12.May.2001
Dynateam (ANF)
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Dynamite Version 1.3 Released
The version 1.3 of the Bomberman clone "Dynamite" has been released today.
The most important improvements are:
- A new watch mode for pausing players.
- Heavily reduced CPU usage, improved "scrolling", smoother game
(a 040/40 is still recommended).
- Free definable bubble content (Doh!, Eeek!, Igetya, etc.).
Download page
Supplement 13 May 2001:
ToDi wrote:
A bug in DServer was removed. The DServer is now available for download in the
archive on the download page (v1.3a)!
Excerpt from the 'changes':
- 13.05.2001 V1.3a: Fixed a nasty divide by zero bug that was introduced with the new winquotient.
(Translation: mj)
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12.May.2001
Computer City via E-Mail
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Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party
Press release: Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party
On June 23rd 2001 the Dutch Amiga magazine Amiga Scene and
Computer City are organising a double-event:
The Benelux Amiga Show and the Amiga LAN Party.
The location is Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Many new Amiga products such
as the VSS Sound Card, Prometheus and -last but not least- the Eyetech
AmigaOne will be shown! Also, several Amiga VIPs will attend the show! You
will find more information on the following websites:
Benelux Amiga Show
Amiga LAN Party
For more information please contact
Bruno de Klerk at Amiga Scene or
Ron van Herk at Computer City.
For more information on the Amiga LAN Party please contact
Mathieu Burgerhout.
Supplement:
Xanidy wrote on ANF that there's a
possibility to gather people for driving at www.amiga-info.net. People who want to
join or start car-pools are at the right place there.
(Translation: mj)
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12.May.2001
REBOL ML
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REBOL: Function Dictionary, Sound Support, VID FAQ
Function dictionary
On the 10. May 2001 has REBOL Technologies released an update of the
'Function Dictionary' where the functions of the REBOL system
are described. The functions are sorted by categories and alphabetically. The
dictionary is available as
HTML file (almost 900 KB)
and in the REBOL desktop via 'REBOL.com/Ref-Make'. This script loads around 40
KB from the REBOL site and generates the file
'/public/www.rebol.com/view/docs/dictionary.html' within the REBOL directory.
Sound support
REBOL/View/Pro supports from the version 1.2 on the output of sound samples.
For the loading of samples is a subset of the WAV format (PCM samples with 8 or 16
Bit) supported.
The sound output is possible on the systems AmigaOS (AHI, audio.device),
BeOS, Linux/x86 (Open Sound System) and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000.
Further information can be taken from the
REBOL sound documentation.
VID-FAQ
A faq regarding the REBOL GUI dialect 'VID' can be found via the REBOL desktop
on
http://www.compkarori.co.nz/index.r within 'VidWiki'.
Information: REBOL
REBOL is a cross platform system developed by Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec) that was
first released in November 1997. The REBOL programming language
allows an easy use of the internet including the programming of CGI scripts and
the easy creation of GUIs.
On 24. April 2001 was REBOL/View V1.1 released. From this version on
REBOL offers the REBOL desktop. This makes it possible to put REBOL scripts on
every web server, so that these scripts can be called and executed via the
desktop. Herewith REBOL offers similar possibilities as Java does. The
examples listed on REBOL include
games like Tetris and Minesweeper and tools like a pocket calculator and a
script for sending e-mails.
(Translation: sd)
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12.May.2001
Ruediger Engel
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First Pictures of the Annual *AC# Meeting Online
The annual club meeting of the "Amiga-Club in Btx & Internet" is in motion since
Thursday. Today we've thrown together all the pictures we've made till now, made a
small preselection and uploaded this to the server of the *AC#. Just follow the
title link.
Greetings from Hildesheim from all Clubbies!
(Translation: ps)
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12.May.2001
Torsten Kleinz (ANF)
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Douglas Adams has Passed
Douglas Admas has unexpectedly died because of a heart-attack. The author became
world famous for his novel series "Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy". He died
on Friday in Santa Barbara (California). Douglas Adams was 49 years old.
(Translation: ps)
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12.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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Web Browser Voyager: New Button-Set
Richard Kapp wrote:
I have once again created a new theme for Voyager. This time it's a button set
drawn in the MacOS X (Aqua) look with a matching background pattern which makes
the buttons appear transparent. The set is quite big and therefor especially
good for use with high resolutions.
Download: aquatheme.lha - 32 Kb
Screenshot: aquavoyager.jpg
(Translation: mj)
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12.May.2001
ANN
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Amiga port of SiN Finished, but...
From a posting of Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainment it is evident
that the Amiga port of the game 'SiN' is ready but the actual Amiga hardware
isn't enough to cope with the requirements of the game. The port will be hold
back until the AmigaOne hits the market.
Hermans said that particularly the lower-end Blizzard acceleration cards couldn't offer
the CPU speed needed for 'SiN'.
(Translation: mj)
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12.May.2001
diff.org
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Interview: Developers Talk About The Future of AmigaOS 4
Andrea Vallinotto has asked Jürgen Haage of
H&P, Olaf Barthel,
Hyperion Entertainment and
Tobias Abt of the Picasso 96 team about their opinions about AmigaOS 4. Besides the
English version of the interview (title link) there's an
Italian version.
(Translation: mj)
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12.May.2001
amiga.org
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mozAmiga Site Updated
The mozAmiga site at
mozdev.org has been updated.
Interested programmers can find there a summary of the project and of the
developers resources.
Amiga Inc. themselves want this port but for the time being there's only a
reworked project manager available for the project. If you own the Amiga SDK and
you'd like to bring some C++ code into the right form for the new system and
want Netscape on the AmigaDE then have a look.
(Translation: mj)
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12.May.2001
amiga.org
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Aminet: Full Brazilian Mirror Online
The AmigaBR User Group and
MMA Internet & Sistemas
announce the first full Aminet mirror in Latin America.
It's set in Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia, Brasilia, and can be reached via
http://br.aminet.org/~aminet (title link).
(Translation: mj)
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12.May.2001
amiga.org
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Intel: Itanium Set in May
Intel plans the release of the first batch
Itanium chips for the end of this month. It is expected that two or three
versions of this chip will arrive. One with 733 Mhz and a 800-Mhz version with
2 MB cache. A 800-Mhz version with 4 MB cache is said to come, too. Amiga should
now mention whether an Itanium compatible translator (VP) is planned.
Itanium chips are 64Bit processors that can among other things manage 32 GB
memory. Enough for complete websites or the content of big harddrives.
IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other big computer distributors will soon present
computers with 2, 4 and even with 16 processors that for the first time will have
the 64 bit Itanium chip.
(Translation: mj)
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11.May.2001
Jan Andersen
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VEPatch.Brain v1.34 and Safe V15.5
A new update of the 'VEPatch.Brain v1.34' for VirusExecutor and a new
update of 'Safe v15.5' have been released today, here is some info about
the two releases:
VEPatch.Brain v1.34:
- Name : VEPatchBrain v1.34
- Archive name : VEPatchBrain.lha
- Archive size: 22.469 bytes
- Release date: 10 May 2001
- Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
New in this update:
- FPPrefs v40.22
- HDOff v1.40
- AppChange v1.0
- WinSpeed v1.0
- MagicFrames v0.3
- FakeTopaz v1.18
- PatchRAM v1.11
- MuForce v40.27
- mmu.library v42.8
- MuGuardianAngel v40.41
- DefIcons v37.15
- One more entry of Snoopdos
- Four more entries of DynamicCache
- MathLibsPatch v1.2b (v1.33)
- CyberGuard v2.2 (v1.32)
Download: VEPatchBrain.lha - 18 KB,
Readme: VEPatchBrain.txt
Safe v15.5:
- Name: Safe v15.5
- Archive name : Safe.lha
- Archive size: 29.786 bytes
- Release date: 10 May 2001
- Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
- Requires: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
New in v15.4 - 7000
Finished parameter DIS/S. It is equal to SAVMEM/S, but saves disassembled block of memory
instead of binary block. This option requires disassembler.library by Thomas Richter.
Download: Safe.lha 29 KB,
Readme: Safe.txt
Safe informs about viruses in memory and removes them where possible. Safe can not
remove viruses from infected files on devices.
(mj)
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11.May.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS News
AROS demos ported to MorphOS
Nicolas Sallin has achieved a masterpiece
porting the AROS demos to MorphOS. "Enjoy fast bump mapping, gouraud shading and
other nifty effects".
Download: AROSDemos.lha
The next version of MorphOS will contain an updated version of the graphics card
software CyberGraphX which will run the demos a bit faster due to the optimized
WriteLUTPixelArray().
More ports to MorphOS
xlhtml 0.2.8 PPC-MorphOS port by Fr3dY - converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML
files.
Download: xlhtml028-mos.lha
ncftp 3.0.3 PPC-MorphOS by Fr3dY - update of the port of the FTP program NCFTP
Download: ncftp303-mos.lha
lynx 2.8.4dev20 PPC-MorphOS - Fr3dY has ported the text-only browser 'Lynx' to MorphOS.
lynx284dev20-mos.lha
bladeenc 0.94.1 PPC-MorphOS - MorphOS Port by Fr3dY of the MP3 encoder bladeenc with
excellent quality and high bitrates.
Download: bladeenc0941-mos.lha
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Scalos
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Scalos-Forum at amigaforums.org
A forum for questions about the Workbench replacement 'Scalos' was
created at amigaforums.org.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: PageStream Website Started
From today the new PageStream websites are available at
www.pagestream.de. The entire
content was reworked and a new navigation created. During the following weeks
H&P will extend that area. Most of all layout patterns and workshops shall
be offered. (ps)
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10.May.2001
SonicPulse
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SoundFX Version 4.1
SoundFX is an editor software for digitized audio data (samples). SFX
was modular built and has a comfortable GUI. With SFX you can edit and give samples
digital effects (which are unique on the Amiga). The program is shareware.
Today SoundFX v4.1 was released containing the following innovations:
- New design for (almost) all windows.
- Many dialouges were cleaned.
- Smaller improvment in some FX (e.g. AnalyseSpect2D) and a new FX (Distorsion).
- Batch processing.
- HTML based help.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
TEK Neoscientists
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MysticView for MorphOS
The picture viewing software MysticView by Timm S. Mueller was ported to MorphOS by
Sigbjørn Skjæret. The program requires MysticView fully installed, the current
version of the mysticview.library (v5), and guigfx.library (v19).
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: Appeal
Virus Help Denmark wrote:
Hi all....
We have to try and stop the spreading of viruses, we know that it is almost impossible,
but we must do something. We will make a list of the internet providers that have virus
pages, and try to have them removed. Your name and email be kept a secret.
For report virus site go here.
Kind regards......
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
E-mail
WWW
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Richard Kapp (ANF)
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NARR-Site: New URL and CoolCALC Skins
Richard Kapp wrote:
Since some time the NARR site is available under
http://narr.ohgo.com, so please, don't forget to change
your bookmarks. Moreover there are some new CoolCALC skins (four of those are not on Aminet).
A new version of CoolCALC is already planned.
(ps)
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10.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: HappyEnv Replacement V1.3b
Stephan Rupprecht has released ENV-Handler V1.3b to be a HappyEnv replacement.
Download: envhandler.lha - 12 kB
(ps)
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10.May.2001
BlitzEngineers
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BlitzEngineers Homepage Completely New Design
The online presence of BlitzEngineers (SMSEngineerMUI) was completely new and dynamically designed.
(ps)
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