15.Jan.2004
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)
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Anti-Virus Software: xvs.library Version 33.41
Georg Hörmann released an update to version 33.41 of the xvs.library. You may download the library from the website of the Virus Help Team and soon from Aminet as well.
Program Name: Xvs.library v33.41
Programmer: Georg Hörmann
Release Date: 15th of January, 2004
Archive Name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive Size: 93,522 Bytes
Change in v33.41:
- Added AmigaE/libraries/xvs.m developer file. Thanks must go to
Ronald van Dijk for this contribution.
- Once again rewritten taskscanner in xvsSurveyMemory() to avoid
Disable()s lasting longer than 250µs. Thanks to Christian again
for reporting the problems with his FastEthernet card.
- Fixed bootblock recognition of "GXTeam" bootvirus to avoid false
alarms. Thanks to Ronald van Dijk for the example file.
- Fixed problem in xvsCheckFile() that caused Enforcer hits under
certain conditions with damaged executables. Thanks again for the
example files to Ronald van Dijk.
- Added "ASS Protector 1.0" bootvirus clone and its installer and
modified recognition for the original virus. Fixed recognition of
"Liberator 1.21" filevirus to avoid false alarms. Thanks once more to
Ronald van Dijk for the report and example files.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Kultpower.de (ANF)
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Kultpower.de: New Starkiller Sequel Online
In the Starkiller section of the retro website "KultPower" the eleventh Starkiller sequel is online: "Starkiller: the Prisoners of Zelda," as always with exclusive commentary from Heinrich Lenhardt!
Beyond that there is also a cool Kult editorial with photos of the notorious ASM Crew and the prime ASM special editions, sent in by Dominik. And then something else quite special: Powerplay fan art! A Powerplay wallpaper from Martin. And then also issue one and two of the 1996 Sega magazine, scanned by Vitek. Many thanks to you all! (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)
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IBM Holds PowerPC Seminar at AmiGBG 2004
The Amiga convention AmiGBG 2004 is to take place on the 3rd of April 2004 in the Swedish city of Göteborg. The show organizers are expecting Mikael Haglund, a technical expert from IBM Sweden, who will present a treatise on the future of the PowerPC platform. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Announcement: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004
Cloanto announced today that Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 will take place on
Saturday, July 3rd. The provisional event home page, which includes
pictures from last year's event, is at 0xAA.org.
Planned features include the latest Amiga news, a selection of items of
historical interest, a contest (with a C65 computer as the first prize),
an excursion by boat (on Monday), and of course Amiga friends from all
over the world. Other cultural events taking place in Udine at the same
time include the Sunsplash
music festival.
Cloanto would like to thank Amiga, Inc. for granting permission to use the
"Amiga" trademark in the name of the event. (nba)
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15.Jan.2004
David Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote in January and February 2004
The organizers of Amiga Games Hit Parade are calling for a vote of games for January and February 2004. You may take part in the vote by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet
or participate online at hitparade.amigames.com.
You may include any type of game you like (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.). The final results will be released at the start of February, 2004. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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15.Jan.2004
Amiga Arena (ANF)
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Amiga Arena Presents "HollyRecord"
In collaboration with Telemar Rosenberger, Amiga Arena presents "HollyRecord" for AmigaOS and MorphOS. With "HollyRecord" you can record the animations and presenations you have created with Hollywood.
To do this you also need the tool SGrab by Stephan Rupprecht.
"HollyRecord" can save your presentation in PNG, JPG, or ILBM format pictures, which may then with a program of your choosing be processed and joined into an animation or an mPeg video. You'll find "HollyRecord" under the "free commercial - utilities" logo at Amiga Arena. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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14.Jan.2004
anonym (ANF)
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Strategy game: News about "Schlachtfeld"
The beta test of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld" has begun now.
Currently documentation is under improvement, later on the game will be made available to a bigger user base.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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Skinplayer: Professional skins for Frogger, AmigaAMP and others
Skinplayer is a GUI programm for Frogger, AmigaAMP, Mplayer and other
audio tools which are capable of using professional skins. Those are available
here in terms of freeware.
Skinplayer supports the buttons only currently, sliders, state displays or fonts are not supported by now.
More information is available within the readme.
Because of an error within Hollywood's brush refreshment the position of the
skinplayer has been fixed by the author, i.e. the window cannot be moved. It is possible to disable the fixed window within the tool types
but then the buttons will not be updated until they are clicked on.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
karibu@gmx.net (ANF)
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Novell publishes correspondence with SCO according the Unix law suit
Novell, Inc. emphasize their copyright claim of Unix.
In a chronologic, German summary the company published the correspondence between them and the
SCO group since May 2003 as well as many Unix copyright registries, which should bring evidence that Novell are the holders of
all Unix rights.
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
Golem IT-News (Website)
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Golem: SCO supplies evidences
SCO announces in a press release they delivered the evidences asked by IBM
according the order by judge Brooke C. in time. SCO said the papers aren't complete and not public.
Further news regarding this issue:
(nba) (Translation: ub)
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14.Jan.2004
ANN (Website)
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LAME: Update of the MP3 encoder to version 3.95.1
The LGPL MP3 encoder LAME is now available at amiga.sourceforge.net in
version 3.95.1 (702 KB).
Changes include the wipe out of that bug crashing the program if used with vbr-new and the
ReplayGain reference level was set to 89 dB.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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13.Jan.2004
Thomas van Spitjoud (E-Mail)
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First screenshot of "Civilisation - Call to Power" for OS4
Thomas van Spitjoud is currently working on the port of the
strategical "Civilisation - Call To Power" to be released
for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0. On his webpage under the
title link he pusblished the first public screenshot of the
alpha-version ctp2 v0.1 so people can see it is real. For now
the game only runs in window-mode, there is no sound yet and
of course the overall stability is quite bad so a first
beta version is expected to be released not earlier than
in a few weeks. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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13.Jan.2004
ANF
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SystemPatch: Version 2.2 published
Sante Nocciolino's SystemPatch, which is patching many
different system routines for getting a better performance on Amiga computers (68020 or better) ist published now
in the version 2.2.
The RemIBob-Patch was cancelled, because he had bugs. Also an installation script is installed.
Download (27 KB).
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
MaxWorld (ANF)
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HomeBank v3.0 beta for testing released
With the shareware programm HomeBank you are allowed to manage your finances, f.e. you can count the costs of your car.
The new version, which is available now in the beta version will publish following new features:
- subroutines
- payment receiver
- budgets
- a few standard improvement
- a few news
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
Christian Hviid (E-Mail)
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IRIS published Eurochart 47 and new 3D-Matrix-Screensaver
Better late than never. The demo scene group IRIS published the 47th edition of the legend Eurochart
which you can download under the title link. This edition was processed by Darkhawk/IRIS,
Dr. Doom/IRIS und Zerox/Gods. You can read an interwiev with Darkhawk in the new edition of AMIGAplus 01/2004.
Also a new version of a screensaver "3D-Matrix" was released, which is now compatible to graphic cards with 3D-chip
and AmigaOS 3.9.
The IRIS homepage is getting a new design with new contents shortly. So please look there in the next few months!
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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13.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF)
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Cloanto licenses MPEG-4- and HighMAT-technologies
Cloanto announced today that they entered into a licensing agreement with
MPEG LA, LLC to use
MPEG-4 Visual
technology, and with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and
Microsoft Corporation to use
HighMAT technology in its products.
Cloanto plans to use MPEG-4 to produce high quality cross-platform
encodings of a new series of Amiga Forever videos, and HighMAT for quick
access and indexing of such video files on the next version of the Amiga
Forever CD-ROM.
The growing list of third-party items already licensed for use in Amiga
Forever includes the portfolio of Amiga patents, copyrights and
trademarks, technology such as GIF/LZW by Unisys Corporation (used in
Cloanto's Personal Paint) and hundreds of contributions such as Amiga
applications and other items of historical interest. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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12.Jan.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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ArakAttack USB Driver V0.95 Beta available for testing
Guido Mersmann just uploaded a new beta version of ArakAttack which is
available for downloading (268 KB). This version contains many rewritten parts, so Mersmann
deceided to upload a beta for testing. It's running as good as the prior
version on the developer system. If less devices (of course also more) are
working or you get other problems, then please send a message to the
developer. This version needs half as much memory, less CPU time and
should work a little faster.
Special Note for users of G-Rex/Pegasos:
The chance that ArakAttack is working on G-Rex increased a lot. On the
bad side openpci still does not contain a pci address calculation
function, with forced Mersmann to write a work around (again). This time
the work around is less compatible and may not work. If V0.95 is not
working on Pegasos anymore, then keep the 0.94 until there is an openpci
update. (nba) (Translation: nba)
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10.Jan.2004
Henrik Mikael Kristensen (E-Mail)
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AWeb: Overview page of the features in development
Our new Work Overview page will help us getting more structure in future
development of AWeb. It's Bugzilla with a friendlier face. :-)
http://hmk.naff.dk/overview.php (this link may change)
In other news, the GCC conversion of AWeb APL Lite is progressing very
well, as the first tests shows a fairly stable internal release of the
full program. All parts have been converted now, which means in theory,
it should be possible to create a native AmigaOS4 version. If anyone
wants to do that, contact us.
Hopefully we can get a beta out soon, and work towards a 3.5 release.
Regards,
AWeb Development Team (snx)
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10.Jan.2004
T.o.T.-Forum
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T.o.T.: Update 0.51 r2
The update fixes the "Black Screen" error under MorphOS.
Download: ToT_Amiga_V0.51_R2.lha (864.2 KB)
Before installing the fixed version you have to update to the recently released version 0.51 r1 first.
(cr) (Translation: wk)
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10.Jan.2004
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)
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PerfectPaint: Development halted for the time being
Georges Halvadjian, author of PerfectPaint,
writes:
No news and update since a long time. Development of PerfectPaint is
actually in stand by. I'm just waiting to see the future of Amiga.
Regards,
Georges
(snx)
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09.Jan.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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HardwareAssistent: Update of "Driver Descriptor Creator"
Version 0.72 of "Driver Descriptor Creator" (ddc) is available under the title link.
Some bugs have been fixed which caused some failure.
Soon the CD to HardwareAssistent will be also available.
Then it will be possible to install the drivers directly from the CD. Besides this
some additional material will be there, e.g. many manuals in pdf-format.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
Anonym (ANF)
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Print magazine: Pegasos2-article in "WCM"
An article about Genesi and its Pegasos2-mainboard has been published in the Austrian
PC-magazine called WCM (issue 2/04, page 17). Furthermore you can read there about
the co-operation with IBM concerning the successor with G5-CPU. You can read the full
article under the title link (in German).
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: Medusa USB Bundle available
IOSPIRIT announces the immediate availability of Medusa USB, a driver
package enabling the use of OnBoard- and PCI-USB-controllers under
Amithlon and other supported PCI-solutions.
Medusa USB contains full versions of the USB-stack Poseidon, the
PCI-USB-driver ArakAttack and special full versions of the IOUSB DigiCam
and IOUSB Scanner packages.
Medusa USB enables users of Amithlon and other supported hardware, to
completly avoid the purchase and installation of additional USB-hardware
and instead make use of already existant OnBoard-controllers, thereby
saving precious PCI-slots.
About Poseidon
The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB
interface. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.
Poseidon has a modular design that fits into the AmigaOS environment very
neatly. It is no port of an existing system (like the Linux USB stack),
but has been created with the unique features of AmigaOS in mind that make
the operation system so efficient. Already in 2002 Poseidon received the
Amiga Award as best Amiga software.
About ArakAttack
ArakAttack is a USB driver-package for Poseidon, with which USB shall be
made possible on every PCI-capable AmigaOS. The supported standards
currently include UHCI and OHCI. Nearly every PCI-USB-board or
USB-OnBoard controller are compatible with one of these standards. A list
of already tested devices can be found in the respective subpages of the
Medusa USB product pages.
About IOUSB Scanner and DigiCam Package
As a bonus, the IOUSB packages, which for the first time allow the use of
USB-scanners and -digicams, are contained in special SE-versions (equal to
the full versions in functionality). However, since it's a free bonus and
testing with all possible hardware combinations was impossible, these
SE-versions come without support and functional guarantee.
Compatibility
ArakAttack usually should work with every OnBoard- and PCI-controller
supported by PowerPCI (Amithlon) and OpenPCI. Nonetheless, it is possible
that in certain constellations and especially with PCI-solutions not, not
fully or not error-free supported by OpenPCI (Mediator, Prometheus,
G-Rex), there can be compatibility problems. It is thus recommended
to download the demo versions of Poseidon and ArakAttack and to test it
for compatibility with the hardware in use prior to the purchase.
Availability
Medusa USB is immediately available as download version for 34.99 EUR and
as package version (with certificate) for 44.99 EUR. Dealer inquiries
desired. (nba)
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09.Jan.2004
Orbiter on Scenet (Website)
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Event: AmigaOS 4.0 at Compusphere 14
The ACGGbg will participate in the this year`s Compusphere 14 in Sweden and will present
AmigaOS 4.0. At this event a presentation of the operating system with its news and several
applications and of an AmigaOne will be shown.
The Compusphere 14 will take place from 13th until 15th February 2004 in the
Älvsjöstrandens restaurant in Göteborg.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
Scenia (Website)
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Grapevine-Team searches Amiga-developer
A community of developers, editors and readers of the legendary diskmag "Grapevine"
is going to reanimate it. Therefore a developer is searched who can program a
diskmag engine for AmigaOS. If you are interested in then please write a mail to
Nico Barbat.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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New opinion poll: Amiga "unword" of year 2003
We have gone through twelve exciting months. amiga-news.de wants you to participate in
a new opinion poll:
Choose the Amiga "unword" of the year 2003!
You can choose between the following names:
- Articia-Bug
- Insolvency
- Platform-change
- Troll
- T-Shirt
- "Abzocke" (to rip sb off)
- When it's done
- FUD
Have fun! You can read the results here.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
A.D.A. (Website)
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A.D.A.: Crystal Symphonies 1 & 2 added
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) can present some new productions:
The legendary sound disks "Crystal Symphonies" by Phenomena, Scoopex and Rebels
from 1991 with music by Mantronix und Tip as well as "Crystal Symphonies 2" by
Phenomena from 1992 have been added. (nba) (Translation: dr)
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09.Jan.2004
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Amazon changes partner program
Amazon cancels the classic partnership program with 15%. According to that
direct links can only achieve 7,5% instead of 15%. This effects several
Amiga homepages as affiliate-partner and amiga-news.de, too.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Amiga.org Soon To Go Temporarily Offline
Sometime between Friday, January 9th and Monday, January 12th, the Amiga portal amiga.org will be taken offline for an unspecified time to accomplish maintenance and upgrades. During this time, and for a while afterwards, e-mail forwarding will not work. They report they've been planning these actions for quite a while, but the changes are quite in-depth, and prone to error.
Contrary to circulating rumor, Amiga.org is not being retired at this time. They state they will be back ASAP. More information about the changes and new features will be made available after their return to service. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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AROS: Poll About Desired Hardware
Under the title link you'll find a survey that those responsible from Team
AROS are trying to find out what potential AROS users want. Would you rather run AROS on high performance hardware, or the quietest hardware, or the cheapest hardware? (cg) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies Records #064
The scene group Liquid Skies released their 64th music pack yesterday. It contains a trance track named "Beautiful Morning" from musician Maxus. The cover is by DaFreak.
Title: Beautiful Morning
Musician: Maxus
Style: Trance
Song lenth: 3:49
Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
Size: 4.5 MB
The zipped file is available under the title link as a free download. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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08.Jan.2004
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)
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BTTR: Previously missing HD-Games added
The BTTR-Team writes: Although already announced in our Christmas update
we forgot to add 20 new HD-Games into our database.
This mistake has been fixed today, so if you already
downloaded all files of the update then please check
the HD-Games link on the news page for the previously
missing files.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but imagine, we added
3890 entries and more than 25GB of new files with the
last update (that's about the size of entire Aminet),
so the error ratio isn't that bad. ;-) (nba)
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08.Jan.2004
Ulrich Panzer (E-Mail)
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T.o.T.: Amiga Version 0.51 R1
A new version of Tales of Tamar appeared this year. There have been some more improvements since the last update.
[Extremely long list of itemized changes not translated from German. Click on the title link for the ToT homepage]
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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