06.Jun.2003
Chris Hodges (Website)
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USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V2.1b
Yesterday Chris Hodges published the new version 2.1b of the USB stack called "Poseidon".
This allows you to use USB devices on the Amiga if you have an USB controller, too.
Version 2.1b contains bug fixes of the subwayusb.device and massstorage.class.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2003
morphos-news.de
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Video about the Pegasos-TV-Report on Hungarian television
The online news magazine reports about the availability of a video of about 20 minutes
about the Pegasos board and MorphOS on the Hungarian television "fix tv".
The video which has a size of around 170 MB is available in MPEG and DivX format and can
be downloaded under the title link.
A version with English captions is in work.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2003
AmiWest (Website)
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AmiWest 2003: Participation of Nova Design Inc.
The Amiga show "AmiWest" will be take place this summer in Sacramento, too.
On 26th and 27th July 2003 American Amiga users will have the possibility of informing
about the newest developments. After Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga, Inc. already promised
his appearing on April and Genesi also showed interest to participate the show now
has another exhibitor:
Kermit Woodall from Nova Design will be present as exhibitor. Nova Design was well known
on the Amiga market with products like ImageFX or Aladdin 4D and is probably developing
another product.
According to information of the organizer there are more advance orders than in the last
five years.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2003
Amigan Software (Website)
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Worm Wars 7.5 published
Today version 7.5 of the snake clon "Worm Wars" by Amigan Software has been published.
Changes since the last version:
- New creature: Ape.
- Screenmode-sensitive
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results of May/June 2003
Today the results of the voting to the game of the months May/June 2003 have been published:
1. (3) Napalm - 121 pts
2. (2) Slam Tilt - 103 pts
3. (1) Payback - 101 pts
4. (4) Quake - 85 pts
5. (8) SWOS - 83 pts
6. (108) Knights And Merchants - 79 pts
7. (5) The Settlers - 71 pts
8. (12) Crossfire 2 - 70 pts
9. (9) Earth 2140 - 67 pts
10. (7) Foundation - 66 pts
11. (19) Freespace - 55 pts
12. (6) Tales Of Tamar - 53 pts
13. (10) Quake 2 - 48 pts
14. (20) Heretic 2 - 46 pts
15. (33) Cannon Fodder - 45 pts
16. (16) Moonstone - 44 pts
17. (13) Fields Of Battle - 41 pts
18. (14) Stardust / Super Stardust - 36 pts
19. (17) WipEout 2097 - 35 pts
20. (37) Another World - 35 pts
The next voting (Amiga Games Hit Parade in July/August 2003) will start in the middle of
July.
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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06.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 06.06.2003
Here are the new uploads to the Aminet since our last message:
YamHTMLyam.lha comm/mail 18K+Reads HTML pages with YAM(2.4 too) mail
AmFTP175_ES.lha comm/tcp 13K+AmFTP 1.75 Spanish locale, V2.1
MiamiSmbPw.lha comm/tcp 7K+Prepares Samba for encrypted passwords
Apfelberge.lha dev/src 6K+3D fractal example, joystick support
boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 921K+V5.19, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
EOT_Liquid.lha gfx/ifx 3K+EOT_LIQUID Script for IFX
Reko2As.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Convert Reko cardsets to AS-.....
NewLowLevel.lha hard/drivr 30K+V41.26, LowLevel.library replacement for
EP_DigitSonix.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer "Digital Sonix & Chrome" ext
EP_MFP.lha mus/play 16K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
EP_Protracker.lha mus/play 18K+EaglePlayer "Protracker" external replay
Haymigga_2.jpg pix/wb 272K+Haymigga`s Light Armour WB Screenshot
AsciiCreator_s.lha text/edit 88K+Ascii Creator 0.1 to 0.6 asm sources
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05.Jun.2003
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)
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Gameport Driver v41.27 with Amiga/Catweasel PCI-Joystick Support
The gameport driver version 41.27 with Amiga/Catweasel PCI support is online! Guido Mersmann has put together a new version of his lowlevel.library gameport driver, which includes the following alterations and fixes:
- BUGFIX:
Fixed bug in the QueryKeys() function, unfortunately that was overlooked because it was the only function that wasn't used in the test program. Thanks to Chris S. Handley for the bug report.
- FEATURE:
GamePortEnable now supports "VT82C686 Audio Codec 97" game ports on non-PC/Amithlon systems.
- FEATURE:
Support for the Amiga game ports has been added as well as for the Catweasel PCI flipper controller with both of its Amiga-compatible joystick connectors. The selection of ports has been more comfortably arranged.
The new version may be downloaded directly from the Amithlon-Homepage. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Christoph Kimna (ANF)
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Game: PairsNG Demo Available
As of today the PairsNG homepage and demo version are online. PairsNG is a Workbench-based computer board game similar to Shanghai. The game is shareware and may be registered for ten euros.
Features:
- 3D-Look
- Sound (over AHI)
- Runs (exclusively) on graphic cards (CGFX/P96)
- Three different game options/board sizes
- Load function for additional stone sets
- Item fields, behind which positive or negative actions are concealed
- Also runs under UAE
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Eyetech: AmigaOneXE-G3 now available / G4 slightly delayed
Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) has announced on the A1 mailing list the availibility of
AmigaOne-XE computers with G3 processor. A few days ago was stated the delivery of G4
Amigas will be slightly delayed because of a too small CPU fan. Customers ordered an
AmigaOne-G4 who'd not want to wait any longer can change their order at their local
dealer into a G3 (as long as the stock lasts).
Later for the AmigaOneXE-G3 (after all ordered AmigaOneXE-G4 are delivered) there
will be a possibility for an upgrade to a G4 processor. The price for this upgrade
will be 190 Euro (excl. taxes and p&p). For customers ordered a G3 this upgrade will
maybe also available to other conditions. If you are interested ask your local
dealer.
In some forums single users have confirmed the delivery of the AmigaOneXE-G3. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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05.Jun.2003
eBay (Website)
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EBay Auctions to Get More Expensive after July 1st, 2003
A new European Union (EU) guideline relating to introduction of the value-added tax (VAT) on digital services has led to the fact that Ebay will start levying higher fees and commissions after July 1st, 2003. This VAT is going to apply to all eBay fees and provions, including listing fees, fees for additional options, provisions and fees for further services that are paid by eBay sellers who reside or conduct business in an EU country.
You'll find the complete eBay press release (in German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
AudioLabs (Website)
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AudioLabs: Preview Webpage for "ValveMaster" Established
AudioLabs is offering a new product by the name of "ValveMaster," and they've established a new website for it, which you may reach by clicking on the title link. The program is concerned with "audio-finalization/assets-management", and is based on the ProStation audio technology. Read further details in the following English-language original announcement.
»ValveMaster web section now open with early info on this new product here.
The application is an audio-finalizer/assets-manager based on ProStationAudio
technology. Fully realtime design, in the best tradition of AudioLabs
products. Integrated audio-database allows to work on unlimited DSP varitions
of audio masters without even opening a single file requester, waiting for
rendering, nor taking disk-space. Designed for realtime handing of unlimited
amounts of 32bit-deep / 2GB-sized audio files. Analog-feel overdrive, works
above 0dB with no digital clipping for most flexible DSP processing ever.« (ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Markus Holler (Website)
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Music: Track List for the Soon-to-Be-Released CD Remix64 Vol. 2
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga users for his music pieces in Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike and The Holy Trinity, is now working on the soon-to-be-released CD Remix64 Vol. 2. For this CD he has released a comprehensive track list with selections from the remixes (including mixes of Fist 2 and Parallax) and an introduction to the musician.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates in Brief (5th June, 2003)
New pictograms by GameIcons.info
The game icon collection of GameIcons.info has been suplemented for the 2003 archive.
Download: GameIcons-2003.lha - 1,2 MB
WHDLoad Installer: New Packet
5th June, 2003 improvement: Sensible Golf (Sensible Software) supports another version, install script updated.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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05.Jun.2003
VIM (Website)
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Editor: Vim 6.2 - The Amiga memorial edition
VIM is an editor that is based on the Unix editor "vi" and is available for different systems such as AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, MachTen,
OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000). On 1st June 2003 version 6.2 was released. Read this excerpt from the original press release:
»[01 JUN 03] A complete new release of Vim is waiting to be downloaded!
This is mostly a bugfix release, only a few new features are available:
Arabic support, exception handling, GTK 2 support, PostScript printing
for 8-bit encodings and a number of smaller things. Several hundreds of
bugs have been fixed. For the full list of changes do ":help version-6.2"
in the new Vim. (Bram Moolenaar)« (ps) (Translation: dm)
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04.Jun.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Pegasos II: First information about the price scheme
At MorphOS-News.de there is a first information
about the soon coming Pegasos II. Regarding to that the Pegasos II board with a G3 processor card starts at 299 Euro, the entry level wit a
G4 module (minimun 1 Ghz) starts at 499 Euro
(all prices excluding VAT abd/or other local taxes).
Owners of a I are invited, just as appointed, buy a G4 processor card for 200 Euro and keep their old board or get for the same amount of money exchange their Pegasos I
with a Pegasos II including a G4 processor card. Further information about the processors etc. will be made available soon.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Gentoo now with Live-CDs for PowerPC also
»Live-CDs with KDE 3.1.2 and GNOME 2.2.1 as desktop
By request of some users the Gentoo team has released the bootable Linux Live-CDs
for Macintosh. The based on the free Linux distribution Gentoo
Live-CDs offering either KDE3 or GNOME2 as Desktop and enable to run macOS X within a window utilizing "Mac on Linux" «
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Cornice announces a new generation of mobile mini hard disks
»Cornice Storage Element - 1.5-GByte hard drive with a weight of 14.6 g.
The US start up company Cornice has developed with their "Cornice Storage Element" an extraordinary tiny and
cheap hard disk for mobile consumer electronics like MP3 players. The Cornice SE weights 14.6 g only and offers a storage volume of about
1.5 GByte and is said to be produced with a very low price due to its slim design.«
Read the full Golem article by the title link. (ps) (Translation: ub)
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04.Jun.2003
Cloanto (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Amiga Forever 5.3 released / invitation to the A3
Cloanto released today version 5.3 of Amiga Forever, the official
Amiga emulator for PCs. The update covers some new features and improved
emulation compounds as well as a new version of the "Software-Manager".
Version 7.1c of the paint programm Personal Paint is included also.
The cross platform version of Amiga Forever 5.3 includes an improved
support for Amiga emulations running on Mac OS X systems. Read in the following paragraphs the full
press release including some information regarding the "Amiga Alpe Adria 2003" show.
- June 4th, 2003 - For Immediate Release -
Cloanto released today version 5.3 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga
emulation and connectivity package for PCs. New features include
improved emulation components and new versions of Software Manager and
Personal Paint, Cloanto's award-winning paint software, now available in
version 7.1c. The cross-platform version of Amiga Forever 5.3 includes
better support for Amiga emulation configurations on Mac OS X. The Amiga
Forever Home Page at amigaforever.com keeps being frequently updated,
and the numerous articles in the FAQ section continue to attract a
constantly growing number of Amiga emulation users.
Cloanto also released a new stand-alone version of Software Manager,
available for free download from cloanto.com, which is able to detect
installed versions of WinUAE, WinFellow, DirectX and other Windows
components required by various emulation programs (e.g. OpenGL on
Windows 95, etc.). This new version of Software Manager is independent
of Amiga Forever, and can be used by all Amiga emulation users. The
software is completely free and does neither include any type of
"adware" or "spyware", nor send any information about installed
applications.
Amiga Alpe Adria 2003, a show organized by Cloanto Italia srl and aiming
to embody the spirit of friendship and diversity which the Amiga name
and philosophy represent since the early 1980s, will be held in Udine,
Italy, on July 5th. The event home page is at http://aaa2003.org, and
includes low fare airline specials, sightseeing information and links to
nearby music festivals and cultural events. Cloanto and the Amiga Alpe
Adria support team would like to invite you to the show, and look
forward to making you have a great time in Italy!
- Links -
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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03.Jun.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New Poll: Will you buy AmigaOS4 for your BlizzardPPC?
We started a new poll to get an impression of the real demand for a BlizzardPPC
version of OS4. It can be accessed by following the title link. The poll is
geared solely towards owners of a BlizzardPPC accellerator card.
Here you will find
the current results of the voting.
(ps)
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03.Jun.2003
Diverse
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Software Updates until 03.06.2003
Amigan Software
Game: Worm Wars Version 7.42b - Download: WormWars.lha
Also a Windows version is available for download.
Installer: WHDLoad - new packets until 03.06.2003
- 03.06.03 improved: Xenon2 (Bitmap Brothers) minor changes
- 03.06.03 fixed: Shadow Lands (Domark) version check corrected
- 03.06.03 updated: North & South (Infogrames) install script changed
- 01.06.03 improved: Shadow Lands (Domark) install script fixed, manual added
- 01.06.03 fixed: Zak Mc Kracken (Lucasfilm Games) protection fixed
- 01.06.03 new: Red Lightning (S.S.I.) done by JOTD
- 01.06.03 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17) various improvements
- 01.06.03 new: Traders (Linel) done by Harry
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
Michael Battilana (E-Mail)
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Fair: News about Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 at 05.07.2003
As reported earlier,
the fair A3 (Amiga Alpe Adria 2003) in Udine, Italy takes place on 5th July 2003.
The website around the fair was now updated, now all information about program,
travel, hotels, and sightseeing and cultural life in this time as a music festival
and concerts are described here now.
It would be a nice idea to combine the visit of the fair with a holiday in this
beautiful landscape around Udine.
Six weeks before the fair starts over 100 visitors from Austria, Germany
Slovenia, Croatia, England, and Italy have announced their visit.
Special guests are:
- Jürgen Schober will present AmigaOS 4 on Tour
- Jens Schönfeld will present the C-One
- Ralf "Hippie 2000" Steines from Back to the Roots
- Paolo "Mod3mski" D'Urso from Darkage fame
- Sergio Ruocco, Paolo Canali and others from the Italian Amiga-Scene
More information you will find under exhibitors.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
Cloanto (ANF)
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Cloanto Releases Personal Paint 7.1c
Advances in emulation technology made it possible to push the Amiga 68K CPU and Blitter to speeds which were not considered possible a few years ago. In this context, a small bug in Personal Paint emerged whereby Blitter and CPU operations would not always be synchronized properly, e.g. causing some visual "trash" during certain alpha channel operations. Personal Paint 7.1c addresses this issue. This version was released today as a free upgrade to Amiga Forever users, accessible via Software Manager. Users of slower silicon-based Amiga systems are not affected by the issue. (ps)
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03.Jun.2003
Andreas 'A.W.Design' Weyrauch (ANF)
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Club Amiga Magazine: Article about FFS from O. Barthel now free
In Issue #4 of the Club Amiga Magazine the article from Olaf Barthel about the
FastFileSystem (FFS) of Amiga Inc. now free for release. This article deals with the
past, the present, and the future of the FFS.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
ANN
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PC/DOS-Emulator: DOSBox Version 0.58 for MorphOS
"DOSBox is a DOS-emulator using SDL for easy portability to different
platforms, DOSBox has already been ported to several different platforms,
such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X... DOSBox emulates a 286/386
realmode CPU, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, a SoundBlaster card for
excellent sound compatibility with older games... You can "re-live"
the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the
old classics that don't run on your new computer!"
DOSBox is an emulator which is, unlike Bochs, aimed at games that's
why it has good quality SoundBlaster emulation, joystick support,...
and unlike Bochs, DOSBox does NOT require the DOS nor a BIOS to run.
Please note that DOSBox still only emulate Real Mode: it basically
means that you'll be able to run most games/programs released before
1993-1994 (this includes great RPGs and a lot of 256 colors adventure
games which were never released on the Amiga). Almost every games
released after 1994 are running in Protected Mode: these games won't
work at all in current DOSBox.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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03.Jun.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 03.06.2003
The latest Aminet Uploads:
ACS_HLPlugin.lha comm/net 264K+V1.2 ACS HL Plugin - Hotline Plugin for
AmiComSys.lha comm/net 410K+V2.4 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MUI
umsspamc1_2.lha comm/ums 15K+SpamAssassin client for UMS
streamer.lha comm/www 318K+Internet radio MPEG and RealAudio file p
WebPics105.lha comm/www 5K+WebPics 1.05 - Web Based Photo Gallery G
YAM24p1loc.lha comm/yam 281K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4p1 (Translations
P61DevBas.lha dev/basic 30K+Using Player61 library from HBasic
EasyACDDA_Bkg.lha disk/cdrom 305K+Background images for EasyACDDA
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 05/2003 (Itali
AIOV71.lha docs/mags 547K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 71 (May
nocover111.lha docs/mags 2.5M+Great german diskmagazine
WormWars.lha game/misc 585K+Worm Wars 7.42b: Advanced snake game
gse.lha game/patch 18K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
ZoneXplorer.lha gfx/fract 3.1M+Modular,true color fractal explorer (PPC
BetaScanSP.lha hard/drivr 14K+BetaScan 3.02 spanish catalog v3.02.0
Flamingo.lha misc/emu 171K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.53a, 68k & PPC
Amiga4Everyone.mpg mods/mpg 1.4M+Dieziseven new song
Fiesta.mpg mods/mpg 4.1M+Dieziseven new song
Webbit2003_06.lha pix/misc 1.8M+Webb.it 2003 archive 06
BareED_Alone.lha text/edit 71K+Simple text editor which supports propor
Transmitter.lha util/cdity 59K+Reads text-clips and stores them as inpu
HowDif.lha util/cli 9K+File comparison/examination utility
Catharsis.lha util/libs 48K+Shared library to modify looks of fonts
idle1_5.lha util/moni 16K+A (working) A68K cpu monitor
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03.Jun.2003
Mikey C (ANF)
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Hyperion OS4 BPPC Survey
Hyperion-Entertainment BPPC Survey
As AmigaOS 4 for AmigaOne and CSPPC based machines nears completion,
Hyperion is undertaking a survey to gauage demand for the BPPC version.
Therefore if you are an Amiga1200 owner with a Dual Blizzard PPC card
and would like to see OS4 ported to this machine, please send an email
to: timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com.
Please note: Ensuring that OS4 will work on the BPPC is a momumental
task which will require enormous effort in both Time and Money.
Therefore only email us if you have every intention of purchasing OS4
for BPPC. Your support is very much appreciated in this matter.
Ben Hermans
Hyperion-Entertainment
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02.Jun.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #038
Since yesterday a new music package with a tune by Tripper is available on the homepage of the group.
Details:
- Title: Beograd
- Artist: Tripper
- Style: electro
- Duration: 3:48
- Format: mp3 192 kbps
A photo of the Trippers visit to Belgrad was used for the cover by DaFreak.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF)
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C.A.P.S. Update
C.A.P.S. is dedecated to the rescue of classic Amiga games.
Current update:
- New work-in-progress report.
- New User Plugin with added support for Speedlock timing, and memory
mapped image files to allow loading of IPF images from within
compressed archives.
http://www.caps-project.org
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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individual Computers: New products and new cooperations
New product: Kickflash OS4
Kickflash was announced several years ago, but never released due to licensing problems. With the planning of the new PPC native OS4 for all Amiga computers with PPC CPU, Hyperion and individual Computers started a cooperation more than a year ago (May 2002). The result of this cooperation is "Kickflash OS4", a highly optimized flashrom card for the Zorro slot of classic Amigas. It reduces boot time of OS4 significantly, and comes at a very low price: 29,- EUR. Up-to-date flashrom chips allow up to 100.000 re-programming cycles. Kickflash OS4 will be available to betatesters this summer. Mass production will start in time for the release of OS4, so people will have the choice between tailormade solutions by all cooperation partners (also see ALGOR/ROMulus by E3B).
New product: RR-Net
Especially for the Retro Replay and the C-One there will a networking card for the C64 before the end of this summer. Together with Adam Dunkels, the author of the web-enabled Contiki operating system, the first drivers for this 10MBit-card have been made. Contiki even has web-server functions that can be seen on the Internet: The server http://www.tfe.c64.org is running on a stock C64 with a similar networking card! RR-Net will be available in August 2003 for 50,- EUR.
Transparent C64 cartridge cases
Due to the high demand, cases for the nearly sold-out Retro Replay will be available from June 24th, 2003 on. If there's enough demand, we might also produce other colours in addition to the transparent ones. To find out what colours that could be, the hacker-group Cyberpunx has setup a Voting-page. The price per case will be 4,- EUR, no matter what colour you choose.
Lyra back in stock
The Lyra keyboard adapter that allows using a PC keyboard on Amiga computers will be back in stock on June 24th. We apologize for the shipment delays - we were not prepared for the high demand of this product. A big thank-you goes out to our customers who were obviously so satisfied with their Lyra adapter that they recommended it to all their friends. (ps)
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02.Jun.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Online-Magazine: NoCover #111
Issue no. 111 of NoCover is now available and can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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New AmiZilla Marketing Campaign Launched
A new AmiZilla marketing campaign has been launched. Companies and websites
that link to and promote the Dream of Netscape/Mozilla on Amiga get listed
and promoted. Top Zilla Marketers are the ones that promoted AmiZilla first
or come up with a very creative and interesting banner or animation for the
project.
What is AmiZilla?
I think that long time Amiga user Twistin'Ghost summarizes the project best
with the following press release he created. "In need of that killer app,
Amiga developer and resident platform fanatic Bill Panagouleas, of DiscreetFX,
is banding together the community in a bid to lure programmers to port
Mozilla to the Amiga platform. Donations are flowing in, an FAQ is in place,
and a devoted Message Board are all a part of this 'homegrown' project.
Panagouleas has put his money where his mouth is by donating $2000 out of
his own pocket, in addition to funding the site itself.
"It's this very kind of grassroots community involvement that has helped
to maintain the Amiga's status as a player in the Gen-IT realm," says
Panagouleas, a former employee of Commodore Business Machines. "(Amiga
users) have always been a tight-knit community that pulls together in
times of need. Some very impressive development talent are already making
inquiries and are showing great enthusiasm. I'm very excited."
The presence of Mozilla on the Amiga would provide additional voltage to
Amiga Inc.'s upcoming launch of its new Amiga OS 4.0. It will also help
users the Keep the Dream Alive by running a standards compliant mainstream
browser on MorphOS, Amiga Forever, WinUAE, Amithlon, and Classic Amiga's
running Amiga OS 3.9 ." Please keep the donations coming in so programmers
will be motivated to port Mozilla to Amiga/Amiga type systems.
(ps)
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02.Jun.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Shipment of ALGOR will start on Monday
The distribution of the new Zorro II USB controller ALGOR by E3B to
the dealers begins on today's Monday.
Additional information about the product and possible bundles and goodies can be found at the title link.
(nba) (Translation: sk)
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02.Jun.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)
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DiaCD Update
Carsten Siegner released an update for DiaCD. Details about changes an improvements is to be found at the title link.
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02.Jun.2003
Hakan Parting (E-Mail)
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AmiComSys 2.4 and HL-Plugin 1.2 released
Hakan Parting released updates for his programs AmiComSys and HL-Plugin. The following changes were made:
AmiComSys 2.4
- BUGFIX: The "Kill gui" menu item had an empty key
combination.
- BUGFIX: When a modal message requester was opened only
the main window was put to sleep. The entire application must
be put to sleep so the user cannot do anything else in the program.
In certain occasions this error would lead to a crash or an Enforcer
hit.
- NEW: Added requeststring function to the messagerequester class for use by plugins.
- NEW: The reply text field and replybutton are no longer shown
in reponse of a version and system info request.
- BUGFIX: If you opened the Client Info window and then iconified
the application and later deiconified it the main window and
the client window had the same dimensions and position.
- NEW: Changed the layout of the message requesters. It should
now get a better dimension so you don't need to scroll. The
sizegadget was also removed. If your requesters are snapshotable
it is still there.
- NEW: AmiComSys now asks if you want to display the file
you just received.
- NEW: If a plugin is inside the ACS main window its menu
is added the first time the plugin is active.
- BUGFIX: Enforcer hit when you opened the Client Info
of user without any comment and also when such a user connected.
- BUGFIX: It will now not go online when you uniconify after you
have killed the gui while your your status was set to offline.
- BUGFIX If the comment, homepage and some other items on the
personal info were set to an empty string they were not updated
in the contact list until you reconnected.
HL-Plugin
- NEW: Enhanced the error handling for the file transfer.
- BUGFIX: Fixed a race condition with the file transfer queue.
- BUGFIX: File resume implemented (working with hxd, not HL Server).
- NEW: Added "Kick selected user" and "bann selected user" to the
Action menu.
- NEW: Added "Delete"(file) and "MakeDir" to the Files window.
- BUGFIX: Upload didn't work with all servers and files.
- BUGFIX: The close button of a transfer window didn't work.
It just closed the user list connection.
- BUGFIX: Forgot to close the transfer window when you got a "file already exists" error.
- BUGFIX: Transfers the info written in the Bookmarks
section in the "HL Plugin Servers" window when the connect button is pressed or when the window is closed. Before the old info was sent
to the server when you had forgotten to press return in the text
boxes you had modified.
- BUGFIX: There was an error with the bookmark save routine
(possible enforcer hit).
- NEW: A connection to a server, tracker or file server
will now not block HL Plugin while it is connecting. It's
now possible to cancel a connection while it is connecting.
- NEW: After a file download has finished the program now
ask if you want to display it.
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01.Jun.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb #030531
Brad Webb has published the Amiga Update for May 2003. Once a month Webb
summarises all important news on the theme of Amiga in his newsletter. Read the
current Amiga Update by way of E-Mail subscription or delayed under the title
link and therein the following themes:
- AmigaOS 4.0 on Tour
- AmiWest News Update
- Amiga wins popularity contest
- RIAA apologizes to Amiga Web Site
- AmigaOS 4.0 to support E3B's ALGOR and ROMulus flashroms
- Hollywood 1.5 official announcement
- MetaView Freeware as of now
- WinUAE 0.8.22 Release 7 (30.05.2003)
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01.Jun.2003
Andreas Weyrauch (A.W.Design) (ANF)
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Issue 5 (June) of Amiga Inc.'s Club Amiga Magazine published
Issue 5 (June) of the monthly Amiga Club Magazine has been published today for
registered members. It contains a.o.t. a new status report on OS 4.0, an interview
with Zeoneo and much more. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
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Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994)
This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was
born. Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world
and as the father of the Amiga.
In the middle of the seventies he developed the TIA chip, originally for medical
applications, later for use in the legendary Atari 2600. With the ANTIC and the
GTIA chipsets he laid the foundation for the Atari 8bit family.
After the founding of the company Hi-Toro which was later renamed into Amiga, Miner
worked on the joyboard, a revolutionary control device for the Atari 2600 and the
ColecoVision and on the work of his life, the Multimedia chipset for the 68000 based
games console Lorraine which was renamed into "Amiga 1000" after the purchase of
the company by Commodore and turned into a full-fledged computer.
Miner passed away on 20th June 1994 due to kidney failure.
He was regarded as a revolutionary computer designer and an extraordinary person.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
ANN / San Francisco Business Times (Website)
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3DO face bankruptcy
According to reports of the San Francisco Business Times, American video game
and hardware developers 3DO have filed for insolvency.
3DO became well-known at the beginning of the nineties by way of the games
console of the same name, which, although being technically superior, wasn't
able to conquer the hoped-for market share. The Rewood City based company had
recently been able to reduce debts with the commercial success of console games
such as "High Heat Major League Baseball" or "Army Men", but apparently not able
to avert bankruptcy.
Interestingly enough the 3DO console was designed with the help of the Amiga/CD32
by Commodore - former Amiga warhorses Dave Morse, RJ Mical and Dale Luck had a
significant share in the further development of 3DO.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Mark Tierno (E-Mail)
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #71
The 71st and officially last issue of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga
Information Online (AIO)' has been published. This issue contains a.o.t.
the following articles:
- Strange Opinion
- Dr. Strange, Web Wanderer
- Hints & Tips
- Final Credits
- AIO Secrets
- My Last Words
- History Of Amiga
- The Amiga that is and can...
The full table of contents can be obtained from the readme which is enclosed in
the archive. AIO uses a custom display program and can be used from AmigaOS 3.0
onwards.
Download: AIOV71.lha (547 KB) - Readme
The operators of AIO are pleading for a final retroactive donation for all the
editors involved. (nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Pixel Art (E-Mail)
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Start menu: Pixload Final Version 4 for Amiga and MorphOS released
Today the final Version 4 of the start menu Pixload has been released for AmigaOS
and MophOS. This is the final features list:
- Drag & Drop of picture directories loads a thumbnail tool
- New formats: TIFF and TARGA via Datatypes
- New formats: AIFF and WAVE (no Datatypes required)
- Control bar for MiamiDX integrated
- New program load window
- Clock with RTC functionality
- Help file in the context menu
- Fixed some bugs
- Pixload is scalable
- Pixload can open drawers instead of programs
- Shortkeys added
- Icon organisation by way of Drag & Drop
- Choice of number of icon columns
- Special MorphOS 1.3 / Pegasos version
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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AmigaWorld: Interview with AmiStart developer Darius Brewka
The online magazine AmigaWorld has published an interview with Darius Brewka,
the programmer of AmiStart.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Event: Computer Art Festival 2003 in Russia
The Computer Art Festival 2003 (CAFe 2003) will take for the fourth time on 23rd
and 24th August 2003 in Kazan, Russia.
CAFe'2003 is an event for programmers, musicians, graphic artists, Web designers
and other creative professions. The demo party will be conceived as a festival,
which will be organised in cooperation with the Ministry for Youth. The festival
is officially announced as a "Computers against Drugs" event. The main platforms
are the Amiga, the ZX Spectrum and the PC.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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01.Jun.2003
Vinnny^AiC (ANF)
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Spanish and Russian documentation for FroggerNG
Spanish and Russian documentation for the shareware video player FroggerNG
has been provided which is available for download under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: cb)
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31.May.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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E3B and Hyperion: ALGOR / ROMulus flash ROM supported by AmigaOS 4
E3B and Hyperion are pleased to be able to announce the deep cooperation of both companies regarding the ALGOR and ROMulus. The for the time being by Hyperion developed AmigaOS 4.0 will be able to use the flash ROMs available on the ALGOR and ROMULUS without any problem.
Read the complete German press release on the E3B news site or
an also available English version.
The ALGOR is a Zorro II based USB controller that supports USB 1.1 and 2.0 (no highspeed mode) and has 512kB flash ROM integrated on the controller card.
The widely spread HIGHWAY USB controller can be upgraded via ROMulus with flash ROMs.
Users of the AmigaOS 4.x can keep a compressed Kickstart 4.0 in the flash ROM and significiantly shorten the boot time this way.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
AUGS - Amiga User Group Switzerland (ANF)
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AmigaOS 4.0 tour in Basel with good PR
The announcement of the AmigaOS 4.0 presentation in Basel finds a wide spreading in Switzerland through the headline on PC-Tip and the portal of Sunrise.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
The Legacy (website)
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The Legacy: Do you have self painted games sketchesor maps?
The Legacy is a games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, Schneider/Amstrad
CPC that provides the readers with screenshots, covers scans and information about the developers. Today the museum is looking for people who still have their with attention to detail painted maps for Dungeon Master and games like that lying around.
Or is there on a still working floppy disk a course of Hard Drivin' 2: Drive Harderstill existing? Then please scan the maps, copy the data and send all to the museum. Please send all the pearls to
mishra@thelegacy.de.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
Golem - IT News
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Golem: Temporary injunction against SCO
The Linux specialist univention from Bremen (Germany) has obtained a temporary injunction at the Landgericht
Bremen against the SCO Group GmbH. This injunction forbids SCO to claim "that Linux operating systems contain illegally gained intellectual property of SCO Unix and/or that end users who use Linux can be made liable for the involved violation of copyrights". If acting against this an infringement payment up to 250,000 Euro is possible. This injunction is only valid for the German SCO Group GmbH not world wide.
Read the full (German) Golem article following the title link.
Further link regarding the subject:
heise (German): SCO: Ausschneiden und kleben?
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
A/NES (website)
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Emulator: A/NES CGFX version 1.33 in the works
Version 1.33 of the Nintendo Entertainment System emulator A/NES CGFX for
Amiga computers with graphics cards is being worked on. Here the original message:
"Started to work on v1.33. Finally managed to get rid of the annoying
mousepointer on the screen while running the ROMs. For now, that's
really the major new feature of v1.33. :) I'll try to implement some
more nice stuff however.
By the way, I even tried to assemble the old
A/NES AGA code some days ago, if you remember it? :) I can't get it to
run properly however, dunno if it's because I have a different computer
today compared to when I last compiled those sources. Time will tell if
I manage to get it running someday... :p
And as usual, feel free to report comments about A/NES CGFX (ideas,
bugreports etc) in the forum or by e-mail."
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
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Aminet uploads until 31.05.2003
Here are the Aminet uploads added since our last report:
trsi-fnews12.lha comm/misc 51K+Free configurable News Display Tool for
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 17K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.3.1d
WebPics104.lha comm/www 5K+WebPics 1.04 - Web Based Photo Gallery G
ADN_Support.lha comm/yam 23K+V1.3 AmigaDreamNetwork support for YAM.
YAM24p1.lha comm/yam 728K+MUI Internet mailer V2.4p1 (bugfix updat
NoSyncIzBack.lha demo/aga 1.7M+NoSyncIzBack! - WOS demo 3rd at IGDRP 2.
USE_NoSync.lha demo/aga 3.8M+NoSync by Universe - WOS demo 3rd at Equ
MCC_SpeedBarSP.lha dev/mui 7K+SpeedBar 19.1 spanish catalogs v19.1.0
AMIthlon_setup.lha disk/misc 1.0M+Easy automated AMIthlon setup disks usin
SpanienSSeng.lha docs/hyper 98K+SpanienSSeng history of some spanish
AmigaArenaBase.lha docs/misc 528K+Amiga Arena Interview Database (English/
Arkanos.lha game/misc 404K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.02 **
MLink.lha game/wb 44K+Try to solve this chainlink puzzle!
MySquare.lha game/wb 43K+Try to solve this mathematical puzzle!
TriLights.lha game/wb 44K+Light-up this triangular-shaped board!
X_Lights.lha game/wb 44K+Light-up this X-shaped board!
DIYrekoIII.lha gfx/ifx 34K+Create REKO, Soliton and AS-... cardsets
Sv5Fix121.lha gfx/misc 6K+*Fix* for SView5 V1.21 (29.5.2003)
FroggerRU.lha gfx/show 11K+Frogger russian documentation v2.06
DC-KF500.lha hard/hack 983K+A500 based FlashROM kickstart board
LCD-Test.lha hard/misc 14K+LCD Test: helps to find broken Pixels
ZXLive.lha misc/emu 86K+ZX-Spectrum 48/128k emulator v0.17b
037_mpfree.lha mods/moods 8.9M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
041_mpfree.lha mods/moods 4.3M+Moods - Streaming For Your Instincts
Almacen-Chip.mpg mods/mpg 6.0M+Almac n Chip (Symphonie mod in mpeg form
Amiga_Roolez.mpg mods/mpg 6.9M+Amiga Roolez song (Symphonie mod in mpeg
ArrobaMix.mpg mods/mpg 2.9M+Arroba Mix (The final part of Arrebato m
BAR.mpg mods/mpg 4.0M+Bar (Rock mod converted to mpeg audio)
ModMix.mpg mods/mpg 1.2M+Remix of Cherry2.mod
QuantumExecBas.mpg mods/mpg 3.7M+Quantum for the Execbase (converted to m
opensource.lha mods/smg 53K+PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
pumpitup.lha mods/smg 58K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
smoothia.lha mods/smg 154K+PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
spaceballs.lha mods/smg 205K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
techrythm.lha mods/smg 16K+Oldie - PT-MOD by eSeMGy (www.eSeMGy.de)
Cougar16V_01.jpg pix/vehic 127K+Pic of Ford Cougar in 1024x682
Cougar16V_02.jpg pix/vehic 118K+Pic of 2 Ford Cougars in 1024x682
Cougar16V_03.jpg pix/vehic 147K+Pic of 2 Ford Cougars in 1024x682
Cougar16V_04.jpg pix/vehic 1.2M+Pic of Ford Cougar in 2160x1440
Amitex_4.04.lha text/edit 428K+Text editor (French and english versions
trsi-mp3ext13.lha util/cli 12K+MP3 Info Viewer + FileID creator
frog_scripts.lha util/misc 26K+ToolBar Scripts and Buttons for FroggerN
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31.May.2003
edition W3C.de
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German translation of the XFrames Working Draft
Already in the middle of May had a German translation of the conceptual drafts for the new XFrames on the website of Michael Jendryschik been made available under the title link.
The English original of the Working Draft can be found on the website of the W3C. XFrames is an XML application with the aim to assemble several documents to replace in the long run the HTML frames. A future support through all available webbrowsers recommended by the W3C.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
Amiga Rulez
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Website for MorphED set up
For MorphED, a free text editor and gcc developers environment by Dietmar Eilert for the operating system MorphOS, had an own website been set up under the title link. There you can find next to some information several provisional screenshots that show the optical relationship between MorphED and GoldED Studio AIX.
Under http://morphed.morphos.net/
exists a mirror of the website.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
Cyborg (ANF)
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BenderIRC 1.5 RC 1 available
BenderIRC, the free IRC client, is nearing the final version 1.5. In the last days has the client got several updates.
As last missing feature has now the beta version of the graphical configuration tool been made available for download. Together with the changes in BenderIRC itself have many demands of the users been granted.
All users are called to report the still remaining bugs. The simpliest way is using the web form.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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31.May.2003
DOpus-ML (email)
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New DirOpus 4 beta version available
The new beta version 4.17 pre 21 of the file manager Directory Opus 4 is available under the title link. Direct download: DOpus417pre21.lzx.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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