04.Nov.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)
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AmigaDE: New games - MazeMonster, Gobbler, Tikino
There were new games released at the AmigaDE shop including
the PacMan like game 'MazeMonster' developed by
Motion Studios,
the Snake game 'Gobbler' by
Pulsar Interactive
with several worlds, and the think-game 'Tikino' by
Technomages
with 25 levels.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
Amiga Future
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Datatype: akNAIL V44.13
Andreas Klienert released version 44.13 of the 'akNAIL datatype' which
allows to load and display IFF-NAIL images used by ImageFX for thumbnails.
Download: akNAIL-dt.lha (105K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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History: Amiga Interactive Guide updated
There have been major changes at the world's premier Amiga history site. Over 16MB of new
material has been uploaded, including:
- Descriptions of several previously unknown Amiga prototypes and arcade machines.
- The forgotten origins of the Amiga transputer.
- The latest products from Amiga Inc. and third party developers.
- New section on Merlancia
- The latest batch of Amiga emulators.
This is just scratching the surface. Take a look at the site for a full list of the new additions.
Gareth Knight, Amiga Interactive Guide
ExiE
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04.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Mail/News: Microdot-II V1.4.16beta (Update)
Microdot-II 1.4.16beta - integrated e-mail and news program.
A new beta version of Microdot-II is available, and, for the first time, there's a native MorphOS
version, too.
Download: md2_1.4.16_beta.lha (414K)
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04.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Impressions of the World of Amiga South East 2001 (update)
On 3. November 2001 the 'World of Amiga South East 2001' took place
in Brentwood, England. So far there is a short
text
about this show, which was published on ANN by
Mikey C. and pictures
published on Kevin Twyman's homepage, as well.
Mick Sutton and Chris Emmins of SEAL published
photos. A complete report to follow.
Fleecy Moss (Amiga), Alan Redhouse (Eyetech), James Daniels (Payback), and
Andrew Kom (Amiga Active) were on the show.
Update 04. November 2001:
Photos by SEAL.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)
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Emulator: WinUAE V08.17 Release 3
Since yesterday, at the
download section
of the WinUAE homepage version 08.17 release 3 of the Amiga emulator is available.
The following errors are known in this version:
- Snapshot (save-state) support is not 100% yet.
- Picasso96 colour-fades are especially slow.
- Only Lemmings 3 AGA's playing screen is centered correctly,
"Lemming-mode" selection buttons on bottom of screen are still
corrupted. (AGA bitplanes do not steal copper's DMA cycles correctly
yet)
- Also Banshee AGA's scoreboard is still invisible because sprites
outside playfields (AGA only feature, not yet implemented) are
always hidden.
Gegenüber der vorigen Version hat sich Folgendes geändert:
- FIXED: Mouse trails are gone gone gone.
- FIXED: No longer crashes in windowed-mode on XP Themed-view.
- FIXED: 68020+ bitfield instruction fix (stuck doors in Dungeon Master AGA)
- FIXED: Fix garbage display on Venus the Flytrap and Nightbreed Interactive
Movie. (Toni Wilen)
- FIXED: Trying to delete a non-empty directory will now properly return
ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Renaming a directory which was opened then closed will no longer
crash. (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: Increased the range of addresses checked for memory-mapping, in
order to make JIT "direct" mode work on more systems. (Bernd
Roesch)
- FIXED: Selecting a Picasso96 8-bit mode in windowed-mode would complain
about not matching your desktop's depth, and switch to full-screen.
- FIXED: CD-ROM Mounting should work again.
- FIXED: Installer won't install when WinUAE is already running.
- FIXED: Right-click and "Editting" a .UAE config-file will now result in
the correct config-name and config-description in the GUI.
- FIXED: MIDI-Out won't crash external MIDI drivers like "hubies loopback".
(Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: Jose's modifications to the sound routines and GUI. (Jose Gil)
NOTE: Read doc called "SoundSyncro Readme.rtf"
- ADDED: AHI driver support. (Bernd Roesch)
- ADDED: Option to disable use of overlays completely.
- CHANGED: Floppy-disk emulation, including .FDI support. (Toni Wilen)
- CHANGED: Picasso96 licensing/support notice (above).
- CHANGED: Removed references to "Amiga" in the GUI.
Download: WinUAE0817R3.exe (1,3M)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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04.Nov.2001
sylvio.k@gmx.de (ANF)
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Game: DeepSILENCE-SOMS - New version
After having some server problems the website of the action adventure
'SOMS' is up-to-date, again.
There is a new SOMS version, new pictures, and the forum is working now.
Also the newsletter gets delivered accoring to the rules. The following has
changed since the prior SOMS version:
- A new level.
- New effects like bouldering (press 'b').
- Watter reflects clouds and the main character.
- Children and hares are running around.
- A house was added to the map, but you cannot go inside, yet.
- Smaller speed-ups and bugfixes.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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03.Nov.2001
Patric Klöter (ANF)
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Users experiences with AMIGA OS XL
Patric Klöter wrote:
There's now an experiences exchange of users with Amiga OS XL on my Amiga homepage to be found in the
rubric "User-Ecke". The users of AMIGA OS XL have here the possibility to get
information regarding questions and possible problems concerning the "emulator"
and can help each other. Experiences exchange is welcome.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.Nov.2001
Simon Neumann (ANF)
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Amiga Speed still looking for speed testers!
Though the Amiga Speed has already found new speed testers there are still people
missing who have a Mediator, a Prometheus or a G-Rex 4000D board. If interested
please send an email to the author!
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.Nov.2001
Amig@lien (ANF)
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New Payback mailing list
Since recently there's a German Payback mailing list which is aimed at increasing
the users communication as well as fixing possible bugs faster.
You can register to it on the German Payback site in the right column of the start
page.
MfG
Ricco Clemens (Amig@lien)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (email)
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AmigaPage update
On the website of Marcus Neervoort you can find next to many download
possibilities the complete Amiga history from 1982 to 2001. New added are
scanned advertisements for the Amiga and various Amiga fairs and a special
regarding the WOA 2001.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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02.Nov.2001
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewsk - Prometheus ML
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Prometheus support site with new URL
The support site for Matay's PCI bridge 'Prometheus' can now be reached at
http://prometheus.amiga.pl.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Nov.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)
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Filesystem: PFS3 UK dealer
FORE-MATT Home Computing has been appointed by
GREat Effects Development in
the Netherlands to become the new official UK dealer for PFS3.
The latest version of the Professional File System is a replacement hard
drive filing system for FFS/AFS
which brings much improved speed and stability to your system. PFS3 will
be available to buy on the FORE-MATT Home Computing stand at the
World of Amiga SE show this
Saturday or you can now buy it direct from the 128Bit secure
Amiga Online Superstore.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Nov.2001
Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous software updates
Exec V44.1 public beta4 by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen
Exec 44.1 is a patch which fixes some problems of the exec.library.
Download: exec44_1_beta4.lha -
Readme
RealPlayerInfo 1.1 by Amigaharry
Shows info about Real-media files, bugfix 1.1
Download: realplayerinfo.lha
EnvHandler V1.13 by Stephan Rupprecht
HappyENV replacement
Download: envhandler.lha -
Readme
EvenMore V0.59 by Chris Perver
Text viewer
Download: EvenMore.lha (300 KB) -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Nov.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: AmigaOS XL: Further documentation
In the AmigaOS XL support area you'll find more information on the following topics:
- Is my PC Amithlon-capable?
- How do I install Amithlon to hard disk?
- The first FAQ's on Amithlon and AmigaXL
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Nov.2001
dynAMIte
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Game: dynAMIte - new website and updates
The makers of the online game dynAMIte, a Bomberman clone, have created
a new website which has a very clean design now. Also some new styles and
Polish translation can be found there.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Nov.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (up to 01.11.2001)
Games which were made for disk use only can be installed to harddisk thanks
to WHDLoad. The following packages have been added or updated:
- 01.11.01 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) supports OCS version too
- 01.11.01 new: The Flintstones (Grandslam/Teque) done by Bored Seal
- 01.11.01 improved: Brat (Imageworks) minor change
- 01.11.01 new: Altered Beast (Sega/Activision) done by Abaddon & CFOU! & JOTD
- 01.11.01 new: Scorpion (Digital Magic Software) done by CFOU!
- 01.11.01 new: Moon Blaster (Loriciel) done by CFOU!
- 31.10.01 improved: No Excuses (Arcana) supports another version
- 31.10.01 new: World Championship Boxing Manager (Goliath Games) done by Codetapper
- 31.10.01 new: Dragon Breed (Irem/Activision) done by CFOU!
- 31.10.01 new: Aquatic Games (Millennium) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Nov.2001
AIO
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #52
Issue #52 of the online magazine 'Amiga Information
Online (AIO)' was published. AIO uses their own viewer program which runs
under AmigaOS.
Download: AIOV52.LHA
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Nov.2001
Dennis Lohr (e-mail)
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Music: Schlachtfeld "2" - intro soundtrack release
The strategy game "Schlachtfeld" which is still in development and currently
ported from the original AMOS game to a new C version of course requires
a music soundtrack. Horst Diebel, leader of the project, has hired the
musician Psyria for this task.
To get an impression of the game's soundtrack you'll find the final intro
soundtrack exclusively as MP3 (about 3 MByte) in the download area
of the Psyria homepage.
Psyria produces music projects exclusively with the AMIGA.
You can find more information on the game Schlachtfeld at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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01.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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'Object Oriented Programming for Anybody' entered first level
Marius Schwarz wrote:
The first wattle got taken, the project OOP4A:
"Object Oriented Programming for Anybody" passed it's first
functioning test. What is this all about? Well, I don't dislike JAVA,
but on the Amiga it actually is "a bit" too slow and I would not be
able to write that with my favourit programming language. So, what would
be more clear than to develop a system for OOP in person.
Actually the concept is a quite simple one. With help of the oop.library
one can create objects and use thier methods. A preprocessor translates
the classes into extended Amiga shared libraries, which then become instanced
to objects by the oop.library.
Since it is possible to use libs on the Amiga with any popular programming language,
any language can also deal with objects. Writing a preprocessor for the language
completes circle. And because there is a fixed format for objects the class files may
be interchanged among one another.
What is required now are classes, masses of first class classes ;-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Maxime DOYEN (ANF)
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HomeBank 1.9 is available
The new public release of that great tool. Many changes and improvements
are there, a new complete filter, more flexibility for automated
operations, a complete rewrite of reports, statistics with bars and pie
charts, the last steps to Euro with Euro conversion, and few other things.
Like a new icon set. Enjoy!
The German catalog is not provided, I will release it as soon as possible.
(ps)
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01.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland (ANF)
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Event:Amiga 2001 - The AC-DE will be there!
The Amiga-Club Deutschland, short AC-DE, will have it's own booth
on the Amiga 2001 in Cologne, Germany, and will introduce the club and
offer an attractive supporting program:
We will inform those who will stay at home or are undecisive about what's
going on on the show by a live webcam. We will organize IRC conferences
with Amiga developers, and show the latest hardware and software, like
Amithlon or the G-Rex-PCI boards for the Amiga 4000, from the user's point
of view.
And of course we are hoping to again be able to answer all of the visitor's questions
about the Amiga - the network at the booth with Internet access sure will be of
great help for us.
More information about the Amiga 2001 are on our homepage under the title link,
and of course on the official show homepage
www.amiga-messe.de.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Stefan Robl (ANF)
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Amiga definition in dictionary?! ;-)
By searching about the English online dictionary dict.org of course I tried our
favourit word "Amiga". And what a surprise, one will find an extended definition
(see title link)! Also interesting is, that we seem to suffer by one disease that is to
say the Amiga Persecution Complex.
Get well soon and accordingly take it a bit more easy! :-)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Amiga Page
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Event: More pictures by Marco Lovera from the Pianeta 200
Under the title link you will find more pictures from the Italian Amiga show Pianeta 2001,
which took place in October 2001. These pictures were taken by Marco Lovera.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Special price - VisualPrefs and interview with Massimo Tantignone
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project for VisualPrefs
In cooperation with Massimo Tantignone the Amiga Arena make possible a
special price for VisualPrefs. VisualPrefs enables you to indivually configure
the GUI look of every application screen and the global GUI look as well.
Amiga Arena - personal concern.
The shareware fee is that cheap that I hope that users using VisualPrefs without
being registered will register now by this project. VPresf gives us the most powerful
tool to configure our Workbench as individual as possible.
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
After having available VisualPrefs version 41.29 the Amiga Arena talked to
Massimo Tantignone, the author, about his work for the AmigaOS 3.9 and the future OS 4.0.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Paul Cardwell (ANF)
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GetBoinged reviews the Amiga DE Player 1.0
GetBoinged! reviews the recently released Amiga DE Player for Windows.
Check out the "GB Site News" section of GetBoinged for the review.
(ps)
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01.Nov.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)
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GRex IRC chanel not available ?
Michael Göken wrote:
There have been requests if the GRex server was not available or if something was
wrong with the IP address. That's why again I post the server address here to
support those having problems to log in (from foreign countries as well).
Server: irc.phat-net.de Port: 6667 Chanel: #grex
I hope to have helped the users by this. This actually should allow anybody
to access the chanel.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)
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Survey: What features shall MorphOS have ?
Thorsten Schölzel started a survey on his MorphOS news site asking
what features MorphOS should have in your opinion. The survey takes place in
his forum. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Nov.2001
VWD
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VWD: Met@box achieves first license contract
»Met@box achieves first license contract
As from the pridian general meeting the Met@box AG stopped manufacturing and
distribution of set-top boxes in support of a license contract. Today, the company
signed an initial technology license contract.« (ps) (Translation: mj)
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31.Oct.2001
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)
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Movieplayer: SoftCinema version 0.15 (full release)
Version 0.15 of the shareware-movie- and animplayer for Amiga with PPC-support
(PowerUP, WarpUP and MorphOS) called 'SoftCinema´ has been published. You can download the program under the title link or under the alternative address.
Changes:
V0.15 beta 1
- WOS and MOS versions added.
- 30% faster divx;)/opendivx/3iv/h263/i263/intel indeo decoding
- lot of bugs fixed
V0.15
- added audio.device support, via directaudio.library
- added NOAHI and AHIUNIT options
- Bugfixes in AVI parser, QT parser and mpeg audio decoder.
- Much faster AVI indexx loading, up to 1000%.
- Bugfixed timing routines.
- Fixed GRAY display on fullscreen.
- Fixed RGB15PC and RGB16PC display routines.
- Fixed mpeg audio decoder, should not crash anymore.
- 10% faster mpeg audio decoding.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename 3.0.0 final
SRename is a program which has some more functions as the common 'rename'. Here are some features:
- Can use wildcards.
- Total control over recursion, the user can set the level of recursion, starting level of recursion and
can even specify a different pattern for entering directories.
- Can renumber filename sequences without the user having to care for the renumber order or filename
clashes because these are taken care of automatically.
- Can perform numbering of filename sequences.
- Can modify the filename's comment and transfer the filename to the comment or the reverse.
- Allows the user to build his/her own functions by providing a command set of selectors and actions
that can be combined in many ways.
- The number of actions that can be executed in one go is only limited by the command line length.
- It is interface compatible with the OS Rename command.
- Efficient memory usage.
Download: SRename3.lzx
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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Event: Provisional list of exhibitors for AMIGA 2001 available
From now on there is a provisional list of exhibitors on the website of AMIGA 2001 (17.-18. November 2001, Cologne). Additionally you can of course find important information about the fair, updated news around Pegasos, AmigaOS 4 and AmigaDE.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)
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Emulation: Playstation emulator FPSE for Amiga published
Mathias Roslund has published a new version of the Playstation-emulator FPSE. It is the first Amiga version which is based on version 0.09. You need a Playstation Bios-Rom for the emulation. There are some screenshots for the Amiga version.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Solar (BAUD) (ANF)
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Alan Redhouse corrects some rumours on ANN.lu
Of course there were some confusion after the message of Eyetech and it was discussed here as well as on ANN.lu. The opinions ranged from "It is OK" to "Cheat!". I think in this context the clearing statement of Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) in the corresponding thread on ANN.lu is important.
Quintessence: He has absoluely no problem with any decisions of Amiga Inc. and in their place he would have decided in the same way - and there was no reason to evoke a crises if there would be very real progresses made to a solution.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
H&P and Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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Freespace supports virtual memory
The 68k-version of Freespace also runs on systems with 32 MB memory and virtual memory (you can use a freely available VMM-program for it) if there is at least 24.5 MB of free physical memory. In this case the reduction of speed is under 2%. The corresponding hints for the installation will be added to Freespace. With the help of it also users which have only 32 MB of memory can play Descent Freespace: The Great War.
Future games of Hyperion Entertainment will also support the Virtual Memory System of OS 4.0 to give users of PowerPC the opportunity to get along with a lower amount of memory. (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Homepage Update
Today the homepage of Amiga Future has been extensivly updated:
A completely reworked download section has been uploaded which is edited by Jörg Wernicke and which will be regularly updated.
Additionally the sites of "AGB", "Kontakt" and "Werbebanner" have been updated. Besides this new advertisement prices are online which run from issue 34.
In the forum
the new fair information have been updated. Amiga Future asks the readers to write what is being expected of the fair. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9435
Richard H. Poser has published betaversion 0.9435 of the AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with America Online Instant-Messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history where you can get the changes which have been made:
- Hopefully repaired a problem with the single window mode. It doesn't exhibit
the problem here anymore, anyway.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio's (realtime nl-editing for AmigaOS) new architecture for 2002
The ProStationAudio architecture has been enhanced to make this non-linear
editing software solution for AmigaOS even more powerful. And faster. The
new version based on this design, ProStationAudio Titanium, is ready and
will be on sale in a few days.
While Amigas are wonderful systems, their main problem is lack of raw hardware
horse-power: Titanium addresses this problem at design level, using
optimizations independent on the host CPU, so that 68K (060 recommended), PPC,
and emulated 68K hardware benefit.
Major new features include:
Signal path layout: stereo sends/returns
- multiple sends per track, stereo.
- multiple aux busses, stereo.
- multiple DSP inserts for each return bus, stereo.
- returns can be muted and/or soloed.
- plugin sharing among multiple tracks reduces CPU load, with peak acceleration
up to 1500% (when using 15 sends to the same aux bus).
Mixig console layout: 6 master inserts, stereo.
- master DSP inserts have been extended to 6, for increased flexibility.
- using track inserts, multiple sends/returns, and master inserts, now each
track's signal can pass through up to 18 DSP processors.
Faast dsp, the new quick-preview mode
- sustained 200% acceleration on mixing and effects processing, using bitrate
reduction
- modifies the bitrate of multiple streams in realtime during disk-streaming,
no need to save audio files at lower bitrates for fast previewing..
- fully transparent, original bitrate restored just before the signals reach
the audio output hardware, providing full compatibility with fixed-rate
devices such as external D/A converters over S/P-DIF.
- quality drop is acceptable for most material.
- any previously saved project benefits, no updates needed
- automatically disabled when mastering and/or bouncing tracks, to preserve
always perfect quality on the final work.
- can be toggled on/off in realtime for comparisons
GUI
- the channel bars layout has been optimized to display more tracks at once on
screen.
- the screen is public and palette-sharing friendly: use tools like calculators,
notepads, or web browsers to view tutorials, directly on the
ProStationAudio screen.
Titanium preserves the tons of features present in current versions: support
for dual graphic cards, dual monitors, two CPU's, realtime operations, mixing
automation, 30 DSP plugins, 24bit and MP3 import, read/write access to Amiga,
Windows, Mac and Unix files, more...
Informations on pricing and upgrade options for current users will follow this
week. As usual part of the service, buyers of the previous top version,
Millennium, will upgrade free of charge.
All the best,
dr. Maurizio Ciccione
AudioLabs, Digital Audio Engineering
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Oct.2001
Golem.de
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Golem: AmigaOne does not start in 2001
»Development of AmigaOS 4.0 and of AmigaOne were momentarily stopped
According to Eyetech the AmigaOne will be not introduced this year because Amiga Inc. could not set on the development of the belonging AmigaOS 4.0 and could not pay its partners because of financial problems. But it seems that there is still some hope and the new Amiga computer based on a PowerPC-architecture is supposed to be marketed at the beginning of 2002.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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30.Oct.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)
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MCP with new version
From 21. October I've taken over further development of MCP (MasterControlProgram).
Since there was no development for more than two years and I must become acquainted
with the code, at first, the first update isn't perfect, yet.
But many of the 'surrounding' things, like installer script, German Guide and
catalog, icons, history, and of course MCP and MCP commodity have been
updated and should work now.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Oct.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland having server problems
Amigaland.de currently has problems to really offer every game for download.
The reason why is that two servers canceled their service. The Amigaland team
now is searching for replacement servers.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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30.Oct.2001
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan: Pegasos-System: Official presentation at Amiga 2001
The Pegasos system will be presented to the public at the Cologne based Amiga 2001 event. Beside the presentation of the
innovating hardware, our main show efforts will concentrate on software and system expansibility.
In the software field, the user gets an extensive overview on capacity and
efficiency of the MorphOS environment. The perfectly smooth integration of
present Motorola® 680xx applications and native PowerPC® programms with absolute
transparency for the user is only one among many outstanding features of MorphOS.
In combination with the extraordinary capability of extension of the Pegasos
system with standard PCI cards, users will already be able to take a look at the
wide spectrum of supported hardware by the upcoming fair. Besides a variety
of graphic cards of the manufacturers S3®,SIS®,3DLabs® and 3Dfx®, tv and network
cards will round up the so far available spectrum.
The bplan gmbh would like to invite you to visit the Amiga 2001 in cologne. Our team
is looking forward to your vivid interest and proud to be able to present you the
Pegasos system, an innovation in the fields of personal computing.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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File manager: DiskMaster 2.5RC1
Rudolph Riedel wrote:
I have uploaded DiskMaster2.5RC1, DM2.guide and DM2_deutsch.guide on my homepage.
News in short:
- 2.5RC1 (01-10-30) 71932 bytes
- DM2 is now localised! German, french and dutch DM2.catalogs are included (english
build in)
- Translators wanted (DM2.cd also included)
- COPY and MOVE have a WARN option, so DM2 ask before overwriting files.
- SELECT knows a new option: COMMENT
- OPENWINDOW has now a ZOOM option for alternative windowsize and -position
- Many small improvements
- Several bugfixes
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (bis 29.10.2001)
Thanks to WHDLoad games you normally only play from disk can be installed on HD.
The following packages are added or updated:
- 29.10.01 new: Amazing SpiderMan () done by JOTD
- 29.10.01 fixed: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) install script corrected
- 29.10.01 new: Carthage (Psygnosis) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Wanted (Infogrames) done by Codetapper
- 28.10.01 new: Vector-Balls Demo (Tom Soft) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 28.10.01 new: Major Motion (Microdeal) done by Codetapper
- 28.10.01 new: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Pro Tennis Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
- 28.10.01 new: Obvious Disaster (Phenomena) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
- 28.10.01 new: Mystical (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Forgotten World (Arc Developments/Capcom) done by CFOU!
- 28.10.01 new: Cosmic Relief (Grandslam) done by Bored Seal
- 26.10.01 new: Sex Vens () done by JOTD
- 26.10.01 new: Pub Trivia Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
- 26.10.01 new: Operation Wolf (Ocean) done by Codetapper
- 26.10.01 new: Murders in Space (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Rene Hatje (ANF)
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Chicago Tribune: Amiga is mentioned in issue about MacOS X
In the issue "Apple's best reason yet to pitch your Pentium" the Amiga is mentioned
in very positive way.
(ps)
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30.Oct.2001
Miguel Gonçalves (E-Mail)
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New Portuguese Amiga-Website
At the title link you will find a new website in Portuguese whic provides the reader
with news and informations about the amiga.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Betaversion of new FFE-Page
Michael Asse wrote:
From today the new reworked homepage of the AmigaFFE project is online (title link).
It is a beta version, so if there are broken links or anything else, just send a mail
to me.
In about two weeks the address of the domain will be adapted.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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30.Oct.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)
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DCE: GREX Soundcard drivers are available for download
Now drivers for soundcards with the chipsets ESS-SOLO-ONE and FM-801 are available for
download. For this highperformance AHI drivers we give you the equivalent soundmixer
(needs gtlayout.library).
Soundcards from Terratec like the 128iPCI (ESS-SOLO-ONE) and 512i Digital (Fortemedia
FM-801) use this chipset. The FM-801 chipset can only be used in the GRex 4000, the
ESS-ONE chipset can be used in all GRex systems.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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29.Oct.2001
http://cloanto.com (ANF)
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Cloanto licences Picasso96 software (Update 3)
Press release: Cloanto is proud to announce that it licenced both the "Picasso96" software
from Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt, and Brian King's "UAEgfx" Monitor
implementation, for use in Amiga Forever.
A shareware version of Picasso96 has been providing RTG (Amiga retargetable
graphics) functionality to the emulation software which is part of Amiga
Forever since 1997. With the new license Cloanto would like to acknowledge
the precious contribution of the Picasso96 Team to the ease of use,
compatibility and speed which made Amiga Forever so successful, and
further contribute to the future development of the Picasso96 software.
The new license replaces the shareware status of the Picasso96 software
included in Amiga Forever. Support and upgrades will continue to be
provided by Cloanto as part of the Amiga Forever product.
Thanks to the Picasso96 implementation in the Amiga emulation, when an
Amiga program makes a function call to open an RTG screen, or to
otherwise read or change its contents, that functionality is in most
part executed as native and very fast x86 code. Furthermore, the Windows
versions of the emulation programs included with Amiga Forever (i.e.
WinUAE and WinFellow) fully exploit the latest versions of Microsoft
DirectX, which is normally used by games and multimedia applications
to provide maximum performance by providing low-level access to
specialized hardware features, without having to re-write hardware-specific
code. In practice this means that while other emulation programs only offer
proper support for a handful of display cards, Amiga Forever has been
running fine and will continue to run fine with hundreds of different
display cards, including most graphics card currently available, and those
which will be released with Windows drivers in the future.
The combination of Picasso96 and DirectX technologies provides palette-based,
hi-color, true-color and multi-monitor screen modes well beyond the
functionality and speed of the original Amiga hardware. Also, while other
emulation packages do not even support simple peripherals such as a USB
mouse, keyboard, joystick and speakers, DirectX includes DirectInput and
DirectSound, which allow the emulation as included in Amiga Forever to
support all popular input and sound devices.
The Picasso96 software is just one of the many components which have been
carefully selected, preinstalled and tested for compatibility in Amiga
Forever, to make Amiga emulation a simple one-click experience which works
on the widest possible range of different PCs. Hundreds of other items,
including for example GIF/LZW code used under license from Unisys Corporation
(and not available in the version of Personal Paint included on Aminet),
ColorFonts and AnimFonts by Kara Computer Graphics, and anything from
entire software packages to single icons are carefully listed in the
Copyright and Credits sections of the Amiga Forever documentation (which
includes 8 KB of text only to list the individual third-party contributions).
In spite of increasingly difficult times Cloanto keeps improving its own
software technology and licensing valued third-party contents to constantly
improve Amiga Forever and offer continued support and compatibility to the
Amiga community. Cloanto is grateful to all of its valued customers for
supporting these efforts.
LINKS:
Picasso96 Home Page
Amiga Forever Home Page
Cloanto Home Page
Update: (04.04.2018, 14:30, cg)
Mike Battilana (Cloanto) asked us to add the following clarification: The new license discussed in this press release only covers the 2001 version and minor updates - no upgrade privileges for future major versions.
Update 2: (31.12.2018, 15:30, cg)
As requested by Mike Battilana, we replaced "the 2.x version" in the first clarification (refer to previous paragraph) with "the 2001 version". Also, the following paragraph was added to the original press release on amigaforever.com:
"At the time of this writing in 2001, the Picasso96 project was owned by its original developers Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt. Updates released by a new Picasso96 ownership were neither envisioned nor intended to be included in Amiga Forever under this license."
Update 3: (18.02.2019, 23:00, cg)
To counter allegations made by Jens Schönfeld, Cloanto has added copies of their 2001 correspondence with Alexander Kneer and a scan of a cash transfer receipt. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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29.Oct.2001
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)
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Paintprogram: PerfectPaint V2.75b
A new version of PerfectPaint V2.75b is now available.
What's new:
- New TOOLTYPE: 'CLASSIC', by default, this tooltype is disable.
This Tooltype will change the WorkSpace of Perfectpaint.
Disable 'Classic' will show you only the zoom window (like other Processing software).
Enable 'Classic' will show you for each picture the main window
(always 100%) and optionally the Zoom window (like other version of PfPaint).
- PopUp menu can have transparency.
- Improve palette buffer: Add Icons / Allow Drag & Drop / Show the Current stencil /
See Doc for more info.
- New Arexx Commands.
- New Picture tool: Insert Picture.
- New Processing tool: linked freeHand.
- Redraw the anim control requester.
- New effect Blur, Horizontal Blur, Vertical Blur and the Arexx Command.
- New Wrap effect: Silver.
- New text effect: Candy.
- Redraw Font requester with a Bold option for CGfont, add a menu.
- A lot of small improvements and some small bug corrected.
- New tool under the boing icon: Alchemy: Here you can find all processing script with preview.
- New Alchemy script: FlowerPaint.
- Improve Density mapping requester with Load and Save Points.
- Add two new item in Stencil menu: Density mapping and clear Stencil.
- Improve 'Brush to Picture' and 'Picture to Brush': Stencil is respected.
Download: PfPaint-V275b.lha (1,9 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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29.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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Virus Help Denmark: Virus Warning 'Harrier A'
A new virus is found. As far as we know, it has not been spread. But read more about is here .
Also, new virus translations added to the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
VIRUS HELP DENMARK
Hi All....
A new linkvirus has been found a few days ago, but not in the wild.
It was send to directly to Georg Hoermann (programmer of xvs.library)
by the virus-programmer. Georg received the whole source code. This new
virus, named "Harrier A" was able to disable the antivirus programs,
but with the new xvs.library v33.36, this in no longer possible, due
to the new security stuff in the xvs.library code. And maybe that is
the reason why the virus-programmer send the code to Georg Hoermann.
We do not know if this virus was released in any way, so if you get a
requester poping up, telling you that something is trying to disable
the xvs.library, please let us know.
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus name.... : Harrier A
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus size.... : 4.800 bytes (Uses polmorphic engine)
Infects....... : 020+ machines
In the decoded virus you can read:
.[ Harrier .A 1.02 virus,
(c) by xxxxxxxxxxx..xxx ]
.Markus! Come back!Hç..,z
(xxxxxxx = Programmers name, removed by Virus Help Denmark)
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Georg Hoermann' for sending the archive, and to
Zeeball for the first test.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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29.Oct.2001
AMI Sector One
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AMI Sector One wanting help for Perl/PHP/(My)SQL
'AMI Sectore One' is wanting help in enhancing theire website. Who
is Perl, PHP or (My)SQL literate and interested in supporting the website
might contact
Bernd Gmeineder.
There are many suggestions how to enhance 'AMI Sector One' which could
be realized using the mentioned languages.
'AMI Sectore One' among other things offers Amiga games for free download.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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