06.May.2001
amiga.org
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amiga.org Moving
amiga.org will move to another server within the next days.
This might lead to problems, but after moving amiga.org will
have better possibilities to offer their services; topical and
commentable messages from the Amiga sector, as well as different
discussion boards.
amiga.org apologize for trouble that might happen due to their move.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
ANN
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Amiga Network News more Comfortable
Christian Kemp did a technical extension of the Amiga Network News website (ANN),
re-activated the notify service, and changed the HTML code.
Now the page optionally supports cookies. If cookies are active the current
settings, own name, and e-mail address is saved to cookies. This facilitates entering of comments.
The notify service was re-activated, so subscribers are automatically informed about updates, again.
The layout was reset to the previous version and all of the MS Internet Explorer specific changes
has been removed, since it seemed to be impossible to request all of the Amiga browser variants,
which indeed announce themselves as CSS2 capable browsers via spoofing, but do not support every
CSS2 feature.
Amiga Network News offers commentable topical messages from the Amiga sector.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
Fun Time World
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
The 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' was updated. These are the changes:
- New: entry - DigiLab (thanks to Robert Maruszak)
- New: pictures - A600 Motherboards (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: pictures - Personality Module + HD (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: entry + picture - Kickswitch (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: entry + picture - Pro-Agnus SS2 (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
- New: entry + picture - H530 StormBringer (thanks to Frank Ciesiewicz)
- New: picture - A1011 Floppy Drive (thanks to Richard Wagenfuehrer)
The ´Big Book Of Hardware´ is an extended hardware reference website with
information about many Amiga hardware products.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
Achim Stegemann
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Digital Almanac: Homepage Not Available
The homepage of the astronomic program "Digital Almanac" is not available
under the known address www.soft-ware.de/dalmanac indefinitely, due to a server problem not located, yet.
In any case you can use
http://members.tripod.de/achimste/ (title link) which is
generally an alternative URL.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
Andreas Magerl
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DAD: Interview mit Laszlo Torok (MooVId)
Digital Amiga Dream had published an interview with Laszlo Torok,
developer of the video player
'MooVId'.
Laszlo Torok answered questions about him in person and about his work in
the Amiga sector. Furthermore he talked about his Amiga collection and
future plans.
Under the title link you can find the interview in
English and
Slowene.
(sd)
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06.May.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel
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CD³²: MP3 Track of the Start Sound
The CD³² console by Commodore plays a sound on start up. This start sound
is available for download as MP3 file at the CD³²/CDTV-Corner of the CD³²-Allianz, now.
Download: CD32Start.mp3 (155K)
(sd)
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06.May.2001
AmiSource on ANF
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dynAMIte CD Version News
The recently started dynAMIte CD project is progressing in some way, but unfortunately not
as fast as we had hoped. We are on a good way to it, but still need some pre-orders to
achieve a minimum of 100. We got some questions about the content of the CD:
- dynAMIte (the game itself will stay freeware!)
- New dynAMIte Gfx-Styles
- New dynAMIte Sample sets
- At least 100 new levels
- Extended manual in any imaginable language
- Big Intro
- CD sound track
- and some more surprises which we hopefully will be able announce, soon.
We are looking forward to more pre-orders!
(ps)
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06.May.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Partners
A bit late (due to A-level examination), but topical: the graphical comment
on Amiga/SHARP partnership.
(td)
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05.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena: Special Price for VideoEasel
In co-operation with Thomas Richter Amiga Arena makes VideoEasel available at a
special price. The special price is valid until the 31.06.2001. You can find the
special price campaign in the section "Aktionen"!
About VideoEasel:
It is tricky to describe this program, it's best described as a "mathematical
toy", entertainment on the highest level.
Maybe Conway's "Game of Life" is known, a cellular automaton that can be used to
imitate "biological looking" processes. At its time this "game" went through the
press, with its variations. Indeed VE can deal yet more; things like the kinetic
gas theory, oscillating chemical reactions, simulated circuits, diffusion
processes and more can be simulated. Own automatons can be developed, VE is
programmable.
The idea is simple: the screen is divided in cells (the screen pixels),
the condition of a grid pixel at the time t+1 then depends on the condition of
the cell itself and their neighborhood at the time t via a simple (programmable)
rule. You can here already simulate very complex processes with very simple
rules, and the results aren't always easily predictable. some of the automatons
have serious applications and are used as models in the statical physics ( grid
gas, Ising model of the ferromagnetism), partly it's just an interesting toy
(Game of Life, Brian's Brain, many more).
VE comes with a manual that contains several dozens experiments next to example
data starting points. Just test out the demo version.
Further information can be found at
Thor Software.
(ps)
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05.May.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News (Update)
QuickNote v1.5 - beta2
At OnyxSoft is version 1.5 (Beta2)
of QuickNote by Stephan Blixth being published. This program is, as the name
already suggests, a virtual notepad.
Download:
quicknote15b0501.lha
Report+ 4.6 beta 2
With Report+
by Amigan Software bugreports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports
can be created in an easy way. The programm is freeware and supports the GUI
systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: 4_6beta2.lha - 382 kB
Sysmon V1.16
Etienne Vogt has made
version 1.16 of his system monitor available for download.
Download: Sysmon116.lha - 140 kB
WinFellow alpha v0.4.3 build 1
Of the Amiga emulator
WinFellow
has version alpha v0.4.3 build 1 for Win9x/2k (DirectX 5) and Windows NT (DirectX 3)
been released.
Download:
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.3_build_1_directx5.zip
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.3_build_1_directx3.zip
New libraries for MorphOS
Timm S. Müller of binary
distillery has ported the guigfx.library and mysticview.library to
MorphOS. Both libraries simplify graphical operations.
Download:
guigfxlib.lha - 245 kB
mysticlib.lha - 125 kB
ENVHandler
Stephan Rupprecht has released the
version 1.3 of his HappyEnv replacements 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha - 7 kB
SecondSpin v2.17 beta
Beta version 2.17 of
SecondSpin
is available. This is a tool to convert audio CDs to MPEG audio 1, 2 or 3.
Additionally further formats like AIFF and WAV are suppported. For the MPEG
encoding you need a modified version of LAME.
SecondSpin_Install.lha
(ps)
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05.May.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - Update and News
There's again an update of the astronomical program ´Digital Almanac
III´ with new features and improvements. The new version is numbered 3.3.
Highlights this time are:
- Calculation of "Killer asteroids" (so called PHAs). Who comes nearest to the
earth?
- IFF ANIM compression now also in the PPC mode. For animations and pictures
only the actual star map is saved, not the whole screen anymore.
- Extended toolbar with buttons in the GlowIcon style by Martin Merz.
- The DA III screen has now a name, so that some commodities (for example MCP)
can access it. With a new menu item you can now fade in the screen bar with
depth gadget.
Bugfixes:
- The ways of several small bodies was drawn wrong because of a false Perihel
calculation.
- The printout was unfortunately distorted since several versions.
This error was unfortunately discovered just now.
As usual, the update will be sent to all registered users via email.
Remarks to WinUAE and MorphOS:
DA III runs perfectly under the new WinUAE JIT version in the 020/FPU mode.
Under older UAE versions (for example: Cloanto's latest version in the AmigaForever
v4) DA III is only usable with the non-FPU version in the pure 020 mode, as the
FPU emulation here is still buggy. DA III in all versions does not run under
MorphOS. It seems that not all FPU instructions are correctly emulated. Only the
020 version runs with restrictions. A special MorphOS version will definitely
not happen. When the WarpOS version of DA III runs stable under MorphOS, a
special MorphOS version becomes unnecessary.
PC port?
DA III won't be ported to Windows, Linux or another OS. Previous requests for
such a port had unfortunately to be refused. DA III is and
keeps an Amiga program. Especially under Windows there's a big number of similar
programs of high value. (ps)
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05.May.2001
KATO Development Group
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AMPlifier V2.26
AMPlifier is in the first line a comfortable player program for MP3
(MPEG) audio, but can also play different 16-bit sound formats (AIFF,
MAUD, WAV, RAW). AMPlifier supports hardware based MPEG audio decoder as much as
software decoding via MPEGA.library.
The graphical design can be fit to everybody's own likings via so called 'skins'.
As the same system as in WinAMP is used there are several thousands ready skins
available.
Now AMPlifier is available in a new version with several new functions.
- Shoutcast/Icecast MP3 streaming ('.m3u' and '.pls')
- ID3v2 tag support
- new AREXX instructions
- 8-bit WAV support
Download: amplifier226.lha
(ps)
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05.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VHT: Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
Virus Help Denmark has opened the worldwide first
reference-book
for Amiga viruses.Four weeks have VHT worked on the creation of the site
that will be regularly updated in the future and enhanced with further ideas.
For now there's a problem with the search function, but that will be solved,
soon.
(ps)
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05.May.2001
Leser on ANF
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c't issue 10/2001: Amiga-Comeback?
On page 32 of the latest c't (German computer print magazine), the following can be read:
»Amiga Comeback?
Despite otherwise read rumors Sharp's for
the end of the year announced Zaurus PDA will not run with a new developed Amiga
OS. Instead of this a specially adapted version of RedHat-Linux will be used.
Amiga Incorporated, the remainder of the same
named computer manufacturer with rich traditions, will indeed develop numerous
Java applications for the organizer, so that the GUI may indeed remind of old
Amiga times. (dal)« (ps)
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05.May.2001
amiga.org
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AmigaDE on OEM Basis
Bill McEwen on the occasion of the Photogenics/CE thread at amiga.org:
"AmigaDE runs and it is for the time being available for PocketPC, WinCE, Win98,
Win2000, WinNT, Epoc, iTron, Linux, Zaurus, and others. AmigaDE is right now
available on an OEM basis, the first devices will be delivered from May 30th."
(ps)
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05.May.2001
Dennis Lohr via E-Mail
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Psyria: New Piece of Music
Psyria produces its music exclusively on the Amiga. Two days ago Psyria has
released a new megamix which is ready for download only for a short time!
"Psyria in the Mix" is an almost 30 minutes long megamix out of 6 songs. It
contains also still unreleased music pieces which will be found on the coming
album (presumably summer 2001).
To give not only DSL and cable users the possibility for downloading the whole
thing comes in two versions. Once in high quality (around 33 MB in size)
and once as low quality (around 20 MB in size). All those who want to gather more
information about the project Psyria can subscribe to the newsletter or simply
send an e-mail.
(ps)
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04.May.2001
Davy Wentzler via E-Mail
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Audio Evolution V3.20
Davy Wentzel has released update v3.20 for Audio Evolution which mainly contains
bugfixes and minor enhancements. The HD recording software for recording, editing,
and playing of audio tracks is distributed by Computer City
and surely well known by many users by it's old name 'PlayHD'. Registered users will automatically receive the update via e-mail.
Details of this update:
- 'Grid Display' for MIDI bars/beats display
- 'Snap-to-grid' function
- Filesave bug fixes
(ps)
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04.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena: F-Base V2.4 Full Version
F-Base V2.4 Full Version
By agreement of Frederic Laboureur (developer of "PureBasic") the Amiga Arena
makes the unlimited and registered version of F-Base v2.4 available for download.
F-Base is an easy to use database software. Detailed information about F-Base can be
taken from the English documentation.
Appeal
Who wants to write a short manual or preview on F-Base or KidHTML, please e-mail to
Olaf Koebnik. I would be happy about your
contributions.
(ps)
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04.May.2001
Nikolaj Thygesen via E-Mail
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Paint Program: DiamondBOX Version 1.11
Nikolaj Thygesen as released version 1.11 of his Amiga paint program ´DiamondBOX´.
This program is CGFX compatible and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, 8 MB RAM, 1 MB harddisk space,
an Amiga with at least 68020 CPU, and of course a bit of creativity.
Download: DiamondBOX.lha
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04.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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GFX-Base: Interview with James Daniels
You can read an interview with James Daniels, the developer of the GTA clone
Payback. He uncovered some details
of the upcoming PPC version and it's possible new features and improvements.
GFX-Base has created a new tools section which might interesting especially for users
of graphics boards.
(ps)
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03.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: New Microsoft Push against Open Source
»Today's speech of Craig Mundie, vice president and software analyzer of Microsoft,
invoked some discomposure in advance. According to the New York Times Mundie is about to
deepen the contra open source arguments of Microsoft's head, Jim Allchin, who said that
open source would endanger software development. A few days later Microsoft said his statement was
a disaccord.«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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