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Archive 03/2003

`19.Mar.2003` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	Individual Computers: AmiGBG in Gothenburg, Delfina in production On March 29th, the Amiga-show AmiGBG will take place. The event takes place for the third time this year, and we'll attend for the first time as an exhibitor. We will present new and known products from our palette together with our long-term partner GGS-Data. The Scandinavian Amiga-community is very active and most notably creative, therefore we're especially looking forward to this event! With a little luck, we'll have our latest product in our luggage: After an extremely long wait, the sound card Delfina went into production. Nearly one year ago, we announced the last technical changes, that are already outdated today. The most important change is probably the split of the product into two boards. The updated product description on our website confirms what many people already assumed since the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper is out: The new Delfina is a combined Zorro/PCI card. The first stage of this high-end sound card will be available in Germany starting April 7th, 2003. Pre-orders are taken by our retail partners. (ps) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 23:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Genesi: CeBIT report 2003 Genesi: CeBIT-Report 2003 From Ron van Herk und Martin Heine The CeBIT is over, eight days of hard work are behind us. Genesi´s first CeBIT attendance has been very successful. We were able to have many interesting talks, we had a lot of interested visitors and started some very promising business deals. We cannot got into detail of every single topic and of course there are some (indeed not too few) things which we cannot talk about in public. But some things we can say right now: _Kato Development_ Kato has developed sound card drivers for more then ten different audio chip sets. These include the AC97 codec, several Creative sound cards, but also some different Terratec models. We are to assist Kato in any possible kind to port their drivers to the Pegasos/MorphOS system, so Pegasos users will have a broad choice af additional sound cards. _Mediapoint_ We hired the main programmer of Mediapoint. He started, done as a fulltime job, already to finish the next version of this package. It´s aimes to do a first release still this summer. Our main focus is the professional market but also current users of the stand alone version will be an upgrade offered to benefit from the new features as well. Futhermore the same programmer will create a MorphOS version of Inga the graphic adventure creator. With this it becomes possible for developers to create such graphic adventures or edutainment software for our settop box. _Russia_ Genesi´s Russian distributor visited us at the fair. Currently the Russian localization of MorphOS is under development. _Merchandise_ Genesi thinks about the production of several MorphOS mechandise goodies and to offer it via local dealers. We have some ideas for that ourself by now but welcome every suggestion for that as well. _3sat_ As most will have heard and some have seen already there has been a short report about the Pegasos/MorphOS within the TV show "neues" of 3sat. Even it has not been to extensive it has been quite nice and we got some several positive feedback about it. Okay, that´s all for the moment - more news will follow when we can put them to public. Our best greetings and regards from the CeBIT we are leaving from here now! Ron, Martin, André und Ulrich (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 23:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2003` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Amiga Future: Fax and mobile phone disabled The Amiga Future disables from April the 1st 2003 their current mobile phone and fax account. New numbers will not be published. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 18:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2003` YAM (Website)	Mailer: New YAM Developer version from 03-19-2003 Since today there is a new developer version 2.4-dev [020] BETA available from the mailer YAM which became open source recently. This version is a pure developer version which might still include some bugs and for which the developer team gives no warranty and support of any kind. Requests via e-mail about developer versions will not be answered. Usage on your own risk! The recent changes can be obtained from this list. Further information is to get from the Yamos SourceForge page. Download: YAM24Dev.lzx (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 15:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2003` Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)	Article: The new generation of CDR/CDRW writers With the start of the CeBIT the new generation of the 5x-times IDE CDR/CDRW writer has been introduced to the market. Along with the higher writing speeds for CDRs and CDRWs all writers include technologies to avoid buffer underruns by standard now and are capable of the mount rainier standard, which should replace floppy disks as data carrier medium. _Mitsumi_ The current top edge is the Mitsumi CR 485F TE (54x 32x 54x speed) drive. The best features of this ultraspeed rewriter include the integrated MITSUMI Aegis write technology for best writing results. Aegis write controls and optimizes the laser strength, checks the writing speed and performs during the writing process a quality check for a safe burn. Availability: from April. Price: about 99 Euro. _Plextor_ The new Plexwriter Premium (52x 32x 52x speed) works with an improved optical unit which offers a better signal sharpness between the pits and lands, so capacity of mediums can be increased up to 40%. So a 700 MB disk is capable of up to 1 GB. For a better compatibility Plextor says to extend the disk capacity only about 20%. To reduce the drive sounds the speed of the drive can be downgraded by the user individually. Availability: from April. Price: about 199 Euro. _LG Electronics_ For all who think about to get a new CDRW as well as a DVD-ROM LG presents the new combo drive GCC-4520B (16x + 52x 24x 52x). Beside all common CD/CDRW formats the drive can read DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW media. The maximum read speed for these media is 16x which is about 21 MB/s. Availability: from April. Price: not published yet. _Cyberdrive_ With the CW099D (52x 24x 52x) Cyberdrive offers a high sped writer now. The device works in the CAV mode and thus needs less than 2.5 minutes for a complete CD-R and for a CD-RW only about 3.5 minutes. The device can handle the raw DAO mode with 96 subchannel bytes and thus offers backup copies of protected CDs. Extra long CDRs with 90 or 99 minutes are supported also. Availability: from now on. Price: about 99 Euros. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 12:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2003` Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)	e.p.i.c.: Divine Divinity coming to the Mac and MorphOS Larian Studios and e.p.i.c. interactive announced today that they have signed a contract to bring Larian Studios' highly awarded role playing sensation Divine Divinity to the Apple Macintosh and MorphOS. Warrior, Wizard or Survivor? Which fate is yours? It's your decision, one that will influence the gameplay of Divine Divinity - playable as an action based RPG or a classical RPG! According to prophecy, you are the chosen one. Only you have the strength, the courage and the magic to save the legendary lands of Rivellon from submission under the Lord of Chaos. Before you can take on the fight against Evil, you must journey far through a fantastic world torn apart by corruption, sinister plots and dark magic. Caution is vital! Whatever happens, the evil magicians of the black ring must not get hold of you! With an involving storyline and plenty of sub quests for maximum replayability, Divine Divinity is role-playing gaming at its best! As a warrior, wizard or survivor, you will create your own destiny! More information on Divine Divinity and all the accolades it has achieved, can be found on e.p.i.c's or Larian Studios website. The Apple release will lead the way in QIII/03 followed shortly thereafter by the MorphOS release. The Mac version will be OSX only and will require a G3-333, 128 MByte RAM and a 8 MByte 3D Gfxcard. The MorphOS version will need a Pegasos I or II. (ps) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 11:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2003` filosof (ANF)	Event: Commodore Retro Party - Mail Madness Party #5 This year there will be a a computer party for retro freaks again in Saxonia/Germany. From April the 30th until May the 4th 2003 there will be a Mail Madness! party in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, where from the C64 or Plus 4 to the ZX-Spectrum everything will be there. Several new and well known DiskMags will be shown to be up to date again. A possibility for sleeping and eating (breakfast, hamburger for in between or pizza (starting from 2 Euros) at night ...etc.) as well as beverages are available. A supermarket for the buying individual stuff is just near by. For details just ring the +49 177 3376544 or of later than 6pm call the +49 3723 48729 ......come on !! don't hesitate !!! See ya...! (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 11:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Mar.2003` Martin Heine (ANF)	Finnish Amiga User Group interviews Bill Buck & Raquel Velasco by Genesi MorphOS-News.de reports about an interview, which was done by the Finnish Amiga User Group with Genesi. Within this interview Bill Buck and his wife Raquel Velasco do not only talk about the Crossbee team hired by Genesi not only introduces their experience of the management organisation but also their software to MorphOS. Additionalyt hey told that Ceolia now works for Genesi also, that prototypes of the PegasosII boards (6 Layers) are expected within the next three months. Representives of Plexuscom will come to Paris after the CeBIT to outline the further team work; that Genesi will sponsor the demo scene event "Assembly 2003" and that there will be a new MorphOS version for the existing PowerUp cards during the next month available free of charge for the Amiga community. (ps) (Translation: ub) [News message: 19. Mar. 2003, 11:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2003` Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)	Font: TTEngine 6.4 TTEngine 6.4 is a bugfix release for three bugs unfortunately introduced in the previous one. The main bug was requesting mathieeesingtrans.library V38 while Workbench 3.0 and 3.1 has V37 of this library. This caused library initialization failure and revealed two bugs related to cleanup routine. Cleanup generated several Enforcer hits if called after failed initialization. All three bugs are fixed in TTEngine 6.4 release. Thanks to Halvadjian Georges, who reported the bug and hepled with debugging. Download: ttengine-6.4.lha (ps) [News message: 18. Mar. 2003, 18:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2003` MorphOS-News.de	CeBIT 2003: More pictures MorphOS-News.de has posted some more CeBIT pictures (provided by Ron van Herk). (ps) [News message: 18. Mar. 2003, 13:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2003` Markus Holler (Website)	Music: Markus Holler - Dance Mix aus Cold Zero Markus Holler, known to many Amiga-Users for his music for the games Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity, works on the music Actiongame Cold Zero. For the soon vailable game you can find a dance mix of the main themes on the download page. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 18. Mar. 2003, 13:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2003` EvenMore	Text viewer: Latest MSWord-Plugin for EvenMore Chris Perver has released the MSWord-Plugin Version 1.38 for his text viewer 'EvenMore'. With this plugin you can convert in 'EvenMore' MSWord files into text. Download: msword2text.plugin (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 18. Mar. 2003, 12:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2003` AmithlonTV (Website)	TV-Card driver: AmithlonTV beta version 321 Guido Mersmann has released the beta version 321 of AmithlonTV with some updates and enhancements. Download: AmithlonTVBeta.lh a New in this version: CHANGED: Recompiled with the latest resource tracking and management code. BUGFIX: Thanks to the new resource management I found a very (very very) worst memory boundary leak (4000 bytes!!!) in the main library core! If you had a few crashes in the past, then there is a very (very very) good chance that they are gone! BUGFIX: Another 2 byte boundary leak within the virtual card driver fixed. CHANGED: Installer-Script now requests an actual installer version to ensure proper operation. FEATURE: Added PowerPCI NG support. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 18. Mar. 2003, 12:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2003` www.scene.org/news.php (ANF)	OS Poll at scene.org There is an OS poll running at scene.org right now. Lets help our favorite OS a little hand ;-) (ps) [News message: 18. Mar. 2003, 10:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Mar.2003` Kicko (ANF)	Music: Access Virus Midicommands for tracks&fields More then 250 commands to remote access virus synthesizers from tracks & fields. There will be updates when Access makes new OSupdates with new sysex midi commands. Further updates will be made when for HDRec when there comes new versions of it. As i dont find anyone that have time to continue on tracks&field i will later use HDRec instead as its more pro. Directpage (ps) [News message: 18. Mar. 2003, 00:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2003` Amiga.SF (Website)	Diego Casorran Ports: HyperMail V2.1.7 and Flac V1.1.0 HyperMail to version 2.1.7, it is a program that takes a file of mail messages in UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of cross-referenced HTML documents. Each file that is created represents a separate message in the mail archive and contains links to other articles, so that the entire archive can be browsed in a number of ways by following links. (I remember you that YAM export his emails in UNIX format ;) Flac to version 1.1.0, it stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of: the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form, flac: a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac: a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files. "Free" means that the specification of the stream format is fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent. It also means that all the source code is available under open-source licenses. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 17. Mar. 2003, 17:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2003` Faces of Mars (ANF)	Two new digital album: Galicia and Lisbon After technical problems over the weekend the Faces OF Mars Website is again fully functional. Immediately there are two new products: Photo CDs about Lisbon and Galicia. Beside many photos the CDs contains also a digital postcard system, with which one can send motives simply over the Internet. Price: 4 Euro per CD. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 17. Mar. 2003, 16:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2003` Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)	Music: Liquid Skies records with new module Martin ' DaFreak ' Rebentisch writes: Our musician Angeldust composed, influenced by the political argument USA/Iraq, a MP3-Tune in the Schranz style named "God Bless You". Sounds very interesting, just listen to it. [LQS Homepage]! (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 17. Mar. 2003, 13:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2003` Jabberwocky (Website)	Instant Messenger: Jabberwocky V1.4 - 2. Preview Tom Parker and Matthias Münch published Preview 2 of the instant messenger 'JabberWocky' version 1.4 for Amiga computers. Jabber is an open XML protocol for the direct exchange of messages. Connections with other instant messengers like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo is possible via gateways. Beta-version-vownload: Jabberwocky030316.lha Changes: Fixed transperancy of icons in roster window (thanks to Jeff Gilpin) Fixed long standing enforcer hit when removing contacts (also thanks to Jeff Gilpin as a side effect of the transperancy fix) Fixed reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1) Fixed unicode conversion of reply quoting (introduced in 1.4pre1) Some support for displaying errors in the roster (but I haven't actually had any errors that trigger it, so it either doesn't work, or I haven't had any errors. Fixed enforcer hit on startup when autoconnect is on and there is no account information (introduced in 1.3) Roster icon remains on the event icon until all unread messages have been read Fixed handling of messages from contacts that are not in the roster (introduced in 1.4pre1) As you can see 1.4pre1 had quite a lot of problems, remember you shouldn't be using any prerelease unless you want problems. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 17. Mar. 2003, 12:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Mar.2003` WHDLoad (Website)	Installer: WHDLoad - New packages until 16.03.2003 With WHDLoad you install games, which were meant for the floppy discs usage only, on your hard disk. The following packages were added and/or updated since our last message: 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 3 - The Curse of Mordread (Ready Soft) done by CFOU! 16.03.03 new: Dragon's Lair 2 - Time Warp (Ready Soft) done by CFOU! 15.03.03 new: Dragon Lord (Alfaforce) done by Agressor 15.03.03 new: 3001 O'Conners Fight 2 () done by Agressor 15.03.03 improved: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) supports another version 15.03.03 improved: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) supports another version 13.03.03 new: Worms - The Director's Cut (Team 17) done by Psygore (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 17. Mar. 2003, 12:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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