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Archive 03/2002


28.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Įlmos Rajnai
Codename:Petunia!
Since the last executive update from Amiga Inc. it's official. Behind this name is concealed the future "Just In Time" compilation-based Motorola 68040-Emulator for Amiga 4.0. In the interview from Amiga Arena, Almos Rajnai tells a bit about his career, and how he came to develop Petunia.

The interview is available in two languages, German und English. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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28.Mar.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future Website Changes to PHP
Today the Amiga Future homepage was changed to PHP. Some browsers don't seem to notice that, loading some pages in the cache, which causes them to be falsely displayed.

Should this happen to you, try reloading the page. If that doesn't help, send an email to Andreas Magerl. (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 21:42] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Survey: the Future of "Digital Almanac"
Achim Stegemann writes: Because of the desolate situation of the Amiga I started this survey about the last surviving astronomy software for the Amiga. Not only registered users of the software can take part in the survey. Anyone who is interested in Digital Almanac or such for the Pegasos or Amiga One board may take part.

You'll find the form for the survey on the homepage (under the above title link) in English and German. Further, I am encouraging all Amiga software developers to make public your sales targets. The full article may be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 19:52] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002



New Survey: What Do You Think of the Pegasos-Board?
On 23 MAR 02 we asked what our readers thought of the AmigaOneG3-SE. The responses can be viewed here.

Today we have the same survey for the Pegasos. In order to get balanced results we are giving the same possible answers for the survey, which you can participate in by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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28.Mar.2002
Sjoerd de Vries (ANF)


Easter Surprise from Vesalia
Easter surprise!
Everybody who preordered an Amiga One or Pegasos board gets a retroactive Easter gift in the form of a coupon for 20 euros off the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0. (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 17:42] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
Sjoerd de Vries (ANF)


Microcode Solutions Website Closed
For the last few days the website of Microcode Solutions (iFusion) has been closed. The site displays "Website Closed."

At Emaculation it says, conversely, that Microcode Solutions has taken legal steps against Emaculation. However it does not explain why.

"We get Lawsuits!
In case you are wondering, Microcode Solutions and the makers of their hardware card have threatened legal action against the operators of this website.

I will not be reporting on or promoting Microcode products in the future.

Any questions?"

If and to what extent there is a connection is not known. (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 17:40] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
Stefan Martens (ANF)


Move of #AmigaFun IRC-Chats
Stefan Martens:
Today the IRC channel #AmigaFun is moving to a new IRC server network. Phat-Net will hopefully be our permanent home. We decided to take this step because of the problems with Altnet. A year ago the admins promised improvement, but the problems just got worse and worse, especially recently.

On top of that, the Altnet admins were not going to let more than 5 users on the HTML chat, utilized by amiga-news.de and amigafuture.de. At Phat-Net 15 users are allowed, and on request this number may be raised, for example for special events. So there will be fewer problems with the use of the HTML chat. Not to mention that PhatNet has services. Unfortunately I can't control the fact that everyone who has registered a nickname must register it again. This should present only a minor problem though, ask us and we'll be happy to help you with it.

Advantageous to everyone: Phat-Net is a German server, located right in the middle of Germany.

Current entry data for your IRC client:
IRC Server: irc.phat-net.de
Port: 6667
Channel: #amigafun

Windows chatters who don't want to install an IRC client will find on this homepage, since a while ago, a functional IRC Java client. You just have to enter your nickname and you can participate in the chat.

I would like to beg your pardon, if there are still a few problems with the Java/HTML chat. I'll try to keep the downtimes to a minimum. (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 17:25] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF)


GFX-BASE: Software 2000 before the Exit?
The Austrian newspaper Standard.at reported, that the software firm Software 2000, known for Amiga games like Pizza Connection and Bundesliga Manager stands before the exit.

Unfortunately I can't view the Standard's pages with an Amiga browser; it always crashes. [Doesn't display under IE either -dm] (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 14:40] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
Greg Donner


Greg Donner: AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated
Greg Donner updated his official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ, and added a compatibility list relating to BoingBag 2. (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 14:18] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
CyberGraphX


Tobias Abt - Statement about Picasso96 on Mediator-ML
Tobias Abt, one of the original P96 programmers posted:

"Would there have been proper funding of our work because of licence fees or at least a steady stream of registrations, we could have provided the user base with Picasso96 v2 updates and new drivers. But that never happened, so we concentrate our own efforts to work on projects that will bring some cash in. Which means better support for Amithlon and OS4. We will now mainly concentrate on v3 and OS4, so don't expect any more v2 releases." (ps)

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28.Mar.2002
CUCUG


CUCUG: Status Register March 2002
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry. (ps)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 13:53] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
OnyxSoft


OnyxSoft: Detris Version 3.2Beta1 and TheMPegEncGUI Version 2.11
At Onyxsoft you'll find a new beta version (3.2Beta1) of the Tetris clone Detris. Also version 2.11 of the program TheMPegEncGUI is made available.

Download: detris.lha - thempegencgui.lha (ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 12:27] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
Tao Group Ltd.


Tao Group Acquires SSEYO
Reading, England, March 27th 2002 - Tao Group today announced that it has acquired SSEYO, a global technology leader in wireless interactive audio, in a move that clearly shows Tao's increasing technology leadership and creates major commercial benefits for its customers.

Tao's intent® software platform is already recognized as the leading multimedia engine for client devices. It has worldwide leadership in graphics and Java engine capabilities, with major design-wins across products such as phones, PDAs and set-top boxes. Tao's technologies are at the heart of the OCPA, a global standards body with more than sixty members, most of them blue chip technology companies, and the OCPA is supporting intent as a common contents platform for consumer devices.
Complete press release see title link. (ps)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 11:56] [Comments: 0]
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28.Mar.2002
Martin Strojek (ANF)


Amiga in the Media (Update)
The new Executive Update conveyed that Amiga would be mentioned in different publications:

Golem: AmigaOS 4.0 - Amiga und Hyperion Announce New Details
The Register: Amiga returns with AmigaOne PPC hardware
MacNews: The Amiga lives
OSNews: Amiga Status Announcement
WCM: Amiga is back! - soon
(ps) (Translation: dm)

[News message: 28. Mar. 2002, 11:49] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2002
Bernward Hofmann (E-Mail)


Sequencer: BarsnPipes version 1.10
On the homepage of Alfred Faust (title link) there is an improved version 1.10 of the sequencer program BarsnPipes.

The source code of BarsnPipes has been released on 25th of May 2001 by Todor Fay. Since Alfred Faust has continued developing this program it became freeware.

These are the improvements:

  • Screenmode requester
  • GadTools-gui
  • You can use most of the requester with the help of the keyboard.
  • CAMD-library
  • New 32-colour-design
  • Localisation (German catalog included)
  • and much more
Please read BnP_Addenum.guide if you want to have a closer look at the changes.

Now this program is also useable for users of Amithlon (until now this did not work because of the "old" screen pop-up.

Download: BnP1_10.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 27. Mar. 2002, 22:41] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2002
ACT-Albrecht (ANF)


Free full version of SamplitudeOpus
On the site of ACT you can download the free full version of SamplitudeOpus and the corresponding key. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 27. Mar. 2002, 21:24] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2002
Project Privoxy (ANF)


Privoxy (JunkBuster) version 2.9.13 (beta)
The new beta version 2.9.13 of Privoxy has been available since Sunday. Download over the title link.

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 27. Mar. 2002, 20:51] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Michal Lanser
With his program "MP3TOCDDA" Michael Lanser enables decoding of MP3-songs to CDDA-files with the help of the MPEGA.library. Because the byte order can be chosen the CDDA-file can be directly burned on CD. In the interview Michael Lanser answered the questions of Amiga Arena. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 27. Mar. 2002, 20:47] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2002
Dieter Groppé (ANF)


Tool: MCP (MasterControlProgram) V 1.38
Again some bugs have been fixed and some minor functions added. Additionally there is a preview of the new preferences program called MCPPrefs. (ps) (Translation: dr)

[News message: 27. Mar. 2002, 16:20] [Comments: 0]
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27.Mar.2002
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New pakets (until 26.03.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were formerly meant only for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 26.03.02 new: Formula 1 Grand Prix (Cirrus Software/Tynesoft) done by Codetapper
  • 25.03.02 improved: Wanted (Infogrames) filesystem compatibilty
  • 25.03.02 improved: Rugby the World Cup (Domark) misc changes
  • 25.03.02 new: Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) done by JOTD
  • 25.03.02 new: International Ice Hockey (Impulze/Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
  • 21.03.02 new: Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers (Activision) done by Codetapper
  • 21.03.02 improved: Flashback (Delphine Software) misc changes
  • 21.03.02 fixed: Joyride (Phenomena) color signal
  • 20.03.02 new: Nippon Safes Inc (Dynabyte) done by CFOU!
  • 20.03.02 updated: Mad TV (Rainbow Arts) minor changes
  • 20.03.02 new: 1000 Miglia (Simulmondo) done by CFOU!
  • 20.03.02 new: Mental Images Game Disk 2 (Mental Images) done by Abaddon
  • 18.03.02 new: Campaign 2 (Empire) done by Bored Seal
  • 18.03.02 new: Archon (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
  • 18.03.02 new: Air Support (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
  • 18.03.02 new: The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) done by Psygore
(ps)

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26.Mar.2002
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)


Tao Group Delivers Rich Java(TM) Media Content to Devices Powered by TI's OMAP
Enables premium services for mobile client devices
San Francisco (March 25, 2002) - To meet the demands for its technology from blue chip consumer electronics manufacturers and global telecommunication carriers, Tao Group has made its intent, best-in-class multimedia engine, available on TI's OMAP(TM) application processors.

intent is the core software for the Open Contents Platform Association (www.ocpa.jp), which was formed in 2001 to enable the mobile and home client device market to develop premium contents based around a single software platform. The association now has more than sixty member companies including corporations such as Toyota, Sony, Sharp, Kyocera, Samsung, Epson, JVC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Pioneer, Sanyo, Sega, Bandai, Taito and Capcom.
Please find the complete press release under the title link. (ps)

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26.Mar.2002
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)


Sendo Announces Tao Java(TM) Technology for Smartphones
Sendo and Tao partner to bring Java to Smartphone 2002 platform
San Francisco, 26 March 2002. Sendo has licensed Tao Group's intent® multimedia Java platform to be available on the Z100 Multimedia Smartphone, which uses Microsoft® Windows® Powered Smartphone 2002 software. This agreement further expands the extensive range of possibilities for developers to offer wireless data services and solutions.

Network operators are looking at Java(TM) technology to differentiate their services and offer personalised applications to their customers, such as games. Now, Sendo can offer wireless developers the opportunity to write applications for the Z100 Smartphone. The application can be made available to consumers either by including it on the phone or by making it directly downloadable to their phones, depending on the security controls of their operator.
Please find the complete press release under the title link. (ps)

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26.Mar.2002
Krister S (ANF)


Wanted assembler coder for tracks & fields miditracker
Krister S:
Wants someone who have time to get rid off some bugs for tracks & fields miditracker and for further development. I got the sourcecode so if anyone are interested contact me. (ps)

[News message: 26. Mar. 2002, 19:03] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2002
Vesalia


Vesalia: Pegasos-Sonderseite updated
Vesalia has updated the pages about the Pegasos mainboard. New on this page is a list of all ports and the specifications are updated. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 26. Mar. 2002, 15:59] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)


Amiga NG-Page reworked and new comments added
Jürgen lange:
The part about the Amiga NG of my internet page is reworked and a new comment is added. Also you can access old comments now. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 26. Mar. 2002, 13:38] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interviews with Paul Heams and Michael Rybinski
Amiga Arena ? Interview with Paul Heams
Olaf Köbnik: ?Like many others of you I grew up with the C64 and when something has found its way into my memories it was the samples and soundtracks of games like "OutRun", "Rambo", "Declathon", "Winter Games" or "Beach Head".

With ?Sid4Amiga? a comfortable player for these unforgettable C64-sounds is available! Paul Heams, the developer of "Sid4Amiga", talks about the further development of his programs and in really positive way about the AmigaDE; he is awaiting his pre-ordered AmigaOne SE. You will find the interview here.

Paul Heams is looking for beta testers for the new version of ?Sid4Amiga?, if you are interested, send an eMail to Paul.

Support the developers, and the developers are supporting you! (ps) (Translation: gf)

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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)


Petunia maybe part of AmigaOS 4
µlmos Rajnai has developed a JIT-compiler named Project Petunia for PPC that shows really good performance. As the Author mentioned it could be part of AmigaOS 4. More details under the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 26. Mar. 2002, 12:13] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2002
Amiga Inc.


Amiga Inc.: Executive Update - Status

Executive Update - Amiga Status Announcement

Bill McEwen - March 25, 2002

Greetings once again - To One and All:

Fresh from a fantastic showing at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, where Amiga Anywhere wowed and amazed commentators, developers and potential customers alike, I wanted to take the time to get the Amiga community caught up on our flagship project, the AmigaOS.

Contrary to the nonsense that is being spread about by a few very noisy people, the AmigaOS is more than alive and well and we have very exciting plans for the future with more hardware designs and exciting new features. We have very long term life and long term goals for this amazing product.

We look to the AmigaOS as the desktop solution and Amiga Anywhere as the embedded solution for Cell Phones, PDA's, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances and some other new products. When AmigaOS 5.0 hits the road then you will see these code bases merging and the two worlds will allow the content to co-mingle and proliferate.

Another way to view this is that AmigaOS is for the Amiga Community whereas Amiga Anywhere introduces Amiga to the rest of the world. It is then that they can join us and be part of the Amiga community. It is all about market share and the opportunity to further expand and grow the Amiga market and user base.

As you know, we took the strategic decision to outsource development of the next generation hardware and compatible AmigaOS version. This was done to allow us to concentrate on AmigaOS5, our long term goal, whilst also providing a compelling and high performance path from AmigaOS3. What this does is give the Amiga community a product that they can be proud of in the short and medium term.

The hardware contract was awarded to Eyetech Limited, of Stokesley, England, and the software contract was awarded to Hyperion Entertainment, of Belgium. Both companies have an impressive reputation for quality products and a deep commitment to the Amiga, having played a major part in keeping the platform going through the last five years.

These two contracts underlie the first new combined Amiga hardware and software product in over 8 years; the AmigaOne, a product whose features and functions were set after looking at the thousands of mails, articles and comments generated by the community. A PowerPC (PPC) CPU was asked for and it was selected. The ability to take advantage of the latest video and audio technology was demanded and it was successively built in. USB support was talked about and we obliged. A better filesystem, integrated TCP/IP and 3D, an enhanced Workbench; all have been designed into AmigaOS4.

The excitement is growing. The AmigaOne is already running PPC Linux, AmigaOS4 is progressing rapidly on 68K Amigas equipped with PPC accelerators and integration is currently underway. Orders for developer boards are already being taken and many developers are working closely with the AmigaOS4 team to ensure that their applications are optimized for the future.

It has been a long haul and there have been many bumps on the road. With the world economy starting to move out of recession, and the success of Amiga Anywhere, Amiga Inc is moving from strength to strength. It could not have been done without the support and commitment of the Amiga community and we want the community to know that we share its support and commitment to the success of both our product lines, Amiga Anywhere and the AmigaOS.

Hardware Update

Last month, Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc visited the headquarters of Eyetech and spent a few hours with Eyetech management, engineers and their newest addition, a PPC mother board that will be the at the heart of the AmigaOne. Running a version of PPC Linux specially designed for it to permit evaluation, the board and its peripherals performed flawlessly with the system being very responsive, boding well for an optimised and efficient AmigaOS in the future.

The original hardware plan for the AmigaOne was to create two products, a motherboard with an integrated A1200 interface, allowing for the first version of AmigaOS4 (4.0) to be completed quickly by still having access to the AA chipset, and a second product, a standalone board that would work with the second version of AmigaOS4 (4.2), which would be independent of the AA chipset.

Over the past 6 months, advances in hardware have meant that the second product is actually going to be available before the first. As a result, the hardware strategy has been updated. The AmigaOne will be built around a revision 1.5 motherboard. This board will be completely independent of the AA chipset and will not need a connected A1200 in order to run AmigaOS4. There will be no motherboard with an integrated A1200 connector. Instead, Eyetech are planning on developing a PCI to A1200 product for those who wish to run older Amiga software that requires direct access to the AA chipset. In effect, the A1200 will be like just another graphics card plugged into the PCI bus of the AmigaOne.

Using this approach it is also technically feasible to use the PCI-cable interface to connect to an A3/4000 via the CPU slot connector - and even to an A2000 via a CPU pin header. These interface variations may follow later, depending on demand.

The current hardware specification for the AmigaOne is as follows;
  • CPU - any G3/G4 to the currently available speeds
  • Memory - 2 133 MHz SDRAM slots for upto 2GB
  • Graphics support - (2x AGP plus 66MHz PCI)
  • Card expansion - 4 PCI slots
  • Legacy Support
    1. FDD
    2. Serial
    3. Parallel
    4. PS2 keyboard and mouse
  • Integrated Systems support
    1. 2 USB connectors plus 2 headers
    2. 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
    3. AC97 (Audio)
    4. MC97 (Data/Fax/Modem)
    5. UDMA 100/ATAPI - 2 channels (4 devices)

Beginning on the 18th of March, developers and dealers can order developer versions of the boards, allowing them to evaluate the product and to be prepared for optimising their applications for AmigaOS4. To order a developer board, please use Eyetech's online shop.

For more information on the AmigaOne hardware, please visit Eyetech's AmigaOne pages.

Software Update

Hyperion Entertainment have assembled the cream of Amiga developers to work on AmigaOS4.0, guaranteeing both high quality and high performance in the final product and ensuring that AmigaOS4.0 and beyond will be a true Amiga product, created with due care and attention to the philosophy and practices that have always made Amiga solutions the envy of the world.

AmigaOS4.0 is currently being developed on Amiga 4000s equipped with CSPPC accelerators, and integration is now underway on the AmigaOne 1:5 boards provided by Eyetech.

The aim of AmigaOS4.0 is five fold;
  1. to provide a transition from the 68k based custom chipset Amiga hardware to PPC based pluggable sub system hardware
  2. to provide as great a degree of backwards compatibility as is possible
  3. to optimise the AmigaOS for its new hardware foundation
  4. to move the AmigaOS forwards, offering new features and high performance all wrapped up in the traditional easy to use Amiga architecture
  5. to prepare the way for AmigaOS5

Its feature set as currently defined is as follows;

Exec SG (Second Generation) - A rearchitectured and reimplemented Exec core services manager that allows the deployment of AmigaOS4 to any suitable PPC hardware including but not limited to the Amiga One, Blizzard PPC, Cyberstorm PPC, Shark PPC from Elbox, Pegasos from bPlan etc.

The following features are being added;
  1. Hardware abstraction layer
  2. Virtual memory
  3. New library interface
  4. Resource tracking and management
  5. Optional memory protection
  6. WarpOS backwards compatibility

68K emulation - This is key to AmigaOS4.0 as many of the less performance crucial OS elements, as well as the entire body of Amiga third party applications will require it in order to work. The latest Just In Time (JIT) techniques are being employed to ensure maximum performance, with hand tuning of many areas to accelerate the Amiga architecture.

PPC native connectivity suite - this was the most requested feature from the community, integrated connectivity, and given its importance, we trusted its development to Olaf Barthel, one of the most respected Amiga developers in the world. He has not disappointed, with benchmarks suggesting that the new AmigaOS4 solution is faster than any other available solution. Its feature set includes;
  1. implemented as a single shared library
  2. compatible with the Amiga standard "bsdsocket" API, as defined by the AmiTCP product
  3. enhanced API for more control over the inner workings and configuration
  4. built-in DHCP client
  5. Internet Superserver (inetd)
  6. IP filtering and networking address translation
  7. drivers for asynchronous PPP (dial-up networking) and PPP over Ethernet
  8. SSLv2

PPC native reimplementation of the Amiga File System (FFS2) - FFS2 is a fully backwards compatible re-implementation in C of the Fast File System. It supports media greater than 4 GBytes, and a new variant of the file/directory name storage format which allows for long file names (up to 108 characters). Salvage and recovery tools will also be included that support both FFS2 and SFS.

PPC native CD file system - the feature set for this second most requested feature of AmigaOS4 is as follows;
  1. Joiliet support
  2. RockRidge support
  3. CDDA support
  4. multi-session support
  5. Video CD support

We also intend to add support for mixed audio/data CD's and support for the HFS and HFS+ filesystem as used by Apple.

PPC native RTG system - with the AmigaOne supporting both AGP and PCI graphics cards, the ReTargetable Graphics system is crucial to high performance. Redesigned and reimplemented for AmigaOS4 and the AmigaOne, a team lead by the creators of the Picasso96 solution will ensure the hightest quality graphics display for the consumer, whether gamer, artist or general user. In addition, hand tuned drivers are being written to support the following graphics cards, with more to be announced later.
  1. Permedia 2
  2. Permedia 3
  3. Voodoo 3
  4. Matrox G450/G550
  5. ATI Radeon

Amiga3D - developed from the pioneering Warp3D solution offered by Hyperion and now available on both the AmigaOS and AmigaDE, this 3D solution offers the power and simplicity of a low level 3D interface, allowing developers to create blazingly fast 3D applications without the overhead of a fatter 3D solution such as OpenGL. Hand tuned hardware drivers for the above mentioned graphics cards will provide even higher performance. Whoever said games are irrelevant on the Amiga is in for a surprise.

OpenGL 1.3 support (mesa 4.0) - whilst Ami3D allows the developer to get down close to the metal, OpenGL is the standard for a full 3D solution. AmigaOS4.0 will offer OpenGL1.3 support by implementing mesa 4.0 on top of Ami3D, giving developers the 3D choice of performance and feature set.

PPC native RTA - With the introduction of PCI card support, the Amiga community now has access to the latest in audio hardware. Given its excellent collection of audio software, such as Audio Evolution, Samplitude and others, this AHI compatible solution will allow the AmigaOne to become a major force in audio creation. With support for most existing Amiga audio cards as well as Soundblaster live and Soundblaster 128, the future has never sounded so good.

PPC native GUI system - the entire look and feel of AmigaOS is being reworked;

Intuition is being rewritten and enhanced, to give a PPC native foundation to the AmigaOS interactive environment.

Reaction, the BOOPSI based component GUI system has been reimplemented and enhanced for seamless integration with the AmigaOS.

Many new classes are being developed whilst drag and drop will be supported across the system.

Matt Chaput, designer of the famous GlowIcons is taking a leading role in the look and feel, ensuring that AmigaOS4 will look both modern and unique.

A PPC version of AmiDock will also be included, ensuring that Workbench continues to be the most usable environment of all the desktop platforms.

PPC native CLI - the tool of choice will be removed of annoying bugs and enhanced to make it even more useful.

SCSI interface - SCSI will be supported, allowing the many devices already owned by Amigans to be used, but with particular attention being paid to SCSI devices that use the SCRIPTS controller, for the next generation of devices.

AmigaInput - A new framework for managing input devices is being designed as a prelude to the requirements for AmigaOS5. This will appear in AmigaOS4 and become a crucial part of the developing Amiga solution.

USB - USB was to be introduced in AmigaOS4.2 but given the developemtent of the 1:5 motherboard, parts of it will be introduced in AmigaOS4.0. Currently this will allow USB mice and keyboards to be supported but, if all goes well, new devices will be added as they become available, with scanner support next in line.

PPC datatypes - the datatypes system has been implemented and extended within the AmigaDE, demonstrating our commitment to superior Amiga technology. With the move to PPC, the system and many of the datatypes will also be moved across, increasing their performance dramatically.

PPC Storage Toolbox - a set of functions allowing for the management of fixed and removable storage devices.

PPC font engine - surprisingly one of the most requested features for AmigaOS4.0, a brand new font engine will be added to the AmigaOS, providing support for both True Type and Open Type fonts. In addition, bullet.library and diskfont.library will be reimplemented and enhanced and a contract with Agfa for 12 truetype fonts has been negotiated.

In addition, many Amiga developers are coming forwards and demonstrating their commitment to the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4; in particular
  1. 1. Special PPC native OEM version of Ibrowse 2.3
  2. PPC native version of MUI for applications that require it
  3. Special PPC native lite version of Audio Evolution

All in all, AmigaOS4.0 is shaping up to be a very compelling and exciting product which in combination with the AmigaOne will provide the product that we have been waiting so long to offer to the Amiga community.

Whilst the the changed schedule for the AmigaOne boards is very welcome, it has added AmigaOS4.2 work to the schedule for AmigaOS4.0, namely the abstraction of the AA chipset. Coupled with the need to reimplement certain features included by Haage and Partner in AmigaOS3.5 and AmigaOS3.9, this may push out the final consumer delivery date; an analysis is underway at the moment to determine this.

The Amiga community is owed a great debt by Amiga Inc and, with the success of AmigaDE now allowing us to build revenues and increase resources, the long layed plans for the future of both the AmigaDE and the AmigaOS can be put into action. Thanks for all your support and here's to the future,

Signed on behalf of Amiga Inc, Eyetech, Hyperion and all those working together for the future of the Amiga

Bill McEwen
CEO
Amiga Inc
Snoqualmie, WA
(ps)

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26.Mar.2002
Dennis Lohr (ANF)


Music: Winners of the DBPro-Compo
Today the competitors and their songs are announced:

1-4 Channel Compo

bLa         -  "Track Him !"            25 voices
Zenu        -  "Haavat & Arvet"         06 voices
Blakkhar    -  "my1.4chdbm"             05 voices


5-16 Channel Compo

breed       -  "Interferences"          21 Voices
Tripper     -  "Shooting Star"          08 Voices
pSYCHo      -  "Design Schranz"         04 Voices
Acid Head   -  "Trip256"                03 Voices
BlakKhar    -  "Commercial Pianopower"  02 Voices
Varthall    -  "The Digital Machine"    02 Voices
Zenu        -  "Hidious"                02 Voices
Acid Frog   -  "Digi Boosts"            01 Voices
Lord Kodomo -  "Partikelstrom"          01 Voices


17-32 Channel Compo

bLa         -  "JazzyBeat"              19 Voices
Tripper     -  "Long Journey"           09 Voices
pSYCHo      -  "Death Vision"           06 Voices


Thanks to all competitors! (ps) (Translation: gf)

[News message: 26. Mar. 2002, 11:16] [Comments: 1 - 28. Mar. 2002, 03:38]
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26.Mar.2002
Jürgen Lange (ANF)


Pegasos Board will be delivered in week 20 (midth of May)
As stated in an eMail of Mr Oliver Does, Vesalia Computer, bplan GmbH has announced to deliver the Pegasos board in week 20. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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