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Archive 09/2004


07.Sep.2004
Genesi (E-Mail)


Genesi named MySQL Business Partner
MySQL AB has named Genesi a Business Partner and Authorized Reseller. Genesi will be offering MySQL with the new Pegasos Server that will begin to be sold this month online through Freescale DevToolDirect.

The Pegasos Server will be demonstrated by Genesi at the Smart Networks Developer Forum (SNDF) 2004 Europe, September 27th-30th, at the Sheraton Towers in Frankfurt. (snx)

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07.Sep.2004
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


Minipeg: Germany's smallest Pegasos computer/GPS support included
The Minipeg is a Pegasos I/G3 board built into a custom small case of stable V2A stainless steel. The case measures 34 x 9 x 19 cm, the steel has a thickness of 1 mm. The second component is a 7" TFT monitor which power is supplied by the Minipeg. The monitor has VGA input and a remote control. Keyboard and mouse are wireless. Furthermore, a fanless Radeon 7000 graphics card and a 2.5" hard disk are used.

The Minipeg is powered either by a small power supply, a car battery or some nickel-cadmium accumulator batteries. The power consumption is 24 Watt at 12 Volt. Instead of a normal ATX power supply, a fanless DC/DC converter with an ATX mainboard cable is used. The converter works with 10-30 Volt direct voltage.

Also integrated into the Minipeg is a GPS receiver, for which a custom navigation software has been written. Thus, the Minipeg can be used in a car or possibly even at hiking.

The software currently uses a map of Germany scaled 1:600,000 and operates in two modi: as a viewer for road maps and for GPS navigation. The first modus allows to scroll or zoom the map. In the second modus, the map display is directly linked with the data coming from the GPS receiver. After switching into the GPS modus, the map is centered to the current GPS position once the first data are received from the GPS module.

Alternatively and independent of the chosen modus, it's possible at any time to display the GPS information in a transparent window.

The projection of the reticule of longitude and latitude degrees on the current map unfortunately doesn't deliver an exact positioning. The aberration on this map may be up to 10 km depending on the direction. The work needed for a correct calculation of the position on this map would not be justified by the cost-value ratio. But the inaccuracy gets moderated by using a GNS database.

A GNS database contains coordinates linked to the corresponding places. These GNS databases do exist for all countries and can be downloaded from Internet. The accuracy of this database for Germany is about one square kilometer. These places are displayed also by the software when the map gets centered to the current position of when these data are displayed in a separate window. This way, the user always knows where on the map he's currently located. (snx)

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07.Sep.2004



E3B: USB controller 'Subway' - another production run? (Update)
E3B are currently gauging the demand for their clockport USB controller Subway. Using this expansion, even Classic Amigas lacking Zorro- or PCI-slots have access to USB peripherals. The remaining stock of Subway cards has been sold quite some time ago - but given sufficient demand, E3B would be willing to produce another batch.

If you're seriously interested in purchasing a Subway USB controller, please contact Michael Boehmer. At least 30 orders are required to justify the production costs. The anticipated price for a single unit would be about 89 EUR (incl. VAT).

Update: (07.09.2004, 13:45, cg)

To use the Subway with an Amiga 600, a socalled 'A600 clockport adapter' is required. Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers tells us that these adapters are in stock right now and ship for 9.90 EUR. (cg) (Translation: cg)

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05.Sep.2004
Michal 'kiero' Wozniak (ANF)


MorphOS: New version of 'ShowGirls'
'ShowGirls' is a picture viewer from Michal 'kiero' Wozniak that includes image processing functions and combines features known from MiniShowPicture, ShowPPC and other similiar products (Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2).

Some of the features:
  • Easy browsing of directories (with mouse and keyboard)
  • Lots of supported file formats thanks to Datatypes system.
  • Nice MUI GUI
  • Image processing options like resizing, balance, smoothing, cropping and a lot more
  • Saving of images in JPEG or PNG
  • Loading/displaying images with alpha channel
  • Scaling image display to fit in the window (separate control over enlarging and reducing)
  • Scrolling/zooming of big images
  • Drag&drop of files/directories to be displayed
  • Optional bilinear filtering of the displayed image
  • Notification (refreshing of list of files when new files are copied in/removed)
  • Thumbnailes generator (with templates) (Example)
  • 2 browser modes (names list or thumbnails)
  • Thumbnails browser optimized for viewing pictures taken with digicam (very fast thumbnail creation).

Changes in this version:

Fixed:
  • ShowGirls icon is used as appicon when application is iconified.
  • When starting without param sometimes there were trash in string gadget.
  • Region marking was inaccurate.
  • Problem when viewing small images, like icons, etc.
  • Levels operator. Formula was slightly broken. If somebody misses old mode then I can re-add it.
  • Other smaller or bigger bugs.
New:
  • Bugs (probably).
  • Using NList class for list of files. Added date and filetype displaying. Sorting works on any of them, including secondary sorting criteria (press SHIFT and select second column to sort by).
  • Thumbnails in directory browser. Adjustable thumb size and border. Thumbnails cache (with several compression methods and other options). "Reduced memory usage" mode. Utilizing special properties in JPEG's created with digital cameras (results in more than 10 times faster thumbnails creation!!)
  • Much faster finding of next/previous picture.
  • Lossless JPEG transformations (Tools/JPEG Transform). Makes it possible to rotate and flip JPEG images without decompression/compression, so without loosing quality.
  • Much faster image scrolling. Scrolling is now also more precise (subpixel accuracy).
  • Improved zooming control (separate control over zooming and shrinking).
  • Possibility do filter out .info file and non-image files.
  • Added tooltypes support (FULLSCREEN and BROWSER).
  • Added BROWSER CLI param. The default window now doesn't have it enabled.
  • Improved Thumbnailer module:
    • Suffix different than .info can be specified.
    • Suffix can now also be replaced instead of only added.
    • When scaling image aspect doesn't have to be preserved.

  • Zooming image in/out with mouse wheel.
  • Added default values to some sliders. Try to doubleclick on knob to set to default position (in balance, levels and probably some others too).
  • Added mask shape selection to median filter.
  • Added "border mode" to resize operator. Works the same way as in ImageFX.
  • Now it's also possible to delete directories (a bit limited though. You can't unprotect files for example).
  • Improved filerequester when saving. Uses path and filename of currently loaded image, and automaticaly replaces extension to match selected save format.

Direct download: ShowGirls-0.6.lha (376 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)

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04.Sep.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies release CD compilation
Liquid Skies who have their roots in the Amiga music scene released at the Evoke 2004 their 2nd double CD compilation "Phase Two". This one contains all music files of the releases Release #022 to #052 as audio tracks and the original packed files as data track. This means a total playtime of almost 2.5 hours.

The compilation can be ordered on their homepage for a small fee (2.50 EUR plus porto). (cg) (Translation: wk)

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04.Sep.2004
Christian Rosentreter (e-mail)


DiscreetFX buy the rights for "Millenium"
DiscreetFX ("Spontaneous Combustion", "OpenVideoToaster", "AmiZilla") have bought from Nova Design the rights for the Toaster-/Flyer expansion Millenium as well as all remaining stocks. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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04.Sep.2004
Amiforce (ANF)


Amiforce Redesign
CJ-Stroker has reworked amiforce.de from ground up. The frames are now past, the usage of the new site should now be very user friendly because of a "navigation history". Some spots need some finetuning according to the author but it is being worked on.

With the redesign new rubrics find their way onto the page, planned is among other things an OS4 project section. At latest with the existing of according hardware will a special aspect lie on the new AmigaOS.

The site is optimized for a resolution of 1024x768 and should work with every browser except Opera that causes some problems. The compatibility with Amiga browsers was important here.

For constructive critics and suggestions to improve the site is the author always eager to listen to. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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04.Sep.2004
Amiforce (ANF)


New AmiBlitz distribution with numerous improvements
From now on there's a much improved AmiBlitz2 distribution available for download. Because of the many changes and their size an update archive for an earlier distribution doesn't make sense anymore. Update archives will be available with the next version.

Unfortunately, many things were missing in the last distribution so that a seamless working wasn't possible. Thanks to Marco Möring aka Blackbird without whom the bugs and incompleteness of that distribution would probably never have been noticed. Next to Marco my thanks go to his wife Margit Möring. Together we three could translate further guides into German. Thanks go of course to Bernd Rösch and Thilo Köhler who work without a break on the future of AmiBlitz2.

Changes:
  • Much improved install/deinstall scripts.
  • After the installation are all settings immediately available.
  • After the deinstallation is the archive in its original condition and can be installed again in the particular version.
  • New Ped.prefs for the NEWCOLORMODE. Important: works only in screenmodes with 8/16 colours.
  • More German translation of AcidGuides.
  • Two versions of all (English/German).
  • Further includes by Thilo Köhler.
  • New Usermacro.guide.
  • Many errors removed.
  • Contains now many missing components, e.g. MUI2.res.

AmiBlitz2 reference manual in HTML:

Thanks to Markus Rütter is the reference manual for Blitz2 now available in an HTML version. Next to the online version on Amiforce the manual is available for download, too. Thanks to Markus Rütter who kindly gave the permission to do so.

News about the German manual:

At the moment is a PDF version of this manual being worked on. The available Postscript version can only be opened and printed with Pagestream. The PDF version will follow soon. So everybody can now print his/her manual. Planned is for now a version for the print of pages in A4 size. These can perfectly be put into a file. Thanks go to Andreas Röhr aka trion who really helped me very much. Thanks go also to Silvio Kurze aka MangaClub who made a first conversion. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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04.Sep.2004



Virtual Grand Prix 2: AmigaOS/MorphOS port possible
Paolo Cattani, who released in 1999 Virtual Grand Prix for the Amiga, seems to think about a port of the successor to "Virtual Grand Prix 2" to AmigaOS and/or MorphOS. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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04.Sep.2004
(ANF)


AmigaWorld.net online again
After 34 hours "downtime" is amigaworld.net available again, some subdomains and additional services are only restricted usable right now.

Because of a hard disk failure (we reported) were some "Avatare" destroyed, the rest of the database isn't affected.

At os4depot.net, hosted on the same server, are some uploads of the recent days lost. (cg) (Translation: wk)

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04.Sep.2004
ANN (website)


MorphOS: Audio mixer for SBlive! sound cards (update)
Vladimir Javorski has developed an audio mixer for SBlive! sound cards. The mixer uses the AC97 interface of the AHI driver "EMU10k".

Update: (04.09.2004, 15:00, cg)

In the meantime there's a new archive available for download (version 1.1).

Direct download: livemixer-1.1.lha (78 KB) (Readme) (cg) (Translation: wk)

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