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`11.Oct.2001` amiga.org	AROS: IBM-PC/native on one disk from 10. Oct. 2001 On 10. October 2001 Matt Parsons has released a new version of AROS for IBM compatible PCs. Interested people can download and test it and report bugs and problems to Matt Parsons. This new version loads faster and contains many small demo programs for testing and playing around with. At the time there is no desktop, but is to come. Furthermore there will be some utility disks with a bundle of Aminet programs for testing. AROS is an open source project to implement a portable AmigaOS v3.1 compatible OS. Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (800K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 20:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` Norman Thiel (ANF)	Library: vapor_toolkit V15.11 On 7. October 2001 version 15.11 of the 'vapor_toolkit' library was released. The vapor_toolkit.library is a library of support functions which are used by most Vapor applications and thus can be shared to reduce individual application code size. Changes since version 15.8: more error checking in the library initialization (Zapek) optimized memory usage for some functions (Zapek) added "html" as built-in file extension (Zapek) rewrote MIME handling functions. Much faster and more efficient (Zapek) fixed a potential crash from VAT's ARexx handler (Zapek) fixed the saving path of MIME entries not being always set :o) (Zapek) fixed the ARexx handler task crashing when the library was flushed then reloaded again (Zapek) fixed MIME extensions list which would only add the first one of each mimetype :o) (Zapek) fixed screwup in the class dir handling :o) (Zapek) Download: vapor_toolkit_1511.lzx (54K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 18:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` Czech Amiga News	Database: XBaze V7 On 7th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7 of the database 'XBaze'. The English documentation, some bugfixes and some minor improvements have been added. You can read the changes at the download-site. The program offers an easy to use editor for the arrays of the data record and of the layout (drag&drop). You can send bug reports and proposals to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl Download: 2b_XBaze-7.lha (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 20:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` Aaron Digulla (AROS-Announce-ML)	AROS: Status report (MorphOS, Amithlon, H&P, Amiga) On the 9th of October 2001 Aaron Digulla, AROS, has published the following status report of AROS (which is an open source project for implementing of a portable, AmigaOS-compatible operating system) on the AROS-announce-mailinglist: «Hello, A long time since the last update but I can proudly reply that I keep the web site uptodate, now :-) Here is a short roundup what has happened since the last update: Parts of AROS are used in the MorphOS product. MorphOS gets some shared libraries which they need and we get patches to make Amiga software work :-) Two members of the MorphOS team, namely Nicholai Benalal and Emmanuel Lesueur have CVS write access and they have started to submit patches. All in all, a very good deal on both sides :-) Amithlon (Harald Frank) has also asked if they can use our sources and we gave them the same deal that MorphOS got. Still, no patches on this side. As I see it, Harald and Bernie are drowning in work :-) Good luck to them ! Neither H&P nor Amiga have asked to use our source in any of their products. I expect them to know what they do. The times when I tried to "enlighten" others are in the past :-) Good luck to them, also. On the AROS side, I can say that we have achieved a lot ! At the time of writing, the AROS CVS repository is 66MB and the contributed sources are 90MB. Commits are very frequent (in the last few weeks, there was almost no day when no one committed some of their work), so AROS is more healthy than ever. And the range of software which we have is also quite impressive: We have ported the version of DOpus which you can find on Aminet (yeah, that's old). We have Radium (http://www.notam.uio.no/~kjetism/radium/), a note editor which can also play the songs you edit with it. We have a CDROM driver, the editor XDME (which was written by me) was ported last Sunday in about 8h of work (mostly fixing ghastly code which DICE did compile for reasons unbeknownst to me ;-) and Python (http://www.python.org/), the first programming language for AROS. We also have a couple of prefs programs (Font, Locale, ReqTools, Serial) now. While AROS still lacks a lot of things and a lot of code is, well, doing only a fraction of what the original AmigaOS can do, it's still impressive to see how far we did get and that gives me a very good feeling what I look into the future. AROS Native/x86 is getting more and more stable and when a bug in the trackdisk.device is fixed (it's very slow) and a feature is implemented (it doesn't support the diskchange signal, yet, so you cannot run the demos on the contrib floppy disks), you won't only be able to boot into an AmigaOS-like system on your PC but you will at least be able to edit some prefs, save them to disk and write some texts with XDME. Our now home might lack fancy colors and designer chairs but it certainly begins to feel like Amiga :-) Have fun !» (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 17:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Czech Amiga News	AROS: Floppies (FAQ), XDME, Python, FPU-Bug Aron Digulla extended the AROS-FAQ with entries about the use of floppy drives in UAE and AROS as well information about the IRC channell for AROS. Furthermore he has started to port the editor 'XDME' which was almost finished. 'XDME' gets compiled and linked successfully - but crashes after it was launched. This would be fixed soon. Thanks to Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen Radium is now playing. Adam Chodorowski corrected the installation of Python (programming language). The runtime modules were not copied. Georg Steger corrected the long existing FPU bug. The FPU wasn't initialized correctly and task switching between FPU and non-FPU tasks could crash AROS. There also was a certain error in the routine for removing a task. Steger added the missing character modes in graphics.hidd. The private field 'initialfont' of the IntWindow structure was removed (that's what IFont in the Window structure is for). Notification between slider and list-view gadget is more secure now. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 22:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)	Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD Update V1.05 Elbox Computer has made available the MM CD 1.05 update for registered Mediator Multimedia CD users. The update includes: THE NEW DRIVER: FastEthernet.device It is the first time when Amiga users may use the driver, which enables using 100Mb/s network cards. The FastEthernet driver enables using Fast Ethernet 100/10Mbps cards based on RTL8139 chipsets in MEDIATOR PCI busboards. Driver updates: TV tuner drivers ver.1.2 Voodoo 4/5 drivers ver.4.8 pci.library ver.4.2 Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 20:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)	Elbox: Mediator Update V2.5 und Warp3D Elbox Computer is happy to announce release of the long-awaited Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI busboards. The Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator support both modes of pci.library operation: MMU and NO_MMU. In the NO_MMU mode, Warp3D supports the PPC and 68k processors. In the MMU mode, Warp3D supports only the 68k processor. The Warp3D drawer contains full release of the Warp3D V4 for Mediator excluding the DEMO drawer. The DEMO drawer is enclosed in the Mediator Multimedia CD and at: http://www.elbox.com/download/Warp3D_V4_demo.lha The following files, apart from the Warp3D, are included in MediatorUP25.lha: pci.library ver.4.2 NEW Voodoo.card ver.2.7 NEW Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department contact: press@elbox.com (sd) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 20:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS project update Amiga Arena - Special Price Project Update Users of AmiATLAS version 5 owning at least five additional maps will receive version 6 at the special price of 79DM (+ shipping and handling), if they send in the original disks and Key disk. AmiATLAS6 is estimated to be shipping from 15. November 2001. The preoder form can be found at the 'Aktionen' section. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 19:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Richard de Rivaz (ANF)	Home-Server: INET DIAL V3.847 Version 3.847 of the home server 'INET DIAL' was released. This version now supports Voyager v3.3.177, AWeb, and IBrowse. INET DIAL is a home server for the AmigaOS. It supports X-10-Control, automatic upload, and automatic e-mail download, access to your own computer via network as well as login in to distend machines using 'direct dial' or the Internet. More information and screenshots are available under the title link. Download: inet_dial.lha (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 18:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Mario Cattaneo (ANF)	Utility: Magic Menu V2.31 Beta On 9. October 2001 beta version 2.31 of 'Magic Menu' was released. This might be the last version by Olaf Barthel who continued Martin Korndöfer's project and now is wanting a successor. This archiv only contains the most required stuff: binaries and the guide. Download: MagicMenu_beta.lha (115K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 15:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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