====================================================================== ________ _________ ____ _|__ __ __|_______ _________ __\ _____ \\\\ \_ _/ //___// _____//______\ _____ \\ // \\\\ /. \\\\__ \/ __// \\ \\____. /// \\\\ /. \\ \\___\ /___///___\ /___\ \\_________//\\___\ /___// \/ \/. | |z!o \/ A M I G A | 060731 | U P D A T E |________| "SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" (Eject -3) ====================================================================== AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A S U M M E R P A R T Y ( G O O D I D E A ! ) A M I R E V I V A L N E E D S R E V I V I N G R E F U R B A M I G A O N E S C O M I N G J O I N N A F N O W - F O R F R E E E X P A N S I O N F O R A 6 0 0 A V A I L A B L E A M I G A F U T U R E M A G I S S U E S O N S A L E Q U A K E 3 F O R O S 4 A T T H E D E P O T L P D A V A I L A B L E A T O S 4 D E P O T B A T T L E F O R W E S N O T H ( B E T A ) L A T E S T W I N U A E U P D A T E - 1 . 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Thoughts and Introduction: I am typing this on one of the hottest days this year, in the midst of a heat warning that covers more than two full days. Now while that's no problem for our readers in the southern hemisphere, it's a pretty good reason for those in this part of the world to just stay inside and play with your Amiga. We do have information on a couple of games this issue that could help you pass the time enjoyably. It has been a pretty quiet month overall and not all the news that did happen is cheerful. We were disappointed to hear of the canceling of AmiRevival. This is another sign that the Amiga community really needs "a shot in the arm" to use an old American expression. It might have received a bit of a boost this month with the announcement of a small number of refurbished A1s becoming available. Details below. And, surprise of surprises perhaps, there's even a cool new expansion module available for the A600. Glad to see the smallest Amiga still gets remembered from time to time. But we're still waiting for ready availability of new hardware. That would really make the summer more enjoyable. In the meantime, there are some fun things available in the community. We hope you enjoy reading about a few of them in this issue. Brad Webb, Editor -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A M I G A S U M M E R P A R T Y ( G O O D I D E A ! ) 12 JulY, 2006 AmiGBG, the crew known from the Swedish Amiga fair with the same name, and Compusphere, a group of true scene veterans, joins forces and brings you Amiga Summer Party 2006. The event will be a true scene party with all the proper ingredients. We begin with some demo coding and beer, then we throw in some nice tunes mixed with some awesome graphics. And for the grand finale we spice it up another notch with a big kick ass barbeque. www.amigasummerparty.se Time: 25-27/8 2006 18:00 Place: Jorlandagarden, Gothenburg, Sweden The name of the game is party, demos, music and gfx for Amiga, C64, Atari & PC. So join us at Jorlandagarden on the 25-27 of August, for a feast ye shall never forget. Meet the people, watch the demos, listen to the mods and party like there was new Amiga hardware. Entrance fee to the party is 150 SEK with computer and 100 SEK without. Amiga Summer Party 2006 - FAQ - ? Will there be compos ! Of course there will be compos, check out the compo page of www.amigasummerparty.se Here are some hints: Demo/intro: Amiga Demo/intro: PC Graphics: HighRes Graphics: LowRes Graphics: Raytrace Music: Multichannel Music: 4-Channel Music: Chip Music: Streamed Other: Wild ? Will there be prizes ! Yes, details later on ? Will there be exhibitors ! No, but there will be semi-official ppl on site to show you the latest and greatest of AmigaOS4 ? Will there be lectures or seminars ! Maybe, more on this later on ? Is this party thing replacing an AmiGBG fair in 2006 ! For now (But you never know what might happen in Q4) ? Why, is this because the Amiga has no future ! This was decided back in 2005 and has nothing to do with the Amiga Hardware limbo. We simply wanted to do something diffrent this time ? I don't know what "the scene" means, can I still come ! Yes, but you will probably know what the scene is when you leave :) ? What if I have more questions ! Ask them in this thread or via email to any one in the crew (info on the contacts page of our homepage) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I R E V I V A L N E E D S R E V I V I N G 3 July, 2006 After much deliberation it saddens me (Ryu) to announce AmiRevival 2006 has been cancelled. I and a few other team members have tried hard to secure exhibitors over recent weeks with not much success. We had been given assurances by a few organisations that they would attend, or at least their products would be there but due to a lack of communications with them I have made the decision the show would not be viable. Anyone who has purchased tickets will be getting a full refund in the next few days and if anyone has made any bookings that will leave them out of pocket please do contact me. I will do my best to try and compensate. Many thanks to those who did pre-book tickets, both visitors and exhibitors, and thanks to those who contacted me over the past couple of weeks. Further more I will be taking a step back from the scene for the foreseeable future, I will keep IntuitionBase.com online and will update it from time to time but I won't be sinking much effort into it. The Scunthorpe Amiga Group will remain but no meetings are planned, and I won't make any more plans until things pick up again. Thanks to all those who have supported me over the years, I hope to keep in touch with you all! Adios and thanks for all the fish ---------------------------------------------------------------------- R E F U R B A M I G A O N E S C O M I N G 16 July, 2006 Amont-Infomatique recently received delivery of a small consignment of AmigaOne motherboards for testing prior to redistribution among all AmigaOne dealers worldwide. They did need some time to test them and prepare the new configurations, but you will very shortly be able to order a reconditioned AmigaOne from your favourite dealer! Warning: quantities will be limited. Update 16 July 2006 Some µA1-Cs are already ready to go out to dealers. News of the G4 modules is expected some time next week. Those wishing to trade in their existing G3 800MHz modules should contact t heir local dealer for a possible trade-in (not all dealers may offer this). http://www.amont-info.com/spip.php?breve1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- J O I N N A F N O W - F O R F R E E 2 July, 2006 Norwegian Amiga Association now offers a free membership option in the user union groups new program for members. This offer includes free downloadable digital issues of the user union group members magazine Amigaguiden in PDF format. Understanding and reading Norwegian can be necessary to get the best out of this, but anyone can sign up at this registration form or/and read more about this news item at naf.as news . NAF is a Norwegian national user group union and is recognized as an official user group at amiga.com, and has been existing in some form since 1992. NAF HQ is localized in the city of Mo i Rana, Norway. Mo i Rana is known as "the city beneath the arctic circle". NAF had as of 31-Dec-2005 exactly 70 members nationwide. http://www.naf.as/index.php?side=hovedsiden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E X P A N S I O N F O R A 6 0 0 A V A I L A B L E 19 July, 2006 A602 CHIP RAM MEMORY EXPANSION (Amiga A600) product code: MEMAMI602 £28.99 A602 CHIP RAM MEMORY EXPANSION (Amiga A600) In Stock Double your Amiga A600's Chip RAM to 2MB with this new memory expansion. Features 1MB extra memory to expand the Amiga 600 to 2MB chipmem total battery-backed up real time clock leak proof lithium battery made in Germany clockport for A1200 expansions such as Silversurfer, Delfina or Subway USB extremely small design 2 year warranty http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_ id=533 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A M I G A F U T U R E M A G I S S U E S O N S A L E 6 JulY, 2006 Today issue 61 (July/August) of the Amiga Future has been released At http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php?mode=article&k=573 you can find a detailed description of contents of the issue 61 and four pages of try-outs. Of course you can find there also a list of the software contained on the Amiga Future cover CD. As a very special bonus besides over 20 full versions we have included also the full version of The Big Red Adventure on the cover CD. The magazine can be obtained directly from the editorial office in the APC&TCP online shop and some Amiga dealers. Further many issues of the Amiga Future have been heavily reduced in price (starting at 1 Euro) for a short time. The Amiga Future is not only available as a subscription but also as a single issue. For all who want to try the Amiga Future out we offer a trial subscription and some bundles at the moment in the online shop. http://www.amigafuture.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Q U A K E 3 F O R O S 4 A T T H E D E P O T Description: Quake 3 Download: quake3.lha Version: 1.31 Date: 07 Jul 06 Author: ID software, ported by Thomas Frieden Submitter: Thomas Frieden Email: thomasf/hyperion-entertainment biz Category: game/fps Replaces: game/fps/quake3.lha License: Other Distribute: no FileID: 1919 This is a quick and dirty port of Quake 3 for OS4. To play, you need the latest version of the Quake 3 data files (retail version plus all patches). You also need the latest MiniGL.library (included in this archive, copy to libs:). Unpack Quake 3 data files to a directoy (say, dh1:games/Quake3), and extract the archive there. (As a reference, the quake3 binary should be in the same directory as the "baseq3" directory). To launch, alter the q3 batch file (adjust the path according to your system) and run "q3" from shell. The port uses the QVM jit, so it can also run all the mods (tested with Urban Terror). Source code is available on OS4depot.net too. The port is unpotimized, so don't expect it to be blazing fast. If you want to contact me, write a mail to thomasf()hyperion-entertainment.biz DISCLAIMER: This software is provided as-is, with no guarantee for usability. Also note: This port has NOTHING to do with Hyperion Entertainment, it's a spare time project of me. DO NOT write to Hyperion Entertainment regarding support. Note: Added gpl.txt. Many thanks to Christian Rosentreter for kindly making me aware of that. http://www.os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/fps/quake3.lha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L P D A V A I L A B L E A T O S 4 D E P O T Description: Simple line printer daemon Download: lpd.lha Version: 1.0 Date: 16 Jul 06 Author: Steven Solie Submitter: Steven Solie Email: ssolie/telus net Homepage: http://www3.telus.net/ssolie Category: network/server/misc License: GPL Distribute: yes FileID: 1935 I. Warning This version doesn't implement any security features. II. Prerequisites You will need at least AmigaOS 4.0 installed on your computer. III. Installation Copy the lpd binary to your SYS:Utilities or some other directory. Launch the Internet preferences program. Select the "Servers" section. Press the "New..." button to add a new inetd server. Pick the "printer" service from the list. Click "Program" and select where you installed the lpd binary. Make sure "Active" and "Use socket I/O streams" are both checked. After you save your Internet preferences the lpd server will be immediately available for use. No reboot required. IV. Using lpd The lpd daemon is currently hard-coded to print whatever it receives directly to PAR: and nothing else. More options could be added. Please email with your requests. lpd.debug is also included which can be used to trouble-shoot problems. It will output all sorts of useful debug to the default serial port. V. Reaching the authors Steven Solie Juergen Schubert FIDO 2:246/2320.42 VI. Recompiling Install the standard AmigaOS 4.0 SDK and use the Makefile provided. VII. Future This is a very basic implementation of lpd and more features could be added. Feel free to send in your request. VIII. Acknowledgements Steven Solie: Thanks to Juergen for creating the original version. I used it as a basis for this new version which should have fixed most of the bugs in the original. Also a big thanks goes out to the OS4 development team for bringing AmigaOS back from the binary dustbin. Juergen Schubert: I want to say "Thank you!" to the AmiTCP-team for providing this great protocol stack. If you want to include an enhanced LPD to your distribution, feel free to contact me. IX. History 2006-07-15 Modified for AmigaOS 4.0 Updated to use C99 Several protocol bugs removed Restricted to print to PAR: only Added GNU Makefile Updated doc file 1994-09-11 Original release by Juergen Schubert http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=network/server/ misc/lpd.lha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B A T T L E F O R W E S N O T H ( B E T A ) 27 July, 2006 The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures? Wesnoth 1.1.8 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.8 is the first 1.2 "official" beta release. Please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a shiny 1.2 release. You can read the announcement and the changelog. http://www.wesnoth.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L A T E S T W I N U A E U P D A T E - 1 . 3 16 July, 2006 http://www.winuae.net New and improved features............... - Input event recording and playback (WIP) - PC floppy drive drive sound emulation :) - Mousehack-"driver" build-in. - PC DD and HD floppy image support. - Added improved audio filter and interpolation code from uade and other sound setting updates. - Added build-in HRTMon debugger/monitor. (WIP) - Action Replay for Amiga 1200 ROM image support. - Arcadia emulation updates. - Directory filesystem compatibility updates. (illegal characters in directory names work better now, some protection flag tweaks, more compatible disk capacity check if disk is very big, compatibility issues with \\server\share-directories fixed) - Debugger updates. (improved trainer search command, fa-command, like in Action Replay, AGA color register dump etc..) Bug fixes: - Fix for random state restore freeze. - AVIOutput crash, incorrect window size. - Random Picasso96 screen mode switch crash. - "Create hard disk imagefile"-option in harddisk settings fixed, previously it usually created corrupt hardfiles. - Fixed garbage lines when program mixed interlace and non-interlace modes. - D3D filter fullscreen freeze fixed. - Priority-panel "pause emulation/disable sound output"-checkboxes were not initialized correctly. And more smaller (and maybe bigger) changes ... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Amiga Update on the net: All back issues available at: http://www.globaldialog.com/~bandr/AU/index.html Stop by and check out our archive! Now in our 13th publication year. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2006 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified. ====================================================================== _ __ _ <>_ __ _ A M I G A /\\ |\ /|| || / ` /\\ A M I G A U P D A T E /__\\ | \ / || || || ___ /__\\ U P D A T E / \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_ amigaupdate@globaldialog.com ======================================================================