12.Oct.2000
Jörg Dietrich at the ANF
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Opera Beta for Linux-PPC Available
Jörg Dietrich wrote:
And though it works: Opera runs on Amiga! Only on APUS, but better than nothing. The beta-version
of Opera, the commercial web-browser, is now for Linux PowerPC available (title link). It runs
on my Amiga 1200 with Debian Potato.
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12.Oct.2000
Pagan-Games
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"Earth 2140"-demo Released
Now there is a 13MB demoversion of the realtime strategy game "Earth 2140" available
for download. System requirements (min.) are a 040/25 processor (recommended: 060 or
PPC WarpOS), a gfx-board (CGFX & P96), 24 MB RAM (32 MB) and about about 20 MB space
on your harddisk.
You can download the demo version here.
Also Pagan-Games said the graphic for the game "Dafel:Bloodline" was nearly complete
so they can work now on the code for Classic Amigas, Mac and PC.
Supplement:
Thomas Steiding via eMail
Epic Interactive proudly announces
the release of the Amiga demo version of "Earth 2140", a port of a classic C&C clone.
You can find the demo at the download section. The complete game is about to be released
early November for DM 99,95. But you can preorder directly at Epic Interactive for
DM 89,95 (plus delivery and package). This offer is valid till October 25th, 2000. If the server is not accessible
you can download it here: http://www.pagan-games.com, the great boys who have ported
this game from PC to Amiga.
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12.Oct.2000
Peter Weigoldt
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Schlachtfeld V2.15
Due to some wrong set attributes during archiving problems appeared. The lha-archive
of the game "Schlachtfeld" was now completely new archived and was tested by Peter
Weigoldt.
Download: Schlachtfeld2_V2.15.lzx
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12.Oct.2000
Amiga Globe
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Drawstudio at Kickstart Amiga Group
The known paint-, illustrations- and presentation software
Drawstudio is from now on
again available at Kickstart. Because the developers have left the Amiga market
there will be no support and no updates for the product.
System requirements: Amiga with 68020 or better, Workbench 2.04 or better, 3 MB
free RAM, 2MB free HD space. FPU, gfx-board or AGA are supported but not necessary.
PPC is not supported.
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12.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Interview with Fleecy Moss at "Temple Of Technology"
You will find an interesting interview with Fleecy Moss at the title link. Browser
without CSS-support (Cascading Style Sheets) can flush the background to be able to
read the article.
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12.Oct.2000
CGX
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CGX ViRGE V3 Driver tested with 4 MB ViRGE/DX
The free drivers CGX ViRGE V3 were tested with another two 4MB ViRGE/DX boards.
You will find the results on the Mediator page
and on the page of CGX supported gfx-boards.
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12.Oct.2000
CGX
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Elbox Website Update
On the website of Elbox (still under construction) are all dealers listed that
distribute Elbox products in several countries.
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12.Oct.2000
Peter's Amiga HP
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New Printer Drivers for Epson Stylus 600/800 v.40.20
New drivers V40.20 for Epson Stylus 600/800 printers with EpsonPrefs released.
Driver for Epson 400 will follow.
Download: Epson_600.lha
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12.Oct.2000
tecchannel.de
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MPF: Information Appliances
At the Microprocessor Forum 2000 in San Jose, USA, an all day opening lecture on the subject
information appliances took place given by Steve Leibson, chief analyser of MicroDesign Resources and
chief editor of the microprocessor report.
After main-frames, mini-computer, micro-computers, and PCs the fifth computer generation comes into
public view by the IAs. Appliances of this generation distinguish on application oriented design. Meaning
design and functionality of these appliances is styled for one application, e.g. in the case of web-pads
on the internet or in case of game consoles on easy gaming using your TV-set. This causes self describing
operation and hence easy use of this appliances.
The
article (German) on
tecchannel.de
summarizes the lecture in view of types of appliances, Connectivity (Bluetooth, IrDA, etc.), processors, as well
as displays, and gives a result at the end of the article. This result complains about that manufacturers tend to
implement too much features in their initial IAs. By this operation again becomes complicated, and prices increase
which automates failure, according to Steve Leibson.
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12.Oct.2000
Eternity via eMail
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A Lot of Eternity News
Some things are changing at Eternity, but in main everything will stay the same:
Eternity is and will keep being Amiga vendor, Amiga publisher, and distributor of
Amiga hardware and software.
This news is most important:
The URL has changed!
http://www.eternity-computer.de from now on is the new online home of Eternity. Please
change your bookmarks! Many thanks to Marc Albrecht for hosting the Eternity pages free
of charge for several years.
To make getting used to the new URL more easy for users we have raised another of our
popular special projects:
For orderings within the next two weeks the customer will get 1 DM discount on every of
his/her order already placed in 2000. With this we want to thank our many faithful customers
and want to give them a very special bonus.
EAsys! Servicepack 3
For the system enhancer EAsys! distributed by Eternity service-pack 3 was released.
This fixes many little bugs, and automatic creation of icons is implemented. Who wants to
learn about the other new features should get it soon.
MASplayer
The MASplayer which we distribute since early this month already sells well. Happily our
customers are not dumb, so we received some suggestions on additional possible use of the
MASplayer:
- MPEG-Movie-Player could surrender playing of sound completely to the MAS and thereby
would have to deal almost only with playing the movie.
- Internet-Phone would be possible with acceptable speed and quality also on Amigas.
- Internet-Radio via MASplayer is already under construction.
Interested software authors can contact us via e-mail to eternity@pride.de.
We heavily support developers.
Free co-workers wanted:
Eternity Hard- & Software is looking for a free co-worker who would independent deal with
project coordination around Eternity's activities. Good knowledge of English (speaking and writing) are
advantageous. Interested people would contact eternity@pride.de, please.
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11.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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New Previews at NoRiscNoFun: Sin and Exodus
You can find two new previews at NoRiscNoFun namely the 3D Shooter Sin, ported by Hyperion, and Exodus
the realtime-strategy game. And there is another pleasing message: From now on you can access NRNF without windows
of advertising.
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11.Oct.2000
Christian Sobotta on ANF
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A.C.SYS - News
The homepage of ACSYS (a Turrican-clone) has moved. From now on you can access this site under
http://www.paragram.de/acsys.html (title link). Because developers wonder if they should finish
programming this game there is a opinion-poll
If more than 500 people speak in favour of this project the programming will be finished.
The editorial stuff of the Amiga Future have made a closer
look at the game saying its worthy!
Demo-Download: acsys-de.lha - 620 Kb
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11.Oct.2000
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Radio Report about the Amiga
Next Saturday October 14th, there will be a report about the Amiga in the computer and internet programme
namely "Netradio" (title link) in the "Bayerischer Rundfunk".
Ruediger Engel will primarily report in an interview with
Claus Kruesken about the versatile abilities of the Classic Amiga in the year 2000 and will give a
perspective of the plans and the future of Amiga Inc.
Of course you can listen to the channel of Bayern 3 via antenna and cable in Germany, and in Europe via Astra Digital
Radio on frequency range of 11,14125 GHz, sound supply 6,48 MHz, and worldwide via Internet
as RealAudio-Steam for RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer.
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11.Oct.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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US-Patent 4,777,621
Twelve years ago, on October 11th, 1988, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) gave
the patent for issue "Video Game and Personal Computer" which was registered on July 19th, 1985 under
the patent number
4,777,621.
As inventors were named Commodore-Amiga, Inc., Los Gatos: Jay G.Miner, Joseph C.Decuir und Ronald H. Nicholson.
This patent is to be seen as THE Amiga patent.
At THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM coming out in December
there is the full history of "Amiga Patent Story".
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11.Oct.2000
Amiga Power
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Pictures of the AGA from Toulon
On the last weekend in Toulon, France, the "AGA The Blue 2" took place. Under the title link you can have a
look at some initial pictures.
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11.Oct.2000
Marius Schwarz on ANF
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New DirectDos Demo Available
Marius Schwarz wrote:
It has been announced for a long time: DirectDos (the new Workbench feeling) is available in a improved
version with many new functions and many bug fixes. The new functions are for example remember, iconifying,
new rename functions, and much more. Remember starts the DirectDos-tasks automatically again after rebooting the computer,
which helps you to continue to work no matter if the reset was your intention or a crash
of the system.
But the best of all is lower price: Instead of paying 50 DM for the program it now costs only
30 DM from version 1.02.
Please download the demo from the Aminet or my website. This one will move to a new server in the next
time. Therefore the programm is possibly not available all the time. The link will be the same.
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11.Oct.2000
Stefan Ruppert on ANF
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UniView V40.8 Update
Stefan Ruppert wrote:
At my homepage I have uploaded version 40.8 of UniView. UniView is a full replacement for MultiView.
It is now possible to open several files simultaneously. Each file will be displayed in a seperate
window. Furthermore I have improved opening a seperate screen which therefore works now with several
windows open. But this function is still improvable.
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11.Oct.2000
Milan Computer
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Statement on Milan II
Even other systems (in this case Atari user) have to face disappointments. Milan II was put on hold.
One now wants to make the operating system Atari-TOS (incl. MagiC) hardware independent by means of
Linux. Then programs will be coded for one time and will run everywhere, which sure appears to be
well known to Amiga users. Here some extract from the statement by Milan Computer, which is to read
as full length (German) at the title link:
«Perspectives today are good on the one hand, and disappointing on the other hand:
The Milan II was put on hold. Month of work eating thousands of Deutsch Marks disappeared as well as
the hope of many Atari users to have their own and fast Milan II soon. This is primary to assign to
technical difficulty. Moreover trying to find venture capital companies from Germany to increase fund
remarkable over month failed. In this country at this time primary internet buildings in the air are supported
and created, building fictitious million value from scratch to crash down as fast as it raised most of the time.
One of the realy seldom companies able to offer their own small operating system provided with much of software
unfortunately bears the big risc for the investors to provoke costs by matter manufacturing (main boards, etc.).
But this does not mean the end of the project, at all. Milan-Computersystems will continue to offer the
Milan I with 040 processor to all of the people wanting a Milan today. And also the upgrade board to the
060 processor is still available and stable in the meantime. In fact there is nothing in the way to a Milan
with 060 processor at this time.
Now the step which will be taken is to look towards Milan III.
Therefore at this time there are two scenarios to choose from all of them banking on that the Milan-TOS
(and with it the addon MagiC-Milan) to be able to be nearly hardware independent soon.
- A. One elects a Linux kernel adaptation to e.g. AMD hardware (Athlon, Duron) and standard board
peripheral equipment. Along with this a board will be chosen which just has to be imported
in this country. If requirement like a big flash eprom are fulfilled this can be a TOS basing
computer as before starting directly from chip. Performance with this solution would increase
proportional to the used processor and with a 400MHz would have a much higher performance than
a 060 processor.
- B. One uses a (in case of need own) PPC G3/G4 board which is more close to the 68060 processor, so that
from 350 MHz more than double performance would be gained.
To make TOS running on these processors an 68k interpreter will be integrated, in difference from a Windows or
MacOS emulation running independent native making high performance possible.»
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11.Oct.2000
Hellcoders Homepage
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Hellcoders Homepage Announces Game Project
On the Hellcoders' homepage a new game was announced.
The plot of the space game is described as the follows:
You have captured a small space vehicle which approaches other ships camouflaged. You can gain
points if you beam yourself into a ship, kill the crew and sell the whole equipment at the black
market.
The game would have nice inter-sequences. According to the news the graphics and movies are in progress.
One may be curious about the announced initial screen shots.
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11.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
mboxExtractor.lha comm/mail 11K+Mbox Extractor (extracts mails from an U
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 50K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
YAT.lha comm/mail 518K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 110K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
LCR.lha comm/misc 111K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 7K+V1.1, YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 +
dct16_src.lzh comm/tcp 41K+DCTelnet 1.6 Source code in C
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 214K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.5 - *
js_umsrfc.lha comm/ums 140K+Umsrfc update (1.6)
GRH_Zillement.lha demo/aga 2.4M+Greuh!Zillement Beta (2nd
wpz-frozen36.lha demo/aga 574K+Frozen#36 - Kindergarden Party Edition
wpz-infernal.lha demo/aga 67K+Intro by Whelpz+Destiny - 1st at Fuck Ya
Amiga-C-Sep00.lha dev/c 112K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Sept
ConvertFDPlus.lha dev/lang 43K+ConvertFDPlus - A converter for Amiga FD
DigitalLibrary.lha dev/misc 19K+DigitalLibrary - An Amiga library with m
fda-upd.lha disk/cache 57K+Uses whole free memory to speedup V2.8 u
fda.lha disk/cache 330K+Faster than PFS also installed V2.8
fda_DviPS.lha disk/cache 407K+English documentation in DVI, PS & texin
fda_d_DviPS.lha disk/cache 444K+German documentation in DVI, PS & texinf
fda_d_GuidHTML.lha disk/cache 102K+German documentation in Guide & HTML
JsplitIt.lha disk/misc 47K+Split & join files between Amiga & IBM w
TurboDevice.lha disk/misc 58K+TurboDevice - An Open Source resident RA
Zip4mat.lha disk/misc 99K+Automatically prep & format your zip dis
VWorksPricelis.lha docs/hyper 23K+Virtual Works pricelist
tam4.lha docs/mags 2.4M+Total Amiga Magazine, issue 4
WarpUp-Sep00.lha docs/misc 30K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in S
DC-EMBond4_Lvl.lha game/data 366K+81 levels for Diamond Caves 1
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (8 Octob
TerrainEd-1.0.lha game/misc 45K+TerrainEd - A terrain editor for the gam
WormWars.lha game/misc 768K+WormWars 6.4: Advanced snake game
jst.lha game/patch 182K+JOTD Startup for HD Installs & Degrader
mkhd.lha game/patch 12K+HD Installer for Mortal Kombat V1.7
ruffhd.lha game/patch 16K+HD Installer & Fix for Ruff'n'Tumble V1.
slamtilthd.lha game/patch 26K+HD-Installer for SlamTilt V2.0
ultbbcd32hd.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for Ultimate BodyBlows CD32
zouthd.lha game/patch 32K+HD Installer & Fix for Z-Out V2.0
mangband.lha game/role 328K+Mangband 0.7.0 beta - client
ADoomPPC.lha game/shoot 551K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.6
pairsw3d.lha game/think 1.0M+Simple pairs card game using W3D.
Skulpt_68k.lha gfx/3d 1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (68k + Warp3D)
Skulpt_ppc.lha gfx/3d 1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (PPC (WarpOS) + Warp3D)
Skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 386K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
Anim2gif.lha gfx/conv 152K+Converts and rescales an amiga animation
Anim2mpegB.lha gfx/conv 264K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
Anim2mpegS.lha gfx/conv 282K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
Anim2qt.lha gfx/conv 167K+Converts and rescales an amiga animation
Mp2anim.lha gfx/conv 272K+Converts & scales mpeg animations to ami
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 11K+A CLI program used for graphics conversi
View.lha gfx/show 15K+Shows Pics via Datatypes
ATUtil-PCSide.lha misc/emu 279K+Some additional PC-side sources for ATUt
TDMouse-1.0os.lha misc/emu 41K+Use a serial PC mouse on the Amiga!
imdbDiff000929.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
LottoPL.lha misc/misc 398K+Lotto for players. (Polish - Duzy Lotek)
BD-Dominator.lha mods/bladr 49K+"Dominator" by Black Dragon/Honoo+LED.
BD-Emperor.lha mods/bladr 35K+"Emperor" by Black Dragon/Honoo+LED.
Lame68k.lha mus/misc 148K+Lame 3.87, mp3 encoder
SIL51_Icons_r1.lha pix/icon 207K+Few icons in OS3.5 Icon format.
HowToKillAPC.mpg pix/mpg 21M+How to kill a PC
AKBackPix03.lha pix/mwb 418K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 03 (ROM-Icons c
AKBackPrv03.jpg pix/mwb 128K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 03 - Preview
AKIconz4.lha pix/mwb 274K+A MWB *GAMES* Icon Collection (Vol. 4)
LombiWB.lha pix/wb 261K+Two grabs of my WB, one with RTG & one w
ArialFont.lha text/font 36K+Microsoft Arial font
ViewDiz_NO.lha util/arc 1K+Norwegian catalog for ViewDiz 2.1
MiniMen.lha util/batch 97K+A GUI menu program with many application
Matrix.lha util/blank 40K+DPMS Matrix screen blanker (v1.4)
AHelp15_NO.lha util/cdity 2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp v1.5
AHelp_NO.lha util/cdity 2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp 1.5
ttflib68020.lha util/libs 252K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68030.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68040.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68060.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
Dictionary.lha util/misc 5K+A very useful dictionary script
DirMaid.lha util/misc 12K+Sort your directories automatically.
LC2.lha util/misc 151K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
ResetRun2.lha util/misc 10K+Resets your computer and runs a given pr
Widerstand.lha util/misc 50K+Decoding resistor color rings (german)
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 54K+V1.20 - Test and identify wb-program
CyberClock_mag.lha util/time 5K+Hungarian translation for CyberClock
CyberClock_slk.lha util/time 5K+Slovak translation for CyberClock
Fix.backdrop.lha util/wb 46K+A GUI to clean up .backdrop files
WB2000_NO.lha util/wb 5K+Norwegian catalog for WorkBench2000 1.6
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10.Oct.2000
AMI Sector One
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AMI Sector One Extended
Welcome to another update of AMI Sector One. Today there is something of interest for
both emulator fans and Amiga users. But first of all let us begin with the new features written by Bernd:
Microdeal - A resume: This article is about
the hardware and software company Microdeal which disappeared in 199?.
Amiga Games vs. Amiga Joker: Here I compare two
issues of these popular Amiga games related magazines.
The update continues with the new games Tanglewood
(thanks to the author Ian Murray-Watson who allowed us to upload it),
Tie-Break (thanks to the author Andreas Seebeck),
Wrath of Gwendor and the request
Wizzy's Quest (English version). Besides the
ADF of Wikinger 2 has been fixed (thanks to Hubert
Maier jr. for repairing it).
Users of real Amiga computers will hopefully appreciate the following HD versions which have been added
today: F/A 18 Interceptor HD,
Lethal Xcess HD,
Sword of Sodan HD. Most of these HD versions require
an installed version of WHDLoad.
There are also some new scans of Amiga games: Advanced
Destroyer Simulation, Cosmo Ranger, Outrun, Peter Beardsley's Internat. Football, Pyramax, Quartz, Raider,
Renaissance, Revelation, S.E.U.C.K., Space Gun, Speed Ball, Tie-Break, Titan, Treasure Trap, Triango,
Turrican, UN Squadron, Way of the little Dragon, XCopy. Thanks to the contributors Peter and Raffaele.
I have also added some new tunes of games: View the new additions by clicking
here.
Finally I have also added information to another 280 Amiga games. You can access the information by clicking
here.
I hope you enjoyed today's small update. AMI Sector One will soon be back with some great news.
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