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`16.Oct.2001` Jürgen Lange (ANF)	Amithlon/AmigaXL: Compatibility list and release date On 15. October 2001 Haage & Partner Computer GmbH have released a compatibility list for Amithlon and Amiga XL for QNX on thier website. Furthermore it is being announced that the emulator package will start shipping within this week. There will be an official presentation this weekend on the Pianeta 2001 in Italy. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 16. Oct. 2001, 15:59] [Comments: 2 - 18. Oct. 2001, 09:17] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Oct.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)	Elbox: TV as background Elbox Computer is pleased to inform that Amiga with the Mediator busboard is from now on the first hardware, in which displaying the actual and moving at full speed real TV broadcasting picture in the backdrop has become possible. Mediator PCI is now the only PCI busboard for Amiga, whose users may use TV cards. Apart from this fact, Mediator PCI is also a pathfinder for new quality standards in the way PCI TV cards are used in computers. Displaying the full-quality TV picture with absolutely 100% system performance maintained (irrespective whether you use a turbo card with PPC/68060 or with 68030) is now possible with the special method of storing code for the video capturing processor. The fast SDRAM/SGRAM memory of graphic cards, to which the TV card sends the digitalised television picture is used in Mediator PCI also to store program for the TV-card video and audio capture processor. This means that none of the operations related to generating the picture requires any operation outside the PCI bus. Therefore, performance of TV cards is significantly enhanced when compared against other computers with PCI TV cards, in which the video capture processors must take their code from the computer's main memory. Inventing this method of co-operation between TV cards and graphic cards has become possible due to the effort of our in-house team of programmers, who have written drivers for both graphic and TV cards. Software for TV cards for Mediator, which now supports as many as 50 of the most popular PCI TV cards, enables a series of different methods of displaying television image. The basic method is to display the image in the window of the pre-set size from the range of 96x72 to 768x576. Any size of window may be freely scalable at any time. Scaling the TV picture is executed in real time with the PCI graphic card's hardware. When the TV image is displayed as a backdrop, the user may freely define the colour, which will be automatically replaced by the graphic card with the moving television image. The enclosed screenshots show television picture samples in Amiga with Mediator PCI. Software for TV cards in Mediator enables a number of other additional functions, which the TV card may perform. For example: managing the radio tuner integrated with the card or using the TV card as a scandoubler / flickerfixer for displaying the AGA-generated image in the PCI graphic card screen. The software to enable operation of any supported TV card in the backdrop mode will be made available today to all the registered users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package as an update, free of any charge. Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd) [News message: 16. Oct. 2001, 15:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Oct.2001` Martin Blom (Geekgadgets-ML)	Compiler: gcc-Crosscompiler für AmigaOS und MorphOS (update) Martin Blom has released an initial version of a cross development suite for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC) running on Linux and created under RedHat Linux 7.1, but should also run on other Linux distributions. Beside of the compiler tools like 'fd2inline' and 'textinfo' are also contained. The adapted source codes are said to be released after about one week. The several packets and more information are available by following the title link. Update 18. October 2001 Displaced pior text due to that was not matching the content of the German message. (mj) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Oct. 2001, 16:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Oct.2001` Czech Amiga News	Project for a better datatypes system Martin Machiels is planning a project to develop an enhanced datatypes system. Beside of other things the current one misses streaming support. Furthermore other features are missing in the library as well as in Multiview. Beside of the enhancements to the basic system new datatypes (read and write) for currently not supported formats as well as for new formats like MPEG-4 shall be developed, too. The new system should be backwards compatible and run on AmigaOS V3.x, V4.x, MorphOS, AROS, and Amithlon. The datatypes.library of the AROS project might be a starting point. Regarding organization Machiels has a project at Sourceforge in mind. People interested to participate in this project might contact Martin Machiels via e-mail: darklite@beer.com. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 14. Oct. 2001, 20:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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