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03.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies records #062
After the homepage of the scene group Liquid Skies is reachable again they published their 62nd music package today. It contains a trance tune by the musician Maxus and the fitting CD cover for this track. more ... (nba) (Translation: ub)

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03.Dec.2003
Commodore Gebruikers Groep


HCC days: Photos by the Commodore Gebruikers Groep
The Dutch user group Commodore Gebruikers Groep has pushed some photos of their attendace at the HCC days online. That event is the biggest of its kind within the Benelux countries. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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03.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Webseite)


New version of the ASFS Linux dirver
The ASFS file system driver for Linux by Marek Szyprowski is now available as a public beta 1.0 beta 1. With this tool SmartFileSystem (sfs) partitons of the Amiga/MorphOS are accessable while running Linux. In the meantime it became possible not only to read these partitions but also to write to them, even this is still in an experimental stage.
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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03.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)


Music software: Protracker II under development
Ruben Monteiro currently works on ProTracker II, a successor to the original family of the Soundtracker (SoundTracker, NoiseTracker, ProTracker). The Portuguese programmer estimates a release date for March next year. There is support for MorphOS and Windows, versions for OS4 or AROS are not confirmed yet.
more ... (snx) (Translation: ub)

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03.Dec.2003
AmigaWorld (Website)


Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 24
The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 24 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) BobC: Can you tell us what third party software companies or individuals are interested in writing or actually are writing software for OS4 on the A1? If you can't say who they are, perhaps, what types of third party software is being developed?

Fleecy: I can only tell you of those that have publicly committed to writing for AmigaOS4.0 since the others are either still looking into it or are developing but do not wish to make an announcement yet.

Those that are publicly committed are

Ibrowse
Pagestream
AudioEvolution
CandyFactory 2
Tales of Tamar
VBCC
WordMeUp

Hyperion have also committed to creating AmigaOS4.0 versions of their games and have a licence to develop DirectoryOpus for AmigaOS4.0.

Several other companies have said that when a more complete developer SDK is available and/or when the market size becomes clearer, then they will take another look.

There are likely to be quite a few surprise products turning up as well but as I said, for a number of reasons the companies involved are not willing to announce publicly at this time.

2) Uncharted: Will the new "AG2 services" change the way AmigaOS works from a user's perspective? Will things like devices, system structure (C: DEVS: LIBS: ENVARC: etc.), and UI paradigms be changed?

Fleecy: Initially no but with the introduction of a resources and services architecture, it will change. This architecture internalises the implementation and publicly presents a semantic abstraction. AmigaOS4.0 presents a half way house with its use of interfaces called against libraries. However, because the access is via a semantic abstraction, it will be possible for a user to create a relationship that makes it look like the old organisation model, if they so desire.

As for the interactive environment, we have looked at all that is good in the existing interface as well as all is bad. We are bringing a workflow analysis to this area and, whilst you will be able to recognise elements from previous implementations, there will be a lot that is new and (we hope) better. The whole solution will allow the user to eventually build their own interface so if you want to go back to AmigaOS3.9 Workbench, it should be possible.

3) Shep: A while ago on here I suggested that Amiga could use affiliate marketing, similar to amazon, for marketing the new Amiga. I would gladly join such a scheme when I have my new website sorted out (which will be appropriate because of its theme), what do you think Fleecy?

Fleecy: I think it is a very good idea. We have a lot of ideas ourselves which are partly a reaction to the situation we find ourselves in at the moment. Getting the good news about Amiga's rebirth out into the world is going to be top priority and, as we found at the Micromart show and, as has been proved over the past six months, our user groups are going to be crucial in that process.

4) DaveP: Hi there Fleecy, would you rather do this monthly? ;-)

Fleecy: At least it wouldn't be late all the time ;-)

5) GregS: Are there any plans with including in OS4-4.2 a XML Signature generator?

Fleecy: XML will play a big part in AG2, so yes.

6) Asemoon: There is much concern within the industry about monopoly OS companies abusing their position to make it hard or near impossible to replace components with alternatives. This has never been the case with AmigaOS' design. Will this modularity and freedom continue with future releases?

Fleecy: Very much so. With a resource and services architecture it would be hard to do otherwise.

7) prmetime: 1. When the A1/zico spec was first announced, a partnership with Matrox was announced fairly soon thereafter. I have yet to see any Matrox drivers or chips on hardware to this point. Is Matrox still a partner and will their graphics chipsets be supported?

Fleecy: Matrox are still a partner and, with SNAP coming on board, we will have an excellent set of drivers for Matrox boards. Given that 3D is not currently the forte of Matrox, then we will be concentrating on other, more appropriate products.

8) GregS: Are there any plans (beyond OS4.0) to add to the Amiga some simple and easy to maintain and control Multi-User-Profile system for the AmigaOS?

Fleecy: Yes but it will require the foundations to change first for the data storage and organisation services. That is something that will appear early in AG2.

9) The_Editor: We recently had, what seemed to be a high profile visitor to AW.net expressing his frustration at not being able to find anyone "high enough" to talk to about developing for DE. Due to a lack of information, he is taking his idea elsewhere. Who do we direct such enquiries to in future and what steps would Amiga Inc take to see this calamity is not repeated ?

Fleecy: This is clearly very worrying. I did not receive any information about him and there is supposed to be a requests process on the Amiga Anywhere website. I shall look into this as a matter of urgency.

10) jurassiccamper: Alan has mentioned that earlybird owners may get an installable OS4 beta by christmas. How will this be distributed?

Fleecy: It won't be a beta per se but a pre-release that will not be supported directly. Amigaworld have already expressed an interest in becoming a forum for support and feedback of information generated from the pre-release. As for the format for distribution I believe we are currently considering a downloadable ISO image to be burnt to a CD via Debian.

(Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved.
Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=25
You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source,
and the copyright notices remain intact)
(nba) (Translation: ub)

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02.Dec.2003
Maja (ANF)


Safety hole in Linux-Kernel makes Debian attackable
At the end of November there are hacker attacks on the open source project Debian Linux. Those attacks were possible because of holes in the Linux centre. You can get more information because of this theme on the TweakPC-website under the title link. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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02.Dec.2003
Golem (Website)


Golem: PNG Second Edition becomes W3C-Specification
The World Wide Web consortium has decided the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Second Edition for the W3C-recommendation as standard. Please read the complete text at the online news-service Golem under the title link. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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02.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail)


IOSPIRIT: fxSCAN 4.05 available
In the download-area of IOSPIRIT an update-archive from version 4.0, 4.01, 4.02, 4.03 and 4.04 of fxSCAN to V4.05 is now available for download. more ... (nba)

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01.Dec.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Bonds v2.00 Alpha
Amiga Arena will publish, in co-operation with Sven Dröge of Programmed Excellence, an alpha version of the new personal finance program 'Bonds' 2.0. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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01.Dec.2003
Alexander Fritsch, selco (ANF)


SelcoCast: First Shoutcast-Server for Amiga
'SelcoCast' by Alexander 'selco' Fritsch is the first ShoutCast server for Amiga. Additional infromation can be found at the title link. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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01.Dec.2003



Aminet Uploads until 30.11.2003
New Aminet-Uploads: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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01.Dec.2003
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


Amiga Update Newsletter von Brad Webb #031130
The November issue of Amiga Update by Brad Webb is now available at the title link.

Content: more ... (nba) (Translation: sk)

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29.Nov.2003
Sprocki (ANF)


New versions of OpenSSH and OpenSSL released
Diego Casorran has released new versions of OpenSSL and OpenSSH for the Amiga on his website under the title link. OpenSSL is now available in version v0.9.6 L, OpenSSH in v3.7.1p2. more ... (nba) (Translation: wk)

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29.Nov.2003



Genesi news in short
  • After their products Pegasos, MorphOS and PegXLin and their Pegasos port of OpenBSD has the company Genesi S.à.r.l. itself now been registered on the "Ready for IBM-Technology" list.
  • Felix Schwarz leaves Genesi and is concentrating completely on his company IOSPIRIT again as Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck posted in a comment on MorphOS-News.de. The company owe among other things the creation, support and moderation of many of their websites to him.
  • The official Japanese site of the Pegasos network is now online: www.Pegasos-JP.com.
(snx) (Translation: wk)

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28.Nov.2003
ann.lu (website)


Archive tool: Mui Unarc 45.10
Jocke Sjöblom has written a clone of the tool "Unarc" which is delivered with AmigaOS3.9. This is called "MUI Unarc" and is based on MUI. It uses the xadmaster.library and therefore can display and extract many archive formats.

Direct Download (11 KB). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2003
Günter Horbach / KDH Datentechnik (ANF)


KDH Advent Calendar 2003
This year again KDH Datentechnik offers an Advent calendar. Each day there are special offers from December 1st until December 24th. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2003
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)


Tool: SRename 3.8.0
Constantinos Nicolakakis has published the final version 3.8.0 of the tool "SRename". With this tool you can comfortably rename files. The following features have been added in the new version: more ... (nba) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2003
Marcus Neervoort (ANF)


amigapage.de currently not accessable
Because of a change of the provider www.amigapage.de currently is not accessable. As soon as all has been done the site will be available. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2003
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)


Samba de Oruga - Sexy PC-game for Amiga-fans
SAMBA DE ORUGA is a sexy version of the well-known Tetris. It was born with the idea to create the ultimate Tetris, so the Peruvian group The Twin Eagles Group (well-known because of their Amiga game Gunbee F99, published by the APC-TPC) laid their foces on game-play and fun and later then combined it with sexy photos of their game member Orugaloca, where she poses for example only with an Amiga T-Shirt or a Boing-Ball. more ... (nba)

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28.Nov.2003
MorphZone (Website)


Games: MathRace and Rock! Paper! Scissors! by La Sekta
In the MorphZone there are two minor new games made by La Sekta for AmigaOS and MorphOS. You must have a Pegasos or an Amiga with RTG.

While MathRace challenge your mathematical knowledge Rock! Paper! Scissors! is a realization of the known child game "Rock - Paper - Scissors. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2003
Amiga.org (Webseite)


Mirage Interactive offers old Amiga games for free download
Some time ago the Polish games distributor Mirage Interactive has made available some of its older games. You can download it under the title link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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27.Nov.2003
Genesi (E-Mail)


Genesi: Taking Part in HCC-Dagen Show in the Netherlands
Genesi SARL announced their participation at the Dutch HCC-Dagen from 28th through 30th November. Reportedly this is the biggest show of its kind in the Benelux lands, with attendance in previous years reaching 100,000 by some accounts.

They'll be guests at the stand (D106, hall 9) of Tyra-Group.

Tyra-Group is going to introduce their CS-2 system ("Communication Station 2") at HCC-Dagen. This is a new system configuration that is small in size (A4), but with space for a standard 5.25" drive, a 5.25" slim bay, a 5.25" "quarterdrive bay," a 3.5" floppy drive, two hard-drives as well as expansion cards of normal height with additional room for high graphic cards. The TFT screen can be changed out as can the powerpack, both standard, off-the-shelf components.

The "CS-2 Deluxe" is a complete home multimedia system based on Genesi's Pegasos and running MorphOS as well as Tyra-Group's proprietary software. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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27.Nov.2003
The CAPS Team (ANF)


CAPS Update
The CAPS team (who concern themselves with the archiving of old, copy-protected Amiga games, to include copy-protection written on the flags) has converted another bunch of games into CAPS format. This format may for example be read by new UAE versions. more ... (cg) (Translation: dm)

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27.Nov.2003
Falcon (ANF)


FinalWriter Helper: "PDF-Creator"
Falcon has written a little program that may be incorporated in FinalWriter. Using Ghostscript, it allows a comfortable conversion of current documents to PDF format.

Requirements:
  • Final-Writer
  • Ghostscript (preferable V8.00)
  • rexxreqtools.library
  • reqtools.library

Direct Download (93 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)

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26.Nov.2003
Martin Steigerwald (E-Mail)


Amiga Magazin: "AROS - Amiga neu gemacht" by Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald has written an article for issue 9/2003 of the Amiga Magazin about AROS which is worth the read for all those interested in that alternative system. The article is written in German and to get at the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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26.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)


Event: Report from the "Ottawa Amiga Show" by Kermit Woodall
Kermit Woodall by Nova Design has edited a report about the Canadian Event "Ottawa Amiga Show 2003" and put it - coupled with some pictures - online by the title link. The show was held at the Canadian metropole Ottawa on November, the 22nd 2003. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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26.Nov.2003
ANN (Website)


Game: Memory clone "DonSimon"
The programmer "Anarkskt" has done a new memory game "DonSimon", which is based on the classic "Simon". The game is available in native versions for 68k-AmigaOS and MorphOS and is downloadable by the title link at the website from the MorphZone. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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26.Nov.2003
Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)


GoldED: Webworld-update and Espresso License
Registered GoldED-users can download a service pack for the HTML add-on Webworld. The Nov/2003 version of Tidy has been integrated (Amiga port courtesy of Edgar Schwan). Tidy is a code cleanup utility. The new version supports XML and XHTML. more ... (nba) (Translation: nba)

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