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| 07.Jul.2003 Jens Schönfeld (ANF) |
individual Computers: Show report: AAA 2003, Commodore Billboard back online This weekend, the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 took place in Udine, Italy - another station of Amiga OS4 on tour. The show was organized by Cloanto, well-known for a lot of Amiga programs and the emulator "Amiga Forever". Jürgen Schober of Point Design had to make two OS4 presentations, because the room was totally overcrowded with more than 100 Amiga fans and journalists of daily press and computer magazines. We also had the chance to show our products in a 30-minute presentation. Best-seller of the present retailers Soft 3 and Virtual Works was the Catweasel MK3, that became the first choice accessory for many Amiga One owners because of it's high degree of integration into the hard- and software of the new Amiga. A small Retro-computing museum right at the entrance of the showroom brought back joyful memories in the visitors. Rare items like an SX-64 in best shape, a VIC-20 rev.1, and even a C65 prototype were shown. One of the first multi-computer games (today's networking games) was shown on two PET computers that were connected through the serial ports. The home computer pioneer Altair 8800 from 1975 was the only none-Commodore computer. The "Video Microwave", a Pegasos-board that was built in the case of a Sharp Microwave oven, was - at best - good for a laugh. The keyboard did not work at all, and it only took a few mouseclicks to make the computer with the MorphOS operating system crash. The reason for this could not be found in the short time of the show. Commodore Billboard back online Our good news for the fans of Commodore nostalgia almost got lost in the excitement surrounding Amiga OS4: The Commodore Billboard is back online! The initiator of the project, Søren Ladegaard (Denmark) had to drop the project due to lack of time in January 2003, and transferred the website to individual Computers. We're now sponsoring the website that can cause a lot of traffic with it's several hundred megabytes in size. During the past half year, the new webmaster Stefan Zelazny has converted the audio and video files to mpeg and mp3, so the website can be viewed on most platforms. For example, the Realplayer is not necessary any more. Currently, the website is available under the address www.commodorebillboard.de. The .com domain will be made available in the coming weeks. If you're interested in a local copy of the website, you can support us in paying for the high cost of the website by ordering the CD. It will be available in August this year from all our retail partners for about 15,- EUR. The double-CD package also contains some surprises for Commodore-fans! (ps) [News message: 07. Jul. 2003, 22:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Jul.2003 z5 (ANF) |
A.D.A.: First update after two-month break After a two-month break the demo on-line collection "Amiga Demoscene of Archives" was extended by four new productions: "Heaven is 2d" of Whelpz, "Dark Rain" of The Loonies, "Outgrowing" of Potion and "Xenophobia" of Subspace. (nba) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2003, 19:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Jul.2003 Amiga Impact (Website) |
Pictures of the Amiga OS presentation in Toulouse (Update) Meanwhile the presentation documents are also available in Englisch. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2003, 15:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 07.Jul.2003 Christian Rosentreter (ANF) |
Demonstration videos of MorphOS/Pegasos published The videos let you see the PowerPC computer Pegasos in action, in order to be able to get an impression of the possibilities of the platform. The following videos are available for the download:
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| 06.Jul.2003 Kicko (ANF) |
Music: Access Virus MIDI commands for tracks&fields 0.7 I updated my virus OS to OS6.0. So there was time to fix this package to support new commands or new values for the old ones. This don't mean that the package is full now as I don't know every piece they changed. It lacks also off controlling the new function called Pure tuning. This one is only controllable from the virus menu. The changes: PageA: Bankselect updated. Support for more banks overwritten the demo. PageB: Arpegiattor. More patterns to choose from. PageC: Partbankselect and Partbankchange for the new banks. That's all. Why do I update this package? Because of still using T&F until HDRec is finished. Then I will make all commands for HDRec. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Jul. 2003, 18:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 06.Jul.2003 AmigaWorld (ANF) |
Fortnightly Q&A's with Fleecy Moss - episode 14 The English online magazine AmigaWorld has published episode 14 of the regular questions and answers session with Fleecy Moss, CTO at AMIGA, Inc. (Update 2012-03-17, cg: as the original document is no longer available, the following content was moved into our database): 1) ssolie: With the services based approach you are proposing, will an application be expected to query capabilities or will AmigaOS automatically adapt to the hardware itself or some hybrid of the two? Depending on the application, some may not appreciate having to query the OS every time they want to do something versus letting the OS adapt itself to the application and hardware environment. Fleecy: In all multi component systems there will always be a per component capability and requirement set. Traditional static systems work on assumption which tends to give them superior performance as long as those assumptions are always true. In the world of today, we have a huge level of dynamism - smartphones, PDAs, consoles, tablets, desktops, servers, fat pipes, thin pipes, hardware acceleration, processor speed, screen size, input controls etc and you are faced with the problem of how to map these from the physical domain into the digital domain. A service based architecture doesn't really affect this in implimentation since it is just a model. For example I could query the graphics service to find out if it supplies a vector service and if it does then I can chose to use it or not. This can be done dynamically by the application or can be done at install time, which is no different from the situation now where, if you assume that MUI is installed, and it isn't then your application won't work. Thus you will still have different options as a developer - you can make use of services which themselves adapt on your behalf or you can do that yourselves. In either case, there is always going to be the same question, where does the responsibility lie? We want to offer choice so that the developer can make those decisions. A good example is the Ami2D scaling services of the AmigaDE. Some people use them and some people prefer to create resolution dependent graphic sets. What is needed is a further level of abstraction, so that capabilities and requirements are managed transparently and that is coming on board now with such things as vectorisation and other descriptive formats that allow for interpretation based upon semantic information. That is something we are looking at but the more abstraction you have, the more resources are required to translate between the physical and digital domains. Swings and roundabouts I'm afraid. 2) CodeSmith: Apple have made a big splash with their announcement of PPC970 "G5" systems. Is there going to be a "zico-2" spec for Amiga PPC970 systems, or are you giving vendors full control? any idea when we can expect PPC 970 Amigas (other than "after OS4.0")? Fleecy: We do plan on having a 64 bit version of the AmigaOS but that is someway down the line. If a vendor approaches us with the necessary hardware then we will consider revising our timetable but we still have a lot of work to do for the 32 bit PPC AmigaOS4, such as actually releasing AmigaOS4.0. There are also a few interesting other 32 bit opportunities coming up that will have to weighed against a 64 bit desktop machine. 3) Quixote: Since AmigaOS4.0 will be on the CyberStormPPC first, I wonder whether it will include an update to the CyberStorm's FlashROM, that would permit booting from the CD? I understand that it was a feature intended for the CyberStorm, but it doesn't seem to work. Fleecy: We do not intend to touch the CSPPC flashrom. Its internals are proprietary and besides, we are relying on it to bring the HW up first before AmigaOS4.0 takes over. Any changes we made might also damage the users ability to boot into AmigaOS3 as well. If you have problems with the CSPPC Flashrom, perhaps an email to those who worked on it might reveal why it doesn't work or get them to add that functionality. 4) Miffy: I run AmigaDE on my desktop ( the one I am typing on now ) which has software on it that I have ported, that others have ported and the like. It runs the partypack update. What I want to know is how long before the next publically available ( non NDA ) update comes along from Amiga given I cannot get permission to enter into a new NDA with Amiga Inc right now ( because of company regulations and Im sure others are in this position too )? Fleecy: We are reworking our NDA policy to make it consistent with industry practices for software licensing. In the meanwhile if special circumstances prevent you from agreeing to the licensing terms, you can contact us directly to determine how best we can meet your needs. Send an email to support@amiga.com. 5) Asemoon: I very much like the idea of being able to use animated GIFs as icons on the desktop with the introduction of Amiga OS3.9 and so will this feature stay available or maybe be enhanced/altered in any way for AmigaOS4? And will there be support for 24bit PNG format icons in the future? Fleecy: The source code for that particular feature is in the hands of H&P and we do not have access to it. The Amiga graphics architecture has reached the end of its useful life. Actually, it reached it about five years ago but has been brought back, jiggled, enhanced and hacked to stop the platform from dying. The screenshots you are seeing as part of the AmigaOS4.0 on Tour roadshow represent hopefully the last AmigaOS release that uses this architecture and their quality is a reflection of both the strength of the original architecture and the ingenuity and persistence of the developers since then who have worked on it. As part of the Amiga Generation 2 project (AG2), we are currently working on a brand new visual domain replacement which we hope to deploy either in AmigaOS4.1 or AmigaOS4.2. This will build from the hardware upwards and be able to support high quality existing interface models as well as allow for brand new features, functionality and models. We are particularly eager to introduce the Reactive Presentation Agents (RPAs) that we developed for the AmigaDE which would provide the same functionality, and a lot more besides. 6) Asemoon: What languages will AmigaOS4 support out of the box? Fleecy: We are supporting many languages, which are listed below, using a combination of the excellent ATO and private individuals, working in teams of two or more to produce each catalog. We do have a few offers where we just have one person (Icelandic and Malay) but we would like to have at least two people, since it is a lot of work. Anyone interested in helping out should send a mail to os4-betatest@hyperion-entertainment.com with the subject line of 'Localisation offer of help'. Bosnian Catalan Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French Galician German Greek Hungarian Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Serbian Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish That's 20 languages for now. The Russian ATO team disbanded but new people will soon be joining. I think we can count them as well. This is a list of language drivers for which there are no catalogs currently in progress. Albanian Belarusian Bulgarian Croatian Esperanto Estonian Faroese Icelandic Irish Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Portuguese-brazil Romanian Slovak Ukrainian If you are missing a language that can be written from left to right in an ISO-8859-X charset just ask Detlef at TetiSoft@apg.lahn.de if he can create a language driver for it. 7) Asemoon: The support for non-Latin fonts like for instance Arabic/Persian and Chinese/Japanese characters were not well documented for previous AmigaOS releases. How will such characters and languages be handled by future AmigaOS and AmigaDE releases? Fleecy: Not well documented is too optimistic :) It was documented that the Amiga character set is ECMA-94 Latin1 (thats ISO-8859-1), that the bullet.library API uses Unicode (16bit only), and it was defined a font attribute FPF_REVPATH for writing from right to left. There was no official statement from H&P how their special localizations for e.g. czech or russian would fit into this framework (in fact they did not). There was a statement that the Euro update is only an intermediate solution. OS4 bullet API was improved and allows 32bit Unicode now, 16bit are not enough since Unicode 3.2 (current is 4.0). OS4 diskfont.library now contains a character set database, it does know the MIME charset name of each font in the system, and the Unicode code point of each glyph. However the bitmap fonts handled by diskfont.library are still limited to 8bit charsets, so for Chinese/Japanese/Persian/Georgian etc you'll have to use bullet API. With the new diskfont API you can however ask for e.g. Times in ISO-8859-5 (cyrillic), -6 (arabic), -7 (greek), -8 (hebrew), -11 (thai) or -16 (eastern european latin with Euro) and it will create it on-the-fly from e.g. a truetype font. With OS4 locale.library the user is able to change the current system default charset on-the-fly by selecting a different language driver. The charset of each catalog file in the system is known, there exist charset conversion functions that ensure that e.g. for polish with ISO-8859-2 system default charset any polish catalog file will be displayed correct, it does not matter if its in ISO-8859-2, -16 or in the special ATO charset used in OS3.9 polish localization. Its also possible to use catalog files in UTF-8. Most text handling and output functions in OS4 are not able to write from right to left, so there still exist large problems with arabic/persian and hebrew, an application that reverses arabic and hebrew strings before output can at least display its GUI but for text input (cursor on the right after return) special applications would be needed. Summary: OS3.x language support was limited to western european latin languages, OS4.0 language support is limited to latin, cyrillic and greek (thai would eventually work if someone could fit thai glyphs into topaz/8 and topaz/9 default ROM fonts). OS4.0 font support is limited to any 8bit MIME charset in diskfont API (besides the right-to-left problem) and not limited in bullet API. 8) _Steve_: Will there be support for the pre-existing PPC programs from both PUP/WOS in OS4? Fleecy: We'll provide an application launcher that can launch WarpUp programs, maybe even PowerUp. However, we'll not include any hacks to make this work. Since there was only a small number of applications created that used these two systems, we are hopefully that their authors will upgrade their programs and release AmigaOS4.0 native versions. 9) Billsey: From past personal experience I know that there are dedicated Christians at Amiga, Inc. I have friends there, and I am not turning against them, but they are Christian, so I believe that the following question(s) must be asked. I would like to know what role that faith has played (a) in keeping the company alive; (b) in walking the path that has been walked; and (c) when specific confession and, more importantly, repentance of “mistakes made” will be observable. Fleecy: Religion, like any other philosophy seller is an individual concern, not something that should ever be part of heterogenous system, whether a group, a company, a nation or a species. I always find it ironic that nature, the mother of us all preaches diversity and yet humans are obsessed with monotony, to the point of coercion, persecution, discrimination and destruction. With that in mind, I cannot and will not answer your question, because such things should be on individual level interaction. In other words, if you want an answer, send the question to the individuals themselves. 10) drstrange: what form of support will OS4 take for a 250MB ZIP? Will it use harddrive-like formatting or a mountfile and if a mountfile could you show us it ahead of time to give a few of us time to prep our disks. Fleecy: Same as OS3.9 (or 3.1): it's a removable media, 'Removable' and 'Rigid Disk Block' are mutually exclusive, you should use a mountfile. To be able to use RDBs on removable media as well all file systems would have to support unmounting. The new FFS2 does support it, but there are file systems which don't, for example SFS. Some 3rd party devices do allow RDBs to be used on removable media, but that's a hack, it's not possible to implement it in clean way and therefore it will not be added to AmigaOS4.0 devices. (Copyright © 2003 Amigaworld.net. All rights reserved. Originally available at http://amigaworld.net/modules/fleecymoss/index.php?cat_id=15 You may freely redistribute this article, providing that a URL is provided to the original source, and the copyright notices remain intact) (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Jul. 2003, 18:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 06.Jul.2003 |
Aminet Uploads up to 6th July 2003 Here are the Aminet uploads that have been added since our last announcement: PPaintRUS.lha biz/cloan 21K+Cloanto Personal Paint 7.1c RUSSIAN KIT PAC.lha biz/dbase 1.9M+HTML Photoalbum Creator v1.0. CManager25.lha comm/misc 403K+Contact Manager, a centralised system-wi sa03.lha demo/aga 350K+Invitation intro for Syndeecate Apocalyp MBPrefs.lha dev/basic 24K+External Preferences Editor for MaxonBas nqc.lha dev/lang 181K+Lego Mindstorms compiler and comm tool amuidiff.lha dev/misc 117K+Displays differences of two text files i MCC_TheBar.lha dev/mui 274K+Next generation buttons bar class vdisk37.lha disk/misc 46K+Dynamic recoverable RAM disk (V3.7) RealAmigaWorld.txt docs/anno 4K+New Real Amiga-Mania World IRC Channel i NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 1.6M+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 06/2003 (Itali AmigaFuture43.lha docs/mags 804K+Great german paper mag preview nocover112.lha docs/mags 2.6M+Great german diskmagazine Saga.lha game/board 298K+Saga 1.27: Conversion of TSR boardgame DC2Lvl-EMine2.lha game/data 454K+99 levels for Diamond Caves II boulderdaesh.lha game/jump 927K+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Main Archive boulderfull.lha game/jump 4.5M+V5.21, BoulderDaesh RTX Full Archive Arkanos.lha game/misc 416K+Break out game like ARKANOID ** V2.03 ** MALevelEditor.lha game/misc 13K+Level Editor for Mini Arcanoid v2.9 WormWars.lha game/misc 566K+Worm Wars 7.51: Advanced snake game Hexa_Q.lha game/wb 43K+Surprise!! A peg game... updated! S_Tiles.lha game/wb 43K+Try to solve this sliding-tile puzzle! Tri_Q.lha game/wb 43K+A triangular shaped peg game... updated! p-intFix.lha misc/emu 37K+Patch for P-Code interpreter Foundation1.mpg mods/mpg 19M+First part of a three part suite Foundation2.mpg mods/mpg 10M+Second part of a three part suite Foundation3.mpg mods/mpg 287K+Third part of a three part suite Prelude3.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Prelude3. MPEG of old tape of me on keys SundaySuite.mpg mods/mpg 3.5M+Sunday Suite. 4 part piano suite TheSpell.mpg mods/mpg 6.5M+The Spell MPEG of old tape of me on keys BorderNames.lha text/dtp 2K+List Border Names Arexx Script PageStrea nA_ConFile07.lha text/misc 100K+Compare from 2 to 5 files Next3.6.lha text/show 150K+Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes SRename.lha util/cli 93K+Advanced rename utility. Version 3.7.1 DirSSCompare.lha util/dir 14K+Compares two dirs (for differences) FolderSync.lha util/dir 73K+Synchronise two folders automagically! ExtraLib.lha util/libs 244K+Dynamic buffers, filesystem CRCs, colorf CHARisma.lha util/misc 115K+Get easy access to all printable chars. FakeCD32Joypad.lha util/misc 20K+Use the keyboard instead of CD32 Joypad ReportPlus.lha util/misc 314K+Report+ 5.67: Multipurpose utility VisualGuide.lha util/misc 39K+Make filelist in AmigaGuide format. winlaunch.lha util/misc 46K+WinLaunch - Launch Windows Applications RandomWBPatt.lha util/wb 30K+Timer controled Slideshow-like random WB(ps) (Translation: cb) [News message: 06. Jul. 2003, 13:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 06.Jul.2003 Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF) |
Music: Liquid Skies records #044 Yesterday the scene group Liquid Skies published its 44th music pack. This time it contains a music piece called "Walking The Corridors" by the English musician Darkus who, though not being a member of the group, still offers his track as a guest under the label Liquid Skies. It is a rather experimental piece of music and would probably fit best under the category of Trance. This time the cover was created by DaFreak. Next some more information about the track:
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| 05.Jul.2003 IrseeSoft (website) |
Turboprint version 7.50 with new drivers The new version 7.50 of the printing software TurboPrint is available from now on and contains new printer drivers:
*) USB controller required
(nba) (Translation: wk) |
| 05.Jul.2003 EvenMore (website) |
Text viewer: FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for EvenMore Chris Perver has reworked the FinalWriter/Copy plug-in for his text viewer EvenMore. This plug-in supports now text styles and colours. Download: finalwriter2text.plugin (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 13:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 Adam Chodorowski (email) |
AROS: voting about the AROS logo Some weeks ago called the AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) developers team to a logo contest (we reported). The entries are now published for an open vote, all Amiga users can participate once in the voting and thus have an influence in the future representation of AROS. (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 13:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 Cloanto (ANF) |
First pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 The first pictures of the Amiga Alpe Adria 2003 - taking place today in Udine, Italy - can be found following the title link. The atmosphere seems to be fantastic: "We are in total overload, very crowded, lots of food (local gubana, cheese, etc. :-), wine (and local Castello beer :-)... Rushing back now..." (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 13:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 Golem - IT News |
Golem: HP to take back ink cartridge from private customers »Recycling of ink cartridges shall help the environment HP will expand their recycling program and take back empty ink cartridges for printers from private customers in Europe in the future. This will be started in 2003 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland while Great Britain, Ireland and other countries will follow from 2004 on.« Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 11:32] [Comments: 1 - 24. May. 2008, 11:05] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 Golem - IT News |
Golem: Golem.de: New job market with several hundreds IT jobs »Co-operation with Jobware In co-operation with Jobware is Golem.de starting a new completely overhauled jobs market. Under the URL jobs.golem.de you can find from now on several hundreds of job advertisements for the IT, telecommunications and related industries, listed in clearly sorted by categories and regions.« Read the full (German) article following the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 11:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 BTTR-Team (email) |
Back to the Roots celebrates birthday and draws many prices Five years does the project "Back to the Roots" now exist. Truely a reason to celebrate! Next to new games highlights like Battle Squadron, Hybris, Arkanoid, Mega Typhoon or The Plague, we present to you the team of BTTR with the games Plix and Symbolrechnen, and the Populous editor really new releases for the Amiga. All three titles are exclusively available at BTTR and are released for the first time. Furthermore BTTR start a draw with many prices to win. More information can be read in the news on www.back2roots.org. The team of BTTR: "We thank for the loayalty during the last five years and wish all visitors much fun!" Next to the birthday update and the draw there's another important news for www.back2roots.org: For the first time ever there's an "interactive online mod radio"! On more than 50 different channels you can listen to music of all kind. More than 65.000 mods are available! You can listen with WinAmp or Deliplayer 2. There's no streaming. Every song gets completely loaded! Jürgen Beck from BTTR: "We thank the numerous colectors, providers of mod pages and mod projects who support this project. Our thanks go especially to the Deliplayer team. The latest version of the best mod player finally contains the radio feature! Enjoy listening!" (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 11:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 MorphOS-News |
MorphOS/Pegasos: QUICKSTART Guide Version 2.5 Now in Three Languages Jürgen Lucas' "QUICKSTART Guide" for installing MorphOS on a Pegasos with blank hard-drive has been released at version 2.5. Thanks to Andreas Zierl [and Daniel Miller -dm] and Fabrice Lehaut these instructions are also available in English and French. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 10:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail) |
User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #13 Issue #13 of "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to 312 subscribers. This is a list of French-speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...) which has been sent monthly since July of 2000, in order to encourage French-speakers to communicate with each other. Click on the title link for more information, and to get yourself added to the list. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 09:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
| 05.Jul.2003 Stefan Blixth (E-Mail) |
OnyxSoft: New and updated software Here comes 1 new release and 4 updates, enjoy! New:
Updates:
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| 05.Jul.2003 Oliver Roberts (ANF) |
Warp Datatypes V45.2 Released (Update) After a long delay, the promised updates to all the Warp picture datatypes for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS are finally here. To accompany the new release is the brand new WarpDT portal at http://www.warpdt.co.uk/ where you can keep up to date with the latest versions of the WarpDTs and download them all in one easy place. Summary of changes since previous versions:
BMP/JPEG/PNG/TIFF: Minor optimizations and cleanups. BMP: Fixed problems with decoding bitfield images JPEG: Altered descriptor file to prevent it matching LhA or LZX archives containing JPEG files (or anything else that might contain a JFIF header, other than Photoshop files)
PNG: PNG files not containing enough data are no longer treated as a
fatal error. Now the part of the image that was successfully
decoded is returned. PNG/TIFF: Updated with zlib 1.1.4
TIFF: Now correctly converts images using the YCbCr colourspace to RGB
Prefs: Various parts of code rewritten, in preparation for losing the
current reliance on resource.library |
| 05.Jul.2003 Michael Heider (ANF) |
Report: Pegasos in Leipzig The illustrated report of the Leipzig Pegasos presentation is now online. Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PPC was shown on the Amiga-PowerUp-System (APUS) and Pegasos. (ps) (Translation: dm) [News message: 05. Jul. 2003, 09:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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