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04.Nov.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


Event: Photos of the AmigaOne presentation in Beijing (Update)
In the last September Alan Redhouse, owner of the AmigaOne distributor Eyetech has presented the plans of the company about the AmigaOne PPC systems on a big computer meeting in the Chinese Beijing.

He demonstrated the AmigaOS 4 on the AmigaOne inside the meeting hall. You can see some photos of this event on the website and read a by Babelfish translated version of a news of the newspaper Guangming Daily online here.

Update:

The presentation Alan Redhouse used on a first meeting in the Far East in February 2003 is also available on the net. The presentation is available as Powerpoint file and can be downloaded here. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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04.Nov.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies records #059
Liquid Skies has released the music pack #59. It contains a track from the musician Lcr and the cover from Kuadziw.

Information about the track:
  • Title: Psycho Being
  • Artist: Lcr
  • Style: Drum'n'Base
  • Length: 3:19
  • Format: mp3 (128kbps)

The zipped file (size: 3.1 MB) is available for download under the title link. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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04.Nov.2003
Amiga.org


IBM wins the CPU contract for the Microsoft's X-BOX 2
Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp.'s Technology Group announced today (Nov. 3) that the next-generation Xbox electronic game console will use a yet-to-be-designated IBM processor. IBM's chip will replace Intel Corp.'s Pentium III processor now in the current Xbox version. IBM is producing the chip for Nintendo's Gamecube and is developing the CPU for the Playstation 3 in cooperation with Sony.

Further information: EE Times and Heise (German). (snx) (Translation: gf)

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03.Nov.2003
Amigan Software (Website)


Software-Updates by Amigan Software
The shareware developers Amigan Software released updates for three programs.

Version 7.61 of the snake clone 'Worm Wars' is now available for AmigaOS and Windows.

A new version (5.76) of the freeware program 'Report+' has been released. The tool is based on ReAction/GadTools and requires AmigaOS 3.9. With the help of 'Report+' one can create for example Aminet readmes, replace the Commodore bug reporting tool or check the size (in bytes) of a directory.

Of Saga, a conversion of the board game "Saga: Age of Heroes" released in 1981 by TSR, a new version (1.34a) is now available. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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03.Nov.2003
Thore Böckelmann (ANF)


System-Monitor: Scout Version 3.3
Thore Böckelmann released version 3.3 of the system monitor 'Scout'. 'Scout' offers you a closer look on current system resources and lets you manipulate them if possible.

Due to the fact that the list of changes is quiet long we recommend to read the changelog. The source code is no longer available as a seperate archive. The sources are now accessible via sourceforge.net as a public CVS repository.

The binary archive is also available in the Aminet. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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03.Nov.2003
Chris Hodges (Website)


Poseidon: Unknown person spreads crack-instructions
As the author of Poseidon, Chris Hodges, informs on his website, someone spread instructions how to crack his USB stack on three mailing-lists yesterday.

According to Chris Hodges, this happened under the fake name "Dan Gaines" and, as a smokescreen, by using a freemailer in London as well as an anonymous proxy located in the UK. But the high amount of grammar mistakes in the posting would make it unlikely that this person was a native speaker. "Dan Gaines" would have been registered only a week ago, by which this seems to be a thoughtfully planned assault.

As the author states, the effects on the development of Poseidon are still to be considered - but the effect on his motivation would have been already devastating.

The further speculation by Chris Hodges regarding the background of this incident can be found on his website in the message from November 3. (snx)

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03.Nov.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #031031
The complete newsletter of October 2003 by Amiga Update can be found at the title link. Contents:
  • Amiga Shows in Ottawa, Canada, and near Valence, France
  • Amizilla widens scope for prize
  • STFax 5 goes freeware
  • fxPAINT 2.02 Update available
  • StarAM Plan Spreadsheed Update
  • DVD Tools for Amiga
  • PowerIcons 1.04 Release
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03.Nov.2003



Aminet Uploads bis 03.11.2003
New Aminet-Uploads since our last report:
ix2xml.lha           comm/misc   25K+Microdot-II index file to XML converter.
ReadAIMLogs.lha      comm/misc   41K+AmigAIM logfile to text converter.  Sour
MakeHTMLMap.lha      comm/www   531K+Powerful WWW Gallery/Catalog Creator (A+
MCC_HotkeyStr.lha    dev/mui     45K+HotkeyString custom class for MUI
AmiWBOnPegasos.lha   docs/help    4K+How to install and run AmigaOS 3.9 Workb
AmigaPower.lha       docs/hyper  61K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine (26 Oc
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/lists 1.7M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 10/2003 (Itali
Saga.lha             game/board 330K+Saga 1.34a: Conversion of TSR boardgame
DC2Lvl-EMine2.lha    game/data  454K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II
WormWars.lha         game/misc  538K+Worm Wars 7.61: Advanced snake game
AS-FlowerGarde.lha   game/think 202K+Windmill Solitaire Game
AS-Scottish.lha      game/think 199K+Scottish Solitaire Game
AS-Windmill.lha      game/think 168K+Windmill Solitaire Game
trilero68kb2.lha     game/think 878K+Second beta version of trilero simulator
ArakAttack.lha       hard/drivr 166K+V0.92 USB Driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
X-Media.lha          hard/drivr 276K+Clean Software hack to see modes >1024x7
ADC-WinUAE.lha       hard/hack   10K+ADC For Amiga Forever 5, WinUAE, GPL.
calculus.lha         misc/math  315K+Mathematics Calculator
acidtake.mpg         mods/mpg    10M+AcidTakeOver. Techno (MP3) tune from Emu
amphetarmx.mpg       mods/mpg   9.2M+AmphetamineRMX. Techno/Trance/House (MP3
nofuture_Music.lha   mods/synth 147K+Music Demos from Games 
nofuture_Phase.lha   mods/synth 147K+Music Demos from Games 
EasyPlayer.lha       mus/play   109K+The GUI for *all* shell-based music play
MiniPlayer16.lha     mus/play   104K+Simple module player
PNGicons128x12.lha   pix/icon   1.4M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons16x16.lha    pix/icon   741K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons22x22.lha    pix/icon   209K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons32x32.lha    pix/icon   1.9M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons48x48.lha    pix/icon   3.4M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons64x64.lha    pix/icon   4.7M+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
PNGicons96x96.lha    pix/icon   335K+Collection of PNG icons for Amiga Pegaso
USBStickPowerI.lha   pix/icon     6K+A cool PowerIcon for USB MemorySticks
WHD-Icons.lha        pix/icon   391K+Games icons for WHDload installs
AP24Covers.lha       pix/misc   340K+AMiGa=PoWeR n 24 Covers Recto & Verso
mv_gfx.lha           pix/wb     254K+NewGfX for Mysticview
SinisrusOS3.9.jpg    pix/wb     531K+Screen Grab of OS 3.9 Workbench
ExtraLib.lha         util/libs  357K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  308K+Report+ 5.76: Multipurpose utility
StartBar-ITA.lha     util/misc   95K+Italian version of StartBar
Gyrok_PowerIco.lha   util/wb    321K+Gyrok_PowerIcons
PowerIcons.lha       util/wb    393K+NEW! 32bit PNG icons on your Amiga !!! (
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03.Nov.2003
Mikey C (ANF)


OS4-demonstrations in England in the middle of November (Update)
South Essex Amiga Link are pleased to announce that they will be demonstrating AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne at its next group meeting. The meeting will be held on Friday Nov. 14th, between 7 pm to 11 pm, in Basildon, Essex.

On Sunday 16th November SEAL will once more demonstrate AmigaOS4 running on an AmigaOne machine, by travelling to the Amiga North Thames group meeting, being held in Enfield, NE London, between the hours of 1 pm to 5 pm.
Both events are no shows, there will be no dealers and no speakers, but everyone is welcome, admittance is free.

For Venue directions please see:
SEAL: http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk
ANT: http://www.amiganorththames.co.uk


Update: The meeting in Enfield has been re-scheduled and will take place already on Nov. 9th. (snx)

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02.Nov.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


ArakAttack - USB driver for Amithlon & OpenPCI
The ArakAttack demo version is now available. The demo version is time limited and much slower than the full version.

What is ArakAttack?

ArakAttack is an USB driver paket that allows the usage of USB on any AmigaOS compatible system with PCI slots. ArakAttack isn't an USB stack, it's a driver paket for Chris Hodges great USB Stack Poseidon.

What are the features of ArakAttack?
  • Amithlon optimised version.
  • OpenPCI compatible version.
  • UHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
  • OHCI controller support. (incl. on board)
  • Unlimited number of USB controllers supported at the same time.
  • Unlimited number of parallel USB transfers garantees maximum performance.
  • Only one device with multiple units makes installation very easy.
  • Intelligent transfer descriptor caching mechanism.
  • Several user options allow an optimisation of resource management to the users requirements.
  • Full mem handler support. (Frees resources and caches if the system signals low system memory)
  • No HUB depth limits.
  • Separate time out handling for each USB request garantees the driver never freezes the USB stack or the system.
  • External interrupt fallback for systems with interrupt trouble.

What is also required to use ArakAttack?

The latest version of Chris Hodges' Poseidon USB Stack.

In addition to that other components are required:

Amithlon: powerpci.library - version 2.13 or better.

Amiga PCI / Pegasos: openpci.library - version V1.20 or better.

Which USB Controller is required for ArakAttack?

Most of the current USB controllers are supported. Just take care it's UHCI, OHCI or EHCI compatible. Well, you will have difficulties to find any other within the stores now.

Amithlon user may be happy to hear that on board USB controllers are working, too!

How can I register?

Well, currently the registration makes no sense, because ArakAttack is quite useless without a registered USB Stack.

If you own a Poseidon key feel free to register. Further information can be found in the manual.

PLEASE: Don't bother Chris Hodges with questions about registering Poseidon. He is very busy at the moment, so please keep quiet until the registration site will be up again. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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01.Nov.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: special anniversary sale of "Inga"
Because of the 5th anniversary of the Amiga Arena offers Inutilis Software the graphics adventure developers package Inga in a limited number from now on at a price of 19,- Euro plus 2,- p&p.

This special edition of Inga will be delivered on a CD-ROM without a printed manual, a documentation is on the CD-ROM in HTML. The CD contains in addition an up-to-date quite big demo of "Ermentrud".

The order can be done via the Amiga Arena following the title link. This offer is limited to five CDs and only valid until November, 8th 2003! Special thanks go to Timo Kloss who made this sale possible. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003



Wrong Planet: Amiga news in a completely different way
Wrong Planet is an (English) satirical "News" service for Amiga users that draws a bead on all and everyone. People who have followed the soap opera "Amiga Market" in the last months with attention will surely have had fun with the numerous side-swipes.

Update:

URL changed. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003



MorphOS: picture viewer "MiniShowPicture"
"MiniShowPicture" is a picture viewer for MorphOS based on MUI. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003
Murakami (ANF)


Magazine: aMiGa=PoWeR n°24 released
aMiGa=PoWeR is a French news magazine that is distributed by the gathering AFLE and counts since its debut in 1998 as one of the most important French Amiga publications. In the current issue #24 you can read among others the following articles:
  • News: AmigaOS 4, Pegasos II, fxPAINT v2.02, GoldED Studio AIX
  • Reviews: AmigaOne G4-XE, Spider II USB 2.0, AmiNetRadio v2.0, WHDLoad v16.0, ScummVM v0.5.0, Duke Nukem3D
  • and many more.
(nba) (Translation: wk)

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01.Nov.2003
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)


Magazine: Club Amiga Magazine #10 release on November, 8th 2003
The release day of issue #10 of the Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been postponed by one week by the editorial staff. The new issue will therefore be released on November, 8th 2003. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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31.Oct.2003
http://www.retrohq.de/shop (ANF)


Printed reference-book: "Game machines"
In the shop of the retro specialist retrohq.de there is a reference-book to the famous console and computer systems of the 80s. You can find test sites under http://www.retrohq.de. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2003
heise online (Website)


heise: Microsoft is going to take over Google
Today the New York Times reports that Microsoft is going to have a partnership or to fully take over Google. You can only read the full article of the NYT under the title link if you pay for it. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2003



Pegasos website at OpenBSD.org online
By http://www.openbsd.org/pegasos.html, the Pegasos version of OpenBSD now also has its own page at the official OpenBSD website. Here you can find information about the current status of development, supported peripherals, the corresponding mailing list and the installation. (snx)

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31.Oct.2003
Ralf Steines (E-Mail)


Back to the Roots: bchunk win32 - Official beta test
This is an official beta version of the Win32-port of binchunker which is also known as bchunk. bchunk is an Unix-Shell command which allows you to extract ISO-images from CUE/BIN-images. Besides this it is possible to extract audio tracks to the CD-audio-format (.crd) or to the WAV-format (.wav).

The file is available under the title link (17kb). An Amiga version is still in work.

Please test this program with e.g. CD32-CDs which also contains audio tracks and test if the WAV-files are correctly playable.

You can get the source code at inquiry. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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30.Oct.2003



Icon Patch: PowerIcons 1.04
This new version of the icon patch "Power Icons" contains many bug fixes. The exact changes for version 1.04 are viewable in the Change Log. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de


MAME: Version 0.72 for MorphOS Appears
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) has progressively appeared in version 0.72 for MorphOS.

[see also starroms.com to purchase ROMs -DM]

Download (snx) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003



Titan is looking for translators for Papyrus Office
Titan Computer is looking for translators for their upcoming software Papyrus Office. A German, English and French localization does already exist. If you are interested to help, please send a short e-mail to Michael Garlich. (snx)

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30.Oct.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)


Source Code Released of Civilization: Call to Power II
On 28th October 2003 Activision released for free the source code for the strategy game "Civilization: Call to Power II." It may be downloaded from the website of Apolyton . Because the hardware requirements are moderate, PC hardware with a speed of 166 MHz and memory of 64 megs, nothing should stand in the way technically of a port to Amiga OS or MorphOS. The 8 megs of source contain the main parts of the code necessary to do a port. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
MorphOS-News.de


Genesi adds four new patents to its intellectual property portfolio (Update)
Genesi announced today that four patents owned by Raquel Velasco will be included in the Genesi intellectual property portfolio.

Genesi will be free to both benefit from these patents in the development of products and license fees.

The patents are:

  • US5561709: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1996-10-01)
  • US5561708: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1996-10-01)
  • US5504519: Method and apparatus for printing coupons and the like (1996-04-02)
  • US5490208: Apparatus and method for voice mode and data mode television-to-television communication (1996-02-06)
You can see the abstracts in the fulltext database for US-patents.

Contact:
Genesi SARL
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu


Update: In the official press-release at Genesi's website even seven patents are listed. In addition to those already mentioned above, there are, also owned by Raquel Velasco:

  • US5461667: Apparatus and method for electronic device for information services (1995-10-04)
  • US5404393: Method and apparatus for interactive television through use of menu windows (1995-04-04)
  • US5396546: Apparatus and method for automatic and user configurable information appliance (1995-03-07)
(snx)

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30.Oct.2003



AWeb: Status report
No, we're not dead. :-) People are busy doing other things and things are awfully quiet. However a few things have happened:

GCC conversion of AWeb APL Lite seems to be progressing, slowly but steadily. It was therefore decided that we still need another SAS/C version before finally moving to GCC as the wait has been too long already.

We are in need of a person who can compile the AWeb 3.4 APL sources in CVS with the patches that have been submitted by various people and help us go towards a 3.5 release. This needs to be done using SAS/C.

As for the new AWeb, progress on KHTML is going too slow, because the developers have too little time to work on it. If you are willing to give a hand in helping a modern HTML-browser onto the AmigaOS, AROS and MorphOS platforms, contact me.

If you are wondering about our plans, the document which describes this is here. Be aware that the document is not entirely complete and is based on discussion on our developer mailing list. (snx)

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30.Oct.2003
Martin Steigerwald


Amithlon: Martin Steigerwald No Longer at Haage & Partner
Martin Steigerwald posted on the mailing lists for Amithlon, AmithlonOpen, and AmigaXL that he doesn't work for Haage & Partner anymore, and is thusly no longer doing email support for Amithlon users. (cs) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
st-computer (Website)


GamePlan's Second Offering: Joysticks - Game Controllers from 1972 to 2003
After the success of "GamePlan: Consoles and Home Computers" a new book from the publishing house Gameplan is coming this November: "JOYSTICKS, an Illustrated History of the Game Controller." In cooperation with Take 2, Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer wrote a reference book for all gamers: Joysticks shows the best and coolest, the humblest and the most daring controllers from 30 years of computer and videogame history. From the classic Atari stick to the handy pads of Sega, Sony and Nintendo all the way to the optical precision equipment of the ego shooter and onwards, Joysticks awes, stuns, and amuses gamers of every generation. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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30.Oct.2003
Zeit (ANF)


Zeit.de: Programmers from all Lands Unite!
"Programmers from all Lands..." is an overview of the mobilization of the open source movement, a comparison of different ideological perspectives of software development and a short exploration of the problems of software patents. An excerpt follows (with the friendly approval of Zeit.de) and the complete article is reachable under the title link:

For years only geeks got excited about it. They sat, strewn around the globe, at their computers and programmed, criticized, and discussed via the Internet. The rest of the world had no idea what was there in the 'Net: at first glance just some software. Actually the free thinking online community had created an antithesis to Microsoft, the most powerful and largest software house in the world. [...]

[other excerpts not translated, they're a bit longish. -dm] (cg) (Translation: dm)

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29.Oct.2003
RetroMan (ANF)


Tool: NRG2ISO V0.2 released
The tool NRG2ISO has been released in version 0.2 for download. The software converts Nero image files into ISO images, which can be imported then into Amiga CD writing programs. (snx)

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29.Oct.2003
Hippie2000 (E-Mail)


Back to the Roots: Rat roasting
The back2roots.org server and the entire network cluster were offline two days caused by a rat that had been looking for a warm place to stay inside a transformator hut. The rat found a VERY warm place and an instant death as a kind of a barbecued rat.

For that server failure the BTTR team would like to apologize. The winuae.net and all other hosted sites were affected also. Now everything is okay again, the rat is cold and the server warm again.

If some mails during these days seem to be lost, please send them again. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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29.Oct.2003
WHDLoad (Website)


WHDLoad: New packages till October the 28th 2003
With WHDLoad it becomes possible to install games intended for floppy disk use only to hard disk. The following packages were added or updated since the last reporting.
  • 28.10.03 new: Shaft 7 (Bomb)
  • 27.10.03 improved: Lemmings (Psygnosis/DMA Design)
  • 27.10.03 new: History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
  • 27.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
  • 25.10.03 new: Fire Hawk (Codemasters)
  • 25.10.03 fixed: Gods (Bitmap Brothers)
  • 22.10.03 new: Street Gang (Time Warp/Rainbow Arts)
  • 22.10.03 new: Crazy Sexy Cool (Essence)
  • 21.10.03 new: Synthesis (Network)
  • 21.10.03 new: Gold Rush (Sierra)
  • 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Mania (21st Century Entertainment)
  • 21.10.03 updated: Pinball Illusions (Digital Illusions/21st Century)
(nba) (Translation: ub)

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29.Oct.2003
AudioLabs (Website)


AudioLabs launches new website
AudioLabs, developer of the highly professional audio sequencing software "ProStationAudio" has relaunched the company and producer website with a fresh design and enhanced content. At the new site there is information about PSA and its plug-ins but also background information about audio sequencing e.g. an interview with Markus Steblei: he and a a colleague are presenting a multimedia show at Munichs's planetarium of the "Forum der Technik" utilizing PSA. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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29.Oct.2003
Heise


Heise: First Internet provider with P2P-licence
The British Internet provider Playlouder MSP announced a legal access of file-sharing services starting next year.

To achieve this, the company signed contracts with the respective corporations and some British Indie record companies - currently including the labels V2, PIAS and Ninja Tune, among others. With their planned service, Playlouder offers record companies a solution to profit from filesharing tools.

More information can be found in the corresponding German article at Heise Online under the title link. (snx)

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29.Oct.2003



MUI: HotkeyString class reimplemented
Since the HotkeyString class for MUI isn't continued by its author Allan Odgaard, it was reimplemented by Ilkka "Itix" Lehtoranta.

Added features are full support of PC keyboards and of wheelmice. The source code is available under LGPL.

The archive contains binaries for MorphOS and AmigaOS-68k (with courtesy of David Arbuthnot). The project's website can be found at Sourceforge under the title link.

The author thanks Allan Odgaard for the original class and for permission to include the existing resources (MUI tagbase, developer material) into the distribution. (snx)

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29.Oct.2003



MorphOS: ImageFX-Lite and Powerstation added to the SuperBundle
Nova Design, Inc. is pleased to announce that our award-winning package, ImageFX, is now available for Pegasos/MorphOS owners in a special lite-edition as part of the SuperBundle package from Genesi.

This version was especially created for MorphOS and includes full color icons and other special features for this release. It comes with PowerPC enabled effects and JPEG loader/savers. It also includes the first release of Lightning for PowerPC as well!

If you already own the complete version of ImageFX, the SuperBundle package also includes the PowerStation modules (including the new Lightning) for MorphOS as well.

Users who find themselves wanting the advanced morphing, animation and keyframing features (and more) of the full ImageFX 4.5 package can upgrade for only $99.95 plus shipping and handling! An amazing bargain.

To download visit The SuperBundle Download Page or to find out more information about Nova Design, Inc. products visit their website at www.novadesign.com.

The files are named ImageFX_Lite.lha and PowerStation.lha.

If you still do not have your SuperBundle account, you can still sign up at MorphOS.net. (snx)

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29.Oct.2003
z5 (ANF)


Amiga Demoscene Archive: 3 new productions
The Amiga Demoscene Archive (ADA) has been extended with another three impressing poductions:

  • Nano / Scarab (intro 4k, 1st at Mekka Symposium 2002)
  • Datablade / Floppy and Madwizards (demo, 1st at Xenium 1999)
  • Synthesis / Network (demo, 3rd at Assembly 1998).


Furthermore the original screen shots of "Planet Potion", which still holds the 1st position at the ADA charts, were replaced with 28 high quality screen shots which were made directly with an Amiga. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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