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Archive 11/2001


18.Nov.2001
ANN


Event: Report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show'
A short report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' can be found under the title link.

Randall Hughes, Amiga Inc., introduced the Sharp Zaurus PDA running with the AmigaDE and some games on the show. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)


Route planner: Update for AmiATLAS 6
The first update for the route planner 'AmiATLAS 6' was released and is available for registered users from now.

For example the assign and path bugs were fixed and 'AmigaAUTO' was re-integrated and is run capable again.

The first extensive update with e.g. multi-lingual version of AmiATLAS will be released around the middle of December.

The updates are available for free thru 30. June 2002. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


AMIGA 2001: Pictures by AUG99
Matthias Münch wrote:
We've visited the Amiga Show 2001 in Cologne and put some pictures from it online.

Absolute highlights to us were the game Freespace and the presentation of the Pegasos system at the bplan booth.

Unfortunately we found the show to be a little desaster regarding organization and space utilisation. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


Datatypes: akPNG V44.130
Andreas Kleinert released version 44.130 of his PNG datatype 'akPNG' for 68k- and PPC CPUs.

'akPNG' now utilzes version 1.2.0 of the 'libpng'.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Screenshots of 'Akiko'
New screenshots of the Akiko emulator were just released on the Airsoft Softwair web site.

Akiko emulates CD32 and CDTV systems under the Windows operating system. Akiko is a Shareware emulator and can be ordered now. A public demo version will be made available in near future. If you order Akiko now, you'll get the latest beta version which already runs most of the CD32/CDTV games. The released screenshots show the now much more flexible GUI and the CD audio player of the CD32 and CDTV. (sd)

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18.Nov.2001
Petra Struck (ANF)


AMIGA 2001: Pre-report 2. day by amiga-news.de
The most interesting of the second day of the show without doubt was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It is fixed by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired date for completion is February 2002.

Hyperion will cooperate with bplan, to let the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC run on the Pegasos machine, too. Additionally Hyperion talked to many other hardware and software developers to keep their product compatible, too. This set a very positive sign, cause after a long time a corporate line and goal is being followed, again. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
ANN


Programming language PowerD V0.19
Today, Martin Kuchinka released alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'.

This early alpha version now supports creation of shared libraries.

Download: alpha.lzx (159K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
ANN


AMIGA 2001: IRC conferences with Nerding and Garlich (Update)
English logfiles of the IRC conferences with Markus Nerding from Haage&Partner and Michael Garlich from Titan are available now. The log from Nerdings chat has been published on ANN, he answers questions about AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS V4.0, and H&P's work within those projects.

The log of Michael Garlich's chat has been provided to us by Jürgen 'Antibike' Lucas, Garlich answers questions about MorphOS, Pegasos, and the projects of Titan:

Amiga2001: Hello Michael

Titan: Hello Guys

Nico4k: Micheal, Could please describe your plans about MorphOS/Bplan ?

Nico4k: Plan = project if you prefer

Titan: Yes of course we have presented 4 new products for Morphos / Bplan e.g. Papyrus Office and

Nico4k: For example will Papyrus be ported on MorphOs ?

Nico4k: ok

Titan: and the new videosoft Motionstudio which support DV Video

Titan: and we have also presented Rage Hard a new multiplayer tactic shooter

Nico4k: Well, you said on MorphOS ML what there will something to connect an Amiga floppy drive on Bplan made by third part, Could you give more detail ?

Nico4k: Titan sound like great news

Titan: Yes, this connecter will be able to read write "old" Amiga DD and HD Floppydisc

Nico4k: to connect an "Amgia" drive or to use old disk with the Bplan one

Nico4k: Where it will connected on the motherboard ?

Titan: to connect an "old" Amiga drive may be later also PC-Floppy with modifications too

zacman: hi michael. do you plan to release your software together with the pegasos start or already before? and are there plans for bundeling your software with pegasos?

Titan: Nico4k there is a floppy connector for PC Floppys on the Bplan mainboard

Titan: zacman: Together with the sales start on Feb/March 2002

Burman: Titan Do you know anything about support for Newtek VideoToaster/Flyer HW. (PCI-card)...?

Titan: Burman: we have asked Newtek but nothing is clear atm it will take some further negotations ga

djnick: Hi Titan will there be newer / improved versions of Fantastic Dreams?

Titan: djnick: Yes this will be released later in 2002 ga

ID4: Titan Are you planign a game like QIII Arena?

Titan: ID4: We will release a pre-video of Rage Hard take a look and you will enjoy it :) ga

Bifford: hi there ;-) what sort of speeds can we expect from pegasos? in normal operation and in real-time with cpu hungry things like 3d graphics

Titan: Bifford: This really depends on the used CPU we think for DV Videoediting a 500 G4 is the minimum. ga

Nico4k: As you devellop for MorphOS/bPlan, I suppose you already use it on Bplan, So how does it work ? (sorry for all this MOS related question but I want to konw)

Titan: Nico4k It runs really good we are sadisfied with the support of the MOrphos Team. ga

AlphaFoX: hi Titan, two questions: 1. do you know if there will be an 'AGA-on-a-Card' for the Pegasos? 2. Will

Titan: port its software also to AmigaOS 4.x if available? GA

Titan: AlphaFoX: AGA card is atm not longer in development but if there is more demand we can think about such a solution

Titan: Regarding AmigaOS 4 we have nothing heard from Amiga no specs no hardware nothing simply. We cant say we will support it if we have no information at all. Ga

Bifford: do u have any other projects on the go atm (hard or software) or is it strictly MOS/pegasos ?

Titan: Bifford: we concentrate on what is available now this is Morphos and Pegasos ga

zacman: what graphics card do you recommend for games like Rage Hard? Do you know if it is correct that bplan has contacts to nvidia?

Titan: zacman: I cant commend this atm :) ga

Zarf: is RS on the show? ga :)

Titan: Zarf: No but Frank Mariak was here ga

TheFab: Titan hi, do you plan to develop new softare or buy license (like old software like lightwave...)

Titan: TheFab: new and licencing too. E.g. AlienNations and Majesty

ID4: Titan Will you software run on Elbox SharkPPC?

Titan: ID4: We are open to support everyone who wants Morphos. If Elbox support theMorphos team with hardware then there will be also a SharkPPC version ga

Zefram_: what is the maximum cpu speed we can expect on Pegasos, 1Ghz ?

Titan: Zefram_: its upto 2GHz atm but higher clockrate are also possible ga

zacman: isn't AlienNations and Majesty licensed by hyperion?

Titan: zacman: No Hyperion has not licenced AlienN or Majesty.

Titan: owns this licence ga

Zefram_: What will are the graphics cards drivers available for Pegasos, Matrox ?

Titan: Zefram_: In a few weeks there will be update on Morphos.de with all supported Gfx-boards. ga

Nico4k: Do you think Bplan will be able to release Pegasos in February/March 2001? Not a vapor this time ? (I have been so disppointed by previous project: AmigaNG, A1). Ps: A MOS/Bplan related question again ... But who do not believe that this time is the good one ...

Titan: Nico4k Bplan will make a pre-release before christmas 2001 and the main release is trageted for March 2002. ga

Titan: Zefram_: The morphos 3d api is NOT rave ga

Nico4k: Pre-release means Developper release ?

Titan: Nico4k Also for normal customers but there is only a limited stock of boards available. ga

AmiGR: Could you enlight us about which 3d api will be used?

Titan: AmiGR: Sorry atm not, please wait for the next official Morphos press release ga

JoeAFUA: Titan So will we be able to pre-order for the pre-release boards? If yes, when?

Titan: JoeAFUA: Take a look on the bplan website there will be an "order" form. ga

ID4: Titan nowdays.. What are your contacs with Amiga Inc?

Titan: ID4: we are in touch with Amiga but they follow different ways atm. We will see if we can cooparate in future or not. ga

Zefram_: Will it be possible to place a pre-order from local dealers ?

Titan: Zefram_: No, only direct from Bplan ga

darklite: will you only support morphos, or also os4? ga

Titan: darklite: We have no information about AmigaOS4 therefore i cant say yes or no . ga

ID4: Titan THANKS !!!! From me no more questions, I hope the best for your bussines ;)

Titan: ID4: Thanks. ga

Nico4k: Will Pegasos be shit with screen, keyboard, Hard drive, Or will it be possible to buy only the Motherboard ?

Amiga2001: ship instead of shit ;-)

Titan: Nico4k shit ??? ;)) Yes it will be shipped as complete system too this will be a g3 350, 128MB ram, gfx-board,hD and DVD-drive ga

Zefram_: Will there be a Pegasos motherboard with more than 3 PCI slots ?

Titan: Nico4k and motherboard only is also available .ga

Titan: Zefram_: Yes there is a adaptor for 4 slots available.

Nico4k: Are all drivers ready (I mean for internal ethernet, audio, USB ???)

Titan: Nico4k a lot of drivers are already finished but some are still in development. ga

Amiga2001: more questions?

Nico4k: Will we show amazing think on Bplan at the show like Divx movie ?

Titan: Nico4k We have shown DV editing on the show. DIVX is also possible but was not presented. ga

Amiga2001: Ok Guys, Michael has to go

Amiga2001: thx Michael


Update: (17.06.2016, cg)

Integrated the logfile provided by Jürgen Lucas into the news item. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Wolf Faust (ANF)


Update: V2.03 of the scanner colour correction software ICS
The free scanner colour correction software 'ICS' is available in version 2.03 on http://www.ics.coloraid.de.

This latest version will run until August 2002 and comes with some enhancements for the supported file formats. Some TIFF pictures are substantially faster loaded, now, and Mac binary files are recognized automatically. Some small bugs have been fixed. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Falcon (ANF)


AMIGA 2001: Pictures from the Cologne show
Falcon published photos from his today's show visitation on his homepage. But, the comments (German) are sometimes meant in good fun. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Marcel Rohles (ANF)


Game: New adventure game under development, nostalgica all around Space Rat
Marcel Rohles wrote:
Who did not fell for the adventures of old tradition in the style of Lucas Arts or Sierra?

Probably nobody can exculpate himself from this. Everyone of us once was bound to this fever to free Guybrush from an embarrassing situation, just to see him stumbling right into the next one.

But, what has happened to this? What about the adventure genre? Does it have to be 3D all the time?

If you are able to unhesitant and in peace of conscience say no to the latter question, I recommend the page about 'Space-Rat Tukult' warmly to you.

Yes, it's true - Space Rat will come back. A mind-blowing combination of classic adventure game and Ziggy, the Space Rat, which enriched the ASM until lastly.

By some kind words certainly the team would be willing to develop for the Amiga, too. The news of November 17 already question that, for example.

Last but not least I would like to cite the Tukult team, for I even wasn't able to say it better: 'So, if you also belong to those people grown up with rubber chicken with snap-hooks underside and jerrycans on Mars, it is to say that you've discoverd the Holy Grail by comming to this page.'

There's only one thing left for me to say in this sense: 'Ziggy to the (A)miggy!' (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)


BTTR: Golf - Leaderboard und World Class Leaderboard
The Back to the Roots team wrote:
In a surprising move Microsoft allowed us to include the golf simulations from Access Software, a company which they acquired two years ago. Enjoy 'Leaderboard' and 'World Class Leaderboard'. 'Links' will come online soon, too.

Please visit BTTR for a full list of all games which have been added or you'll miss masterpieces like Realms, Thexder, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Super Skidmarks CD32 and many others.

As usual many scene-demos, music files and pictures have been added to our archive. (sd)

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18.Nov.2001
Stefan Popp (E-Mail)


AMIGA 2001: Report by Stefan Popp
Stefan Popp wrote:
Here my small report about the 2001 Amiga show (absolute subjective and incomplete).

There were more booths than the last time (about 12). Unfortunately they took that good advantage of the exhibition space, that the walks between the booths were quite narrow, which lead to bothering tailbacks.

Bplan
Like known Bplan is creating a PPC machine. This was presented run capable. I've seen MorphOS. Reportedly Linux was no problem, too.

A complete machine (20GB HD, 128MB RAM, ...) was said to cost about 1,000 Euro. But the boards would be available solitary, too (from distributors, but not from BPlan directly).

The problem about this whole thing: The system still is at beta test stage, and if someone would order a certain amount of boards today, delivery would not be expected before end of 1Q02. Major reason for this: It is hard to get low quantities of the components.

To the question, how much of the specifications have been revealed, I was told, that the computer meets the Motorola Open-Bios conception and to adapt it to other operating systems would be no problem.

BPlan's documents consciously don't mention the Amiga, to not tie the machine down to some special field of application.

Elbox
Showed their busboards. Again, the TV card and the TV picture was presented as Workbench background.

Unfortunately the SharkPPC was shown inside a show-case.

Of course I asked, why this card wasn't performed. The employee illustrated, that though development would have been finished, but it would be to wait for AmigaOS4.0. Ermh, if I consider this, my questions actually wasn't answered by this statement. Allegedly the card would run with WarpOS drivers, too (so please, why to wait for 4.0). Well, doesn't make any difference, isn't that important, anyway. :).

Haage & Partner
Actually just showed Amithlon and AmigaXL on three computers.

Meal booth
Meat balls, noodle salad, coffee, and Snikers at cheap prices.

The lectures (at least those I attended)

1) Amithlon - Jürgen Haage
In advance: The room was to narrow and of bad equipment. Reportedly this also was due to the fact, that some parts did not survive the transport to Cologne. But, after some bricolage everything worked.

Mr. Haage explained the step to develop the Amiga emulator with the good availability of and the cheap prices for PC hardware.

The price for the complete package is at 299DM (incl. Kick 3.1, OS 3.9, QNX, Arteffects, AmiWriter, and StormC3.0 ).

According to Mr. Haage the development of the emulation bases on UAE. Amithlon utilizes a Linux kernel in addition, which was said to simplify the implementation of additional hardware. AmigaXL uses QNX as 'hosting' operating system.

2) Hyperion about the subject Amiga 4.0
Amiga Ltd. did not attend the show. And to say it honestly, nobody missed them. Some kind of announcement sure would have coused people to shake their heads, again.

The lecture was done by the CEO of Hyperion (I just forgot the name). The facts in short:

Hyperion and H&P obtaind a license for a PPC port. With the help of many developers (with H&P and Hyperion as the core team) the OS will be ported step by step. At first the TCP/IP stack, Exec and possibly DOS. Furthermore there is a new library concept.
  • In the beginning memory protection will be limited to prevent access to not allocated memory.
  • New Warp3D will be implemented (with Matrox-, Permedia3-, and Radon1/2 support).
  • WarpInput for input device management.
  • Generic PCI drivers to better integrate the different PCI boards (hardware drivers will have to be developed only once, at last).
  • USB support.
  • New TCP/IP stack ('Roadshow').
  • Picasso96 as standard in a PPC native version.
  • It's said to run on any PPC Amiga, while Blizzard cards might suffer from low performance.
  • 68k emulation (JIT version) will be integrated.
  • AmigaDE will be on it.
  • Java was sait to come, too (but not already in the initial version).
  • Price: In the range of AmigaOS V3.5 or V3.9.
  • Amiga ZorroII and ZorroIII would be supported (at least the most prevalent cards).
  • PPC datatypes.
  • AHI for Sound.
A version would be available from January, already.

I could not keep more in mind. Maby someone would publish the Scala presentation.

The CEO of Hyperion wasn't very optimistic in regard of AmigaOne, Shark, BPlan. One reason to decide to port 4.0 to existing hardware and to not let down the owners of PPC cards. The OS theoretically runs on any PPC hardware.

But nothing was performed. Explanation: Due to the still bad look one would get a bad impression, which just would cause people to review things from a wrong point of view.

At the booth of Haage&Partner I was told, that a PPC native version of the AmigaOS would have been possible already two years ago, but Gateway would have disliked that. I think this is nothing new, but to celebrate the day I once more was happy about it . (sd) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)


Virus Help Denmark: Chat-Room
«The Virus Help Teams around the World has opened a chat room, where you can chat with members of any Virus Help Team (if we are in the room), and other members that might have some virus problems. To coincide with being a browser-friendly environment, we have not left any chatters hanging, without a way to join up with us to chit-chat, the easy way.

No JavaScript or IRC program is required. All you need to do is register your handle, with a password, and come on in. :-) The Handle registration link, is found on the login page.

Please bear in mind, this is a family type chat room, and all normal courtesies and language is expected. Thank you

The chat time is set at Eastern Standard Time (EST), so if you would like to check the EST zone against your own, you can check the time zone at the log-in page.

You can join our chat-room at this address: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/vht-chat.htm.

(Thanks to Charlene VHT-Canada, for setting this chat-room up)» (sd)

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18.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


Live Amiga 2001 webcam at amigaforever.info
Pictures from Cloanto's live webcam at the Amiga 2001 show are online at amigaforever.info. (ps)

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18.Nov.2001



AMIGA 2001: The first day's pictures
Here you will find a selection of pictures from the first day of the AMIGA 2001 in Cologne, taken for amiga-news.de by Meike Hilke:


Maciek Binek (Elbox)

Elbox Computer

Projekt Crashsite - Denis Comtesse / Markus Pohlmann

Vesalia Computer

DCE

Guido Does (Vesalia)

Titan Computer / DCE

bPlan / Titan Computer

Gerald Carda (Development bPlan)

Fabio Trotta (No Risc No Fun)

Titan Computer

Dennis Lohr (Psyria Music)

DCE (Michael Göken present G-REX )

Virtual Dimension (Messe-Video)

Amiga Club Deutschland

COOLbits / APC&TCP

Jens Schönfeld (Individual Computers) / Thomas Dellert (DCE)

Thomas Dellert (DCE) / ? / Toni Ianiri (Power Computing) / Petra Struck

Benno Markert / Martin Strobl (COOLbits)

APC&TCP Team




Richard Small (GTI)

"Orgasmatron" (GTI)

Markus Nerding (H&P)



Bill Buck / Raquel Velasco / Petro Tyschtschenko

Jürgen Haage (H&P)

Sebastian Brylka (Fun Time World) / Olaf Köbnik (Amiga Arena)

PEGASOS

Michael Battilana (Cloanto) presents Amiga Forever 5.0
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


OOP4A: Update of the ODK released
Beside of little useful tools, e.g. to display formatted source code, there are new classes and features for the pre-processor, again.

OOP4A is a system to bring the world of objects to not object oriented programming languages. OOP4A is able to unite different programming languaes and offers certain run-time protection machineries.
A continuously extended online documentation is all time available on the homepage. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Nov.2001
Markus Neervoort (E-Mail)


AMIGA 2001: Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (AmigaPage)
You will find pictures from the Amiga 2001 taken by Markus Neervoort, AmigaPage, under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Nov.2001



AMIGA 2001: first report
To give you first impressions of the fair here's a beforehand report in which we concentrate on current hardware products.

Highly interesting is the first official presentation of the Pegasos computer on which the operating system MorphOS is running. Gerald Carda demonstrated us a test program that displays plasma effects. Not accelerated (68060 speed) the program displays 4 frames per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorphOS shows 192 FPS.

In conversation with Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda we have got still more interesting information which we'll present comprehensive in our final report. This beforehand: Developer systems will be available in the beginning of January 2002, computers for end users will follow appr. 8 -12 weeks later.

The highlight of Haage&Partner is a x86 computer built into a luxury tower with stylish design and installed Amithlon. The corpus of the computer is of aluminium, the front side is made of azure blue plastic.

Of course, the developers of the PCI busboards didn't miss the show, either. Elbox presented their Mediator system and DCE the G-REX board.

Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development presented us the prototype of the Melody successor. In addition to the functions of the Melody has this card the following particularities:
  • MP3 audios can not only be decoded in real time but alos encoded.
  • Analogue mixer function
  • Digital input/output (optical/coaxial)


Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers presented us a preseries model of the interface card VarioIO that will be available before Christmas. The Delfina could unfortunately not be shown.

Based on a Logitech 2 buttons mouse Schönfeld has developed a real Amiga resp. Atari mouse. Here will the production begin in the next days, too.

Michael Böhmer presented his USB controller Subway with which you can connect common USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four external devices can be used without any additional hub. VMC has already started with the driver development. For now there are drivers for mouse and keyboard available. Planned are drivers for printers, digital cameras and scanners. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)


MagicMenu 2.33 released
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Version 2.33 of MagicMenu fixes (hopefully) the problems with the PPC support that was introduced in v2.32. (mj) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Nowee (E-Mail)


Amiga-Workbench: OverShaker - Themes Website Updated
The makers of the 'OverShaker' website dedicate their efforts to prettify the Amiga-Workbench. There are themes for GUI tools like VisualPrefs and icon samples available for download. At the 'Work' area there are tips on how to deal with colours (palette) on the Workbench.

Somewhat few content on this site? Send your self-made themes and icons to Nowee, the webmaster, to get the site filled with content! (mj) (Translation: mj)

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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF)


Amiga-Info.net: pictures directly from the fair
On Saturday between 10.00 and 12.00 o'clock there'll be the first pictures from the Amiga 2001 at Amiga-Info.net. As we are at the fair the next update of our site will be at around 18.00 o'clock.
P.S.: Hopefully the equipment won't fail. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


V3.61 of ISAcatweasel.device
Just before the finishing of the fair preparations we have managed to release a new version of the ISAcatweasel.device. The driver is downloadable from the support area (title link).

Note by Jens Schönfeld:
The driver is "blindly" programmed, I therefore ask the users with a working Amithlon system to try the device. For the time being it is only possible to read from disks, the writing is locked yet (floppy disks appear as being write protected). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


amiga-topcool: interview with ACBB
Amiga-topcool has interviewed the PR director of the Amiga-Club-Berlin-Brandburg (see title link). He's talking about the club life and his expectation of the Amiga fair. Read also his sum up regarding the AmigaOS XL (he'd been one of the first being able to test it). Additionally he's talking about the club's future plans and what Thomas Nosutta is doing when he's not busy on his Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC available
After a long waiting it is time again. SuSE Linux 7.3 for PowerPC is now available at SuSE GmbH and at the retailers. 8 CDs contain more than 2000 software packages. To mention only a small selection of new software here are some examples:

KOffice, OpenOffice, Ogg/Vorbis (DivX), KDE 2.2.1, Gnome 1.4.1
But the distribution's highlight should be the availability of the filesystems Ext3, JFS and ReiserFS (all journaling filesystems).

As in the past I'll create an installation guide for Amiga systems. In any case I'll let you know when these are available on the net. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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17.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland


Webcam and Shoutcast stream from the Amiga 2001
The Amiga-Club Germany offers some fair atmosphere to all interested people staying at home:
Under 195.185.110.189:8000 is a Shoutcast audio stream available, under http://www.a500.de/webcam/ a webcam recording at least the happenings on the lower floor.
And there's an "official" Amiga2001 IRC channel (linux.us.amiganet.org #amiga 2001) where you can always reach us during the fair. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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16.Nov.2001
Apex Designs


Payback: One New And Three Update Maps Available
One new map has been added to the Extra Maps Page, along with three updated ones. Don't forget that you can buy your own copy of the game anywhere in the world using our secure on-line shop. Also, Amigalien has announced that he has added French and German discussion lists (as well as a textures page) to his Payback site. (ps)

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16.Nov.2001
Cloanto


Cloanto: Amiga Forever 5.0 / Cloanto at AMIGA 2001
Amiga Forever 5.0 is now shipping. It is available in a CD-ROM, CD-ROM Upgrade, Online Edition, Online Upgrade and Cross-Platform Online Edition. Amiga Forever contains state of the art software to satisfy two major needs of many Amiga users: to use their existing Amiga software and data on non-Amiga hardware, and to share data between Amiga and other systems. Additionally, software, tutorial and reference files which are likely to be of interest to any Amiga enthusiast are included.

Features include:
  • Just-in-time (JIT) version of emulation software, carefully configured and publicly benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous versions of Amiga Forever
  • Software Manager, an advanced content delivery system developed by Cloanto, for easy and privacy-conscious management of all emulation-related components (updates, downloads, news, etc.)
  • New and fully licensed Picasso96 software (not a shareware version)
  • All software tested on Windows XP
  • All Amiga ROMs up to version 3.1 (the last ROM that will ever be available for the "Classic Amiga"!)
  • CDTV and CD³²  boot ROMs and extended ROMs (can be used to play CDTV and CD³² games, even booting directly from CD-ROM)*
  • MPEG-1 videos: The Deathbed Vigil (one hour and 58 minutes, i.e. the full version of this "must have" video) and Jay Miner Speech (49 minutes)*
  • GlowIcons look (as used in Amiga OS "3.5", "3.9" and "XL", but also compatible with NewIcons and MagicWB)
  • Option to switch entire environment from "new look" (GlowIcons) to "old look" (Classic) and vice versa
  • Amiga Explorer 4.0 (includes revolutionary self-install over serial cable, plus new Cut, Copy, Paste functions)
  • Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware)
  • TurboText (exclusive latest version with stack problem fix)
  • Personal Paint 7.1b
  • Built-in support for ADZ and DMS disk image files
  • Print spooler (easily print all Amiga documents under Windows, bypassing parallel port emulation)
  • New MenuBox launcher
  • New emulation and Workbench configuration results in even faster emulation of the Amiga CPU
  • Latest version of WinUAE and WinFellow tested by Cloanto
  • Dozens of other enhancements and add-ons (drag-and-drop LhA, ToolManager, etc.)


Cloanto at Amiga 2001 (Köln)
Seminars will be held at 12:45 on both Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18. You are most welcome to join the presentation of Amiga Forever 5.0, the demos, and the debates. (ps)

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16.Nov.2001
Dino Papararo (E-Mail)


Fractal Graphic: FlashMandelWOS 1.5
Version 1.5 of FlashMandelWOS has been uploaded on Aminet in gfx/fract directory. With FlashMandel you can create fractal graphics.

This has changed in the new version:
  • FlashMandel has a new Reaction-GUI. You need OS3.5 (or higher) for this feature. Now it's possible to use all features only by mouse.
  • Added support for Localization for Italian and German languages, others are welcome ;-).
  • A new installer-script makes it easy to install, update or delete FlashMandel.
  • The ppc-routines are reworked, so the speed increases about 12%.
  • Better print-routines for better output, now should be printed the whole A4 paper.
  • Some minor internal changes and optimizations increasing compatibility with all future Amiga clones ;-).
  • and much more...
(ps)

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16.Nov.2001
David McMinn (ANF)


Blitz2000 site updated
The Blitz-2000 site has finally had its design updated. It is an unofficial support site for all you Blitz Basic 2 coders :)

Feedback on the site would be welcome, especially how easy it is to read and understand the Programming section. Note: the mailing list archives and search engine are currently broken. (ps)

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16.Nov.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


DigiBoosterPro update
An English version of the unofficial homepage for DigiBoosterPro, the popular tracker, is now online. It was created with the help of translation software. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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