26.Jun.2001
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)
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CD: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES v1.1.1
The Kickstart Archives is a collection of actual and dead AMIGA related
websites and more on CD. A list of the contained material you will find here.
Updates since the last issue:
- Updated: LexSite from Alex Luptak (updated May, 3rd 2001), peripherie section
- Added: The Art of James D. Sachs by himself and Jeff Palmer in the specials section
Jim Sachs had drawn for example as Art Director for the game "Defender Of The Crown"
and was responsible for the GUI of the Commodore CDTV.
- Added: AS WE MAY THINK from Vannavar Bush in the hstory - Amiga patents section
In this 1945 published article V. Bush mentiones may things that are realized
decades later (Internet, GUI, ...) and that takes influence on the design of
the workbench.
- Added: reedBench - A Workbench emulation by Jaakko "Reed" Kaitaniemi in the specials section.
A reproduction of booting with Kickstart/OS 1.3 and 3.1 (needs JavaScript)
- Reworked: Index page for better Overview and navigation.
The changes since last update are marked. No Amiga browser is able to interprete
the JavaScript file to generate the linklist.
You can get THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES for a special price of DM 18,- or US-$ 10,- (incl. p&p)
till July, 31st 2001. (ps)
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25.Jun.2001
H&P
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H&P: Pictures of the meeting at the Benelux Amiga Show
There was an internal talk about the AmigaONE at the Benelux Amiga Show. Participants in the talk were
Alan Redhouse, Martin Schüler, Michael Rock, Fleecy Moss, Ben Hermans, Hans-Jörg & Thomas Frieden and
Jürgen Haage. Unfortunately it is not allowed to unvail any details. But there are some pictures of the meeting at the titlelink. (ps)
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25.Jun.2001
Sinan Gurkan (E-Mail)
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AmigArt: Return to the old URL
The newsservice 'AmigArt' can now be accessed again by using the old URL www.amigart.com
(ps)
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25.Jun.2001
Gregor Galwas (E-Mail)
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Game: dynAMIte Version 1.5
Version 1.5 of the networkgame 'dynAMIte', a Bomberman-clone, released. All the changes made can be found in changes.txt.
Download:
dynAMIte_update.lha (only the update) - 182 kB
dynAMIte.lha (complete) - 1,9 MB
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25.Jun.2001
Martin Schueler (E-Mail)
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AmigaOne Board: Status Report by Martin Schueler
As promised on the BAS2001 (see First report)
Martin Schueler has sent us a summary of the lecture about the AmigaOne board and technical details.
Status
The lecture mainly was similar to the one already lectured on the WoA, but of course
contained updated information regarding the time schedule. Important about this is that
the beta test will close middle of September, which at the same time will mark the starting
shot for the first line.
Moreover the new revision of the AmigaONE boards - plugged into an Eyetech tower -
was shown. One was able to tangible ("forcibly") convince oneself of how sophisticated
and solid even the mechanical solution was done, and that it is by no means some unstable
kind of tinkering solution. But we deliberately used a board only quipped with PCI/AGP sockets,
to prevent our electrostatic sensible testing boards from any possible damage.
Following the status report from which I took the answers on respective questions, on the
show:
During production the first revision formed short cuts on several points of which some
were irreparable. It was not possible to obviate the latter during production without
knowing the problem in advance.
For the new revision we had changed the respective points, but also several other points,
in a way that reduced production requirements. Furthermore we corrected mechanical reference
measurements, which prevented the first revision from being precisely assembled inside the casing.
Also the non-technical problems were fixed and the testings efficiently proceed on schedule since June 8th.
It is especially joyful that all of the testings (contrary to common expectations due to
complexity) succeeded on the first go, which was finally a result of their carful preparation,
too.
All significant testings on board level are already finished. The following testing work
is limited to verification of the logic within WestBridge and NorthBridge and it's interaction
with the standard components.
This is to talk about ca. 10% of those testings are done. But virtually this means that
already 50% of the problematic and time critical points are covered. Nevertheless those
succeeded on the first go. So schedule risks are more and more decreasing. Furthermore
100% of the problematic points are functional of which malfunction would mean total outage,
in worst case.
I also added three pictures:
picture_1.jpg
(640 x 480) |
picture_2.jpg
(640 x 480) |
picture_3.jpg
(640 x 480) |
The first one shows the rev2 board (equipped with PCI/AGP only) as it was presented
on the show in Rotterdam. But the other one shows one of the equipped rev2 boards as
these were used for the testings. All of the testings succeeded on the first go using
the board in the picture. Third picture: The slots in this picture are simply put on,
cause I think it looks much nicer if it is fully equipped :-).
For the rest the board will be tested as stand-alone for a very long time. The connection to
the A1200 will be done at the very end.
Martin Schueler
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25.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Events: More Pictures from the BAS 2001
Marvin Droogsma has sent us some more exclusive pictures of the
BAS 2001.
The photos were taken by Lejon Hamstra.
bruno&marvin.jpg
(533 x 400) |
croud.jpg
(533 x 400) |
alan.jpg
(533 x 400) |
lan.jpg
(533 x 400) |
martin2.jpg
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25.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V 2.19 and virus-warning (Update)
Minor update of VirusExecutor (2.19) released. Details:
Name: VirusExecutor v2.19
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 265.021 Bytes
Release date: 25. June 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Required: xvs.library (contained), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library
New in v2.19
- Added MuMove4K right!
- Removed library version check for xadmaster.library.
- Added Amiga OS Update IDE_scsidisk right...
- Removed all internal virus checking as they are added in
xvs.library v33.26
- Fixed bug when running on kickstart lower than 3.0
Thanks to Jan Andersen for telling me...
Virus-Warning
Yesterday, there was a warning at the VTH-mailinglist concerning a very dangerous virus.
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25.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Chip online: Graphic Chips: New Details about Kyro III
»David Harold, Press-Relation Manager of Imagination Technologies,
gave a sight on the upcoming Kyro III - developed by the code name of STG 5000 -
to the German game magazines PC Action. ST Microelectronic will integrate a
freely programmable vertex- and pixle-hader along with the also integrated
T&L unit into this pixle accelerator. This chip, which is manufactured in
0.13 µ technology, thus addresses Microsoft's DirextX-8-API
(application programming interface), as like Nvidia's GeForce3.
«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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25.Jun.2001
Thomas Eichler (ANF)
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E.T. Productions: Looking for graphics-designer
E.T. Productions is looking for graphic-designer for some time. If you are interested please have a look at our 'Free Amiga Jobs'-section.
(ps)
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25.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Events: BAS 2001 - Report form the organizers
The Benelux Amiga Show 2001 has ended..., we tasted a lot of welding while organization,
but it was worth it cause more than 400 visitor mean a brilliant result to us. Only as
number 400 visitors are not much, but in case of an Amiga only show in the Netherlands this is
an encouraging number. Amiga still exists!
A short report from our point of view:
Very early in the morning, at 8:00 am, we started to set up the show. With three overloaded
cars full of hardware and software, posters, beamers, audio equipment, and somewhere in between
all that even the drivers, we took the first stuff to the show. Bjorn Lynne was already there and
had put up at table on the first floor.
At about 10:00 am a quite normal dancing school was converted to an Amiga building....
The first visitors contacted already at 9:00 am (with well dressed hair and gem chewing).
One or the other way it was announced that the show would start already at 10:00 am. We
would like to apologize for this misinformation and we hope that waiting was less hard,
cause of the good weather.
This was our first time to organize such a show; hopefully this was not too clear to see....
Anyway, we learned some things to do it better next time (?). Nevertheless most of what we
organized succeeded very well, as we think.
10:00 am: Petro Tyschtschenko arrives, as usual in a good temper, also after little sleep
(he has sat with Juergen Haage until 4:00 am and has had a few beers too much).
10:30 am: The participants of the LAN party are let in and guided to the first floor.
Very much people are waiting outside, now. Might it be that we unnecessarily were in
doubt about enough visitors?
11:00 am: The show begins! There are plenty, plenty, PLENTY OF PEOPLE! A heavy burden is taken from us....
I won't talk about everything in detail, now. That was already done by other people (for which
we say thank you). Just a few things which attracted us in especially.....
In our opinion the presentation of by Eyetech and Escena were a bit too technical and might have
been done more attractive, some how. The slides could have been done more interesting than it was
actually done. However the presentation gave a good sight of what is being done and why.
After the presentation people had the opportunity to consult Alan Redhouse and Martin Schueler for
more information.
Fleecy Moss impressed us. His jokes and his enthusiasm are really great. A good exponent of the
Amiga Spirit. Unfortunately he could attend the show for a short time, only.
Bjorn Lynne presented his music and sold his CD's on the first floor. According to what he told us,
he sold more CD's than he expected. He was very satisfied and did a lot autographs. But the Dutch
beers were a little to small to him...., the British are used to something different.....
Did anybody notice that there was a not announced ´special guest´? Bill Buck of VIScorp.
He talked to many of the Amiga VIP's. Could that be of any meaning? Who knows.....
(http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/amiga/ar/ar407/feature6.HTML)
Mr. Does of Vesalia and his wife were on the show, too.
Matay showed a first class product; who missed it ..., what a pity, what a pity.
There was another premiere, too (more about this later on); the first game (Asteroids look-a-like) for
the AmigaDE by an unknown SDK user (I could not find the name).
Some of the VIP's whispered some nice news to the print magazine 'AmigaScene', which we will
publish in the next issue (in cooperation with amiga-news.de). For example there are good news
regarding Amiga OS4.
One small anecdote: On his train journey to Rotterdam Fleecy really was in dire need of a
toilet, but nobody informed him that he was floundering waiting in front of a strictly and
all-the-time closed toilet for staffers only, for minutes.... Poor Fleecy.
There were visitors from Norway, Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, and Spain
(20 hours by car....!).
An editor of a Dutch TV station talked to Petro, Juergen, Alan, Fleecy, and many of
the visitors about the Amiga and it's cult status. She was very impressed and will - like
already announced - do a broadcast about Amiga only, after summer. She will talk to even more
Amiga personalities. It is planned to take more shots in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S.A..
People from a Dutch radio station were also on the show and on the following Saturday a special
broadcast about the show and anything to see there will be put to air.
Petro acted as a fairy of fortune at 4:00 pm and drew the winners of the lottery in which
any visitor could take part. He twice drew visitors from Germany but which unfortunately already had left the
show. Those missed among other things an Amiga poster with Bill McEwen's autograph on it, a number of Amiga CD's,
a music CD by Bjorn Lynne, and a VIP diner.
Between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm we closed the show. The show was followed by the VIP diner with 27 guests.
These guests had the opportunity to talk to each other about the show and Amiga subjects, without ruffle or excitement
in an easeful atmosphere. The VIP's were very excited about the multitude of visitors. This encourages them
to go on developing.
About 11:00 pm it all was over. Petro and Juergen were picked with a long Mercedes and taken to the
hotel, like super-stars. Then the rest of the people went home, too.
Still many pictures will follow by us - from the set-up to the after-party - and Juergen Haage
promised to send us pictures from the secret VIP meeting at 11:00 am.
We would like to use this opportunity to heartily thank all of the visitors of the show. You really showed
that the Amiga is alive and has good chances to return strong. We thank amiga-news.de for reporting;
the way Petra Struck supported us really rules!
More information, pictures, and links to other reports can be found at amiga-news.de and of course
on the BAS 2001 website.
A lot of greetings to the Amiga community
The organizers of the Benelux Amiga Show 2001
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25.Jun.2001
Amiga Future
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AmiSectorOne: New members, games, demos, and covers
Probably you remember my news posting of 12 June which was called "New staff members are required".
Finally I have made my choice and here are the new team members (sorted by the time they joined):
- Marcos Alves from Portugal
- Keith Michaels from the USA
- Tony Whent from Australia
- Holger Herrmann from Germany
The new team members will be responsible for different parts here on AMI Sector One. Also I am just working with a
kind contributor called Gustavo to improve our scripts. Some other projects are in preparation too... More about this in
the next weeks. You can read some notes about the new members in the
staff section.
Now the games update:
Patricia Curtis (formerly project manager and assistant programmer at Apache Software) as well as Mark Page (formerly
programmer at Apache Software) allowed us to upload the Amiga game Super Methane Bros. (a game similar to
Bubble Bobble, but with better graphics and sounds). You can download different versions of this game: There is a
CD32-HD version (does not run on emulators) and an ADF version. Like so often I would like to stress that this game
is NOT freeware. P. Curtis and M. Page are still the copyright owners and they granted a permission which is ONLY
valid for this site.
Btw: I am looking for the game "Murder makes strange Deadfollows CDTV" by Tiger Media. Is there
somebody of you who has it? Please get in contact with me (Bernd)...
And here are the high quality Public Domain games of this update:
- Jouster 3 (the arcade classic Joust for the Amiga)
- Kamakazi Killers (good Galaga game)
- Rattlesnake (street fighting game)
New AGA demos are:
- Repugnance
- Roswell
- Response
- Tear down the Wall
- Some Justice
Also a disk with the results of the Amega Party - Gfx Competiton was uploaded.
Here are some new cover- and box scans:
- A320 Airbus (the game itself will soon be available here)
- Big 6- Dizzy Collection CD32
- Case of the Cautious Condor CDTV
- Chinese Karate
- Euro Soccer '88
- Fallen Angel
- Hard Drivin'
And here is a last minute update:
You can now download ALL 18 LSD Sprint Docs Disks (Sprint Docs provide cheats, solutions, freezer
addresses etc). Of course every Sprint Disk has got its own HTML and screenshots. Thanks to the new member
Marcos who made it possible. I hope you enjoyed this update. In the future the updates will be bigger since the staff
has grown. Also you can expect more updates during the week.
(sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Amiga Future
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Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets
WHDLoad makes it possible to install floppy-disk-only games to harddisk.
The following packets have been added or updated since 18. June 2001:
- 24. June 01 new: Dick Tracy (Titus) done by Mr.Larmer
- 24. June 01 new: Pucman (F1 Licenceware) done by Jeff
- 23. June 01 new: Linus (Palace) done by Codetapper
- 23. June 01 new: The Blues Brothers (Titus) done by Mr.Larmer
- 22. June 01 new: Mortal Kombat (Acclaim) done by Codetapper
- 22. June 01 new: Black Tiger (Capcom/U.S.Gold) done by Jeff
- 21. June 01 improved: Puzznic (Ocean) several enhancements
- 21. June 01 improved: Alien Bash 2 (Glen Cumming/Myles Jeffery) speedup
- 19. June 01 new: Fernandez Must Die (Mirrorsoft/Imageworks) done by Jeff
- 18. June 01 fixed: Hard Drivin' (Domark) file loading corrected
- 18. June 01 new: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) done by John Girvin
To download follow the title link.
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24.Jun.2001
René Stelljes (E-Mail)
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AmigaHelpGuide + Amiga-User-Liste (Update)
René Stelljes wrote:
After Stefan Martens decided not to continue the Amiga-User-List (AUL) due to
lack of time, I took over this task.
From today the AmigaHelpGuid and AUL are pooled together. The list is available
at http://www.8ung.at/ahg/ only, at this
time.
Since I want to keep the Amiga-User-List up-to-date, I ask all of the users
already registered to get in contact with me to update their data, if needed.
More information are to take from the guide.
Supplement 24 June 2001:
Due to great demand a Commodore demo is available for download on René Stelljes'
homepage under the 'Sonstiges' link. (sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Full Version
With permission of Carsten Magerkurth and Andreas Magerl the Amiga Arena
enables the release of 'Colours Professional'.
This is another version of the puzzle game 'Offensive Colours'.
'Colours Pro' is an exciting composition of Tetris and Breakout.
(sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Timo Kloss
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Inutilis: Moonlight-CD
Timo Kloss wrote:
A short announcement first: the short filmlets video was finished now, too.
The Moonlight-CD is available from now on. Since there is no official distribution
path, it only is available directly from Inutilis. Order from the online shop, per
post or phone.
If somebody knows about some possibilities for distribution or sale (or even can offer
such), please tell me about. On the Moonlight
website among other things the original CD cover is online, now.
Great parts of this CD were created using an Amiga and Camouflage. The printed matters
also were designed using ArtEffect.
Price: 18 DM (directly from Inutilis)
Time: ca. 73 minutes
10 songs + 5 spacers or intros
Description: Mostly silent, experimental, electronic music in "moonlight" mood, so to speak.
(sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help: xvs.library V33.26
The xvs.library (External Virus Support Library) has been updated today.
Here is some info about the release:
Name : xvs.library v33.26
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size : 55.988 bytes
Release date : 24 June 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Email : virusexecutor@c2i.net
News for 33.26:
- Added Bobek2 Link virus
Thanks to Jan Andersen for the files.
Thanks to Zeeball for the memory removal routines.
- Added Expl0de Trojan Link virus
- Added Expl0de Trigger File virus
Thanks to Jan Andersen for the files.
- Renamed 8x8 Link to Motaba-3
Still to do:
Download: xvslibrary.lha (55K),
Readme
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24.Jun.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS: gcc 2.95.3 68k-Crosscompiler updated
Sigbjørn 'CISC-o-rama' Skjæret released a new version of his gcc
68k cross-compiler. This means you can compile 68k programs using the speed of
the PPC processor. Also the fsin/fsos -ffast-math inline won't be applied for 040
and 060 processors anymore.
Download: m68k-amigaos-gcc2.95.3.tar.bz2
(sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Designburo.nl (ANF)
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Benelux Amiga Show: More Pictures
Under the title link more pictures of the Benelux Amiga Show
were published.
(sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Celso (ANF)
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Events: AmiWest 2001 - News
From 27th to 29th July, 2001 the AmiWest 2001 show will take place in Sacramento, U.S.A..
According to the latest announcements
there will be the following highlights:
- Presentation of the working AmigaOne with AmigaOS V4.0.
- Presentation of the current version of the AmigaDE, running on the Sharp Zaurus.
Sharp Zaurus.
- Dr. Alan Havemose (formerly employee of Commodore, and Gateway)
and Bill McEwen speak about: "Gateway and Amiga - what really happened".
Furthermore the press release reads, that the AmigaOne 1200 would be in progress from
the end of July and available from the middle of August. But this remains subjunctive, since it
will be official news only when Amiga Inc. or Eyetech do an announcement about.
(sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Games: Shogo Test
Seppo Typpö has published a Shogo test on the
'The Amiga Games Database' website.
This test among other things is about the game-play and level design.
Tests of 'King's Quest I - III' and 'Kick Off' were added, too. (sd)
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24.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Flame with new URL
The commercial Amiga Flame web server account will be closing down as a result of problems with
the new company who have taken over. Since the original company went out of the business there
has been some serious problems, which have made it difficult to make Amiga Flame up and running
under the new company. With it unlikely that their service will improve, the decision was made to
move Amiga Flame.
Amiga Flame has moved to Demon, a long established company who tend to provide an efficient and
effective service. It is vital that readers update their bookmarks and make themselves aware of the
new web address of Amiga Flame: http://www.amigaflame.demon.co.uk (title link).
(sd)
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