
- New and specialized type of requester (Reaction style).
- ARexx script changed / problems while project transfer fixed.
- Fix positions for attribute window removed.
- Problem with preview window fixed.
- Array for speed-bar buttons added.
- Problems with arrays fixed.
- Adjustment fields extended with GadTools gadgets.
- Configurable path to includes and libs.
- Main window layout changed (no overlapping gadgets, anymore).
- Requester added, if menu item "New" was chosen.
- Error fixed in menu item "New".
- Error fixed in menu item "Delete".
- Selectable generation of macro functions.
- Generated source code is considerably smaller by omitting unused macro functions (about 40 %).
- Initially opened window for own project can be chosen.
- Error fixed in source code when generated with one gadget only.
- Specific project directory configurable.
- Error fixed while opening old projects containing a slider.
- Creation of locale files selectable.
- Creation of Storm projects selectable.
- Text editor now operates changes made correctly.
- Saving of character lines containing a linefeed ('\n') is no problem, anymore.
- amigaguide.library opened due to starting problems.
Version 4.1 of the program is available from Aminet "dev/c".
Download: Emperor_v4.1.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Golem IT-News für Profis
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Golem: Amithlon - PC emulates Amiga
The new Amiga emulator by Harald Frank and Bernd Meyer for x86 does not only attract
Amiga specific media. Today Golem.de reports about it:
»Amiga Inc. announce Amiga emulator for PC users
On the American Amiga show "AmiWest", which took place in the end of July, again
Bill McEwen presented some news and among those an emulation software by the code
name of "Amithlon". Thanks to fast x86 processors applications shall run definite
faster than on Amiga bolides with Motorola's 68060 processor.«
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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First official beta version of the X-Surf PPPoE driver
From now on the first public beta version of the xsurfadsl.device is available for
download at the support section. Only experienced users should try the installation,
since inconvenient patches are necessary because of limitation of the known TCP/IP stacks.
An extended readme file informs you about the details.
Download: dsl-beta.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Andy Silva (ANF)
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Tool: Amiga Filterium - extendable ripper and filetype tool
With the following message Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo introduces his new,
flexible and extendable datatype processor and Ripper.
Short: flexible filetype processor and ripper
Uploader: silva@psi5.com
Author: silva@psi5.com (Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo)
Type: util/misc
Version: 1.1, 7/2001
Requires: - any amiga or uae
- filerequester library like asl, reqtools or arp
- optionally xfd/xpk/xad/xvs...
Distribution: NoCD
features overview:
- knows, rips, converts a total value of
about 400 game/demo scene related file types
(about 100 self, others by accessing libraries)
- find music, pictures, text and much more in memory,
in files like demos/intros, packed files, etc
- decrunch with XFD/XAD/XPK (all modes) recursively
- convert mods back to Protracker (like Prowizard)
- rip loaders and intros from boot loading games/demos
- monitor files or memory as bitplane/hex/asc, mark ranges
- decrypt data with eor
- use your preferred file requester
- check for viruses with XVS
- highly configurable
- interactive and automatically processing by script language
This introduces a _new_ standard of file type identification and ripper
all in one. It works together with standard interfaces like shell (give
arguments in command line), Workbench (set tooltypes), opus, arexx
and appicon.
Highly configurable, for example: you can specify file type specific
save directories and output filename extensions. Macros for custom
processing methods can be defined.
It can invoke external programs, example: send the outputs to Multiview.
Amiga Filterium is based on plugins. Programmers can easily extend the
power of this tool by writing more afilter-plugins. If you are
interested:
The purpose of this release is to motivate YOU to try this out and
maybe join to the development team as author of a plugin, beta tester
or other. Its totally actual and maybe there was never something else
like this. Lets get this chance! Lets make it top and standard!
(ps)
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02.Aug.2001
Scalos
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Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.7)
Beta version 40.7 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released.
The changes made can be taken from the
history.
If you will happend to find bugs, please make an entry in the
bug report.
Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Suite101/John Chandler
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John Chandler: What Are The Odds...?
Monthly John Chandler writes an article about the subject Amiga at Suite101.com.
In the current one Chandler deals with the announcements Amiga Inc. did on the
AmiWest, especially with the new Amiga emulator for x86 platforms 'Amithlon'.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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AmiWest: Pictures by Harv Laser
Harv Laser of AmigaZone released some
pictures from the AmiWest show. The appendant
readme file
contains picture descriptions.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Alexander Lohrmann (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: AmiWest Show Report
Amiga put online the announcements done on the AmiWest show in form of a report:
Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc., made a number of exciting announcements
at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California.
The AmiWest show is organized by the Sacramento Amiga
Computer Club and is one of the largest Amiga shows on the West Coast.
The following products were announced for release by Q4, 2001.
- AmigaOne PPC Computer
- AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
- Amiga x86 (x86 Amiga emulator)
- AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack
AmigaOne PPC Computer
The AmigaOne PPC computer, being built by Eyetech
in the UK, is based on Zico specs published by Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc.'s flagship
next generation desktop continues to advance towards the first real new hardware for the
Amiga community in over 6 years. Excitement is mounting at both the Amiga office and
around the world as Amigans realize that the long wait will soon be over. All partners in
the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 project have been working hard to meet deadlines as the
project moves into its final stages.
Bill also announced that the two week slip in schedule for the Eyetech AmigaOne which
had appeared in June had now been pulled back to just one week. The new Rev B boards are
functioning well, with live PCI and AGP slots and work is now focused on bringing the
board and the CPU cards together. The first week of August will see full system boards
delivered to the AmigaOS4 team for preparations to move AmigaOS4.0 from the test bed
machines.
For more details regarding the AmigaOne, see http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/ or http://www.amiga.com/products/one/.
AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
The AmigaOS 4.0 project is being managed by Amiga Inc. in partnership with both Haage-Partner (H&P) who are porting the main
portions of the new PPC OS and Hyperion
Software who are doing 3D and Mesa for the new PPC Operating System.
AmigaOS 4.0, which will only run on the Eyetech AmigaOne, is moving forward nicely.
With the help of Amiga partners such as Matay, much of the development work has used a
combination of A3/4000s, Matay Prometheus PCI bridge boards, Cyberstorm PPC Accelerators
and H&P's StormC v4.
This has allowed the project to move forwards without having to wait for an actual
AmigaOne board to become available. Consequently, the new file system and the core of the
TCP/IP stack were completed over two weeks ago. The PPC 68K emulator is being fine-tuned
and the new Amiga PCI library is being profiled against the Eyetech AmigaOne live PCI
slots. The RTG system is being enhanced, with a full PPC implementation of the extended
and most used functions, to allow for stunning 2D and 3D performance. In addition, the
Voodoo 3 drivers have been completed and the G450 drivers are under development, to be
followed by drivers for the new Matrox G550.
While the porting of the 68K elements of the AmigaOS will continue through AmigaOS4.2
and AmigaOS4.5, the first set of libraries ported to PPC will ensure that AmigaOS offers
impressive increases in stability, functionality and speed.
Once the test bed to AmigaOne migration has been completed, Amiga will provide
screenshots and benchmarks of the new system. These reports are aimed at demonstrating the
superiority of the AmigaOne and will give the community an early look at the features of
the product. In addition, Eyetech has commissioned some very impressive case designs that
will give the AmigaOne the looks to go along with its brains.
Amiga x86
Amiga was able to demonstrate a prototype of an x86 emulator for 68K for the
AmigaOS3.x series. This product, codenamed Amithlon, provides only RTG compatibility and
is being targeted at providing a first step from x86 towards the AmigaOne. Amithlon is
self-booting from CD on almost any x86 laptop or PC desktop. It is able to run most RTG
programs at speeds beyond that of a standard Amiga 060 chipset. Several developers at the
AmiWest show tried their applications on Amithlon and commented that they had never seen
such fast run times before on a 68060 Amiga computer. Amithlon is being written by Harald
Frank and Bernie Meyer.
Many Amigans who left when Commodore went bankrupt have been looking for a way to run
their favorite Amiga applications on newer hardware. The purpose of the emulator is to
allow x86 PC owners to experience the benefits of running the AmigaOS and applications
without having to make a potentially risky purchase of an entire machine.
Marketing and community will then slowly draw
these people towards the superiority of an AmigaOne with a full native OS running on it,
along with the latest applications. Amithlon is not a port of the AmigaOS and there are
currently no plans to see the AmigaOS ported to x86.
More details of the Amithlon including feature lists and release dates will be
published shortly.
AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack
AmigaDE 1.0 (based on Elate/Intent by Tao Group)
is being programmed by more than 30 programmers worldwide under the management of Amiga
Inc. There are over 3000 developers currently signed up to produce content for various
digital devices from cell phones, PDA’s, handhelds, and even desktop computers
running AmigaDE 1.0. Amiga also announced the first set of games that is being released
under the moniker “Series Zero” to Sharp for use on the Zaurus handheld devices.
The 5 games that are being released as part of the Series Zero Game Pack are:
Batty by Titan Computers
Boxikon by e.p.i.c. interactive gmbh
Convex by Zeoneo
Linea by Titan Computers
Solitaire by John Harris (ps)
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02.Aug.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mail client: SimpleMail 0.8 Alpha
I just uploaded the new SimpleMail alpha version. The new features:
- SSL support for POP3 servers. AmiSSL required!
- POP3 servers can be deactivated individually.
- Menu bar in main window.
- A new setting for the reading window allows smilies to be replaced by
pictures (pictures by Richard Kapp).
- Now groups can be deleted, too.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Datatype: akPNG V44.100 published
Andreas R. Kleinert has published version 44.100 of his akPNG datatype. You can download several processor versions.
With the help of so called datatypes you can display different datatypes with different programs.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packets
WHDLoad can install games on the harddrive which were formerly meant to be used on disks. The following new packets have been added:
- 31.07.01 improved: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
- 30.07.01 new: Alien Syndrome (SEGA)
- 29.07.01 new: Crystal Hammer (Hannover)
- 29.07.01 new: Pipe Mania (Empire/The Assembly Line)
- 29.07.01 new: Jaws (Screen 7 Ltd/Intelligent Design)
- 29.07.01 new: Huckleberry Hound (Alternative)
- 29.07.01 new: The Halley Project (Mindscape)
- 29.07.01 updated: Pipe Dream (Lucasfilm)
- 29.07.01 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine)
- 29.07.01 new: Morph (Millennium/Flair)
- 27.07.01 new: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
http://www.amiga-news.net (ANF)
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Amiga-News.net online again
From today on Amiga-News.net is online again. Amiga-News.net is not a seperate site but rather a survey of several news-sites. Here you can daily read the headlines of several news-sites. Thus you have a quick overall view about the current news.
Remark: This site was not made by amiga-news.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
Oliver Roberts (ANF)
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WarpTIFF-introduction - New TIFF-picture datatype
Oliver Roberts introduces his new WarpTIFF freeware-datatype with the following message. This new datatype can also read pictures which were made under TIFF specifications 5.0 and 6.0. The datatype was optimized for 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS and is of course very fast.
It follows the original message:
The first release of WarpTIFF
is now available - a new freeware datatype capable of
reading 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec images, available in optimized 68k, WarpOS
and native MorphOS versions. Needless to say, WarpTIFF is fast - very fast
in fact :) Full feature list below.
WarpDTPrefs has
also been updated to support WarpTIFF.
- Supports 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec, including Packbits, Thunderscan,
CCITT (fax), Pixar, LogLuv (CIE and SGILog) and Deflate (zip)
encodings, and uncompressed files. LZW and JPEG encodings are
currently unsupported
- Image types supported include RGB (24-bit and 48-bit), palette based
and greyscale (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit)
- Supports image data organized as strips, tiles or separate components
- Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine, and fast TIFF decoder,
resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick TIFF datatype
- Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only),
which speeds up image decoding
- Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060
- PowerPC support with native WarpOS and native MorphOS versions
- Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an
8-bit display
- Specific support for the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype, when available
- The dithering feature of the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype can be
configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays)
- Based on libtiff 3.5.6-beta and zlib 1.1.3
As some of you will know, WarpTIFF has been in development (on and off)
for some time, but it's ready at last :) It already handles a more
comprehensive coverage of various TIFF encodings than other TIFF
datatypes, but if you should find some TIFF images that don't work
properly with WarpTIFF, then please let me know and I'll try to add
support for them. Likewise, if you need support for JPEG encoded
TIFFs, let me know.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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