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22.Oct.2002
Amiga Community Data Base: MySql 4.0.4 für 68040
SixK has compiled MySQL 4.0.4 Beta for 68040. You will find a history on the official MySQL-page.

Download: MySqld-4.0.4.lzx (ps) (Translation: gf)

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22.Oct.2002
Cloanto (ANF) Pictures from Amiga Mini Show in Slovenia
Pictures from last Saturday's Amiga Mini Show in Skofja Loka, Slovenia, are online in Michael's pages at cloanto.com. (ps)

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22.Oct.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF) Issue #11 of "Jurassic Pack" released!
Issue # 11 of the Amiga Demoscene Magazine "Jurassic Pack" has been released last night. Some topics are: "Irc - The Kindergarden of the Scene", "Crimson Jihad - no rights for the Wilddemo on the Mekka?", "Spiv/Infect - Interview with a legend", "The Silents - They are not silent anymore" plus several Interviews, topics, Reviews ...

Download: S_JP11.LHA (3,87 MB) (ps) (Translation: gf)

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21.Oct.2002
Mikey C (ANF) Magazine: Total Amiga Magazine finished - Unlucky 13? No Way!
Issue 13 of Total Amiga Magazine is finished and will be with subscribers just before the World of Amiga Southeast 2002 show.

But fear not, unlike Issue 12 we have printed additional copies for Sale at WOASE. There is now no excuse for missing out on this blockbusting issue.

Issue 13 Features:

Digital Cameras: Includes information on choosing a camera, connecting it to your Amiga and using the images.

Interactive Fiction: A look back at the history of IF, the current state of the genre and how you can get involved with your Amiga.

Interviews with: Davy Wentzler (Audio Evolution) and Matthew Kille (Zoeneo).

Flashback: A new retro column, this issue looking at the A4000.

Power Tower Conversion: How Matt Morris of BAC turned his Power Tower into a thing of beauty.

Plus Reviews of:

GoldED Studio AIX
Thylacine Zorro USB card
fxSCAN 4 with USB scanner support
Epson Perfection 1650 USB Scanner
Tales of Tamar
Earth 2140 Mission Pack
PD Paradise: Privoxy and MultiRename

Support: Photogenics 5 Layers Tutorial

Plus of course, our regular:

News
AmigaOS 4 Update
MorphOS and Pegasos Update
Columns from Fleecy Moss and Alan Redhouse
Buzz Word (Inside Agent)

New! for Issue 13: Reader Letters!

Unlucky 13? Only for those who don't get a copy of our highly rated magazine.

Total Amiga Magazine can be brought via our network of World Wide Amiga retailers or via subscription. Visit http://www.totalamiga.org for more details.

Total Amiga Magazine. Total Commitment. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Oct.2002
Amiforce (ANF) Amiforce: Engl. Amhuhn.guide, index change and new toolbars
Index change: Today the startpage of Amiforce was extended by a translation tool. Thus one can, from now on, view the side also in English language. The selection can be found in the starting picture of the index side.

AMHuhn: In the Download section is now an English version of the AMHuhn.Guide available.

Browser toolbar: A browser toolbar for IBrowse was released lately. Now there are versions for AWeb and Voyager available at our download page. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Oct.2002
Martin Heine (ANF) Thendic-France about AmigaOS4 on Pegasos (Update)
In the article MorphOS, the Pegasos, and other PPC Operating Systems and Platforms at MorphOS News.de Thendic France takes position to the possibility of Amiga OS on Pegasos. Therefore they are gladly ready to ship (or let ship by other distributors) theire Pegasos system with operating systems of other manufacturers if they can be run problem free. But there will be no kind of dongle version that will be supported by Thendic France. Further details can be found in the original article (see title link). (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Oct.2002
Thendic France Pegasos Website of Thendic France completely revised
The Pegasos Website of Thendic France was completely revised. In the columns hardware, Specs, CPU, OS, software, Events, Reseller, beta testers and Download you can find information concerning the system. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Oct.2002
OSnews Meeting: Report and pictures of the A-Expo by OSnews
Nicholas Blachford wrote an English language report for OSnews about the A-Expo, which took place on 7 and 8 September 2002 in France, with the title The A-Expo Review. Additionally five sides with pictures are available. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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21.Oct.2002
PIK (ANF) Encryption software: PGP Version 2.6.3in
Under the title link you find a small download side by Andreas Schwarz. Among other things you find the current version (20010323) of the encryption software 'PGP 2.6.ín' there. However contrary to the Aminet version one needs the ixemul 48 library. Nevertheless the speed corresponds at least to that of the age-old asm version of the Aminet. The list of fixed bugs is rather long. It was compiled using the GCC 2.95.1.

The archives are also very well arranged. They contain nearly the complete English docs + en/es/fr/de language files. The execs are for 020+ and 060. Praise to the author.

Download: pgp263in010323.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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20.Oct.2002
Petra Struck Event: Report from the Pegasos/MorphOS demonstration at the "BeGeistert"

To give you a first overview about who I met in Düsseldorf at the BeGeistert, let's start with Nicholas Blachford, known through his audio software Aural-Illusion and Aural Synthetica. He did a detailed interview in February 2002 for Amiga Arena. He is working as a software engineer for Thendic France for about a month now.

Furthermore Bertrand Presles and Sébastien Lokhamkhouak were on board as well. Bertrand is president of the ASUM (Association of Sympathiques Utilisateurs de MorphOS), a union of MorphOS-fans, which originated from the AFUA group (Association Française des Utilisateurs d'Amiga), a union of Amiga-fans. Sébastien is currently founding a new French MorphOS print magazine called 'Fly High'.

The Pegasos "Betatester 1" computer system was being demonstrated with the MorphOS operating system. What hides behind the "Pegasos" and "MorphOS"? The Pegasos is a new PPC computer system, or better said new hardware, which bases on an ATX motherboard offering dual G3/G4 processor support. This computer was developed by bplan GmbH, Frankfurt, and is manufactured by DCE, Oberhausen, and Thendic France is the worldwide distributor.

MorphOS is an excellent fit for this new computer. Below we take a look at a part of an interview done by amiga-topcool with Ralph Schmidt (one of the MorphOS authors) to better understand why this OS was developed:
amiga-topcool: Ralph, when did the idea for MorphOS strike you, and what caused you to begin?

Ralph Schmidt: Let me go back a bit before that, because MorphOS is a stage in a longer sequence of events. In September 1995 we (the former Phase 5) decided to introduce the PowerPC as the new CPU in the Amiga market, because there was no visible future for the old 68K series of processors. To that end we worked not quite a year on emulations and plans for how the OS could be ported.

All of that went out the window as we opted instead for the ppc.library approach, for reasons of time and market conditions. Then in 1998 there was again a bit of energy to the original approach after the Flash, ppc.library and SCSI developments were winding down. We saw absolutely no sense in a simple AmigaOS port or a 68K Workbench extension ala OS 3.5, so our goal was the foundation of a new OS, an OS that would contain an "A-Box" for old Amiga API programs. In March 1999 the microkernel for this new OS was functional, in that such an AmigaOS box could be integrated and this would then serve as the OS foundation.

So the operating system MorphOS (boots in 2.5 seconds) is a microkernel based OS, upon which sits an A/box, which would then allow the execution of Amiga programs (which don't access hardware), but faster as compared to Amiga hardware. The operating system MorphOS has today matured to a good operational status, Ambient (the Workbench clone) is based on MUI and can be adapted to individual design wishes.

During the performance I have asked whether it is possible to use hard disks from the Amiga to be used without problems. Bertrand attached his Amiga hard disk as slave and booted his computer, after this we could use all the programs stored on his Amiga hard disk.

However, if I say that the OS has arrived at a good operational point, I mean that it currently runs faultlessly in the main areas, but there also are somethings left to do. Herefor I would like you to remember that the individual stages of development of our AmigaOS. AmigaOS wasn´t perfect at the beginning, and it isn't today. MorphOS is nevertheless promising because there are already many programs, that are converted natively to MorphOS, further software will follow, just think about those many programs which are in work by Titan-Computer and e.p.i.c. interactive. Around 15 programmers are intensively engaged in making MorphOS a better solution in the meantime.

Users who think themselves to be capable of coping with a system which still raises smaller problems, can purchase this Pegasos/MorphOS computer as a so-called "Betatester1" (with NDA). Later, users of the Betatester1 still have the possibility to test additional hardware, such as a smart card readers. The "Betatester2" will be sold at the beginning of the coming week, no NDA (obligation to be silent about certain things) needs to be signed anymore. A date for the official customer release isn't finalized yet. The German Distributor is Vesalia, and on their website you can find all the technical details.

Finally, some answers to the questions asked by amiga-news.de readers:

Which DVD- and CD-ROM-drives are utilizable? Are there any limitations?
Yes and no. Most devices run, there will be a detailed list on Thendic France´s website shortly.

When will the support for 512 MB RAM-modules be ready?
These already can be used, when it's registered RAM. There will also be a list of all useable RAM-modules.

Will there also be support for Firewire and SCSI-adaptors?
SCSI now, Firewire later, there will be a commercial solution for this interface not after the release of the video editing software 'Motionstudio' from Titan-Computer.

Is there planned TV out and dual monitoring support?
This does not run yet, but will be implemented. When isn't clear at this point. It has definately no high priority.

What is the current state of Eclipsis and the JAVA-VM?
In development and there are first prototypes.

My personal impression after this demonstration: Not yet finished, but very very promising!

Author: Petra Struck - Pictures of this event
Translation by Michael and Gary7
Proofread by Asemoon Abi
(ps)

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20.Oct.2002
AMIGAplus Redaktion (ANF) Magazine: AMIGAplus looking for emulator freaks
The AMIGAplus team is looking at short notice for a freelance editor on royalties basis, who has knowledge of emulation of classic or exotic home computers or consoles on the Amiga. Interested parties please send a short example of style and information about the systems employed including emulation software to Marc Cloppenburg (marc@amigaplus.de). (sd) (Translation: cb)

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20.Oct.2002
Amiga Future T.o.T.: New LARP-Videos and Aminet-Demo
From the Tales of Tamar Newspage:
"Dear customers and testers,

it is our pleasure to provide your with two news items today.

First of all, we finally got the video for the second LARP based on Tales of Tamar. This con was again organized by the proven team around Daniel Stein and everybody had a lot of fun. Our thanks go to the great people at Virtual Dimension, who professionally cut and produced the video. You can find it under Downloads.

If all goes well, we will have an ambiente con in winter 2002/03 on a castle. It will also be the release party for the Tales of Tamar base set. Every player is cordially invited. You will soon find detailled information in the LARP section of our homepage.

Last but not least, today we have prepared a tech demo for Tales of Tamar to be released on Aminet. This demo will help you find out if Tales of Tamar works properly on your system and also gives you some background information. It is the same demo as two years ago, but based on new routines and now also works on Amithlon. Unfortuneately, we're not able to test it on MorphOS yet, but if some MorphOS betatesters download this demo, we would like to hear about possible problems.

Wolfen
Eternity" (sd)

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20.Oct.2002
Amiga Society Amiga Society: Little Book of Amiga Software expanded (Might and Magic III ...)
From the Amiga Society Web site:
"The Little Book of Amiga Software is slowly growing - page by page and chapter by chapter. This weekend about ten new entries will be added, and quite a number will be extended.

Joining in are among others Might and Magic III and Oh no! More Lemmings.

The weekend will also bring extensions for Schlachtfeld.

Here, the team page (among others) will be expanded, but there'll also be the odd information elsewhere.

Also, the translations of the various areas into German or English respectively should make some progress - o dear, and this with my rusted English. I'm already glad if my German babble is understood. Till then....

Yours, Horst" (sd) (Translation: cb)

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20.Oct.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage Printers: Canon BJC6000 driver V1.0 for WB 3.5/3.9
On 18th October 2002, Peter Hutchison has released version 1.0 of his Canon BJC6000 printer driver for Workbench 3.5/3.9.

Download: CanonBJC6000.lha" (sd) (Translation: cb)

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20.Oct.2002
Amiga Flame AmigaDE: Jami - Java libraries especially for AmigaDE
Gabriel Hauber and Onno Scheffers of Atomic Digital Studios are working on new developer tools for AmigaDE. 'Jami' is a set of Java libraries which have been written especially for AmigaDE and, among other things, make the extended facilities of AmigaDE APIs like Ami2D and AmiAudio directly available to Java developers.

Further information about this is accessible through the title link. (sd) (Translation: cb)

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20.Oct.2002
amiga.org AROS: Snapshots are available again
The snapshots of the AmigaOS compatible Open Source OS 'AROS' are now again available for download. Fabio Alemagna writes on amiga.org:
"That's right folks, since today you can download again the daily snapshots of the sources and binaries of AROS.

You can do it by viting this page.

However, remember that the AROS team doesn't officially support these snapshots, they are given to you "as is", although bug reports are very welcome and should be submitted using the bug tracker and patches should be submitted using the patch tracker.

For anything else, head to the AROS main site and the the SourceForge project page." (sd) (Translation: cb)

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20.Oct.2002
Kultpower.de (ANF) Kultpower: Top magazine charts and new reviews
The top charts of all games evaluations of the magazines Powerplay and Videogames are now online on Kultpower.de. So now you can easily find the best scoring Amiga games, or the C64 games with the best sound grades.

Kultpower.de write: "To commemorate old Powerplay times, this feature is called Creme de la Creme :)"

Furthermore: New reviews from the very rare Happy Computer special issues of 1986:
Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Sega Master System), Delta (C64), Donkey Kong Jr. (NES), Jinks (C64), Out Run (Sega Master System), Samantha Fox Strip Poker (C64), Super Mario Bros. (NES), Superstar Ice Hockey (C64), The Bard's Tale (C64), Wonderboy (Sega Master System). (sd) (Translation: cb)

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20.Oct.2002
David Brunet (E-Mail) Magazine: Obligement N°35
Issue 35 of the French Amiga e-zine is now available. You can read in this issue: latest Amiga news, report of the A-Expo/Alchimie2 show, interview of Chris Hodges (by Amiga Arena), reviews of FxScan 4 and Aqua, tutorial about Tornado 3D, all the news about the emulation and AmigaDE, and lot more.

Download: obligement35.lha (936K), Readme (sd)

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20.Oct.2002

Event: Pictures of visit to "BeGeistert" in Düsseldorf
Here is a selection of the pictures that have been taken today by Petra Struck on the BeOS event BeGeistert. Mainly, of course, pictures of the Pegasos/MorphOS and Walker presentations, which btw may be repeated on Sunday morning if required. An extensive report will follow.

Ulrich 'Scholly' Scholz (left) "guards" the entrance ...	... and collects the entrance fee of 10 Euro per visitor.
Most people are currently attending a BeOS demonstration ...	... thus the room looks nearly deserted.
While waiting for Nicholas, I have already shot a picture of the MorphOS surface. The windows' design is variable and, thanks to MUI, customisable.	Gert is having BeOS explained to him at length :-)
T-Shirts of all sizes and all BeGeistert event vintages are waiting for buyers, three of the old vintages can be bought for 25 Euro, the current "BeGeistert 2002" is 13 Euro.	Bertrand Presles and Sébastien Lokhamkhouak of Thendic France
Here a glimpse of the Pegasos' inside	The complete system
Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France	(This picture in 1280 x 960) A further look at the Pegasos' inside
The Walker! Nicholas has given it a try, and partly even managed to make it work!	The Walker's backside really strongly resembles a vacuum cleaner, the connectors however reveal that there is a complete computer with all the bits and pieces hiding inside.
Here two - to my knowledge never before published - drawings ...	... of Walker prototypes in a tower (well, rather a giant tower). The original pictures will be submitted to us later.
I have seldomly visited events where the empty pizza boxes were so neatly stacked for disposal!	Here now a couple of pictures from the BeOSers' room ...
Discussions here, object lesson there ...	... naturally, the pizza order is also important!
Gert is looking forward to dinner at a Chinese restaurant ...	... and I, too, am in the best of moods, for I have seen much and, obviously, I am totally delighted. Till next time with "Petra on Tour" ;-)

(ps) (Translation: cb)

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