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| 20.Nov.2001 Virtual Dimension (ANF) |
Potos from the Amiga 2001 at Virtual Dimension On weekend Virtual Dimensions was on the show for you and took pictures from the Amiga 2001 for their new show video. To create the video will take some time. To shorten your waiting time some pictures were put online, already.
Same pictures with English subtitles
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| 20.Nov.2001 Frank Duessel (ANF) |
Event: Exchange for classic video and computer games of the 70th and 80th The first exchange for classic video and computer games for the following systems is being organized in Germany:
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| 20.Nov.2001 Petra Struck |
Update for our show report Since I did not talked to Titan Computer on the show, I called Michael Garlich, today, to be able to add the news from Titan Computer. The details described below have been added to the show report (title link): Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required. More applications under development: The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on. Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface. A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002. Games under development: Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers. Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 15:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 3sat (ANF) |
3sat.online: AMIGA 2001 - broadcast of 19. November .2001 A written German version of the show report broadcast by "Neues... die Computershow" at 3SAT (German television station) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 20. Nov. 2001, 13:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20.Nov.2001 Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail) |
AmigaPage: MP3 capture of the show report There is a MP3 capture of the show report about the Amiga 2001 by "Neues... die Computershow" ready for download.
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| 19.Nov.2001 Petra Struck |
AMIGA 2001: Gleanings by amiga-news.de (Update III) The show AMIGA 2001, which took place on 17th and 18th November 2001, was organized by Falke Media and was held at the Mediapark 6 in Cologne, Germany, on about 718 sq.yd. exhibition space. By our count there were about 1,000 visitors on the show, consuetudinary most of them came on Saturday. 
bplan GmbH - Pegasos-SystemVery much interesting was the first official presentation of the run capable Pegasos machine by the bplan GmbH, utilizing the operating system MorphOS. Gerald Carda presented a test program to us which displayed plasma effects. Unaccelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS. Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda told us about a number of between 100 and 200 developer systems to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a registration page at bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations than boards available, it will be selected by progam priority. The developers should send bug reports, if there will occur problems. Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later. Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro and are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively adapt their programs to this system. 
Haage&Partner - Amiga OS XLAmiga OS XL, the new super-fast Amiga emulators for x86 machines were presented on three different computers at Haage&Partner. The speed is impressing and faszinating at the same time. Amiga OS XL consists of two emulator systems: AMIthlon and Amiga XL for QNX in a bundle. The emulators are similar to each other in many parts, but there are basic differences, too. With this prevalent Amiga 68k applications run 10 - 20 times faster on current PC hardware than on a convetional 68060 systems. This tremendous speed is achieved by a modified and accelerated emulator. With it one gets versions of PageStream, ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema4D, Real3D, and any other program fast like turbo. Haage&Partner's highlight is a x86 machine built into a luxury computer case of noble design and with Amiga OS XL installed. The body of the computer was made of aluminium, the front side is of azure plastic. While talking to H&P they appeared to be surprised by the allmost all-time positive visitors' response and amazed at the still great demand for information, though there have been many press releases before. Sales could have been better, but satisfied. 
Hyperion - AmigaOS 4.0 for PPCWithout doubt the most interesting thing on the second day of the show was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It was determined and safe by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired term of completion of an initial distributing version is February 2002. This distributing version still will have parts of 68k code, which will be handed in later by BoingBag updates when finished. Hyperion will work together with bplan to make the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC running on the Pegasos machine. Hyperion additionally talked to many other hardware and software developers to make their products compatible, too. This gave a very positive sign, because after a long period of time a joint line and goal is being followed, again. 
Titan Computer - Update 20. November.2001
Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required. More applications under development: The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on. Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface. A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002. Games under development: Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers. Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible. 
DCE - G-REXThomas Dellert and Michael Göken of DCE presented the PCI busboard G-Rex working in an A4000 with Cyberstrom 604/68060 and AmigaOS 3.9 as well as WarpUP. An USB card for mouse and keyboard, a Voodoo graphic board (3/3000), a WIN-TV card with radio tuner, and a sound card (Terratec 512i) were working on the PCI board. There are many good reasons for this solution: Graphic speed, wheel mouse and multimedia keyboard, support of the USB card, 100 MBit network card can be connected; all in all it became possible to use cheap generic PC hardware by the PCI busboard G-Rex. The board is being offerd for A4000D/T and A1200. 
Elbox - MediatorElbox presented their Mediator system. The following models were shown:
Again the reasons mentioned regarding DCE match here. With help of a PCI busboard it is possible to use cheap PCI hardware for various purposes. Other Hardware-Products Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers showed us a pre-run model of the interface card VarioIO, which will be available before Christmas, already. Basing on a Logitech 2 button mouse Schönfeld developed a real Amiga / Atari mouse. Also this production will start next days. 
Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development
showed us the prototype of the Melody successor. This card will have the functions of
the Melody card plus the following specialities:
Michael Böhmer showed his USB controller Subway with which you can connect prevalent USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four devices can be use without an additional USB hub. VMC started to develop drivers, already. Currently drivers for mouse and keyboard are available. Drivers for printers, digital cameras, and scanners are scheduled. 
Other Software-ProductsAmiga Forever 5.0 Michael Battilana of Cloanto presented the new Amiga Forever 5.0. Amiga Forever is about an official licensed Amiga emulator package for Windows and other platforms. Just put the CD into the drive, click on the icon and it runs. Eight different emulation programs, all of the required Kickstart ROMs, Workbenchs, licenses, as well as an all-around package with useful Amiga sofware are included. Due to the implemented JIT compiler (just-in-time) version 5.0 is about 30 time faster than Amiga Forever 4. The emulator comes on a CD containing the famous video "The Deathbed Vigil" (1 h, 59 min.) and the video "Jay Miner Speech" (49 min.). But Amiga Forever 5.0 is available for download as online version, too. epic interactive - THE FEEBLE FILES epic announce THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga. This game is about a cartoon adventure. Beside of the MorphOS port there also will be an AmigaOS verison. The Amiga version will be available as entirely localized versions in Engish and German (voice output). An Amiga with 4 MB graphic board, 68060 or PPC, and at least 32 MB RAM is required. Development of the Amiga version already started and epic hopes to be able to deliver the finished product already before Christmas 2001. Descent:Freespace Hyperion showed the new game Descent-Freespace. This game is about a space shooter. The Amiga port of Freespace was finished at 99% and will be available as 68k (with 3D hardware only) and PPC version from H&P, soon. Those who ordered the game on the show got a free demo CD for testing at home, already. 
Project CrashsiteMarkus Pohlmann (program) and Denis Comtesse (music) are busy developing the science fiction role game Project Crashsite. The place of action in this game is a colonialized second system consiting of two moons. The player takes the part of the "Future Security Corps" which is the system's police. The game's goal is to stabilize the unstable situation of this system. This is not easy to achieve, due to a big conspiracy defering the relation of potency. The player is sent into the game almost without any background information about the conspiracy to make him choose "pal and enemy" himself, because depending on his choice the game becomes easier or more difficult. Currently four people are working on this game, thus it is not possible to announce some date of comlpetion at the time being. 
PuzzleBOBSIn cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development the Amiga Arena and Fun Time World present the game in partnership. PuzzleBOBS is about a "Bust´n Move" clone. From now on a demo version is available on http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html or from the support page at the Amiga Arena. Technical backgrounds:
Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire. The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench. When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released. Miscellaneous GGS Data - Amiga Show Gunne Steen of the Swedish vendor GGS Data informed us about an Amiga show in Göteborg, Sweden, planned to take place on 2. March 2002 (maybe also on 3. March 2002). The respective website will be online in about seven days. Comanies and user groups are heartily invited to attend the show as exhibitors. 
Psyria - MusicDennis Lohr gave us a CD on the show on which he eternalized his trance song for amiga-news.de. This song also is available for download: Amiga News Theme (ca. 7 MB). Again thank you very much to Dennis for taking the trouble to create this song. This realy is a privilege to us! Annex - Music Daniel Schulz of Annex assured us that the music group, known by several Amiga songs, still is alive. Meantime many new pices of music were recored, extracts can be downloaded as MP3. Still the vocals are missing, because the band still is searching for a female singer. She should have been singing in a band before, come from the dance/trance field, and live in the Rhein-Main area (Germany). Interessted singers might contact Daniel Schulz (include a demo if possible). Two maxi-singles with three songs on each and maybe a long-player with all songs are planned. Virtual Dimension The crew of Virtual Dimension did many interviews and took many pictures for their show video. The video is estimated to be published before Christmas. Furthermore Virtual Dimension introduced the round and text basing space game StarEmpire II by Christian Becker . Up to 32 players are possible. Airbrush Paradise Tingler Rolf Tingler prettified diverse things with different motives. Of course mainly motives with BoingBalls were desired. Starting from cell phones thru Swiss pocket knives everything got "boinged" with airbrush technic. Upshot: Interesting hard- and software solutions were presented. There was good mood on the show and intensive discussing everywhere. However, it is to be said that in spite of all those innovations and in spite of the positive signs some certain questions were left without an answer, cause neither Amiga Inc. nor Eytech or Escena attended the show. Thats where descriptions regarding the plans of Amiga Inc. for the AmigaOne are required. Finally one discerning word regarding the organization. The corridors along the "focal points" on the upper floor were way to narrow. Occasionally there were such big crowd that it was hard to get to the booths. Christoph Dietz, Petra Struck as well as Meike Hilke (photos) were on the show for amiga-news.de. Update II: 20. November .2001 Link list for pictures and reports regarding the AMIGA 2001 show: 25.11.2001: Sebastien Jeudy Pictures 20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (German subtitles) 20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (English subtitles) 20.11.2001: Stefan Robl 3SatAmiga2001.mpg (German TV broadcast, 50 MB) 20.11.2001: Amiga Page neues5.zip (Voice record of the above broadcast, mp3 - 3,4 MB) 20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Pictures 20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Report (German) 20.11.2001: 3SAT Text report (German) about the German TV broadcast "Neues... die Computershow" (3Sat) 19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Show review 19.11.2001: Fun Time World: Pictures 19.11.2001: Costel Mincea Pictures and report (German and English) 19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 2. day 18.11.2001: amiga-topcool.de Report (German) 18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 1 18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 2 18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pre-report - 2. Tag 18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Markus Nerding 18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Michael Garlich 18.11.2001: Elastic Image - Falcon Pictures 18.11.2001: Stefan Popp Report 18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 1. Tages 18.11.2001: Marcus Neervoorts Amiga Page Pictures and report (German) 17.11.2001: amiga-info.net Pictures 17.11.2001: amiga-news.de First pre-report Update III: 25. November .2001 Pictures from Sebastien Jeudy.(sd) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Nov. 2001, 20:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19.Nov.2001 |
AMIGA 2001: pictures of the second day The second part contains mainly pictures of hardware-devices. A selection of the photos made by Christoph Dietz and Michael Böhmer:
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| 18.Nov.2001 ANN |
Event: Report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' A short report about the 'Ottawa Amiga Show' can be found under the title link. Randall Hughes, Amiga Inc., introduced the Sharp Zaurus PDA running with the AmigaDE and some games on the show. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 23:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18.Nov.2001 Matthias Münch (ANF) |
AMIGA 2001: Pictures by AUG99 Matthias Münch wrote: We've visited the Amiga Show 2001 in Cologne and put some pictures from it online. Absolute highlights to us were the game Freespace and the presentation of the Pegasos system at the bplan booth. Unfortunately we found the show to be a little desaster regarding organization and space utilisation. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 18:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18.Nov.2001 Petra Struck (ANF) |
AMIGA 2001: Pre-report 2. day by amiga-news.de The most interesting of the second day of the show without doubt was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It is fixed by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired date for completion is February 2002. Hyperion will cooperate with bplan, to let the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC run on the Pegasos machine, too. Additionally Hyperion talked to many other hardware and software developers to keep their product compatible, too. This set a very positive sign, cause after a long time a corporate line and goal is being followed, again. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 17:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18.Nov.2001 ANN |
AMIGA 2001: IRC conferences with Nerding and Garlich (Update) English logfiles of the IRC conferences with Markus Nerding from Haage&Partner and Michael Garlich from Titan are available now. The log from Nerdings chat has been published on ANN, he answers questions about AmigaOS XL, AmigaOS V4.0, and H&P's work within those projects. The log of Michael Garlich's chat has been provided to us by Jürgen 'Antibike' Lucas, Garlich answers questions about MorphOS, Pegasos, and the projects of Titan: Amiga2001: Hello Michael Titan: Hello Guys Nico4k: Micheal, Could please describe your plans about MorphOS/Bplan ? Nico4k: Plan = project if you prefer Titan: Yes of course we have presented 4 new products for Morphos / Bplan e.g. Papyrus Office and Nico4k: For example will Papyrus be ported on MorphOs ? Nico4k: ok Titan: and the new videosoft Motionstudio which support DV Video Titan: and we have also presented Rage Hard a new multiplayer tactic shooter Nico4k: Well, you said on MorphOS ML what there will something to connect an Amiga floppy drive on Bplan made by third part, Could you give more detail ? Nico4k: Titan sound like great news Titan: Yes, this connecter will be able to read write "old" Amiga DD and HD Floppydisc Nico4k: to connect an "Amgia" drive or to use old disk with the Bplan one Nico4k: Where it will connected on the motherboard ? Titan: to connect an "old" Amiga drive may be later also PC-Floppy with modifications too zacman: hi michael. do you plan to release your software together with the pegasos start or already before? and are there plans for bundeling your software with pegasos? Titan: Nico4k there is a floppy connector for PC Floppys on the Bplan mainboard Titan: zacman: Together with the sales start on Feb/March 2002 Burman: Titan Do you know anything about support for Newtek VideoToaster/Flyer HW. (PCI-card)...? Titan: Burman: we have asked Newtek but nothing is clear atm it will take some further negotations ga djnick: Hi Titan will there be newer / improved versions of Fantastic Dreams? Titan: djnick: Yes this will be released later in 2002 ga ID4: Titan Are you planign a game like QIII Arena? Titan: ID4: We will release a pre-video of Rage Hard take a look and you will enjoy it :) ga Bifford: hi there ;-) what sort of speeds can we expect from pegasos? in normal operation and in real-time with cpu hungry things like 3d graphics Titan: Bifford: This really depends on the used CPU we think for DV Videoediting a 500 G4 is the minimum. ga Nico4k: As you devellop for MorphOS/bPlan, I suppose you already use it on Bplan, So how does it work ? (sorry for all this MOS related question but I want to konw) Titan: Nico4k It runs really good we are sadisfied with the support of the MOrphos Team. ga AlphaFoX: hi Titan, two questions: 1. do you know if there will be an 'AGA-on-a-Card' for the Pegasos? 2. Will Titan: port its software also to AmigaOS 4.x if available? GA Titan: AlphaFoX: AGA card is atm not longer in development but if there is more demand we can think about such a solution Titan: Regarding AmigaOS 4 we have nothing heard from Amiga no specs no hardware nothing simply. We cant say we will support it if we have no information at all. Ga Bifford: do u have any other projects on the go atm (hard or software) or is it strictly MOS/pegasos ? Titan: Bifford: we concentrate on what is available now this is Morphos and Pegasos ga zacman: what graphics card do you recommend for games like Rage Hard? Do you know if it is correct that bplan has contacts to nvidia? Titan: zacman: I cant commend this atm :) ga Zarf: is RS on the show? ga :) Titan: Zarf: No but Frank Mariak was here ga TheFab: Titan hi, do you plan to develop new softare or buy license (like old software like lightwave...) Titan: TheFab: new and licencing too. E.g. AlienNations and Majesty ID4: Titan Will you software run on Elbox SharkPPC? Titan: ID4: We are open to support everyone who wants Morphos. If Elbox support theMorphos team with hardware then there will be also a SharkPPC version ga Zefram_: what is the maximum cpu speed we can expect on Pegasos, 1Ghz ? Titan: Zefram_: its upto 2GHz atm but higher clockrate are also possible ga zacman: isn't AlienNations and Majesty licensed by hyperion? Titan: zacman: No Hyperion has not licenced AlienN or Majesty. Titan: owns this licence ga Zefram_: What will are the graphics cards drivers available for Pegasos, Matrox ? Titan: Zefram_: In a few weeks there will be update on Morphos.de with all supported Gfx-boards. ga Nico4k: Do you think Bplan will be able to release Pegasos in February/March 2001? Not a vapor this time ? (I have been so disppointed by previous project: AmigaNG, A1). Ps: A MOS/Bplan related question again ... But who do not believe that this time is the good one ... Titan: Nico4k Bplan will make a pre-release before christmas 2001 and the main release is trageted for March 2002. ga Titan: Zefram_: The morphos 3d api is NOT rave ga Nico4k: Pre-release means Developper release ? Titan: Nico4k Also for normal customers but there is only a limited stock of boards available. ga AmiGR: Could you enlight us about which 3d api will be used? Titan: AmiGR: Sorry atm not, please wait for the next official Morphos press release ga JoeAFUA: Titan So will we be able to pre-order for the pre-release boards? If yes, when? Titan: JoeAFUA: Take a look on the bplan website there will be an "order" form. ga ID4: Titan nowdays.. What are your contacs with Amiga Inc? Titan: ID4: we are in touch with Amiga but they follow different ways atm. We will see if we can cooparate in future or not. ga Zefram_: Will it be possible to place a pre-order from local dealers ? Titan: Zefram_: No, only direct from Bplan ga darklite: will you only support morphos, or also os4? ga Titan: darklite: We have no information about AmigaOS4 therefore i cant say yes or no . ga ID4: Titan THANKS !!!! From me no more questions, I hope the best for your bussines ;) Titan: ID4: Thanks. ga Nico4k: Will Pegasos be shit with screen, keyboard, Hard drive, Or will it be possible to buy only the Motherboard ? Amiga2001: ship instead of shit ;-) Titan: Nico4k shit ??? ;)) Yes it will be shipped as complete system too this will be a g3 350, 128MB ram, gfx-board,hD and DVD-drive ga Zefram_: Will there be a Pegasos motherboard with more than 3 PCI slots ? Titan: Nico4k and motherboard only is also available .ga Titan: Zefram_: Yes there is a adaptor for 4 slots available. Nico4k: Are all drivers ready (I mean for internal ethernet, audio, USB ???) Titan: Nico4k a lot of drivers are already finished but some are still in development. ga Amiga2001: more questions? Nico4k: Will we show amazing think on Bplan at the show like Divx movie ? Titan: Nico4k We have shown DV editing on the show. DIVX is also possible but was not presented. ga Amiga2001: Ok Guys, Michael has to go Amiga2001: thx Michael Update: (17.06.2016, cg) Integrated the logfile provided by Jürgen Lucas into the news item. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. 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| 18.Nov.2001 Falcon (ANF) |
AMIGA 2001: Pictures from the Cologne show Falcon published photos from his today's show visitation on his homepage. But, the comments (German) are sometimes meant in good fun. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18.Nov.2001 Stefan Popp (E-Mail) |
AMIGA 2001: Report by Stefan Popp Stefan Popp wrote: Here my small report about the 2001 Amiga show (absolute subjective and incomplete). There were more booths than the last time (about 12). Unfortunately they took that good advantage of the exhibition space, that the walks between the booths were quite narrow, which lead to bothering tailbacks. Bplan Like known Bplan is creating a PPC machine. This was presented run capable. I've seen MorphOS. Reportedly Linux was no problem, too. A complete machine (20GB HD, 128MB RAM, ...) was said to cost about 1,000 Euro. But the boards would be available solitary, too (from distributors, but not from BPlan directly). The problem about this whole thing: The system still is at beta test stage, and if someone would order a certain amount of boards today, delivery would not be expected before end of 1Q02. Major reason for this: It is hard to get low quantities of the components. To the question, how much of the specifications have been revealed, I was told, that the computer meets the Motorola Open-Bios conception and to adapt it to other operating systems would be no problem. BPlan's documents consciously don't mention the Amiga, to not tie the machine down to some special field of application. Elbox Showed their busboards. Again, the TV card and the TV picture was presented as Workbench background. Unfortunately the SharkPPC was shown inside a show-case. Of course I asked, why this card wasn't performed. The employee illustrated, that though development would have been finished, but it would be to wait for AmigaOS4.0. Ermh, if I consider this, my questions actually wasn't answered by this statement. Allegedly the card would run with WarpOS drivers, too (so please, why to wait for 4.0). Well, doesn't make any difference, isn't that important, anyway. :). Haage & Partner Actually just showed Amithlon and AmigaXL on three computers. Meal booth Meat balls, noodle salad, coffee, and Snikers at cheap prices. The lectures (at least those I attended) 1) Amithlon - Jürgen Haage In advance: The room was to narrow and of bad equipment. Reportedly this also was due to the fact, that some parts did not survive the transport to Cologne. But, after some bricolage everything worked. Mr. Haage explained the step to develop the Amiga emulator with the good availability of and the cheap prices for PC hardware. The price for the complete package is at 299DM (incl. Kick 3.1, OS 3.9, QNX, Arteffects, AmiWriter, and StormC3.0 ). According to Mr. Haage the development of the emulation bases on UAE. Amithlon utilizes a Linux kernel in addition, which was said to simplify the implementation of additional hardware. AmigaXL uses QNX as 'hosting' operating system. 2) Hyperion about the subject Amiga 4.0 Amiga Ltd. did not attend the show. And to say it honestly, nobody missed them. Some kind of announcement sure would have coused people to shake their heads, again. The lecture was done by the CEO of Hyperion (I just forgot the name). The facts in short: Hyperion and H&P obtaind a license for a PPC port. With the help of many developers (with H&P and Hyperion as the core team) the OS will be ported step by step. At first the TCP/IP stack, Exec and possibly DOS. Furthermore there is a new library concept.
I could not keep more in mind. Maby someone would publish the Scala presentation. The CEO of Hyperion wasn't very optimistic in regard of AmigaOne, Shark, BPlan. One reason to decide to port 4.0 to existing hardware and to not let down the owners of PPC cards. The OS theoretically runs on any PPC hardware. But nothing was performed. Explanation: Due to the still bad look one would get a bad impression, which just would cause people to review things from a wrong point of view. At the booth of Haage&Partner I was told, that a PPC native version of the AmigaOS would have been possible already two years ago, but Gateway would have disliked that. I think this is nothing new, but to celebrate the day I once more was happy about it . (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18.Nov.2001 Cloanto (ANF) |
Live Amiga 2001 webcam at amigaforever.info Pictures from Cloanto's live webcam at the Amiga 2001 show are online at amigaforever.info. (ps) [News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 14:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18.Nov.2001 |
AMIGA 2001: The first day's pictures Here you will find a selection of pictures from the first day of the AMIGA 2001 in Cologne, taken for amiga-news.de by Meike Hilke:
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| 18.Nov.2001 Markus Neervoort (E-Mail) |
AMIGA 2001: Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (AmigaPage) You will find pictures from the Amiga 2001 taken by Markus Neervoort, AmigaPage, under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 18. Nov. 2001, 01:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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