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31.Mar.2000 Heise |
Heise: Trackerlabels: The pioneers of online music «In the beginning there was the Amiga, Commodore's flagship in the battle for young home users. For musicians, the box did not have much to offer, everybody with some little equipment in those times went rather for the Atari ST. For the ST, there was professional software like Cubase, and it had a MIDI interface. But the Amiga had many, many colors. 4096, to be exact. That was a lot for the times when expensive PCs had either 4 or 16 colors. Compared to that, the Amiga was something like the first multimedia computer. The fitting multimedia software, though, everybody had to make on his own. And the kids programmed like mad. They cracked commercial game software, replaced their intros with own ones and spreaded their dared animations as so-called demos - some kind of electronic graffiti culture came into existance. The cult got in motion when 1987 a certain Karsten Obarski published a program named "Soundtracker" for the Amiga. Obarski worked for the game company Eidos and probably wouldn't have dreamed back then that he would have been celebrated more than 10 years later as a hero for this step The Karsten Obarski Tribute Project. But he set with this simple program the foundation for a whole scene.» Full article under titlelike (site and article in German). (Translation: mb) [News message: 31. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
31.Mar.2000 Norman in ANF |
AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-6 released Download: AmigaAMP28b6.lha (Translation: mb) [News message: 31. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
31.Mar.2000 Amiga Advis via eMail |
Swedish and danish Amiga magazinesReturn-Path: amigaadvis@vestnet.dk From: Amiga Advis amigaadvis@vestnet.dk To: team@amiga-news.de Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:22:59 +0100 Subject: Swedish and danish Amiga magazines Swedish and danish Amiga magazines It is not only bad things going on in the market for Amiga magazines. About three months ago the Amiga community in Sweden again got access to a magazine about Amiga in their own language. This magazine is produced by the danish magazine Amiga Advis in cooperation with Rolf Eric. He has this good point and advantage that he is born and bred in Sweden. Temporarily he stays in Denmark but have learned himself danish so therefore he is not only a pawn in the translation and publishing in Sweden. We hope that som swedish writers will join the list of suppliers of articles to the magazines. When the magazines springs from the same source they could exploit the united efforts. Both the swedish and the danish editions are medleys of reviews, courses, notices, correspondence columns etc. In short, throughout a real magazine with what beongs to that. But in short of costs, the magazines are not published in colours. If you are interested in supporting these magazines you can obtain them in the following ways: With swedish and danish regards Amiga Advis Svensk och dansk Amigamagasin Det händer inte bara dåliga saker på Amigamagasin området idag. För cirka tre månader sedan fick AmigaSverige återigen ett Amigamagasin. Detta magasin startades av Amiga Advis i sammarbeta med Rolf Eric som har den fördel att ha varit född och uppvuxen i Stockholmstrakterna, men bor tillfälligt i Köpenhamn. Rolf har blivit en viktig bricka i att få de danska texterna översatta till svenska. Dock hoppas vi på att det också kommer svenska skribenter för att tidningarna ska kunna växa samman. Detta vill vi uppnå för att undvika känslan av att den ena tidningen kommer ur den andra, så att vi får en känsla av att tidningen skapas från samma källa. Båda utgåvorna av tidningen är en blandning av anmälningar, kurser, aktuella artiklar, läsarbrev med mera. Kort sagt helt igenom ett riktigt Amigamagasin med allt som där tillhör, dock utkommer Amiga Advis i svart|vitt tryck. Är du intresserad i att ansluta dig till detta Amigablad, kan du anskaffa dig något av dem på följande sätt Svenskspråkiga Amiga Advis Den svenska utgåvan har kommit ut med två nummer och den tredje är snart kommen från tryck och ska vara klar till utgivning i loppet av en vecka. 1999 (sv) är på 24 sidor i A4format och kostar SEK 25,- 2000/01 (sv) är på 36 sidor i A4format och kostar SEK 35,- 2000/02 (sv) och framåt kommer att vara på cirka 36 sidor i A4 och kosta SEK 35,- Du kan köpa bladen hos dessa två Amigaförhandlare GGS-Data, Korsklevegatan 30, GÖTEBORG, SVERIGE, 0046 31 64 43 50 Tricom Data AB, Torsgatan 46, STOCKHOLM, SVERIGE 0046 8 736 02 92 Tricom Data AB, Svartbäcksgatan 41, UPPSALA, SVERIGE 0046 18 12 34 00 Du kan bli prenumerant genom att göra följande Ta ett inbetalningskort för postgirot och fyll i det med namn, adress och gärna epost, skriv din beställning, beloppet samt vårt namn och gironummer. Kom ihåg att skriv tydligt. 1 nummer kostar SEK 35,-(Translation: mb) [News message: 31. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
30.Mar.2000 Achim Stegemann via email |
Digital Almanac II bugfix update Now there is a minor bugfix-update for Digital Almanac II available. The update can be downloaded from the homepage of the author. Also beta-testers for DA III are wanted! Send an application with a description of your Amiga and your knowledge via email to the author. (Translation: mb) [News message: 30. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
30.Mar.2000 Frank Wille |
BPPCFix v1.4 BPPCFix v1.4 (27.03.2000) can now remove 68040/060.library, too. Download: BPPCFix.lha (Translation: mb) [News message: 30. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
30.Mar.2000 Scalos |
68k assembler programer for Scalos wanted Scalos developer archive to be re-released very soon (hopefully). We are looking for one more full time 68k assembler coder to help comment the huge main Scalos program and also fix bugs; send your offer to scalos@satanicdreams.com (Translation: mb) [News message: 30. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
30.Mar.2000 Be |
BeOS 5 Personal Edition As announced earlier BeOS 5 is now in a "Personal Edition" available for a free download. (Translation: mb) [News message: 30. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
30.Mar.2000 DS |
VNC-Server for Amiga released Avnc is a brandnew VNC-server for the Amiga. Now, for example, it is possible to control WindowsNT-PCs with the Amiga via internet. More of this issue VNC you will find under http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/. Download:avnc-beta6.lha (Translation: mb) [News message: 30. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Henk Jonas |
MetaView 2.9 released The solution for clip art users converts from WMF, CGM, GEM, DSDR, DR2D, DXF, XFIG, EPS, WPG, HPGL and CMX to EPS, CGM, GEM, DR2D, HPGL, WMF, JMF, AI, XFIG or ILBM. Also im- and exports AMF (see AmigaMetaFileFormat). Download: MetaView.lha - MetaView.readme (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Robert Kühn in ANF |
AmigaPeople on the Net This is a list of Amiga users, where any Amiga user can add himself, to provide help and support to Amiga users nearby. This list is international, and not limited to the German language countries. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Andreas Kleinert by e-mail |
akMPEG v4.401 released Audio support has been improved. Download: akMPEG4.lha (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Stefan Funke by e-mail |
PowerPC-World News The PPC software list of the PowerPC World at Haage & Partner recieved an update. 44 new entries are listed. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Martin Baute |
Don't expect too much... Some thoughts on the upcoming Amiga 2K. Not as negative as it might sound, but some facts to consider: Don't expect too much - Thoughts by Martin Baute In three days it will happen. On the "Amiga 2K" in St. Louis, USA, the new developer boxes are presented to the public. It really seems like, for the first time since the AGA chipset, announcements of a new Amiga technology will be indeed followed up by a real product. With interest I followed the enthusiastic expectation expressed on mailing lists, chat rooms etc. I hate to pull the brake on this enthusiasm, but I have to call out to many Amigians: Don't expect too much! To prevent the big outcry after this weekend, "we have been fooled", "Bill and Fleecy aren't better than the people before", I want to have a critic eye on what we are up to. The hardware that will be displayed in St. Louis will not be different from an off-the-shelf PC. Yes, that means x86. This won't change in the foreseeable future, since Amiga doesn't have a choice. Yes, I hear the cry: PPC! But where to get one? The only manufacturer of high-power PPC systems in significant numbers is Apple - and their systems are not only more expensive than their x86 counterparts, but also much less documented. Apple simply doesn't tell every anybody all the details of their motherboards, as Be came to realize painfully. The POP PPC boards by IBM? Except for the one I saw at the Amiga booth in Cologne, I haven't seen one so far. They are real, for sure. But where to get one, for which price? So swallow the pill and take a x86 board. Let's face it: why not? The CPUs are no beautys, but they offer x times more performance than any (existing!) Amiga PPC boards, they are cheap, and available from the retailer around the corner. (Well, I see, certain people from the Amiga community will likely hang myself after this article...) Graphics? Be real, no company in the world can hope to outperform the big players in the business, ATi, Matrox, nVidia, 3DFx etc. just like that. And they, in turn, will most likely not offer some kind of miracle chip exclusively to Amiga. So we have to settle with "standard hardware" in this area, too. So what's special about the developer boxes at all? Software, of course. But what kind of software will that be? If you think about it, you should realize that these systems won't show the new Amiga Desktop. For one, it would be a miracle if, after a few (three? four?) months of cooperation with the TAO Group, it would be already finished. And if it would, they would ship user devices instead of developer boxes. What will be running on the developer boxes will be Elate, the real-time core from TAO. Perhaps natively, perhaps "hosted" on e.g. Linux. (And in case McEwen pre-installed Windows on the Amiga developer boxes, I will travel to the USA myself to send him to the asylum.) This will be supplemented by a documentation of the Elate and intent architectures (intent is the "multimedia layer" from TAO), probably a special version of GCC and a bunch of Includes. Or, to put it an Amigian way: It will not be the successor of the OS3.5 CD, but the successor of the Amiga Developer CD. Developers will be happy to get a glance on "the insides". For users, the developer boxes will most likely be as (un-)interesting as the last Cheapo-PC. The fact that hardware is shipped together with the software at all is to avoid developers having to write drivers for their XY card with ZZ chip at first; at the same time, you don't have to specify your hardware configuration at length when sending in a bug report... "But when the first end-user products are released, everything will be fine, wouldn't it?" Sorry I have to pull the brakes on this one, too - no it won't. At least not automatically. Even if all programmers from the Amiga community get themselves a developer box (and many will not, if not simply for cost considerations); even if ALL existing Amiga software would be available for the new machines in a new version, starting from day 0... ...that would be great for us, and a real miracle. But would it lead to the PC user next door getting himself an Elate-Amiga-whatever instead of upgrading his system? Your friend wants to buy the PC with monitor, Windows, Word, and Works for 999 USD. Can you (without guilty conscience) recommend buying an Elate-Amiga with Monitor, Elate, AmigaWriter and TurboCalc, PPaint and MUIbase for 999 USD instead? Yes, I hear ye: It will be much cheaper, because being much more efficient with the ressources. Sure, and again the Amigians tell the world that AmigaOS is happy with a half-as-fast CPU because being efficient. Don't you remember the sorry glances? It will take time. It will take the support of software manufacturers porting PROFESSIONAL applications to the Elate-Amiga. It will take applications that, in their elegance, efficiency, and their usefullnes aren't POSSIBLE on any other platform. It will take an unparalleled marketing campaign, and I don't know who will pay for it. It will take strong partners, supporting Amiga financially - because the startup money brought together by Bill and Fleecy won't take forever. It will take a lack of attention from the competition, with their large amounts of "operative cash" and their monopolistic stranglehold, which could crush the small startup in no time. You could read from between the lines of the Executive Update that Bill and Fleecy already have big-player companies at hand - just for getting confirmation on this (and to hear names) makes looking at this weekend's happenings at St. Louis worthwhile. And, after the many years of hoping, waiting, holding out: It will take programmers porting their tools and applications to the new machines with full enthusiasm, with no regard for the collapsing "Classic" market. Some will say: "I have done my part for the Amiga, now others should take the lead." God knows, I could spend my time with more pleasant things than hours of translations. But right NOW is the moment when it will be decided: Have the years of holding out been worth it? Right NOW the developers have to take the chance to provide the plattform "new Amiga" with desperately needed software right from the start. Even if it becomes a success, probably only a few will make the big money with it. But to say now that it won't be a success anyway means saying the recent years went to waste. And in the last, it will need users more than anything else, spending their money on buying these tools and applications together with the new hardware; creating the foundation for the new users that might follow. Don't expect too much. But do what you can! Martin Baute mb@amiga-news.de (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 amiga-news.de |
Interview with Thomas Dellert (DCE) Read this interview with Thomas Dellert (DCE), done by Petra Struck on March 29th, 2000, clarifying the availability of PowerUP products: Interview with Thomas Dellert, DCE Author: Petra Struck Interview partner: Thomas Dellert, DCE Computer Service GmbH, Oberhausen, Germany Translator: Martin Baute amiga-news.de: What is the scheduled date for shipping the following products with P5 licence? Thomas Dellert:
Thomas Dellert: The worldwide shortage of parts is a big problem right now. Here only some exsamples:
Thomas Dellert: G4 isn't on the list for now. The CPUs probably won't be available this year. amiga-news.de: Is there a plan of developing new graphic cards? Thomas Dellert: If we hadn't recieved the Permedia II chipsets, this certainly would have been an issue. amiga-news.de: Is there contact between DCE and Bill McEwen? If so, can you tell us something about it? Thomas Dellert: We are in contact. It's about technical details of the PPC boards. I cannot say more about it at this time. amiga-news.de: The DCE website is partially availalable in German already, will the rest be translated too, and what is particulary interesting, will there be a "news" site, where everybody can see what's new at DCE? Thomas Dellert: We are working on it. I hope to complete the site in the next 14 days. amiga-news.de: Will DCE attend the Amiga & Atari show in Neuss, June 2000? Thomas Dellert: All products will be offered there by Vesalia Computer. We hope that this time we have plenty of stock. amiga-news.de: Will other retailers recieve products too, or will the hardware only be available from Vesalia in the future? Thomas Dellert: Vesalia will for sure also ship to other retailers. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 AAA |
AAA USA Award The AAA Award for USA will be given to the winner on the Amiga 2K show in St. Louis. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Ami Sector One |
New rare demos at Ami Sector One At Ami Sector One, some very rare demos can be found which are not available on Aminet or Funet. Among others, you can download e.g. "Gate Megademo 1" and "Gate Megademo 2" form the group "Gate" from there. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 amiga-news.de |
Amiga News now in French, too :-) The team from AmigaImpact, under the leadership of Stéphane "SteaG" Campan volunteered to translate our news to French :-). AmigaImpact already offers Amiga news in French since October 1999. This way, a wonderful cooperation begins, since we can provide each other with news about Amiga, making up a perfect match :-). (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Markus Fellhauer in ANF |
A/NES CGX version 1.18 released Download: anescgfx.lha - 90 Kb (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Volker Mohr in ANF |
Amiga & Atari show, Neuss - website now online As already previously announced, the show has been relocated to the weekend from June 10th to 11th, 2000. More info about the "World of Alternatives" is now available at the title link. Everything with a name will attend the show: Amiga Germany, Vesalia, KDH, Epic Marketing, Haage & Partner, Schatztruhe, Titan Computer, RBM, Individual Computer, Dreieinhalb-Computer, ACP & TCP, and of course the host, Falke Verlag. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Thorsten Schölzel in ANF |
Help forum for CD32 users opened! At the title link, a new forum for CD32 users has been opened. If you have problems with the CD32, want to buy / sell CD32 games or hardware, you are at the right place there. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Andreas Etzrodt in ANF |
Sharks! CD32-Edition no longer "Powered by CD32-Alliance"! At this place, I want to announce that the upcoming CD32 game Sharks!, coded by Christian Steiner, is no longer supported (powered) by the CD32 Alliance. I don't want to name reasons at this place. Current information about the games progress can be gathered directly from the programmer: c-steiner@t-online.de, or simply his homepage at the title link. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Michael Pfeiffer by e-mail |
Java-Installation for Linux and Wind*ws The documentation about the installation of java was extended. Now there are different sections which describe how to install Java® (JRE® 1.2.x) and Swing® under Linux and under Wind*ws. Additional there are some special scripts for Wind*ws available which make the installation very easy - only some mouseclicks are necessary now. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Michael Pfeiffer by e-mail |
JavaRunner 1.1 for Linux (PPC and 86x86) and Wind*ws The new version 1.1 is now available. A bug was removed which took effect only under Linux and some special abilities were included. So the JavaRunner now tries to create the CLASSPATH-environment-variable if it doesn't exists. Additional V 1.1 works perfect with the new JRE® 1.2.x. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Kevin Orme in ANF |
Amiga University wants you! Amiga University needs your support for several areas: Author: Kevin Orme URL: Amiga University Hello fellow Amigans. I would like to take but a moment of your time to notify you of a new site that isn't quite done yet, but is definitely on the way and hopefully will be able to help *all* of you use your Amigas to the nth degree, as they were designed to be used. Due to the excitement being generated by this year's Amiga2K show, we wanted to announce our presence just before the show to jump on the bandwagon. As Bob Scharp likes to say, Amiga2K is going to be HUGE! The site is called Amiga University, and located at http://www.amigau.com. We are currently looking for the following: 1) Visitors to the site, primarily Amiga users from around the globe who want to use their Amiga in new, different ways as well as expand on their existing knowledge of current interests. Refer to the News page for the sections of the site already done vs. those still under construction (we're about halfway there at present); 2) Faculty for the university. If any of you have specific Amiga knowledge or experience and would like to share it, please visit our Faculty pages and climb on board, we'd love to have you. It doesn't matter if your expertise is in hardware hacks, Lightwave animation or MIDI wizardry, the more the merrier! http://www.amigau.com/Faculty.htm 3) We have other 'projects' we'd like to get underway as soon as feasible. Please visit our Projects page and decide if you're interested in helping on these/leading others. http://www.amigau.com/Projects.htm 4) Finally, we will be at Amiga2K, sharing a booth with Northwest Amiga Group (NAG). Please stop by! We'll have mousemats and hats for sale, as well as faculty sign up forms and anything else Amiga you want to talk about, we're all ears. See you at Amiga2K! Kevin Orme www.amigau.com amigau@oz.net (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Grzegorz Juraszek by e-mail |
New print magazine in Poland I would like to inform you and all Amiga users that we have started publishing a new paper Amiga magazine in Polish. It is called "eXec" (48 pages, with CD) and will be released on April 8th, 2000 at Amiga Meeting 2000 fair in Lodz. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Andreas Magerl by e-mail |
APC & TCP looking for graphic artists and programmers We are urgently looking for an excellent graphics artist to work on the Pulsator project. Please contact Andreas@apc-tcp.de by e-mail. Additionally, we could need a good Blitz Basic programmer with experience in writing games. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
29.Mar.2000 Efim Shuvikov by e-mail |
IBrowse2 extension First big support for IBrowse2. This project allows IBrowse to view the sites which uses dynamic fonts technology (tag FONT FACE). Expand your IBrowse2.2 with Cascading Style Sheets. (Translation: mb) [News message: 29. Mar. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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