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Archive 03/2003


31.Mar.2003
(ANF)


Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 3. Preview
Tom Parker and Matthias Münch released Preview 3 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for the Amiga. Jabber is an open source XML-protocol for a direct message interchange.

A connection to other instant messaging services like AIM, ICQ, MSN or Yahoo can be established via gateways.

Beta-Version-Download: Jabberwocky030331.lha

Changes:
  • Fixed enforcer hit when opening write window (introduced in 1.4pre1)
  • Roster icons may be loaded from disk (thanks to Jeff Gilpin).
  • Roster icon set by Martin 'Mason' Merz and Matthias Muench
  • Iconified icons by Jeff Gilpin.
  • Fix for initial iconified icon (thanks to Jeff Gilpin).
  • German Translation by Matthias Muench
  • Nederlands Translation by Djordje Slocuk
  • Polski Translation by Kamil Niescioruk and Mariusz Danilewicz
  • Srpski Translation by Djordje Slocuk
  • Spanish Translation by Roger Barranco
  • Online help activated (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
  • Example Arexx Script (thanks to Jeff Gilpin)
  • MOS native binary compiled by Nagy Lajos
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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31.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


Weekly Q&A´s with Fleecy Moss: Week 3
At the title link you can find the third round of the questions posed by AmigaWorld weekly at Fleecy Moss as well as his answers. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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31.Mar.2003
(ANF)


Amiga ColdFire Update
Again there are some news about "Amiga the ColdFire Project" by Oliver Hannaford-Day. Beside a picture of the new prototype, you will find a short german summary at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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31.Mar.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)


Payback for GBA: status update
The work at the GBA version (GameBoy Advance) of Payback will soon be finished. Recently a multiplayer mode, new multiplayer maps ( Desert Deathmatch, Little Chicago, Tank Warfare, The Killing Zone, Woods) were added and the replay memory system was reworked.

In Payback you slip into the role of a gangster. The aim of the game is to collect as many points as possible by accomplishing missions or trickery. Versions for Amiga and Mac are allready available at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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30.Mar.2003
Egon Münch (comment)


Mexikon: Cactus lexicon in HTML format
Under the title link you can find a.o.t. 'Mexikon', a lexicon on cactuses with many tips and suggestions. It also contains maps of Mexico and photos of more than 650 cactuses.

Since end of November 2002 version 3.1 of Mexikon has been available, and as we haven't covered it yet, we are herewith gladly catching up on this. Egon Münch has completely revised the cactus lexicon, fixed various errors and added new descriptions and photos. Furthermore MEXIKON doesn't use AmigaGuide anymore, but has become more platform independent by now supporting the HTML format, so every user can utilise the lexicon with an Internet browser.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the fact that MEXIKON is and will stay freeware. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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30.Mar.2003
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


Multimedia-Authoring-System: Hollywood Promo Pack released
There is now a Hollywood promo package available for download on the Airsoft Softwair Web page. The promo pack contains over 60 high quality screenshots which will give you an extensive impression of the powerful features of Hollywood.

Download: Hollywood_PromoPack.lha - 9 MB (ps)

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30.Mar.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)


Event: SlimJim´s Not-so-short AmiGBG Fair Report
There is a circumstantial account by Slim Jim on the Amiga show AmiGBG which took place yesterday in Gothenburg, Sweden. (ps) (Translation: cb)

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30.Mar.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF)


AmigaOS game: BoulderDäsh RTX - Rockford is back!
Just in time for BoulderDäsh's 16th birthday, BoulderDäsh RTX will be released soon! The most important improvement is direct support of Picasso96 and CyberGraphics. With this all RTG problems should once and for all be a thing of the past.

Thanks to the likewise new AHI support BoulderDäsh should run on all AmigaOS compatible systems (A500, Ax000, Amithlon, MorphOS). It requires only OS 2.0 or better. Rockford is back - He will rock you! BoulderDäsh RTX V5.10 - feature list:
  • 1:1 Clone of the original

  • Runs in Multitasking

  • Online help

  • Locale support

  • Programmed according to Commodore Style Guide

  • 2D Softscrolling and full speed even on an MC68000 (no judder in the animations or when scrolling)

  • Full gfx card compatibility through Picasso96/CyberGraphics support, allowing for up to 256 colours in full screen scrolling

  • Full sound card compatibility through AHI support

  • More than 5700 levels included!

  • 35 different game graphics

  • 6 different fonts

  • 5 different sample sets

  • 6 different music tracks

  • All settings adjustable via Gadtools GUI

  • Enhanced by way of additional game elements (fake bricks, fake metal...) Thus interesting new level possibilities come about.

  • No level size limit (under NonRTG only dependent on ChipMem)

  • Savable Highscore lists for each game

  • Comfortable level editor

  • Gravitation adjustable in four directions in each level

  • Game editor to compile complete games

  • Custom game gfx can be created with a paint program

  • Custom sound effects can be integrated with a sampler

  • Custom game music can be created with a Protracker compatible music editor
(ps) (Translation: cb)

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29.Mar.2003
Andre Sommer (ANF)


Event: Mocca LAN 8 from April, 4th till April, 6th 2003 in Hirsau
It's time again, the next Mocca is near. In almost a week the doors will be opened for the Mocca 8, taking place from April, 4th till April, 6th in Hirsau (Germany).

The Mocca is an OpenOS party, all systems are welcome. The Mocca is not a pure gamers LAN but is furthermore thought to show users other systems and to give help on individual problems for the special computers.

Further information about the Mocca 8 can be found following the title link. There you can register for the party or contact the organizers. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Mar.2003
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: BabeAnoid 2.0 final version
In the past reported the Amiga Arena several times about "BabeAnoid", the Breakout clone by Richard Fhager.

The released demo version 1.10 seemed to be the one and only version for a long time as Richard Fhager lost his interest in continued development because of a lack of feedback respectively he wants to cease all his Amiga activities.

In cooperation with Wolfgang Hosemann (issue #9/02), at that time responsible for the games part of the AmigaAktuell, a call was started to continue the game's development and to activate the users to give the developer feedback for his work. This all didn't seem to bring the wanted success. The more I am pleased to announce today's release of the version 2.0 final.

Further informationen you can find here.

Support developers, then developers will support you!

Download: babeanoid.lha - 3 MB

Features are among others more than 30 different boni, six different balls, different bricks (moving, multi hit, invisible...), foes plus weapons for fighting against them, two teleporters, background pictures, smoking balls, music and sound effects, speech output, buying and selling items and much more.

The game uses 32 colors (ECS) and needs at least an Amiga with 68020 and 2MB Fast RAM. If the settings in the preferences are reduced should the game also run with 1MB Chip RAM. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Mar.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)


heise: US law drafts may mean the end of firewalls
In the view of Edward W. Felten, professor at the Princeton University, could the new suggestions for a stronger ´Digital Millennium Copyright Act´ made by some US states lead to the fact that the ownership, the selling und use of encryption software, firewalls and router software may be under penalty in the USA soon.
The (German) heise article can be found following the title link.

Another (German) article about this topic:
Golem - IT News: Firewalls soon illegal in the USA? (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Mar.2003
Golem - IT News


Golem: New youth protection law: no more Linux games in the future?
»USK logo becomes a problem
From the 1st of April on could the offer of games software for Linux users in Germany be reduced in a drastic way from one day to the other. Because from this day on may only games be sold if they are marked with an age recommendation of the USK and this is only the case for a small minority of Linux games.«
Read the full (German) article under the title link.

In the Amiga sector will the situation not be very different. Games that are new released won't get around the mark but because of financial reasons it is to be expected that only a little number of already released games will get this recommendation symbol. So we are very interested in the consequences of the new youth protection law for the Amiga market and of course for the games developers. Tell us your measures.

Will old games be removed from the shelves?
Will old games get an age recommendation?
What costs does this signing cause?
Is shareware in the same way concerned as commercial software is? (ps) (Translation: wk)

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29.Mar.2003
WHDLoad (website)


Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 28.03.2003
With WHDLoad you can now install games, that were thought to be floppy disk only, on your hard disk. The following packages have been added respectively updated since our last mention:
  • 28.03.03 new: Mega Demo 2 - Scoopex (Scoopex) done by Psygore
  • 28.03.03 new: Mini Golf Plus (Starbyte) done by JOTD
  • 28.03.03 improved: Midwinter (Rainbird) supports German version and many other changes
  • 28.03.03 improved: Lure of the Temptress (Virgin) Italian version supported, fixed install script, access faults fixed
  • 28.03.03 new: Franko (World Software) done by JOTD
  • 28.03.03 new: Cruncher Factory (Kingsoft) done by Asman
  • 28.03.03 new: More Than Music (Alcatraz) done by Psygore
  • 28.03.03 new: Vegas Gambler (California Dreams) done by Agressor
(nba) (Translation: wk)

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29.Mar.2003
morphos-news.de


morphos-news.de: Pegasos boards available again
Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco have announced that the first 170 Pegasos mainboards have already been sent to the retailers. Some retailers already received the boards while others will get them today, tomorrow or in the beginning of next week. The rest of the approximately 400 produced Pegasos mainboards will be sent next week to the retailers. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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29.Mar.2003
Glenn Fuller (ANF)


Ben Fuller is dead - biography in the work
Benjamin G. Fuller, active Amiga developer since the early days, died on September, 11th 2002. The family, relatives and friends are putting a biography about Ben together and would welcome any contributions from the Amiga community.

1986 was the AAUG (Arizona Amiga Users Group) founded by Ben and some other users. Aged 17, Ben was probably one of the first and youngest developer of commercial Amiga software and visited among other things the 2nd Annual Amiga Developer's Conference in November 1986. 1988 he had worked in California at Silent Software and contributed to the creation of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" that had been distributed by Buena Vista Software and Disney. In 1992 he returned to Arizona to develop at Softwood, Inc. for example Final Copy II.

The next station was SunRize Industries, the makers of the hardware-software solution AD516/Studio16 Digital Audio Workstation. there he developed among other things the Automated Mixer of AD516/Studio16 v3.0 and its enhanced SMPTE Handling and the Amiga side including ARexx API of the software SoundSwitch that was also made compatible to the Video Toaster.

In June 2001 Fuller retired from SONICblue (ReplayTV) where he had worked since 1998 and concentrated on the photography with his Olympus E-10. His photos can be viewed on his website under the title link. Until the end Ben had used the Amiga emulator Amiga Forever running on a Dell-PC.

Please send contributions like publications, photos, reviews or comments that could help to complete the biography to ggfuller@yahoo.com or to benfuller@exreplaytv.com. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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