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`13.Sep.2002` Timo Kloss (ANF)	New demo version of adventure "Ermentrud" Because the last demo version of Ermentrud was really very old there is now a new one which uses the current engine and has final graphics. Despite of it this is a small demo with only three places because it should only give a rough impression. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 22:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Sep.2002` Anu Seilonen (ANF)	Finnish Amiga Users Group's Meeting Will Showcase Amiga Community Progress Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its annual meeting on Saturday September 28th 2002 in Oulu, Finland. In addition to an official general meeting agenda, the users group has used this opportunity to invite prominent parties from the extended Amiga community to showcase their progress. (ps) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 22:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Sep.2002` VMC Harald Frank (ANF)	AmithlonXL world premiere at O.A.S.E.2 event in Graz The O.A.S.E.2 event, which will be held this weekend in Graz, will see the first public demonstration of AmithlonXL components. Some of the parts shown would regularly be first available only with the release of the announced OS4 operating system. The new stuff demonstrated there will include audio drivers for SBLive, TerraTec Solo1, TerraTec 512i, CMedia and many many others. However, because of the short time we had, we were unable to get all the hardware to demonstrate all new audio drivers. The network connection will be established through a RealTek 100Mbit card controlled by the brand new TCP/IP stack RoadShow from well known Olaf Barthel. The features of RoadShow will include great services like PPPoE, firewall and extended routing possibilities. The system will be presented by Mr. Schober on his AthlonXP 1800. This machine will be equipped with SoundBlasterLive, RealTek 100Mbit network adapter and Matrox DualHead graphics card. If possible, some benchmarks with the new FFS2 file sytem will be made, but if time should prove to be too short for those, we will deliver their results on our Amithlon product home page later. More information about AmithlonXL and AmigaOS XL Updates will be available shortly on the usual web sites of our distributor Haage&Partner. Naturally these will also contain information about pricing and availability. O.A.S.E.2 show Amithlon / AmigaOS XL homepage (ps) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 20:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Sep.2002` Michael Carrillo (ANF)	Event: WoA Southeast 2002 - Rumble in the Jungle 2002 Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to the clash of the year, presenting, In the Red Corner, all the way from Germany and the UK, with years of experience, a true survivor - Amiga OS4 supported by AmigaOne! Presenting in the Blue Corner, from Germany and France, the new young pretender to the crown, MorphOS supported by Pegasos! The main event will be held at the World of Amiga Southeast Show in Poplars Hall, Brentwood, Essex, England, (UK) on Saturday November 2nd 2002. Don't miss this exciting one off spectacular clash, get your tickets in advance from Fore-Matt Home Computing for only £ 3.50. This Action packed event will feature Amiga veterans, Eyetech, Weird Science, Fore-Matt Home Computing, ZeoNeo, Kicksoft, Thendic France, Mediator Support Team and of course Amiga Inc. themselves. Plus the infamous Gaming Arena and the Mandatory After show speeches/demonstrations. This is a great opportunity to see AmigaOS4/AmigaOne Versus MorphOS/Pegasos under the same roof on the same day. For more information, please visit our temporary website. For tickets visit www.forematt.co.uk or call +44 (0)8700 11 22 34. World of Amiga Southeast 2002, aren’t you glad you are going? (ps) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 19:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Sep.2002` FORE-MATT Home Computing	Magazine: 100%AMIGA now RTG/Amithlon/OS4 Compatible Issue 28, September 2002, is now available and has been completely rewritten from scratch. Many of you with graphics cards and non AGA machines had difficulty running the old Scala interface. This has now been replaced and you can now run 100%AMIGA on ANY computer with a graphics card or AGA and 4MB RAM. 100%AMIGA is now AmigaOne and OS4 ready. For that matter, can run on Amithlon, MorphOS, Windows, MacOS etc. So what is on it? This month we have features on OS4, FXSCAN4, and an exciting new monthly publication. We review Drawstudio 2 CD edition as well as our usual news roundup read to you by our newsreader. Come here, there's more: also on the CD we have a collection of free games and utilities for your Amiga. See it, Hear it, Experience it! (ps) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 14:13] [Comments: 3 - 13. Sep. 2002, 22:10] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Sep.2002` Michael Budde / LACS	Online-project: LACS searches members The web-project "Lobby Alternativer Computer-Systeme" (LACS) is a portal of Internet and a collection of links for all who want to inform about the advantages of computers and operating systems which are not Windows compatible. Cosmopolitan Computer novices as well as users of Windows who think about a change or existing alternative users belong to them who searches for helps of argumentation. After a break now the homepage will be supposed to be updated. For this project we need volontaries who are supposed to take responsibility for respective one LACS rubric and to maintain the links. You can choose between the sections Amiga, BeOS, Linux and RISC OS and if needed also OS/2 and others. We would be also delighted if a short introduction could be written about each section just like at "Atari" it was done. Those ones who want to help without permanent support may point out missing or dead links or may send suggestions of improvements. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 13:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Sep.2002` Jean-Yves AUGER (E-Mail)	Event: Videos of the AlchimieII/A-Expo Jean-Yves AUGER has uploaded several videos in AVI-format of the event Alchimie II to his website Pixel-ART. You are welcome to download them. Video 1 - Video 2 - Video 3 (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 13:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Sep.2002` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox: Spider USB 2.0 presentation at O.A.S.E. in Graz The first public demonstration of the Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI card working in the Mediator system will have place in the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga Southeast Europe) show in Graz (Austria) on 14-15 September 2002. The fastest Amiga USB solution will be presented with various USB devices like USB ZIP, USB HDD, USB CD and USB mouse units. Spider USB 2.0 will be presented working in the PCI slot of the newest Mediator model: the Mediator PCI 1200 SX. The Mirage 3000 system will also be presented. (ps) [News message: 13. Sep. 2002, 13:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Steffen Nitz (ANF)	Sources of SN-Münz and Marken Archives Lost (w. Update) Steffen Nitz reports: Unfortunately something awful has happened. I lost the source codes to SN-Münz Archive and SN-Marken Archive and everything related. It is also not possible to work with registrations anymore. I'm asking registered users to send me their keyfiles. Update, 13th September, 2002: Steffen Nitz found the source code from SN-Münz Archive version 1.0 (it had reached 1.4) including the keyfile editor, and registrations for SN-Münz Archive are possible once more. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 23:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox ships Spider USB 2.0 PCI card for Mediator Elbox Computer is proud to introduce the first USB 2.0 host controller for the Amiga computers. The Spider USB 2.0 PCI card provides a simple and affordable way to add five Hi-Speed USB ports to Mediator-equipped Amigas. The Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed PCI controller is backward-compatible, which means it works also with older USB 1.1 peripherals. Features: Four external and one internal USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ports Compatible with both USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) and USB 1.1 (12 Mbps) devices Compliant with EHCI, OHCI and PCI 2.2 standards All ports can handle high-speed, full-speed and low-speed transaction Supports up to 127 downstream USB devices Supplies 500 mA power to each USB port Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Hot Plug Capability Requirements: One free PCI slot Mediator Multimedia CD The package contents: Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card Mediator OHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack Unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack Mediator EHCI USB drivers for the Poseidon stack will be shipped to registered Spider Card users as a free update (when completed). Pricing and availability: The Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI card will be on sale as of 16 September 2002, at the suggested retail price of EUR 39.95 (VAT excl.) To locate an authorized distributor or purchase the product visit this Elbox Computer website. Mediator users are the first, as always... (ps) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 23:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Jürgen Klawitter (ANF)	Text Viewer: Next Version 3.4 The text viewer and offline-browser Next has reached version 3.4. The substantial new developments are: external programs, for example Apdf, can be started from Next improved support for wheel mouses text blocks are not limited by complete lines (a block can be less than one line) the copying of blocks in the clipboard works better a bug was removed, which previously led to a crash during the unpacking of archives Download: Next3.4.lha (ps) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 22:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Jörg Karisch (amiga1303) (ANF)	Meeting: Hardware Meeting of the User Group IMAGE in Nürnberg After a long pause the user group IMAGE is again extending invitations to a hardware meeting. We will meet on Saturday the 28th of September 2002 from 9 AM to 10 PM. Address: Mannertstraße 10 Nebeneingang 90429 Nürnberg The purpose of this meeting is to take care of any hardware or software problems first-hand, and to talk about the latest developments of the Amiga technology. You'll find more information by clicking on the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 22:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Game: "Aqua" - German Version Appears Emerald Imaging, Fun Time World and Amiga Arena are pleased to present for the first time the completely German-localized version of the adventure game Aqua. Together with the developer and the help of Christian Busse we were able to fully translate the game, which resembles Myst. Aqua is available right away. In comparison to the English version many known bugs were overcome. The game is delivered in a newly-assembled DVD package. You can get it at Fun Time World for about 17 Euros plus shipping. Commerce and Sales Fun Time World c/o Sebastian Brylka Wiehagen 78 45879 Gelsenkirchen, Germany Telephone: 0209-14 85 620 (after 5 PM), Fax: 0209-14 85 720 E-Mail: funtime@t-online.de - Fun Time World Aqua - Info System Requirements: AmigaOS with 68020 Processor, 8 MB RAM, AGA or graphic card, and CD-ROM drive. Story: You've heard about the mysterious sinking of an offshore drilling platform and have decided that their misfortune may be turned to your gain. Now you stand on landing platform to the boat, ready to begin the treasure hunt. A secret, that you are about to undertake the journey of a lifetime. A journey to a world unknown to men. A world of magic, beauty, miracles, mystery and a great destructive power that rules all the kingdom. Fame, fortune and a great reward await the one who is brave enough to answer this challenge. Have you got what it takes? Features: hi-res graphics 3-D raytraced visuals animated scene transitions sampled sounds simple point and click control save and load at any point in the game a bunch of interaction first person perspective screen-mode requester multi-tasking AGA and RTG compatibility AHI-Sound UAE compatibility You can find out more about the game, story, and view screen-shots at the homepages of: Amiga Arena and Emerald Imaging A playable demo will be released shortly. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 22:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Chaos Computer Club	CCC: Conference on Freedom of Information The Chaos Computer Club has scheduled a conference on the freedom of information, content control, and Internet censorship. This international, high stakes conference will take place on Monday the 16th of September, 2002 in the Finance Building in Düsseldorf, Germany. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 16:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` ANN	Meeting: More Photos from Alchimie2 / A-Expo Click on the title link to find a row of pictures from Alchimie2 / A-Expo, courtesy of Polymere. The show took place in France on the 7th and 8th of September, 2002. More photos, these from AFLE, can be found here. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 15:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Etienne Vogt	Tool: CheckDisk Version 0.7 Beta Etienne Vogt, author of SysMon and many other useful tools, has published a new program by the name of CheckDisk (beta 0.7). With this tool you can check your hard-drive for defective blocks. More information may be found in the documentation. Download: CheckDisk07.lha (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 15:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Amigan Software	Game: Worm Wars Version 7.21 Worm Wars version 7.21 has appeared. The game requires a minimum of OS 2.04, a 68020 processor, and PAL/DblPAL screenmode capability. Download: WormWars.lha (621 KB) (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 15:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002`	Picture Editor: PPT Released Under Gnu Public License Janne Jalkanen, the developer of the picture-editing software "PPT" hasn't been able to work on the program for a while, and so he is now releasing it under the GNU Public License (GPL). You'll find more information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 14:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Sep.2002` Guido Mersmann auf Amithlon-ML	Tool: MMKeyboard 2.0 for Amiga and Amithlon Guido Mersmann has just uploaded version 2.20 of MMKeyboard for Amiga and Amithlon systems to Aminet. Normaly it will take a few days until the upload apears. Please send questions, suggestions, bugreports and of course keyboard profiles to Guido Mersmann. Some details of MMKeyboard: You like those Windows keyboards with many additional tool buttons for EMail, WWW, music and so on? You want to use a wireless keyboard? You don't want to buy expensive hardware that only supports the standard keys and leaving the others unused? Then you found the right archive! For a few bucks you'll get a selfmade hardware that uses everything! MMKeyboard allows you to use a Windows keyboard as Amiga keyboard. In addition to that it's possible to launch programs via the multimedia buttons. No driver problems like on the PC! One little commodity enables all available non standard keys on any keyboard! Even future keyboards are working! Start your music player by pressing the play button on your keyboard. Eject your CDROM by pressing the eject button, or open a Shell in the same way! Now it's possible to execute any tool without qualifier, because the keys are unknown to the system! Of course it's possible to use qualifiers to be more flexible! In addition to that there are additional features like a real hardware password with optional Amiga GUI, full reset handler support and much more! (ps) [News message: 12. Sep. 2002, 12:46] [Comments: 1 - 12. Sep. 2002, 17:52] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Sep.2002` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox: Mediator PCI USB drivers for Poseidon stack Elbox Computer is pleased to announce that its drivers to PCI USB cards in the Mediator busboard operate under the Poseidon USB stack. These drivers have been prepared by Elbox programmers as a result of co-operation started a few weeks ago by Chris Hodges, author of the Poseidon stack. As the Poseidon stack is already supported by authors of third-party commercial software, we have decided that releasing another, our own, USB stack for Amiga under such circumstances would mean doubling effort of Amiga programmers. We are sure that high-quality software included in the Poseidon stack package and our hardware-optimised drivers resulting in high performance achieved by PCI USB cards in Mediator will satisfy even the most demanding users. The unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack will be available in the Mediator Multimedia CD. Registration of the Poseidon stack for Mediator users will be provided by Chris Hodges. About Poseidon: The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives, floppy disk drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters, scanners and audio adapters to less common things like power supplies, GPS location devices or finger print readers. It is intended to be a solution for all systems. For more info about Poseidon stack please visit Chris Hodges' website. About Mediator: The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed so as to enable expanding the Amiga computers with a wide range of standard PCI cards like Graphic cards, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards, ISDN cards, USB and SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards: TV tuner and MPEG-2 hardware decoders. Expanding the Amiga with the Mediator PCI busboard opens the way to employing the power of the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors in Amiga, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are based. For more info about Mediator please visit Elbox website. (ps) [News message: 11. Sep. 2002, 20:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Sep.2002` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox: Mediator UP 3.2 & Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.16 The MediatorUP 3.2 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV and for the newest Mediator model--Mediator PCI 1200 SX has been made available today. The update includes new version of: · MediatorNET.device Changes: MediatorNET.device ver.2.6 - patching of MiamiDX ver.1.0c added The MM CD 1.16 update for the users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busbords, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released today. The update includes new version of: · FastEthernet.device Changes: FastEthernet.device ver.1.6 - patching of MiamiDX ver.1.0c added Info on the current versions is available in DOWNLOADS \| Mediator section. (ps) [News message: 11. Sep. 2002, 14:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Sep.2002` Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck (E-Mail)	Thendic France: Post A-Expo Notes 1. Pricing for the Pegasos and Betatester The Pegasos mainboard with 600 Mhz G3 (which is upgradeable AND scalable) will be sold to end-users for 560 Euros (no VAT) from Thendic-France or our Distributors/Resellers. Our prices to Resellers and Distributors are of course better and are based on volume. They are in business too. We need to support them and we will. The G4 upgrade (800Mhz) can be purchased for less than 200 Euros and you will be able to do this well before the end of the year -- if you want (see on an earlier thread here for a discussion about this). You will see basic models of the Pegasos for less than 800 Euros (including tax and taking all the different country VATs into consideration) as GGS Data in Sweden is now offering and Vesalia will soon. 2. MorphOS MorphOS gets better daily and we will delivered Betatester machines 127-133 this week. Betatester machines remain 1000 Euros because of the extras that come with it - the smart card reader, the wireless camera, and the DataPlay module - depending on what the individual Betatester is working on. Betatesters also get successively upgraded (as required/desired) to each version of the G4 and have FTP access to the latest ROM. The Betatester becomes the development machine for the eclipsis. The first peripherals will be distributed in Frankfurt at Betatester II on 12 October. 3. Linux Further, every version of Linux for the PPC known has been installed and works fine on the Pegasos. We have been especially amazed by Mac-on-Linux. Sitting next to a G4 iMac you cannot tell the difference between the machines while running the same applications. 4. Show/Demonstration Schedule and Updates a. For the Finnish Amiga Users Group the following individuals will be present: Gerald Carda (bPlan) Ralph Schmidt (bPlan) Rakesh Raghoebardayal (Thendic) Sharwin Raghoebardayal (Thendic) Teemu Suikki (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer) Harry Sintonen (Finnish MorphOS Core Developer) We will also have other Finnish Betatesters/Pegasos owners present. b. Thendic/bplan will be out in force for the WOA Show in Brentwood, Essex, UK on 2 November. c. A Pegasos Show will be held in Lodz, Poland on 16 November. Please refer to www.pegasos.pl for details as they become available. d. A Pegasos Show also be held in Moscow. A date has not been set. You will be able to see information on www.amiga.org.ru. If you want to hold a Pegasos show/demo please send us an email. We will figure out a way to support you. There are Pegasos demos being planned/scheduled in nearly every weekend until the big show in Aachen in December. 5. Un grand MERCI! The A-Expo was extremely well organized. We were very pleased to be involved. Congratulations to the A-Expo Team! We will have our pictures from the event posted to www.thendic-france.com shortly. Sincerely, Raquel and Bill (ps) [News message: 11. Sep. 2002, 14:08] [Comments: 3 - 12. Sep. 2002, 11:48] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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