24.Feb.2003
Ricco Clemens (E-Mail)
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"Capture the Flag" for Descent: Freespace
The MultiplayerPack03 for Descent: Freespace was published today.
It contains five multiplayer missions. Four of them are "Capture the flag" maps
offering further interesting possibilities for the multiplayer game.
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24.Feb.2003
Ein Liker (ANF)
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Turrican 2002 download for PC
The freeware game "Turrican 2002" is now available for PC and can now be
downloaded. You can find further information at the title link.
If there was a cult game for the Amiga, then it was "Turrican". A
game, which set at that time new yardsticks and influenced lastingly a whole
category. The third and last part of the "Turrican" series for Amiga was released in 1993.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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24.Feb.2003
Amiga Interactive Guide
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Amiga Interactive Guide update
The 'Amiga Interactive Guide' was updated within several parts
and/or extended by new systems. You find a detailed list of the
changes in the column "What's new?".
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24.Feb.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail)
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New and revised Freeware by OnyxSoft
The Swedish developer team OnyxSoft published two new freeware tools
ActivateWindow V1.0 and GummiSurf V1.0.
more ...
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24.Feb.2003
Bruno Ethvignot in fr.comp.sys.amiga
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Game: Technoballz AGA now also available as adf file for emulators
Bruno Ethvignot made an ADF file of the Amiga game Technoballz AGA available for download. Thus the game can be played on UAE and other Amiga
emulators.
Download: TecnoballZ_AA.adf
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24.Feb.2003
A.D.A.
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New in A.D.A. archives: 'Wild/Anadune and near Kolor' and 'Phenomeno
'Amiga Demoscene Archives' now contains the following new demos:
more ...
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24.Feb.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)
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DiscreetFX Releases Spontaneous Combustion Sample Pack
DiscreetFX Releases Spontaneous Combustion Sample Pack For Amiga,
Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer & Video Toaster [2]
A Low Cost Sample Version of a New Real-Time Fire, Smoke & Explosion
Effects Library
more ...
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24.Feb.2003
Leser (ANF)
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wxWindows - portable Open-Source GUI-Toolkit
At the title link you can find information about the portable open
source GUI Toolkit wxWindows. The source code of this graphic user
interface (GUI) is available in the programming language C++, which
permits object-oriented programming. Perhaps someone would like to
port it.
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23.Feb.2003
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Aminet uploads until 23.02.2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:
more ...
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23.Feb.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Beambender release
In 1997 the first and at the same time last Amiga game by developer team
"Blue Lemon Studio" had been released by their erstwhile publisher "Verkosoft". With permission from the developers, who now call themselves
bluelemon, Amiga Arena
exclusively facilitates the free release of Beambender.
more ...
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23.Feb.2003
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Info pages re. Amiga Arena Games Edition 2002 CD-ROM
If you want to know more about the Amiga Arena Games Edition 2002 CD-ROM, you
can now find some information on the new Web site.
more ...
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23.Feb.2003
Aminet
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #68
Issue #68 of the Amiga online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' has
been published.
more ...
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23.Feb.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 23.02.2003)
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to the hard disk which were
intended for floppy use originally. The following packages were added or
updated:
more ...
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23.Feb.2003
Daniel Hartlehnert (ANF)
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3D graphic artists for Projekt Crashsite wanted
An Amiga graphics artist is wanted who is willing and has the time to create
rendered graphics for the role playing game "Projekt Crashsite" currently in
development.
more ...
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23.Feb.2003
W3C
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W3C presents plans for SVG Print
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has drawn up and published a first working
paper about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), according to which in the WWW's
future the format is to lay emphasis on meeting the needs for printing. The
working paper describes possible applications, features, basic design
principles and demands for the print specific version of "SVG Print".
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22.Feb.2003
Chris Beckefeld (email)
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Haage & Partner in print magazine c't
In the current issue of c't (German print magazine) 5/2003, coming next Monday,
is Haage & Partner mentioned in the applications notes (page 41).
It's about the localisation of the products of the graphics software developer XARA, in the beginning the font renderer Xara3D v5 for the German speaking people. But this shows obviously their turning to non Amiga products - facts follow their words...
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22.Feb.2003
GFX-BASE
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Lorraine Design: new GlowIcon set 'Nelta'
Bojan Milovic of Lorrain Design has today released a new icons set in the GlowIcon style. It contains about 300 MacOS and Windows icons that he'd converted to AmigaOS and enhanced with the glow effect.
Download: Nelta-glow.lha (602 KB)
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22.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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Genesi statement about the Pegasos II changes
This is a letter we sent out today to the "inside" group...(sorry no images!)...
22 February 2003
Dear Friends of Genesi,
We wanted to provide some basic communication this weekend to all of you, because
frankly our focus this past week has been the Management meetings here in Paris.
We hope that this letter will assist you in understanding more clearly the
direction of the Company. Please feel free to respond directly to us at
bbrv@genesi.lu with your questions. If you understand and share our vision,
you can adjust your effort to become more relevant to our corporate framework
if you desire.
As we have said before, Genesi stands on the verge of enormous opportunity.
We can provide a completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating
system, and a number of (bundled and unbundled) applications. We can innovate
in ways that involve the complete integrated package, rather than being limited
to new developments within each level by third parties (HP and Microsoft are not
as self-reliant in this way). Genesi and our associates need to leverage this
advantage fully. We are smaller, faster and will be necessarily more adventurous
in our efforts. Do not hesitate to share your most creativity ideas with these
mailing lists. Together, we believe we can create a substantial and long
awaited change to the IT marketplace.
In the first BIG opportunity to our Company, we are required to develop using a
PPC and MorphOS, a terrestrial Digital Television receiver with interactive/computing
and smart card read and write functions (to be referred to as the DTV STB). This
product will not require the use of the Articia and we will be producing significant
quantities in the development phase and a special version of MorphOS (without hurting
the complete version). If we deliver the DTV STB in a satisfactory manner we will
be eligible to receive orders for over one million units. It is a once-in-a-lifetime
professional opportunity for all of us. We need to make the most of it.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the years of dedication required
to bring the Pegasos and MorphOS to where it is today. We are all proud to be
associated with the bplan guys. The difficulties over the last year have nothing
to do with them. It is the Articia from Mai Logic that has caused us months of
delays. It does not perform to the advertised specifications. Thankfully, Gerald
and Thomas tested and mounted the Aritica on the April2. That is right -- the April2.
The first patch that Gerald and Thomas developed works as we know, but there were
still bugs. The new Articia (and Teron) is still very likely to have trouble as
more problems were detected after the Aachen Show and well after the joint work
Gerald did with for the new Articia in October and November with Mai. The April2
brings the Articia fully to the performance levels it claims to achieve. We have
purchased the remaining worldwide supply of the old Articias and will make 400 more
Pegasos main boards with the G3 CPU. Our G3 Pegasos performs better than the G4
Teron with the Articia. This will be common knowledge soon (let the others understand
this on their own our word will stand as testimony to our knowledge and skill). Once
produced, we will stop (we may license production of this version of the Pegasos to
Plexuscom or others). These machines will easily satisfy the Amiga market and give
us the machines we need to seed our developer base while Gerald and Thomas switch out
the old Articia to a much more attractive alternative (details later). This could be
ready by the summer. The RAM speed of the Pegasos will be as high as any offered in the
market and this WILL attract considerable interest. The DTV STB revenue can carry us
until this point (remember this IS a business we hope you Developers begin to remember
this!).
To repeat a few words from an earlier communication?
If our strategic vision is compelling and our execution excellent, we will increasingly
attract skilled developers. What Ralph, Frank and the core MorphOS Development Team have
accomplished to date is exceptional, but now we need to establish a professional
development and management system for MorphOS, formally retain the services of all
key MorphOS developers, and recruit new talent to the project. We have struck on the
Phoenix association to develop a vehicle to do this. All registered Phoenix members
must use a special Phoenix logon and password to have access to the reduced Pegasos
pricing that will be available through www.pegasos-usa.com.
We need to be somewhat selective in insuring that these next boards go to people that
will advance in communion with our effort and our internal developers and Phoenix members
will have priority. We will also develop the User Group program next week and a system
for handling Pegasos sales so our Distributors also benefit.
Our targeted resource/sales markets from the near to medium term are:
1. Amiga/MorphOS
2. DTV STB
3. LinuxPPC and OtherPPC
We will continue to promote to the Amiga/MorphOS market, as we have. Our underlying focus
should be: broadening and stabilizing MorphOS, attracting applications and drivers
(ports/original programs), and establishing a Pegasos toolkit. At the same time,
www.pegasos-usa.com is working
and our online sales support and information site at
www.genesi-support.com
will continue to improve. If we are lucky we will awaken and attract the slumbering
ex-Commodore consumer market, but that will take some time and we are not quite ready
for mass-market attention. The sites will be there and ready. Until we are ready with
the Pegasos II we will not promote the sites as much as we could. Plus, we will
standardize the Pegasos distribution network over the next few months taking a
semi-franchise approach. When we are ready, everything will be in place.
On the hardware side we start where we are: the Pegasos. We have discussed the
features: upgradeable, scalable, modifiable (smaller eclipsis, subsets/modular
Psylent/STB), and open, as in Open Firmware (facilitates scheme for peripheral
association/development IAW the IE1275 standard). We will develop a solid plan
and feature set for each Pegasos envisioned and the corresponding software bundles.
The management review that took place this week was very successful. We have
defined and agreed to our objectives and are now preparing a solid plan for the
future.
NOTE: for 200 Euros and trade-in ALL Pegasos I Users (includes Betatesters) WILL
be able to upgrade to the Pegasos II (just to put an end to that FUD!).
About Linux and the other targets? OS4 too -- ;-)
Linux people usually want something great for nothing, but in the PPC market if
we can get a design win over the Teron the next price point is a Mac. As more
professionals and desktop consumers switch to Linux, the future of commercial
software on Linux is very bright and so is our hardware. Functionality will
become precedent over cost in this market. We need a bootable bundled distro
and Mac-on-Linux. Linux will be a major force in the future. Today, it is still
difficult to install software, drivers, set up firewalls, etc., but because of
the generous licensing environment and the massive corporate support Linux is
gaining (IBM, HP, etc.) as well as government mandates and funding in many
countries, it is set to become the "next big thing". We need to be
part of that trend.
Any PPC OS that is reasonable to port with external resources is interesting to
us. We need a Go/NoGo decision matrix. Again, we are looking for resources and
developer talent. For example, while Linux gets the glory, BSDs are running
some of the biggest sites. We have seen the first screenshots of OpenBSD running
on the Pegasos. Further, there is an increasing amount of interesting open source
projects we could find a way to adapt to our use.
Finally, we are interested in restoring the Demo Scene to the Pegasos. The
traditional and overt message in a demo was technical skill. The visual effects
pushed the supposed limits of the platform's capability and graphics were
skillfully executed. Good demos are the marriage of advanced technical, creative
and artistic abilities. For the future, we need a new generation of Sceners to be
pulling the most from the platform and the OS. This can generate plenty of
positive attention. Besides the nVidia butterfly lady has the wrong color wings!
This is why we decided to sponsor Equinoxe.
All these other things all ultimately bring us back to our key advantage: a
completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating system, and
applications. Management is working hard to turn this vision into a reality.
While the sale of the Pegasos and MorphOS alone could never sustain the Company
we are building, it may one day in the future. We use the Pegasos today to
begin our move to the future, while insuring the development and growth of the
MorphOS. Things could get pretty exciting if we can get that far. Let us not
forget that 30 million STBs sold last year and they were called video game
consoles.
Please feel free to provide any feedback to us.
Sincerely,
Raquel and Bill
P.S. If you are still confused go here --
www.lagardere.com --
and select Lagardère Media présente "Focus sur la Télé" on the left.
This should help explain everything (even if it is in French!)
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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Debian project on Desktop Linux Summit
The Debian project has been invited to an exhibition and conference about free software and GNU/Linux that will take place soon.
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22.Feb.2003
FOREMATT (ANF)
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100% AMIGA #33 with new design
The February issue (#33) of the British CD-ROM magazine 100%
AMIGA has been released today and comes along with a fresh new design.
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22.Feb.2003
heise online
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heise: first details on Napster 2
Still this year shall Napster be restarted as commercial download service. Later on will owner Roxio upgrade peer-to-peer functions, too. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link.
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22.Feb.2003
OSNews
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SciTech asks for comments regarding the SNAP-Graphics future
This week announced the AmigaOS 4 developer Hyperion Entertainment to use the SNAP technology by SciTech Software Inc. as graphics cards driver system for AmigaOS 4 (we reported).
Today asks SciTech on OSNews for commments regarding future versions of SNAP-Graphics.
more ...
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22.Feb.2003
YAM Website
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Mail program: new YAM developers version dated February, 22nd 2003
Since today there's a new developers version 2.4-dev [020] BETA
of the mailing software YAM that is now Open Source. This is a pure developers version that may still contain bugs and for which the develpers give no support and warranty. Emails regarding the developers versions won't be answered, either. Usage at own risk!
more ...
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22.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV Website
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TV cards driver: AmithlonTV beta 285 (update)
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 285 of the TV cards driver software
AmithlonTV with several smaller updates and improvements.
more ...
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22.Feb.2003
heise online
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heise: 580 millions users worldwide online
Market research has shown that 63 percent of the German households are connected to the Internet. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link.
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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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Artwork from Visualice at GFXZONE
There are quite a few sceners that have been around for a long time,
but few have been as active as Visualice used to be. This guy has worked
on a staggering amount of demoscene productions.
more ...
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21.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)
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300 Pegasos-I freely available from Monday on - Pegasos-II from September on
As Genesi reported on MorphOS-News.de
the last Pegasos mainboards of the first generation are available from Monday on.
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21.Feb.2003
Computer City (ANF)
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Computer City February News
FotoFoto
Work on FotoFoto is progressing, new pictures of the main
screen and prefs section can now be found at the FotoFoto website:
www.compcity.nl/fotofoto.
more ...
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21.Feb.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c.: Knights & Merchants for MorphOS starts shipping
Today e.p.i.c. interactive started shipping the Empire Builder Knights &
Merchants, which is now the first commercially available game for MorphOS.
Knights&Merchants retails at EUR 49,95 and requires a Pegasos with 600 Mhz, 64
MByte RAM and MorphOS 1.0 or better. More information on this Real Time
Strategy game can be found in the projects section of our homepage (title
link).
more ...
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21.Feb.2003
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig
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Windows-arrangement: DepthMenu version 2.43
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has published version 2.43 of his program
'DepthMenu'. With this program you can manage, minimize or maximize open windows on
your Workbench.
more ...
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21.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV
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TV-card-driver: AmithlonTV beta 280 (Update)
Guido Mersmann has published beta version 280 of the TV card driver software called
AmithlonTV which has some minor updates and improvements.
more ...
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21.Feb.2003
Kaliko
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Kaliko online again
The website of the Swedish software development company Kaliko is now online again.
If you have sent an email to an @kaliko.net address during the last three weeks
you are asked to send it again. Kaliko continues placing confidence in AMIGA, Inc.
more ...
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21.Feb.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (E-Mail)
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Release of Wings for Game Boy Advance
Cinemaware announces the release of Wings GBA, which should be
hitting retail in the next few days! Wings GBA is a completely
new adaptation of the action-based flight-simulator Wings on Amiga,
with a new storyline, new missions and even the ability to fly on
the German side! There's nothing like it on GBA.
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20.Feb.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)
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heise: EBay Warns Buyers Who Warn Other Bidders of Deception
It's known there are recurring instances of deception with eBay auctions. A bidder from Niedersachsen
wanted to warn fellow bidders about an alleged con artist and so he used the contact function on the
eBay website. EBay reacted to this negatively and warned the warner against "spamming."
Click on the title link for the complete article.
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20.Feb.2003
(ANF)
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New open source archive format: 7-Zip
7z Format - 7z is the new archive format, providing high compression
ratio. The main features of 7z format:
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20.Feb.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)
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Napster's Inheritance: Rights Lawsuit Against Bertelsmann
Two composers and two music publishers accused the Bertelsmann business group
of knowingly assisting in the illegal copyright violations of Internet users, in that
Bertelsmann kept Napster going through financial infusion. Read the complete article
under the title link.
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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USB: ROMulus Module for HIGHWAY
After our poll about the new ROMulus module (FlashROM expansion for the HIGHWAY Zorro II USB controller)
the necessary prework and test on the prototype have finally been completed.
Next, the ROMulus module goes into production.
Expansive information about this particular expansion, among many long-awaited expansions, may be found under the
title link, respectively the English language information may be found
on the E3B pages.
E3B thanks all those who participated in our active poll, and hopes through this module to be able to offer another useful innovation for the
Amiga classic market.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
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Poll about AmigaOS 4.0 Started
There are as many opinions as there are people. Others don't ask, but amiga-news.de wants your opinion!
In response to the query from ´eliotmc´ in our
AN Discussion Forum we started a poll about Amiga OS 4.0. We are interested in finding out which hardware you would like to buy OS4 for. For possible answers (multiple answers are unfortunately not available with this script) you have the following selection possibilities:
- Classic Amiga with PPC
- Classic Amiga with Shark
- AmigaOne
- Pegasos (assuming OS4 runs on Pegasos)
- I will not buy OS4
You can read the current results here.
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20.Feb.2003
Darius Brewka im AN-Forum
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AmiStart Start Menu: Is There Still Interest in Further Development?
Darius Brewka released version 0.63 of AmiStart in September 2002, as we (reported).
AmiStart is a start menu similar to that found in Microsoft Windows, with a quick launchbar, drag&drop support and a reconfigurable
graphic overlay which allows transparency, rounded corners, background textures, a shape layer (with reconfigurable and programmable
skins controllable by external applications via ARexx). One example is the shape layer of Songplayer.
Because the author has some time, he is interested in knowing if there is interest in further development of AmiStart and, if so, how strong
this interest is. Would anyone like to make some suggestions or report some bugs? Give Darius some feedback, write him to say what could
be improved.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Execution of Many Programs Burns Out the iPAQ 5450
In a document from the Hewlett-Packard (HP) support databank the manufacturer of the iPAQ 5450 warns against running too many
programs at the same time. When many programs run in parallel, the speed of the gadget can be massively degraded. Also, Amiga
Anywhere runs on the iPAQ 5450. Read the complete report at Golem IT-News (click on the title link).
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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20.Feb.2003
Grasshopper LLC
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DTP: PageStream V4.1.5.6 for AmigaOS and Windows
On the 3rd of February 2003, Grasshopper LLC released version 4.1.5.6 of the DTP Program "PageStream" for Amiga and Windows
computers. This update is available to registered users at the Grasshopper LLC Website (title link), and includes new help data.
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20.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Interview with Ben Hermans in German and English
In light of a few currently circulating rumors about the status of AmigaOS 4, and the announcement of the partnership with
SciTech, we contacted Ben Hermans (AmigaOS 4 project leader and managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment) and conducted a
short interview with him.
The English language version may be read here and the
German language version may be read here.
We thank Ben Hermans for taking the time to answer our questions.
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20.Feb.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)
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Scene: First Edition of Saxonia Disk-Mag Appears
Yesterday the demo scene group Void released the first edition of their completely new disk-mag "Saxonia #1."
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20.Feb.2003
C64 News (ANF)
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Music: SIDBoost your Amiga!
There is a new SID player for Amiga made by Glover/Samar called
SidBooster.
Forget about older players like PlaySid or Sid4Amiga.
This is the best SID emulation on Amiga and it can be compared
only with original C64! Recommended is at least 68040/40 and
full installed MUI (most plugins). Works perfectly on my
A4000/060/56Mhz, all BoingBags installed and Kick 3.9 (3.1
with ROM Patch from OS 3.9). "imagepool.library" was needed
for my miggy (can be found on AmiNet).
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20.Feb.2003
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Aminet Uploads until 20th February 2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:
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20.Feb.2003
Atroxis.de
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Music: Markus Holler's MP3 Download Site
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga users for his musical pieces for Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike and The Holy Trinity, is now working on his own music download site. Currently there are already a few previously unheard songs to be found there, which in part come from the latest VD* Convention Video! Have fun!
*Virtual Dimension [ ;) -DM]
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19.Feb.2003
Terry Fry (E-Mail)
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Techconnect: SciTech Software to Add Graphic Power to AmigaOS 4 and Beyond
The press release by Hyperion regarding the partnership with SciTech
(as reported) is recognized as well outside the Amiga world. You may read the English article by Techconnect following the title link.
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19.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus
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REBOL: Picture viewer ReViewer v1.3
On the 12th of February 2003 version 1.3 of ReViewer, a picture viewer for the open platform
REBOL, has been releasded. The software with its graphical interface is to call stable even with this early version and by the platform independence of REBOL useable with the Amiga too.
The free download is possible at the website linked by the title.
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19.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Interview with Ben Hermans
In the light of some rumours currently circulating (regarding the
status of AmigaOS 4) and the recent announcement of the partnership
with SciTech, we contacted Ben Hermans (Managing partner of
Hyperion Entertainment,
AmigaOS 4 project manager) and did a short interview.
more ...
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19.Feb.2003
GFX-BASE
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Lorraine Design: New Glow Icon set
Bojan Milovic by Lorrain Design has released a new icon set on February the 15th 2003. Included are 130 Windows pictograms which he converted to AmigaOS 3,5+ and extended with the glow effect. The original pictograms were made by Jim Tackett.
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19.Feb.2003
Amiga.SourceForge
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DCR8520 Amiga ports: Updates from 02-18-2003
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran has on his website at SourceForge some of his ports made available for download. On the 18th February 2003 there were the following programs updated or added:
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19.Feb.2003
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Preview to issue #41
From today on there is the preview and an extract of the March/April issue of the
Amiga Future online. Beside a detailed Pegasos/MorphOS test
(part 2) there are tests of Hollywood, IBrowse 2.3
and the Amiga Arena Games-CD, an interview with Bill Buck and more within the magazine.
more ...
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19.Feb.2003
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Payback for GBA - status report #4
James Daniels has published another status report about the
GBA-version of Payback. Interesting aspect: The background-music
seems to be managed using music modules.
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19.Feb.2003
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages (until 02-18-2003)
With WHDLoad it is possible to install games to the hard disk which were intended for floppy use originally. The following packages were added or updated:
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19.Feb.2003
Christiane Schorn (E-Mail)
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WACOM at the CeBIT
The WACOM Europe GmbH will attend at the CeBIT this year as a partner
at the stand of the adf (Arbeitskreis für digitale Fotografie e.V.)
at hall 1 stand 4D3. Fitting to the fair attendance of the
adf the leading manufacturer of graphic tablets shows solutions for digital picture processing for professional and hobby photographers.
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19.Feb.2003
xdial (ANF)
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xdial: Ironical contribution to a forum becomes a reality satire
Who states within an online forum the opposite of his intention in an ironical manner must be prepared that the statement will be interpreted in a wordly meaning and to declare himself/herself at the court for that. Read the full article at the title link.
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19.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News
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Golem: Study - MP3s do not affect the selling of CDs reasonable
Nearly weekly there are new studies made about the effects of MP3 exchange sites to the selling of CDs and the result is - often probably depending of the initiator - mostly a different one. The marked research institute TNS Emnid claims to have found out that most Internet surfers still buy CDs not reasonably changed by the free alternatives from the net.
Read the full article (German) at Golem IT-News by the title link.
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19.Feb.2003
Telepolis
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Good Old Adventures: Online revival of Larry and Guybrush
Who of the older gamers does not get a smile on the lips a dreamy, nostalgic disturbed view when thinking of the adventure heroes Larry and Guybrush. Now the past can get a game revival because the Dutch company Q42 revitalizes the old Sierra and LucasArts adventures. Read a brief (German) article about the "Good Old Adventures" at Telepolis.
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18.Feb.2003
Sylvio Kurze (ANF)
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Soms3D Website reworked and Open Archive online
The ADA-Team has decided to publish parts from the old SOMS2d development. The
decision of publising storyboard and source code will be done later.
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18.Feb.2003
Thomas Frieden (E-Mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment Press Release
CHICO, CA, USA - February 11, 2003
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to
announce they have entered into a strategic partnership which will
see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is
currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
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18.Feb.2003
clickBOOM
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clickBOOM: S-Files 21 - No Winter Sleep
The Canadian software-developer clickBOOM writes in its new S-Files 21:
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18.Feb.2003
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio-Track from Bjorn Lynne for free
From February, 18th to March, 4th on the website of LynneMusic the audio track
"Kyrania" will be free for download (title link) because of the 2000th sold CD
"Wolves of the Gods". Also the CD is available for the special price of $12.99 within
the next fortnight.
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18.Feb.2003
morphos-news.de
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Photos of the Genesi Management Meeting
Under the title link you will see the first pictures from the Genesi
Management Meeting (17 February 2003 at Cercle de l'Union Interalliée in Paris,
France).
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18.Feb.2003
Perfect Paint Website
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GFX program: PerfectPaint V2.95
PerfectPaint of Halvadjian Georges is now available in version 2.95. Changes and adds:
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