20.Feb.2004
fiath (ANF)
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Big CAPS-Project Update
The website of the CAPS-project which wants to conserve old Amiga games for the next
generations has got the biggest update in its history. A very extensive "Knowledge Base"
(which replaces the FAQ), a new status report (work in progress) and several new games
have been added.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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20.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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Genesi: AMIGA, Inc. loose lawsuit against Genesi
Genesi announce on morphos-news.de that the company won the lawsuit against Amiga, Inc. (as reported earlier).
According to Genesi, the verdict grants "full relief to Genesi, including source code access to the licensed Amiga operating system and the full use of the Amiga trademarks".
Approached by amiga-news.de, Hyperion's management confirmed the result of the lawsuit, adding that "Hyperion have an exclusive trademark license for the desktop" and that "the verdict has no bearing on Hyperion or AmigaOS 4".
(cg)
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19.Feb.2004
Jan Andersen / VHT-DK (E-Mail)
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Anti-Virus-Software: New Version 1.00 of VirusZ III
After six years Georg Hoermann has had the development time to release the final version of VirusZ III and thereby throw off the designation of "beta status." You'll find the new version 1.00 of VirusZ III on the VHT website under the title link, and in a few days it will be on Aminet.
Program name: VirusZ III v1.00
Programmer: Georg Hoermann
Date: 19th February, 2004
Archiv name: VirusZ.lha
Archiv size: 102,556 Bytes
Requirements: AmigaOS 2.04 or higher, util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha,
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha, util/pack/xfdmaster.lha, util/arc/xadmaster.lha
(recommended), util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)
News in VirusZ III v1.00:
- Improved 'Snapshot' function of the vectorcheck, it now saves the
information supplied by SegTracker. So please install SegTracker
before doing snapshots, it helps me a lot!
- Finally fixed VirusZ 100% for MorphOS/Pegasos systems:
- a) The vector check now handles function calls using EmulLibEntry
correctly and calculates "ROM" locations and sizes in the most
compatible way by scanning system romtags and afterwards calling
NewGetSystemAttrsA().
- The memory monitor has been fixed for fake chipmem on Pegasos
and supports MorphOS "ROM" areas too. There's just one problem
left with pre-50.58 exec.library: size of A-Box modules cannot be
calculated perfectly here and will simply be set to 0x700000. This
means that you might be able to access non-existing memory areas at
addresses near 0x10800000! This is on your own risk...
- The internal
doslist scanner (for sector check/bootblock lab) works without
MEMF_24BITDMA memory now which was never available on MorphOS systems.
The code for 64-bit access (>4GB) has been bug fixed and enhanced to
support TD_READ64/TD_WRITE64 too.
- Rewritten startup code to use
EasyRequestArgs() in case of an error instead of DisplayAlert() which
is not available in current MorphOS versions. Thanks to Harry Sintonen
for all his help with MorphOS topics and for beta-testing! And thanks
to Alexey Ivanov, Ilkka Lehtoranta and 'Vinny' for beta-testing too.
- Fixed problems in sector check concerning 4GB-border. Added some
recalculation routines for strange values in de_BlocksPerTrack.
Additionally de_MaxTransfer is supported now for older HDs.
- Removed the 'Use/Ignore External Xad-Slaves' selection from the
file check prefs. This was obsolete as xadmaster.library always
requires external clients to do a good job.
- Finally added support for disk archives and disk images to the
file check. Please note that xadmaster.library v8+ is required!
Now you can extract all types of archives that XAD supports, and
if they contain disk images with valid files inside, these files
will be checked too. Two new options therefore have been added to
the file check prefs: "Extract Disk Archives" and "Check Files
Inside Disk Images". Please read the docs for more information!
Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for beta-testing and his helping hand
concerning tricky XAD stuff.
- Added extra check for bootblock viruses to sector and file check
(for files larger than 2048 bytes, usually diskimages).
- Added sector checking for files! You can select 3 different modes
in the filecheck prefs, please read the docs carefully for further
information...
- Added 'Scan Files For Bootblocks' to the file check prefs. With
this option enabled, VirusZ scans for bootblock viruses inside
files. Useful to detect unknown bb-virus installers.
- Changed/enhanced functionality of the 'Job Monitor':
- 'Pause'/'Continue' gadgets have been replaced by a single cycle
gadget to stop/run the current job. b) 'Quit' gadget is always active
now (requested by many users).
- All running/waiting jobs will be
displayed in the report list now so you get a better overview. You can
select any of them and kill them with the 'Kill Job' gadget. Useful if
you accidentally have selected some wrong files/disks.
- Added 'Check
Files...' gadget. It obviously does the same as the equally named menu
item of VirusZ's main window, but you won't have to switch windows any
more.
- Added 'One/All' cycle gadget between 'Disinfect' and 'Delete'
as it determines the behaviour of both functions. If 'One' is selected,
everything works like in previous versions. By selecting 'All', the
delete function will delete all malicious files that have been found so
far. 'Disinfect' first determines the type of the selected item
(infected file or sector?) and will then start disinfecting either all
files or all sectors of the selected disk. Requested by 'Underground
God', hope you are happy now :)
- Bumped version of VirusZ III to 1.00 !!! After 6(!) years of often
little development and much more lack of time VirusZ III finally
has reached full functionality...
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
Bjorn Lynne (E-Mail)
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Audio: Bjorn Lynne Announces "Statement" Music CD
Bjorn Lynne, who became known in Amiga circles as the composer of the music for the game Alien Breed among others, and as a musician of the demo-scene group Crusaders, has released details about his announced audio CD "Statement." One of the tracks, "Kikki," has been put online for listening on the Internet under the URL http://www.artistlaunch.com/bjornlynne. Comments and feedback are desired.
All of the music for the CD has been composed and produced. A few small changes are still being undertaken. The CD contains 12 or 13 tracks, four featuring the guest singer Eco-Mcz. The enterprise is achieved through ArtistLaunch, a page for independent musicians. The cover was done by Snjezana Suznjevic Vago of Croatia. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
disc4you.de (ANF)
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WMV Movies in Brazilian Movie Theaters
Microsoft wants to usher the age of digital theater with WMV (Windows Media Format). The initial and repeat units for WMV-composed films based on Microsoft's ".net" platform are to be installed in about 100 Brazilian movie houses. Most of all, the film producers from north of the continent in distant Hollywood may rejoice over the cost savings. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)
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SoftRAID for AmigaOS: URD 0.2 beta
"URD" is a SoftRAID for AmigaOS. A new version, v0.2 beta, has been released today. Changes since the last version:
ADD - added
REM - removed
IMP - improved
CHG - changed
FIX - fixed
BMP - bump
- ADD: Beside from the normal array operation, it's now possible to
directly mount into a level. This can be helpfull if a mirror
seems defect.
- ADD: Now each device in an array has a superblock. Will be used
for recovery-tools later.
- IMP: Functionality for handling possible errors improved.
- IMP: Logging-functions now faster and smaller.
- ADD: The logging- and errorfeedback-options can be modified on the
fly without the need of dismounting the array to make the new
options working.
- ADD: The URD-own command-set for reading, writing and updating the
array is now basicly implemented. More details on this API later.
- CHG: Of course many small changes and improvements done not listed
here.
- BMP: revision to 2
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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19.Feb.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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ColdFusion (previously Amiga ColdFire): Poll about A3000/A4000 Version
There's a poll in progress for the Amiga 3000/4000 version of the ColdFusion Project (previously known as Amiga ColdFire), which is an attempt to build an Amiga accelerator card using Motorola's Coldfire processor family.
The question is what is preferred for the Amiga 3000/4000 version:
- a standard SD-RAM DIMM and no expansion slots
- an SO DIMM and three expansion slots
In order to participate in the poll, please visit the YahooGroups Website AmigaColdfire Project. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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19.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Amiga Java: Jamiga Alpha 0.02
A new alpha version of the Amiga Java port "Jamiga" is available for download. Changes since the last version:
- Bugfix: JIT works now on "real" 68040/60 Amigas
- Bugfix: A problem with the UTF8 - UTF16 conversion that caused many memory errors has been resolved
- Network support works, also in connection with several threads ("UDP Sockets" and the "NetworkInterface" classes are not supported yet)
- There's a lot of work to do yet on AWT, but the "Testframe" classes may now change the size of opened windows
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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18.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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Videos of the last two AmigaOS4 deemonstrations
There are videos of the last OS4 demonstration by the "Amiga North Thames" group from
February the 8th and of the demonstration by the "North Carolina / South Carolina Amiga
User's Group" from February the 7th available now.
"Amiga North Thames", February the 8th 2004
"AmigaOne Productions" offers a video of about 30 minutes in different formats:
More formats might be contributed later.
"NC/SC Amiga User's Group", February the 7th 2004
"Herwegoagain" offers a video of that event at amigaworld.net:
direct link
(DivX/WMA, 54 MB)
(cg) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise (Website)
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Heise: Mini PC "FlipStart" introduced
Heise Online reports from the introduction
of the mini PC FlipStart by
Vulcan Inc. That company has been brought to life by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The micro computer measures 148 mm × 101 mm × 26 mm only and has a
5.6 inch display as well as a 1 GHz processor. The operating system will be Windows XP.
The full (German) report is available by the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise (Website)
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Heise: New software for music discrimination
As Heise online reports that
Karlheinz Brandenburg, a co-developer of the MP3 format, has developed a software
which is capable to discriminate different music tracks by their temporal pattern,
instrumantation, speed and dynamics.
That offers the ability to do an automatic
sorting of a music collection and for new search engines but on the other hand
new mechanisms for copy protection also.
Futher information regarding the program "Audio ID" is availabe by the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: CManager V28.7 and RxMUI V40.6 released
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released new
versions of RxMUI and of the Contact Manager. The CManager is now available in
version 28.7
(461 KB), RxMUI in
version 40.6 (974 KB).
With RxMUI graphical user interfaces can be created for ARexx macros using
MUI. CManager is a general bookmark manager.
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker
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Intel announces AMD64 compatible processor
"Other way around now" seems to be the new agenda: While AMD's 32 bit x86
processors are compatible to the Intel standard the latter company has announced a 64 bit extension
compatible to AMD's 64 bit technique now. Thus a good chance is given that the 64 bit desktop
processors by both companies will be compatible to each other. Currently Intel keeps the
32 bit concept within this area and plans to implement the AMD extension initially to
their workstation and server processor Xeon only.
Read the full article by the title link.
(cs) (Translation: ub)
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18.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker
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AOL with AmigaOS/MorphOS
Internet connections with the online provider AOL by ISDN and modem are possible now without a special dial in
software. It is very likely that it is possible to access the net with AOL by using
AmigaOS or MorphOS now. Read the full article by the title link.
(cs) (Translation: ub)
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17.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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BabeAnoid: Status report to Version 2.5
Richard "Dawnbringer" Fhager is now working at a new version of his breakout clone
BabeAnoid.
You can find the status report under the title link.
In a thread
Richard answers questions of a few users.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Picture series: The "Acryl Show Case" of bplan
Under the title link bplan published a few pictures of a clear acryl case, which are used for presentation of Pegasos.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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Status report to the Commodore-One
Under the title link Jens Schönfeld published a status report to the Commodore-One, the reconfigurable Computer, who is often called because of his C64 compatibility as the legendary breadcase.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net
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New tower case for AmigaOne and Classic Amiga computer
The US-American Amiga trader Mr. Hardware shows under the title link a few tower cases.
The cases are mainly for use of the AmigaOne but also for A1200 computer.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Norman Walter (ANF)
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Amiga C course for beginners in German
The first lections are now online, more will come in next time.
(cg) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Amiga.org (Website)
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CAPS project: User library ported to Linux (x86, PPC)
The Classic Amiga Preservation Society
(CAPS) has ported their libary now to Linux
(x86 and PPC).
The CAPS team archives old and copysaved Amiga-games and they convert them in
their own CAPS-format, which can be read by new WinUAE-versions.
With the user libary the IPF images of third programs could be processed.
The packet is bound to C.A.P.S Freeware License Agreement
which is contained in the archive.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Jörg Karisch (ANF)
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Short report of the hardware meeting in Nürnberg of 14th February
The user group 'Interessengemeinschaft Mittelfränkischer Amiga-Enthusiasten' (IMAGE)
has published a short report on their
website
of their hardware meeting in Nürnberg on February the 14th.
There where two Pegasos-II-, two A4000 with CyberstormPPC, an A1200 in a
tower with BlizzardPPC, A4000 in a Micronik tower with 68060, x86-Mini-Tower
with WinUAE and two x86 laptops. You can find more information under the
title link.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Guido Mersmann (ANF)
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Meeting: AmCluSt Hardware Event 2.- 4. April 2004
This year there is again an AMClust Hardware event. It is from April
the 2nd until April the 4th. The members meet each other on
the hardware meeting in Dreierwalde in Rheine.
Not members are welcome, too, but please announce.
(nba) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Matthias Kretzler (ANF)
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Amigaremix.com again online
Amigaremix.com is a website, where you can download remoxes of Amiga game soundtracks as a
MP3 file.
Now Amigaremix.com is again online after a long break because of problems.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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17.Feb.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Airsoft Softwair announce Hollywood Designer
Andreas Falkenhahn today announced the newest Amiga software product
from Airsoft Softwair: Hollywood Designer. The program is a state of the
art "what you see is what you get" editor to create presentations, games
and applications for the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood and will
be released soon.
Hollywood Designer offers a powerful GUI that has all
functions you need to unleash your creativity. With the Hollywood Designer
now everyone can create funky Hollywood presentations with just a few
clicks and save them for all Amiga platforms, e.g. you can create
presentations for MorphOS on AmigaOS or presentations for WarpOS/AmigaOS
on MorphOS. Hollywood Designer blasts the borders of the different Amiga
platforms!
And now here are some screenshots of Hollywood Designer in action:
Hollywood Designer will be released in versions for AmigaOS3, WarpOS,
MorphOS and - as soon as it's ready - AmigaOS4. Check back on the website
of Airsoft Softwair soon as they will reveal new details about this new
Amiga software. (nba)
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16.Feb.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New functions in the customer account
IOSPIRIT writes:
"IOSPIRIT continues to further improve its customer service. The latest
results of these efforts are two new functions now available to the
customers in their account:
My updates
In a central spot, the customer now finds all update- and bonus-files
relevant to the products ordered or registered online.
Forum subscriptions
IOSPIRIT now offers account-owners (whether customer or not) the
possibility to read and take part in forum-based discussions via their
email-client. At this time, there are only forums for the Medusa USB
bundle, but a step-by-step expansion of these services for other
products is planned."
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Feb.2004
Heinz Wrobel (ANF)
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MakeCD: makecdromfs.module 45.12
makecdromfs.module 45.12 with Joliet and HFS support is now available for MakeCD. Various problems of v45.11 are fixed in this version.
Direct download (48 KB) (cg) (Translation: cg)
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16.Feb.2004
Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)
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Hyperion: BlizzardPPC & Cyberstorm PPC repairs
Hyperion Entertainment would like to remind classic Amiga users that they can still take advantage of their repair offer for these cards by emailing timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com as a first point of contact.
Cost for repairs is a flat 145 euro + parts and you may pay via paypal, wire transfer or by cash (at your own risk). Should your card not be repairable, it will be shipped back to you at no cost should you wish. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Feb.2004
GoldEd Support (ANF)
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Text editing: "microgolded" released
microgolded is a simple yet powerful editor for AmigaOS, MorphOS and UAE.
It is a low cost variant of GoldED AIX, designed for basic editing tasks. The editor is released in form of a single executable, for placement in the system's c folder. microgolded is the ideal editor for the boot CD of your OS because it does not need to be installed: it does not need an assign, catalogs, custom libraries etc. It will run even if the AmigaOS startup-sequence is not functional.
microgolded is only available online for instant download (pay securely via paypal). The retail price is 10 EUR. On the launch day, the special retail price is only 5 EUR if you go to this page.
You can download a 30-day trial version here.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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15.Feb.2004
ANN (website)
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New download site for MUI classes
Under the title link has a new download site for MUI classes been set up. It is meant to replace the offer that had formerly been accessible under http://gilfanon.homeip.net/mui/.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Feb.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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Public test of the GAUHPIL database
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list
created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of Amiga users
sorted by continents and countries. Right now, the GAUHPIL is migrating to
a MySQL based database solution.
Under the title link, you can find a description of the current state of
things and of course a link to the current draft. Meanwhile, the database
functions are in a state that the database could be used. The latest
additions are the New Links List and the Lost Links List.
The moderator invites you to thoroughly test all functions, especially the
registration of new entries, and send him your feedback about all
malfunctions and any strange behaviour.
Currently, the GAUHPIL contains 867 users in 38 countries.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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14.Feb.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)
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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)
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14.Feb.2004
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Eyetech: updates and announcements
The AmigaOne distributor Eyetech has started the rework of his web appearance and put some announcements and updates online:
"EarlyBird" offer discontinued
The "EarlyBird" offer, where the buyers of an AmigaOne don't have to pay for AmigaOS4 and get it delivered by the time of its release, ends on March, 31st 2004. The last amount of AmigaOne-XE computers that will be delivered as "EarlyBird" has already been manufactured. Delivery as long as stock lasts.
Preproduction-MicroA1 in small numbers available, pictures of the new revision
A first number of MicroA1 motherboards (AmigaOne in Mini-ITX format) has been produced. These are identical with the planned specifications for the sales version besides the missing slot for "enhanced I/O interfaces" and the not existing onboard memory. The until now produced devices are exclusively for retailers and developers who want to demonstrate the computer to potential (bulk) buyers or who want already begin with the porting of specific software. The specifications of the now available MicroA1 computers are as follows:
- Size: 17cm x 17cm x 3.5cm high (excluding PCI riser card)
- CPU Module: 8cm x 8cm standard AmigaOne module - 750Fx @ 800MHz
- Memory: Single socket SODIMM. 256MB PC133 CL3 supplied
- Graphics: Radeon 7000 series, 32MB non-shared memory on board
- BIOS: Uboot 1.0.0 socketed, with OS4 enabling code
- Southbridge: VIA 82 2C686B
- Ethernet: 10/100 with 3COM 920-ST06 controller
- Sound: Cmedia CMI8738 6 ch controller
- IDE: 44 way (2.5") and 40 way (3.5") connectors UDMA100
- Legacy I/O: Parallel, 2 x PS/2, game/MIDI sockets
- Video I/O: 15 pin SVGA, SVHS (miniDIN), composite video (RCA)
- Sound: 3.5mm mike, aux and speaker jacks
- Fast I/O: RJ45 10/100 ethernet, 2x USB1.0 ; 2 x USB1.0 headers
- PCI: PCI-32 slot expandable to 3 x slots via a suitable riser
Pictures of the new motherboard revision are also available. A special case for the MicroA1 has been built in a small series, too, pictures of it can be found here and here.
Eyetech's website gets an overhaul
To do the change from an Amiga retailer to a PPC motherboard distributor justice, Eyetech's website will be reworked step by step. The webshop will continue to exist for now but Eyetech will only clear existing stocks and charge a fee on small orders. The delivery times for "Classic Amiga" products will become up to two weeks as the articles are now stocked external in a warehouse.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Feb.2004
ANN (website)
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Back to the Roots: Emulators History Project
We want to announce a new service which we started at BTTR, the "Emulators History Project" located at emulators.back2roots.org.
At this location we start to collect source code and binaries of all Amiga emulators ever released. We start with the WinUAE emulator history, other emulators to come later.
All emulator versions online can both be downloaded or browsed, which may be helpful for coders working on any Amiga emulator or emulator supporting/addon projects.
It's a difficult task to find all versions ever released, especially when it comes to the source code (which never had a version in its filename - urghh), that is why we want to ask you for your help to get the collection complete! Please have a look at the current collection of WinUAE files and help us find all missing files (which are marked as red cells): http://emulators.back2roots.org/winuae.
Thanks in advance for your time and contribution. (snx)
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14.Feb.2004
morphzone.org (website)
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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)
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14.Feb.2004
Dirk Stoecker (ANF)
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RekoNet offline
The "RekoNet" server that had offered a comprehensive collection of card sets for the Solitaire card game "Klondike" had to be taken from the net. Because of the high demand for storage and bandwidth and the partly erotic offering it's hard for the providers to find a replacement.
To make the card set collection further online available and also to continue the already started expansion of the offer on other card formats and Solitaire programs are the providers have to rely on small donations. An amount of almost 300 EUR would cover the costs for the next two years.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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14.Feb.2004
Ron van Herk (IRC)
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Computer City: open letter to the Amiga community
The Dutch Amiga retailer Comuter City (http://www.compcity.nl) announces in an open letter to the amiga community that the source code for the multimedia software MediaPoint will be made public to accelerate the developing process. For this, a community portal will be set up to coordinate the work on the project.
Furthermore, Computer City will open their new webshop on March, 1st with support in several languages. Additionally, there'll be some special actions in March.
And just in time for Valentine's Day they announce a USB2.0 PCI card as a present for all their Pegasos-II customers (who have paid their bill). (cr) (Translation: wk)
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13.Feb.2004
amigaworld.net (Website)
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C64: User interface "GEOS" for free download
The graphic C64 user interface GEOS
which originally belonged to Berkely Softworks has been now released for free download
of the current owner of the rights cmdrkey.
But currently the server is not available because of the "slashdot-effect".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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13.Feb.2004
Coyote Flux (ANF)
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New KickFlash-OS4 Update
As Coyote Flux announce, there are new versions available of the KickFlash OS4 Firmware and the CoyoteFlash tool.
CoyoteFlash is a program that has been developed for the Individual Computers KickFlash OS4 Card. It allows full management of the flash card and can install AmigaOS ROM Updates and other modules on machine startup. This allows booting of an OS 3.5 or higher system without any resets involved. More information about this project is available on the Individual Computers website.
Changes of the new version:
- Now works with any resident modules
- Supports multiple modules in one file
- Supports the OpenOXYPPort command for OxyPatcher 3.13, just add the file and it will be installed on bootup
- Supports the last BoingBag 2 AmigaOS ROM Updates. Since our main developer machine broke down, it was hard to test the compatibility with other systems. Please give us some feedback!
- New advantages are that you can install AmigaOS ROM updates with different modules. For example, you can install all the updates except scsi.device and use a different scsi.device as a seperate module.
- Should work with some of the PrepareEmul like programs, but has not been tested intensively yet. Please let us know if it works...
- The NOROMUPDATE command is no longer needed for Setpatch, it should detect the install automatically now.
Download (14 KB) (snx)
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13.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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New superbundle registrations for Pegasos-I-Boards without serial number end
On 14 March 2004 the new superbundle registrations for Pegasos-I-Boards without serial number
will end. If you should have a Pegasos-I-Board without serial number und if you should not
have ordered your superbundle then please do it as soon as possible.
Owners of a Pegasos II or of a Pegasos I with serial number are not concerned.
After expiration of the mentioned time as a owner of a Pegasos I without serial number
you will still only have the possibility to get the superbundle by registering
your Pegasos at an authorized Genesi agent.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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13.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker / Markus Bonet (ANF)
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Source codes of Windows on Internet
Today Microsoft confirmed the rumours: Source codes of Microsoft operating systems
Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 are available on Internet.
(cs) (Translation: dr)
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12.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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MorphOS: Adventure "Aqua" Now Part of the SuperBundle
The point-and-click adventure Aqua by Emerald Imaging appeared over the weekend as the latest component of the SuperBundle assortment of software free to all registered Pegasos owners. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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12.Feb.2004
Aminet (Website)
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Aminet Uploads Through 12th Feb. 2004
Here are the new Aminet uploads since our last bulletin:
DOpusRxTrash.lha biz/dopus 29K+Global trashcan for DOpus Magellan II
SMRMag2Theme.lha biz/dopus 686K+Collection of data for Magellan II
Envoy3_1Update.lha biz/patch 87K+Public Patch for Envoy 3.0
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 31K+Online Dictionary
Telser_Keyfile.lha comm/tcp 2K+Free Telser.device keyfile for everyone
MakeHTMLMap.lha comm/www 600K+Powerful (Web,HTML) Gallery-, Catalog-,
Kinderegg.lha demo/euro 41K+Kinderegg - 64K intro from Kindergarden
Strange-Wierd.lha demo/euro 421K+"Wierd" - A demo by Strange in 1997
TheLostPuppy4.lha demo/euro 158K+Demo by Specter - Lost Puppy 4
asl.lha dev/cross 1.6M+Cross-assembler for a wide range of proc
objectbrowser.lha dev/e 11K+Object Browser / System Debugger 0.9
obligement41.lha docs/mags 1.9M+Obligement #41 - Magazine AmigaOS and Mo
obligement42.lha docs/mags 2.0M+Obligement #42 - Magazine AmigaOS and Mo
Mattonite.lha game/demo 862K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha game/misc 539K+Worm Wars 7.72a: Advanced snake game
BH.lha game/shoot 283K+Beach Head C64 style game
StefADV.lha game/text 29K+Little italian text adventure
StefADV2.lha game/text 71K+2nd little italian text adventure
Marryampic2.lha game/think 526K+CardSet game with sound-pairs (MorphOS)
MazezaM.lha game/think 294K+Puzzle game, Sokoban alike (DeLuxe versi
MiniAwari.lha game/think 50K+Ancient board game (v2.0)
A2Zee.lha game/wb 32K+Put the letters in the right order!
Kaleido.lha game/wb 35K+Try to match the kaleidoscopic patterns!
ffmpeg.lha gfx/conv 1.5M+Fast video and audio encoder
GIFsplit.lha gfx/conv 24K+Splits GIF animations into individual GI
GS8gui.lha gfx/conv 32K+GUI for Ghostscript8 done with rxMUI
QLView.lha gfx/show 221K+Sinclair QL Screen viewer and iff saver.
DD2AG_0.3.lha hard/drivr 23K+Makes Amiga Guide out of DriverDescripto
SetClockI2C.lha hard/hack 50K+SetClock clone using I2C real time clock
softPSUoff.lha hard/hack 7K+Turn off an ATX-PSU from the shell + ATX
imdbDiff040123.lha misc/imdb 4.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff040130.lha misc/imdb 3.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
aquarobe.lha mus/play 29K+A skin for Prayer2 [UPDATED]
Pixload-4.3.jpg pix/misc 132K+Pixload 4.3 preview
PgsChinese.lha text/dtp 437K+Rudimentary IME script for PageStream
guideml.lha text/hyper 68K+V3.3 AmigaGuide -> HTML converter with G
selector91.lha util/batch 564K+Unique script language / launching tool
selectorUPDATE.lha util/batch 105K+Update from Selector 9.0 to 9.1
IFF2rexx.lha util/conv 1K+Convert IFF data to rexx source
ExtraLib.lha util/libs 358K+Complex dynamic buffer system, and other
StartBar-ITA.lha util/misc 88K+Italian version of StartBar
AmiMSN.lha util/rexx 7K+(0.2) MSN Messenger client
ADFMaker.lha util/sys 12K+GUI f r Device.handler (DEV:)
PosTitmui.lha util/wb 19K+Reminder note for your WB
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12.Feb.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New Packets Through 12th Feb. 2004
With WHDLoad you are able to play from your hard-drive games that were formerly thought of as being floppy-only. The following packets have been released or updated since our last announcement:
- 12.02.04 updated: Strip Poker (Artworx)
- 12.02.04 new: Skærmtrolden Hugo (SilverRock)
- 10.02.04 new: Strip Poker (Artworx)
- 10.02.04 new: Robinson's Requiem (Silmarils)
- 10.02.04 improved: Ishar 3 (Silmarils)
- 07.02.04 fixed: Cosmic Pirate (Palace)
- 07.02.04 improved: Alien Storm (Sega/U.S.Gold)
- 07.02.04 new: Strip Poker 3 (Artworx)
- 07.02.04 new: Dizzy Dice (Smash 16)
- 05.02.04 improved: Streetfighter 2 (Capcom/U.S.Gold)
- 05.02.04 new: Lancelot (Level 9)
- 04.02.04 new: Strip Poker 2 / Deluxe Strip Poker (Artworx)
- 01.02.04 new: Gazza 2 (Empire)
- 01.02.04 fixed: Sleepwalker (Ocean)
- 29.01.04 improved: Alien Breed (Team 17)
(nba) (Translation: dm)
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12.Feb.2004
Raquel Velasco & Bill Buck (E-Mail)
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MorphOS: First Music to Be Added to SuperBundle
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck of Genesi said in an email that the first music album will be added to the SuperBundle. The music being considered is "TripperTunes" by Ville "Tripper" Sarell. Two of those songs were co-produced by Juho "i-oxo" Järvinen. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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12.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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Microsoft: Windows Services for Unix 3.5 available for free
As Cloanto announces, the Windows Services for Unix 3.5 (SFU) from Microsoft are now available for free.
The SFU include an NFS server which can be used to give one or more Amiga clients access to files stored on a Windows PC in case SFU is running on it. Amiga NFS clients are part of packages such as AmiTCP/IP. (snx)
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12.Feb.2004
CHIP Xonio Online (E-Mail)
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Internet is the Central Medium for Purchasing Decisions
It's undisputable that the Internet is the main source of information for consumers. That's the conclusion of the online purchase advisor CHIP Online and Xonio. According to a current Nielsen//NetRatings study 94 percent of German households check the Internet before making an important buying decision.
[The long article continues with details, not translated -dm] (nba) (Translation: dm)
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12.Feb.2004
David 'Daff' Brunet (E-Mail)
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Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results for January/February 2004
The results of the Amiga Games Hit Parade Vote for best game for the months of January and February 2004 have been released. The list is newly topped by Quake2, followed by Tales of Tamar and Payback. The next vote (Amiga Games Hit Parade of March/April 2004) begins in mid-March 2004. (nba) (Translation: dm)
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12.Feb.2004
Christoph Kimna (ANF)
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Event: Hobbytronic Show at Dortmund-Westfalen Hall
The Hobbytronic Computer Show began yesterday in the Dortmund-Westfalen Hall. The show runs until the 15th of February, 2002.
The HobbyTronic show is good for PC fans, electronic enthusiast, amateur radio buffs, DX-ers, frequency and TV novices, video buffs, and electro-acoustic technicians. It is great for hobby computer users, work computer users, or computer users seeking training.
[Remainder of article not translated. It went on to state that the Hobbytronic show was more of a sales show than CeBIT, and that visitors were unlikely to find Amigas there. -dm] (nba) (Translation: dm)
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11.Feb.2004
amiga.org (Website)
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amiga.org: Rework's 2nd phase starts on Friday
The team of amiga.org will start the 2nd phase of their announced rework
process on Friday. During the following days the site might be unreachable from time to time (cg) (Translation: ub)
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11.Feb.2004
ann.lu (Website)
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"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)
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11.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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Amiga Games Award 2003 goes to "Knights and Merchants"
The Amiga Games Award 2003 goes to
the MorphOS game "Knights and Merchants", a strategic economy simulation
by epic interactive. The chart has been chosen by
the readers of the "Hit-Parade-Newsletter".
The first ten ranks:
- Knights and Merchants
- Duke Nukem
- Babeanoid 2
- Birdieshoot
- Pairs NG
- Foto-Foto
- AmiChess 2
- Amhuhn
- Project StarFighter
- 2 Pairs 2 Furious
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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11.Feb.2004
Andreas Balke (ANF)
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Amiga 600 as MP3-Player in a car - Version 2.0
Hello Amiga friends,
because I got a lot of feedback to my crafty project I just want to announce a new version of
my Amiga MP3 player in a car.
All about that is to read at the same URL as before:
http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~utaba/A600/A600-e.html.
Greetings,
Andi
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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11.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)
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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)
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11.Feb.2004
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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SN-EuroArchiv V1.2 available and new homepage online
The SN-EuroArchiv V1.2 is online at my new homepage which is reachable at
http://www.sn-archive.privat.t-online.de
or http://www.sn-archive.de.tf. The Aminet upload will follow later.
At the homepage there is also information and a picture available regarding the
real time economy simulation "Die Kleine Gilde II" which is still under development. The game will
see its first release in about a good four weeks.
SN-EuroArchiv is a coin manager, especially for Euro coins. It manages single coins, coin sets, special or
commemorative coins, coin rolls and "starterkits" in a simple way. It is possible to view the collection
in tables and statistics to help to complete the collection.
Changes since version 1.1:
- Save and print of annual table added
- Table with number and value of the coins sorted by country (country statistics)
- Look up possibility for the auction value of the collection within the project window
- Nominal value count statistic added
- Accurate numbers within the collectors value statistics
- Problems with buttons fixed
- manual changed to Amigaguide format and addition of history
(snx) (Translation: ub)
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10.Feb.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Club Amiga Magazine: February edition published
The February edition of Club Amiga Magazine (CAM) has been published.
From the contents:
- Editorial
- AmigaOS 4 Update
- The Boing Case
- My AmigaOne Adventure by Carl Moppett
- My AmigaOne Adventure by Steven Solie
- Backdrops R Us
- Member's Corner
- Letters
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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10.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: Updates of CManager and Calendar.mcc
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has provided new versions of the Contact Manager also of the MUI class Calendar.mcc. The CManager lays now in:
Version 28.5 (450 KB) , Calendar.mcc in
Version 15.2 (86 KB).
The CManager is a bookmark-office. Instead of the latest edition more bugs are cleaned.
Calender.mcc makes the input of the date and graphic user interfaces easier which are made by MUI. In the new version
the dayname is written with backcolor
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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09.Feb.2004
hawe (ANF)
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Envoy: Update-Patch
Heinz Wrobel released a patch (87 KB) for Envoy 3.0.
The patch fixes known problems of Envoy 3.0 and increases the compatibility with Amiga emulations. Further details are to be found in the file 'FixedBugs'.
Update patches for the Envoy development version are available, too.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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09.Feb.2004
Slashdot (Website)
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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)
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08.Feb.2004
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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First version of Arjuna, new Windows drivers for Catweasel
Arjuna is a modular, expandable solution to access floppy disks from many
different systems. It supports the Catweasel controller to read and write
formats not compatible with the standard PC controller. Arjuna is written in
C++ and uses Qt for its GUI. The project by Christoph 'Doc Bacardi' Thelen
now has its own homepage and a mirror on our webspace. The first version 0.6beta is available for download there.
Arjuna is a project that reaches very far into the past, digging deep into
almost forgotten knowledge about data storage. At the same time it focusses
on the future as a universal tool for data restauration and conversion. Hoping to find a lot of developers to contribute floppy disk formats, Christoph is trying to make this a Sourceforge project.
The Windows version of Arjuna needs an updated driver for the Catweasel to work properly. Download this version here (87 KB, experimental). (snx)
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07.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (website)
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Swedish Web portal for Pegasos/MorphOS
The Swedish Amiga distributor GGS-Data has set up a Web portal for Scandinavian Pegasos users under www.pegasosworld.se. The established Swedish Pegasos forum pegasos.org is accessible again and has been integrated into pegasosworld.se.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (website)
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Pegasos: Official Gentoo and OpenBSD support
As OpenBSD says, will the Genesis PPC computers "Pegasos" and Pegasos-II" now be supported. Download links and a short installation instruction can be found on the OpenBSD website.
The Gentoo kernel "ppc-sources-dev-2.4.24" now supports the Pegasos-II, too. This kernel offers among other things
"cryptoloop" (for encrypted file systems), GRSecurity 2.0-rc4, access control lists and some more things.
Under http://dev.gentoo.org/~dholm/ppc.html you can find kernels to adapt an existing Pegasos installation for a Pegasos-II. Kernels for a complete new installation on a Pegasos-II are also available.
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Magazine: next CAM issue postponed
Because of a last minute extension will the next issue of the Amiga online magazin "Club Amiga Monthly" be released on February, 9th instead of February, 7th, as it was announced before. (cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
OSNews (ANF)
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CNN: The silliest moments of the IT industries in 2003
CNN has collected the "silliest occurrences in the IT industry in 2003" and presents under the title link a collection of funny anecdotes - from CD copy protection that can be "removed" via the "shift" key to Microsoft's toilet PC "iLoo".
(cg) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Captain HIT (ANF)
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ASoft: new MUI libraries and tools
Alfonso Ranieri (ASoft) has released new updates of his programs:
CManager v28.2 (global contact management),
TheBar.mcc v16.2
(MUI button bar class),
RxMUI v40.5
(ARexx MUI library), RexxMustHave v22.4 (Rexx functions) and Calendar.mcc v15.1 (Calendar MUI class for an easy date input).
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Merregnon-Team (email)
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Merregnon: new work in progress file of Merregnon 2 and cooperation wih MUSA Ltd
Merregnon Studios, the makers of the highly anticipated music CD of the same name, and MUSA Ltd. bundle the powers to make a high quality of live orchestra recordings and post productions for the video gaming industry possible. There's a
work in progress music piece of the second part of Merregnon
in MP3 format with a length of 1:30 minutes online. The piece has been recorded by Andy Brick with members of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the New Yorker Philharmony.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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07.Feb.2004
Tom Duin a.k.a. Amigaharry (ANF)
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Search program: SearchStar 0.84
The search program "SeachStar" is available in version 0.84. With this tool you can search files and file comments and do many more things. New in version 0.84 is the possibility to search in several directories and drives.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 07. Feb. 2004, 02:28] [Comments: 0]
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07.Feb.2004
Dietmar Knoll (ANF)
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First draft of the GAUHPIL data base online
The GAUHPIL (Geographical Amiga Users Home Page Internet List) is a list created and moderated by Dietmar Knoll containing websites of Amiga users sorted by continents and countries. Right now is the GAUHPIL migrating to a MySQL based database solution. Under the title link you can find a description of the current state of things and of course a link to the first draft.
The start page is now localized into German/English. New are the lists for each single continent. The users can be found as before sorted in alphabetical order below their countries, in addition you can now query single countries or search for single terms.
Things to do are a form for entering new links, a form (with password request) for changing existing links, a dynamic list of new links and a dynamic list of lost links.
For now, the GAUHPIL contains 867 users in 38 countries.
(nba) (Translation: wk)
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06.Feb.2004
morphzone.org (Website)
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Video of TV-presentation of Pegasos II available
The Pegasos II presentation which took place on the Hungarian TV station "FixTV" is now available
on morphzone.org as an AVI-video. You can download it under the title link.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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05.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Picture Viewer: MiniShowPicture 1.55
A new version of the picture viewer "MiniShowPicture" has been released, containing the following changes:
- Special version for users without graphics cards (beta status)
- new title picture
- Shortcut "h" to change the display mode
- shows picture on its own screen (shortcut "g")
- filenames may be changed
- more smaller changes...
Direct download: MiniShowPicture.lha (275 KB) (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
morphos-news.de (Website)
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MorphOS: Poll for "Freeware of the Year"
On morphzone.org
there's a poll to decide the best "Freeware of the Year." All registered users of the portal may vote.
The nominees must fulfill the following criteria:
- No Ports
- Either MorphOS native or at the least "thought of for MOS"
- Free (no shareware)
The license (closed source/open source) as well as the utilized programming language are not material to the poll.
The poll runs until noon on Friday the 29th of February. The nominees are:
- 2Pair2Furious
- AmigaMARK
- AmiNetRadio
- CDSpeedKiller
- CyberLemmings
- Euph0ria
- Maguila
- MiniShowPicture
- PTP DigCam
- TranspoClock
- WallGet
- ZoneXplorer
(cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
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Convention: Date for AmiWest 2004 Set
The organizers of AmiWest have set and made public the date for this year's show: 24th and 25th July. This year the show will take place at a new location. Further details will follow. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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SimpleMail: Version 0.23 Released
The email program SimpleMail has reached version 0.23.
Changes since the previous version:
- AppIcon support (bgol)
- mbox Data may be directly imported in a selected order (bgol)
- APOP support
- ported to MorphOS (henes)
- various bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Video Toaster Flyer: Source Code Released
On www.openvideotoaster.org the source code for the Video Toaster Flyer by NewTek has been released as a gift to Amiga users. Previously Amiga Video Toaster Flyer Character Generator and Toaster Paint had been released.
Newtek was founded in 1991 by Tim Jenison and partners. Their Amiga Video Toaster enabled the production of video at drastically lower prices than the studio equipment that had been available until that time. In 1994 came the Newtek Video Toaster Flyer, tapeless processing hardware.
With this gesture by Newtek, opening the source code, the world doesn't just get the first video production system in a box. It gets the first open source realtime video processing system for the Amiga.
The Amiga Video Toaster Flyer Character Generator supports among other things Postscript, Real-time Scrolls, and professional-quality crawls and titling of live or pre-taped videos and static pictures.
ToasterPaint is a 24-Bit paint program with tools for drawing, coloring, tinting, blending, and warping of pictures. (snx) (Translation: dm)
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05.Feb.2004
Gunnar Bernhardt (Maintainer dt. Mirror) (ANF)
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WinUAE 0.8.24 Released
Toni Wilen has released a new version of his Windows port of UAE.
Removed Bugs:
- Undesired keyboard input while using USB keyboards under Windows 9x/ME
- Updates of the bsdsocket emulation (TCP:, Apache)
- The saving of a compressed "state" data without zlib1.dll resulted in data distortion
- crashing after saving "state" data a fourth time
Newly added:
- Multi-monitor support improved
- Slide-bar for the speaker volume as well as corresponding keyboard shortcuts ("END"+"Numpad -", "END"+"Numpad +" und "END"+"Numpad *", as well as Multimedia keypress "Volume +/-" und "Mute")
- Configurable emulation of the floppy noises :)
- Improved debugger (new breakpoints, memwatch points etc.)
- Windows XP-compatible multi-mouse support, improved input support
- FDI 2.0 disk image format
And a few smaller updates.
WinUAE may be downloaded under the title link. A German mirror that also offers older versions of the emulator is at http://www.webwood.de/winuae_1/index.html. (cg) (Translation: dm)
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04.Feb.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)
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LinuxPPC: Debian supports Pegasos II from kernel version 2.4.22-6 on
The official Debian PowerPC kernel supports not only the Pegasos I but also the Pegasos II now. It is a V 2.4.22 kernel with back ported security fixes.
The version 2.4.22-8 works so far, but voodoo fbdev is not integrated yet, the radeonfb should work. There is also an image available for a network install. That one does not work with Voodoo gfx cards yet - Radeons should work without problems.
Further information is available at the Pegasos Linux forum. (snx) (Translation: ub)
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04.Feb.2004
AmiGBG (Website)
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AmiGBG: More exhibitors announced
At the AmiGBG held on April the 3rd in Swedish Goteborg there will be some more exhibitors among them Martin
Blom, developer of the audio systems for AmigaOS Classic, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, AHI, as well as the company Guru Meditation and the online community
AmigaWorld.net. (nba) (Translation: ub)
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04.Feb.2004
Heise Newsticker (Website)
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Game consoles: X-Box 2 equipped with three PPC processors by IBM
The not yet for the public released specifications of the "X-Box 2" by Microsoft seem to have been given to an American newspaper. According to that the console will be equipped with three processors of the PPC 9xx family by IBM, like those known from Apple's G5 computers.
(cg) (Translation: ub)
[News message: 04. Feb. 2004, 15:29] [Comments: 2 - 05. Feb. 2004, 15:47]
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03.Feb.2004
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Scalos: Version 1.4 Beta of Workbench replacement available
Available since Silvester 2003 is the version 12.4 beta of the Workbench replacement Scalos.
The archive has a size of 744 KB and contains only the
files updated or changed since
Version 1.2 (432 KB).
Some new features of Scalos are for instance complete multitasking (every window has its own task), transparency of icons,
if dragged above something where drag&drop is applicable, Stretching, Tiled, and centering of backdrops, iconify of drawer
icons, and a plugin system for exchange and adding of new features.
Minimum system requirements are an Amiga with 68020, Kickstart 3.0, 1 MB free memory and MUI 3.6. Recommended are MUI 3.8,
also the render.library, guigfx.library, popupmenu.library and the newicons.library. The mentionend libraries are also
available on the Scalos-Download-page.
On the website a list of all changes/updates is available in the History. (snx) (Translation: gf)
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03.Feb.2004
ANN (Website)
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Operating Systems: Athene 3.3 published
With version 3.3 of Athene the OS has some more similarities
towards the AmigaOS. For example the ASL based file requester was reworked and the file manager contains now DirOpus inspired
functions like single click, multi choice and a ew fullscreen mode (Screenshot).
Athene is an OS running for itself or it can be hosted under Windows or Linux. The GUI is variable and can be configured
to look like Windows or AmigaOS.
The versions for Windows and Linux can be downloaded for free.
Requirements are min. Pentium-II-processor, Windows 98/Kernel-Version 2.4 of Linux.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
[News message: 03. Feb. 2004, 16:25] [Comments: 0]
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03.Feb.2004
AmigaWorld.net (ANF)
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New screenshots of AmigaOS 4 published
On AmigaWorld.net
you can find new inofficial screenshots of AmigaOS4.
You will see a general Workbench screenshot
with IBrowse, SoundPlayer and the new layers.library in action (shape and mask of windows) and some running
68k-programs: ArtEffect, WBAsteroid,
ZoneXplorer and YAM.
Further more two screenshots show Descent 2 (1,
2). This is a port from d2x, the Linux/SDL-version of the game.
Hyperion is working on an optimisation and on an OpenGL-Integration.
(snx) (Translation: gf)
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02.Feb.2004
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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Commodore Gebruikers Groep: Amiga-Party on April 17th in Holland
The Dutch Commodore Gebruikers Groep will held an Amiga-Party in Maarssen on April 17th.
Two halls are available. The venue is to be found in the Kerkweg 21, Maarssen, The Netherlands. Visitors are welcome from 10 to 16.
Additional information can be found on the homepage of the 'Commodore Gebruikers Groep': http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl.
(snx) (Translation: sk)
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31.Jan.2004
Roger (ANF)
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Amiga intern: 2nd issue online
The January issue (7.4 MB) of the German PDF magazine Amiga intern is available for download.
Subjects of the 42 pages issue of the magazine are among others a big digicam report, part 2 of the Movieshop workshop, USB on the Amiga and Knoppix.
(snx) (Translation: wk)
[News message: 31. Jan. 2004, 13:06] [Comments: 1 - 07. Apr. 2008, 03:14]
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31.Jan.2004
Tom Duin alias Amigaharry (ANF)
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Update: SearchStar v0.81 now also compatible with Directory Opus
The program SearchStar, which searches files on the hard disk which name or content match a certain search pattern and optionally also replaces this by another string, has now been updated to version 0.81 (26 KB).
The previous version didn't work with Directory Opus 5.82 Magellan II, since this program adds a slash mark to the end of each path. This is filtered now by SearchStar v0.81. Also memory is freed faster now. (snx)
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31.Jan.2004
ScummVM Amiga Ports website (ANF)
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ScummVM 0.5.1-R2 68k & WarpOS released
Uwe Ryssel has newly compiled the current version 0.5.1 of ScummVM for 68k (731 KB) and WarpOS (829 KB).
Using ScummVM, classic adventures from LucasArts - like for example Monkey Island 1-3, Day Of The Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig or Full Throttle - can be played on modern Amiga systems.
The new release has been compiled from the MorphOS source code and runs faster and more stable than the previous version. (snx)
[News message: 31. Jan. 2004, 07:19] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jan.2004
WHDLoad (Website)
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WHDLoad: New packets until 30.01.2004
With WHDLoad you can install games which you can normally play only from disk
on your hard drive. The following packets have been added or updated:
- 27.01.04 improved: Sabre Team (Krisalis)
- 27.01.04 improved: Hook (Ocean)
- 27.01.04 improved: Tetris: The Soviet Challenge (Spectrum HoloByte)
- 27.01.04 improved: Mind-Roll (Thalamus)
- 24.01.04 new: Silicon Dreams (Rainbird/Level 9)
(nba) (Translation: dr)
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30.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)
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MediatorUP 3.9
ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 30 January 2004
MediatorUP 3.9
The MediatorUP 3.9 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator
PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT
and Mediator PCI ZIV has been made available today.
The MediatorUP 3.9 update includes new tools:
- MedConfig ver. 1.0
- PowerOff
MedConfig helps configuring all Mediator jumpers and all variables of
Mediator drivers for the PCI cards.
PowerOff switches off the computer equipped with Mediator PCI 1200SX
and ATX PSU.
The update includes new versions of:
- pci.library
- Voodoo.card
- MediatorNET.device
Changes:
- pci.library ver. 6.2
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.20
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
- MediatorNET.device ver. 2.8
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section
of Elbox' homepage.
The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
[News message: 30. Jan. 2004, 16:25] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail)
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Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.25
ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 30 January 2004
Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.25
The MM CD 1.25 update for users of Mediator PCI 3/4000T,
Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000,
Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4,
Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV
busboards, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD,
has been released today.
The Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.25 includes a new configuration tool:
MedConfig helps configuring all Mediator jumpers and all variables
of Mediator drivers for the PCI cards.
The update includes new versions of:
- Voodoo.card
- fm801.audio
- sb128.audio
- mixer.library
- FastEthernet.device
- tv.library
- tv.vhi
Changes:
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.23
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
- Voodoo4/5 SDRAM initialisation changed
- protection against second driver start added
- switching between PPC and 68k accesses to the Voodoo card accelerated
- fm801.audio ver. 4.5
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
- sb128.audio ver. 4.11
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
- mixer.library ver. 1.9
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
- FastEthernet.device ver. 1.13
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
- compatibility with ShapeShifter added
- tv.library ver. 3.4
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
- problem (from ver.3.0) with YAM solved
- S-Video output initialisation procedure changed
- tv.vhi ver.1.3
- support for Mediator PCI 1200LT and LT4 added
The current developer documentations for tv.library and mixer.library
are enclosed with the MM CD 1.25.
Info on the current versions is available in the DOWNLOADS | Mediator section of Elbox' homepage.
The current list of supported PCI cards is available in the Mediator Driver Guide.
(cg) (Translation: cg)
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30.Jan.2004
Genesi (e-mail)
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MorphOS added to the Motorola Design Alliance Program
After the hardware platform Pegasos now also MorphOS has been added to the Motorola Design Alliance Program.
"MorphOS is designed around the concept of shared resources and the ability to build up applications using shared system components. MorphOS is not Unix based." (snx)
[News message: 30. Jan. 2004, 11:14] [Comments: 0]
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30.Jan.2004
giga.de (ANF)
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Source code of "Enemy Territory" released
After releasing the source codes of "Alien versus Predator 2", "Unreal Tournament
2003" and "No One Lives Forever" "id Software" follows that and release the source code
of the popular online shooter "Enemy Territory".
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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