19.Mar.2001
BTTR-Team via E-Mail
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Back to the Roots Amiga-News #228
There are new games available from our webside. The highlights are the following programs:
- Air Supply / Magic Bytes
- Beast Busters / Activision
- Castle of Dr. Brain / Sierra
- Death Trap / Anco
- Fire and Ice / Graftgold
- Gloom Deluxe, Gloom Special Edition 97 / Acid Software
- Paradroid 90 / Graftgold
- Uridium 2 / Graftgold
- Virocop / Graftgold
- XTreme Racing / Silltunna Software
- ...und mehr!
Additionally there are new scene demos, music files and pictures and an interview with Adam
'Scorpik' Skorupa, one of the most famous musicians in the amiga scene.
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18.Mar.2001
Bob Scharp via E-Mail
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Amiga2001
As formerly reported several times, the Gateway Computer Show 'Amiga2001' will take place in St. Louis from
03-30-2001 to 04-01-2001. Petro Tyschtschenko will attend a celebration on the occasion of his
retirement at the show .
The original message:
»Petro Tyschtschenko is hosting a celebration at the
Amiga2001 show. That's right, Petro has been kind
enough to provide funding for a little celebration
of his retirements. Check out the web pages for this
special announcement.
Don't forget, we have a ROAST of Petro lined up for
the Banquet. The deadline for advance ticket purchase
and the Banquet have been extended to Monday March 26.
Banquet tickets are only available in advance this
year. So get you check in pronto. Tickets are selling
very well.
The Amiga2001 web pages have been updated several times
since my last email. If you haven't checked them for
venors and prizes lately, you should look again. We'll
have more next week too. So check often.
Several companies have been kind enough to donate prizes
for our show. Also, the hall is filling up quite nicely,
so check and see if you've missed any of the vendors.«
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18.Mar.2001
Dirk Hase on ANF
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Which one looks best? Amiga-Boing-Ball or Check-Marks?
Dirk Hase takes interest in the opinion of
Amiga-Users. "I have already heard many said that they prefer the Check-Marks over the
Boing-Ball. One criterion is the recognition value of the logos. The Check-Marks overrules
the Boing-Ball at this in my experience. Has the time come to start a poll about his? Or
maybe a graphics contest about this subject? I think that Amiga Inc. should also be informed
about this since we can count on a new product, soon."
We can fulfill Dirk's wish about the poll. You can participate by following the
title link.
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17.Mar.2001
Amiga-Community on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net news
From this day on Amiga-Community.net is split into different sites:
- Amiga-VIP.net - The user info portal only for AMIGA
- Amiga-Info.net - The portal for forums, auctions and short adverts around AMIGA
- Amiga-News.net - The portal for up-to-date news headlines around AMIGA
- Amiga-faq.net - The forum for questions around AMIGA, and their answers
- Amiga-***.net - The site that is yet in preparation
P.S.: A sponsor is still wanted!
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17.Mar.2001
Wolf Faust on ANF
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Version 2 of the Universal Filter for PageStream
The 'universal' filter allows loading of many additional graphic formats
within the PageStream v3.x/v4.x DTP program. Furthermore the loading of already
supported graphic formats was considerably accelerated in parts.
Version 2 of the filter is finally released for free on
http://www.uni.coloraid.de. Similar to
ICS the filter is now using the IRW library for
image loading.
The innovations in version 2 are:
- Now supports <8Bit and CMYK modes in PageStream
- Faster
- Almost no memory usage when no image is loaded
- Loading of 16 bit (converted to 8 bit) and CMYK data is now possible
- Improved PGM/PBM/PPM/JPEG/BMP/TIFF routines
- Considerably improved error handling thanks to IRW
- Locale support
- Compiled for different cpus
- MANY small improvements
The supported formats for now are:
BMP, DataTypes, DCX, IFF ILBM, JPEG, PCX, GIF, PGM/PBM/PPM,
PNG, Targa, TIFF
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17.Mar.2001
Heise [newsticker]
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Heise: Slashdot have to Delete Article about Scientology
On last Friday the news and discussion forum
Slashdot announced a premiere the operators
might rather not wanted to experience: for the first time the internet
service - founded in 1997 they have become one of the most important
speaking tubes for the open source scene - had to remove an already published
article.
In a message
regarding the incident Rob Malda,
founder of
Slashdot and on the net also known as CmdrTaco,
stated that on Saturday last week an anonymous reader had contributed an article containing
a text Scientology keeps copyright for.
Scientology lay claim on being a church which the US revenue authorities admited.
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17.Mar.2001
Scalos
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Scalos News
The website of Scalos, the comprehensive Workbench replacement, had been
reworked. Next to new graphics and an improved navigation you can find here the
information that a new version with many bugs removed is currently being tested.
It is yet unknown when the new version will be publicly available.
Furthermore some subdomains were created:
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17.Mar.2001
DCE
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DCE Website: Support Area Extended
DCE, manufacturer of several Amiga expansion cards, has extended their support area with
several manuals that are downloadable as PDF documents. A description
of the new GREX 1200 PCI interface is available, too.
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16.Mar.2001
amigasdk.com
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Espial Escape - Slim Webbrowser for AmigaDE
"Escape is a HTML4.01 webbrowser which just happens to work on AmigaDE
thanks to its Java support. Escape is not only small, but fast and loaded
with features including HTML4.01, DHTML and more."
On amiga.org
you can read about it:
I noticed that the easiest way to install Espials Escape on the AmigaSDK was to simply
unzip the *.jar files to the root. Sadly there was no archive on Espials homepage that
made it easy for me to get them. So I mailed them about the problem. Now they have
added an archive of Escape with the Jar files on their homepage.
Further links on Espial Escape:
Espial Homepage
internet® product watch
devices.internet.com
Espial Escape is a slim webbrowser for smart devices which supports all modern web standards.
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16.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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Merlancia Industries and Nova Design: Keynote Address on Amiga 2001 show
Merlancia Industries and Nova Design will both be making some astounding announcements
during a joint Keynote Address that will open the Amiga 2001 show on Saturday, March 31st, 2001.
Details are not available in advance, but both companies promise some great news.
The Keynote Addresses will begin before the opening of the exhibitor floor on
Saturday and are open to all at no extra charge.
Best Regards,
Bob Scharp
bscharp@icon-stl.net
http://www.amiga-stl.com/
Links to the companies:
Merlancia Industries
Nova Design
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16.Mar.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Update
The first update for Payback
is available. Several reported bugs were fixed and a screen scaling feature was added
for slower processors. Also, new graphics were integrated.
There's also an update of the demo version,
which raises the time limit of three to five minutes.
On the Payback website, an FAQ about
Payback was opened which answers frequently asked questions. The game can be ordered directly in the
online store.
In an interview with the Amiga-Future, programmer James Daniels describes Payback as follows:
"The player assumes the role of a young, fleeing driver and attempts to become a big
gangster boss. The game is entirely non-linear. To complete a level, the player has to
collect a certain amount of points. How he achieves that is entirely up to him. You can
follow the advice of the local Kingpin, uncover secret missions, or get into a fight."
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16.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
TermiteTCPDemo.lha biz/demo 201K+TermiteTCP demo
TTCP110_to_120.lha biz/patch 162K+TermiteTCP 1.10 to 1.20 patch
Aminet.awnp.lha comm/www 72K+AWNPipe gui. Searches/Downloads Aminet F
DeluxeMapV2_1.lha dev/amos 283K+Map editor
Amiga-C-Feb01.lha dev/c 112K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Febu
dech.lha dev/e 43K+Deniil's E-Compiler Handler v1.38
m2latex.lha dev/m2 64K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
adaratio.lha dev/misc 494K+Hypertext Ada 95 Rationale
TTCP_SDK.lha dev/misc 121K+TermiteTCP Software Development Kit 1.00
Abbo.lha dev/src 444K+Source of game written in E
BattleDuel1.7P.lha docs/help 14K+Polish Locale for BattleDuel1.7
MetalCorner401.lha docs/mags 357K+German Metal Mag in HTML - April 2001 Is
WarpUp-Feb01.lha docs/misc 21K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in F
Bdynamite.lha game/data 96K+Another style/graphics module for dynami
Detris.lha game/wb 80K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715! v3.1
Emerald.lha game/wb 1.1M+Simple simplicity in graphical games and
jpeg6bwosutils.lha gfx/conv 238K+IJG's 6b JPEG utilities for WarpUp
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 86K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 82K+V0.35 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
bc-conta.mpg mods/mpg 3.9M+Contact: Ambient Electronic Dance
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 84K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
Bounce3.lha pix/anim 492K+Some animations and some players 'Bounci
AmigaUnited.mpg pix/mpg 912K+First Render of the Amiga United Group l
AmigaUnited1.mpg pix/mpg 912K+First Render of the Amiga United Group l
CoolWb.lha pix/wb 806K+Patterns, audio and docks for a very nic
ThrymWB.jpg pix/wb 227K+Thrym's 1024*768*24 bit WB screen
YureWB2.jpg pix/wb 141K+A beautiful WB screen
QuickNote.lha text/edit 63K+Notepad for scrap-notes (very handy)
startmeupv1_25.lha util/boot 31K+Startup files management
MultiRen.lha util/misc 176K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
UntarV1_11.lha util/pack 16K+Tar files extract util
DRemind.lha util/time 215K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.57!
trackdisplaycl.lha util/time 37K+V1.15 Use hardware track display as cloc
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16.Mar.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark Presents VTC Hamburg
Virus Help Denmark presents the virus test center Hamburg
(VTC)
and reports on their anti-virus-scanner tests for Amiga which can also be
read online.
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16.Mar.2001
ANF
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UAE 0.8.16 (Beta/ Developer Version) Released
A new beta/developer version of UAE, the Amiga emulator, has been released.
Download Version 0.8.16:
uae-0.8.16.tar.gz
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16.Mar.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert via E-Mail
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akJFIF datatype Version 44.96 Released
On Andreas Kleinert's support site, version 44.96 of the akJFIF datatype for
several processors (68k, PUP and MOS) with notable speed enhancements are
available for download.
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16.Mar.2001
Stefan Schulze on ANF
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New Screenshots of the Real-time RPG "Between the Lines"
Because of a harddisk crash, we have lost all source codes of our games
"Crossfire II" and "Between the Lines". At least Crossfire II could partly
be recovered, but it'll take several months to fully restore it.
As a compensation and the long time during which nothing happened on our
homepage, there are a few new screenshots of the real time RPG BtL.
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16.Mar.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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Updates of the Warp datatypes and Warp Preferences Available
Oliver Roberts has made available new versions of his Warp datatypes for JPEG,
PNG and BMP images on his homepage. Besides some optimizations and bugfixes,
a preferences program was added which offers several dithering algorithms.
Download:
WarpJPEG: WarpJPEGdt.lha
WarpPNG: WarpPNGdt.lha
WarpBMP: WarpBMP.lha
WarpPrefs: WarpDTPrefs.lha
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15.Mar.2001
CD³²-Allianz on ANF
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CDTV DeveloperKit Released
From now on the CDTV DeveloperKit is available for free download at
the CD32-Corner.
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15.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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Monkey Island Tones for Nokia 3210 Cell Phone
At Arcadetones you can find new ringtones for your Nokia 3210 cell phone.
Worth mentioning in this is that those are to be pices of music from the
popular adventure game 'The Secret Of Monkey Island'. Available are
music from Ghost Dance, Le Chuck's Theme, Scumm Bar, Title Music, and
Voodoo Shop. Those either can be downloaded as .mid files or directly
fed to the cell phone with a certain character string.
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15.Mar.2001
amiga.com.pl
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What's Faster - G4/733 or Dual G4/533?
Bare Feats have tested what's faster, the Macintosh G4/733 or PowerMac Dual G4/533.
You can read the test results generated with different programs under the title link.
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15.Mar.2001
Amster
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Amster News
Amster is a program for downloading of authorized MP3 music files from
Napster. One also can let the program
(client) search for music files made available by other participants or can
chat with other participants.
Yesterday the Amster source code was put on
SourceForge.
Interested developers can participate in further development under
'CVS access' (explanation in addition).
Since it wasn't clear to me what CVS access means I asked about this on
our internal mailing list. Ruediger Hanke
took the task to give an extended
explanation. Because I can imagine our readers to be interested in this, too,
I post his answer here:
What is CVS access?
CVS = Concurrent Versions System, a program for source code management.
Among other things the program saves old versions of the source code, so
one can trace changes from one version to another. Furthermore it coordinates
changes in source codes if several developers are working on one single
program. Else there would happen situations like follows:
- developer A loads source ab.c
- developer B loads source ab.c
- developer A saves source code ab.c including changes done by him
- developer B saves source code ab.c including changes done by him
and by doing so overwrites the changes of developer A.
CVS cares for changes not to be accidently overwritten by somebody and
in the case of need announces conflicts caused by changes. Thus it is
essential if several developers are working on one single program.
Amster seems to be under CVS control. "CVS access" in this case means
that people wanting to participate in programming Amster can get
access to the CVS server managing the program's source codes.
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