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06.Jan.2004
Claudia Forsbach (E-Mail)

Tales of Tamar: 250 Euros to win
At Tales of Tamar, a platform independent roundbased massiv-multiplayer-online-strategy and partplay early "Kaiser" or "Civilisation", which was developed by Eternity, there is the chance to win 250 Euro.

Be a tester and win 250 Euro

"Tales of Tamar" a roundbased fantasy-, strategy- and partplaygame, is going to the next step of development.

In honour to our "Tales of Tamar" (short ToT) a Windows client, which is advanced in development, we are going to make a competition to test our game in larger gamecircles. The player who is first in our world and gets the title of an emperor, gets a prize of 250 Euro (twohundretandfifty).

Because of testing the game the game is for free for testers. But please work with us because of bugs. Play and Win!

We also search the best strategic, mathematic and diplomatic, the best trader or those who have many of this properties, we show you the prize while you are testing.

Come in into the great and faszinating world of mysts and legends. Fight with elfs, dragons, gnomes and orks. Enter your empire and be a part of this world. Fight with 350-2000 players for the crown of Tamar.

You don't only find friends in this community, it would be a new part of your life and it will change your life, sure!
These are the rules for the competition:

The prize for the competition is 250 Euro!
Members or exmembers of the development team are not allowed to take part
The tester has to fill an application as a beta tester on www.tamar.net
The empire has to be registered after the 31.12.2003
Every player has just one empire, payed secondgames are not possible, payed singlegames are possible
The team of "Tales of Tamar" doesn't take any responsibility for ay bugs and other faults of the programm also if they are the ground for losing the account
Old Vasall contracts are not allowed to be transfered to the game
Serve its purpose is the improvement of the game
This offer is also for new Amiga users or compatibles with a serial key.

Lowest configuration:

PentiumPC 200 MHz, Windows 95, Gfx card with 4 MB and DirectX7
Amiga with AGA, 68030 & 8 MB Fastram, OS 3.1

You can get mor information to "Tales of Tamar" http://www.tamar.net. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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06.Jan.2004
amiga.org (Website) Operating system patch: Stackattack 2
"StackAttack" is patching different operating system functions to cancel crashes because of too low stack memory. The new version of StackAttack was written completely new to stop problems with the old version. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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06.Jan.2004
IOSPIRIT (ANF) IOSPIRIT prolongs special price promotion
IOSPIRIT press release:

"Due to the still high interest in our special price promotion just after the official end of it, IOSPIRIT has decided to prolong the special price promotion by a month until the 1st February 2004.

In the scope of the special price promotions, you can buy selected quality software at almost 40% reduced prices". (cg) (Translation: cg)

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06.Jan.2004
ann.lu (Website)

Experimental UAE-Version: New Version, AmigaOS Binaries
Richard Drummond has published a new version of his experimental UAE-Port, which makes possible many improvements of the WINUAE-version. Between many small changings and bugfixes (see Changelog) there are now also binaries for AmigaOS and BeOS.

The AmigaOS-version with no sound at the moment has following system requests:

OS2.0 or higher
68020 or better
min. 40MB RAM
a stack of 16384 bytes

The ixemul.library is not needed. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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06.Jan.2004
ANN (Website) Cloanto: Personal Paint for MorphOS announced
Genesi and Cloanto announced today that they entered into an agreement to develop a port of Cloanto's Personal Paint for MorphOS.

Under the new agreement, Cloanto is sharing the source code with Genesi, who will assist in the port to its PowerPC-based computing platform. Personal Paint will be bundled with MorphOS. (snx)

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06.Jan.2004
David Doyle (ANF) AmigaWorld.net: Second annual IRC-meeting next weekend
Over the past 5 years #Amigaworld on IRC has seen a lot of people come and go, if you were one of these people or a current member of the channel then please join us in this get-together this weekend, starting 20:00 GMT each Night, Friday 9 Jan to Sunday 11 Jan on irc.SuperHosts.Net.

PS. All Amigans welcomed, not just members.

To join the Channel (Chatroom) get an IRC Client such as AmIRC, mIRC or X-Chat and connect to /server irc.amigaworld.net and then /join #amigaworld, or you can use the IRC JAVA applet on the site.

For more information about the Channel and how to use IRC visit http://chat.amigaworld.net. (snx)

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05.Jan.2004
Cloanto (ANF) Amiga Forever RSS-Newsfeed from Cloanto
After a few weeks of testing Cloanto announced the public access URL for its RSS news feed at amigaforever.com, covering Amiga and emulation news:

http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml

The feed already contains a few hints about the news which will follow this month, and later during 2004 and beyond.

At the same time, the Amiga enthusiasts at Cloanto would like to take this opportunity to wish a healthy, happy and prosperous continuation of 2004. (nba)

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03.Jan.2004
AmigaWorld.net (website) OS4: Screenshots of a "Wolfenstein" port
At AmigaWorld.net, Steven Fuller has released screenshots of the game "Castle Wolfenstein" ported to AmigaOS 4.0:

picture 1, picture 2, picture 3

Steven Fuller is a developer of the team which is porting Gorky 17 to Linux and AmigaOS4. (snx)

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03.Jan.2004
MorphZone (forum) MorphOS: GUI for MLDonkey available
Attention Software have created a Graphical User Interface for the P2P filesharing program MLDonkey (amiga-news.de reported). An alpha version (12 KB) can be downloaded from their homepage. (snx)

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03.Jan.2004
Philippe Bourdin (ANF)

Some details about the OS4 SDK
At AmigaWorld.net, Hans-Jörg Frieden announced further details about the AmigaOS4 SDK which will be included on the Developer Pre-Release CD:

GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 3.4 have been ported to OS 4 native (and as a cross compiler for Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Windows/Cygwin, Darwin/PPC, AmigaOS 3.x/m68k) The SDK will also contain gdb, the Gnu Debugger.
Then there's vbcc. vbcc is Frank Wille's contribution, I don't know if it will be contained in the SDK directly, but it will in any case be downloadable.
The SDK also contains a number of additional utilities, among them "fdtrans", which is a program to convert old-style SFD files into next-gen XML files.
XML files are used by the program "idltool", which is a program that converts these XML files into all sort of output files (much like fd2pragma or SFD before). idltool is primarily used to generate all required include files for an OS 4 style library, but it can also generate a skeleton source code for a library, so that a programmer only has to write an XML file, turn it into source code, and add the functions to it. This should make it easier to write libraries in OS 4.

(snx)

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03.Jan.2004
DENIC (website) DENIC: Ten years of domain administration
From 1.000 to seven millions in ten years: this number shows the successful work of the DENIC on the field of the domains. On the 1st of January in 1994 started the DENIC in an institutionalised form as a project financed from third-party funds at the University of Karlsruhe. Read more about the DENIC and their work on their website. (nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.Jan.2004
Andreas Kleinert (email)

Graphics: SView5 v1.40 released
The graphics viewer and converter SView5 has been released in version 1.40 and can be downloaded as a demo version from the website of the developer Andreas R. Kleinert under the title link. The package contains the eight distribution archives and the plug-in for ImageFX.

(New) Features:

SView5: the powerful main program that allows to access all options and settings, allows to load, save, process and convert images - not only via the GUI but also using ARexx and so on. Includes a RTG-compliant screen-grabber!
BatchProcess: Batch conversion tool, for applying upto 4 image processing operaters to a number of graphics by wildcards and save them in a different file format, e.g. load a bunch of JPEGs, then resize, dither and save them as PNG files.
SVProPics: Ulrich Falke's "SVProPics" batch-processing ARexx script now is part of the SView5 archive
PNG-Box5: dedicated tools for creation of graphics for JPEG-Box5
JPEG-Box5: WWW usage (HTML pages) with progressive/interlacing and transparency support
WinSlide: for viewing images in a window on public screens, using as few memory as possible - smooth scrolling inclusive! Supports 8 through 24 bit displays.
ScrollSlide: like WinSlide but using its own screen, for best colors even on 8 bit displays
CyberSlide: like viewing images from SView5 using a CyberGfx SV5Driver with 16/24 bit capability, but implemented as small standalone program
SuperSlide: like CyberSlide but for AGA screens and screen modes, additionally dithering is done when necessary
SVPrefs: for changing settings of SView5-Library modules easily.
also: JPEG2000 support, lots of new SVOperators, bugfixes, ...

(nba) (Translation: wk)

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03.Jan.2004
Dennis Lohr (ANF) Music: New track on the Psyria homepage
A new year, new chances: With this in mind Psyria tries to go their way to the top. To be successfull with this Psyria's homepage got a new design due to the third anniversary of their Internet presence and this is not all: right at the beginning of the year the fans get something for their ears: "Until Dawn", a chill out track for quiet moments, is available from now on and exclusively in the download area.

Psyria wishes a Happy New Year all their fans and all the Amiga users! (nba) (Translation: wk)

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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)

Virus Help Denmark celebrates 10th anniversary
The Virus Help Team Denmark (VHT-DK) celebrates its 10th anniversary during these days. The editorial staff says "Happy Birthday". Lars P. Kristensen who works for Virus Help Denmark has gathered some information about the history of this honorary organization:

Many people have asked us why and for what? We haven't really been able to respond to this question other than "it's a hobby". Well then some others says, "this must cost you a great deal of money". Actually not, I don't think our lives - so fare - would have been without a computer anyway. Our families have somehow accepted our interest. Then what have we gained from all this. A lot of friends and many contacts. I think this in general goes for most of us in VHT-DK.

Shortly after the appearance of the Amiga, the "evil viral" showed their ugly faces. Most of us went from the old Commodore C64 to Amiga, with all it's advanced graphic, audio and like, some of us didn't even thought of the risks from the viruses before it was all too late, it was just a "phenomenon" one could read had happened to somebody else. The "phenomenon's" became known with names like "ByteBandit" and "BSG9", these were among many others of the early boot block virus. The virus installed itself right into the boot block and normally easy removed, by simply installing a standard boot block, however as "piracy" also is a "thing" to deal with, many software houses tried to protect their work by changing the sync value or other tricks to prevent "disk swapping". To do that it required a special boot block installed and when the virus infected the boot block, the entire disk was destroyed. Well, we haven't seen a new boot block virus for some time, because they are easily detected with the programs available today. Later the file- and link virus appeared.

The programs Virus Help Denmark distribute is only share- and freeware - Virus Help Denmark runs non-profit. It is a fact that all attempts to make a commercial virus killer for the Amiga has failed. They were outrunned by people who simply had their heart at the right place. Combined with the fact that programming of such software isn't just a nine to five job - it simply needs true dedication.

Who is Virus Help Denmark and what do they do - a simple presentation:

Jan Andersen: Webmaster, keeps track off what's going on, supporting Amiga users.
Torben Danoe: PC-guy.
Jan Nielsen: PC-guy, works with Torben and supports PC-users and the PC-Disk.
Henrik Lauridsen: Internet supporter.
Lars P. Kristensen: Amiga user supporter, translator, and "PR"-guy.
Jan Erik Olausen: Programmer of VirusExecutor and Amiga support.

This is a very short description, most off us are still having an Amiga, but the time between the use of it, is getting longer and longer, we all have daily jobs and families to support as well. I could fill pages, with lots of stuff concerning what the five of us has overcome since the early ninety's. I would rather prefer telling the history behind VHT DK, and this started for me at the summertime 1991. The summer I got attacked by a simple virus named ByteBandit. I found a coverdisk which contained a few shareware programs - mainly from the "Fish Library" - every Amiga guy should know Fred Fish and the tremendous work he did to get programmers and users closer. However I found this disk and ZeroVirus, I quickly read the documentation and stumbled over a name - a Danish name: Erik Løvendal Sørensen. Erik had had a similar situation to my own. But - differently - he started to collect the viruses and mailed them to authors of antivirus programs, which didn't yet, supported the virus he mailed. Then he put "The New Superkiller" (TNS) together. By the time I got it, it was stuffed with antivirus programs to the limit.

A day during Easter 1992 I was down to visit Erik. Then I met Jan Andersen and Torben Danø. I have seen Jan shortly (he can't remember - he's just getting older) talking to Erik about how he had shown the TNS to some pupils at an evening school and taught them how to use it. A month or so after Easter, the two guys forming RVC-DK wished to leave to pay a greater attention to their study. I had had a wish to join the center from the day I started in SHI - now that possibility was in reach. Erik thought it was better if I stayed at "my post", however he hadn't any complaints when Jan was pointed at as a new RVC leader. What the heck. I called Jan and fortunately he lived just 25 km's from me. The next month Jan and I redesigned the whole set of disks. Time demanded a Kick2.0 disk and we first tried different versions of "softkick's" (Jan had a hard drive - lucky him). Well, we equipped Jan's A500 with a Kick2.0 ROM and that gave us a lot of new possibilities, one was to use the entire 880KB of a disk. Shortly after Jan and I teamed up, Jan Nielsen (Jan-Jan), Torben Danø and Henrik Lauridsen joined to be part of the action.

Soon Jan established SHI BBS. First he figured out the MAX BBS system but soon he changed to - and learned to master - the STARNET BBS system (the prior system to MEBBS net) under which the system performed to the end. The system almost killed Jan, he wanted the system to be no less than 100 percent secure and he actually took a bet with another SHI guy, who claimed he could hack the BBS. As fare as I know, Jan is still waiting to collect the bet. However, Jan also did a heck off a job in keeping the BBS up to date, he actually "haunted" every corner of all the great BBS-sites and nets to seek new updates all the time. One more thing, Jan is also the author of the "VirusWarning.guide", a news-guide about virus, what archives they were spread in and where they were found - actually he is still updating it today.

However, by the end of 1993 the five of us performing under SHI in the RVC known as "SHI Team Denmark" discovered that SHI in general took a different path, we decided to resign from SHI and keep on the path we had followed so fare. There were many reasons that lead us to this conclusion and it wasn't easy for any of us to leave. As fare as I know SHI doesn't exist anymore, however, lots of friends met each other in SHI and lots of new great ideas evolved from the endless brainstorms we had. From the start of 1994 Virus Help Team Denmark took off - the name had slightly changed as the words "Team Denmark" is copyrighted, today we function under the name "Virus Help Denmark".

By that time the Internet hadn't evolved into this communicator it is today, then there were nets like FIDONET, a local net in Denmark and AMIGANET, a world wide net for the Amiga community. It could take up to a fortnight to get a reply from fare places like Australia or South America and it wasn't right to mail virus around those nets, as executables in archives, attached to personal letters, could be opened and executed by accident. Security on the Internet has been improved dramatically and today virus can be mailed via the net instead of on disks in letters.

When the Internet started to spread among normal users, Jan could see from the log file that users who earlier logged on to the BBS on regular basis, became more and more rear. From my point of view he closed the BBS in the right time, everybody who has a modem, can connect to the Internet and get the updates from the VHT-DK homepage. The link is: www.vht-dk.dk

If you were a regular visitor on the former BBS, then pay this site a visit and you'll find that everything is back, the homepage was actually up and running some time before he closed down the BBS. I know that Jan still keeps the old STARNET system - just in case.

Since the beginning of 1994 Virus Help Teams has been started in Norway, Holland and Canada, some of the guys in those centers are also earlier SHI-guys. In Canada, 'Charlene' has done so much for the VHT all over the world (Thanx for everything Charlene).

Last but maybe the most important thing we want to say is a big 'Thank You' to the antivirus programmers that have supported us in the last 10 years, and hopefully many years in the future:

Georg Hoermann - VirusZ & xvs.library
Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor & xvs.library
Markus Schmall - VirusWorkshop
Heiner Schneegold - VT-Schutz
John Veldthuis - VirusChecker
Alex Van Niel - VirusChecker & VHT Holland
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe & Mill
Soenke Freitag - For great support
Charlene - VHT Canada
Virus Test Center Hamburg : Great support and help
Dirk Stoecker - xfdaster.library & CheckX
And anyone we might have forgotten......

Kind Regards

The team behind:
Virus Help Denmark

(Written by Lars P. Kristensen - Virus Help Denmark) (nba) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
jockl (ANF) Found: A MP3-player made by "Commodore"
Our reader jockl has seen a MP3-Player made by "Commodore". He writes:

Actually we have nothing to do with Commodore no more and Commodore has nothing to do with us and Commodore has also nothing to do with Commodore no more. Therefore actually it is not interesting if someone has found a device made by "Commodore" which trade mark changes from American to British and to German.

But what I found here, on the Australian hardware site "DansData", is not only a review of a "Commodore" device (same label, same logo).

Last but not least maybe it is interesting what can happen with the label "Commodore". Above all when it seems to be a German company which uses the trade mark but offers the products oversea. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
Andreas Magerl (ANF) Online magazine NoCover: Issue 118 published
Issue 118 of the popular online magazine NoCover has been published and sent to all subscribers via email.

We wish all readers of the online magazine much fun and hope you will participate much more because NoCover is a magazine from readers for readers. Without "Writers" "Readers" have nothing to read. ;-)

On the homepage of NoCover and on the homepage of APC & TCP you can read the current issue online. Furthermore you can get the magazine on Aminet or on the CD-ROMs of the Amiga Future.

Much fun wish you
Wolf Zimmer, Cord Hagen and Andreas Magerl. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
Jan Andersen (E-Mail) VHT: Website accessable again
You can access the website of Virus Help Team Denmark under the known URL http://www.vht-dk.dk. The alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/ will be closed soon. Please change your bookmarks. The Virus Help Team wish you a Happy New Year. (nba) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
TerAtoM (ANF) GamePark32: Handheld with adapted ScummVM-version
The GamePark 32 combines the qualities of a mp3 and video player with a retro emulator and handheld games because there is still a GP32 optmized version of the popular "ScummVM" tool with which you can play Monkey Island, Indiana Jones or Day of the Tentacle.

There are also emulators for Atari 2600, Atari ST, C64, Neo Geo, NES and Master System. But there is not an Amiga emulator (UAE?).

You can get further information here:
http://www.pcgamesportal.de/index.php?site=gp32
http://www.gp32europe.com (in preparation) (snx) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2004
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)

Mailer: SimpleMail v0.22
The new version 0.22 of SimpleMail has been published. These are the changes:

You can now set seperate signatures for each folder. (bgol)
Index files of the aim folder are not loaded no more during the move operation.

The SimpleMail-team wish you a happy and healthy new year 2004! (nba) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2004
ac-logic (ANF) Mai Logic: News regarding PPC 970 support
Mai Logic, Inc. Licenses IBM®'s Elastic Interface Technology For Its Articia Chipset Family and Teron Series Systems in Support of IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 Microprocessor Family

FREMONT, CA. December 21, 2003. Mai Logic, Incorporated, a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions, announced today it is licensing IBM®'s ultra-high speed PowerPC™ 970 Elastic Interface technology. Mai Logic plans to incorporate IBM®'s Elastic Interface technology within its Articia I chipset and Teron I series system product offerings, working hand-in-hand with the PowerPC™ 970 microprocessors to help improve the performance of next generation embedded applications in consumer electronics, multimedia, storage, main-stream computing, servers and networking application for consumer, industrial and military implementations.

"IBM®'s latest licensing agreement with Mai Logic demonstrates the continuing momentum of the PowerPC™ 970 family in the market," said Mark Ireland, Manager of PowerPC™ Strategy and Business Development, IBM® Microelectronics. "Our relationship enables IBM® to provide Mai Logic with the latest, most innovative microprocessor core technology for their products while in turn, driving momentum for the PowerPC™ architecture in the embedded space."

"IBM®'s PowerPC™ 970 architecture provides us with tremendous flexibility," said Jason Hou, CEO of Mai Logic. "We plan to utilize the Elastic Interface technology with Articia I to expand our leading-edge Articia family roadmap for a variety of compelling products which span several of our target markets that require optimal performance, low-power consumption, low-cost 64-bit capabilities. The technology will be a significant asset in our portfolio as we move forward."

Mai Logic's Articia I System Controller and Teron I Series Systems Mai Logic's feature-rich Articia I supports IBM® PowerPC™ 970 microprocessor, DDR 2 memory interface and other advanced peripheral interfaces such as PCI Express and PCI-X. The combination of IBM® PowerPC™ 970's performance speeds, the ultra high speed Elastic I/O technology and Mai Logic's AGP 8X compatible Articia I chipset represents a formidable solution in the embedded markets, particularly those requiring high resolution graphics such as multimedia, gaming, medical and aerospace industries. With built-in MPEG4 accelerator and TV decoder designed for developing integrated graphic and video subsystems, Articia I is well positioned to bridge the gap between the computer and the television as the worlds of entertainment and computing converge. Articia I is also equipped with self-repairing and self-testing functions to ensure performance stability.

The PowerPC™ 970 + Articia I based Teron I series solutions provide system developers scalability and synthesizability to meet the ever-increasing performance demands of future-generation devices, accelerate time-to-market, and minimize overall complexity. Samples of the Articia I chipsets, Teron I series systems, and PowerPC™ 970 processor are expected to be available in early second quarter of 2004.

IBM®'s PowerPC 970 Microprocessor
The PowerPC™ 970 is a high-performance 64-bit microprocessor for use in a variety of applications, including desktops, workstations, servers and communications products. The chip is derived from IBM®'s award-winning POWER4™ server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users. It is designed for manipulating data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerating compute-intensive workloads, like multimedia and graphics, through specialized circuitry known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit.

About Mai Logic, Incorporated
Mai Logic, Inc. is a leading global semiconductor provider of bus-interface controller circuits, embedded platforms and total system solutions. With more than 60 US and International invention patents granted and 100 more pending in the fields of IC, security, and systems design engineering, Mai Logic, through demonstrated cost-effective advanced technology offerings, has established itself as a proven technology powerhouse. Mai Logic's innovations include: Intelligent Memory (iMemory), which enables industry's first in-field DRAM fault detection and real-time fault recovery without the need of a system reboot; Control Pipeline allowing flexible timing on various system clocks and low power consumption; Genetic Computing for high-level security and privacy; and Floating Buffer to achieve a true concurrent system.

Mai Logic, incorporated in California, is part of the Atum Group in Taipei. The Group has design and development operations in Fremont Ca and Taipei and Beijing , with Marketing and Sales support world wide.

Mai Logic is a total solution IC system design house devoted to customer satisfaction. (snx)

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01.Jan.2004
David ´Daff´ Brunet (E-Mail)

Amiga Games Hit Parade: Results 2003
The results for 2003's game polling have been released on Amiga Games Hit Parade. Read the following text for the first three places and check out the AGHP website under the title link for the complete results.

What game genre do you prefer?

Adventure - 3.87
Strategy - 3.83
First Person Shooter - 3.79

What game would you like ported from another platform to play on AmigaOS/MorphOS?

Unreal (series)
Quake 3
WarCraft (series)

What Amiga game classic would you like to play in a "remastered" version on Pegasos or Amiga One?

Turrican (1-2-3)
Alien Breed 3D 2
Speedball (1-2)

(nba) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
Elbox (E-Mail) New Year's greetings from Elbox
Elbox Computer wishes all Amiga users a Very Happy New Year.

For a New Year Gift, Elbox re-offers the Free Shipping opportunity for most of the items from the Elbox Online Store.

From 31 December 2003 to 21 January 2004 all items in our Online Store marked FREE SHIPPING will be delivered without any shipping costs. This offer is valid for orders from all countries of the world.

The offer applies to most of the products in the online offer, including Mediator PCI busboards, FastATA/PowerFlyer controllers, eFlash memories, Spider USB 2.0 cards, mouse and keyboard interfaces, and many other accessories. For details, see the Special Offer page.

Order your desired product Now and get FREE Shipping!

May your dreams be fulfilled in this coming New Year,

Elbox Computer Team (snx)

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01.Jan.2004
Brad Webb (E-Mail)

Amiga Update Newsletter from Brad Webb #031231
Under the title link you'll find the complete newsletter from Amiga Update for December, 2003. In this monthly newsletter Brad Webb gathers together all the important news about the Amiga scene.

Themes of this issue:

Developer 4.0 to be distributed
Amiga setting up new user group org
Aladdin 4D available on CD
Spontaneous combustion fired up
fxSCAN upgrades for download
ImageFX 4.5 Studio now available
Poseidon 2.2 ready for download
SimpleMail has been updated
E-Teacher, for learning languages
Gorky 17 licensed for Amiga OS 4
Latest WinUAE is 9.8.23
A/NES Development ended, but ...

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01.Jan.2004
Computerwoche (ANF) Computerwoche: BIOS Successor EFI Advances
Within three months the longtime partners Microsoft and Intel wish to establish a forum to spread a new PC specification named EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface). EFI attempts to replace BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that has been used for 23 years. BIOS initializes a computer's hardware before the loading of the operating system. Read the complete, German language article at Computerwoche under the title link. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website) AmigaMARK: Pegasos II Module Available
There's now a Pegasos II module for Rupert Hausberger's benchmark programm AmigaMARK.

Start up AmigaMARK and select your modules and database in order to load the module here under the user name "Nowee". (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
Amiga.org (Website) Anachronism Industries: Previously Announced Firm Will Not Serve Amiga Market
Anachronism Industries, a planned firm of amiga.org moderator Jim Farley, better known as redrumloa, will not serve the Amiga market because of circumstances beyond their control, according to this surprising announcement from today. In place of the company they've started a mass-sale of their remaining items on eBay. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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01.Jan.2004
Pär Boberg (ANF) Famous Amiga Uses updated
Pär Boberg has updated Famous Amiga Uses, a listing of diverse companies and institutions which use or have used the Amiga. The list is available as AmigaGuide or HTML file. (snx)

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31.Dec.2003
ppcnux - online linux magazin (ANF) PPCNUX: Summary of Alan Redhouse's Bath speech
The German online Linux magazine PPCNUX set a summary of Alan Redhouse's speech from Bath online by the title link (amiga-news.de reported).
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
MIchael Merkel (ANF) GS8gui - GUI for Ghostscript8 published
GS8gui is a graphical user interface for GhostScript 8. Similiar to the old Ghostscript-GUI GS8gui offers as a new feature the ability to use the internal GS8 viewer. Printing with the internal TurboPrint drivers is supported also.

The developer wants to emphasize that the GUI is a draft put together so bugs are likely to be expected. Please report discovered bugs to the developer via email.

Download will soon be possible from the Aminet, at the developer site it's available already as GS8gui.lha . (nba) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003 bplan interview from September available online now
By appointment of the bplan GmbH and Kees Witteveens the interview with the bplan GmbH from September which has been pulished within the first issue of the Amiga.org Magazine as well as in issue 11/93 of the Amiga plus is now available online .

The Pegasos chronics have been updated with the entries of November and December also. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003 "Big Book of Amiga Hardware" temporally offline
The famous hardware register Big Book of Amiga Hardware is due to a hard disk failure temporally not reachable. The maintainer Ian Chapman is curently working to restore the website with backups. In one or two weeks everything should run normal again.

Because this action is coupled with a server change problems with the mail delivery to Ian Cahpman mail account are expected in the meantime. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
os.amiga.com (Website) Next "Club Amiga Magazine" in February
Amiga Inc. announces at the member area of os.amiga.com the next issue of the "Club Amiga Monthly" will be published in February. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
Dieter Groppé (ANF) Commodity: "MasterControlProgram" (MCP) v1.43
The infamous universal commodity "MCP" is available in a new version which is cleaned from several bugs. The archive also contains a new version of the prefs program. The command "MCPAssigns" offers two new options now: "Hold/Lock" and "Hold/Path" (cg) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
MorphZone MorphZone: Update of the MWD (Morph Web Directory)
The Morph Web Directory (MWD) within the MorphZone has been updated. Bifford also added some more "Webgrabs" - previews of the corresponding websites. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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31.Dec.2003
Bill Panagouleas (ANF)

Spontaneous Combustion: New Video Effects from DiscreetFX
Chicago, Illinois -- Dec 30, 2003 -- DiscreetFX LLC Inc., Real-time Broadcast Quality Visual Effects developer for the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer and MorphOS, releases the Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer/MorphOS version of Spontaneous Combustion.

DiscreetFX Releases Spontaneous Combustion; Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version. A New Real-Time Fire, Smoke & Explosion Effects Library and Digital Video Effects (DVE) collection.

Information about Spontaneous Combustion:

Spontaneous Combustion is selling for $129.95 but is available for the special price of $49.95 only till the end of 2003. Thats right we are still going to honor the PreOrder price even though it is now shipping but you have to hurry if your interested since this offer is only good until midnight December 31st 2003. We are even crazy enough to include Free Shipping. As many of you know Andy Panagouleas was hurt badly in August 2003. He has been stuck home these many months recovering and unable to go back to school. Andy asked to help with the development of this version of Spontaneous Combustion since he is a big Amiga and Video Toaster owner/fan. Andy's hard work helped get the product done in time for 2003 and he receives a % of all sales.

Spontaneous Combustion: The unofficial sequel to the Amiga/Video Toaster Flyer version of Pyromania from Bill Panagouleas and Andy Panagouleas. In development for over two years Spontaneous Combustion gives you much more than just fire, explosion and smoke effects. Rendered on Silicon Graphics O2 and Octane systems @ 4000 X 4000 resolution and quadra down sampled to full overscan uncompressed D1 video (720 X 486), you won't have to sacrifice quality. More frames, more depth, more realism. Over 40 unique Real-time effects, many never before seen for any video editing system including Sexy Smoke, Ultimate Explosion, Big Shooting Star, Car Crash, Flame Columns, Streaking Comet, TNT, Detonate, Phlogiston and Apocalypse.

Amiga/Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes.

Forty Real-time Broadcast Quality Fire Effects in Amiga Video Toaster 4000 DVE format.
Forty animated Video Toaster Flyer clip files that can be used for advanced Compositing with the Video Toaster Flyer, Lightwave ToasterPaint 4.0 or Aura.
Forty animated Amiga Anim files that can be used as an overlay on video with any Amiga the has a Genlock. These Anim files can also be used under MorphOS or Amiga OS 3.1-4.0 with Amiga/ MorphOS animation software that supports the Anim standard like ImageFX 4.5 and others.
Complete 24 bit IFF image sequences of all Real-time effects included. Can be used with any Amiga/ MorphOS software that supports IFF 24.

For more information please call toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 or send an e-mail to sales@discreetfx.com. Payments can also be sent via Paypal to sales@discreetfx.com.

If you wish to pay by check or none Paypal credit card you can, just contact us first toll-free at 1 (800) 852-0930 If you need our snail mail address it's at http://www.discreetfx.com/Contactinfo.htm.

Spontaneous Combustion includes a 100% Money Back Guarantee.

Please note Amiga/ Video Toaster 4000/Flyer & MorphOS version includes bonus features and unique content not found in the Windows version.

Spontaneous Combustion is the only new product released in 2003 for the Amiga Video Toaster/Flyer.

MorphOS is a new platform we are supporting, please let us know when ordering if you use MorphOS. If we get enough interest and support from MorphOS customers we will continue to support this new operating system.

More information and screenshots is also available at www.discreetfx.com/SpontCombustion.htm.

About DiscreetFX

DiscreetFX creates Real-time transitions and effects seen on over 100 television programs including Blind Date, 5th Wheel, Shipmates, NFL, Buffy the Vapire Slayer and more! You can also see DiscreetFX software used on the following networks HBO, Showtime, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fox and many more!

Best regards

Bill Panagouleas
DiscreetFX
Founder/CEO
bill AT discreetfx DOT com
www.discreetfx.com (snx)

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31.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail) USB stack: News from "Poseidon"
A new MorphOS-Version of Poseidon has been released and the documentation for the 68k-Version has been slightly updated. Chris Hodges writes:

"Good news everyone,

I just uploaded the binaries for the MorphOS version of Poseidon V2.2. The archive is available as usually from my homepage.

This is an intermediate solution and laire doesn't like it, so if something goes wrong, blame it on me and not the rest of the MorphOS team. Don't hesitate to report any problems.

Installing it on MorphOS is a bit tricky, because some of the files are in the "ROM" file, the bootimg. Therefore you have to add the following line to the MOSSYS:S/Startup-Sequence file just, before the IPrefs command:

PoseidonROMUpdate

If you don't add this, the update will still work, but some components will still remain as the old version, that was delivered with the MOS 1.4 ISO. Also, avoid booting up with USB mass storage devices connected, because this will inhibit the replacement of the class, as it will be in use by the mounted partitions.

There is both an USB.mprefs update (available through the system prefs), as well as the stand-alone Trident program, compiled for PPC. Use whatever you prefer. Trident has more features though ;-}}}}

I've also updated the V2.2 archive a bit, there was some old information in the registration forms (and I've also added the missing SWIFT and BIC codes for international money transfer).

That's it for now. Have a nice time and happy new year. Thanks for your support!" (cg)

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30.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website) IRCNews: show Amiga News in AmIRC
Dave "Targhan" Crawford has developed an ARexx-script, which can show the latest headlines of amiga-news.de, amiga.org, morphzone.org and morphos-news.de in AmIRC. This script needs the rxsocket.libary. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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30.Dec.2003
Martin Rebentisch (DaFreak) (ANF)

Music: Liquid Skies records #063
The scene group Liquid Skies has published today their 63rd Musicpack. It contains the track "Catwalk" of the musician Tripper. This track is a synthetic pop. The belonging cover comes from Angeldust.

Title: Catwalk
Musician: Tripper
Style: Synthpop
Runtime: 5:08
Format: mp3 (@160kbps)
Size: 5.9 MB

You can find the zipped file for downloading under the title link. Also the team is wishing a Happy New Year. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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30.Dec.2003
Sven Scheele (ANF) AmigaClub SH: User-/Hardware meeting 1-2004
The Amigaclub Schleswig Holstein is publishing in teamwork with the promoter of the computer museum in Kiel e.V. an Amiga (and Pegasos/Amithlon) hardware meeting.

The meeting is Saturday, the 17th January 2004 at 14 o'clock at the mediendom in the technical college in Kiel.

You can get more information at Informationen (snx) (Translation: gf)

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30.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website) Pegasos II: Benchmark results for the 68k emulation (Update)
MorphOS-News.de has published the following benchmark results by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen. He tested the 68k emulation on a Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor, 512MB DDR-400 RAM and a Radeon 8500LE graphics card under MorphOS:

Voxelspace Demo (with and without JIT emulator):

320x240: ~500-540fps (with JIT)
320x240: ~85fps (without JIT)
640x480: ~150fps (with JIT)

pixelOmania (with JIT):

Time elapsed: 0.040433 seconds

Mandel (with JIT): 0.29 sec

julia_fpu (with JIT): 2.53 sec

c2ptest (with JIT): 0.35 sec

demoeffect (with JIT): 442.80 fps

You can download the Mandel, julia_fpu, c2ptest and demoeffect benchmarks at the Petunia website.

Update: (31.12.2003, 11:01, snx)
Meanwhile, MorphOS-News.de prepared further benchmarks done by Gunne Steen published them in the forum of MorphZone:

The tests were done using the RC5DES program and either the 68k-JIT of MorphOS or PPC-native software (PUP/WUP client) on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.

68k results (with JIT):

OGR: Benchmark for core #4 (GARSP 5.13 68060): 2,740,713 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #1 (MH 2-pipe 68000/040/060): 2,447,018 keys/sec

PowerUP client (without Altivec support):

OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,475,677 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,164 keys/sec

WarpUp client (without Altivec support):

OGR: Benchmark for core #0 (GARSP 5.13 PPC-scalar): 12,841,769 nodes/sec
RC5-72: Benchmark for core #3 (MH 2-pipe): 3,866,640 keys/sec

You can find further information in the original thread at MorphZone.

Update 2: (31.12.2003, 17:17, snx)
As David Scheibler informed us, Harry 'Piru' Sintonen meanwhile also got the following RC5 results with Altivec support. He used a not yet released MorphOS-native client on a Pegasos II G4/1GHz.

MorphOS client (with Altivec support):

RC5-72: Benchmark for core #7 (KKS 7450): 10,678,428 keys/sec

For comparison he does, among others, also list an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (Palomino) with 2200 MHz - its result: 8,462,352 keys/sec. (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website) Video/Audio-clips of a speech by Alan Redhouse' in Bath
There are some additional video and audio clips of the speech of Alan Redhouse of Eyetech held at the OS4-On-Tour-Exhibition in Bath available. These new audio clips have a higher quality than the ones published shortly after the speech.

Download:
WMV (33 MB)
Real (27 MB)
MP3 (11 MB, only audio)
(cg) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Stavros (Forum) Homebanking: compatibility list for Amiga-Browser
Stavros, an amiga-news.de reader, is offering a list of homebanking sites which can be used with Amiga browsers. The new update takes IBrowse 2.3 into account, too. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF) Mr. Hardware publishes photos of the Micro-A1
Under the title link, Mr. Hardware published some photos of the new Micro-A1 mainboard together with its specifications and a few questions and answers.

Users from the New York area can have a look at it themselves at the meetings of the LICA (Long Island Computing Amigans), each third Friday a month. (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
Charlene/VHT (E-Mail) Server-move of Virus Help Team
Due to a server move the URL www.vht-dk.dk is currently not available. According to the carrier it will be back online within seven days. If you are looking for information about or of the Virus Help Team please use the alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
bplan GmbH (E-Mail) Pegasos II: Urgent Firmware update necessary! (Update)
As bplan GmbH announces, the version of the Open Firmware shipped with the Pegasos II is faulty! Before you make any changes using setenv, you have to update your Open Firmware!

You can find the needed update at http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/update_e.html.

Update: (29.12.03, 18:29, snx)
Under the title link now you also can find a way how to make an affected system bootable again. (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
A/NES CGX homepage Emulator: Future of A/NES CGX uncertain
From the A/NES CGX website:
That's nice. If I get this bounch of e-mail each time I kill a project (amiga-news.de reported), I should start killing projects more often. :-)

So, what's up now, a few of you asked. To be honest, I am not quite sure really. Time will tell if I decide to start working on something new.

And can someone PLEASE hurry up those guys and make AmigaOS4 run on BlizzardPPC soon :) I'm pretty tired of talking to AmigaOS4 beta testers (have you noticed, they're obviously everywhere), I want to try the OS myself. :p (snx)

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29.Dec.2003
Golem IT-News (Website) Source code of 2D-Adventures "Patrimonium" now freely available
The programmers of Chuck Team released their 2D adventure 'Patrimonium' for Windows based computers. For encouraging other developers the team also released the complete source code of the game at the 'Patrimonium' homepage. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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29.Dec.2003
Diverse Short software news (29.12.2003) (Update)
The following applications and updates were released over the last few weeks:
Update: (29.12.2003, 17:45,cg)
Amendment: There is now new version of vbcc (see below) available, but a new version of the PosixLib for vbcc.
AmigaMARK
Version 1.001 of AmigaMARK, a benchmark program, is now available for AmigaOS Classic and MorphOS.

Chromium
The French developer SixK released a port of the shoot'em'up Chromium (v0.9.12) for AmigaOS. The game is using OpenGL.

GameIcons 2003
The archive GameIcons 2003 contains 275 icons, 150 of them are new.

HSC
Matthias Bethke released version 0.930 of the HTML preprocessor 'HTML Sucks Completely' (HSC). The source code can be compiled on every supported OS, these are Linux, HP/UX 10.20 and AmigaOS. A HTML program documentation is available, too. Furthermore the archive contains current Prefs and macro files.

ilbmdtPPC
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.11 of 'ilbmdtPPC', an ILBM-PPC-Datatype for displaying IFF-ILBM-pictures on WarpUP.
Changes:
fixed decoding of truecolor images with alpha

Software by Diego Casorran
Diego "dcr85020" Casorran released ports of the following programs: OpenSSH v3.7.2p2, bzip2 v1.0.2, NetPBM v10.18.4, OpenSSL v0.9.7c, UnRAR v3.30b3, Wget v1.9.1 und cURL v7.11-BETA.

vbcc
A new version of PosixLib for 'vbcc', a portable ISO C compiler by Frank Willes, is now on hand. PosixLib emulates important POSIX functions not available in the vbcc C library. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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27.Dec.2003
ANN (comments) Pegasos 2: First user report
Treveur "Nowee" Bretaudiere has released a short report about the Pegasos 2 he received:

My Pegasos 2 finally arrived this morning, in its nice protective box, along with its 1 GHz G4 CPU module, the MorphOS installation CD, two booklets, and a backplane.

The two documentations are very clear. A VERY simple booklet, written in English, French and German, explains how to install both MorphOS and the computer itself, whilst the other, in German, is a fairly detailed technical documentation, with ports description and such.

The motherboard in itself is very well made, and once filled with a DDR 333 memory module and my radeonVE, booted MorphOS 1.4.1 without any problem straight from my DVD burner.

I'm still astonished by the speed difference between my already fast Pegasos 1 and the Pegasos 2. The G4 behaves very well, the stability so far seems okay, the computer sound is perfect. Ambient opens a 300+ files folder in less than a second (!). I performed many MD5 sums test over 800 mb files and no problem occured.

As for the installation process, it was especially simple for me that already had MorphOS 1.4. I simply copied the boot.img from the supplied CD to my MorphOS partition, rebooted, and typed 'boot hd:0 boot.img' (Where 0 is the partition number of my hard disk).

For someone that would prefer a clean installation, though, there is a slight problem: the install script checks for a bad MD5 sum. The solution here is to copy the installation script in ram, and remove the MD5 check with ed. Another solution, even simpler, copy the whole CD to the freshly formatted HD. The problem was already known and a fix should be available already.

Finally, it makes several hours the computer is turned on, I had no crash so far. Compatibility seems to be perfect with the Pegasos 1, without the bugs of its predecessor.

My comment: It's been so many years we've been expecting a G4 Amiga compatible system, I think the product fulfills more than a necessity. It's a dream come true.

Nowee^SKT (snx)

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27.Dec.2003
Vinnny (ANF) Anniversary: Russian AIC online for four years
The news and information resource for Russian Amiga users Amiga Information Center is online now for four years.

Since 1999 the site's two administrators - Efim Shuvikov (site developer and maintainer) and Vlad Vinogradov (news editor and content manager) - published more than 5200 news and have welcome more than 650 registered users. (snx)

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26.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF) Audio-Sequencer: HD-Rec Update (MOS fix)
On download site of HD-Rec which is an audio- and MIDI-sequencer for AmigaOS there is an update for the version 0.9beta. The update fixes some bugs which occured under MorphOS - HD-Rec should now run perfectly on a Pegasos.

The author asks for other bug reports if you should find some ones. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail) Hyperion and Metropolis announce AmigaOS 4 version of Gorky 17
Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis announce an AmigaOS4 version of Gorky17:

"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003

Hyperion Entertainment and Metropolis Software have extended their existing license agreement for "Gorky 17", Metropolis' critically acclaimed RPG/Strategy title, to cover not only Linux but also the upcoming AmigaOS 4.

Gorky 17 is a horror conspiracy game mixing elements of strategy and RPG gameplay. The player commands a small group of NATO soldiers who must reveal the mystery behind the sudden appearance of hybrid creatures in a small Polish city named Lubin. The city is being terrorized, the area is surrounded by NATO troops and media from all over the world, and the first group sent into the city disappears without a trace. The main hero of the story is the 40-year old soldier Cole Sullivan, a commando team member with extensive scientific knowledge. His team's task: to explain the hybrids' presence and to find the missing members of Group One. But that, of course, is just the beginning...

The AmigaOS 4.0 port is already well under way as can be seen on the screenshots published with this press release.

The Amiga and Linux ports are being carried out by Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies who are recent "converts" to the Amiga platform after they recently joined the Hyperion Entertainment game development team.

Steven Fuller and Joe Tennies have an impressive track-record in the field of Linux (gaming) related development." (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Dec.2003
Hans-Jörg Frieden (E-Mail) Hyperion announce "AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release" CD for early 2004
Hyperion Entertainment announce the release of an AmigaOS 4.0 pre-release for all current AmigaOne owners for early 2004:

"Leuven, Belgium. - December 25, 2003

Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4.0 development team are pleased to announce that OS4 development has now sufficiently advanced for a comprehensive Developer Pre-release of Amiga OS 4.0 to be distributed to all current AmigaOne owners shortly after the New Year.

In view of the fact that quite a few of you reminded us that you do not have broadband internet access, the original idea to offer an initial version of OS 4.0 for download was abandoned in favor of an "easy to install", self-contained distribution on CD.

Whilst this will obviously entail more cost to Hyperion and require more time for duplication and distribution, the upside is that we will be able to provide developers with everything they need to start developing for OS 4.0.

The developer material will include sample source-code, an initial version of the AmigaOS 4.0 SDK as well as native OS 4.0 compilers (GCC 2.95.3, GCC 3.4 and VBCC) and cross-compilers for various platforms (Linux x86/PCC, Mac OS X etc.).

The Developer Pre-release will require an upgrade of the AmigaOne firmware which was bumped from U-Boot 0.1.1 to U-Boot 1.0 and which is currently undergoing final testing.

Further details will be announced shortly.

Hyperion Entertainment and the OS 4 development team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support and patience.

The fact that you are still here, 10 years after the demise of Commodore, has been a tremendous encouragement to us during these 2 years of laborious development.

Make no mistake: your patience will finally be rewarded with the fastest and most powerful incarnation of AmigaOS ever.

Merry X-mas and a prosperous 2004 to all of you!" (cg) (Translation: cg)

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25.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF) Hollywood Presentations: the 100th PowerPoint Presentation Appears
Because of the positive vibrations as well as the high number of takers, Amiga user "McFly" released some more Hollywood presentations after converting them from PowerPoint. Altogether there are now more than 100 presentations for download that may be viewed on Amiga (or compatible) computers.

McFly thanks all the users for supplying feedback and wishes everyone a Happy New Year. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website) RxMUI: Update to Version 40.1
RxMUI from Alfonso Ranieri has now reached version 40.1 and is available for download from his homepage.

Graphic user interfaces in MUI may be programmed in ARexx macros through the use of RxMUI. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Website) Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Classic Amiga "Cracktros"
Because us upstanding Amiga users may naturally not utter such names as Skidrow, Paradox, Red Sector or Vision Factory, Melon gave us the opportunity to retroactively amuse ourselves with the sights and sounds of those intros from old cracked games, a nostalgia that will warm our hearts. Here is the conversion of the old Amiga "Cracktros" in Macromedia Flash format.

More Flash ports of C64 and Amiga Cracktros may be found at Doc Snyder and Nostalgia. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ANN (Comments) Nostalgia: Macromedia Flash Conversion of Amiga Classic "IK+"
Under the title-link may be found a Macromedia Flash port of the classic Karate game "IK+" - including a Kickstart-1.3 screen. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website)

MorphOS: Update of PTPDigCam to Version 0.9
The program PTPDigCam by Christophe Genre has reached version 0.9.

PTPDigCam is a MUI-based program that makes it possible to load and erase pictures, videos, and sounds from PTP-compatible digital cameras (such as Kodak, Canon and Sony).

Currently the program has been tested with the following cameras: Kodak LS443, Kodak DX3500, Canon A70 and Sony DSC-P52.

The main new aspects:

Camera serial number added
Sounds management added (usefull for Canon camera)
Canon A70 is supported
Sony DSC-P52 is supported
PTP protocol enhanced to take into account Sony and Canon PTP limitations and specific capabilities
Fixed bug: Status always display no video available
Fixed bug: The 10 Mo input buffer was not released (oups!)

(snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
MorphZone (Website) Instructions for the Installation of PNG Icons
For users of MorphOS or users of PowerIcons under AmigaOS, Cecilia has written an (APDF-compatible) PDF document (137 KB) that explains the installation of PNG icons with alpha channel while utilizing ImageFX 4.5.

Along with that she has created a few example icons (195 KB, from butterfly pictures). (snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
Rupert Hausberger (ANF)

Benchmark Program: Update of AmigaMARK to Version 1.001
Rupert Hausberger released an update to his benchmark suite AmigaMARK LPA for AmigaOS and MorphOS.

Alterations:

ADDED checking whether gethostbyname() successes
ADDED checking whether xen.font is avail
CHANGED os-requirement from 3.1 to 2.x (untested)
CHANGED layout of settings-window to a virtual-group so it opens also on non gfx-card screenmodes like ecs, aga
FIXED bug that forbids the use of chip-ram test in some situations
FIXED little gui-bug in module-information at "mhz"
CHANGED logo to a nicer one
CHANGED splitted archives to base, aos, mos
BUMPED revision to .001

(snx) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
ESA Garching/München (ANF) TV Tip: Mars Landing of the ESA
The touching down of the European Space Agency vehicle on Mars will be televised live and carried on WebTV on 25th December 2003 at about 2:25 MEZ. Early supporters of the European planet missions should not miss this important event! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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25.Dec.2003
Dennis Lohr (ANF) Music: New Track on the Psyria Homepage
After nearly an eight month pause, there was an update on 24th December 2003 to the Psyria homepage. Because it was musically very quiet around Psyra this year, there's just one new track exclusively for free download. "Overflow" is sort of an Ambient-style track. It was produced by Yel.C vs. Psyria, and is available for download from the download area.

At this point we'd like to wish all our fans happy Christmas and a great New Year. (nba) (Translation: dm)

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24.Dec.2003
Nico Barbat Christmas greetings from the AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de
The AMIGAplus and amiga-news.de editor teams as well as the publisher team of falkemedia wish all Amigans a merry blessed Christmas and a comfortable transition to 2004. We are thankful for your faith in us and are looking happily forward to the next twelve months which might see the long awaited revival for the Amiga market thanks to the PegasosII and MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.0.

Editorial team AMIGAplus:
Nico Barbat, Wolfgang Böhl, Sebastian Brylka, Marc Cloppenburg, Thomas Franziskowski, Frode Hansen, Heiko Kuschel, Uwe Pannecke, Robbie Schäfer, Alex Scholz, Carsten Schröder, Kilian Servais.

Editorial team amiga-news.de:
Nico Barbat, Ulrich Beckers, Jens Begeschke, Christian Busse, Stéphane Campan, Christoph Dietz, Sven Drieling, Guido Fehst, Dr. Eric Gillé, Christoph Gutjahr, Stefan Hägele, Martin Heine, Hendrik Höner, Sven Kirmse, Daniel Miller, Jürgen Müller, H. Ogino, Piotr Pawlowski, Daniel Reimann, Christian Rosentreter, Gerhard Schmid, Carsten Schröder, Felix Schwarz, Petra Struck, Alfred Sturm, Rolf Tingler. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003

Pictures from the Pegasos 2 - a slightly different Christmas story...

"Four against Murphy" or how the Pegasos 2 made it at least against all odds for Christmas:

At that time there was the order by Genesi that all already produced Pegasos 2 boards should be shipped until Christmas. And this Pegasos shipping 2 was the first at all.

So Gerald Carda and Thomas Knäbel from Oberursel went to Oberhausen, to DCE where the Pegasos 2 should be produced when the plain circuit boards should arrive there.

But there were no boards... TNT sent the boards to "DK" not to "DE" and now they had to be moved from Denmark to the right destination. Two worthful days went by...

But not enough, Murphy not satisfied yet - there was potential for more things going wrong. And seeesh!!! - a soldering machine went broke and needed a repair!

Holy evening approached and the question was not if something else might go wrong but what it will be this time. The answer came quicker than hoped: just on the first day of production one of the SMD machines left synchronity...

But Thomas and Gerald just kept the track and with the help of the whole DCE team the sailed through all these problems!

But: Worthful time was lost and the board production lasted till the afternoon of the 23rd...

Also the programmers were busy all day and night and worked coordinated by Ralph Schmidt on the new firmware and on fitting MorphOS 1.4.1 to the Pegasos 2. André Siegel had hands full of work with making the 61 page manual perfect and let it translate with two fellows to German and French.

The last day before Christmas Eve! How should the boards go on their journey just in time? Sure: His Pegasos 2 boards share Guido Does by Vesalia picked up just at the production site - but what shoud be done with the orders of the other customers?

Then Christian Kemp surprisingly came along offering his help - coming from his home in Luxembourg he offered to make a 600 km trip to bring the boards from DCE, Oberhausen to Ron van Herk, Rotterdam just that evening so that the boards could be sent to all the world an December the 24th.

So it came the day of Christmas Eve Christian and Ron supported by his wife Cindy packed Christmas packets with mainboards, CPU cards, slot panels, manuals and self burned and printed MorphOS CDs and brought them on their way.

At least Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco were able to announce the good news at morpos-news.de: UPS just got the boards intended for Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA - including Hawaii.

The following pictures may be used as evidence that the Pegasos 2 boards are really produced and sent away:

Pictures of some Pegasos 2 boards

The Shipping: In the beginning there was chaos...

...but at least...

...and one by one...

...it was fullfilled by Christian and Ron:

The boards ready to go at ComputerCity in Rotterdam.

Merry Christmas!

(snx) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)

SimpleMail v0.21 released & X-mas greetings from the developer team
The SimpleMail team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Additionally there is version 0.21 of SimpleMail available now. Changes are:

Import of mbox files
Several memory leaks wiped out (bgol)
The layout of important list elements is now saveable (bgol)
Simple remote filter: Messages can be left on the server
SimpleHTML support is now within a shared library
Ported to OS4
Documentation describes the spam identification
Bug fixes and several other improvements

(nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Christian 'tokai' Rosentreter (ANF) MorphOS: Euph0ria 0.24 released
Using this announcement Christian Rosentreter wishes a Merry Cristmas and a Happy New Year and there is a new version (0.24) of Euph0ria!

Christian writes: Special greetings to all amiga-news.de members all guests of the #amiga-news.de IRC channel, to #amigazeux and to all others I forgot to mention now. :)

About Euph0ria:
Euph0ria is a visual plug-in with MUI-GUI for AmiNetRadio, Kaya or AmigaAMP. It's been tested under MorphOS 1.4 only but should work with other versions flawlessly. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Guido Mersmann (ANF) ArakAttack USB driver update v0.94 released
The version 0.94 of the USB driver package for Amithlon and OpenPCI is available at the Aminet and at VMC.de now.

Guido Mersmann wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga users and developers and to the amiga-news.de team. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Thomas Unger (E-Mail) kickstart archives v3.1 - DVD release
kickstart archives is a collection of historic and current websites, information, documents, patents, wireing diagrams, manuals, hardware libraries and more all about the Amiga. The collection is html based and features a search engine to browse the archive.

kickstart archives runs with all common operating systems and can be installed to the hard disk just by copying it there. The search engine does not operate with AmigaOS due to the lack of a browser capable of complete JavaScript1.2.

kickstart archives costs EUR 10,- plus EUR 1,44 p&p.

Thomas Unger wishes a blessed Christmas and a successful new year 2004 to all readers and amiga-news.de members. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Christmas greetings from Coyote Flux and individual Computers
Merry Christmas from a new team in the Amiga market: Coyote Flux and individual Computers are working together on a basis of a contract that has been signed on October 1st, 2003.

The young programmer-team also has a new website under www.coyoteflux.nl. The two brothers Sharwin and Rakesh Raghoebardayal became famous in the Amiga community for various projects like PPC680x0 (a 68K to PowerPC assembly translator), the sound editing system Coyotesound, photogrammetry software J Miner and more high-quality software.

Individual Computers is known for many hardware products for Amiga computers, specialized PC hardware and retro-computing projects. Serving private customers and professionals like the US computer forensic department of defense, individual Computers mass-produces own designs, and does contract work for other parties.

With more than 50 years combined experience and detailled knowledge about the target markets, the newly formed team is geared towards development of new hard- and software applications. The sales and marketing contacts of individual Computers will make the products available worldwide in more than 40 countries.

The first project of this cooperation is Kickflash OS4. Coyote Flux provided the firmware of the product that has been sent to the resellers yesterday. We hope that all users of classic Amigas will enjoy a fast cold-start time of their computers with this product, and are looking forward to more projects in the near future.

In time for the Christmas days, the toplevel domain server problems in Gabon have been resolved. Our domain http://ami.ga is working again. (nba)

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24.Dec.2003
ANN (Website) AmiDiction: Version 2.6c of the dictionary available
Lorence Lombardos AmiDiction is now available in version 2.6c (31 KB).

AmiDiction is an English online dictionary which utilizes the services from dictionary.com and can be launched from the Workbench or CLI. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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24.Dec.2003
(ANF) Update: DriverDescriptorBox V5 for the HardwareAssistent
The DriverDescriptorBox has been published in version 5 today.

Since the last version several bugs have been removed. The DriverDescriptorBox offers the user information about drivers being used by the HardwareAssistent.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Amiga fans. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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22.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF) Mail program: New YAM 2.5 Development version (Update)
A new snapshot of the current development version of YAM can now be downloaded. Changes made are to be found in the ChangeLog.

Amendment 23.12.2003, (ps):
This version is realy a development version and may contain bugs that can cause lost of data. The development team does not offer any support or garanty for this version. Support requests will remain unanswered. Use it at your own risk! (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
dcr8520 (ANF)

Software News: News by amiga.sf.net
Diego 'DCR8520' Casorran updated some of the many utilities ported from Linux. They are available at amiga.sf.net. Updates of the following programs are available:

cURL
NetPBM
Wget
OpenSSL
UnRAR
bzip2 (now contains a shared library)

All programs are native ports. That is you do not need the ixemul.library. (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF) GPSInfo: GPS-Navigation system for Amiga
Carsten Siegner developed a basic navigation system for AmigaOS based on common GPS hardware. 'GPSInfo' displays the current position (longitude and latitude), the altitude above the sea, current speed, date and time as well as some GPS details like the quality of connection, currently available GPS satellites and so on. Furthermore it displays the current position by listing nearby villages or geographical points.
Additional information can be found at the title link.

Direct Download (15 KB) (cg) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003 Update: DriverDescriptorBox V4
Version 4 of the DriverDescriptorBox released. It contains driver descriptors for the Hardware Assistant. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Felix Schwarz (E-Mail) IOSPIRIT wishes a Merry Christmas
IOSPIRIT wishes all friends, partners, customers and their families a Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and successful new year 2004. (nba)

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22.Dec.2003
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)

AmiGBG 2004 - Swedish Amiga Fair
For the third year in a row, the Swedish Amiga fair AmiGBG is arranged in Gothenburg, Sweden. The date set for AmiGBG 2004 is the 17th of April next year. The AmiGBG fair is an event which is focused on the Amiga computer platform and is once a year gathering companies, user groups, users and visitors who are all interested in or curious about the platform that created the essence of multimedia - the Amiga.

This year's fair is held by three Amiga user groups all situated in Sweden; AmiGBG from Gothenburg, ACGGBG (Amiga Computer Group) from Gothenburg and Syntax Society from Landskrona in the south of Sweden.

In the year 2002 the first AmiGBG event was held. It was a huge success with around 450 visitors. The year after, it was yet again time to open the gates for another great AmiGBG fair at Lindholmen, Gothenburg.

AmiGBG is an event that partly looks back upon the history around the Amiga personal computer, but the main focus lies on the promising future that this platform now has - in terms of new hardware (the AmigaOne) which is based on the PowerPC processor and a new version of AmigaOS (Amiga Operating System) for this new hardware - AmigaOS 4.

At the fair, you will have a chance to see the new AmigaOne systems based on the G3 and G4 processors and also have a look on the classic Amiga computers that many people were brought up together with - these days gathered under the concept Classic Amiga.

At AmiGBG 2004 we also hope to be able to present a complete version of the AmigaOS 4 running on the AmigaOne. If so, that will be the highlight of the fair and a starting shot for the comeback of Amiga!

Furthermore; Linux will be demonstrated on AmigaOne, user groups will have a chance to present themselves - the fair is a gathering force for everyone interested in the future of Amiga. The target group is of course people interested in Amiga, but also people that are interested in alternative computer platforms.

Among the exhibitors, you will find everything from Swedish and European companies to Swedish user groups. Not only pure Amiga related companies have been invited - but also other hardware retailers.

For some more information about the previous events held by AmiGBG, please check these links:

For further information about AmiGBG 2004:

Web: www.amigbg.com
E-Mail: info@amigbg.com (nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003

Magazine: The Crypt #33
Issue #33 of 'The Crypt', an English online magazine, published. The online version is to be found at the title link. If you want to have the download version feel free to use the following link:

Download: ZIP-Version of The Crypt #33

Content:

The real story of Christmas
Creation of desktop wallpaper and icons for PC
New PC game: "Call of Duty"
New News-Website about Amiga
Alternative use of CDs and DVDs
Using two computers with one monitor - Howto
Reciptes

(nba) (Translation: sk)

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22.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF) Audio: HD-Rec 09 Beta Demo
A new beta version of 'HD-Rec' is now available at the title link. 'HD-Rec' can be used to arrange audio and MIDI recordings within the same window and play them simultaneously.

Addtional information can be found at the title link.

Download:
http://www.hd-rec.de/Archive/HD-Rec_09Beta.lha

Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots

Demo Songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download (nba) (Translation: sk)

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21.Dec.2003
Chris Perver (ANF) Textviewer: EvenMore updated
I have updated EvenMore exe and plugins to use the OpenURL library for the clickable links, both in the MSWord and HTML plugins, so now if you click on an email address or a Web address, the appropriate app will open.

I have also updated the MSWord plugin to find the correct start and end file positions from the FileInfoBlock (before I was just estimating, which sometimes didn't work). (snx)

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20.Dec.2003
Davy Wentzler (ANF) New Audio Evolution 4 screenshots on OS4 on the AmigaOne released
Now that Audio Evolution 4 is running natively on OS4 for some months, it is time to present you with some screenshots.

Please look at the screenshots section of Audio Evolution 4 at http://www.audio-evolution.com/AE4/Screenshots.html.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!

Davy Wentzler
Audio Evolution (snx)

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20.Dec.2003
ANN (comments) A look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003 / Genesi mentioned
In the lead article of the December issue of the IBM PowerPC processor news, PPC Marketing Managers Kalpesh Gala and Jesse Stein look back at IBM's PowerPC activities in 2003. Mentioned in brief, although without further individual details, are also Genesi, Mai and Marvell. (snx)

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20.Dec.2003
AMIGAplus Redaktion

AMIGAplus 12/2003 (#142): Weihnachtszeit
Am 19. Dezember 2003 erschien die Ausgabe 12/2003 (#142) der AMIGAplus (Versand am 17.12.2003) mit folgenden Themen:

A1200 im Acryl-Glas-Tower
Fast jeder Amiga-Anwender mit einem Amiga 1200 in einem Towergehäuse kennt das Problem, ganz besonders aber alle, die ihren Amiga in einem Towersystem von MicroniK untergebracht haben: Wenn die Anzahl an eingebauter Hardware zunimmt, geht die Stabilität des Towers verloren. Mit etwas Geschick und Fleiß können auch Sie Ihrem Classic Amiga 1200 auf seine alten Tage ein würdiges und vor allem ein stabiles Gehäuse selbst bauen. Die Materialwahl fiel auf das dem Glas in der Konsistenz ähnliche Material Acryl.

Tipps für Santa Claus
Nur noch wenige Tage, dann quetscht sich der weißbärtige Dicke mit dem roten Mantel wieder durch die Schornsteine in allen Nationen. Damit der gute Santa das Weihnachtsfest nicht durch das falsche Geschenk verdirbt, sollten Sie noch eilig einen Wunschzettel ausfüllen und an der rechten Stelle platzieren. Die schönsten Geschenke für Amiganer, Technik- und Design-Liebhaber finden Sie in der AMIGAplus – auch für den kleinen Geldbeutel fernab vom Kommerzialismus.

Digitalkameras im Aufschwung
In keinem Jahr zuvor hat sich das digitale Aufnahmemedium so schlagkräftig durchsetzen können. Die Absatz kurve der Hersteller verläuft steil nach oben und zeigt, dass Fotografen aller Themengebiete dem neuen Medium vertrauen und es vermehrt einsetzen, den Schritt in die Fotografie wagen oder den Wechsel von der Analog- zur Digitalfotografie vollziehen. Wir präsentieren die Highlights des zurückliegenden, hervorragenden Jahrganges 2003 und geben den einen oder anderen Tipp für den Weihnachtsmann.

AMIGAplus CD #25
Schwerpunkte: PNG-Icons für das AmigaOS (Icons, Tools, Infos); Video und Fotos von der VideoBörse 2003 in Bremen; Die 40 besten Scene-Demos 2003; Updates zu aktuellen Spielen; alle Tools- und Games-Neuheiten wie AmigaAMP 2.10, SCouT, NewsCoaster, Virus Executor u.v.m.

Lesen Sie außerdem:

Belesen: Literatur-Tipps
Geisterbeschwörung: GhostScript-Workshop (Teil 3)
Besser drucken: TurboPrint-Workshop (Teil 2)
1, 2, 3, Brutzelhexerei: 3CaDo
TurboCalc-"Nachfolger": StarAm Plan
Top 10: Die Shareware-Highlights
Emulatoren: Neues von WinUAE und Amithlon
Digitale Bolzerei: Eat The Whistle 3
Lauscher aufgesperrt: Audio-CDs
News: Aktuelles aus dem Amiga-Markt
Amiga Status Report: Weihnachtszeit, Wartezeit
Demoscene: Retrospektive 2003
und vieles mehr

Sie können die AMIGAplus für 5,- Euro bei falkemedia bestellen oder im Abonnement beziehen. (nba)

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19.Dec.2003
ann.lu (Website) Turbo-Patch: New version of SystemPatch
A new version of "Systempatch" has been published which is a patch that patches diverse system routines to get a better performance on classic Amiga computers. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2003
Christian Rosentreter (ANF)

MorphOS port of "Njam" released
"Njam" is a full-featured cross-platform pacman-like game written in C++ using SDL library.

Features:

Single and multiplayer mode (local or network)
Duel games (players compete against each other to get more points)
Cooperative games (players cooperate to finish as many levels as they can)
Great music and sound effects
Runs on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS X, MorphOS
Customizable level skins
Many different levels
Integrated level editor
Open Source (GPL Licence)

(cg) (Translation: cg)

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19.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF)

HardwareAssistent: New version 0.32 (Update)
Version 0.32 of "HardwareAssistent" has completed.

In the previous version 0.31 of the archive the directory Installed was unfortunately not packed. Therefore the program HardwareAssistent could not remember which cards have been already installed. This bug has been cleared.

The launcher was also updated. It now uses the assign HardwareAssistent: to start the HardwareAssistent.

Please consider that there can be still bugs in this early version. If you find bugs then please write a mail to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.

DJBase will take care of the Driver Descriptors. The official support page where you can download the current Driver Descriptors is http://hwa.amigaworld.de.

Download of HardwareAssistent v0.32 (228 KB).

If you have a card that the list do not contain please use the program DriverDescriptor Creator to create a DriverDescriptor for this hardware. Then please send this file (with .info file) via email to walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de.

Update: (19.12.03, 13:25, snx)
Norman Walter wrote the following lines: I got the messages that the install script would not work. But this is only the case if you unpack the archive with the bugy version of Unarc which AmigaOS 3.9 contains. Unarc replaces blank characters by underscores. Therefore please use a different program or unpack the archive via lha x.. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2003
amigaworld.net (Website) AmigaOne: "EasterEgg" in U-Boot
In a thread on amigaworld.net Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden explained a first "Easteregg" which has been hidden in U-Boot.

Those ones who do not want to know something of PPC, multitasking and graphical user surfaces can activate the second modus of its AmigaOne by entering the following command lines in the U-Boot command line:

setenv easteregg 1
saveenv
reset

Deactivate:

setenv x86_mode
setenv vga_fg_color 'n'
setenv vga_bg_color 'n'

'n' stands for standard ANSI colour values where you have to enter e.g. "0" for black or "7" for white. The variables "vga_fg_color" and "vga_bg_color" can be used to modify the optical surface of the BIOS screen. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website) Emulation: "SheepShaver" Emulates a MacIntosh PPC on x86
"Sheepshaver" is the first Mac emulator for x86 PCs capable of emulating PPC-based Macintoshes. The software currently emulates a 604 CPU, requires a ROM image from a PCI-based "Old World" Macintosh, and works with MacOS up to version 8.6. Sheepshaver is Open Source, and right now only a Linux version is available.

The program's homepage is currently just a clean building space, with a files section in which you can get the sources for the current version.

On emaculation.com there's a support forum for the emulator. Those interested will find there a few hints for the use of the software, and there are also ready-compiled binaries there for download. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
Heise Newsticker Linux Kernel 2.6.0 Officially Released
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton have released the final version of the new Linux kernel 2.6.0. Under the title link, near sections on characteristics and improvements, may be viewed the article from the Heise news-ticker. (cs) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite) Amizilla Project: Prize Markedly Raised
As Bill Panagouleas shared on ANN, a previous high-ranking executive of Netscape who wishes to remain unnamed has contributed $2000 to the pot for the Amizilla project.

The executive is a longtime Amiga user, who still makes frequent use of WinUAE and the Video-Toaster-Flyer. Altogether there is now the sum of $6200 as a reward to the person or team who ports Mozilla or Firebird and thereby helps the Amiga with a modern browser. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Webseite)

MorphOS: TranspoClock Released (Update)
Jacek Piszczek released as freeware a transparent digital clock for MorphOS . Transpoclock (23 KB) makes use of the transparency function of MorphOS' intuition.library.

Update: (7:30 PM, 20th of December 19:30, snx)
Today Version 0.70 (67 KB) was released.

Changes since 0.30:

Commodity support has been added
WBStart support has been added
MUI-Prefs have been added
Gfxpath support for different graphics sets has been added
Optimized transparency routine
Icons and graphics sets from Jobbo have been added

(snx) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website) MoJoMeter: Analog Indicator for Hard-Drive Activity
MoJoMeter from Joe Torre and Kermit Woodall may now be ordered from Retrosystem.com.

MoJoMeter is an illuminated analog indicator for computer cases which measures the amount of hard-drive activity.

Interested dealers may inquire directly of Kermit Woodall. (snx) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
Christian Effenberger (ANF) Shareware Package SiteWay Released for Free
Christian Effenberger decided to release freely all his Siteway programs, in order to give the Amiga community a little present before Christmas.

All restrictions have been lifted and there is no longer any requirement that the programs ImageEditor and PicBase be installed in Siteway.

All keyfile resources have been removed from the programs and the opportunity has been taken to offer for download the latest versions of ImageEditor and PicBase.

Effenberger wishes all Amiga users a nice Christmas and a successful new year! (nba) (Translation: dm)

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18.Dec.2003
ANN (Website) Show Report: OS4/MorphOS Show in Saragossa (Spain)
There's a report on ann.lu about the OS4/MorphOS convention that took place last weekend in Saragossa.

Update, (ps): Corrected the title link thanks to a tip-off from the comments section. (cg) (Translation: dm)

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17.Dec.2003
djnick deetronic (ANF) New multimedia CD ROM by DJNick/deetronic
Nikola Tomic (DJNick/deetronic) known for example for his soundtrack for the beat'em'up game "Capital Punishment" has published his first multimedia CD: "Aural Respiration" includes masses of music modules, videos, graphics and photos and is optimized for use with Amiga webbrowser. The CD is purchaseable directly from the author for EUR 22.22 (incl. pp) following the title link. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Richard Drummond (ANF) New Linux UAE version by Richard Drummond
Richard Drummond has released a new version of his experimental Linux-UAE which should enable many of the improvements from the latest WinUAE version for Linux user as well.

The version 0.8.22-20031215 suppoarts now hardfiles up to 2 GB. Further there were many bugfixes, for the x86 useres the JIT problems were removed and MacOS x user will be happy to use the mouse properly in full screen mode now.

The sources are available now, compiled versions for several platforms will follow soonly. (cg) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Aminet (Website)

Aminet uploads until the 17th of December 2003
Here is the list of all recent Aminet uploads since our last report:

StarAm_Plan.lha      biz/misc   752K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, 68000 CPU
StarAm_Plan881.lha   biz/misc   747K+Spreadsheet, V2.23,OS 3.0+, needs FPU
amiycoders.lha       comm/mail   29K+V0.6 yEnc Encoder / Decoder for the Amig
DVBFontUpload.lha    comm/misc   40K+Font upload for Nokia D-Box via SCSI. 68
gng_SP.lha           comm/www     9K+GNetGrabber 1.x spanish catalogs v1.0.0
vbcc_PosixLib.lha    dev/c      108K+POSIX compatibility library for vbcc
Amitekst_E.lha       dev/e        6K+AREXX scripts for use with AmiTekst Pro 
amiycoders_src.lha   dev/e       20K+E Source Code to AmiyCoders! V0.6
objectbrowser.lha    dev/e       11K+Object Browser / System Debugger 0.8
AmigaTalk.lha        dev/lang   1.4M+V2.5 Update of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
SFS.lha              disk/misc  268K+Smart Filesystem copyrighted by John Hen
ThePolice.lha        docs/hyper  52K+The Police: albums, lyrix, singles +more
saku44.lha           docs/mags  8.4M+Saku #44 (3/2003). Finnish e-zine.
Labyrinth2Chts.lha   game/hint   12K+Cheats for the game Labyrinth 2.
WormWars.lha         game/misc  539K+Worm Wars 7.72: Advanced snake game
MicroWorld.lha       game/think 6.2M+Simple logical game (CGX Friendly)
kray.lha             gfx/3d     830K+Freeware raytracer v1.4
ambot.lha            hard/drivr  62K+Cybot/Real Robots programmer w/ C source
PoseidonMain.lha     hard/drivr 420K+Poseidon USB Stack Update 2.2
TestGear-Extra.lha   hard/hack  223K+A600, A1000, A500(+), A1200 & PC extras.
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc   358K+GUI 4 Lame,Ogg,BladeEnc,Pegase,Ncode,Mus
MrCarlitoWb-06.jpg   pix/icon   314K+First full FREWARE PNG-Icon replacement 
Dale_font.lha        text/bfont  14K+Fixed topaz rep. in sizes 5,6,8,10,11,12
AddLF.lha            text/misc    2K+Add LineFeed to textfile at column ~80
OnyxPrelude.lha      util/cdity  34K+Comprehensive mixer for Prelude. MUI.
DegasDT.lha          util/dtype  30K+Datatype for Degas pictures
MathLibs881.lha      util/libs   12K+Free 68881/2 math-libraries with source,
AObjView.lzh         util/misc   31K+Displays the Hunk structure of Amiga Obj
DigiConverter.lha    util/misc   13K+Handy dec/hex/bin/float/ASCII-converter
xPackBest.lha        util/pack   18K+Pack using XPK, adaptive, recursive
ARxShellV1.2b.lha    util/rexx   99K+A shell for ARexx V1.2b
parename.lha         util/rexx   11K+AREXX script to rename images within Pho
popsearch.lha        util/rexx   15K+Quick searching from IBrowse, AWeb and V
DRemind.lha          util/time  308K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.67!
VE_SP.lha            util/virus  11K+VirusExecutor 2.3x spanish catalog v2.33
windowbar.lha        util/wb    272K+Window mimizer and program launcher

(nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (E-Mail)

eTeacher 6.20 distributed by Fun Time World
Fun Time World is pleased to announce that they are doing the distribution of the multimedial course eTeacher 6.20. This package is unique on for the Amiga. You can learn English or German with the aid by pictures, little animations and perfect spoken 16 bit output.

With the help of the multimedial exercises and tests the learning will become a real pleasure. The program fits the demand of both, adults and children. The usage is easy and partly customizeable. There is support for gfx cards and sound cards.

The program offers the following features:

More than 200 exercises
3 hours 16 bit spoken language output
1000 illustrations
Context sensitive grammar help
Customizeable
Support for gfx and sound cards

Information about the program and screen shots is to get from www.funtime-world.de/eteacher.shtml.

Introducing prices til/from 5th of January 2004:

Englisch - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
German - 29.90 Euro / 35 Euro
Both versions - 50 Euro / 59.90 Euro

Order by email (mail@funtime-world.de), fax (+49 209 - 95 717 865) or telephone (+49 209 - 95 717 884) or directly at the online shop of Fun Time World.

(nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003
Sprocki (ANF) Amiga, Inc.: Calling All User Groups!
Community has always been the backbone of the Amiga platform; indeed, without it, the platform would have folded long ago. With AmigaOS4.0 approaching release, the community has taken a lead once again, with dedicated individuals and user groups throughout the world working to show AmigaOS4.0 running on AmigaOnes.

We are now at a stage where we are looking to bring the user groups together into a more formal forum, providing feedback to Amiga, Inc. on how best it can support the user groups whilst also allowing the user groups to be able to bind themselves together in a mutual organization for self help and support.

This new organization will be a crucial element in the growth of the Amiga platform as AmigaOS4.0 is released and the community begins to expand. We are thus making a call to all user groups to submit their details via this form so that we can begin the construction of this organisation and get the resources in place to service it. (nba)

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17.Dec.2003
Carsten Siegner (ANF)

New website about hardware do it yourself projects for Amiga, Amithlon and Pegas
Carsten Siegner has opened a new website with the URL "www.Pegasossoft.de" which covers information about his all of his hardware projects.

Now there is not only the known analog data capture system for the serial RS 232 port but also a hardware for the same port for a multi purpose controler device. This hardware is called "Multiprogrammer" and is a board with three decoded 8 pin universal ports. These ports can be programmed independently. Furthermore the board has a data in port which can read serial data directly.

Further information about this project as well as the circuit design is available from the website. (nba) (Translation: ub)

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17.Dec.2003 Season Greetings from Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc. would like to, on behalf of our staff and associates, wish the Amiga Commmunity and their families a safe and happy holiday. Be safe, don't drink and drive! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! (nba)

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16.Dec.2003
Norman Walter (ANF) HardwareAssistent-Update
The version 0.31 of the programm HardwareAssistent, which reconizes and installes new hardware components by starting the system is now finished.

After the last version the install script was processed and the bugs in the DriverDescription were deleted, also the documentation was extended.

But look in the old version there could be still bugs, if you find a bug please send an e-mail to: walternn@studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
Amiga.org (Website)

WHDLoad: Version 16.1 published
From WHDLoad, which makes the hard disk install of the not therefore floppy possible the version 16.1 was published (Download, 1.17 MB).

New games which could now be installed or were updated:

Hellfire Attack (Martech)
Twintris (Digital Marketing)
Waxworks (Accolade)
History Line 1914-1918 (Blue Byte)
Super Street Fighter 2 (US Gold)
Jupiter's Masterdrive (Ubi Soft)

(snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
amiga.org (Website) PDF-Magazine: Amiga Point of View, edition 1
The retro-gaming community of abime.net, which operate the Amiga gaming database Hall of Light has puplished the first edition of their retro-gaming.magazine "Amiga Point of View".

The magazine should reincarnate the old spirit of old gaming magazines with test reports, letter to the editor corner, gaming tips and complete solutions. You can find the first edition (19.5 MB) under the tiltle link.

Update: (16.12.2003, 15:30, cg)

The contacts of the homepage are not valid. You can find the APoV-Team under following e-mail addresses:

Editor: apov.editor@abime.net
Letter to the editor: apov.letters@abime.net
Competitions: apov.competitions@abime.net
Gaming tips: apov.wham@abime.net
Gaming tests: apov.pdgames@abime.net
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16.Dec.2003
Stefan Blixth (E-Mail) New and updated tools from OnyxSoft
The Swedish shareware-developer-group OnyxSoft released two new and three updated tools:

AddLF (Version 1.0)
This is a very simple tool that makes text files that has no linefeeds in them become readable in non-wrapping text-viewers/editors. It tries to wrap after 80 characters but might go 10 chars longer if it means not breaking a word. If a word is very long when AddLF wants to wrap it will cut the word and insert a dash "-".

OnyxPrelude (Version 1.0)
This is a new fresh mixer for the Prelude sound cards! You can test the mixer even w/o a prelude =) Everything concerning audio can be controlled by ARexx! Everything concerning audio can be controlled by userdefinable hotkeys! There are two different mixer GUIs, pick the one you like! The mixer can popup on hotkey or ARexx event! The mixer can close again after a userdefinable delay! A very small, configurable and slick bevel can popup instead of the mixer on hotkey or ARexx events! It also has all normal features of a mixer, like the ability to change the display name of a channel, hide channels you never use, reset the card on startup etc. And it uses MUI...

DigiConverter (Version 1.1)
Now you can also convert from and to floats. Useful mainly for handling floats where you only have access to for example hexadicimal values.

DRemind (Version 1.66)
Now you can make your remind *Bold*, /Italic/, _Underlined_ and/or coloured in the remind list! Fixed a bug which caused Single reminds to never pop up. (a 2<->4 digits year bug). --BAR--'s couldn't be moved since they where excluded from the sorting routines in DRPrefs. Which gadgets to be shown as default was not correct. See Main GUI Settings/Show'n'Hide for other gadgets.

TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.31)
Now full CDDB-support is built-in into TheMPegEncGUI! You don't need to use some other program to get those CD-IDs from the net and then try to figure out what file it was and load that into The_GUI, all is now automated. Insert a CD, add files (previously leached off the CD, or directly from the CD if you have f.ex. AllegroCDFS), then select Obtain CDDB from the ID3-Tag menu. When drag'n'dropping files into the file list window some menu options were not enabled. You had to add a file using the Add-button. There were some dublettes and inconsistencies of hotkeys for the menus. Switching between Lame/Mpega in Lite didn't work from the menu. The bitrate was not correct in the full and Lite-versions. (nba)

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16.Dec.2003
Matthes (ANF)

Magazine: Latest edition 8 of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64"
The 8th edition of the PDF-Magazine "Lotek64" is published. The magazine is dedicated to old and alternativ computer systems. The center of gravity is the C64, but also reports of other 8-bit-computers. Old entertainment systems and Amigas are considered, too. The magazine is published as a PDF-File for free. Interested persons could also order a printed edition or subscription. The 8th edition contains following aspects:

Lotek64-Special: Music
Commodores last trick: Amiga CD32
O.A.S.E. 03: News of the Amiga OS4 and the C-One-Board
Hobby + electronics 2003
Interviews

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16.Dec.2003
PIK (ANF) Smart Filesystem v1.214
SFS is an alternative Filesystem for the Classic AmigaOS, which is famous for the high writing-, reading- and search speed defiance its Beta-status. After a few test updates the SFS.lha which you can find in a few days on Aminet (1.214, 273,995 bytes size of the archive) makes no problems in defragmenting.

SFSdefrag was debugged. The old SFS.lha-archives are deleted with update automatically, especially the 1.213 distribution

You can get quick information under: http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find.

A tool which could configurate the number of files in .recycled will be available until week3/2004. The tests are running. (nba) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
CD32-Allianz/Thorsten Schölzel (ANF) New support of the CD32-Allianz-Homepage
From the 1st January Robert Konrad is supporting the online offer of the CD32. You can get more information under the title link. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
Jim Steichen (ANF) Programming language: AmigaTalk V2.5 in Aminet
Jim Streichen has uploaded AmiTalk V2.5 to the Aminet under dev/lang.

The new variation of the version 2.5 of Little Smalltalk (V1.0 of Tim Budd) shows a better memory manager. Until now the memory of AmigaTalk wasn't released after ending.

(snx) (Translation: gf)

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16.Dec.2003
McFly (ANF) New PNG-Icon-Set
After Christmas (27.12.2003) new PNG-Icon-Set for 68k-Amigas will be published. Screenshots are available at Lorraine Design.

Screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4 (snx) (Translation: gf)

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15.Dec.2003
Sebastian Brylka (YIM) Raytracing: New Kray binaries
Of Kray, a raytracing program with a text interface, there are new binary versions for AmigaOS, Linux and Windows available. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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15.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (Website) CygnusED Professional 4.22 PPC released
Version 4.22 of the text editor CygnusED for MorphOS is now available at MorphOS.org.

Download (294 KB) (snx) (Translation: sk)

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15.Dec.2003
Chris Hodges (E-Mail) USB-Stack: Poseidon Update V2.2
Chris Hodges announced the release of version 2.2 of the USB stack 'Poseidon'. Read his announcement:

After my seven months break due to my diploma thesis, I have reworked the HID class quite a bit. It now supports digital and analogue joypads via the lowlevel.library. Moreover, the class now supports changing of HID Output and Feature items (i.e. for keyboard LEDs or Force Feedback/Rumble joypads). Input values for items can now be scaled and clipped and flipped. There is support for local and global variables. The value that is used for the action can now also be redirected to origin from these variables, timers, click counts, etc, or randomly (e.g. for auto fire). Actions can now be triggered upon definable condition codes, making it even more powerful (you want to do a special action on three clicks with the middle mouse button, or when shift is pressed?, no problem!). The default keyboard mapping can now also be changed. All this comes with a price -- the GUI is now a bit more complex. But no worries -- you don't have to use these features, if you don't like to. The English version of the manual has been updated a bit to reflect the changes -- unfortunately, the German translation (done by Michael Böhmer) has been lost in a crash. I will update the guide accordingly, but this will take some more time.

Several classes have been updated, such as the massstorage.class. It now has some new default settings and fall back options.

The poseidon main library now fixes the problems created by broken Olympus cameras not being bound to the MSD class. It now also tries to assign better names to devices that don't come with string descriptors.

Trident has been rewritten into subclasses for the MorphOS mprefs and is now a bit more stable (I hope).

The installer script has been slightly updated and now contains Spanish strings, kindly translated by Dámaso Domínguez.

The AddUSBHardware command now has an "ALL" option, allowing to take the stack offline by just issuing an "AddUSBHardware REMOVE ALL" line -- handy for game starting scripts.

Finally, the device driver for the Algor has been optimized a bit, and also a bug had been fixed.

Now for something completely different. In August, I stopped taking registrations, because Elbox treated me badly (as a summary) and I hoped, that they would change their mind. I should have known better. They kept selling their cards, even though they knew that the users wouldn't be able to use them. They didn't care at all about the users and their fate.

As of today, the registration process is open again. Keyfiles can again be obtained from me directly (cash or bank transfer, no credit cards!). Please note that the licence fee has been increased a bit to reflect the new features added. Of course, no new keyfile are required for current users to use the V2.2 version.

IOSpirit will offer a bundle for ArakAttack users soon, details will be announced by IOSpirit in a few days (please don't bugger them right now). ArakAttack currently works on Amithlon and OpenPCI supported PCI bridge boards for OHCI and UHCI PCI cards (and onboard USB). EHCI (USB2.0) is being implemented and will be available later.

ArakAttack currently does not work on Mediator boards, but means are being prepared to get it running on these machines to offer a high-quality USB driver for any PCI card (including the Spider).

That's it for now. Hope you will enjoy the new Poseidon release and have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Who knows, maybe we will see many nice things happing during 2004. Such as the AmigaOS4 release or the Pegasos II.

Stay healthy! There's still much to come. (nba) (Translation: sk)

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13.Dec.2003
Thilo Köhler (ANF)

Announcement: new demo version 0.9beta of HD-Rec
There'll be a new beta demo version of HD-Rec available for download before Christmas.

"HD-Rec" is a MIDI and audio sequencer, i.e. audio and MIDI recordings can be arranged in the same window and replayed synchronously.

Particular improvements in V0.9beta:

Audio mixer with 16+1+1 true stereo channels and 4 Aux ways
realtime audio effects (reverb, delay, chorus, equalizer...)
strongly improved softsynth "Sweeper" (resonance filter, samples)

The aim of HD-Rec is to be able to do a whole music production from the composing to the mastering within one application. Using the softsynth and the audio effects of HD-Rec you'll need no external sound producer or effects devices. The music signal doesn't leave the computer at no time and can be exported directly as WAV or MP3 file. The quality is always excellent and independant from the sound card. Noise, buzzing or whimping are now part of the past.

The whole scenery (mixer settings, effects, sounds, notes) are saved on the computer and are reproduced 1:1 when being reloaded.

The softsynth "Sweeper" offers independant from the computing power always exact sample timing and can be played in realtime via an external master keyboard if needed. Though, for this you need a fast computer with 500 MHz clock or more.

Sweeper has very different synthesis algorithms and supports multisamples. Because of this, a wide sound spectrum is possible, from the old C64 sound across Techno to a realistic piano or string ensemble.

HD-Rec is a system friendly 68K application and doesn't make any use of the custom chips - therefore it runs on the "classic" Amiga as well as under WinUAE and Amithlon. In addition, the program has already successfully been tested under MorphOS.

Screenshots:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=screenshots

Demo songs:
http://www.hd-rec.de/index.php?site=download

(Neither have external effects or sound producers been used nor have any samples been included except the drums and the piano solo.) (snx) (Translation: wk)

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13.Dec.2003
MorphOS-News.de (website) Retailer: APS with reworked webshop and separate Pegasos URL
The French Amiga retailer APS has reworked his Webshop and added a PC area. You now can find here prices for complete Pegasos-2 systems, too.

In addition, an own address for Pegasos customers has been prepared under PegasosPPC.fr. There you can find detailed information about the computer and the operating systems that come with the computer. (snx) (Translation: wk)

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13.Dec.2003
David 'Daff' Brunet (email) Magazine: Obligement N°42
The issue #42 of the French digital magazine Obligement has been released. Read a report about the Alchimie 3, interviews with Kevin Picone (Underware Design) and with Yannick Bridier (president of the 4A Association), reviews of IBrowse 2.3 and dynAMIte, an article about the DOSBox, a review of the Spider 2 USB and the Mirage 1200 tower, an article about the installation of PegXLin and much more.

Download: Obligement 42 (nba) (Translation: wk)

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