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30.11.2001 USB Controller for Amiga
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KDH Datentechnik has announced SUBWAY USB controller:
- USB specification 1.1 and 2.0 compliant (full and low speed)
- integrated root hub with 4 ports (self powered)
- all ports protected against overcurrent and overload
- power saving 3.3V technology
- compatible with accelerator boards (030/040/060/PPC)
- no mechanical problems with A1200 bus boards
- compatible with tower housings
- standard A1200 clockport connector
- high speed clock interface
- works on fast clockports (if 100% A1200 compatible)
- available shortly
KDH Datentechnik website
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30.11.2001 KDH's xmas-calendar
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Between December 1rst and December 24th we will offer you a daily highlight
at a special low budget price. Just click on the appropriate door on our
KDH advent calendar and enjoy our daily highlight.
We recommend a daily
visit to our site and you may see a item you always wanted at an affordable
price. Each highlight is valid for two days. All orders submitted via our
advent calendar with take part in a draw. The 1rst winner will receive a
copy of Descent Freespace, 2nd winner Shogo, 3rd winner Wipeout.
Amiga-News.de website
KDH Datentechnik website
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30.11.2001 ProStationAudio Titanium on sale, holidays specials, benchmark tool
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Titanium on sale:
The new ProStationAudio Titanium is now on sale. List price for the top service,
including Titanium, any update or upgrade, any plugin, personalized
tech support both on software use and your audio projects is 325US$.
Holydays special:
For the yearly holiday sale, the Titanium service is offered at 275US$.
Expires on December 15th 2001.
Read more
dr. Maurizio Ciccione, AudioLabs
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30.11.2001 Ben Vost Amiga Clearout (Hurry!)
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Ben Vost (of Amiga Format fame) is moving to a smaller flat and has
a lot of Amiga items (FOR FREE) that cannot go with him (hard/software).
If no-one takes it by the end of the weekend, it's off to the tip!!!
Can someone rescue it all before it becomes landfill?
Read more
Amiga.org website
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30.11.2001 Earth 2140 - Final Conflict and Clubbed now at FMHC
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The mission pack Final Conflict for Earth 2140 is now in stock at FORE-MATT
Home Computing and can be ordered from the
Amiga Online Superstore for just 15UKP.
We are also pleased to announce that trial issues as well as full
subscriptions to CLUBBED/TOTAL AMIGA magazine can now be made at the store
using our 128Bit Secure online ordering system.
FORE-MATT Home Computing website
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30.11.2001 SDL Amiga programmers ML
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30.11.2001 Interview with Point Design
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"Today, the german print-mag Amiga Future release an interview with
PointDesign on his homepage"
(German / English).
Andreas Magerl, Amiga-Future
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30.11.2001 Software News
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AmIRC v3.5.21beta released.
This beta version is available for registered users only, and fixes some
small issues. The package also contains Textinput 29.3.
Matay publish a beta version of the S3 Virge chip based PCI graphics cards driver
for Prometheus. His author, Alexander Kneer, bewares it can still be not fully
functional (some overlay problems can appear), yet should work.
Download it here and use at your own risk.
prelude.library v5.3 - Enforcer Hits problems solved.
See Prelude pages for more info.
PowerD is a modern programming language (currently only)
for Amiga computers. It supports both 68k and ppc processors. This release presents several bugfixes
and some new features.
download (v0.19 Alpha [30.11.01] Update) /
history
VapoeWare website
Matay website
Albrecht Computer Technik website
Martin Kuchinka's homepage
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29.11.2001 News Freespace Demo Update
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A third update of Freespace demo is now available at Hyperion Software.
'Freeze bug' should be killed now. There is nothing left to prevent the
full version from being released, soon.
Steffen Haeuser, Hyperion Entertainment
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29.11.2001 AmiAtlas 6 & Amiga Future
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The AmiATLAS Development Team and the Amiga Future are pleased to inform every
interested Amiga-user about a cheap abo-bundle of the Amiga Future (With
coverCD) together with AmiATLAS 6.
The Price is DM 185,-. This offer is
limited till the 5.12.01!
Read more (german)
With AmiATLAS you can very easily and comfortable calculate travel routes,
including unlimited intermediate stops. You can choose between the fastest,
shortest, cheapest and most pleasant route. In addition the kind of route
description is choosable in various steps, from very short up to very detailed.
Maps can be printed with right measure, full page size or as a big poster.
All maps are freely expandable or changeable as you like it, and joining
together is no problem too. The display of the maps can be freely configured.
Furthermore there is an integrated CityGuide-System, for Germany, Swiss and
Austria, with hundreds of informations (in most cases with pictures!) about
cities, hotels and parks. You can find tips about restaurants, cinemas,
theaters and much more. The HotelGuide brings you useful informations for
thousands of hotels, with prices and equipment, mostly with pictures.
Last not least there are some additional tools too. A database about the ZIP
codes in germany, this one can replace the official database of the german
post "DPAG". It has more than 250.000 entries. Another tool shows all the
official registration codes of cars in germany, swiss and austria, with some
interesting information too. And of course there is an complete database of
all german (pre) phone numbers, the AVON. Another tool calculates your car
costs with many options.
Andreas Magerl, Amiga-Future
AmiAtlas website
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29.11.2001 'Rage Hard' - 3D FPS Game For MorphOS & MacOS
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Rage Hard is a multiplayer 3D Games similar to "Operation Counterstrike". Rage Hard
will require a Pegasos with G3 350 and Voodoo3. Go to
MorphOS News for
the screenshots of Rage Hard.
Amigart website
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29.11.2001 digital magazine - now out in shops and online
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29.11.2001 Amiga University site updates
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"We have added more than 150 new links, link-checked the entire site, as well
as added new pages on Amithlon/AmigaOSXL and Amiga DiskMags (online archives
of The Crypt as well as Amiga Information Online).
We have also added a
major new site mirror, that of Gareth Knight's Amiga Interactive Guide, as
well as the newly replaced mirror of the Blitz Basic 2000 site (David McMinn
just redid their entire site, as he announced about 1.5 weeks ago here on ANN).
In short, a lot of 'new' and plenty of 'old' for your use and enjoyment.
Amiga-News.de website
Amiga University website
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28.11.2001 Cloanto released today version 5.0 of Amiga Forever
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Cloanto released today version 5.0 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga emulation
and connectivity package for PCs. New features include just-in-time (JIT) compiler
technology to dramatically increase execution speed, new ROM and operating system
files to emulate not only the Amiga computers but also Commodore's CDTV and CD³²
game consoles, and Software Manager, a content delivery and management system for
one-click news, updates and downloads. An experimental version of the revolutionary
Disk2FDI software, which makes it possible to read Amiga floppy disks on the PC,
is provided for the technically inclined. Other improvements include support for
new Windows XP and DirectX features and new Picasso96 technology to better map Amiga
graphics calls to low-level DirectX functionality and native x86 code, in order to
achieve maximum performance without sacrificing compatibility. Cloanto publicly
benchmarked the new version of the emulation software to be 30 times faster than the
previous version (which already matched the CPU performance of the fastest Amiga
68060 silicon). Amiga Forever can be installed or run from CD-ROM (no installation
or reboot required), and is also available in a downloadable Online Edition. In
either case, Amiga application can run side by side with the host operating system
and its applications, while taking advantage of features such as virtual memory,
advanced power management, digital rights management, NTFS filing system, wireless
networking, and thousands of past, present and future drivers for peripherals,
specifications and gadgets which the Amiga would otherwise not be able to support.
For additional information please refer to the Amiga Forever home page at
amigaforever.info.
Amiga Forever homepage
Cloanto homepage
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28.11.2001 clickBOOM: PLAY AND DON'T PAY IS BACK
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Due to the holidays, ClickBoom has brought out their "Play and don't pay" program.
Order any of their games, have your game(s) shipped to you immediately, pay
absolutely nothing until March 2002!
Read more
Faulty Nightlong CDs
"We had the pre-trial at which Duplium offered to settle. However, their settlement
offer did not take into consideration our Amiga players with faulty Nightlong CDs.
Therefore, we had no choice but to turn the offer down. The next step is the trial.
The court has yet to set a date for it, most likely it will be some time next year.
We'll keep you posted."
clickBOOM website
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28.11.2001 Swedish amiga show in March 2002
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AmiGBG 2002. That's the name of the first swedish Amiga fair since 1998.
AmiGBG 2002 will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The fair will
contain both swedish and foreign exhibitors, both companys and user groups.
At AmiGBG 2002 you will get a glimpse of the future Amiga system,
both of Amiga OS 4 and Amiga DE. You will also see existing and coming
systems with modern hardware from different manufacturers.
Welcome to Gothenburg in 2002!
Kjell Breding, AmiGBG homepage
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28.11.2001 Emulation War: Cloanto Fires Back
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Apparently already more than a month ago Cloanto asked Haage & Partner to remove
certain allegedly false statements (like "fastest Amiga", "most compatible Amiga",
"first Amiga notebook", "first Amiga with virtual memory") from its web site,
advertising, product boxes and documentation. H&P ignored the requests, forcing
Cloanto to go public... you can read it here
Amiga.org website
Cloanto homepage
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28.11.2001 PowerAmiga#5 Mag
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28.11.2001 Software News
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New xsurfadsl.device with appp update
A new version of the xsurfadsl.device, the PPPoE driver for our networking card X-Surf,
can be found in the support-area
of this site. For the first time, the archive also contains an updated version of the
appp.device that has been licensed from Haage&Partner.
Read more
ISAcatweasel.device and Amithlon
At this point, we want to draw your attention to the ISAcatweasel.device, which allows
using the PC-Catweasel under Amithlon. Since we have not been able to run Amithlon on
any of our computers, we depend you your help in testing. The new archive is now packed
with LHA, so difficulties with unpacking the ARJ archive are eliminated. Adapted
Catweasel mountlists should make the installation a lot easier.
FScreenPPC v0.21 NTT can be downloaded at http://www.amiga.pl/redgroup.
It's first released PPC version of FScreen.
SDL v1.2.2 beta by Sam Lantiga for MorphOS is
available here which allows
rapid app and game ports now.
individual Computers website
Przemyslaw 'SENSEI' Gruchala, R.E.D.Group
MorphOS homepage
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27.11.2001 Hyperion Gives More Info about Amiga OS4
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Frieden brothers: "First of all, the idea is to get the AmigaOS from 68k to the PPC.
Of course, there's a lot of code in the system, and lot's of code that's beyond our
reach (hardware drivers in ROMs, for example). So one of the core components is of
course the 68k emulator. The JIT version is already very fast, if you have a 040/25
and a fast 603e, you'll actually be able to run some programs faster than on the
physical 040/25... Read more
Amigart website
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27.11.2001 FreeSpace release will happen not too far in the future
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Steffen Haeuser: "It looks as if we found the occasional Freezes Bug in FreeSpace.
We are still doing final testing of this, then a new Update for the Demo Version
will appear. This also means that the release of the full game will happen not
too far in the future."
Steffen Haeuser, Hyperion Entertainment
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27.11.2001 Prometheus ViRGE driver now available
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Grzegorz Juraszek, Matay: "Alexander Kneer has done a S3 Virge chip based driver
for Prometheus. It should be up at the Matay's website soon but if you can't
wait and have an old S3 laying somewhere in the corner ;), you can
ask me for it. Beware as it is still beta
and some overlay problems can appear (Alexander says). The driver hasn't been yet
tested at Matay due to the lack of S3. I know it sounds silly but nobody here
has such a card. I hope I'll find one soon and check ;-)"
CyberGraphX homepage
Matay website
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27.11.2001 Amiga Future: Vote
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"The german mag Amiga Future just startet a new vote. We would like to know
if you like the Amiga 2001. (german)"
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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27.11.2001 O.A.S.E Amiga show to be held next weekend in Austria
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The Open Amiga Southeast Europe show will be held on the 1st and 2nd of December
in Graz, Austria. There will be presentations of AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS 4 and
Pegasos on both days. More info can be found
here.
Teemu I. Yliselä via ANN
O.A.S.E website
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27.11.2001 Advance pci.library-MMU mode + mmu.lib = "significant slowdown"
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Robert Purser posted on the Mediator ML an email from Darek Dulian M.Sc.,
with Elbox's IT Research and Testing Support Department on the subject
of mmu.library.
"You can fully use Thor's mmu.library when you work in NO-MMU mode." [..]
"The mechanism of MMU support in pci.library-MMU mode is much more
advanced than the MMU support in Thor's mmu.library. Making the
compatibility of both software will result in the significant slowdown
of the computer."
CyberGraphX homepage
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27.11.2001 Software News
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New PNG-Box and JPEG-Box (v4.50), PNG/JPEG generators for WWW graphics, were uploaded
to Aminet today.
Additional to code changes (PNG), all prices are listed in Euro (EUR) now.
Digital Almanac Update!
"I have released version 4.5
to the Aminet. As I have detected a very small bug in the PPC-version (PPC users try
setting Extinction and Refraction the same time and look what comes!), I will release
a new update (V4.6) next time. The next version will include joystick support for moving the map."
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
Digital Almanac Homepage
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26.11.2001 FreeSpace Demo Update
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Steffen Haeuser: "I just uploaded an update for the demo version on our site,
which makes it possible to change the Mouse/Joystick Sensitivity also with
the demo. Not through the Freespace Options Menu like for the full version,
though, but you can set it up in the config file at least. In the full version
it will be set-up-able in the Freespace Options Menu. I set default values
to 9, while for the older demo version sensitivity was set to a lower value."
Steffen Haeuser, Hyperion Entertainment
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26.11.2001 SDL 1.2.2 libs available for 68k/WOS/MorphOS
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"I've just uploaded to my page 68k/WOS StormC4 binaries from Glen Hisdal,
since 1.2.3 is out we'll step to 1.2.3 before a stable release but you can
try and give feedback of this version now. This is the first version that
support SDL interface to OpenGL through StormMesa/Warp3d (MorphOS version
has not OpenGL support). The page where you can find the libraries (useful
for programmers only) and some info about the project is:
http://ggreco.interfree.it/sdl.html
Gabriele Greco, Amiga SDL Home Page
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26.11.2001 Spoletium 4 is over
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Paolo D'Urso: "A photographics gallery, final results and releases are
available at our website www.spoletium.org.
Thanks to all the people who came, who sent an entry for the compos and to our
sponsors! See you next year!"
On November 24-25, 2001, Cloanto attended the Spoletium 4 event in Spoleto, Italy,
providing a wireless webcam service. If you missed the live webcast you may want
to have a look at the selection of pictures below, which begin with the first
look out of the window...
Read more
ANN website
Cloanto website
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26.11.2001 Quality pictures from Cologne 2001
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"True Quality photos of Pegasos Motherboard, the only drawback is that the site
is in spanish, but anyway the important thing are the photos :)"
Check it!
Christian Uceda
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26.11.2001 AmigaRing Status Update
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Mike Bouma: "AmigaRing is going through some important changes. WebRing is no longer
part of the Yahoo network and this is good news. The new Webring system allows me to
have a greater control over AmigaRing again. Now I can easily alter obsolete URLs or
information. Also statistical information is available again, so now I can easily
spot inactive/offline websites within AmigaRing."
Read more
AmigaRing homepage
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26.11.2001 Interview with Tomas 'Tjomp' Jacobsen
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The Norwegian Amiga news site polarBoing has an interview with Tomas 'Tjomp' Jacobsen,
one of the guys responsible for the first AmigaDE 4k demo.
Read it here
polarBoing website
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25.11.2001 Photos of Amiga 2001 & Pegasos
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A few photos, from the Amiga 2001 show in Cologne (Köln), of the Pegasos
motherboard running MorphOS have been
posted here.
Sebastien "Jedi" Jeudy,
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25.11.2001 Amiga Arena - Interview Action
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25.11.2001 PerfectPaint News
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25.11.2001 3rd party software page for Mediator gets updated
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24.11.2001 FreeSpace demo out now
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Steffen Haeuser: "The FreeSpace Demo version is now available on our Webpage. Both full
archive and Updates for Demo CD Owners (CD 32 Pad bugfix). The bugfix is already in the
full archive, so people without the demo CD do not need the update archives. Visit
www.hyperion-entertainment.com
to download it (26MB). You have to go to the download area and login.
If you experience any problem during download there is a
mirror
with resume support.
Hyperion Entertainment website
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24.11.2001 CD32/CDTV emulator Akiko Released
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The CD32/CDTV emulator Akiko for Windows is now available for download on the
Airsoft Softwair homepage.
Akiko emulates a CD32 and a CDTV on PCs with Windows with the help
of an enhanced version of WinUAE. Akiko does not need the so called
extended roms of those consoles, it just requires Kickstart rom 3.1 for
CD32 emulation and Kickstart rom 1.3 for CDTV emulation. The enhanced
version of the WinUAE is included with the Akiko distribution archive.
The source code of this WinUAE version is available for download on
the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
Akiko is Shareware and the demo version has some limitations.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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23.11.2001 News: English translation of report from Amiga World 2001 (w/ Pictures)
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Costel Mincea: "I was asked several times for translating my little show report.
Now there is a english translation available. Not the best english but i think
it should work :) I hope you`ll enjoy. Feedback is welcome :)"
Click here
Costel Mincea
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23.11.2001 Elbox SharkPPC should work in Prometheus unless Elbox prevents it
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Matay's PR & marketing guy Grzegorz Juraszek posted a follow up to the SharkPPC
topic on ANN.lu: "I see no reason why Shark wouldn't work with Prometheus, provided
Elbox doesn't put any protection against it in the flashROM of the card. As for
hinting: it is pretty obvious that if not the same, both cards are at least based
on the same reference board (by IBM). That's why making drivers shouldn't be a big
problem even if Elbox won't want to publish documentation (as usually)."
Adam Kowalczyk follows up with: "If you've been at the Yahoo Prometheus Group
recently, Krashan has indicated that Matay has been working on getting bus mastering
working on the Prometheus. The board will have to have the PLDs reprogrammed to
accomplish this. Looking at the hardware, it's provided with the ability to have
them reprogrammed (CN6 and CN7)."
CyberGraphX homepage
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23.11.2001 Freespace Demo will be available tomorrow
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Steffen Haeuser, Hyperion: "Hopefully I will finalize everything to upload
the Freespace-demo tomorrow. This version will include also some minor
bugfixes (mainly CD 32 Pad Support). We'll provide two archives, one for
people who have the CD and only want an updated exe, and a "full" archive
for people who do not have the CD."
Amigart website
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23.11.2001 AIO Issue 53 is out
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Issue 53 of AIO is now out, including a C tutorial and and interview
with James Daniels. Catch it soon from Aminet or the site
www.aioworld.com.
Mark Tierno, AIO website
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23.11.2001 Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
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With the SLD extension the Amiga
emulator UAE can now use the SDL library for graphics output under Linux.
SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. The SDL library is a cross platform library
and offers functions for graphics and sound output as well as querying input devices.
The version modified for UAE currently only works under Linux, but there are some
benefits from using SDL: It's now possible to use UAE in fullscreen mode as a normal user.
The emulator can now be used directly on the console (with activated framebuffer),
e.g. without X-Windows.
Amiga-News.de website
UAE SDL page
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23.11.2001 Software News
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SecondSpin v2.18Beta
- easily encode audio cds <-> mp1/mp2/mp3 (68k/ppc).
NEW: Tweaked the startup code once again. Better error requesters should now pop up if
errors occur during startup. Some small internal changes. The SecondSpin.info file was
missing somehow in last release archive, it's fixed now. Several bugfixes.
readme
WarpTIFF.datatype v44.6 - freeware TIFF picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS).
NEW: Fixed TIFF descriptor file - no longer mistakes MED modules as TIFFs. Images in 12-bit (or less) RGB format are now decoded correctly.
memory.library v43.5 (beta) - Virtual Memory for AmigaOS. The memory.library
is the second step stone of the mmu.library project. The purpose of this library is to provide virtual memory for the AmigaOS environment. The requirement
for making the memory.library working is to have a 68020/68851, 030, 040 or 060 with a working MMU and install the mmu.library.
readme
SecondSpin homepage
Oliver Roberts' homepage
Aminet
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22.11.2001 AmigaPage Competition
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"Amiga Passion" competiton was born to take you part of the AmigaPage life.
The target of the competition are all the Amiga users and you'll attend
with one or more of your WB Grab (max 3) that will be send to
kanuka@ciaoweb.it with "Concorso"
like subject. The competiton last till the 31st December 2001. The fouth
positions have for reward a copy of Extreme offer by DKGStore. To make
a distinction AmigaPage offer a mousepad, a brooch and a poster rispectively
to 1st, 2nd and 3rd classifier. The judges are Marco Lovera, Sandra Lovera and
Claudio Marro Filosa. After 31/12/01 we'll have the time to take counsel
for a unanimous vote. All grabs that you send will be show below and after
"Amiga Passion" we'll move all in the "Computer Passion". In conclusion I
remind you that all grabs sent since now can't attend to the competiton.
After this I'll invite you to take part of the "Amiga Passion" competition.
Read more
Lovera Marco, AmigaPage
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22.11.2001 Amithlon test disks and CD's
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22.11.2001 Another update to UnExoticA
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Yesterday UnExoticA was again updated. New additions include the music from Pac-Land,
P.P.Hammer, Toki, Cannon Fodder, Mr. Nutz, Pegasus and many others. For full
information about the changes you can read the UnExoticA -
Updates Page.
ExoticA website
UnExoticA website
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22.11.2001 The Digital Universe v1.03
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If you haven't yet purchased "The Digital Universe" for the Amiga, now is the perfect
opportunity. As long as you are able to download a 11.6 Mb archive from our web site
onto your computer, you can now obtain the full V1.03 for $25 Canadian (about $16 US).
The online distribution is in every way identical to the earlier CD-ROM distribution,
other than the change of format and a reduction in price from $75 to $25 Canadian.
The entire user manual is integrated into the software as a context-sensitive help
system.
For a full description of the Amiga version of "The Digital Universe",
we invite you to our web site at
http://www.syz.com/DU/amiga/. There, you
will find a description of the features of the software, sample screen snapshots,
and an online order form.
If you have moved on to a Macintosh or Windows
environment, we are currently shipping a version of the
software for the Mac and
are at work developing a Windows port.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to write to
support@syz.com, or phone us at 780-961-2213.
Thanks for your continued support!
Dan Charrois, Syzygy Research & Technology
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22.11.2001 Amiga RC5 Team Effort News
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Moved form submission to XS4ALL, due to abrupt end of service from Cistron you may not
have been able to send in your data for a couple of hours, this is now fixed. Note also
that if you are linking to the Amiga RC5 button (see lower left of this page), you may
have an old link with a Cistron URL, this does no longer exist and should link to the
image at distributed.amiga.org. See the details on what to change this to on the
advertise us page.
Amiga RC5 Team Effort website
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22.11.2001 Software News
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BarsnPipes News
The source code for the excellent Bars&Pipes MIDI sequencer was released last year by its developers.
The company, Blue Ribbon, was earlier bought by Microsoft to operate on different markets.
Alfred J. Faust, from Germany, cleaned the source code as a start for further development.
Current version is 1.07.
New: Screenmoderequester, gadtools-GUI, most requesters may be used by keyboard-shortcuts,
CAMD-Library, Localisation.
SoundFX News
Stefan Kost: "I have updated and fixed the html-documentation. Furthermore I prepared
the developer archive for thew upcomming version 4.2. The new archives can be found
at the download-page.
Scalos News
"We've added version numbers for the modules and plugins, available on the
Downloads page,
after a few people requested them. Aren't we good? ;)"
"Jurgen has fixed a slight problem in the WB3.9 plugin. The updated archive is now
available from the Downloads page."
"Sorry, we uploaded a new beta (40.15) of the Scalos executable, but I forgot to update
this news page! Whoops! If you haven't yet got it, go to the
Downloads page now!"
A potential memory leak in the ImageFX saver for SView was fixed in V1.4.
download
CygnusEd Professional 4.21(b) (MOS) updated with
working -keepio & -sticky and much more! Read the readme.
Please note that you need the original CygnusEd4 CDROM to apply this patch/ppc update.
Alfred Faust's homepage
SonicPulse website
Scalos homepage
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
MorphOS homepage
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21.11.2001 EARTH 2140 Missionpack: The Final Conflict shipping now
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You have fought many battles, but the war is not yet over. Once again new brave generals
are needed to take one of the struggling powers to ultimate victory in this the
Final Conflict in the year 2140. Do you have what it takes?
Missionpack THE FINAL CONFLICT for real-time strategy hit EARTH 2140 is now shipping.
The new missionpack brings 80 new single- and 30 new multiplayer missions to the game.
In addition there are 6 new units, 2 new buildings and a new terrain.
e.p.i.c interactive website
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21.11.2001 VapoWare: Claimed "Security Issues"
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Recently, a claim has been made that MUI applications in general would be
vulnerable to a "security exploit", and that this would also be true for
VaporWare applications. A technical explanation of the problem together
with the reasons why this does not apply to VaporWare products is
available here.
VaporWare website
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21.11.2001 AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list
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The FAQ list
now offers 6 new solutions to frequently asked questions and problems. Thanks to the
help of some customers we could add some more items to our list: Aladdin 4D, Audio
Evolution, CandyFactory, Diavolo Pro, Digibooster Pro, Magic Menu, MAME, MaxonTOOLS,
MaxonTwist, Monzoom 3D, PageStream, Samplitude, Shapeshifter, Superbase 4, TurboCalc,
TV Paint, Wordworth and may others.
Haage&Partner website
AmigaOS XL site
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21.11.2001 Show: AMIGA 2001
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This years Amiga show was again very crowded because everyone wanted to see AmigaOS XL
working. On three workstations we presented Amithlon and AmigaXL for QNX and answered
all questions of the astonished Amiga fans. The resonance was very positive and the
people really liked our new design tower very much. There will be more offers around
AmigaOS XL the next days.
Pictures of the show
Haage&Partner website
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21.11.2001 Interview with Amiga68k OpenBSD Maintainer
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"Many of you (here at Amiga.org) may have already read part one in the forums.
And because I cant remember if I posted the second part I thought I might
as well merge both in to a doco and make it look like a formal
interview. Enjoy."
Amiga.org website
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21.11.2001 Linux Suse 7.3 PPC Installation Guide For Amiga PPC
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21.11.2001 WHDLoad site is back!
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Galahad^Fairlight: "Ok chaps, WHDLoad, everyones favourite Game/demo installer
package for Classic Amiga's is back after
a short break.
WHDLoad Support Page
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21.11.2001 Pegasos-Boards will be produced on DCE SMD-line
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21.11.2001 New Repulse driver for ProStationAudio.
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New native ProStationAudio driver for the Repulse analog and S/P-DIF board.
Just received from the board makers, Alien Design from Germany.
Download the new RepulseInOut from the
files area.
AudioLabs website
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21.11.2001 PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: New online shop
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On my website there's now under http://www.ar-kleinert.de/index_english.html
a number of 1&1 products available in a separate online shop - providing just the platform,
your actual business partner is 1&1. The one or another product might be interesting
for Amiga users as well (note: german): webhosting, T-ISDN XXL, E-Shops, 0700 lifetime phone numbers,
T-DSL, cell phones, Yello power, ISP.
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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20.11.2001 3sat reportage
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20.11.2001 e.p.i.c interactive entertainment announces THE FEEBLE FILES for Amiga.
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"Our Mac cartoon adventure The Feeble Files will be ported to the Pegasos/MorphOS
as well as the Amiga. The Amiga version comes in fully localised versions for
english and german. Required is an Amiga with a 4 MByte gfx board (f.e. B/CVision),
a 68060 or PPC and at least 32 MByte RAM. Work on both the Amiga- and the MorphOS
is under way and we hope to ship the game before Xmas 2001."
e.p.i.c interactive website
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20.11.2001 AmigaOS 3.9 SDK Confirmed
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In USENET newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.programmer Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel confirms Amiga will
release the SDK ("Software Development Kit") for AmigaOS 3.9. Olaf Barthel says
things have kept him busy (and still do), but the SDK will be release once he gets
time to finish it up.
Peter Eriksson via ANN
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20.11.2001 Jackpot! screenshots
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Amiga.org has some exclusive screenshots
from Edivisions first game, Jackpot!. As the name may suggest its a gambling simulator and has some of the best
graphics seen on AmigaDE to date. A release date for the game has not been announced, but as you can see the
game is well into development.
Amiga.org website
Edivision website
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20.11.2001 Prometheus will have 2 PPC options
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Matay's PR & marketing guy Grzegorz Juraszek posted to the Amiga-Prometheus ML:
"Filip asked me to pass this information: Matay currently has two companies that
are just waiting for busmastering in Prometheus to become true. After that, you
won't have to wait more than one month for supporting drivers to appear (if no
technical problems occur, which is never predictable). This means two PPC options
for Prometheus. One may be the same PPC card as Shark (without a fishy sticker,
though ;-). May be - I don't know the details and so, please, don't ask me about
them. I hope this makes everything clear. Please note, similar information appeared
at Matay's website months ago."
CyberGraphX homepage
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20.11.2001 StormC docs being converted to PDF ASAP
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"A while back H&P announced that they had revised the manuals for StormC
and released them in the AmigaGuide forma. A more printer-friendly format
would've been appreciated, so I sent H&P an email on the subject and
got the following postive reply:" (see topic)
Amiga.org website
Haage&Partner website
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20.11.2001 Coding GUI programs in VP - Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow
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"This
is the first in this series of tutorials concerned with writing programs for Tao's intent
media environment. This series assumes that you have read the
first series on VP coding
at this site (even the tutorials
I have not written yet!!!!!) or at least have a basic knowledge of VP coding."
Amiga.org website
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20.11.2001 VarIO updates
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The support-area
of this site contains two updates for our interface board VarIO: The new driver
archive contains a corrected version of the SetupVarIO command (Enforcer hits
removed), and a french catalog. The new file Inside_VarIO.txt describes the
final hardware for programmers of other operating systems (Linux and NetBSD for example).
individual Computers website
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19.11.2001 News from Amiga2001 Show
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19.11.2001 Warp3D support for Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon.
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Hyperion Entertainment has entered into an agreement with third parties to ensure
Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon support for Warp3D, effectively doubling the number of
supported chipsets.
"We are thrilled to be able to open up ever more possibilities
to users of Amiga PCI busboards", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion
Entertainment. "The Permedia 3 is around 6 times faster than the Permedia 2 and
offers a lot more functionality including full OpenGL compliance. The chipset is
still frequently used in high-end 3D workstations. The ATI Radeon family is
undeniably state of the art with well-rounded 2D performance and top-notch 3D
performance that is on par with anything out there in the Wintel world. Support for
the Radeon family will allow Amiga users to enjoy unrivalled performance and
functionality."
More details will be disclosed in the upcoming weeks.
Hyperion Entertainment website
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19.11.2001 Hyperion Entertainment brings 3D graphics to PDA's.
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Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that it has finalised an initial
version of its 'Warp3D' technology, a mature, small foot-print, feature-rich yet very
fast 3D solution for Elate/ AmigaDE based devices.
Warp3D allows content-creators
to effortlessly deploy 3D graphics on low-end devices such as PDA's, web-tablets and
3G phones and is the product of years of development in response to concrete
performance challenges and 3D technology.
Hyperion intends to showcase the Warp3D
technology by producing several PDA oriented games.
Read more
Hyperion Entertainment website
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19.11.2001 Matrox, Permedia3 & ATI CyberGraphX drivers? : None
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There have been a few rumors, from the Amiga 2001 show floating around, that VFD
is currently working on Matrox, Permedia3 & ATI CGX drivers. No, no and no. VDF
has no Permedia3 & ATI developer docs. If you wish to send the needed
documentation for Permedia3, ATI or any other chip sets please contact
Vision Factory Development.
The VFD team does have developer docs for Matrox, like everyone else, and is
currently looking at them and if somethings can be sorted out VFD may try to
start a driver (like many other chip sets). Currently this is on the back burner.
CyberGraphX homepage
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19.11.2001 individual Computers on TV
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NEUES... die Computershow on 3sat TV features
a report from the Amiga show that took place at the Mediapark Cologne this weekend.
The programme is today at 21:30 CET. The 4:30-minute report also mentions our new product
VarIO.
The show is repeated on november 20th, 2001, at 1:00 CET (the night to tuesday)
on the German TV station ZDF, and again on 3sat on november 24th, 2001, at 14:00 CET.
3sat TV can be seen europe-wide via ASTRA satellite (1F) 19.2 deg. east, transponder 10,
vertical polarisation, on the frequency 11,347 Ghz, analog service.
The station can also be seen on ASTRA digital service in the ZDF-Bouquet "ZDF-Vision",
transponder 77, horizontal polarisation, on the frequency 11,954 Ghz, bitrate 27500
and FEC 3/4.
individual Computers website
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19.11.2001 Route planner: Update for AmiATLAS 6
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The first update for the route planner 'AmiATLAS 6' was released and is available
for registered users from now.
For example the assign and path bugs were fixed
and 'AmigaAUTO' was re-integrated and is run capable again.
The first extensive
update with e.g. multi-lingual version of AmiATLAS will be released around the
middle of December.
Amiga-News.de website
AmiATLAS6 homepage
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19.11.2001 Software News
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Jerome 'kingguppy' Fisher: "To answer the question of whether AmChat is still being
worked on, and whether version 1.1 will ever appear: Yes.When? It will be
released eventually, it progresses with each small burst of enthusiasm I get.
WinUAE compatible, Amithlon and MorphOS versions are planned.
PPC GCC 2.95.3 base archive.
Includes warpcollect, elf2exe2 and libstdc++. You will also need one of the compiler archives below.
Launch with "ppc-amigaos-gcc -warpup" for WarpOS and with "ppc-amigaos-gcc" for PowerUP.
PPC GCC 2.95.3 -
native PPC WarpOS compiler binaries. Needs the base archive above.
PPC GCC 2.95.3 M68K -
M68K hosted PPC compiler binaries. Needs the base archive above.
LibnixPPC -
LibnixPPC for WarpOS and PowerUP. Not needed if you have it from GCC 2.95.2 already.
M68K GCC 2.95.3 WarpOS -
PPC WarpOS hosted M68K compiler binaries. Install this over your previous version from geekgadgets.org.
Jerome 'kingguppy' Fisher's .plan, V3Portal
Amiga projects by Jarmo Laakkonen
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18.11.2001 News from Amiga2001 Show
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18.11.2001 AmigaOS 4 News From WOA 2001
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Hyperion and H&P acquired the license to the AmigaOS4 PPC. With the support of many
developers (with H&P and Hyperion as a core team) the OS step for step is
transferred. First the TCP/IP stack, EXEC and FFS2 and there will be possibly a new
LIBRARY concept.
o Memory protection is limited at the beginning.
o New Warp3D (now with Matrox, Permedia3 and Radeon 1/2 support)
o Generic PCI driver for different PCI boards.
o USB Support.
o New TCP/IP stack ('Roadshow').
o Picasso96 as standard in a PPC native version.
o Is to run on all Amigas with PPC, whereby the Blizzard of the performance could make problems.
o 68k-Emulation (JIT version) is integrated.
o AmigaDE will be added.
o Java is to also come (however not directly with the first version)
o price: approximately like Amiga OS V3.5 or V3.9.
o Amiga ZorroII and ZorroIII cards are to be supported.
o PPC Datatypes.
o AHI for sound.
Aspired date for completion is February 2002.
In related news, Hyperion said that the release of OS 4 is not dependant on the
release of the AmigaOne.
Hyperion also told that they've been talking with both Elbox and BPlan and
that there will be versions of AmigaOS 4 for the SharkPPC and Pegasos.
Amigart website
Stefan Popp
ANN website
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18.11.2001 Ottawa Amiga Show Report
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Here is a report on what happened
during the Ottawa Amiga Show. The show was held at the Routhier Centre in Ottawa on
Saturday, November 17, 2001.
Ottawa Amiga Show homepage
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18.11.2001 Akiko News
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New screenshots of the Akiko emulator were just released on the
Airsoft Softwair web site.
Akiko emulates CD32 and CDTV systems under the Windows operating system.
Akiko is a Shareware emulator and can be ordered now. A public demo
version will be made available in near future. If you order Akiko now,
you'll get the latest beta version which already runs most of the
CD32/CDTV games. The released screenshots show the now much more
flexible GUI and the CD audio player of the CD32 and CDTV.
Andreas Falkenhahn, Airsoft Softwair
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18.11.2001 ProStationAudio Titanium demo
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New ProStationAudio Titanium demo 5.01 available in the
download section.
fixed Play Object and Play Region (were routed to the wrong busses resulting in noise)
correctly loads older format projects, useful for tutorials
variable bitrate DSP plugins now fully supported
added "mouse-over" help text for new console buttons
As both the "project format" and "variable bitrate" modifications remove the chances
of possible system crashes, it's strongly recommended to replace the older demo with
the new 5.01 version.
AudioLabs website
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18.11.2001 Amiga2001 Pictures
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18.11.2001 Back to the Roots Amiga-News 234
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Does Microsoft still support Amiga freaks? Of course!
In a surprising move Microsoft allowed us to include the
golf simulations from Access Software, a company which
they acquired two years ago. Enjoy Leaderboard and World
Class Leaderboard! "Links" will come online soon, too.
Now you can ask yourself "Where do you want to play Golf today?"
Please visit BTTR for a full list of all games which have
been added or you'll miss masterpieces like Realms,
Thexder, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Super Skidmarks CD32 and
many others.
As usual many scene-demos, music files and pictures have
been added to our archive. Enjoy them all!
Bobic + Hippie2000, Back to the Roots
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17.11.2001 News from Amiga2001 Show
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Amiga-info.net has online the
first pictures from the
Amiga2001 show in Köln.
Gregor Galwas: "I saw the perfect motherboard and the prototype (running).
Tower + motherboard + 20GB HD + (at least) G3-350MHz + 128MB Ram + 100MBit
Ethernet (onboard) + Soundcard (onboard) = 1000 Euro.
Warp3D Emulation is in work.
The hope they can start to sell the Pegasos-board March 2002.
New MOS-Demo should be available before Christmas :)"
Ralph Schmidt: "For a complete rom replacement only Intuition/Gadtools aren't
yet in an releasable state but it's heavily worked on. Beyond that there is
final hw test/openfirmware work and some morphos driver work left but that's
it. This is <10% compared to the amount of time we already put into it."
inet
Gregor Galwas via MorphOS ML
Ralph Schmidt via MorphOS ML
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17.11.2001 The SharkPPC Works
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According to Amiga.org at the Amiga 2001 somebody talked with a developer from Elbox
and asked him whether the SharkPPC-Board exposed at the fair was a prototype, and
when they would complete development.
He said the "The board was a working
version, and that they were only waiting for AmigaOS 4 to start production, final
tests and finally two weeks after the beginning of production the shipment of the
boards."
SharkPPC picture
Amiga.org website
ELBOX COMPUTER website
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17.11.2001 MicroMart or AmigaMart :-)
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The latest issue of MicroMart, a general
computer magazine, which has its own small Amiga section, is now available.
With the changes at Amiga Active, MicroMart want to provide further and better
coverage of the Amiga market. Therefore the editor of MicroMart wants our input
so they can provide readers with the type of coverage wanted. AmigaMart
journalist, Sven Harvey asked, 'do you want reviews? the odd retro spot, further
information on the upcoming AmigaOne? More opinion based pieces?'
If you want
to give your opinion then e-mail the editor of MicroMart at:
theeditormicromart.co.uk.
Amiga Flame website
MicroMart website
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17.11.2001 Virus Help Teams opened personal visitors chat room
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Virus Help Teams around the World, has opened personal visitors chat room on the web.
To coincide with being a browser-friendly enviroment, we have not left any chatters
hanging, without a way to join up with us to chit-chat, the easy way. No javascript
or IRC program is required. All you need to do is register your handle, with a
password, and come on in. :) The Handle registration link, is found on the login
page. Please bear in mind, this is a family type chat room, and all normal courtesies
and language is expected. Thankyou. If you want to chat with VHT Members or other
Amiga users,
Just click here.
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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17.11.2001 SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC available
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SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC is now available at SuSE GmbH and at the retailers.
8 CDs contain more than 2000 software packages. To mention only a small selection
of new software here are some examples: KOffice, OpenOffice, Ogg/Vorbis (DivX),
KDE 2.2.1, Gnome 1.4.1. But the distribution's highlight should be the availability
of the filesystems Ext3, JFS and ReiserFS (all journaling filesystems).
Michael Heider: "As in the past I'll create an installation guide for Amiga systems.
In any case I'll let you know when these are available on the net."
Amiga-News.de wensite
SuSE homepage
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17.11.2001 Overshaker update
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17.11.2001 Software News
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Magic Menu 2.33 - PopUp menus
for OS 2.x or later (with optional 3D-Look)
readme
fixed PPC support (didn't work well on some systems).
fixed the "Checkmark leaves garbage" bug.
MagicMenuPrefs: fixed compiler specific problem with the displayhook of the slidergadget (color precision).
MagicMenu homepage
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16.11.2001 Amiga Forever 5.0
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Amiga Forever 5.0 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM Upgrade,
Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition.
Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major needs of
many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data on non-Amiga
hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems. Additionally,
software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to be of interest to
any Amiga enthusiast are included.
Read more
Cloanto website
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16.11.2001 Amiga Games Classifying - November/December 2001: Time To Vote
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"It's time to vote at the AMIGA GAMES CLASSIFYING november/december 2001.
Send me your classifying (20 games max) at my adress:
daff1@club-internet.fr.
You can also vote at: http://agcweb.online.fr.
Remember you can put all kind of games (commercial, PD, old, new, ...).
If your list don't have change since last time, simply reply this mail with
the subject "no change for me". Final classifying will be published in early-December."
David "Daff" Brunet, Amiga Games Classifying
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16.11.2001 Kicksoft News
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The new PageStream 4.1 can be ordered from Kicksoft. Upgrades are now avaliable
from versions 2.xx upwards. Why not treat yourself or your loved one this
Christmas to the best DTP program avaliable on the Amiga.
We will even wrap it in christmas paper for you !! ( if requested )
Goto www.kicksoft.co.uk for details
Ray McCarthy, Kicksoft Ltd
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16.11.2001 Blitz2000 website updated
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The Blitz2000 site is an unofficial
support site for all the Blitz Basic 2 coders on the Amiga and covers everything
from downloads to tutorials. Feedback about the site would be welcome,
especially on how easy it is to read and understand the Programming section.
(Note: the mailing list archives and search engine are currently broken.)
David McMinn, Blitz2000
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16.11.2001 Ottaw Amiga Show This Saturday
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This is but a small reminder that the Ottawa Amiga Show is taking place in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada this Saturday the 17th of November, 2001. Amiga Inc. will be there
to talk about the Amiga, and to demonstrate the new Sharp Zaurus PDA, as well as
other Amiga-related gadgets. For more information, check out the show's web site
at http://www.technomages.net/amigashow/.
ANN website
Ottawa Amiga show website
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16.11.2001 New FlashMandelWOS Aminet version
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"A new version of FlashMandelWOS has been uploaded on Aminet in gfx/fract directory.
FlashMandelWOS is the fastest Mandelbrot&Julia fractal explorer for Amiga
computers and has many other nice features. FlashMandelWOS is developed to use all
fast MC 68040/60 & PPC 6xx CPU features, is full compatible with all GFX cards
and old Amiga OCS/ECS/AGA chipsets. Uses the most recent OS features like the new
Reaction GUI, localization and has an installer script to easy install, update or
uninstall the program. Look at the guide for all supported features.
Now FlashMandel has an unofficial internet site
http://rz-home.de/~eschwan/FlashMandel_GB.shtml
by Edgar Schwan."
Dino Papararo, FlashMandelWOS
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16.11.2001 E2140 Mission Packs Available
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E.P.I.C. have announced that the E2140 mission packs will be available at the WoA2001
Cologne show.
"Blobula #2 in the charts!
Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy of Blobula for the AmigaDE player.
You have kept us at number 2 in the AmigaDE charts!"
Pagan Games website
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16.11.2001 Payback News
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One new map has been added to the Extra Maps Page,
along with three updated ones.
Also, Amigalien has announced that he has
added French and German discussion lists (as well as a textures page) to his
Payback site.
apex-designs website
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16.11.2001 Software Hut NewsLetter
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16.11.2001 Software News
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Click here to download the latest
YAM2.4 Development version, compiled. 68020, 68040 and 68060 builds included, plus
modified toolbar write images (for the Search button).
Click here to view the last ChangeLog.
This version is currently in development, and may not work perfectly!
Fr3dY has released MorphOS ports of 3dTo3D v3.1
(Converts different 3d formats) and Anubis v1.0.5
(Anonymous Emailer with many features).
http://boing.net/yam/
MorphOS homepage
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15.11.2001 Seminar-events at AMIGA 2001
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At AMIGA 2001 the visitors may take part in several seminars and conferences
to be held on both days between 11 and 17 o'clock, for example:
Amiga Forever (Cloanto)
Amiga OS 4.0 (Hyperion Entertainment)
Amiga OS XL (Haage & Partner)
DigiBoosterPro (DBP Community)
Freespace (Hyperion Entertainment)
Mediator PCI (ELBOX Computer)
FunMedia (Atari, Patrick Eickhoff)
MINT/N.AES (Atari, woller systeme)
Furthermore of course there will be additional presentations, e.g. of
Pegasos and G-REX.
Amiga'2001 website
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15.11.2001 More exhibitors at AMIGA 2001
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Three new exhibitors will attend the AMIGA 2001: "16/32-Bit Systems" from Great Britain
will offer new and well-known Amiga-products. "Newsell" will concentrate on the sale
and presentation of the Mac-Clones by Umax. Visitors may buy equipment for their
printers, especially refill-sets, from "Refill 24".
Amiga'2001 website
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15.11.2001 Event: Dreamworlds Development on the show, too
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Some people of the Dreamworlds team will put their machines at the booth
of ATC&TCP and presentate the current status of Crossfire II to the
interested. Who would like to even may take his favourit joystick with
him and test the game. And if someone has problems to find us:
Just follow those never ending explosion sounds and you will stumble
either upon us or Descent: Freespace :-)
Amiga-news.de website
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15.11.2001 Event: e.p.i.c interactive on the Amiga 2001 in Cologne
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e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will attend this year's Amiga show at the Mediapark
in Cologne. Our booth will be marked by our realtime strategy hit EARTH 2140. The
EARTH 2140 mission pack will be introduced and for the first time available to the
customers on the show in Cologne (if UPS will not let us down). The mission pack
extends the Mac and Amiga version with 80 new single player missions and the
multi-player mode (LAN) long awaited for the Amiga.
Another innovation is the
latest version of the movie player MooVID PRO which was optimized in many parts. Of
course there will be all of our product line, like Simon The Sorcerer II and
Foundation Gold, at amazing show prices. Furthermore we will presentate some of our
products on an Apple Mac, which also will be available for Pegasos/MorphOS, soon.
Amiga-news.de website
e.p.i.c interactive website
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15.11.2001 Elbox in AMIGA 2001 in Cologne
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"ELBOX COMPUTER invites all the interested in the latest hardware for Amiga
to visit our stand in the AMIGA 2001 fair in Cologne.
Our products are available for purchase in the stands of our distributors:
Vesalia Computer and KDH Datentechnik."
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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15.11.2001 MediatorUP 2.6 & Mediator MM CD UP 1.08
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The MediatorUP 2.6 update for Mediator PCI users has been made available today.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- pci.library ver.4.4
- MediatorNET.device ver.2.3
- Voodoo.card ver.2.8
The MM CD 1.08 update for Mediator PCI users, who are registered owners
of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been made available by ELBOX Computer.
The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:
- sb128.audio ver.4.3
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.9
Changes:
MediatorNET.device - double buffering (pingpong) added
SB128.audio - preselection of audio frequency added
Mariusz Wloczysiak, ELBOX COMPUTER
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15.11.2001 dynAMIte News
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Further DYNAMITE development (da best bomberman game) needs more active betatesters.
If you are willing to log in at #amigazeux (example server: irc.amigazeux.de) at
least twice per week, and are willing to run Enforcer, Muforce or Muforce&Muguardian,
plus discussing ideas and features, you are welcome. Apply at #amigazeux, or contact the
coder via email: dynamite@amisource.de.
ANN website
dynAMIte homepage
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15.11.2001 Another update to UnExoticA
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The update includes the music from the following games: The Amazing Spider-Man, Astate,
Bally II, Crime Does Not Pay, The Punisher, Super Cauldron, Tetrix, Thunder Jaws, Whizz
and Yogi's Great Escape.
For more detailed information on additions please read the UnExoticA -
Updates Page.
ExoticA website
UnExoticA website
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15.11.2001 Amiga Forever now available from individual Computers
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The Amiga emulation package Amiga Forever is now available as a bundle with the Catweasel
ISA controller at a price of 89,- EUR (174,07 DM).
Amiga Forever turns your PC into an
Amiga. The package which is available since 1997, includes a license of all Amiga-patents,
trademarks and copyrights that are necessary for an emulation. Therefore, an official
Amiga Notebook "Powered by Amiga" is available since 1997.
Read more
individual Computers website
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14.11.2001 Freespace Presentation at Cologne 2001 Amiga Fair
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"There will be a great presentation of the final version of Descent:Freespace on the fair.
Additionally there will be a presentation of half an our on Saturday and Sunday. At the
same time the analog-joystick-interface will be together introduced with the game which
supports it. The Amiga-port of Freespace has finished for 99.9% so the game will be
available after the fair.
On the fair the demo-version of Freespace will be published.
All those who order the game on the fair in advance will get a CD with the most current
demos of Freespace, Heretic II and Shogo for free. Freespace as well as the new version
of Heretic II which is on the CD will get graphic improvements for Warp3D v4.2"
Amigart website
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14.11.2001 Event: H&P on AMIGA 2001
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On the AMIGA 2001 which will take place this weekend we will present and offer our newest
developments and products. Amithlon/AmigaXL, Freespace, ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 4.1,
StormC 4, ArtEffect Plugins Collection and much more.
The new combination of
Athlon-Hardware and AmigaOS XL are highly newsworthy. The top-system consists of a noble
aluminium-tower and has the new Athlon XP 1800+ as its heart. We also offer a suitable
15 inch LCD-monitor.
Amiga-news.de website
Haage & Partner website
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14.11.2001 Amiga Arena Interview
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After the mpega.library was not developed any more there is now clone of the library
of Sigbjørn Skjæret. Amiga Arena spoke with Sigbjørn S. about how it came to it and
about the future of his projects. Support the developer with your feedback!
Amiga-news.de website
Amiga Arena website
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14.11.2001 ExoticA Intro Logo Competition
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"Today was the deadline for the ExoticA Intro Logo Competition. However, I have decided
to extend it to the end of the month so that people have more time to get their entries
in. The deadline will now be the 30th November. I will not alter this date (Promise!) :)
There is no limit to the number of entries per person so draw as many as you like :)
There will also most likely be a prize for the 2nd/3rd place logos, but it depends the
kind of response I get for the competition. Although there are no rules regarding the
design of the logo (Apart from the 600 pixel width limit), logos incorporating an Amiga
related theme will probably go down well with the judge :)
UnExoticA - The definitive
Amiga Game Music collection has had a couple of updates in the last week. It now contains
3693 files packed into 722 archives - over 224 megabytes of music!.
Update to the Demo Scene Reference Manual.
Current version is now 4.07. Since the last update many changes have taken place, including
more modules listed, corrections to demo entries and demo additions.
The Formats Page has recently
had an update with some author email address additions and a discussion with Branko Mikic
about the history of Synthesis, InStereo and Sonic Arranger.
ExoticA website
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14.11.2001 MUI Security Bug-Fix
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Jörg Strohmayer has come up with a fix for all MUI programs.
Copy this muilowlevel.library
to MUI:Libs. Unlike other workarounds for this security problem it's a general fix for
ALL MUI programs.
Check David 'zapek' Gerber's comments
about Vaporware apps security. (According to Jörg Strohmayer at least Voyager is not secure).
V3Portal
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14.11.2001 Games & Software News
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All WHDLoad loaders created by Jean-Francois FABRE are locally
online here.
Added Loom, Magic Pockets, Monkey Island 2, Prehistorik,
Syndicate and Total Football.
Mediapoint, a presentation program similar to Scala, is being updated
to work on graphics cards and with AHI. Work has started on adding
RTG/RTA support to MediaPoint. The first update containing support
for RTG / Picasso96 and RTA / AHI is expected february 2002.
This means that presentations will be possible on Amiga without
needing AGA chips.
The Amiga Ultimate Patch & HD Installers Page
ANN website
MediaPoint website
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13.11.2001 MEDIATOR pages updated
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13.11.2001 Hurricane Studios is still alive!
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"Do you remember the little Genoan developer team that brings onto Amiga a new soccer
game (Eat The Whistle) and was working to a new adventure game? Well, this little
team isn't death yet. Even with work force reduction, the team is still convinced to
support the Amiga but joining also the Mac and PC market. They are using the SDL
library to assuring the bridge between this three systems.
Visit the page and
leave your impression to the webmaster or to
one of the members!"
Andrea Carolfi, Hurricane Studios
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13.11.2001 Good and bad news
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"The bad: I will stop development of StopMenu.
In the last weeks I worked with full power on StopMenu - only to rename the
variables and functions (some still polish or whatever), to add some commentaries
(there were quiet none) and to try to change some parts. As final surprise one
of many tests made my Amiga crash and thereby destroyed the source code, the work
of many days. This and the belief that changing StopMenu is harder and needs more
time than writing an own program caused my decision. StopMenu was not only bad
written and commented (well, it has grown piecewise and has got the errors from
both programmers ;) - no, it also has some very restricting, old fashioned program
parts that should be replaced by a modern method.
Before you get the possibility to jump out of the window, here's the good news:
One learns from each error. I've seen so many errors ;) that I now want to make
Choowin replace StopMenu !! It is written in best C++, uses Reaction, and last but
not least I know what I have programmed. And that's not all - the prefs part of
StopMenu is not forgotten, but replaced by a connection to MainPrefs !! So both
programs will form the beginning of the new environment, where also ClassAction can
join. The new project will consist of the taskbar with start menu that allows to
open the prefs and later the file manager. Other programs will have the possibility
to get an icon in the taskbar.
That's a lot - but the three programs exist,
Choowin will grow to StopMenu's functionality (well, not exactly the same) and all
of them will be joined to the new MRE ("mainmenu with Reaction enhancements")."
Martin R. Elsner 's homepage
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13.11.2001 Amiga-topcool is back
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The german Print-Magazine "amiga-topcool"
is closed. We will continue with a CD-ROM-Magazine, which will contain over 600 MB
of the latest Software of the Aminet, Information about german Amiga-Clubs and
Amiga-Dealers and the Winter-Issue 2001/2002. The CD costs 5,12 Euro (10 DM) and
will get burned, if 100 Amiga-Fans will order it. Alternativly you can get the
magazine per Email (= HTML-Document with Pictures) wich you can get for only 4 DM
for 4 issues. The first issue is free and if you dont like to continue, you can stop
it with an email.
ANN website
amiga-topcool.de
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12.11.2001 MediaPoint News
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MediaPoint, the video titling & presentation package for Amiga computers, will
be for sale for the first time on an international Amiga event, following its
re-release in its current MP2000 form. German-based distributor Schatztruhe /
GTI will sell MediaPoint at their booth on the Amiga Show in Cologne on
november 17th and 18th. More information on MediaPoint can be found at:
http://www.compcity.nl/mediapoint.
Computer City website
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12.11.2001 VarIO archive extended
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"The new VarIO software archive now also contains Parallelport drivers for the
Goldsurfer (Hypercom 3 module). Please mind that the ZIP driver can only be
used with Goldsurfer models not older than 15 months. For use with older
models, a hardware patch is necessary that is also described in the
support area
of this website."
individual Computers website
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12.11.2001 appp.device licensed from Haage & Partner
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In the course of development of the ADSL-driver for the X-Surf ethernet card, we have
licensed the appp.device from Haage & Partner GmbH.
Our goal is to speed up the interface between our xsurfadsl.device and the appp.device,
so the CPU load will be reduced dramatically. New versions of the device for AmigaOS 68K
will be available for free.
individual Computers website
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12.11.2001 StormC: New documentation
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"We just released a completely revised manual for StormC 4. It's 3,8 MB of Guide
files and the archive is about 1,1 MB of size. There is an English and a German
version available."
Download
Haage&Partner website
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12.11.2001 3 new freeCDs
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There are 3 new freeCDs available now: Amiga Toons Vol.2, Racing, Genetic Species.
Amiga Toons Vol.2: Sabrina Online (more than 100 episodes), Space Rat, Thorsten Dudai-Pictures,
MPG-cartoons, games from Black Legend and Mutation Software.
Racing: Full versions of Wheelspin AGA, Aerial Racers, photos from Monaco, Nürburgring and Zolder,
papermodels, formula 1-database.
Genetic Species: The classic 3d-shooter ready installed on cd-rom.
Each freeCD costs only 2,50 Euro and you can order it
from this website.
The Faces of Mars page
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12.11.2001 Scalos News
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Another new BETA of the Scalos executable is now available! You can get version 40.14
from the Downloads page.
Check out what's changed in the
History page.
NOTE: German users also need to download the German language pack
found here.
The Persistent Windows, WB3.9, Volume Gauge and WBRexx plugins have all been updated.
Get them from the
Downloads page.
Scalos homepage
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12.11.2001 A.D.A. - Amiga Demoscene Archive
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On this site, you will find some of the best demos and intros ever released on the
fabulous Amiga computer. It covers the years 1990 up untill now, allthough we might
be tempted to go further in time once these years are completed. All the demos
listed here, are of high quality.
Amiga Demoscene Archive
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12.11.2001 YAM 2.3p1 Bugfixing Release!
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The YAM Open Source Team released today, like other MUI based internet applications,
a new special bugfixing release.
This one fixes also the MUI exploit security hole as reported on this site.
But there are also some other imporant bugfixes since the last 2.3 release.
"We are currently working hard on the next 2.4 release but as we received many posts
about some bugs in the last 2.3 release we decided to create this bugfixing release
until the 2.4 is ready which will also bring up some new important features into
the world of YAM..."
Jens Langner via ANN
YAM homepage
YAM Open Source project homepage
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11.11.2001 A major exploit in MUI internet software
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Warning: A major exploit in MUI internet software has been found. The exploit
would allow commands to be executed on your machine. Everything from STRICQ
to YAM is effected, although a fix for YAM is coming soon. So far Vapor has
confirmed its applications such as AmIRC etc are not succeptable to this
exploit. To help prevent the use of this exploit on your system, make sure
PIPE: and similar PIPE devices are not mounted on your system. You may also
wish to rename or password protect your important system commands such as
delete, format and so forth.
Read more
Virus Help Team Canada
Virus Help Denmark Amiga website
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11.11.2001 Virus Help Denmark Amiga still looking for help
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11.11.2001 SimpleMail News
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Due to a exploit in MUI in combination with some PIPE-handlers we have
released
a new version now, everybody actually should update, as the old versions has
a really nasty security-problem. The changes are:
Fix for the MUI exploit.
Messages can be also encrypted with PGP 2.6.x.
Switching away of columns in the message list is possible now. (save it via "Save Prefs")
Completion of email-addresses improved.
A small menu added to the readwindow that makes it possible to see the raw mail.
Mousewheelsupport of the readwindow is more tolerant now.
The attachments are better identified if you have OS3.9 and DefIcons. You can double-click on an icon to start an action (needs also OS3.9 and DefIcons, e.g. double-click on an archive will start UnArc in the default config of DefIcons).
Printing of messages and text-attachments is possible now.
Hynek Schlawack, SimpleMail
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11.11.2001 The development of MagicMenu will continue!
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"There are two new volunteers, namely Jens Langner and Stephan Rupprecht. Thanks to both of you.
Also thanks to everybody who mailed me and was interessted in carrying on the project!"
And now, as a 'new begining'... here is"
MagicMenu v2.32 (beta) (68k/PPC WarpUP) /
readme
MagicMenu homepage
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11.11.2001 Aminet Full Text Search Engine
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Aminet full text search engine can be located at
http://home.in.tum.de/hodges/cgi-bin/amifind
or http://amifind.home.pages.de.
The search engine traverses all 70000 readme files and builds up a suffix index (180MB),
so it will find any partial word with >=3 chars in the 80MB of readme's normally within
a second. A prefix (whole words only) search has been included on request.
The engine has left alpha stage and is now nearly complete (sorting by different keys
is still missing). Comments and hints appreciated.
Chris Hodges via ANN
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11.11.2001 ZEUS DEVELOPMENTS: Restructuring, New Internet Domain, New Pricing.
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ZEUS DEVELOPMENTS, authors and publishers of the ZEUS Bulletin Board System,
has undergone restructuring and is pleased to announce the following changes:
New website,
new support email address, NEW PRICING.
As part of the structuring of Zeus Developments, the price of Zeus BBS on CD-R
has been reduced to UK£25, and our remaining stock of 300 page ring-bound manuals
has been reduced to £10 each! This price includes postage within the UK.
The current release of Zeus BBS is version 1.4, which will soon be available
on the Zeus Developments website.
Read more
Zeus Bulletin Board System homepage
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11.11.2001 Amiga.org: Demo Comp Update
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"Thanks to the downtime of Amiga.org the Demo Comp didnt happen. Even so I am planning
another Demo Comp. For those who did make demos, could you please upload them to
Amigadev.net so that others can learn from your
code for the next comp. If you're still working on your demo them you may want to let
us know so we can plan for the next comp. BTW: The 4k demo I saw was Amazing. Now,
this is where I need your help. What would you like to see in the next Demo Comp,
and perhaps more importantly is when? I look forward to your feedback."
Digital Glitch by Obsession
- The first (64k) AmigaDE demo.
Martin Wayne, Amiga.org
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11.11.2001 Games & Software News
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Latest version of MahjonggTiles v1.3 can be downloaded from the
R.E.D.Group website.
MahjonggTiles is MUI based Shanghai type solitaire game.
A new update of Safe v17.4 has been released.
Safe is small CLI command to detect linkviruses in Your system.
readme
FPSE v0.09 - Free/Final PlayStation Emulator.
A new release with some bugfixes and added features. Memory card support is fixed, and compiler
(dynarec) and PSX Port support has been added. There is also a switch to use READ_CD for CD support.
This was used by some of the FPSE/Amiga 0.08 revisions and might work better than CMD_READ with some
CD-ROMs.
FPSE 0.09, Amiga revision 2 (011111)
PowerD is a modern programming language (currently only)
for Amiga computers. It supports both 68k and ppc processors. This release presents several bugfixes
and some new features.
download (v0.19 Alpha Update) /
history
Sensei, R.E.D.Group
Virus Help Denmark AMIGA website
AmiDog's Emulation Corner site
Martin Kuchinka's homepage
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10.11.2001 Amiga Site and Mailing lists Resume Operation
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"We are sorry for any inconvenience that may have arisen this week due to our
server being unreachable. The problems were beyond our control and we worked
diligently to restore services to you.
All Amiga servers and mailing lists
have now returned to normal operation. Thanks for your patience and
understanding."
Amiga Support Network
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10.11.2001 YAWOASER (Yet Another World Of Amiga SE Report :)
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"Another report from the World Of Amiga SE show which was held last weekend.
The report includes pictures (but they are all inline and quite large - I
have asked our webmaster to make thumbnails). The report can be found in the
"What's new" section of our usergroup site."
David McMinn, AGNES website
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10.11.2001 New beta version of the X-Surf ADSL driver
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A new version of the X-Surf ADSL driver is available for download in the
support area
of this website. A so-called race-condition (multitasking bug) has been
removed that be believe was the cause for the performance drops. Further,
changes to improve the compatibility to different vendors of DSL modems
have been implemented.
individual Computers website
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10.11.2001 Compuquick's Update for November 2001
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Hello fellow Amigans we greet you this month of Thanksgiving.
What inspires us this month is the new emulator bundle from Haage & Partner.
The Amiga OS XL package. Contains 2 cd's. The Amiga XL and Amithlon on one and
QNX 6.1 on the other.
Read more
Amiga.org website
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10.11.2001 Software Hut NewsLetter
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10.11.2001 AmiATLAS 6 available
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Although the availability of AmiATLAS 6, the multimedia travel planner, was planned for the 15th
November 2001 (we reported), it is already finished. Users of version 5 receive a cheaper update.
Amiga-news.de website
AmiATLAS website
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10.11.2001 Software News
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A demo version of ProStationAudio Titanium v5.00 has been
released.
Includes ProStationAudio (680x0 and PPC), the AL_VMM memory manager and the iRec
network audio recorder.
ProStationAudio docs v5.00 in HTML format.
The complete version will be available for purchase starting early next week.
AmigAIM 0.9437 Beta - an AIM Client
for the Amiga by Richard H. Poser II. history
I think I removed the main possibility for the APIPE: exploit to happen by filtering the escape characters
from incoming messages/profiles before display. (I didn't even have APIPE: Installed until checking)
Don't even attempt to send messages that will cause the exploit, I know of several locations that if the exploit
is input, it can strike back at your computer instead.
Universal filter v2.20 - Image Filter for the
Amiga PageStream DTP program 3/4. The filter does add support for new image formats to your PageStream program.
It also improves loading image formats already supported by PageStream.
Read more
AudioLabs website
Official AmigAIM Page
Amiga Universal Filter homepage
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9.11.2001 Amiga corporate Internet connectivity issue
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"Amiga's corporate office in Snoqualmie Washington is temporarily experiencing problems
with its Internet connectivity. This has directly effected the Amiga Developer Support
website and has slowed down email communications. We hope to have this resolved shortly."
AmigaInc. website
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9.11.2001 Amiga.org is back
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9.11.2001 VarIO drivers also for Goldsurfer
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"The driver for VarIO and Silversurfer (published two days ago) can now also be used for
the Hypercom 3 module (also known as Goldsurfer). Drivers for the parallelport and for
ZIP drives on that port will be published before the show in cologne. For installation
of the drivers for the Goldsurfer, some expert knowledge is necessary, because a fully
automatic recognition would have been too costly.
We're balancing the insufficient
support of VMC/Harald Frank with this addition, and hope for our customer's appreciation,
although the software is quite complicated to install."
individual Computers website
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9.11.2001 Australian AnythingAmiga has updated their website
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Australian Amiga dealer, AnythingAmiga
has updated their website with a new format and lots of additional information on
their products for sale. Check their web pages out if you are in the market for
any Amiga gear...
Amiga.org website
AnythingAmiga
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9.11.2001 More New Amiga DE Releases
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Six new games have been released for those Amiga gamers, who have purchased the Amiga DE Player
available for Windows or Linux. The latest releases include Gobbler, Maze Monster, Tikino,
Memory, and Art Avenue Puzzles 1 and 2.
Read more
AmigaFlame website
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8.11.2001 Interviews
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Amiga News DE has an interview with Ben Hermans
from Hyperion Entertainment.
"The german printmag "Amiga Future" released today a german and english interview with Oliver Wagner on the
AF-Page. You can find the englisch interview in the english part of our page."
Andreas Magerl, Amiga Future
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8.11.2001 UK Amiga Show - Alt-WoA - Website now running
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The website for Alt-WoA 2002 is now up and running.
Last year's site with photos is linked in here too so you see what a good time we had
then - whet your appetite!
Make a note in your diary for the 23rd February 2002.
Anyone wishing to book space, please do so as soon as possible - it's going fast with
currently 13 trade exhibitors plus 5 User and Support Groups confirmed.
Geoff Milnes, Alt-WoA 2002
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8.11.2001 New VirusWarning.Guide
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8.11.2001 AMidi speaks more languages
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New language catalogs are available for AMidi, the device for MIDI music playback.
Now AMidi speaks the following languages: English (builtin), Czech, French, German,
Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Turkish. The main archive includes all
catalogs now, for those who have it already there's an extra archive containing
just the catalog files. Many thanks to the ATO!
Rüdiger Hanke, Rüdiger's Amiga program
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8.11.2001 Games and Software News
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7.11.2001 Goodbye Clubbed... Hello Total Amiga Magazine
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South Essex Amiga Link is happy to confirm the announcements about our future
plans for Clubbed magazine made at the World of Amiga South East Show on the
3rd of November. In the next few months we plan to make two major improvements
to the magazine: A New Name and Bimonthly Publication.
Read more
Robert Williams, Total Amiga Magazine
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7.11.2001 WHDL website down
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Bert Jahn: The website is currently down due problems with the internet service
provider. I hope that will be solved in some days/weeks/months.
If you know a provider with at least 100mb space, 3GB traffic, ssh access, own
cgi and below 40eur/month let me know."
WHDL is friendly Harddisk-Install package.
WHDL ML
WHDL website (OFFLINE)
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7.11.2001 Debian 2.2r4 Released
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7.11.2001 Update-MACH for Buddha Flash
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We have promised it more than a year ago, now it's available: The update for the
Buddha Flash IDE controller. The controller now works properly in the RBM
Zorro-daughterboard for the A1200 (OnBoard EX). Further, a minor change in the
timing has been made to improve the performance of the Silversurfer if connected
to one of the Buddha expansion ports.
The update is not free, because we're
fixing a bug that is not caused by us. New controllers are shipped in this version,
old controllers can be equipped with a new MACH chip for 19,- EUR.
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7.11.2001 First software for VarIO
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The first software archive for the new VarIO interface board is available for download
in the support area of
this site. The driver also handles the Silversurfer serial port, so it acts as a
replacement for the old silversurfer.device.
The installer-script is self-explanatory
and bilingual. It is recommended to delete the silversurfer.device from the system
before installing the new drivers.
individual Computers website
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6.11.2001 PageStream 4.1
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This is the first new product release for PageStream in almost three years! PageStream4.1
first began life as the Table Editor add-on, but it became clear from our customers that
this wasn't an optional feature in PageStream, but an integral part of every day document
design. So, the Table Editor has been scraped, and from its ashes arise the newest
release of PageStream with tables built right in! Feature:
o Tables!
o Built in Mail Merge!
o Shift-cursor text selection!
o Apply text attributes to using the object or reshape tool!
o PDF export control over compression and encoding
o Custom column widths and gutters inside text frames
o Text inset from column edges!
o Move pages between chapters
o Duplicate/Transform objects across pages
o Duplicate/Transform objects behind the original
o Fade duplicated objects to a specified line and/or fill
o Speed improvements
o and of course much more!
Grasshopper LLC website
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6.11.2001 AmigaOS4 Project Management
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Fleecy Moss: "Amiga is in control of OS4.0 - we have merely outsourced the project
management. I am in daily contact with Hyperion and a feature document and
deadlines and timescales are mulled over in minute detail." "As I explained at the
show, this deal is more about freeing Amiga up to work on the SGA (Second
Generation Amiga). AmigaOS4.0 was always more to do with getting a PPC based OS
working on very specific PPC HW, and we were wasting a lot of time bouncing
backwards and forwards. With the outsourcing agreement, the implementation has been
moved much closer to the first piece of HW itself."
AmigaOne ML
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6.11.2001 AmigaOS XL: More FAQs
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H&P: "We just added an extensive collection of answers to frequently asked questions
(FAQs). Amongst others it is explaind how to partition a hard disk, how to install a boot
manager and how to install Amithlon on a hard disk."
FAQs
Haage&Partner website
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6.11.2001 ExoticA Competition
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"In the last hours I have received a few fantastic logos for the ExoticA
Intro Page, and after a few comments
from the contributors, I have decided the best thing to do is to hold a little
competition! It's a quick fire compo, so you will not get much time.
Those who wish to enter can submit their logo to me at
buzz@totem.fix.no. Last date for entries will
be in just 1 week from today - thats the 13th (Lucky for some) of November!
Entries should all fit nicely on the Intro Page, being no more than 600 pixels wide
and supplied in lossless PNG format. The logos will be judged by the veteran of all
ExoticA logo's XtC (However, should he decide to contribute a logo himself I will
choose another person). It's not well organised, the rules are not strict,
it's basically for fun! But, there is a prize!.
Read more
ExoticA website
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6.11.2001 Linda Godwin astronaut speaker at Amiga99 going into space & info on show
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All of you who attended the Amiga99© Computer show, hosted by Amigan-St.
Louis's Bob and Diana Scharp in St. Louis, MO a few years back, will
certainly remember the banquet. Dr. Linda Godwin, a current astronaut and
her husband, Col. Steve Nagel (retired USAF), a former astronaut and current
NASA employee, were two unforgettable speakers. Linda not only spoke of her
exploits in the space program, she brought a video that blew our (Amiga)
socks off.
Well, it's Linda's turn to go into space again. I have heard
that she is scheduled to launch November 29. The mission calls for her and
several other astronauts to go to the new space station, and return several
days later.
I know I speak for all of you when I say that Diana and I wish
her the very best flight and a soft touchdown back on earth.
Read more
Bob & Diana Scharp
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6.11.2001 Interviews
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There is an interview
with Sabrina Online creator and Amiga animation legend Eric Schwartz.
Sabrina Online can be viewed daily on Jumpgate's
comics page.
At the GFX-BASE, they have a new interview
with John Mason. He is the author of great tool, like Wibby (a simple and useful taskbar), DReminder
or NewStuff.
ANN website
Jumpgate website
GFX-BASE website
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6.11.2001 PowerPC G5 hits 2.4GHz
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"Motorola has released the latest update to its PowerPC 8500 - aka G5 - processor that
ups AltiVec performance and delivers consistent 1GHz and up clock speeds, one of our
Apple sources tells us.
Indeed, the source claims, two of the chips in the sample
set of CPUs sent to the Mac maker, clocked at 2.4GHz. Most, however, ran at 1GHz,
1.2GHz or 1.4GHz, and some - a "considerable number", says our Deep Throat - operate
at 1.6GHz." Read more
Mac OS Rumours has a better article than TheRegister...
TheRegister website
Mac OS Rumors website
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6.11.2001 QNX at Amiga Expo in March 2002
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Amiga Expo has announced that QNX will be exhibiting and hosting seminars at the upcoming
Amiga Expo in March 2002!
QNX has signed to be exhibiting and hosting seminars at the
upcoming Amiga Expo show March, 2002. You'll be able to learn how to use the other side
of AmigaXL!Expect to also see Haage & Partner, Cloanto, and many other Amiga
developers, resellers and personalities!
For more information visit their web site at
www.amigaexpo.com.
Kermit Woodall via ANN
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6.11.2001 Software News
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Mpega.library clone using the very excellent libmad for decoding, it looks and behaves
just like the original, but with several benefits offered by libmad:
- Supports 8kHz streams (the original decodes these wrong)
- Supports FreeFormat (upto a whopping 640kbps) streams
- Very high quality decoding (better than the FPU version of the original)
- Very low CPU usage (integer original is still slightly faster on 68k though)
download /
readme
Aminet
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5.11.2001 AmigaOS 4.0 contract signed
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"Yes the contract was signed - and yes it was the real contract, not just a mockup for publicity reasons" - Alan, Eyetech CEO
Alan explained that the contract gave Eyetech, Hyperion, H+P etc the right to develop os4.0. Amiga Inc will then take
control of the OS back for a 'consideration'.
Ben Hermlans, Hyperion: "'Consideration' is a legal term used in the contract law of common law countries such as the UK and
the US. It refers to the benefit (money, action, transfer of property etc.) one contractual party can hope to receive from
the other."
Ben Hermlans, Hyperion: "Stop whining please and get your ass to the Cologne show [..] reserve judgement until that date."
AmigaOne ML, ANN threads
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4.11.2001 AmigaDE: New games - MazeMonster, Gobbler, Tikino
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4.11.2001 Ralph Schmidt comments on deal with Amiga Inc
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Ralph Schmidt comments on deal with Amiga Inc, Ben Hermans/Hyperion answering...
Read here
ANN website
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4.11.2001 Software News
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akNAIL datatype v44.13 (68k) is available.
NAIL is the IFF format used for IFX thumbnails.
ClassAction V4.31 - freeware multipurpose filemanager for AmigaOS.
Version 4.3 contained unfortunately three little bugs that have been removed. In addition, Roman Brychta has contributed the
Czech Translation.
Andreas Kleinert, PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
Martin R. Elsner, 's homepage
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3.11.2001 Kevin Twyman's Pictures From The WoA SE Show &more
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3.11.2001 Bridges Are Burn Between MorphOS and AmigaOS
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Ralph Schimdt (BPlan/Pegasos) said that BPlan will never let Amiga Inc. and partners use Pegasos hardware
platform for AmigaOS 4.x development.
Also a few hours later, Fleecy Moss (Amiga Inc.) announced that MorphOS will never be AmigaOS and they
will never work with MorphOS team.
It seems there is no hope for unity. So choose your side...
Amigart website
MorphOS ML & AmigaOne ML
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3.11.2001 Kicksoft News
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Not able to get to World of Amiga South East (WOASE) ? Do not worry for today
only you can get the same bargin prices on software avaliable at the show.
hurry because at 12pm tonight the sale finishes!
Go to http://www.kicksoft.co.uk
ray mccarthy, Kicksoft Ltd.
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2.11.2001 AmigaOS XL: More Documentation
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The support area has some more
information on the following topics:
Does Amithlon support my hardware?
How to install Amithlon on a hard disk?
First FAQs for Amithlon and AmigaXL
Haage & partner website
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2.11.2001 PFS3 Distribution
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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
from the Amiga Online Superstore.
FORE-MATT Home Computing website
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2.11.2001 A New web-address for the Prometheus support pages
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2.11.2001 GetBoinged! reviews Amiga DE Player
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1.11.2001 Amiga Interactive Guide
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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
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1.11.2001 Amiga Arena News
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Amiga Arena Special Price for VisualPrefs!
In cooperation with Massimo Tantigone you can Register Vprefs for only $3,5 in the
Amiga Arena! Vprefs is the best GUI enhancer for the Amiga!
You can also register DocDatatypes, Xtrace, Siteway and AMPlifier for a special
price to in the Amiga Arena.
Amiga Arena Interview with Massimo Tantigone
After the new Version from Vprefs the Amiga Arena talked with Massimo T. about his
work for AmigaOS3.9, the future and OS4.0!
Amiga Arena website
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1.11.2001 HomeBank 1.9 is available
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HomeBank is a shareware program
for managing your personal accounts.
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 Deutsch catalog is not provided, I will release it as soon as possible.
MaxWorld website
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1.11.2001 Amiga definition in dictionary?! ;-)
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By searching
about the English online dictionary bdict.org of course
I tried our favourit word "Amiga". And what a surprise, one will find an extended definition!
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! :-)
Amiga-News.de website
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1.11.2001 dynAMIte News
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The dynAMIte homepage returns with a new layout, also updated: CUNNtrast style (formerly known
as contrast), SouthPark style, polish catalogs and guide (updated) and NEW: The Totally Non
Comprehensive Map Guide by AxE!
dynAMIte is a GREAT Amiga-only a bomberman/dynablaster-clone that can be played (only) over internet (TCP/IP)
by up to 8 players!
dynAMIte homepage
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