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Archive 05/2001


25.May.2001
Ralph Ewers


New pictures and report from the 'Japanese Business Show 2001'
As already reported, Sharp Corporation presented the Sharp Zaurus pocket computer with AmigaDE as application for the first time at their booth at the 'Japanese Business Show 2001' in Tokyo. Ralph Ewers, an amiga-news.de reader currently living in Tokyo, has visited the show for us and sent us more pictures and a small report.

Ralph Ewers had the chance to talk to Sharp's planning manager and obtain the following information:

The Zaurus is supposed to be available in America this autumn running Linux (in English) instead of the Japanese ZaurusOS. The American version will most likely contain some improvements: in the same case, a faster CPU may be built into (the current CPU was at times indeed slow running the DE), a battery with longer life and a keyboard with larger keys is planned as well. Whether AmigaDE will be included depends on the licence fees which are currently not decided yet. A first prototype of the English Zaurus may be seen at the Java-One taking place in early June in America.

At least, Bill McEwen (here only called "Mister Bill" since it's easier to pronounce for the Japanese) has had some successful meetings with a Sharp manager (these personal meetings are very important!). He's at least in e-mail contact with the "planning manager" I spoke to.

Amiga is definitely seen "only" as "content provider". A native DE hasn't been thought about so far. (At least that's the official reply!)

Other "highlights":

The color display of the Palm m505 is at least in the default configuration rather ugly and strongly reminds of the PalmIIIc. It also reflects awfully (it has that - sadly - in common with the Zaurus). Regarding this, the Cassiopeia s700 (or was it i700) impressed me very much. Subjectively not any heavier than a Palm V (slightly deeper) and a great display with higher resolution.

Logitec plans to release a DVD-R/RW (yes, "R") drive with FireWire in June, the price is interesting: 120,000 Yen (plus 5% tax here in Japan).

Bluetooth was a big topic. Panasonic for example has presented miscellaneous hardware; some kind of Gameboy, headphones, expansion cards for the memory card slot and so on, and there's also a lot of choice for the Zaurus.


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25.May.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)


Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c source code available
Alfred Faust wrote:
»Today, Todor Fay gave me the permission to make the source code of Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c available to the public.

He asked me to spread this information as far as possible. Thus I ask you to pass on this information to all those who are interested.

A group of programmers looked at the source, completed it and cleaned as many errors as possible; made it compliant to the new ANSI-C standard (as far as possible and necessary), adapted it to several compilers (CompilerSpecific.h was built in), tested it with SAS/C 6.50 and DICE 3.16.

Any commercial distribution is prohibited. A release on Amiga CDs is no problem. Distributors of Amiga CDs who want to release the source code on a CD are asked to contact me.« (ps)

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25.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: what you always wanted to know about the GPL
»The GNU project has put an extensive FAQ online. Here Richard M. Stallman, initiator of the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and prominent advocate of free software, answers many questions about the GNU general public license.«
Full article (in German) at the title link. (ps)

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25.May.2001
ANN


New pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard
At the title link, you'll find new pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard. The pictures were shot in France at a meeting to which Alan Redhouse of Eyetech had invited Adam Carrano of APS, Ben Yoris of Hyperion and Christophe Decanini of ANN. (ps)

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25.May.2001
Amigan Software


Software: Amigan Software's Worm Wars and Report+ updated
Version 6.7 of the game 'Worm Wars' and version 4.63a of Report+ have been released. Report+ allows you to easily create bug reports, Aminet readme files, documentation and similar reports. The ReAction- and GadTools-based program and is freeware.

Donwload:
wormwars.lha - 730 kB
report.lha - 380 kB (ps)

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25.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


Software: SGrab and EnvHandler updated
The screen grabber SGrab has been compiled entirely with StormC4 and is now available in version 1.15. Stephan's EnvHandler has been released in version 1.6.

Download:
sgrab.lha - 55 kB
envhandler.lha - 12 kB (ps)

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24.May.2001
jami0003 (ANF)


New PowerPC Roadmap from IBM
IBM announced their updated PowerPC roadmap. Future IBM PPC CPU's among other things would have a multimedia unit and direct SMP support. If that multimedia unit is about to be the Altivec engine developed by Motorola neither was repudiated nor confirmed. The next generation will be produced in 0,13µm - 0,10µm technic. (ps)

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24.May.2001
Amiga Future


Interview: Amiga Future talked to Thomas Knaebel (bplan GmbH)
Amiga Future (Anton Preinsack) did an interesting interview (title link) with the CEO of the bplan GmbH about the PPC platform 'Pegasos' being developed. (ps)

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23.May.2001



Aminet Uploads until 23.05.2001
QuickFile_3.27.lha   biz/dbase  361K+Powerful, fast and easy database.
dnotify.lha          comm/irc     0K+Arexx-script for AmIRC/dynAMIte Server t
SMS2D2.lha           comm/misc    9K+Send sms to german D2 via modem or ISDN
facts.lha            comm/tcp    89K+V4.5 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
js_umsrfc.lha        comm/ums   147K+Umsrfc update (1.7)
hungarian.lzh        demo/euro  124K+Another simple demo
rno-min4.lha         demo/intro  53K+RNO: "MiNUS 4" a 64k intro from TP2k
PowerAmiga1.lha      demo/mag   481K+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
PowerAmiga2.lha      demo/mag   566K+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
PowerAmiga3.lha      demo/mag   1.1M+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
xmplay-lib.lha       dev/asm    190K+Xmplayer.library - plays a FastTracker m
powerd.lha           dev/e      806K+New powerful programming language v0.17
Lgui.lha             dev/src    173K+My own translations and codes of the R.K
FindChanges.lha      disk/misc   89K+Finds changes made to disk
AmigaInfo.lha        docs/hyper 365K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Maggio 2001
starmag26_ag.lha     docs/mags  339K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
starmag27_ht.lha     docs/mags  2.0M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
pbcomplete.lha       game/actio  31K+A viewable demo of me completing Payback
RiVA.lha             gfx/show    36K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
Medication.lha       hard/misc  107K+V1.0: A powerfull GUI for Mediator owner
Alcuin1_2.lha        misc/emu   257K+HP 48 (S/SX/G/GX) emulator. Release 1.2
Nostalgia-IT.lha     misc/emu     3K+Italian catalog for Nostalgia 2.0
mhimdev.lha          mus/play    17K+MHI driver for mpeg.device
Greek_Locale.lha     pix/nicon   21K+Greek Locale Icons
WirlpoolGalaxi.jpg   pix/trace  112K+Trooper Fighter from Starship Trooper
dfback.jpg           pix/views  468K+Bras lia
BareED.lha           text/edit  280K+Simple text editor which supports propor
CharMap.lha          text/font   72K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
HTMLstrip.lha        text/misc   23K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
ltdic_engfra.lha     text/misc  638K+English-French dictionary for LangTools
ltdic_engger.lha     text/misc  1.0M+English-German dictionary for LangTools
TextView125.lha      text/show   59K+Textviewer for PP,XPK,AGuide,HTML,Pipes.
LoadModule.lha       util/boot    9K+Install Libs/Devs reset-proof, ROM-Updat
PatchRAM.lha         util/boot   19K+Patch Os 3.9 RAM-Handler to show right s
WarpDTPrefs.lha      util/dtype 113K+WarpDT preferences program V44.4
WBCycle.lha          util/wb     18K+Cycles a single WB colour register to pr
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23.May.2001
amiga.org


amiga.org: Interview with Ruben Monteiro (SoundsCool)
Wayne Hunt from amiga.org interviewed Ruben Monteiro from CyberOxygen. Monteiro is the programmer of Sounds Cool which is a sound-editor tool for AmigaDE. Read the interview under the title link. (ps)

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23.May.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)


WebTool: New SiteWay-Modul 'SiteCatcher'
SiteCatcher is a simple tool for easy downloading of full websites. It only offers the absolutely most necessary possibilities of preference. Therefore it is easy to use. (ps)

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23.May.2001
NewOS (ANF)


New OS for AMIGA: NewOS
As it seems soon we can be pleased about another OS for the Amiga. NewOS is already available for Intel-platforms and for the Sega Dreamcast-console. Porting this operating system which was written by a former BeOS-kernel developer to Amiga 3000 - M68040 is standing on the fourth place of a so called ToDo-list. We may be curious to know what will be come there. (ps)

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23.May.2001
Dirk Baeyens via E-Mail


Amiga Inc.: Sharp shows AmigaDE application
Today in Tokio, Japan Sharp Corporation shows Sharp Zaurus handheld computer with AmigaDE as application publicly for the first time. You can look at the first pictures under the title link. The fare continues going until 25th of May. Over 400.000 visitors are be expected.

Read also the message at the ´Amiga Support´ area, and the press release of Sharp.

(ps)

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23.May.2001
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: Metatrash




"Metabox AG, Hildesheim" applies for a insolvency proceedings after a turbulent year (suspicion of deception and manipulation of market value, invented profits, decline of the share). (td)

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