22.Jul.2001
Vapor
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Messenger: AmIRC 3.5.17beta
On 20. July 2001 Oliver Wagner released beta version 3.5.17 of the
IRC client 'AmIRC'.
This version contains several smaller extensions, bugfixes, and DCC support for
IP-NAT gateways without internal DCC support.
Download: amirc_3517beta.lzx (300K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: full version and comment
Amiga Arena Full Version
In co-operation with Denis Unger the Amiga Arena makes the release of "Foreign
Language Master V2.3" possible! FLM is a program for foreign languages that can
be used as a dictionary for text translation and to learning of vocabularies.
FLM contains some English-German dictionaries (all in all about 8 MB with about
175,000 entries). Denis Unger continues developing "FLM". For a new version of
"FLM" Denis Unger would be pleased to receive concrete suggestions for improving
the software and to receive feedback!
Further information and data bases for use with "FLM" can be found here, contact: flmdic@gmx.de.
Amiga Arena - comment
I use "FLM" almost daily myself and don't want to miss it anymore!
My call to you - with a short mail to Denis U. everybody would contribute to
further supporting and improving this tool.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jul.2001
Andreas Günther (ANF)
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Spanish catalog files for ScanQuix 5
From now on there are Spanish program texts for ScanQuix 5 available. The
texts were translated by Dámaso D. Estévez and made available on Aminet under
"hard/drivr/ScanQuixSP.lha". Alternatively the archive can be downloaded using
the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jul.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: poll results and font tutorial
On the GFX-BASE you can now find the results of our latest poll. We had 331
votes regarding our question which graphics board you use/own. Have a look
yourself to see which one got the most votes.
Additionally we have a new (English) tutorial. It's all about fonts. We
explain the use of different fonts and font tools as well as the conversion of
different font types that you can use on the Amiga. We also deal with webfonts and
the use of fonts in word processors.
And then we have received again some more entries of games and scene demos that support graphics cards. More to follow soon.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jul.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
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AROS News
As announced, the aros.org domain is temporarily down.
I'll announce it when the routine problems have been
solved. Until then, the mailing lists can be reached
on lists.hepe.com and the CVS server is at sbb.hepe.com
(use updatecvspath in AROS/scripts/ to change it).
Party on :-)
(ps)
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21.Jul.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)
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Genetic Species on 100%AMIGA
100%AMIGA and Marble Eyes are proud to announce that the Amiga's best ever
first person shooter, Genetic Species, will be on the August edition of the
premier Amiga CD magazine. Subscribers getting issue 15 of 100%AMIGA will
get a special 2CD set including the full commercial release of Genetic
Species FREE. 100%AMIGA - 100%BIGGER and 100%BETTER than any other Amiga
magazine. Issue 15 will be available from 5th August. Subscribe Now!
http://www.100PercentAmiga.org
http://www.marble-eyes.dk
(ps)
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21.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga Society says thank you!
97% of the poll participiants want the Amiga-Society to stay alive! For this we
want to thank you very much, as well as we thank all the people who offered us their help
and to whom we will surely come back in the next time.
The site is now available in a light version. The two central points
'Schlachtfeld' and the 'BBoAH' are still online. By the way, there's a poll running
whether a software page (in German) shall be created on the basis of the Big
Book of Amiga hardware. The full functionality will be reached again until
September, but till then it will have changed in content in quite some ways!
(ps)
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20.Jul.2001
Tommy Tamsen (ANF)
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JVC announce OCPA coorperation
At the URL JVC announce the "Open Contents Platform Association to
be Established".
There are many interesting companies listed, e.g. Sega and Taito, to
create content for the intent (Tao) based computers, cell phones etc.,
but Amiga Inc. are not mentioned anywhere...
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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H&P: Toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect
The team Thomas Peterseim, Heinz Andreolla, Marco Schärfchen and Oliver Tacke has
provided Haage&Partner with new toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect.
Download:
AE-Toolbars.lha - AW220-Toolbars.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF)
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Datatype: New version of DocDatatypes (v40.20)
I have just released a new version of DocDatatypes. New for this version (40.20)
is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs and the fixing of the Mac Write
descriptor. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory
optimisations.
DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes 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, Mac TeachText
and Mac Text.
There is also a new 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.
Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes.
Also SpitFire, the Palm Desktop
by Ralph Torchia becomes the first application to support Native File Format
Loading and Saving via DocDatatypes. Now convert any supported format and
use it on your Palm.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS: Developer Support Page opened
A support area for developers was opened on the MorphOS website.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: Special offer for ProStationAudio
The Millennium version of the music editor 'ProStationAudio' is currently
being offered by AudioLabs for special conditions.
- ProStationAudio Millennium V4, 16 track / 32 channel non
linear editor for AmigaOS
- all the realtime ALPS plugins for ProStationAudio included
- AudioLab16 processing software for AmigaOS
- unlimited tech support for ProStationAudio
Prices and more details at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
Frank Fenn
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Music: Audiomaster 2000 version 0.77
Version 0.77 of Audiomaster 2000, the sample editor, has been released. The
program uses MUI and supports all AHI devices.
The program by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware, the demo version does not
allow saving.
Download: audiomaster2k.lha (354 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Role-playing game: Exult 0.93alpha4
Rüdiger Hanke writes:
My Exult port for Amiga is available for download on my homepage. Exult is a role-playing
game engine which can interpret Ultima 7 datafiles. Ultima 7 still captivates after many
years with an epic storyline, a vast world and many details. You can find some screenshots
on my webpage.
The story: 200 years have passed in Britannia since your last visit as the Avatar.
Driven by the mockery of a demonic creature calling itself "The Guardian", you travel
once more to Britannia and arrive in Trinsic on a scene of gruesome murder. Maybe the
new organization "The Fellowship", which is gaining more and more influence
in the lands, is involved in it? Or maybe this is just the beginning of a larger plan that might endanger
all Britannia?
Required is an Amiga with FPU and graphics card as well as the original PC game by Origin. Please
note that the files on the disk version are usually packed and have to be installed on an
MS-DOS system to get the required files. Alternately, the uncompressed game is contained on
the "Ultima Collection" CD-ROM. As a small goodie for the Amiga I have included a preferences
program with which you can change all game options with a graphical interface on OS3.5 and above.
An interesting tidbit: While porting the game, I found a sourcecode to read IFF files. Indeed,
some of the Ultima 7 files are in IFF format. Even the chunk lengths are in Motorola and not
Intel byteorder ... (ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht (E-Mail)
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Tool: SGrab with PNG format to save
Stephan Rupprecht wrote:
I just released SGrab v1.16 on my homepage. This now offers the possibility
to save screenshots as PNG files.
Download: sgrab.lha - (99 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Feeble Ubdate
Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote:
Update & FAQs about The Feeble Files
As announced last week we require at least 400 pre-orders to enable an Amiga port
of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. Including today's entries we received
232 pre-orders and we are hoping, that the following days will bring the rest. The game
can be pre-orders from us (order@epic-interactive.com)
or from any stockist.
With the enclosed FAQ we hope to be able to answers some frequently asked
questions regarding the announcement.
Q: What is The Feeble Files about?
A: The Feeble Files is the official sequel to Simon The Sorcerer II by the
British Adventuresoft company. Feeble is a little green alien having the task to
make circles in grain fields on earth. He lives in a world restrictively ruled by the Omnibrain
and he is an honest citizen never violating the group's big catalog of rules. But one day this kind
hearted gawky stumbles into a full-grown conspiracy against the Omnibrain. As one can see from the
screenshots on our homepage, the characters of this game are fully rendered. The game comes along
with complete German or English spoken samples. The German games magazine PC-Games rated the title
at 80%, then. The German vocals came for example from the German movie voices of Brad Pitt, Whoopi
Goldberg, and Roseanne. More information and topical Mac screenshot are to find on our homepage.
Q: What Amiga do I need for The Feeble Files?
A: The Feeble Files requires an Amiga equipped with a 4 MB graphics board and 32 MB of memory.
Furthermore a 68060 OR a PPC CPU is required. Theoretically the game would run on a 68040/40, but
sure would be very very slow on this configuration.
Q: When will the game be out?
A: As soon as we have received 400 pre-orders (no matter if those were directly ordered
from us or from a vendor - who forwards the orders to us), we will start to port the game to
the Amiga. Due to the porting engine of our leader of development, Paul Burkey, the game
then should be shipping for the Amiga within 6 weeks!!
Q: Will there be more Amiga games from e.p.i.c. interactive?
A: Theoretically it would be possible to port to the Amiga more games currently available for the Apple
Macintosh. But since license fees for other games, e.g. like in case of the Settlers clone
Knights&Merchants or the RPG-mix Gorky 17, are much more expensive (and hence the number of
sales to be expected for an Amiga version must be higher), it is clear: If The Feeble Files port will not
become reality, we don't need to start thinking about more games. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Andre Geisler (ANF)
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GRex4000T available from August
Andre Geisler wrote:
This moring I called DCE on the phone. From this call I learned,
that definite there will be a PCI expansion for the Amiga4000T (and A4000D built into a case), which will
be connected to the PPC board's bus, as usual. This would be available from the end of August, the latest
on the Cologne show.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
infinity (ANF)
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Elbox Computer announce mutual consent with Hyperion
After a long time of both official and private discussions Elbox announced on the Mediator mailing list
to sign Hyperion's contract for the Warp3D drivers.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Start of the AmigaFFE project
Michael Asse wrote:
Today I would like to announce the official start of the AmigaFFE project in which
I would like to tackle the port of the 'Frontier First Encounters'
game to the Amiga with help of other interested people.
As a first step I defined preliminary project aims to which you can, may and shall send me
suggestions and tips, etc., since this is my first project and I don't have the specialised knowledge to
do this perfectly.
Please, don't send me any "What should that gain...?" mails. I would not reply.
The provisional time limit to send suggestions for the project aims was set to 31. August 2001.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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PowerPC ATX Board
Matthias Muench wrote:
I just happend to find an interesting article on the IBM site, which is about a new PowerPC ATX board.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
T.o.T.
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Game: Tales of Tamar News
Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds game by Eternity Entertainment
for the Amiga, Atari, Linux, and PC. Since a few days the first Java version
is available, which later will be available for settop boxes, handheld, and
all other computers not supported native.
New Atari version v0.21
The option screen was ported to the Atari version v0.21, enabling sound,
Internet, and modem settings.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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