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`14.Feb.2004` Olaf K. (ANF)	AmigaOS4: news about the beta version Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion gives in a forum contribution on amigaworld.net a short overview about the current stand of developing regarding the AmigaOS4 beta version. We have summarized the essentials for you. After the beta version had been given to the testers there had of course some minor problems to be solved. More difficulties came only from to things: for one had CD-ROM drives not reliably been recognized by the appropriate device - this problem is said to be solved in the meantime. The other problem that is still being worked on is occurs just on a little number of configurations and is described by the OS4 team as "hot air effect" - there's a slight display distortion when using a Radeon graphics card in certain display resolutions similar to movements of heated air above hot asphalt. Nevertheless does the Radeon driver work, there are hints to the reasons of this effect and they hope to solve this problem soon. Right now there's support for a bunch of ATI cards respectively for cards with ATI chips, so does the Radeon 9800 now work with the drivers developed by Forefront Technologies. In another contribution gives Hans-Jörg particular emphasis on the fact that the 3D support for Radeon cards is by now restricted to the 7xxx series. It wouldn't make sense to get a Radeon 8xxx or 9xxx because of the 3D performance, there's still a long way to go until the according drivers will be available. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Feb. 2004, 20:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Feb.2004` morphzone.org (website)	Interview with the developer of "Mattathias BASIC" Michael Ness developes a new BASIC dialect that seems to be heavily inspired by AMOS. The compiler will be available (among others) for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and Windows. The first version will produce easily portable code and is therefore restricted to the creation of programs without a graphical users interface. Graphics, sound etc. will be supported later via extensions similar to the AMOS "Extensions". Under the title link you can find an interview with Michael Ness. (cg) (Translation: wk) [News message: 14. Feb. 2004, 18:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2004` ann.lu (Website)	"Momentum Computer" announces a PPC970 motherboard "Momentum Computer" offers the "970 Evaluation Platform" by the title link. A motherboard for up to two PPC processors of the PPC970 series with the following specifications: Full Size ATX Form-factor. Dual IBM PowerPC 970 Processors. PowerPC 970 NorthBridge. Two point-to-point PowerPC interfaces, running at up to 1GHz. AGP 8X Interface. HyperTransport interface, running at up to 1.2GHz. DDR SDRAM memory controller, dual channel (128-bits + ECC), up to 16GigaBytes of SDRAM supported. Special MUX feature uses only one pair of DIMMs at a time. PLX HT7520 HyperTransport tunnel, with two PCI-X interfaces, each capable of running at 133MHz. One PCI-X interface is hooked up to two 64-bit PCI connectors. The other PCI-X interface is hooked directly to an Intel 82546ER Dual Gigabit Ethernet device. AMD8111 SouthBridge. ATA133 capable EIDE interfaces (Master/Slave). USB interface with 2 ports presented. 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet interface. Standard Power Management. PCI 32-bit @ 33MHz Interface. SMSC LPC47M260 Super I/O Device. Connects to SouthBridge through LPC bus. Flash Interface. Fan Controller Interface. PowerPC 405EP Processor. Acts as Service/Management Processor for 970 processor(s). Flash Interface. Independent memory sub-system (32-bit SDRAM). 10/100 BASE-T Interface. On-Board M-Systems Flash Disk (no moving parts, for diskless applications). Service Processor manages 970's through I2C interface. Currently two difrent versions are offered. The prices are 4500 and 6000 USD. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Feb. 2004, 17:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Feb.2004` Christian Rosentreter (ANF)	MorphOS: MLDonkey 2.5-10 released The MorphOS version of MLDonkey is now available in version 2.5-10. The new version of the filesharing program contains a new experimental plugin FileTP, which offers the ability to download files via HTTP, FTP and SSH. Information about the other improvements and bug fixes is available within the Archive's (2.5 MB) changeLog file. (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 11. Feb. 2004, 11:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Feb.2004` Slashdot (Website)	Videotoaster: New source code Recently the source code of 'character generator' and 'toaster paints' was released. Now there are some more parts of the video editing software Video Toaster Flyer available at openvideotoaster.org. ChromaFX: Realtime color processing like sepia effect, color negative, day-for-night, videochrome and some more. Switcher: Cut, crossfading and wipes between four video and three internal sources. Flyer and Edit: non-linear, tapeless video editing on the hard disk with drag'n'drop storyboard and switcher view for live production. (snx) (Translation: sk) [News message: 09. Feb. 2004, 13:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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