10.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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Installer: WHDLoad Version 16.0
Since the day before yesterday you can download the new version 16.0 of WHDLoad
in a user and developer package from the WHDLoad page. Using this software
you can now install games on your hard disk which have been made for floppy
disk only.
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10.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 09th August 2003
Using WHDLoad you can install games on your hard disk which have only been made
for floppy disk use. The following packages have been added or updated since our
last report:
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10.Aug.2003
PPCNUX (ANF)
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PPNUX: Interview with Pieter van den Abeele (Gentoo)
The Linux online magazine PPCNUX has held an interview with Pieter van den
Abeele, the project leader of Gentoo-PPC, in which they also ask about the
possibility of a port of the Gentoo Linux distribution for the AmigaOne and
Pegasos.
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10.Aug.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Major Update for ALGOR / ROMulus FlashROM Software
E3B, makers of the well known USB solutions for Amiga Classic, and Chris Hodges,
programmer of many well known software solutions, a.o.t. the USB stack Poseidon,
are glad to announce being able to make available an update for the FlashROM
solutions developed by E3B.
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09.Aug.2003
Amiga Inc. (website)
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Article: shared libraries in OS 4
The originally in the 6th issue of the Club Amiga magazine published
article "Shared libraries in OS 4" by Hans-Jörg Frieden is now available on the CAM website under the title link for non members, too.
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09.Aug.2003
amiga.org (website)
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Ironstone Partners Ltd. show temporar logo for new Commodore 64
On July, 11th Juli 2003 announced Tulip Computers NV (Tulip) and Ironstone Partners
Ltd. (Ironstone) an agreement about a partnership that was described as a first step for a worldwide relaunch of the trademark Commodore. Since then a logo for a possible rerelease of a home computer under the name "Commodore 64" has been presented that you can see following the title link.
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09.Aug.2003
Amiga Inc. (website)
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Magazin: Club Amiga Magazine #7 released
The 7th issue of the Club Amiga Monthly (CAM) ishas been released as announced with a one week delay. You have to be registered club member to gain access to the CAM (Club Amiga Magazine). Excerpts from the content:
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09.Aug.2003
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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CLI2WB version 1.3 released
CLI2WB has been released in version 1.3. With this tool you can launch a shell comfortably via the Workbench. In the icon tooltypes you can set important preferences like ASL requester, stack or priority. CLI2WB has been developed in 68k assembler code by Tom Duin.
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09.Aug.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MorphOS: version 1.4 released
After finishing the internal beta test is MorphOS 1.4 in the version dated August, 9th from now on downloadable for all registered Pegasos owners in the usual way from the BT2 server. the new features contain among other things:
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09.Aug.2003
Jens Meier (ANF)
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Music: Liquid Skies records #048
the scene group Liquid Skies has released their 48th music pack with the title "Nuclear Cars". This time's composer of the 4.02 minutes trance track is Maxus.
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08.Aug.2003
AROS (website)
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AROS status report 08/2003
The developments on the operating system AROS go still as planned. In the last weeks had the following update been done:
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08.Aug.2003
GIGA (ANF)
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Video of bplan appearance at NBC GIGA
On the PegasosPPC website of Genesi S.à.r.l. you can find a video recording of the appearance of bplan in the TV computer show NBC GIGA on August, 7th 2003. bplan introduced there the possibilities of their PowerPC hardware Pegasos. The 47 MB AVI video is available for download.
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08.Aug.2003
Jörg Lennhof - RetroGames e.V. (ANF)
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Event: 4. Retro stock exchange on 27.9.2003 in the GoTec - Karlsruhe
The first registered association for the preservation of classic video and computer games, RetroGames e.V., and 8bit-Games organize the 4th 8-Bit retro stock exchange this time in Karlsruhe (Germany).
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07.Aug.2003
Chris Perver (ANF)
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Textviewer: Update for EvenMore (exe and AG-Plug-in)
The EvenMore exe has been updated to allow you to follow links in a file
you are viewing, simply by clicking on them. To do this, EvenMore now
has new escape codes for the plugins, ESC*NODE, ESC*LINK, ESC*CEND.
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07.Aug.2003
Thomas Raukamp (ICQ)
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heise: Submarines of the US Navy with Apple Xserve under Linux
The renowned print magazine "heise" has reported in their online edition about a new outfitting of the US Navy. Heise states that the Navy will put into their submarines 260 server systems prepared by defense contractor Lockheed Martin for realtime picture processing. These systems are based on a combination of Apple's XServe, and the Linux operating system Yellow Dog Linux whose producers are known in Amiga circles as Terra Soft. Read the comlete report (German language) at Heise Online under the title link.
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07.Aug.2003
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Interview with Carl Sassenrath
A while back Carl Sassenrath agreed to answer some questions from the
Amiga.org community about his current project, REBOL and the current
Amiga situation. Your patience has been rewarded, because you can
finally read the interview under the titlelink.
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07.Aug.2003
ScummVM Amiga Webseite (ANF)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 R2 (68k and WarpOS) Appears
The second release of ScummVM 0.5.0 appeared today. In this version a few bugs with the game selector have been eliminated and a few corrections with the path entries within the program have been improved. With ScummVM 0.5.0 the following games may finally be played for the first time on the Amiga: "The Curse of Monkey Island", "The Dig", "Full Throttle", "Beneath a Steelsky" und "Simon The Sorcerer 1 + 2 (PC-Versionen)."
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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07.Aug.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ICQ)
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Round About New Things at morphos.net
The comprehensive and optically reworked web presence for the PowerPC operating system MorphOS is reachable as of today. Next to details about the features of MorphOS you'll find there further information and screenshots of MOS-compatible software, the Super Bundle, the MOS community, future and past meetings and conventions, dealers, and a lot more.
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07.Aug.2003
OSnews (Website)
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Interview with Two AROS Developers on OSnews
The online magazine OSNews has conducted an interview with Ola Jensen and Adam Chodorowski of the AROS development team. You may read the interview under the title link. According to them AROS is approaching the development condition of AmigaOS 3.1, of course collaborators are still needed to push forward development.
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07.Aug.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results from July/August 2003 (Update)
The results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade vote for the months of July and August 2003 have been released today:
- (12) Tales Of Tamar 116 pts
- (6) Knights And Merchants 93 pts
- (9) Earth 2140 86 pts
- (1) Napalm 85 pts
- (13) Quake 2 81 pts
- (2) Slam Tilt 78 pts
- (4) Quake 68 pts
- (3) Payback 65 pts
- (7) The Settlers 57 pts
- (5) Sensible World Of Soccer 57 pts
- (8) Crossfire 2 53 pts
- (11) Freespace 49 pts
- (14) Heretic 2 48 pts
- (10) Foundation 40 pts
- (19) WipEout 2097 37 pts
- (17) Fields Of Battle 32 pts
- (16) Moonstone 30 pts
- (15) Cannon Fodder 30 pts
- (29) Frontier Elite 2 28 pts
- (55) Speedball 2 26 pts
The next vote (Amiga Games Hit Parade in September/October 2003) begins in the middle of September.
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06.Aug.2003
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)
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bplan at NBC Giga
The bplan GmbH, developer of the PowerPC-mainboard Pegasos, will attend
the TV-show NBC GIGA on August 7th,
2003, at 21:00 (CET). They will present their products Pegasos and
MorphOS and take part at a live-chat at 21:45 answering your questions.
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06.Aug.2003
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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News from Coyote Flux
It has been a long while since the last update, but finally a list of
new screenshots and programs have been added to the website:
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06.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 06.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
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05.Aug.2003
CAM (Website)
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Club Amiga Magazine #7 to be released on August 8th, 2003
Issue 7 of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been delayed by the editorial
team for one week. The new issue will be released on August 8th, 2003.
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05.Aug.2003
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packages up to 4th August 2003
With the help of WHDLoad you can now install games on your hard disk
that had only been meant for floppy use. The following packages have
been added or updated since our last announcment:
more ...
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05.Aug.2003
Scenia (Website)
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Event: "The Assembly 2003" - August 7th-10th, 2003
On the forthcoming long weekend of August 7th (Thursday) to August 10th
(Sunday) the big demoscene event "The Assembly" will be held in the
well known ice stadium "Hartwall Arena" in Helsinki, the capital of
Finland.
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Primal" by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold
Some of you may remember Nightshade/Crusaders from various Crusaders
Amiga demos in the past. He also wrote the music for a few Amiga games,
the best known amongst them being "SWIV". He has now started a
composing/production company together with his friend Paul Arnold. Their
first real release is the soundtrack to the game "PRIMAL". This is a
fully orchestral soundtrack recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic
orchestra and choir. It sounds great!
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05.Aug.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-CD: "Sidologie" by Marcel Donne
Sidologie is an album of Commodore-64 remixes Marcel Donne, all done in
the style/sound of classic Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis albums. To put
it simple, Marcel Donne has taken the *melodies* from famous C64 music,
and mixed it with the *sound* of old-school Jean-Michel Jarre and
Vangelis.
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04.Aug.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Hardware Assistent: DD2html Version 0.2 released
In line with the project 'Hardware Assistent' version 0.2 of the tool DD2html has been released.
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04.Aug.2003
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster Version 2.5.25
Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5.25 of the filemanager DiskMaster. Details about made changes and a download link are available at the titlelink.
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04.Aug.2003
ScummVM (Website)
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ScummVM 0.5.0 released (Update)
Version 0.5.0 of ScummVM is now available for Windows, MorphOS and other operating systems.
Because of some serious bugs in the current version (0.5.0) there will soon version 0.5.1 be available.
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04.Aug.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)
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YahooGroupsRipper v1.0 released
Because of the upcoming changes of the Yahoo! Group Services Diego Casorran released a tool called YahooGroupsRipper.
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04.Aug.2003
Maik Schultheis (ANF)
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AmiGate: Search entries can be modified
AmiGate is a collection of web links concerning the Amiga. From now on every user or company can add entries in a special category and can administer them afterwards.
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04.Aug.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 03.08.2003
These updates or new programs have been uploaded to the Aminet since our last report:
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04.Aug.2003
AmigaWorld (ANF)
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Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 16
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 16 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-15, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database):
1) CanGuy: I'm getting into wireless technology at the moment and see a lot of applications for it. Is it likely that AmigaOS will contain something like Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous in Apple-speak) in the next year or so?
Fleecy: Part of the remit of AmigaOS4 is to ensure that devices that use it can work together with each other and as part of a hetergeneous network. We are already working on this with the tethered connection and this will be followed up relatively quickly with the untethered technologies, initially 802.11 and then Bluetooth.
2) ikir: OS4 supports multiprocessors so.... any idea when a double G4 AmigaOne will be realesed?
Fleecy: AmigaOS4 will support SMP first and then AMP second but it is more important for us to have a shipping product running on one processor first. I believe that a double G4 AmigaOne will be out in the next year - indeed a prototype dual processor module is already in our hands.
We have a lot to do already in developing AG2 - graphics, audio and a new user environment to name but a few. These are much more important than supporting SMP in the short term and as I have said before, I see AMP as being far more important in the long run.
3) Turbo: SoundBlaster Live! & SB512 support 128 instuments & 10 drums. Hercules/Guillemot have several high quality sound cards available, most of which have a Yamaha Synth with 676 instuments & 21 drums combined with a CS4624 or CMI-8738 DSP. Are there any future plans for Amiga OS4.x to support alternative sound cards when a higher Amiga user base is established?
Fleecy: Very much so. However, as always, until the AmigaOS4 market grows to the point where audio card companies will write the drivers themselves, we have to expend our own resources and thus will be limited in what can be supported. Our initial plans are to support one card each from the three natural groups. As an example (and only an example), AC-97 on-board audio for desktop, SB Live!, Audigy or Terratec for gaming and Echo for pro-audio.
4) Hondo_DK: Has Amiga Inc. at any point, contacted third party commercial/brand making companys, to develop a path for the future amiga platform? And can we expect amiga commercials in magazines, tv, internet, etc?
Fleecy: We have a very definite path already mapped out for the Amiga platform as both an overt and an embedded solution. In talking with OEMs, IHVs and the like, these plans have been developed further but many of them would involve Amiga technologies within their own branding/marketing strategies.
We do intend to make use of the full spectrum of marketing and advertising media, as well as visiting a few unorthodox efforts.
5) Darth_X: If we wanted to start a project, like AmiZilla, to port OS4 to the Pegasos, how much money would we need to raise? :D In other words, what is the minimum amount of $$$ needed to port OS4 to the Pegasos?
Fleecy: There are three possible routes in considering AmigaOS4.0
- We see an existing market in which AmigaOS4.0 makes commercial sense.
- We see a developing market that we believe will deliver commercial success.
- A third party approaches us with enough money to make the creation of a port a commercial success regardless of its sales.
Since the Pegasos is a deprecated product, its sales would be minimal and so the amount of money needed would be excessive to a community driven project. Of course if an eccentric user turns up with a few million Euros then we'd certainly chat with him or her.
6) Eric_Z: There has been a rather interesting discussion over at Aorg latly on the possibility of using an Elbox SharkPPC card in a PC/MAC as an inexpensive way to run OS4. Do you know if this is possible and do you think that such an product ("OS4 on PC") would be desirabe to have in the "Amiga hardware matrix"?
Fleecy: On a general level there is no reason why it shouldn't work, although you'd have to look at the effect of having the processor board on the PCI bus. In terms of is it desirable then you have to look at the usage equation. If you have a PC that can easily jump between the huge mass of PC applications and the smaller amount of Amiga pplications then would there be enough of an incentive for native Amiga development to take place if users could just as easily use Photoshop or Cubase or play UT2003?
7) Asemoon: I have read that parts of AmigaOS4 could be stored in ROM. Could future Amigas using such a ROM start multimedia software from CD/DVD/Disk without going through a fully running OS (like classic systems and consoles do)?
Fleecy: Yes.
Seeing AmigaOS4 as a solution for such products was part of the plan from the start.
8) Asemoon: I heard debugger software will come integrated into AmigaOS4. How would this work?
Fleecy: When a program crashes, you'll get the option of starting a debugger and attaching it to the crashed task. From there on, you can fully debug the program, probably including the possibility to re-start the crashed task.
9) Herewegoagain: I am familiar with the OS4 feature list, but I would like to know if there will be any driver support for Serial ATA controllers and drives for OS4? Possibly in a boing bag update?
Fleecy: Yes, although I can't give you a timescale at this point.
10) CanGuy: This new "Bowser services" mentioned at the AmigaWest Q/A sounds very interesting, probably more useful to programmers than "just another browser". Will these services include a JavaScript engine? and will it support web standards like DOM1, CSS, etc.
Fleecy: Precisely. The aim is to provide core services rather than a monolithic application. We already intend to use a few of these services for the new documentation, help and user guide system and of course they will be completely open to developers to use for their own projects, in both traditional and non traditional projects.
HTML/XML rendering and processing, Javascript and CSS will all be part of the initial service set and others will follow.
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Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=17
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