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| 24/10/2003... GeoZIP V0.9 released. Werner Weicht has been working on GeoZIP and has released V0.9 for MegaPatch3 and Wheels, here is a brief summary of the new features:- Version 0.9 14.10.2003 new message after unzipping is complete, geoZip now also can handle special WinZip format (PK00), during zipping each file get a time/date stamp from the current Geos date/time. You can grab the Wheels version here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/geoZip/ And the MegaPatch3 (German and English versions) here: http://home.t-online.de/home/wweicht/index.htm Colin 15/10/2003... Demoed to the North American World of Commodore Users at the SWRAP Expo 2003, is the Brand New Movie Player v1.0 for WiNGs! Greg Nacu writes: Another first in the history of Commodore 64 Computing, The WiNGs Movie Player is capable of playing back movie files with digital audio, and variable frame rates, upto ~25 fps full screen. New Movie files can be created with the combination of "video converter" for WiNGs, "video composer" for WiNGs, and a format exported by QuickTime™ Pro for Mac or Windows. The export is a one-time preprocessing, after which the C64 is responsible for doing the vast majority of the frame decoding, Rendering, Compressing and packing. The end result is a complete movie file which can be distributed and traded amongst commodore users. These movies can be downloaded and played without the assistance of an intermediate PC. To read more about this and all the other cool WiNGs stuff Greg has been doing, which was shown at the SWRAP Expo, go to: http://www.king.igs.net/~billnacu/wings/developers.html Thanks Jolz, Greg and the other WiNGs developers.. WiNGs rocks, and not forgetting the cool Hardware, SCPU, IDE64 etc :) 12/10/2003... GeoList patched for use with 4 Drive Wheels Systems Bruce Thomas writes: A few weeks ago I experienced a problem using geoList on my C-64 running Wheels with 4 Drives. I sent out a note on the GEOS Millenium Programming List and Todd Elliott offered to take a look at the program to see why it functioned differently under GEOS (with 3 drives) and Wheels (with 4). Todd has patched the program and told me I could make it available through whatever means. I have uploaded it to the CUE web site (http://www.edmc.net/cue - check the download page) and will also be including it on the soon-to-be finished next release of the geoSpecific GEOS PD/Shareware CD. Included in the geoPacked file on the web site is the patched program, the CA65 source code for the work that Todd did and a doc file for GeoList. During the process of updating the disk routines to support 4 drives Todd's fix also corrected an annoying problem where the RAM Drive would be mis-identified (RAM 1571, UAM 1571, WAM 1571, etc.) on occasion. So, the program works great and is a whole lot better than it was before. If you are a GEOS or Wheels user and you want a great program for cataloging your disks check out the newly improved GeoList 2.1. Many Thanks again Todd! And while your at the C.U.E be sure to check out the latest geoPublish Tutorial great job Bruce!! 08/10/2003... Protovision: Forum relaunched & new items available Protovision's C64 Discussion Forum has recently been relaunched. Everyone is welcome to discuss Protovision's projects, their own developments, general C64 related topics or whatever else comes to mind! Check it out by visiting http://www.protovision-online.de and click [C64 Discussion Forum]. If you managed to get a highscore in one of our games, feel free to post it to the Highscores Forum. While English is the main Forum language, German as accepted aswell. Covert BitOps have released their game Metal Warrior 4 earlier this month. It is the final part of the Metal Warrior series. Ian, the protagonist of the first game thought he had wielded a gun for the last time, but after an otherworldly encounter he is compelled to become an agent to hunt for the hidden truth... You can download this game for free here: http://covertbitops.c64.org/games/mw4.zip Incase you are not able to transfer it to C64 disk yourself, you can order the game from Protovision on 1541, 1581 or FD-2000 disk. Thanks to individual Computers, the Retro Replay cartridge is available again! Additionally, some cases for the Retro Replay cartridge have been manufactured and are available in transparent, blue and black. Even better, the networking card "RR-Net" is now available! This card plugs into the expansion port of the Retro Replay, and allows the C64 to connect to an intranet. Metal Warrior 4 (2 Euro), the Retro Replay cartridge (55 Euro),RR cases (transparent & black: 5 Euro each, blue: 6 Euro) and RR-Net (50 Euro) can be ordered from Protovision now. A great offer is the RR-Net Bundle (consisting of Retro Replay, RR-Net with Contiki & a transparent case) for only 100 Euro! All prices include shipping within Europe. More information about Metal Warrior 4 and RR-Net will be available at the Protovision Homepage now. Milo aka MacGyver/DMAgic/Protovision 25/09/2003... dotView B0.3 released.. Todd Elliott has just released a new version of dotView, here is his "press release" :- I have created beta version B0.3 of dotView recently. This utility runs on the Wheels (GEOS) OS and enables the user to view 4-Bit files that were created by GoDot or ConGo. The newest version can now handle clip files, which can be as small as 8x8 pixels all the way to 2040x2040 pixels in size. Check out dotView at: http://www.geocities.com/eyethian2000/dotview.html Enjoy! -Todd Elliott 14/07/2003... The Unofficial CMD Homepage has been relaunched! www.cmdweb.de is now back online at its old adress :) The F19 SCPU intro by Dosoo has been added to the Downloads, the links to the old CMD website have been changed to Click Here Software, some more links were corrected aswell. Happy surfing! Milo aka MacGyver/DMAgic/Protovision 02/07/2003... GeoPublish tutorial now online! (taken from the "Homestead mailing list") Bruce Thomas writes: I would like to announce that I have started posting the files for a thorough GeoPublish Tutorial. This series of articles (about 24 the way I have it planned right now) will take you through the creation of a handy reference guide for using geoPublish. The files are available in HTML format for viewing online and in CONVERTed GeoWrite format so you can download them and use them as you follow along and make your own printable manual. If you have any questions about using GeoPublish please feel free to ask them. If I haven't scheduled a topic that will answer your questions I will add it in. I feel there will be a good opportunity to add a Q&A section to the tutorial at some point. PLEASE NOTE: This notice is only going out to the Homestead list this one time... **Announcements of subsequent articles will only go out on the COPS list** The COPS list is for anyone who wants to learn to use PostScript equipped printers as well as learning geoPublish. We have also made the COPS list the official Wave Beta Test mailing list and discussions of GoDot are welcome as well. Consider joining the COPS list if these topics interest you, http://lists.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/cops After 15+ years of using geoPublish I feel that I can pass on some info to help others get the most out of this complex piece of software. The Introduction to the Tutorial and the first article can be found by following the GeoPublish Tutorial link on the CUE web site at: http://www.edmc.net/cue enGEOy your Commodore! Bruce Thomas. 02/06/2003... Not news specific to this site but.. Adam Dunkels posted this in the Homestead List, he wrote: Believe it or not, but an Ethernet network card for the C64 will be available for 50 EUR later this summer! Jens Schönfeld, the designer of the RetroReplay C64 cartridge among other things, has designed a 10 Mbit/s Ethernet add-on card for the RetroReplay cartridge. Today, he announced that production will start and that the cards hopefully will be available later this summer! Jens sent me a prototype card a few days ago and because the card is based on the same Ethernet chip as our TFE Ethernet cartridge, the Contiki TFE driver could easily be adapted for the RR-Net card. So I am now running Contiki with the RR-Net card on my C64 at home! The Contiki homepage can be found at: http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki/ The Contiki development snapshot can be found at: http://sf.net/projects/contiki Colin 22/04/2003... Nothing major.. just some broken links.. Ok, you may of noticed some Broken links on my pages, mainly Maurice Randalls old site IA4U.NET and the SuperCPU Home and the Unofficial CMD SITE, well Maurice is in the process of moving that site over to CMDRKEY.COM as for the other two sites I dont know yet.. watch this space ;) Colin 17/04/2003... Has it really been this long since I updated these pages?? :(( I guess I must be working to hard. Here is a brief run down on what I have been eargerly waiting to write about.... Behind the scene's there is a lot of cool stuff being done/worked on in the Geos/Wheels/MP3 and WiNGs world and I am pleased to be a part of it all. Werner Weicht continues his great work on making Patches/Fixes for MP3 and also is currently working (time permitting) on Patching GeoCanvas64/128 for MP3. I hope to report more here soon. Meanwhile you can download a patch for MP3 which fixes a small bug in the V3 Kernal.. http://home.t-online.de/home/wweicht/downloae.htm Maurice Randall, still continues to work on all his cool projects, WheelsSC, HD-DOS and so much more, I hope to post more about Maurice's work after the up and coming Expo in the USA. Greg Nacu and Jolse Maginnis continue to work behind the scences on WiNGs, Greg is currently working on Mail V2 (Awesome) amongst other coool things. The GUI in WiNGs is coming along nicely and you can see some new Screenshots on the WiNGS Site as well as Gregs new tutorials for programming in WiNGS... Check it out! http://wings.webhop.org Of course you can find all the cool links to these sites on my "Index Page" but you knew that didn't you ;-) Vision 64 Party coming up! Malte Mundt writes: "Come to VISION! THE C64-PARTY: 06.06.2003 - 09.06.2003" http://www.vision64.de.vu http://www.protovision-online.de VISION is a computer party exclusively devoted to the Commodore 64. Every C64 user is welcome, no matter if beginner or full pro. This event is being organized by PROTOVISION, probably today's largest and most active group when it comes to development & distribition of C64 soft- and hardware. So, if you feel like hanging around with other C64 users, reliving old times but also getting a chance to check out the latest products in the soft- and also hardware, "We would be happy to welcome you at VISION!" What awaits you at VISION? Get to know to C64 legends like Markus Siebold (Turrican II - musician), Hoild/ ENC (Newcomer creator) or Honey/Welle:Erdball, as well as the whole Protovision team and many others - or meet them again ;-) METAL DUST - more than just a myth! Experience the current state of development live on the bigscreen, including the new levels - and have a chat with the creators of this mammoth project right afterwards. Be there when the dancefloor opens and the SID disco starts - with the best the C64 music world has to offer Laugh & and take part when it's time for the fun compos! Details will be released later. Look over the masters' shoulders how they work on current projects or play with hardware Take part at the 4 player simultaneous tournaments in Team Patrol or Bomb Mania Protovision shows even more: e.g. the current state of Pac It or the beginning of the ambitious ENFORCER II project! Take part in the competitions, code, pixel, compose and let all visitors of the party gaze upon your work. WiNGS - what's the current state of this unbelievable operating system for the C64 with SuperCPU? ... and maybe a surprise or two! ;) When, where, Start: Friday, 6th June 2003 - ca. 16.00 h End: Monday (Whit Monday), 9th June 2003 - ca. 15.00 h Entrance fee: 20 Euro Location: Uetersen, near Hamburg, address: Stadtwerkehaus, Parkstr. 1, 25436 01/01/2003... News from Protovision Team Patrol finished & homepage moving Protovision gives you another reason to celebrate the new year by releasing a new game: With TeamPatrol the good old moon vehicle sees a comeback. But this time its not about destroying spaceships but to put up a good race with two or four players on 8 different courses. You need to shake your joystick so the Moon Buggy will accelerate - the more, the better! The game makes use of the 4player interface by Protovision which was first introduced with "Bomb Mania". People who dont own it yet can order it additionally. If you plug in a SuperCPU, it will be detected and can be used as RamDisc for the game data. Team Patrol will be first shipped in
January 2003. Orders are already welcome, email to Jak T Rip. The Protovision homepage will move to a new provider after 31st December 2002. Because of that, it will not be reachable at the usual address www.protovision-online.de for some time. Please use www.protovision-online.de.vu instead. The protovision-online.de Email addresses will not work during this period either. Please use these alternative addresses: Jak T Rip: jaktrip@gmx.de |