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Archive 02/2003


22.Feb.2003
Chris Beckefeld (email)


Haage & Partner in print magazine c't
In the current issue of c't (German print magazine) 5/2003, coming next Monday, is Haage & Partner mentioned in the applications notes (page 41). It's about the localisation of the products of the graphics software developer XARA, in the beginning the font renderer Xara3D v5 for the German speaking people. But this shows obviously their turning to non Amiga products - facts follow their words... (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
GFX-BASE


Lorraine Design: new GlowIcon set 'Nelta'
Bojan Milovic of Lorrain Design has today released a new icons set in the GlowIcon style. It contains about 300 MacOS and Windows icons that he'd converted to AmigaOS and enhanced with the glow effect.

Download: Nelta-glow.lha (602 KB) (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


Genesi statement about the Pegasos II changes
This is a letter we sent out today to the "inside" group...(sorry no images!)...

22 February 2003

Dear Friends of Genesi,

We wanted to provide some basic communication this weekend to all of you, because frankly our focus this past week has been the Management meetings here in Paris. We hope that this letter will assist you in understanding more clearly the direction of the Company. Please feel free to respond directly to us at bbrv@genesi.lu with your questions. If you understand and share our vision, you can adjust your effort to become more relevant to our corporate framework if you desire.

As we have said before, Genesi stands on the verge of enormous opportunity. We can provide a completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating system, and a number of (bundled and unbundled) applications. We can innovate in ways that involve the complete integrated package, rather than being limited to new developments within each level by third parties (HP and Microsoft are not as self-reliant in this way). Genesi and our associates need to leverage this advantage fully. We are smaller, faster and will be necessarily more adventurous in our efforts. Do not hesitate to share your most creativity ideas with these mailing lists. Together, we believe we can create a substantial and long awaited change to the IT marketplace.

In the first BIG opportunity to our Company, we are required to develop using a PPC and MorphOS, a terrestrial Digital Television receiver with interactive/computing and smart card read and write functions (to be referred to as the DTV STB). This product will not require the use of the Articia and we will be producing significant quantities in the development phase and a special version of MorphOS (without hurting the complete version). If we deliver the DTV STB in a satisfactory manner we will be eligible to receive orders for over one million units. It is a once-in-a-lifetime professional opportunity for all of us. We need to make the most of it.

Of course, none of this would be possible without the years of dedication required to bring the Pegasos and MorphOS to where it is today. We are all proud to be associated with the bplan guys. The difficulties over the last year have nothing to do with them. It is the Articia from Mai Logic that has caused us months of delays. It does not perform to the advertised specifications. Thankfully, Gerald and Thomas tested and mounted the Aritica on the April2. That is right -- the April2.

The first patch that Gerald and Thomas developed works as we know, but there were still bugs. The new Articia (and Teron) is still very likely to have trouble as more problems were detected after the Aachen Show and well after the joint work Gerald did with for the new Articia in October and November with Mai. The April2 brings the Articia fully to the performance levels it claims to achieve. We have purchased the remaining worldwide supply of the old Articias and will make 400 more Pegasos main boards with the G3 CPU. Our G3 Pegasos performs better than the G4 Teron with the Articia. This will be common knowledge soon (let the others understand this on their own our word will stand as testimony to our knowledge and skill). Once produced, we will stop (we may license production of this version of the Pegasos to Plexuscom or others). These machines will easily satisfy the Amiga market and give us the machines we need to seed our developer base while Gerald and Thomas switch out the old Articia to a much more attractive alternative (details later). This could be ready by the summer. The RAM speed of the Pegasos will be as high as any offered in the market and this WILL attract considerable interest. The DTV STB revenue can carry us until this point (remember this IS a business we hope you Developers begin to remember this!).

To repeat a few words from an earlier communication?

If our strategic vision is compelling and our execution excellent, we will increasingly attract skilled developers. What Ralph, Frank and the core MorphOS Development Team have accomplished to date is exceptional, but now we need to establish a professional development and management system for MorphOS, formally retain the services of all key MorphOS developers, and recruit new talent to the project. We have struck on the Phoenix association to develop a vehicle to do this. All registered Phoenix members must use a special Phoenix logon and password to have access to the reduced Pegasos pricing that will be available through www.pegasos-usa.com. We need to be somewhat selective in insuring that these next boards go to people that will advance in communion with our effort and our internal developers and Phoenix members will have priority. We will also develop the User Group program next week and a system for handling Pegasos sales so our Distributors also benefit.

Our targeted resource/sales markets from the near to medium term are:

1. Amiga/MorphOS
2. DTV STB
3. LinuxPPC and OtherPPC

We will continue to promote to the Amiga/MorphOS market, as we have. Our underlying focus should be: broadening and stabilizing MorphOS, attracting applications and drivers (ports/original programs), and establishing a Pegasos toolkit. At the same time, www.pegasos-usa.com is working and our online sales support and information site at www.genesi-support.com will continue to improve. If we are lucky we will awaken and attract the slumbering ex-Commodore consumer market, but that will take some time and we are not quite ready for mass-market attention. The sites will be there and ready. Until we are ready with the Pegasos II we will not promote the sites as much as we could. Plus, we will standardize the Pegasos distribution network over the next few months taking a semi-franchise approach. When we are ready, everything will be in place.

On the hardware side we start where we are: the Pegasos. We have discussed the features: upgradeable, scalable, modifiable (smaller eclipsis, subsets/modular Psylent/STB), and open, as in Open Firmware (facilitates scheme for peripheral association/development IAW the IE1275 standard). We will develop a solid plan and feature set for each Pegasos envisioned and the corresponding software bundles. The management review that took place this week was very successful. We have defined and agreed to our objectives and are now preparing a solid plan for the future.

NOTE: for 200 Euros and trade-in ALL Pegasos I Users (includes Betatesters) WILL be able to upgrade to the Pegasos II (just to put an end to that FUD!).

About Linux and the other targets? OS4 too -- ;-)

Linux people usually want something great for nothing, but in the PPC market if we can get a design win over the Teron the next price point is a Mac. As more professionals and desktop consumers switch to Linux, the future of commercial software on Linux is very bright and so is our hardware. Functionality will become precedent over cost in this market. We need a bootable bundled distro and Mac-on-Linux. Linux will be a major force in the future. Today, it is still difficult to install software, drivers, set up firewalls, etc., but because of the generous licensing environment and the massive corporate support Linux is gaining (IBM, HP, etc.) as well as government mandates and funding in many countries, it is set to become the "next big thing". We need to be part of that trend.

Any PPC OS that is reasonable to port with external resources is interesting to us. We need a Go/NoGo decision matrix. Again, we are looking for resources and developer talent. For example, while Linux gets the glory, BSDs are running some of the biggest sites. We have seen the first screenshots of OpenBSD running on the Pegasos. Further, there is an increasing amount of interesting open source projects we could find a way to adapt to our use.

Finally, we are interested in restoring the Demo Scene to the Pegasos. The traditional and overt message in a demo was technical skill. The visual effects pushed the supposed limits of the platform's capability and graphics were skillfully executed. Good demos are the marriage of advanced technical, creative and artistic abilities. For the future, we need a new generation of Sceners to be pulling the most from the platform and the OS. This can generate plenty of positive attention. Besides the nVidia butterfly lady has the wrong color wings! This is why we decided to sponsor Equinoxe.

All these other things all ultimately bring us back to our key advantage: a completely integrated solution, including hardware, operating system, and applications. Management is working hard to turn this vision into a reality. While the sale of the Pegasos and MorphOS alone could never sustain the Company we are building, it may one day in the future. We use the Pegasos today to begin our move to the future, while insuring the development and growth of the MorphOS. Things could get pretty exciting if we can get that far. Let us not forget that 30 million STBs sold last year and they were called video game consoles.

Please feel free to provide any feedback to us.

Sincerely,

Raquel and Bill

P.S. If you are still confused go here -- www.lagardere.com -- and select Lagardère Media présente "Focus sur la Télé" on the left. This should help explain everything (even if it is in French!) (ps)

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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus


Debian project on Desktop Linux Summit
The Debian project has been invited to an exhibition and conference about free software and GNU/Linux that will take place soon.

The Debian project looks after a booth this weekend in San Diego in the exhibition area of the Desktop Linux Summit. Next to that is Bdale Garbee participating in a discussionan about the future of GNU/Linux on the desktop.

The company invites all interested people near there to visit the conference, to meet Debian developers and users, to exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss different topics about Debian and free software and to participate in other ways. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
FOREMATT (ANF)


100% AMIGA #33 with new design
The February issue (#33) of the British CD-ROM magazine 100% AMIGA has been released today and comes along with a fresh new design.

The completely revamped main page contains now all new areas including user groups, mails, free small adverts and much more. Features this month cover reviews of Crossfire II and PureBasic. A look at the cover on the website tells more about the new issue.

The website of the magazine has also been redesigned and enhanced with new offers. The Amiga Retro Classics area includes more games that are now priced in Euros and Dollars charges and that can be ordered via PayPal. They now also offer DVD videos and programs in the Region-2-format (Europe). (nba) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
heise online


heise: first details on Napster 2
Still this year shall Napster be restarted as commercial download service. Later on will owner Roxio upgrade peer-to-peer functions, too. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
OSNews


SciTech asks for comments regarding the SNAP-Graphics future
This week announced the AmigaOS 4 developer Hyperion Entertainment to use the SNAP technology by SciTech Software Inc. as graphics cards driver system for AmigaOS 4 (we reported). Today asks SciTech on OSNews for commments regarding future versions of SNAP-Graphics.

SciTech SNAP Graphics supports now 180 different graphics chipsets. Feedback by users show that this number would be too high. The company wants to know from the users how many and especially which graphics cards should be supported in the next release. Furthermore they ask for the operating systems that shall be supported in the future. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
YAM Website


Mail program: new YAM developers version dated February, 22nd 2003
Since today there's a new developers version 2.4-dev [020] BETA of the mailing software YAM that is now Open Source. This is a pure developers version that may still contain bugs and for which the develpers give no support and warranty. Emails regarding the developers versions won't be answered, either. Usage at own risk!

The change done can be found in this list. Further information can be found on the Yamos SourceForge site.

Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV Website


TV cards driver: AmithlonTV beta 285 (update)
Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 285 of the TV cards driver software AmithlonTV with several smaller updates and improvements.

New in version 285:
  • BUGFIX: Fixed the sliders within the audio video setup to work correctly on Pegasos.
  • BUGFIX: Fixed full screen support on CyberGraphics.


New in version 283:
  • FEATURE: Added configuration data for MD/LT9415 and TVValue.
  • FEATURE: Full Pegasos support (tested).
  • FEATURE: Added several new tuner drivers.
Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha

Update 23-02-2003:
Message updated to version 285. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
heise online


heise: 580 millions users worldwide online
Market research has shown that 63 percent of the German households are connected to the Internet. Read the full (German) article at heise online following the title link. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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22.Feb.2003
AMIGAplus


Artwork from Visualice at GFXZONE
There are quite a few sceners that have been around for a long time, but few have been as active as Visualice used to be. This guy has worked on a staggering amount of demoscene productions.

Unfortunately for us Visualice recently left Haujobb to concentrate on other forms of art. We have updated his personal gallery on the gfxzone with plenty of high-quality graphics.

The updated gallery consists of 5 parts with 100 images in total, most of which are now finally available in their full PNG quality for the first time ever (thanks Timo!!). Older images are in the first parts of the gallery, more recent images can be found nearer to the end.

To show that Visualice is also graphically active in a non-digital way, the fourth part of the gallery shows sketches. Some of the sketches that Visualice provided for us to show in his gallery are also available for purchase online, check it out if you are interested!

Enter the updated Visualice gallery and start enjoying. (nba)

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21.Feb.2003
Martin Heine (ANF)


300 Pegasos-I freely available from Monday on - Pegasos-II from September on
As Genesi reported on MorphOS-News.de the last Pegasos mainboards of the first generation are available from Monday on.

300 pieces of the 400 are freely available and the rest will be delivered to developers and the staff.

Genesi emphasizes that there will be no further production of the Pegasos-I-boards. In August/September the Pegasos-II will follow which has double data rates, three 1-GB/s Ethernet channels and Dual-G4 processors.

There will be no possibility of upgrading the Pegasos-I to G4 but a special possibility for the Pegasos-I customer.

This Genesi wants to especially emphasizes before you buy a Pegasos-I.

All beta tester who have not been changed yet have the most important priority. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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21.Feb.2003
Computer City (ANF)


Computer City February News
FotoFoto
Work on FotoFoto is progressing, new pictures of the main screen and prefs section can now be found at the FotoFoto website: www.compcity.nl/fotofoto.

Inga!
Most of the work on the Inga! conversion is done. New screenshots of the Inga-based demo-game Ermentrud running on AmigaDE 1.3 can be found at the personal site of our programmer, Arend-Paul Spijkerman (ap@compcity.nl): http://www.apsdev.com.
Added to our internal 'to do list' is a MorphOS/PowerPC version.

Webshop
Work has started on our new webshop, which will be available in Dutch, English and German. For the German market we have arranged a bank account for payments and a German postal address in the event of RMA's.

For more information, please contact Computer City at +31-10-4517722 or email info@compcity.nl. (ps)

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21.Feb.2003
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


e.p.i.c.: Knights & Merchants for MorphOS starts shipping
Today e.p.i.c. interactive started shipping the Empire Builder Knights & Merchants, which is now the first commercially available game for MorphOS. Knights&Merchants retails at EUR 49,95 and requires a Pegasos with 600 Mhz, 64 MByte RAM and MorphOS 1.0 or better. More information on this Real Time Strategy game can be found in the projects section of our homepage (title link).

Knights and Merchants can be described as a strategic economy simulation. In the main, the economics play a major role in this real-time action game. The player can manufacture different products, making use of numerous buildings and producer goods of the Middle Ages period. He can use his serfs to construct and maintain buildings and roads. The economical structuring is very specific. You manufacture finished products using various raw materials which go through your production processes. All these manufacturing systems are highly detailed and visually understandable, enabling fast and dependable control of your economy. One result of all your productive labors is the manufacture of weapons and armor. But the logistics, too, are really worth a mention. You decide where and how merchandise will be transported on the network of streets which you yourself have planned and constructed.

Your serfs transport all wares between buildings, so your town planning plays a major role in production time per building, and, resulting from that, just how efficient your economy as a whole is going to be. Transported goods are displayed graphically. Each figure in the game has his/her own mission area and carries out individual tasks independently. They don't depend on your commands or actions. You, the player, only give indirect commands for the construction of buildings, streets, corn fields, etc. However, you do have complete control of the military units.

Dealers please contact GTI/Schatztruhe. (ps)

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21.Feb.2003
Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig


Windows-arrangement: DepthMenu version 2.43
The Polish programmer Arkadiusz [Yak] Wahlig has published version 2.43 of his program 'DepthMenu'. With this program you can manage, minimize or maximize open windows on your Workbench.

New in this version: A bug has been cleared which occured if Shapeshifter was simultaneously used with the screen menu function and another one has cleared in the about window. From this version on DepthMenu will be no longer compiled with SAS/C but with GCC.

Download: DepthMenu.lha (53 kb)

Besides this the long expected new version 1.5 of the AmIRC.module has been published where bugs have been cleared and the translation has been improved.

A new version of the Workbench.module and DOpus5.module with new functions has been announced. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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21.Feb.2003
AmithlonTV


TV-card-driver: AmithlonTV beta 280 (Update)
Guido Mersmann has published beta version 280 of the TV card driver software called AmithlonTV which has some minor updates and improvements.

Version 280
  • BUGFIX:
    The driver_hauppauge.lib is now detecting radio and the real card name if known.
  • BUGFIX:
    Again a small "video_bt8x8.lib" update! This should fix the last Pegasos problems.


Version 277
  • FEATURE:
    TVCardDump now allows to dump specific data items.
  • FEATURE:
    The video_bt8x8.lib driver now supports the pci interface structure. This should fix (in theorie) the known problems with G-Rex/Pegasos and other systems.
  • CHANGED:
    Modified the TVCardSetup window to be more intuitiv.
  • BUGFIX:
    Reworked some PCI routines.
  • FEATURE:
    Implemented CyberGraphics support. (currently TVWatch only)
  • BUGFIX:
    Fixed some card drivers.
  • BUGFIX:
    Fixed full screen support in combination with the pixel cut feature.


Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lha (nba)

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Feb.2003
Kaliko


Kaliko online again
The website of the Swedish software development company Kaliko is now online again. If you have sent an email to an @kaliko.net address during the last three weeks you are asked to send it again. Kaliko continues placing confidence in AMIGA, Inc.

Most of the users in the world use a version of Windows and therefore it is right to integrate these users to the Amiga world. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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21.Feb.2003
Lars Fuhrken-Batista (E-Mail)


Release of Wings for Game Boy Advance
Cinemaware announces the release of Wings GBA, which should be hitting retail in the next few days! Wings GBA is a completely new adaptation of the action-based flight-simulator Wings on Amiga, with a new storyline, new missions and even the ability to fly on the German side! There's nothing like it on GBA. (nba)

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20.Feb.2003
heise Newsticker (ANF)


heise: EBay Warns Buyers Who Warn Other Bidders of Deception
It's known there are recurring instances of deception with eBay auctions. A bidder from Niedersachsen wanted to warn fellow bidders about an alleged con artist and so he used the contact function on the eBay website. EBay reacted to this negatively and warned the warner against "spamming."
Click on the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
(ANF)


New open source archive format: 7-Zip
7z Format - 7z is the new archive format, providing high compression ratio. The main features of 7z format:

  • Open architecture.
  • High compression ratio.
  • Strong AES-256 encryption.
  • Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method.
  • Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB.
  • Unicode file names.
  • Solid compressing.
  • Archive headers compressing.
7z has open architecture, so it can support any new compression methods. For more information please visit the title link. (ps)

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20.Feb.2003
Michael Mann (ANF)


Napster's Inheritance: Rights Lawsuit Against Bertelsmann
Two composers and two music publishers accused the Bertelsmann business group of knowingly assisting in the illegal copyright violations of Internet users, in that Bertelsmann kept Napster going through financial infusion. Read the complete article under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


USB: ROMulus Module for HIGHWAY
After our poll about the new ROMulus module (FlashROM expansion for the HIGHWAY Zorro II USB controller) the necessary prework and test on the prototype have finally been completed.

Next, the ROMulus module goes into production.

Expansive information about this particular expansion, among many long-awaited expansions, may be found under the title link, respectively the English language information may be found on the E3B pages.

E3B thanks all those who participated in our active poll, and hopes through this module to be able to offer another useful innovation for the Amiga classic market. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003



Poll about AmigaOS 4.0 Started
There are as many opinions as there are people. Others don't ask, but amiga-news.de wants your opinion!

In response to the query from ´eliotmc´ in our AN Discussion Forum we started a poll about Amiga OS 4.0. We are interested in finding out which hardware you would like to buy OS4 for. For possible answers (multiple answers are unfortunately not available with this script) you have the following selection possibilities:

  1. Classic Amiga with PPC
  2. Classic Amiga with Shark
  3. AmigaOne
  4. Pegasos (assuming OS4 runs on Pegasos)
  5. I will not buy OS4


You can read the current results here. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
Darius Brewka im AN-Forum


AmiStart Start Menu: Is There Still Interest in Further Development?
Darius Brewka released version 0.63 of AmiStart in September 2002, as we (reported). AmiStart is a start menu similar to that found in Microsoft Windows, with a quick launchbar, drag&drop support and a reconfigurable graphic overlay which allows transparency, rounded corners, background textures, a shape layer (with reconfigurable and programmable skins controllable by external applications via ARexx). One example is the shape layer of Songplayer.

Because the author has some time, he is interested in knowing if there is interest in further development of AmiStart and, if so, how strong this interest is. Would anyone like to make some suggestions or report some bugs? Give Darius some feedback, write him to say what could be improved. (ps) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
Golem IT-News


Golem: Execution of Many Programs Burns Out the iPAQ 5450
In a document from the Hewlett-Packard (HP) support databank the manufacturer of the iPAQ 5450 warns against running too many programs at the same time. When many programs run in parallel, the speed of the gadget can be massively degraded. Also, Amiga Anywhere runs on the iPAQ 5450. Read the complete report at Golem IT-News (click on the title link). (nba) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
Grasshopper LLC


DTP: PageStream V4.1.5.6 for AmigaOS and Windows
On the 3rd of February 2003, Grasshopper LLC released version 4.1.5.6 of the DTP Program "PageStream" for Amiga and Windows computers. This update is available to registered users at the Grasshopper LLC Website (title link), and includes new help data. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Interview with Ben Hermans in German and English
In light of a few currently circulating rumors about the status of AmigaOS 4, and the announcement of the partnership with SciTech, we contacted Ben Hermans (AmigaOS 4 project leader and managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment) and conducted a short interview with him.

The English language version may be read here and the German language version may be read here.

We thank Ben Hermans for taking the time to answer our questions. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
Lars Ghandy Sobiraj (ANF)


Scene: First Edition of Saxonia Disk-Mag Appears
Yesterday the demo scene group Void released the first edition of their completely new disk-mag "Saxonia #1."

Because neither the group nor the mag has a homepage, the online portal Diskmag.de is offering the download (click on title link). Saxonia functions on all classic Amigas, according to the chief editor; it can even run on an A500 with expanded RAM. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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20.Feb.2003
C64 News (ANF)


Music: SIDBoost your Amiga!
There is a new SID player for Amiga made by Glover/Samar called SidBooster. Forget about older players like PlaySid or Sid4Amiga. This is the best SID emulation on Amiga and it can be compared only with original C64! Recommended is at least 68040/40 and full installed MUI (most plugins). Works perfectly on my A4000/060/56Mhz, all BoingBags installed and Kick 3.9 (3.1 with ROM Patch from OS 3.9). "imagepool.library" was needed for my miggy (can be found on AmiNet). (ps)

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20.Feb.2003



Aminet Uploads until 20th February 2003
Since our last message there were the following new uploads to the Aminet:

JabberwockySRC.lha   comm/tcp   182K+Jabber client
MiamiSDK211.lha      comm/tcp   134K+Miami SDK 2.11
libpng-bin.lha       dev/gg     124K+AmigaOS GeekGadgets port of libpng-1.2.5
BetaScan_GER.lha     hard/drivr   2K+German catalog for BetaScan (free!)
UFStory.lha          pix/anim   269K+UltimateForce Story      
trodas_icons2.lha    pix/gicon  244K+Glow icons made by trodas
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20.Feb.2003
Atroxis.de


Music: Markus Holler's MP3 Download Site
Markus Holler, known to many Amiga users for his musical pieces for Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike and The Holy Trinity, is now working on his own music download site. Currently there are already a few previously unheard songs to be found there, which in part come from the latest VD* Convention Video! Have fun!

*Virtual Dimension [ ;) -DM]

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