14.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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Error in AmiChameleon installer script
In the version of AmiChameleon released on August, 12th (we reported) is a bug in the installer script. According to a user's report the installer script aborted during the installation process. As an entry in the startup-sequence must be done the startup-sequence wasn't readable anymore after a reset.
The new script now doesn't add an entry to the startup-sequence anymore but gives the user the information that an entry has to be done and where it has do be done.
If this error occurs to other users, too, here is the solution of the problem: Before the writing to the startup-sequence a backup of this file was created called s:startup-sequence.orig. Just give it back its original name and everything should work as before.
Jörg Renkert (ps) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Genesi attending SNDF Europe as exhibitor and Gold Sponsor
As already at the American event in Dallas in April (amiga-news.de reported), Genesi will also attend Freescale's Smart Networks Developers Forum Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, September 28-30. Again, the Luxemburgish computer manufacturer will not only be an exhibitor there but also provide the Internet café as a Gold Sponsor. (snx)
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14.Aug.2004
Robert Wahnsiedler (e-mail)
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New address of French Amiga repairer Amiga.fr
The French Amiga Center for spare parts and repairs (including PowerUp cards), formerly known under the URL Amiga.fr, is now accessable via http://www.bourgogne-informatique.com.
The e-mail address of the Amiga Center is jean-jacques.boulet@wanadoo.fr. The snail mail address, bank account, telephone number and the offered services stay unchanged.
Furthermore, they are still looking for someone with interest to translate the homepage from French to English.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
ANN (website)
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MorphOS: demo of quiz game Miliarderzy released
Miliarderzy, a quiz game based on TV shows like "Wer wird Millionär" and on ideas of the authors, was now released as a beta version for MorphOS as well as for PPC-Linux and Windows.
All three versions are part of the archive (5.5 MB) and are available right now in Polish, English and Swedish. The programmers are looking for support to finish the game and for support of more languages.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Amiga-News.com (ANF)
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Event: Amigaparty Friedrichsdorf
On August, 21st 2004 an Amiga party will take place in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Next to AmigaOS 4.0 several more software pieces will be shown there.
These are:
- ANotice (a notepad program for the Workbench)
- JAmiga (Javacompiler for AmigaOS)
- Hollywood (presentation software and more)
- and one or the other surprise :)
The entry is free. Further information can be found following the title link.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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14.Aug.2004
Ron van Schaik (ANF)
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Commodore and Amiga show in the Netherlands on August 21st
Our C= and Amiga show on August 21st 2004 will be from 10:00 till 16:00 at the Trefpunt, Kerkweg 21 in Maarssen, Holland.
There will be again a lot of C= and Amiga fans together with their computers. You can buy and exchange stuff, discuss with a lot of other freaks and we do repairs. Come and join us and look for more info at the title link. (snx)
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13.Aug.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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MorphOS-Skin: SpaceStation
On morphzone.org there is a new skin for MorphOS (screenshot).
Direct download: spacestation.lha (755 KB)
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Aug.2004
heise online
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heise: The City of Munich Advances with Linux Migration
Last Wednesday at a press conference at city hall, München's (Munich's) Mayor and SPD politician Christian Ude stated that the Munich government would go ahead and begin accepting bids for the outfitting of their desktops with unrestricted software, in spite of legal unclarity and persistent fears of a patent war over open source.
Read the complete heise article under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
e.p.i.c. interactive (E-Mail)
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E.p.i.c. Interactive to attend Games Convention in Leipzig
E.p.i.c. Interactive will participate again this year in the 19th through 22nd August Leipzig Games Convention, which is the European gaming industry event.
You'll find us at the stand of our partner company Magnussoft in Hall 3, Stand B10. There we'll present various new items for Macintosh, Linux and Pegasos computer systems. We'll be happy to see you.
Best wishes,
Thomas Steiding
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
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4Players: Interview w. Former Demo Scene Member Jesper Kyd (Hitman-Soundtrack)
Under the title link you'll find a short interview that the videogame portal 4Players conducted with Jesper Kyd, a former adherent of the Amiga demo scene who is credited among others with the musical accompaniment of the "Hitman" games (PC, X-Box, PS2). (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Aug.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)
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AmiChameleon V1.35 Released
The theme installation program AmiChameleon has reached version 1.35. The following changes have been implemented:
- After Thilo Köhler reorganized the skins of his ArTKanoid, AmiChameleon was adapted. It now supports the new skins as well as the new sounds.
- It's immediately possible to have the AmiChameleon server check for certain program updates. Every time AmiChameleon starts (if this feature is activated and you're online) it checks to see if a new version is available from the server and notifies the user accordingly.
- AmiChameleon is now available in 68k and WarpOS versions.
- The localization data and installation script have been updated.
AmiChameleon v1.35 is available on the developer's homepage as a free download. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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10.Aug.2004
MorphZone (Website)
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MorphOS: Version 0.10 beta of information tool statline
Version 0.10 beta of the information tool 'statline' is available.
Changes:
- size gadget area is now a bit larger (catoh, canuma)
- added placeholders for opened screens and windows
- uses now BetterString for the formatstring (prefs)
- added placeholder for env vars
- added poplist for placeholders (prefs)
- added uptime and record uptime
- added placeholder for context switches per second
- added CPU temperature (not tested, maybe it works with MorphOS > 1.4.2 and G3)
- added CPU usage with dnetc filter
- certain smaller optimizations
- optimized calculation of load average (thx to piru for example)
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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10.Aug.2004
Gerhard Schmid (E-Mail)
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WinUAE: Major bug in version 0.9.90
The latest version 0.9.90 of WinUAE contains major bugs in the filesystem emulation,
that can lead to data loss.
Verson 0.9.91 (in progress) will contain these changes:
- Bugs in 0.9.90 fixed:
- Multiple directory filesystem emulation bugs (files getting truncated
to zero if opened in rw-mode, read-only files failing to open and some
operations returning incorrect AmigaDOS error codes)
- AGA horizontal scrolling bug in some games.
- Stereo separation setting was not always set properly.
- Another task-switching Direct3D/OpenGL-mode problem.
- Other bugs:
- Picasso96 black screen after CTRL-ALT-DEL.
- New features:
- "uae-configuration" Amiga side program that can list current configuration, change all
configuration parameters and send any inputevent on the fly.
- Both right alt and ctrl are mapped to firebutton in keyboard layout B
(some laptops don't have right ctrl).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 finished
After a longer period of time the operating system producer Microsoft now announced the finishing of the Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. It is said to be available for download for 25 languages in the coming two months. Alternatively it can be ordered for free on CD. The Service Pack 2 contains for the most parts security relevant improvements that are Microsoft's reaction on the criticism of their security concept for their OS. Read more in the (German) article of the Heise newsticker following the title link.
(cs) (Translation: wk)
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07.Aug.2004
Ralf Himmel (ANF)
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Haage & Partner: icon competition
The company Haage & Partner organizes an icon competition for AmigaOS 4. Looked for are complete OS4 icon sets or an application set. The creators of the three best looking sets win an OS4 version of ArtEffect. Deadline for the competition is October, 6th 2004. (snx) (Translation: wk)
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07.Aug.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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Instant Messenger: sixth prerelease of Jabberwocky V1.5
The sixth prerelease of v1.5 of the instant messenger Jabberwocky is now available. New are among other things the gadgets updating for changes done via the ARexx port, opening and closing the datatypes.library only once and reworked sound routines.
Download: Jabberwocky_aos_v1_5pre6.lha (82 KB)
(snx) (Translation: wk)
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06.Aug.2004
heise.de (ANF)
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PPC-Linux: First preversion of Yellow Dog Linux 4
Terra Soft Solutions has published a first preversion of its PPC-Linux-distribution
"Yellow Dog Linux Release 4".
The preversion runs on Apple Macintosh computers with G3-, G4- or
G5- (PPC 970) processors.
So far only a 32-Bit-version has been planned and the 64-Bit-modus of the PowerPC G5
is being not supported currently.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Ati-News (ANF)
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Sources of Q3-Engine will be released at the end of the year
In a forum John Carmack from ID Software (Doom, Quake) announced on
slashdot.org that the Quake3-source codes will be released at the end of this year.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
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Hardware-FAQ: Which floppy drives work with an Amiga?
Under the title link you can find an English FAQ which lists information to the
compability of several floppy drives to the Amiga.
If you have to change a floppy drive on your Amiga you can find there important
information.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Amiga Games Hit Parade (ANF)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results July/August 2004
The results of the Amiga games hit parade of July/August 2004:
- 1. (1) Quake 2 - 96 pts
- 2. (7) Slam Tilt - 89 pts
- 3. (5) Heretic 2 - 76 pts
- 4. (2) Earth 2140 - 75 pts
- 5. (3) Payback - 74 pts
- 6. (4) Crossfire 2 - 62 pts
- 7. (12) Sensible World Of Soccer - 62 pts
- 8. (13) WipEout 2097 - 61 pts
- 9. (9) Napalm - 59 pts
- 10. (6) Knights And Merchants - 53 pts
- 11. (11) Quake - 50 pts
- 12. (14) The Settlers - 49 pts
- 13. (28) SuperFrog - 47 pts
- 14. (33) Shogo - 42 pts
- 15. (34) Stardust / Super Stardust - 35 pts
- 16. (52) Bubble Heroes - 39 pts
- 17. (22) Hired Guns - 31 pts
- 18. (17) Fields Of Battle - 31 pts
- 19. (19) Dune 2 - 29 pts
- 20. (10) Kick Off 2 - 28 pts
The next votes (for September/October 2004) will be started on September.
You can get further information under the title link.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv I: V1.6 published / DKG II-Status
SN-EuroArchiv I V1.6 is available on my homepage. You can now limit all statistics
to one year or month to show only the whole statistic of e.g. August 2004.
This limitation can be also linked with the "free choice gadget" which has been added in the
last version.
DKG II-status: I only have to finish the buying of buildings of competitors.
Then a proper test of the new routines of the real game (and not the debug version)
must be done to see if it is all right. I think during the next seven days
a new release will be published. If you want to know what features have been added in the
new version then have a look at the
status-website.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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06.Aug.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Website of the GAUHPIL database updated
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a
list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll, containing websites of
Amiga users, ordered by continents and countries. Meanwhile, the
GAUHPIL has been converted into a MySQL based database solution.
Today, a cosmetic change was done, that should improve the look a lot:
the languages of the homepages are now symbolised by small flags. (snx)
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05.Aug.2004
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Various Software Updates by Thilo Köhler
Thilo Köhler released the following updates to his programs:
- Sample Manager 1.3 - AHI sample editor in the AudioMaster style with DSP effects
- PosTED 1.3 - Memory aid for Workbench in the style of PostIT!
- TuiTED 1.3 Alpha - Text editor with data browser and syntax highlighting for HTML, C++, AmiBlitz
- TKPlayer 1.3 - Mini-AHI-player for mp3, aiff, wav, maud, 8svx, cdda.
ideal for Def-Icons or for a filer on account of the fact that it has no extensive GUI. New: TKPlayer Lite, which doesn't open a GUI at all and therby may be utilized as a soundplayer in programs such as YAM.
- AsteroidsTR 1.2 - Asteroids clone with global Internet highscore List. New: improvements to the Internet highscore list and better compatibility with MorphOS
- ArTKanoid 2.9 - Arkanoid clone for the WB screen w 24 bit skins. New: more sound skins, bugfixes
The named software is available under the title link or on Aminet, after the next Aminet refresh. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Psyria Music Productions (ANF)
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More Amiga Games for Mobile Telephone
Psyria writes: because the subject has come up in today's news I'd also like to mention something.
For those familiar with good old Amiga games, the following two links should be of interest:
Jubble Bobble -
freeware Bubble Bobble for all Siemens Handys with Java
Tower - Nebulus Buy&Play variant (levels may be purchased alongside) for various Handy models
Have fun with the gaming! :) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer for Mobile Telephone
Under the title link you'll find an english language interview with Tower Studios, a firm that was recently founded by Jon Hare (former leader of Sensible Software), Mike Montgomery (former leader of Bitmap Brothers) and John Phillips (former Technical Director of Bitmap Brothers). They want to bring the Amiga game classics Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer to mobile telephone. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Olaf Barthel & Matthias Rustler
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Sourceforge Project for "clib2"
"clib2" is a C library that's used in OS4 wherever the alternative "newlib" is not. Olaf Barthel has worked on this library for two years, originally with the goal of using it for the port of Samba 2.2.5.
In the meantime a lot more has happened:
An almost complete ISO-C (1994) compatible runtime environment with fully available source code. It may be used with GCC (68k und PowerPC) or SAS/C. Whoever has problems with the StormC runtime library, for example, may have better luck with clib2 (assuming an adaptation to this compiler has been made).
Because such a big project is not without bugs after two years, Olaf would be pleased to have the support of more developers. To this end the clib2 project has been hosted on sourceforge.net for the past few weeks. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)
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MorphOS Adaptations of MUIFind and Altabber, Devedie Update
The programs Altabber and MUIFind are now also available for MorphOS. Relating to that there have been some recent instances of bugs being eliminated that gave the current MorphOS version problems.
And so the graphic user interface of Devedie for DVD display by way of MPlayer has been updated. This may be downloaded for Pegasoshere , in the Pegasos Forum.
MUIFind is a search program taht has the option of opening the found data as well as opening the corresponding program.
Altabber works in principal like Alt+Tab key combinations under Windows. It also enables switching between programs. The way this is done involves separate handling of screens and windows, and the hotkeys are freely configurable.
Download:
Altabber-MOS.lha (43 KB)
MUIFindMOS_R2.lha (46 KB) (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Aug.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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Incriminations against Genesi in connection with the Guardian withdrawn
While reporting about the discontinuation of Pegasos support by the operating system OpenBSD, we also linked to a statement by Mitch B. Parker on the mailinglist OpenBSD-misc. Mr. Parker had worked on the Guardian project together with Dale Rahn and ShopIP.
In the mentioned mailinglist posting, he had accused Genesi of reverse engineering and sabotage with regard to ShopIP's CrunchBox. Under the title link, again on the OpenBSD-misc mailinglist, he has now withdrawn his incriminations as being utterly false. (snx)
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